Editing Once more with feeling/Logs/Small Group/Travelling to Denandsor/Andrensath, Segev, and Sunrunner

<font size="2">(13/09/09 13:01:29)</font><b> Sunrunner entered the room.</b><br/>
<font size="2">(13/09/09 13:01:29)</font><b> Andrensath entered the room.</b><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:03:33)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>And it appears to not want Segev invited.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:03:58)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Weird. Switch to the IRC chatroom?</html><br/>
<font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:07)</font><b> Segev entered the room.</b><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:12)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>There he is.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:33)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Who? Where? &gt;_&gt; &lt;_&lt;</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:38)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>I don't see me!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:42)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Zacktly.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:46)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>runs around in circles!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:04:52)</font> <b>***Andrensath</b></font> <html>chuckles.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:05:29)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Ok.  How do we want to set the stage?  Continue from the wagon, with cael eating food and throwing food at the other two, with Cael's gang securing privacy?</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:05:54)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>That works for me. Segev?</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:06:10)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Works for me, too!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:06:59)</font> <b>***Sunrunner</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>volunteers Andrensath to go first. =p</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:07:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Okay.) &quot;Cael! Stop chucking food around!&quot; Antonee shouts, perfectly dodging the edible missiles.</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:08:35)</font> <b>***Sunrunner</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Rowan) catches as much of the food and drink as he can, though Cael's estimation of the other's hunger is a bit on the high side.  Hard to carry, too.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:08:42)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>* Cael pauses mid-throw, a turkey leg in his one wooden claw. "Why?" he asks around a piece of bread he's cramming down his throat.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:09:15)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Rowna looks at Cael, "Because we can't eat all this."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:09:23)</font> <b>***Sunrunner</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Rowan, even. ;;)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:09:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;What the kid said, kid.&quot; Antonee says, before pausing. &quot;You know what I mean.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:09:47)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) Oh. Um...sorry. Got enough, then?</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:11:12)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Yes, thank you."  Rowan moves around to the side of the wagon, finding a clear and clean-ish place to sit down ... and starts organizing everything so that the three of them can eat what they wish.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:13:40)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Better.&quot; <em>Good to see him being useful, too.</em></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:13:46)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) scrambles over the side of the wagon on which Rowan's sitting, and leaps out with his four arms full of stuff, does a small flip, and lands lightly with his bare back to the younger of his two bondmates. Doing a small pirrouette (though he'd vehemently deny doing anything so dainty), he spins about and plops down, cross-legged.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:14:22)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Siddown, Mr. Antonee! *cheerful and encouragingly; totally not considering that it might be hard in that armor*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:15:38)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Antonee crouches next to Cael, being sure to make it hard for Rowan to get to the eleven year old without getting past him first.</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:17:53)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) finishes stuffing enough food in his mouth, chewing, and swallowing it, for the gnawing void in his belly to be somewhat quieted. "So, um..." he tries, thinking over-loudly as he once did to Antonee, [i][bold]CAN YOU HEAR ME LIKE THIS?[/i][/b] he projects at Rowan.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:18:08)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Raising an eyebrow at Antonee's antics, smiling at Cael's acrobatics, Rowan gets irritated.  "You are protecting him from me.  Or you think you are."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:18:22)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'><em>Yes, I can.  You are very loud.</em></span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:18:28)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) Huh? I'm s'posed to protect him!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:18:36)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'><em>Sorry...</em></span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:18:42)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'><em>Much better.</em></span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:18:46)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks sheepish.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:19:15)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Will you answer my charge, Mr Antonee?</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:19:37)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Yes, actually: I'm protecting my eleven-year-old bondmate from an overly aggressive teenager.&quot; Antonee says firmly. &quot;Do you have a problem with that?&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:19:49)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) Why're you two fighting? Why can I hear both of you in my head? </span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:20:36)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) I know I'm s'possed to protect a Solar an' stuff, but now I can't tell which one... *looks between them, honest curiosity in his red, vertical-slit eyes*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:20:36)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Er. Was that meant to be speech?)