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Post by The Jenn on Feb 26, 2008 16:52:24 GMT -5
 ((Note that Marie is the personification of an axe, in a great deal of emotional turmoil, likes very few people, and has an extraordinarily violent nature when she's allowed to. If you poke her, be careful. I will give no guarantees as to safety. Anyone who's a regular around the palace would most likely have learned who and/or what she was, though perhaps not both.))Marie was coiled in a tight little ball of fur on top of a rock in the gardens, her furred head buried against her stomach and her arms clutching her tail and hind legs close. She was an oddly twisted pile of cat and snake, her muscles tensed and aching as she tried to hold back another fit of sobs. Or screams. Or whatever was going to come out this time. Her summoner was dead. Her Fino. Her best friend since he was a little nothing of a baby and she was a concept swirling around in the back of his head, poking around curiously but without the form or substance that he would give to her with the help of his stupid uncle. And now she was here and he was gone, dead, and she was alone. His presence in her mind, and hers in his, was completely severed and there was no getting it back, not ever. She may have looked like a twelve-year-old girl and acted like a childish brat, but she was far older than she looked and she knew what loss was. She'd felt it through her Queen several times. She knew what it could do to a person. What it was doing to her. Claws clenched and dug into her fur as she trembled and bit back a wailing scream. It felt lodged in her throat, stuck there, and she couldn't let it out or this time she might never stop. She wanted to cry forever. She wanted to kill things. There were so many emotions swirling around inside her head that she didn't know what to feel anymore. |
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Post by Kari Muffin on Feb 26, 2008 18:01:18 GMT -5
(( OOC: .... >_>; *smacks self* Well. I did offer you Xiven. ))So everyone had been hit in the face with a metaphorical brick. Xiven just got to watch in complete and utter disbelief. The garden was the only place she could think of that wasn't... well chaos. Then again, Xiven had been proven wrong so many times before. She was very surprised to find what she did. Xiven was actually quite unsure of what to do besides keep her distance. She had been told that Marie was, in fact, an ax that could turn into a person by her mother. However, she had never seen her. And considering recent events... this was probably the worst possible time to bother her. But she couldn't just let her... stay there and look... Xiven wasn't even sure. She looked like a cross between furious and grieving. This was a very bad idea, but she did it anyway. "Uh... are you..." she began, and realized that she was going to ask a very stupid question. "I mean... didn't mean to bother you. I just heard some screaming earlier and was worried."
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Post by The Jenn on Feb 26, 2008 18:20:40 GMT -5
Distracted by her own grief and rage, Marie didn't notice anyone approaching her until a voice intruded on her chaotic swirl of thoughts. Her feline head snapped up and she hissed unthinkingly, lips pulled back to reveal her fangs and little drops of spit flying out with the force of it. Her body writhed and uncoiled until she was on all fours, staring at this person, this creature who dared to speak to her.
"Does it look like you're bothering me? Does it look like I'm doing anything?! Who are you and what do you want?!" The rage won over the grief at this unexpected person in front of her. When she furiously blinked away the tears that had clouded her eyes, she took note of the red 'Q' on the girl's chest that proclaimed her a Queen. Well then, that made her a peer. Just peachy. For all that she didn't have a marking on her own chest, she knew for a fact that she was a Queen of Hearts, below only the Queen of Hearts and equal to any others. Fino had told her this. She knew it to be true.
She may or may not have seen this girl around the palace. She didn't know or remember. It didn't matter. None of it mattered.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Feb 26, 2008 18:39:43 GMT -5
Xiven didn't expect to be yelled at. That normally didn't happen. She was a Queen of Hearts, and not many people were brave enough to yell at her if she was a child or not. Her ears twitched back at the questions. Okay well, no logic was going to be involved here.
"Excuse me for being worried about your well being. I'll leave if you want me to. There are plenty of other places in the garden. I can go. My name is Xiven." She said as calmly as she could manage. She just didn't want Marie to leap forward and bite her head off or something. Then again, it might happen anyway. There wasn't much logic involved when emotions were running wild, and honestly Xiven couldn't even grasp what Marie was going through. She didn't even want to try because it would simply be impossible.
She wasn't sure what to do at all. This wasn't something that happened everyday.
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Post by The Jenn on Feb 26, 2008 18:54:29 GMT -5
Feline ears with gold swirls went flat to her skull and Marie hissed again. Her eyes were narrowed to slits. "My well being. Hah! As if I'll ever be well again. You can go somewhere else. I'm not going anywhere."
No, she wasn't going anywhere... couldn't go anywhere... didn't have anywhere else to go. She couldn't unsummon herself even if she'd wanted to, which she didn't. This place had been her home for so long because it was her Fino's home and they both belonged here. Now he was gone and she didn't know if she still belonged here or not. She certainly didn't belong anywhere else. So what was left?
