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Post by coldmercurywitch on Dec 15, 2002 22:07:42 GMT -5
I was thinking about this story alot in hospital, and I know where I'm goign with it for sure now. I just need to get a quiet night to write it all up.
Stay tuned.
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Post by Leia Skye on Dec 15, 2002 22:40:24 GMT -5
Okay, I was in a story and I wasn't told about it?
Hehehe! It's brilliant! I mean, that much is obvious seeing as I'm in it you wrote it... I can't believe I've stayed away from this place for so long, I'm missing really great stuff. You've got the characters pretty well-sculpted, for a start. I can't wait to see how this develops.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Dec 23, 2002 13:22:23 GMT -5
I don't have the energy I need to write more of this lately, so I don't think it will be continued until the new year.
But it isn't that far off. Keep watching for updates.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Dec 29, 2002 8:36:42 GMT -5
It was some time before Nierme emerged again. When Nialle and KoNeko found her wandering the halls of Hogwarts, they could see her eyes were still rimmed slightly with red and her hands were trembling slightly. But she smiled as she greeted them again and it seemed to disappear.
"Hey. I was hoping I would find you two again. I spose we should get going to that Meet up at Glenmore and get the hot chocolate on before everyone else arrives."
KoNeko grinned. "You're right. We should get going. Do we need to pick up anything beforehand Nialle?"
"We could probably do with some more sugar and milk, cos you know I don't really use it much. And definately more cookies. Can never get enough of those things. I know where we can get some here in the school. You guys start heading to The Cave, and I'll take care of it and meet you both there." Nialle smiled and a twinkle came to his eye. "It's going to be so good to have you all there again."
"Yeah. Umm...I don't suppose it would be possible for some of us to stay over night would it?" Nierme suddenly enquired.
"Of course you can stay over night! You can stay the rest of the week if you like. Or the rest of the year." Nialle was obviously starting to get very excited about the whole thing as he was almost bouncing on the spot.
"Great." Nierme smiled at Nialle. "I spose you should get onto that sugar and cookies, and KoNeko and I should start heading over the The Cave. We'll see you there."
"Yes, I'd better. See you both soon."
With that, Nialle disappeared round a corner and was gone. Nierme adn KoNeko started heading outside towards the Forbidden Forest. The took their time as KoNeko told Nierme in more detail what she had gotten up to over the years. Nierme listened, but didn't say much and KoNeko worriedly started to notice this.
"You've been awfully quiet Nierme. I thought you'd bursting at the seams to tell us what you had been up to all these years," KoNeko suddenly stated. She looked at Nierme who dropped her head but kept walking.
"I just haven't been up to all that much I guess," she lied. This wasn't the time or the place to discuss such things, especially being so close to the forest after dark. "We should hurry. I can feel eyes watching us from the trees."
They both fell silent and stayed that way until they were inside the cave. Pushing aside the weathered blue blanket that covered the entrance, they saw that the fire in the common room had already been lit, giving the cave a warm glow. KoNeko ran out into the rest of the cave and went straight to her loft and layed down on the soft straw in her beloved loft. Nierme just stood there, letting fond memories wash over her and bring a smile to her face. Needed this one the next page again.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Dec 29, 2002 9:03:26 GMT -5
About half an hour, and much exploring later, Nialle arrived with the sugar and cookies, in far greater quantities than probably needed. Nialle proceeded with the making of tea, and coffee and cocoa while KoNeko and Nierme sat in large comfortable chairs and watched him. It brought back memories from many years ago they had often reminised over.
When hot drinks were made, Nialle sat down in a chair near both of them, handing them their drinks, and setting out the cookies. She then looked up at both of them and smiled. "My gosh it's good to ave the two of you in here again," he said, tears of joy almost welling in his eyes. "It's been so quiet for so long." KoNeko and Nierme both smiled at him knowingly. "Yes, I've missed my lovely loft for one," KoNeko said with a grin. "We all have such fond memories ofthis place."
"And a few not so fond as I recall..." Nierme was remembering the happenings of one of the Aurellion celebrations which had ended in tragedy. She sat for a moment thinking about it before looking back up at Nialle and KoNeko's concerned faces. "I'm sorry," she said quietly. "I shouldn't be bringing up such things."
"You know, you've been awfully funny all night. Is something the matter? This isn't the Nierme I remember. I mean yeah, sure, you were secretive and all, but you were always far more cheerful." KoNeko paused for a moment before venturing to ask the next question. "Is it because Andy's here?"
