Dead Locke house

[Dr. Strange]

She nodds, thanking him. "Well, time to visit a few bad pots and kettles." She smiles ruefully, going back into the house. She returns outside and walks off, ignoring the blistering light from the setting sun.
Artemas was standing over Olhal, watching him lay there. She wasn't sure if he was just unconscious or dead. "Would somebody help me here?" She mumbled.

[Fyroh Ilqe Gahn]

((Olhal isn't unconscious; in fact, Olhal and Vlaardi have fled the area.))

Fyroh slowly got to his feet; overly dizzy. He had left a huge dent in the tree he'd been slammed into by the explosion. He managed to catch sight of Artemisia. "Ugh... wait, is that you?..." He supported himself, and focused. "Ah, yes... I'll pursuit them right away." he said, and began half running, half walking to where he suspected Olhal and Vlaardi to have escaped to. Xor cut ahead of him. "Going the wrong way." he quickly told Fyroh.

((Just to make it clear, Olhal and Vlaardi have left the forest; they're on it's borders, in a field.))

[Dr. Strange]

{ohh...oops.}
Saphir walked along the outer edge of the fence surrounding the three small graves, Artemas' letter in hand. A few tears fell onto the dry dirt. Her eyes turned bright purple and she sank to her knees in front of the smallest, middle grave. "Yonya, I'm so sorry I left you bhind. I promised you I'd come back but I couldn't bring myself to...I had the notion you were already gone...It was no use...Artemas has taken it well, but Leo and myself are still greiving inside for you. I hope you can forgive me, where-ever you are now..." She whispers, stroking the dirt gently as she places the letter beneath the death date on the headstone.

She took out a small flower made of dark white clay, faded with age. Placing it carefully in the vase at the foot of the grave, SAphir rises, bidding her fellow friends a final mourning before stumvling dazedly off into the gloom again.

[Fyroh Ilqe Gahn]

Vlaardi paused. "Olhal... we're being followed, I sense it." he quickly said.
Olhal raised an eyebrow. "****. Well, I say we get outta here... and fast. Or at least, hide... Xors a lot faster than us."
Vlaardi smiled. "Ah, so you definately have got your memory back. Well, lets go-"
A flash of white light illuminated them both.
"Jankhe!!" Vlaardi gasped.
Olhal slapped his own forehead in disappointment.

Fyroh's dizziness meant he was getting more and more lost within the trees by the second; until he came across Saphir. "Oh, thank god it's you!!... are you alright?" he asked, concerned.

[Dr. Strange]

She quickly wiped her eyes, they were returning to their normal golden green. "Yes, I'm fine. I was visiting friends." She says, gesturing at the three graves and several more distant one.

[Fyroh Ilqe Gahn]

Fyroh relaxed a little more. "Oh, I see... uhm, sorry for disturbing you." He took a step to keep balance. "There was just a massive explosion, and Olhal and Vlaardi have disappeared... I hope they're alright."

[Dr. Strange]

She took a fleeting, battling glance at the graves. "It's quite all right. I was just leaving." She took a few steps forward hesitantly, as if she was fighting some unseen force trying to hold her in place. More tears began streaming down her face.

A child-looking figure rose from the grave she had touched. "Saphir." It whispered.

Saphir squeaked in surprise, muscles freezing up. "Yonya?" She croaked.

"Saphir, you promised me you would come back and you have. I cannot be mad at you. You did what you could. I'll always remember your promise and I consider it fulfilled. Stop tearing yourself apart." The child's black hair swept behind her ears, she was smiling peacefully at Saphir.

Saphir stared in disbelief at her dead friend. "Yonya, I can't forgive myself for letting you down. I know you mean well, but I won't let you let me off that easily."

"Sapihr, my dearest, I CAN let you off that easily and I just did. You have a better life now that I'm gone, a wonderful boyfriend, two loving parents, a beautiful sister; everything I wished for you has come about. Be happy and know that I am always watching over you."  With this, the child disappears back into the grave.

[Fyroh Ilqe Gahn]

Fyroh raised an eyebrow. "Okay... that blast... I think I'm braindamaged... or hallucinating." He collapsed to the ground.

[Dr. Strange]

"No, she does that if I'm a little too depressed about her murder. That was Yonya, my dead child. The only one I remember enough to have a clear image of. Her sister and brother are ob wither side of her. Rah-lin, her only brother, is-was- five. Raina, her second sister, was only seven when the three were brutally murdered inside of my home. I left them to travel to Ancorab, visiting a few friends there when I read the papers. They were all killed one after the other, Rahlin first and ending with her. She was almost nine..." She wiped what was left of her tears away and smiled ruefully at him.

[Fyroh Ilqe Gahn]

"Oh... that's terrible." Fyroh said, getting to his feet. He put an arm around her. "It'll be alright, I'm sure..." Though, deep inside, he felt that he was dreaming, or imagining this; could it really happen?

[Dr. Strange]

"Thanks..." She mumbles, leaning into him tiredly. "Artemas made me promise to lock those types of things away from anyone outside of the family but I trusted you to see her...Her father's missing, as well as mine. Leo wa my only parent. I never new that b*beep*d. He took off before I was ever born..." She pauses to collect herself, "I sometimes wish he hadn't but life's a roller coaster ride. The crazy twists and turns will throw off if you don't hold on."

Artemas, hearing her name, pops out from behind the marker of her aunts' grave. She picks her way carefully through the cemetary and pats Saphir's chin reassuringly. "You'll be fine sis. I know you will."

[Fyroh Ilqe Gahn]

Fyroh nodded. "You aren't alone. You know I'm always here for you, and so is Artemisia... and Leo, and Sor, and all the others. Even Vlaardi, Xor and Olhal." he said. Suddenly, he clutched his forehead. "Speaking of which... it seems I need to help them. I'll see you later." With that, he nodded again in a sort of bow, before running into the depths of the forest.

[Kabuki]

((thanks for leaving me pages behind ))

[Dr. Strange]

{Well, sorry kabe.}
Saphir nodds as well, letting Artemisia lead her away. "Sor and Leo are ack at the house, I think. Sor's still kind of timid about being friends with us." She laughs shyly.
"Yeah, Leo hinted he would be. He'll be fine as soon as he gets used to the idea that we're not going to surrender him to anyone." Artemsia chuckles, opening the back door of the house and leading Saphir to the couch.

[Kabuki]

Kabe jsut sat down by the lake and took out her drawing book sighing she opened it to a clean page and began drawing...