All of the anger left her posture and she slowly slumped down on the rock until her chin rested against its sun-warmed surface. "This was our favorite rock," she whispered, voice lost, eyes pricking with tears again. They used to curl up out here and just sun in biped form, and when he was very little he used to come out here and sun with his mother. Sometimes he would summon her so she could join them, sitting there as the bright sun made her metal gleam.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Feb 26, 2008 19:01:48 GMT -5
Being a child, Xiven had very few skills for any of this. One minute she was being yelled at the next she was watching the poor cat-snake cry. What the HELL was she supposed to do in a situation like this. Comfort was usually something everyone wanted when they were miserable, but this? She was beyond any level of miserable that Xiven had had the pleasure of experiencing.
"I'm sorry doesn't help, but that's all I can say. I wish I could do something to make you feel even the slightest bit better but... I can't. I can't even comprehend what you're going through. No one can. I'm sorry I'm useless to you. If I had the power to... I would help." Xiven shifted uncomfortably. Was that even the right thing to say? Why hadn't anyone taught her how to deal with grieving people?
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Post by The Jenn on Feb 26, 2008 19:21:55 GMT -5
The words got through to Marie's ears as if through a haze of cotton, the tears starting to fall again and absorbing into her fur, into the tracks left by hours of crying earlier. Why was this person still talking to her? Why hadn't she left yet? Golden eyes flicked up again to look at her, starting off as a glare but then falling back down when she just couldn't hold the emotion behind it.
She felt so empty, as if all the feeling had just been sucked out of her and left her a husk of a person, a shell. The gaping void in her mind where he used to be only made the loss more pronounced. The girl was right in saying that she was useless, and that nothing she could do would make her feel any better. How could she possibly feel better without him there to make her happy again? Xiven didn't understand anything, except that she couldn't understand. Which was something, she supposed.
"I didn't even get to kill his father," she whimpered sorrowfully. "I wanted to be the one to kill him... to feel his blood covering me when I sliced through his neck... out of anyone, I should have been the one to kill him!"
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Post by Kari Muffin on Feb 26, 2008 19:40:03 GMT -5
Her ears twitched. What was she supposed to say to something like that? Marie talking was a good sign she supposed. Maybe? What the hell. This was was just a whole new exercise of being lost in the dark. This was going to happen a lot, she was sure.
"Yes, you should have," was all Xiven could think of saying, "But..."
Things can't be changed. She wasn't going to say that out loud to someone so unstable. She shook her head. This was so complicated it hurt. One wrong word and she could probably send Marie flying off the handle... almost literally she was sure.
If there was an easy way to solve this she would have liked to find it right now. She couldn't just walk away with things so bloody unfinished? No, she couldn't. That would be weak and awful of her. She just had to stick this out.
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Post by The Jenn on Feb 27, 2008 15:02:36 GMT -5
The word left dangling in the air, so much unsaid, made Marie's eyes flick up once more to meet the bright, uncomfortable black eyes of the young feline. She'd never really noticed her around the palace before besides the occasional glimpse. If she recalled correctly, the girl had a pet Ace. And a mother. And a father, she thought. Wasn't she one of Pravus's brood? Not from the one breeding, but out of the Jack who made her giggle sometimes when she stuck to the ceiling.
She had lots of people. And Marie had no one. Fino was her family. She didn't care for any of his children. That left... who? Gaston, she supposed. Pravus, certainly, though she didn't even want to think about dealing with someone as upset as her.
...and Bernard. The dummy. Annoying man. Always poking and prodding, verbally if not mentally. He was still around, though. Hurt, so she'd heard, and quite badly.
Abruptly, she half-slithered and half-fell off her rock, brushing past the feline in her slink to enter the palace.
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Post by Kari Muffin on Feb 27, 2008 15:57:55 GMT -5
Was she just brushed off? Xiven turned her head to watch the snake cat walk by her. What the hell was that? Her ears twitched. What should she do? Let her walk away and leave it at that or follow her?
Her tail twitched as she stood up and got ready to follow Marie. Maybe she should ask where she was actually going first? Xiven knew perfectly well she would probably get her head snapped of verbally. She just hope she wouldn't be physically lashed out at.
"Where are you going?" Xiven said as she watched Marie to continue to move towards the palace. "Did I offend you?"
She had no idea why she asked such a stupid question. The feline wanted to smack herself for letting that slip. Maybe she should just shut up and walk away while she still could. Being a child sucked a lot of the time, especially when you forgot to keep your mouth shut. Damn.
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