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:21:22)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Rowan glares at Antonee, "Because he doesn't trust me."  Turning towards Cael, "And if you are bonded to both of us, and you think of the bond as protection, then you would protect both.  Even from the other."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:21:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Yes, that ws meant to be outside speach.  I forgot the " and the " characters.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:22:13)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) ...um, yeah? *as if that were so obvious it didn't need to be said* ...wait, you two aren't gonna fight, are you? I don' wanna hafta send you to your beds without supper!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:22:31)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Rowan laughs.  "That might be fun."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:22:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(That was towards both of you, actually.) Antonee rolls his eyes. &quot;I'd like to see you try.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:23:07)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(The italics are mindspeech, the regular isn't.  I think.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:23:16)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Er, sorry. If I start a line with (Cael), and it's not an action, I mean it to be him saying it.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:23:25)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(That's how I've been doing it.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:23:29)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((And yeah, itallics == mindspeak))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:24:45)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Right. Cael's up next, I guess?)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:25:31)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) Try what? *baffled*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:27:00)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;What?&quot; Antonee also sounds confused now.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:27:14)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"To try putting you to bed."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:28:20)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "I'm not tired! And 'sides, it's not bed time!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:28:38)</font> <b>***Sunrunner</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Rowan) grins.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:28:42)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Ah, yes it is kid.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:29:05)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"You threatened to put us both to bed, Cael.  Mr Antonee wanted to see you try putting him to bed."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:29:34)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Is not! 'Sides, you're jus' dodgin' the question. How'm I bonded to two of you?" ... "Oh. Well, if I hafta to keep you from fightin', I do have my gang t' back me up."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:29:55)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael's) gang is actually keeping its distance; Antonee's armor has them a bit overawed.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:29:57)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;And, for the record, the two of you are not going anywhere near a bed together for several years.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:32:14)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Huh? I may not be tired now, but I'm gonna sleep <em>eventually</em>. Maybe not inna bed tonight, but it'd be nice sometimes..." *pouts*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:32:54)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Oh.  Thats what this is about.  Mr Antonee?  If he invites me to his bed, and I wish to join him, the only way you are stopping me is by killing me.  You helped rescue me from chains.  I appreciate that.  I will not allow you to put me in chains again."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:33:48)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;That is not what I said, kid. And as for you, Rowan: that is fine, <em>if</em> he invites you. But you are to stop the advances. Understood?&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:34:06)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "...what are you TALKING about? I figured Rowan was rich enough to have his own bed, but if he wants to join my gang an' I when we bundle together...why can't he? I mean, it's awful cold at night sometimes."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:34:33)</font> <b>***Andrensath</b></font> <html>facepalms.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:34:52)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Because Mr Antonee thinks I will do something he finds objectionable."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:34:58)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Poor Antonee, having to talk around the problem he has with Rowan.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:35:32)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Poor Antonee, having to deal with two kids. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:35:48)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Rowan's hardly talking about a childish matter.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:36:13)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Nah, the two kids would be easy enough. If Rowan didn't have True Love enabled. *That's* the problem.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:36:13)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Very true.  But is doing the verbal dance almost as well as Antonee is.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:36:39)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Oh. Um..." *thinks, and then makes a face* "EWWW! Why would'e think THAT!? Geeze, grown-ups're so gross."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:36:52)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael isn't STUPIDly naive, just naive.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:37:25)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(He knows what prostitutes mean when they speak of "sleeping together" and "sharing a bed." Well, he thinks he does. He knows it's not actually sleeping.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:37:42)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;I wonder why.&quot; Antonee says, extremely po-faced.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:38:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Because, in a few years, when you're my age, you will be a very handsome young man.  And then I will be tempted to do all those things Mr Antonee is objecting to.  But that's in the future."