The three of them fell silent before Nierme answered. "Seeing him again hasn't helped, but...that's not the real reason." She looked over at Nialle who knew, or at least had an idea of what she did, and then back at KoNeko who she thought must be feelign very lost and left out. "I'm not even really here for the reunion, it happened to be a very welcomed bonus. I'm actually here on offical business."
Nierme saw Nialle's face drop, and watched as he carefully set his cup down with a now very shaky hand. KoNeko looked at both of them curiously.
"You never did tell me what it is you do now."
Nierme had been hoping KoNeko wouldn't bring it up again, even though deep down she knew her tigeress friend would have brought it back up sooner or later. She hesitated for what must have seem like an age before trying to tell KoNeko as easily as she could what she did.
"I'm a Banshee KoNeko. And I am now a caller."
Nierme saw KoNeko's eye's widen and continued.
"I call the souls of those dying to leave their bodies, then call for theblack carriage drawn by the headless horse to take them away to whereever it is in death they are meant to go. I have no control over who it is I call, I just do it."
Here, she fell silent and bowed her head, looking downat her feet. She could feel KoNeko and Nialle staring at her, but they didn't say anything for quite sometime. Eventually, Nialle came out with a question she didn't expect to get.
"So who is it you have to call?"
Her head jerked up and her eyes met with Nialle's, showing fear at the questio she was just asked. SHe felt her voice catch in her throat, and her body flushing warm. She didn't know what to tell them.
Then the blue blanket at the entrance was pushed aside. It was Leia, Chris, and behind them, Andy, who had followed them wondering where Nierme had gotten to. She was saved...For the moment.
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Post by KoNeko on Jan 2, 2003 9:59:14 GMT -5
*picks up jaw off the ground*
Wow Ele. This stuff is fantastic. You have to write more- I'm like, hanging onto every word!
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 8, 2003 5:50:19 GMT -5
Thanks KoKo.
I don't knwo when I will be writing more to this. I was goign to today, but I seem to have writers block. I have artists block as well so I can't draw to try inspire myself either which I sometimes do. I'll just do some other things and try to forget about it and hope it'll go away.
But I'm glad you like it so much. And if you have any guesses as to which way the plot is going you can't post them. It'll get people guessing and stuff. ;D
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 30, 2003 12:32:26 GMT -5
I am really really sorry to everyone who is waiting for me to add more to this. I'm just having a little writer's block again. I know where the story is going and roughly what's goign to be happening, but I can't seem to write it the way I want it.
I promise I will write more up as soon as I can. I know you in particular wanted this alot earlier, En, and I'm really sorry to you. I've just had so much going on of late.
Anyway, while we're waiting, I'm thinking of writing a web comic.Nohting flash or exciting, just something for me to do to help me keep my sanity while I'm not able to do anything much else. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions. I don't want to do a HP fan fic one, I want to do a more original one, but I would like to hear about what all of you would be interested in hearing about, then I'll try come up with and idea inspired by your suggestions.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Feb 17, 2003 3:51:34 GMT -5
The room had gone silent when Leia, Chris and Andy had entered. They felt like they had walked in on something when they saw the looks on the faces of Nialle, KoNeko and Nierme. No-one moved or said anything for a few moments. Then, realising that they may offer to come back a little later, Nierme jumped up and went over to greet their friends for the second time that night.
"What are you all doing standing there in the doorway with the blanket pulled across letting in a draught. Come in and have some coffee and cocoa."
She hugged Leia and Chris then let them pass, but hesitated for a moment before hugging Andy. For a split second she let the pain and sorrow cross her face, then pushed it aside. She hoped he didn't notice. He had however and held onto her for a moment longer than he should have when she hugged him, not letting go until he realised she had pulled away from him.
The seating arrangement changed slightly. Nialle still sat in his big armchair and KoNekoin her smaller one, but Nierme moved to the couch and Andy sat next to her, Leia claimed one of the other armchairs, and Chris was about to sit in another one when he sneezed and took on his Fox form. Everyone laughed a little about the fact the Chris still hadn't worked out how to control his sneezing problem and as he stuck out his tongue at everyone then jumped up on Leia's lap, Nierme began to feel a little more at ease. She was now surrounded by some of her best friends that she hadn't seen in years and as they all settled down with hot drinks and cookies, the dread of what she would have to do later subsided slightly, taking the edge off it.
Then Rue and Gen came in, giggling about something to themselves as usual. As they sat down everyone gave them curious looks and their laughter stopped dead and they smiled innocently at the people around them. KoNeko jumped up and made more cocoa and coffee for everyone and brought it back out on a large tray with extra cups, a jug of milk, and sugar cubes. She disappeared again and brouhgt out more cookies figuring they would need them since their numbers were growing.