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:39:48)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) *stops, blinks, turns red. Squirms* "Oh. ...um, thanks?" *blinks some more*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:40:20)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Just be sure to *keep* it in the future, and stop it in the *present*, Rowan.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:41:50)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Rowan looks at Antonee, "Maybe something is wrong with your ears, Mr Antonee.  I will not be chained again.  Chains of words are still chains.  I will do as I feel comfortable.  I will try not to make Cael uncomfortable.  But until you stop trying to control me, we are going to have issues."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:42:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Antonee has a point.  Rowan is arguing that it is his choice, not Antonee's choice, as to what Rowan does.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:43:09)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Typical teenage babble there.  Just on a topic that gets unconfortable.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:44:03)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:44:03)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(You don't have to remind me. Antonee doesn't actually care what Rowan does, as long as he stops trying to come on to Cael.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:46:12)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Um, so. I thought - I <em>know</em> - that I'm s'posed to only have one bondmate. ...I don't remember her - his - er, whatever - Caste, but I know I only had one before..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:46:20)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "At least, I think I know that?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:47:14)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Then the Heavens gave you two of us.  Maybe they though one was too easy on ya?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:47:33)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Hmm. This raises an interesting question. How long ago were you Exalted, Rowan?&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:48:01)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "...yeah! An' how'd you get captured? Were you a prisoner long? I'm sorry I didn' come sooner, I didn' know you were there..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:48:04)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Two years.  About a year and a half of that in the prisons of the Mask."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:48:39)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;And where were you before the Mask's prisons?&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:48:43)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Because anyone can be taken down with enough numbers, even if they try to run.  Even if I tried to run."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:49:02)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Sorry."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:49:31)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Two years? That's... I was nine when I Exalted. So same here."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:50:05)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Hmmm. I don't suppose you ever found out how long Shofei had been an Exalt?&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:50:29)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) *looks ashamed* Nuh-uh.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:50:39)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Whats the name of the fire-tree people again?</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:50:51)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Haltans?)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:50:53)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Chaya?</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:51:34)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Haltans are the green-haired redwood living people.  The ones that have the Fire Season and the trees and their own gods and stuff.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:52:42)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Yep, Chaya.  Cool.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:52:57)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Going and checking, Shofei was from An Teng originally.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:53:27)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Before I was captured, I was one of the Chaya.  Before I exalted even.  And then Fire Season came and everyone ... everyone went insane."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:54:01)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Antonee looks sympathetic. &quot;I'm sorry to hear that.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:54:27)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks sad, and reaches out a human hand to squeeze Rowan's comfortingly.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:55:49)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"It happens every year, so I should have been surprised ... but it didn't happen to me.  And so they banished me from my home; and then I ran into a Deathknight and all the assorted evil attached to such a thing ... "  He shrugs, taking the offered comfort and squeezing back.  "But that doesn't matter anymore.  I'm here;  not there."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:55:57)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"And thats' my sob story."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:56:11)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(*shouldn't have been surprised, even.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:56:50)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Yeah. You're here now!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:57:06)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "I'll keep you safe from now on. I promise!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:59:00)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;And I will keep him safe from you.&quot; Antonee says in an undertone.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 13:59:29)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Mr. Antonee? I'm a big kid... I'm glad you wanna be my friend, an' I will keep you safe, too." *trails off*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:00:05)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) is fairly clearly torn, not wanting to take a side between his bondmates.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:00:55)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(The him and you are Cael and Rowan respectively, by the way. Also, that was under his breath. Cael probably wouldn't have been able to hear it, and Rowan definitely couldn't have.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:01:45)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(And here I had a big screed all written up. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:02:35)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(That's okay, Cael was more saying that because he knows Antonee's upset about something, and doesn't want him to think Cael's mad at him or upset with him or siding against him or anything)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:03:25)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(You can always give Rowan the Acute Hearing Merit if you want him to have heard Antonee anyway.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:04:29)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Sounds like a plan.  We all keep each other safe.  And if that means I have to knock Mr Antonee unconcious to get him to stop sniping at me, then so be it.  I'll do it <em>gently</em>."  He smiles, joking.  Or at least mostly joking.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:04:50)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(But that would be unfair.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:06:19)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Stop paying Cael the wrong kind of attention and I'll stop sniping at you.&quot; Antonee says dryly.</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:07:37)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) just stuffs another haunch of meat in his mouth.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:08:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"What have I done?  I hugged him.  I kissed him; which he wiped off.  He saved me.  You did too.  But I've not kissed you.  Is that the problem?  You want me to hug and kiss you too?  Oh.  And I've squeezed his hand when he offered it to me."  Gestures lightly with the grasped hand, before letting it go.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:09:08)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) squirms, and swallows his mouthful without chewing.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:10:29)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Twining Vines liked kissing girls. Sometimes, he stayed at older ones' places insteada comin' home. I'm not sure what the big deal is."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:11:11)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Cael. Chew your food first.&quot; Antonee says, sounding oddly like an tired parent.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:11:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Something you're not old enough for.  It'll kick in as you get older."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:12:10)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Which is why Rowan needs to stop what he's trying to do <em>until</em> it's kicked in for you.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:12:40)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"You get hair in all kinds of spots, your voice changes, you get an adams apple, girls and boys start looking interesting for things you want to do with them, you get taller even faster ... its' pretty gross.  But kinda neat too."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:13:09)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "But you're not any older'n me, Rowan! Not by much..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:13:39)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Those few years can make all the difference, kid.&quot; Antonee says.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:13:56)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"A few years.  I'm 14.  I'm still working on all those changes.  Mr Antonee can probably give us a better explaination of what happens."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:14:03)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) *sigh* "Y'know, Emari an' Vik say the same thing."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:14:20)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"And Mr Antonee needs to stop sniping."  He grins at the man in power armor.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:14:54)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Ironically, if Rowan kisses Cael again, he might get a VERY unpleasent surprise.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:15:17)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Especially if Cael takes a bite, yes.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:15:27)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((He might not wound him more than a little, but tasting human flesh and blood is now ... enticing ... to our young cannibal))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:15:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Shall we come to an agreement, then? You stop doing what I'm objecting to you doing, and I stop sniping at you?&quot; Antonee says, finding himself starting to like Rowan despite himself.</html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:16:10)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(And Antonee would be frogmarching Cael off to see Nuwa at that point.)</html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:16:34)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Cos Nuwa has Medicine, and Antonee doesn't.)</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:17:25)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks between his bondmates, not even realizing how pleading his wide, puppy-eyed look is.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:17:29)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"No, no.  I've not done anything wrong.  You just have a suspicious mind.  You stop sniping until I do something wrong; wrong being defined as hurting Cael or against Cael's will ... that I'll agree with."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:18:27)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Rowan has medicine too. =p  But Nuwa would be a better choice at the time as Rowan would be dealing with his own injuries.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:18:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Antonee raises an eyebrow. &quot;You're a teenager. If you're anything like I was at that age, you're *always* doing something wrong.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:19:04)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Mercifully, Cael is unlikely to actually <span style='font-weight: bold;'>injure</span> somebody to sate this craving. Just take advantage of...opportunity.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:19:22)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) Hey! I'm almost a teenager, too! I'm not doin' anything wrong!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:20:02)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Not anything you can prove, Mr Antonee.  And I have done nothing wrong involving Cael.  I couldn't hurt him if I wanted too.  The bond would eat me alive for even thinking it."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:20:29)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) licks his lips for no good reason at Rowan's last statement.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:21:01)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Not literally.  Sheesh.  And Mr Antonee is considering me to have the gutter mind."