They began to talk about when they all first met and all the silly antics they had gotten up to. They laughed hysterically as Leia, Chris and Nialle retold Nialle's kidnapping, each of them butting in and cutting each other off to tell each part from their own perspective. Nialle still felt nervous when he could smell bananas and heshen, and was still having trouble eating cheese, though he could mange it in small quantities every now and then.
Nierme, who had been leaning forward let herself fall back onto the couch gently. She realised Andy's arm had been behind her and leaned forward again and looked at him. He hadn't been laughing as much as everyone else and it didn't look as though he was having as much fun. She looked at his face with it's brown eyes that seemed to still be sad and felt a tiny pang of guilt. He was looking back at her with a look of rejection crossing his face and was about to move his arm, but she smiled at him and leaned back against the couch with his arm still behind her. He was a little confused about this but didn't move his arm. He just looked at her, even after she had turned back to the rest of the company, studying her tryign to work her out. When he realised he was staring he stopped and turned back to listen to KoNeko who was telling about one of the cases she had had to deal with in the Ministry where a Wizard had been silly enough to enchant a whipper snipper.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 17, 2003 8:26:57 GMT -5
*grins* You know, that thing about the whipper snippers sounds like something stupid my clients at work would do...
I want to know what happens next! I know you only posted this bit today but hey, I'm impatient. Ooh, and do we get to revisit the rest of Glenmore as well?
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Feb 17, 2003 9:14:57 GMT -5
I dunno if I'm happy with this last bit. I felt like writing and new what I wanted to write, but.... I dunno. I'll leave it for a few days, but I think I might end up re-writing it.
And you'll have to be patient. My creativity seems to be coming in short bursts, then going on extended holidays.
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Post by En on Feb 21, 2003 5:03:49 GMT -5
All right, Nie, I've made a discovery: the only thing more frustrating for me than not knowing what is going on is when a fictional me does know and I don't
Seriously, you have definitely got the suspense thing going, and the tone is wonderfully mysterious and sad, and sort of longing.
But I have to agree, this last bit felt sort of... summary. You know what I mean? Like, the other parts had details from Hogwarts, or memories, but it felt like... this bit was all memories. The seating arrangement part worked really well, because you got to show something about how these people related to each other in the past and relate to each other now, all at once. But I'm just afraid... the rest of it didn't push your story forward, you know?
I hadn't been saying anything in here but I should point out that I keep meaning to say, "this is my favourite part," only I have about 12 favourite parts so far. So, it's pretty solidly good, you know. The way people speak fits their characters, and you revealed what Nierme is doing only to whomp us with another even bigger question (great technique)... this is great stuff.
*sits on hands to keep from twiddling thumbs* I'm being patient. Honest.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Feb 21, 2003 5:23:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I totally get what you mean about it not fitting into the rest of the story in terms of detail and stuff and it being more of a summery. I have to go over it and fix it up. I have to gover the whole thing eventually and fix it up cos a few circumstances have changed and all. For one, Nierme is no longer a Slyth, so I have to put in there how she changed houses and all which is going to make it a bit more complicated and all.
But that can wait till my nose has cleared up and I don't feel like someone has hard packed my head with butter.
I'm glad you guys are liking this so much. It's giving me more confidence about my writing and all. And that's good that you have to sit on your hands. ;D
*has a sudden brian wave hit her like a tidal wave*
I just realised what it was I left out of that last piece!! Dammit!! I'll have to work out where to put it and can't be bothered right now. I better right it down somewhere so I don't forget.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Mar 6, 2003 3:35:48 GMT -5
:: Re-written piece ::The room had gone silent when Leia, Chris and Andy had entered. They felt like they had walked in on something when they saw the looks on the faces of Nialle, KoNeko and Nierme. No-one moved or said anything for a few moments. Then, realising that they may offer to come back a little later, Nierme jumped up and went over to greet their friends for the second time that night.
"What are you all doing standing there in the doorway with the blanket pulled across letting in a draught. Come in and have some coffee and cocoa."
She hugged Leia and Chris then let them pass, but hesitated for a moment before hugging Andy. For a split second she let the pain and sorrow cross her face, then pushed it aside. She hoped he didn't notice. He had however and held onto her for a moment longer than he should have when she hugged him, not letting go until he realised she had pulled away from him.
The seating arrangement changed slightly. Nialle still sat in his big armchair and KoNeko in her smaller one, but Nierme moved to the couch and Andy sat next to her, Leia claimed one of the other armchairs, and Chris was about to sit in another one when he sneezed and took on his Fox form. Everyone laughed a little about the fact the Chris still hadn't worked out how to control his sneezing problem and as he stuck out his tongue at everyone then jumped up on Leia's lap, Nierme began to feel a little more at ease. She was now surrounded by some of her best friends that she hadn't seen in years and as they all settled down with hot drinks and cookies, the dread of what she would have to do later subsided slightly, taking the edge off it.