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:21:14)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Some of the stories of the First Age I've heard would disagree with you there.&quot; Antonee says, deliberately neglecting to mention what those stories contain.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:21:14)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Of course, Rowan means a different kind of literal. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:22:06)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Thinking of Lilith/Whoever it was, for one h</html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:22:12)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>*thing.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:23:11)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Ok.  So we have a deal?  You stop sniping until you can show me that I'm hurting Cael?  Because I'm not going to force anything.  That'd be wrong.  But I'm not going to reject him if he offers."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:23:57)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>He offers his hand to the older man, "Deal?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:25:24)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Where hurting Cael is defined as anything that would cost him time as a child?&quot; Antonee says, suspicious.</html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:25:57)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Should have been 'including anything'. Ah well.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:27:26)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"I ... I can't do that.  I can't garantee that he won't get older in the head than he is in body.  I can try to protect against such a thing, but if I can't protect myself from it, then I can't protect him either."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:27:29)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks gratefully - without even realizing it - at Antonee.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:27:58)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks sadly, sorrowfully (again, without realizing it) at Rowan.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:29:35)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;All right. That's fair. In that case, I will agree to stop sniping at you if you will agree not to deliberately attempt to force Cael to mature, physically, mentally, or emotionall, sooner than he should. Does that sound reasonable to you?&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:29:57)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>*emotionally. Gah.</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:30:46)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) blinks at that, mouthing it over as he tries to follow it.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:31:07)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"He is an Exalt.  He needs to be mature.  And I don't mean physically.  He needs a mature mind, a mature heart, to control the power he has.  Innocence only goes so far.  But I wouldn't be the one to talk to about maturity.  I won't mature him.  His exaltation will."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:31:37)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"It will either mature him, or turn him into a monster."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:32:27)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"If we account for what the exaltation will do to him as "should", then sure.  I can do that."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:32:47)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks at his two extra arms, then sticks his tongue out at Rowan.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:33:07)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>He giggles, "You're not a monster.  You're just fluffy."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:33:46)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Not when I'm not in my war form! I don't even have feathers right now!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:34:17)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"But you have feathers.  And those feathers are fluffy.  Like the inside of a really good pillow."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:34:40)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "An' warm. An' they make me look like I can afford clothes!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:35:07)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;You can't afford clothes?&quot; Antonee blurts out.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:35:41)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"You think he wears that," pointing, "because he wants to?  If I had any spare clothes I would give him a set of mine."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:36:30)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(How does this sound to you two: <span style='font-size: medium;'>I, Starcc Antonee, called the Adamant Man, will agree to stop sniping at you, Rowan Marmalade, if you will agree not to deliberately attempt to force Cael to mature, physically, mentally, or emotionally, sooner than he should, where should is explicitly defined to include any effects that his Exaltation may or may not have.)</span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:37:02)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Sounds fine.  I think.  Still has loopholes, but everything is going to have loopholes. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:37:23)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks at Antonee, and doesn't QUITE say 'well, duh.' "Well, I don' exactly 'ave money, an' I kept outgrowin' the pants I could get my hands on. That's why..." *He gestures at the rags wrapped around his loins - they don't even make for a loincloth so much as a pseudo-diaper* "I don' go 'round naked 'cause it's fashion'ble."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:38:38)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Yeah. I just want to get rid of as many as possible, so that neither can argue the other person isn't living up to their side of the deal.) &quot;All right. Bugger this for a lark, you're coming with me to get some clothes, Cael.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:39:19)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) snorts. "Hyeah. An' where're we gonna fin' a store out here? Or're we goin' back t' Nexus t' see if the Mask's opened a li'l boy's shop?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:39:58)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"He needs a bath first.  There is a river over that away, "he points to the south, "there should be enough trees and riverweeds for cover.  Just find a spot where it runs clear and has fine sand at the bottom rather than mud."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:40:22)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;We're getting some of what my slaves wear. It's not much, but it's better than nothing.&quot; Antonee says. &quot;And thanks for reminding me about that, Rowan.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:40:40)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "There's a river!? We can go swimmin'!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:41:12)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Not now, Cael.&quot; Antonee definitely sounds more like a parent than he ought to.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:42:20)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Bathing involves some swimming.  Do we have any soap in this wagon?"  He looks at, and asks, the gang of urchins and orphans.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:43:06)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael's) eyes widen. "Soap? Like, real soap!?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:43:36)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Most people keep some kind of soap.  Since this looks like salvage, it might have some."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:44:50)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Ow!" *exclaimed as a bar of the stuff - half-used - hits him in the head* "Emari! Hey!" *The girl grumbles something about boys and their being so gross*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:45:48)</font> <b>***Andrensath</b></font> <html>chuckles.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:46:07)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"She has good aim.  Watch out for her."  He grins at Cael.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:46:14)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(She should have seen the time I got my brother to eat sand.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:47:20)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Andrensath?  Which of your characters had the sidereal stone that stopped people from messing with your mote pool and charms and stuff?</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:47:41)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Splendor.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:48:23)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Thank you.  Ziyad is requesting that he find a manse with that stone, and I figured copying the text you have up is better than having two versions of the stone running abot.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:50:06)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Yeah, it is a nice one, isn't it.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:50:37)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) So... how DOES somebody get a last name? Or a cool long name like 'Solitary Talon of the Veiled Silverhawk Lady' or 'The Adamant Man' or the like?" *totally changing the topic now that the last one's settled*</span></span></span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:51:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"By naming yourself that, and repeating it until other people accept it."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:51:48)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Pretty much. Though mine came from a suit of armour I used to have.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:52:17)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Cause Antonee's CBA is Orichalcum, not Adamant.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:53:53)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Oh. Whaddya think I should call myself, then? An' how'd you get 'Marmalade,' Rowan?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:55:00)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Family name.  Its what we made and sold."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:55:21)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Awesome! You musta gotten to eat it all the time!" *practically drooling*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:55:23)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Also, why Solitary Talon in particular? Cael's met plenty of people with flowery names. Even if most of them are Abyssals, at this point.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:56:05)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Because I, the player, was drawing a blank.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:56:26)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Fair enough.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:56:33)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Also, he probably has reason to know where Abyssals get theirs, and he doesn't think that applies.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:59:24)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>A very brief  image of Rowan covered in Marmalade flashes through the bond, and Cael cracks up.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 14:59:44)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((We're talking "jar fell on his head" here, not "something senusal"))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:00:09)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Hey now.  That never happened."  Rowan huffs, playfully glaring at Cael.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:00:40)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Antonee raises an eyebrow.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:00:44)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Sorry, sorry," he says, still snickering.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:01:05)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) stuffs more food in his mouth, as he's still kinda hungry.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:01:48)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Why do you eat so much, Cael?  How do you eat so much?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:03:19)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) blinks. "The lady at the bakery said I must be growin'," he says, somewhat proudly. "I'm jus' always hungry. Aren' mos' teenagers?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:03:54)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;You're not a teenager.&quot; Antonee says dryly.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:04:04)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Ya, sorta.  But you wolfed down about five, maybe six, meals in one sitting.  And you're still eating."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:04:44)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "I do have a dog in my forms, somewhere." *clearly playing on the 'wolfing' comment*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:05:30)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Also, I'm still a teenager, and there's no way I could eat for two hours straight.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:06:12)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"You don't know, do you?  Have you always eaten so much?  Or is it a recent thing?  When did you start?"  Rowan appears honeslty curious, and honestly worried.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:06:25)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Didn't know you were so young. &gt;_&gt; And yes, *I* know Cael eats more than any teen should. CAEL doesn't; he's never been a teenager before.