The six of them were talking merrily about how they had come to Glenmore when Rue and Gen came in, giggling about something to themselves as usual. As they sat down everyone gave them curious looks and their laughter stopped dead and they smiled innocently at the people around them. KoNeko jumped up and made more cocoa and coffee for everyone and brought it back out on a large tray with extra cups, a jug of milk, and sugar cubes. She disappeared again and brought out more cookies figuring they would need them since their numbers were growing.
They began to talk about when they all first met and all the silly antics they had gotten up to. They laughed hysterically as Leia, Chris and Nialle retold Nialle's kidnapping, each of them butting in and cutting each other off to tell each part from their own perspective. Nialle still felt nervous when he could smell bananas and heshen, and was still having trouble eating cheese, though he could mange it in small quantities every now and then.
Nierme, who had been leaning forward let herself fall back onto the couch gently. She realised Andy's arm had been behind her and leaned forward again and looked at him. He hadn't been laughing as much as everyone else and it didn't look as though he was having as much fun. She looked at his face with it's brown eyes that seemed to still be sad and felt a tiny pang of guilt. He was looking back at her with a look of rejection crossing his face and was about to move his arm, but she smiled at him and leaned back against the couch with his arm still behind her. He was a little confused about this but didn't move his arm. He just looked at her, even after she had turned back to the rest of the company, studying her trying to work her out. When he realised he was staring he stopped and turned back to listen to KoNeko who was telling about one of the cases she had had to deal with in the Ministry where a Wizard had been silly enough to enchant a whipper snipper.
Nierme, on the other hand was distracted a little because she could see that Nialle and KoKo kept looking at her, as if they were waiting for her to come out with something. She stayed quiet though and avoided their eyes when she could. She hated hiding things from her friends, but it really wasn't something to discuss. Not in this sort of setting anyway and not with so many people around. She was stiring a fresh cup of cocoa when Chris piped up out of the blue.
"Hey Ni! What have you been up to all this time? We've barely heard a word from all these years. Where've you been hiding?"
Nierme's eyes suddenly popped and her cocoa upended onto the floor leaving the saucer and spoon in her hands. The room went silent again.:: Like it said, I thought there was something missing and it was this last bit of it. I had completely forgottn to put it into this installment. I was thinking too fast that day. ::
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Mar 21, 2003 9:10:19 GMT -5
Everyone stared at Nierme and the cocoa that was fast soaking into the rug on the floor. Nialle put her cup down in her saucer and moved forward a little in her seat. Gen and Rue were looking backwards and forwards from Nierme to each other with confused looks on their faces. Leia looked stunned, poor Chris looked like he had just greatly offended someone without intention and was feeling awfully guilty about it. KoNeko was looking at Nierme and trying to catch Nialle's eye at the same time. Andy, who had no-more idea about what was going on with Nierme than anyone else in the room, apart from Nialle and KoNeko, was looking very worried.
And Nierme, she sat there, staring out blankly, trying to figure out what to say. The last thing she wanted to tell them was a lie, but even though she knew they would all accept her now, she wasn't sure how they would feel about her once the night was up and dawn came. She looked down at her feet and saw her cocoa had made an ugly brown stain on the green rug.
"I'm sorry Nialle. Clumsy me. I'll get a cloth and clean that up."
She stood up as fast as she could, nearly knocking Andy's cocoa out of his hands and with what seemed like one swift movement had picked up the cup and was already at the sink getting a damp cloth ready. She came back and mopped up the mess, doing her best to not make eye contact with anyone, but she couldn't avoid Nialle's eye for a moment who was giving her a very concerned look.
She suddenly felt very guilty for reacting the way she had and went back to the sink to rinse out the cloth. She hadn't noticed the small double tailed fox had followed her and he startled her a little as he spoke from down near her feet.
"I'm sorry if I asked something wrong before. I was just wondering what you had been up to and if everything was alright. I've been worried about you. We all have...."
She looked down at him, staring up at her he had just chewed a pair of shoes and she felt tears creeping into her eyes again.
"Oh Chris, it wasn't you. It's just...."
She stopped. She wanted everyone to hear this and looked back out at them. Chris took the hint and started walking back out towards Leia's chair. They were all still glancing up towards where she was and it made her feel like she was the center of attention, somethign she still wasn't used to or comfortable with. She dropped the cloth and headed back out to everyone taking her seat next to Andy again and let out a deep breath.