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:07:15)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Yeah. I have exactly two months left till I hit 20, though.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:07:21)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Well, maybe a few months or a year ago? I mean, us street kids're always hungry, but I've been eatin' more than my share for a while. My gang's nice enough to lemme 'cause I bring in a lot, too, so we all stay fed."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:07:27)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Heh.  I'm far from young.  Some of my kids are older than these PCs. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:07:43)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(My baby sister's older than Cael, but younger than Rowan. :P )</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:08:47)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(No one in my immediate family is younger than Rowan anymore. Three years back, yeah, but not now.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:09:37)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"So, after you were exalted.  Hmm.  It just seems odd.  You physically shouldn't be able to hold all the food you just ate.  At least without being as round as you are tall."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:10:27)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Well, I digest fast, too. An' I'm pretty strong. I can squash the food with my tummy muscles!" *flexes his not-at-all-well-defined abs*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:11:11)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Antonee raises an eyebrow extremely high at that comment.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:12:26)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Heres a question.  A rude one, too.  How often do you go?  All that food has to come out ..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:13:18)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) shrugs self-consciously, sensing his bondmates' worry and not understanding it. After thinking a bit, he says, "Um... same as anyone, I guess? 1 to 3 times a day, if I'm eating enough to not be hungry all the time?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:15:06)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Mhmm.  Ok.  Something in the middle is taking the food, or you'd be huge, and not in a good way.  May I have a look?"  The question is asked to both of them, both Antonee and Cael.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:15:28)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Take a look at what?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:15:52)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "I mean, Exalts do impossible stuff all the time, right?" *starting to sound...not scared, but timid, maybe*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:16:19)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;I have no objection. This worries me, too.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:16:50)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) looks between the two of them. "What're you gonna do, Rowan?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:17:23)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"I would be using a charm on you, one that will show me how your body works; that will show me anything wrong with you; that will let me, effectivelly, see everything about your body.  Which is why I'm asking.  Tis rude to do that without permission."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:19:37)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"What I would do is put my hand on your stomach, and then use the charm.  You may get a bit warm, like walking in the sun.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:20:09)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Oh. I don' mind. I mean, 'Snot like I got much ta hide." *stands up, spreading bare arms and legs wide*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:21:46)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) is oddly unbalanced, with only one of his four arms a massive wooden claw.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:22:03)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Rowan puts his right hand on Cael's stomach, fingers spread wide and .. the outline of his hand glows a soft golden color that doesn't spread and doesn't illuminate anything but the seperation between the two.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:22:30)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Charm: F lawless Diagnosis Technique.  Charm:  2nd Medicine Excellency, buying as many succeses as he can.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:22:36)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) giggles as the older boy's touch tickles his tummy.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:23:15)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>A few minutes later, Rowan takes his hand back.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:23:38)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Anything weird?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:24:28)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"I don't know enough to diagnose you.  You aren't sick.  You aren't poisoned.  You don't have any diseases.  I know I'm missing something.  It has something to do with your Exaltation, and yet it doesn't.  Something associated with your Exaltation, maybe."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:25:15)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) wrinkles his nose. "Maybe Lunars're jus' like that. We should ask Miss Silveria Arc or Dhiren or somethin'!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:25:26)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Do you have any Lunar friends that you would trust to ask such things?"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:26:01)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) shakes his head. "If you mean other'n the ones with us, no. I hadn' met any other Lunars 'til jus' before I met Mr. Antonee, here."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:26:33)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Don't forget that Salamander's still alive at this point.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:26:44)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Hmm."  Rowan's Caste Mark ignites upon his brow, his eyes pools of shining peridot.  ((Charm:  Sorcerer's Burning Chakra Charm | Essence SIght.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:28:32)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"You have an excess of Wyld energies, dangerously so.  But that appears to be controlled, or at least influenced, by your ability to change shape.  Its' mixed with lunar-flavored essence."  He sighs, the caste mark fading away, "I wish I knew more.  Gah.  I hate feeling helpless."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:29:33)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Oh, is that all? It's probably jus' from the twisty feelin' I get when I change shapes too much. I jus' gotta lay off it for a few days to make it go 'way. ...though it kinda snapped when I turned human again, earlier, so I'm good again for a while!"</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:29:36)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"You're one big mystery, Cael.  Not only do you get two Solar bondmates, but you have the Wyld inside you as well."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:29:55)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "I guess! ...you guys don' mind that there's only one of me, do you? I'm sorry..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:30:43)</font> <b>***Sunrunner</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>laughs.  "No, Cael.  I'm quite happy that you're unique.  Its' just a mystery that I get to unravel over time."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:30:50)</font> <b>***Segev</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) grins impishly, and steps both to the right and left, at the same time...making two of him. "I mean," they say in unison, "I suppose I could do this..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:30:56)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Rowan laughs,even. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:30:57)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Using Host of Spirits.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:32:14)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"Cool.  So you really could ... nevermind.  Not going there."  He coughs into his hand, "Thats a cool trick."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:32:50)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;No. You are not going anywhere near there, remember?&quot; Antonee says, annoyed with Rowan.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:33:08)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "Could what?" *confused, and in unison*</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:33:21)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>"We'll tell you when your older."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:33:24)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Never you mind, kid.&quot; Antonee says firmly.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:33:43)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Cael) "...o...kay..."</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:34:44)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>&quot;Excellent. Moving right along.&quot;</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:35:04)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((We've pretty well wrapped up the scene, I'd say.  Antonee and Rowan are at truce, Cael is confused, and we know of a mystery that both the solars want to solve.  Anything else we wanted to add in?))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:35:23)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Cael's still all for that bath.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:35:53)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Unlike kids raised by parents, street urchins don't necessarilly view them as horrible tortures. Rather, as something exotic and fun that rich people do!))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:36:08)</font> <b>***Andrensath</b></font> <html>snickers.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:36:11)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Rowan would volunteer to bathe him, but Antonee would kill Rowan, so ... =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:36:57)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(Nah, clearly, that's Unspeakable Rite's job, as she has NO ulterior motives. *cough* I'm sure Antonee would be *fine* with that.)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:37:06)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(hehe)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:37:53)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>((Actually, she may well not. But it would be assumed she did.))</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:38:01)</font> <b>***Andrensath</b></font> <html>is glad he's not on campus, cause this would be really hard to explain to mundanes.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:40:29)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>* And so, Cael ran off with his gang to have a bath! And then...CLOTHES! ACTUAL CLOTHES THAT (almost) FIT!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:41:33)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>(Heh.)</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:42:14)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>(About that, yes. =p)</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:43:41)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>But yeah, Andrensath, I've always described Cael as mostly naked because he literally doesn't own any real clothes. :P</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:44:06)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Since he can go all feathery, he doesn't need 'em to stay warm, and lets the smaller kids have any they need, first.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:44:13)</font> <b>Segev:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Off for ice cream!</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:44:49)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Enjoy.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:45:05)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Have fun.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:45:41)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Dare I impose upon you to recap this somewhere?  Or should we just leave it as a personal scene without publishing it for others to look over.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:46:11)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>I'll probably just post it to the wiki again.</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:46:36)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Thank you.  I mean that.  You've been doing a lot of organizational work for the campaign that is greatly appreciated.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:46:55)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Do I get bonus XP?</html><br/>
<font color="#062585"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:46:58)</font> <b>***Andrensath</b></font> <html>is hopeful</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:47:07)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>Heh.  Let me think on it.</span></span></html><br/>
<font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:56:56)</font> <b>Andrensath:</b></font> <html>Anything else you want to talk about in this room, or should we move to standard IMs?</html><br/>
<font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(13/09/09 15:57:56)</font> <b>Sunrunner:</b></font> <html><span style='background: #ffffff;'>I don't think we need anything else here.  Standard we go.</span></span></html><br/>
<font size="2">(13/09/09 15:57:57)</font><b> Sunrunner left the room.</b><br/>
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