"I'm sorry about that...before. And I'm sorry I upset you Chris. It's just...." she paused for a moment still trying to figure out what to say without hurting them. She was looking down into her hands which had started to tremble adn they all noticed. "I really want to tell you all but...." she looked around at each face. She saw in each of them to a degree a slight look of disappoinment. It made her feel even worse. "I.... I have to get out of here."
She suddenly stood and headed for the blue blanket and disappeared behind it. Everyone watched after her, each seemed to be wondering if they should follow her. Eventually, Nialle moved to set her cup down on the table again and get up but Andy stood first.
"Let me go out and talk to her. Please? Just for a minute."
Nialle nodded and shifted back in her chair but did not settle. Andy went to the blue blanket and soon had also disappeared behind it.
It was even darker outside now and it had become even colder. Andy wrapped his cloak tighter about himself and looked around to see if he could see Nierme anywere, but she didn't seem to be anywhere in sight. He stood there for a moment wondering if her should let her be for a little longer before looking for her, or whether he should talk to her now. He decided he should find her now because if she had decided to start wandering into the forest than it could take him hours to find her later.
But it didn't take him as long to find her as he thought. She was sitting a little way into the forest from the Glenmore clearing under a rather enormous tree behind a wall of bushes where the wind couldn't get in. she was sitting her head bent and her hands in her lap. She already knew he was there but didn't move to acknowledge it. he sat down beside her, half to get closer to her to speak properly, adn half to get out of the chilly wind which was picking up. They sat there silent for a few moments before either of them spoke.
"What is it you've been doing that your afraid to even tell me?" Andy fianally half wispered to her. She didn't answer him sraight away and he took it as she wasn't going to tell him. "Look! I thought I was someone you cared about. I thought I was at least your friend who you could talk to about anything. What happened? What changed so suddenly?" His toned was starting to get take on a hint of anger and frustration.
"It was me." she finally wispered out as he made a move to get up and leave. He stopped and looked at her. "It was me that changed, Andy. I'm sorry it hurt you so much. I'm sorry it hurt everyone so much, but it wasn't somethign I had a say in."
She couldn't look up at him. She was scared to look up and see him angry, and was even more afraid to look up and see him upset. She stayed with her head bowed looking at her pale hands in her lap. He moved closer to her and put an arm round her shoulders.
"Whatever it is you can tell me. I don't care what it is. I... just want you to talk to me again."
She could feel the warmth of his arm through her dress and it was comforting to feel that kind of warth again after having spent so long taking it away. She looked up at him and he tried to give her a smile but it ended up lopsided making him look silly. She could help but smile back.
"You already know I'm a banshee..." she started.
"Yeah, a half banshee. But that never made any difference to me, or Nialle and KoKo, or Liea and Chris and Gen and Rue. Why is it a big deal now?" Andy was feeling a little confused. He'd always thought of Nierme's Banshee side being harmless.
"Andy, I'm not a harmless little child anymore. I came of age durign our last year here. That's why I had to leave so suddenly. That's why I couldn't tell you where I was going or why I was going. I wasn't allowed to." Tears began to fil her eyes again but they fell and froze on her cold cheeks. "I wanted to tell you. I wanted to try and keep in touch with you but it was forbidden. I wasn't supposed to get attached to mortals, but I was stupid and I did. I got attached to lots of you." She looked back up at him. "And now I know why. Cos it hurt like hell knowing I wasn't allowed to love anyone, but it hurt even more having to see the one I did again."
Her cheeks were streaked with streams of ice which Andy brused off for her, and even though it made him colder, he puller her in tighter to him.
"But I still don't understand," he said sounding a little confused like he'd missed something. "Why aren't you allowed to love? and what is it you actually do? You haven't said that yet."
"Banshee's aren't meant to be able to love anyone, not like everyone else. But I'm half elf. Half high elf and love was one of the things they lived for. I... I can't help it. I'm not meant to love because it's easier to call people into death when you can't."
This hit Andy like a kick in the guts. He knew that Banshee's called people into death, but he had never given it a second thoguht that Nierme could turn out to have to do the same. He let go of her and moved away and she dropped her head and begen to cry silently again. Andy suddenly also realised why she hadn't wanted to tell everyone. Most people would be afraid of a Banshee being near.
He felt bad. He of all people should have known that whatever it was she had to do wouldn't have changed who she was. He moved closer to her again.
"I understand if you don't want to touch me or come near me. I'm kinda used to it now." She kept her head hung, waiting for him to get up and leave her there underneath the huge tree by herself.
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