[color=9e0b0f][center][h2]Emmerich Jaeger[/h2][/center] [/color] Interacting with:[@WeepingLiberty] As Emmerich walked to the tavern, a familiar voice called his name, one he was longing to hear again. "[color=a187be]Emmerich was it, do you have a moment?[/color]" "[color=a187be]My brother wouldn't quit hounding me unless I came to talk to you. So I just wanted to extend my thanks for your assistance earlier.[/color]" [color=9e0b0f]"Of kourse i do, fräu Avalon. In fakt, I vas also searchink for you."[/color] he said with a smile. [color=9e0b0f]"I... I believe zat you must be very konfused now, after seeink zat... side... of mine. I'm sorry about my indelicate behavior. Vell... Its not like i enjoyed zee dance, because i didn't, i mean i did enjoy zee dance but only because of zee killing or zee fighting but zee dance itself... beink vis you."[/color] He said, stumbling on his own words, blushing and being silent after it. After an awkward silence, he regained his composure. [color=9e0b0f]"If you decide to see me again, don't be konfused or alarmed. I promise I vill tell you mein sekrets."[/color] he quoted the phrase he said to her earlier. [color=9e0b0f]"I'm glad zat you came. And as i promissed, i vill tell you my story, if you desire to hear it, zat is."[/color] he said, looking to the night sky. [color=9e0b0f]"I vas a scholar. I alvays loved knowledge. Especially sings i couldn't understand and science couldn't explain such as magic and supernatural phenomenon. Zese sings in particular interested me a lot. I found zem inkredibly interestink and intriguink. Sanks to zat kuriosity, I've decided to hide myself in a kave to observe a magik ritual from a powerful and vell known coven zat used zat place for rituals. Maybe trying to explain it using zee science.... I vas a fool... And soon learned zat some sings vere not for human eyes to see... I don't remember exactly vat i saw on zee ozer side of zee portal zee witches opened, but i felt true horror and fear. Until now, whenever i sink about it i feel somesing clawing at zee back of my mind..." [/color]he said in a serious tone. His eyes and expression appeared disturbed as he talked about the ritual. [color=9e0b0f]"I couldn't handle zee sight and passed out. After zat, somesink woke up. Somesink zat, at zat time i sought zat it vasnt me. I could only vatch, impotent as it proceeded to kill an apprentice witch who vas left behind. I could see myself tearing her flesh apart vith my own hands... Zee blood splattering on my body as i did so with a terrible smile and an horrible laughter. As i tore her flesh and ripped her bones apart of her body, i could feel somesink deep inside me. Zee smell of blood, zee flesh and zee bones... I started to feel pleasure... It vasn't like zee pleasure vee feel ven drinkink a good wine, it vas somesink far more... primal." [/color] [color=9e0b0f]"Ven i woke up again, i saw zee flesh, all zee blood and zee unrecognizable remnants of zat young witch... Near my i saw zat mask... zat terrible mask and zis sword i carry. Both made of zee bones of zee poor witch. At zat time, knew zat whatever zat think vas... it vas now part of me."[/color] he said, his eyes emotionless, he kept looking to the night sky, just like he was trying to lose himself in it and forget everything. [color=9e0b0f]"Zee time passed. Zee first times zat i vatched my ozer side's cruelty i felt bad but at zee same time i felt strangely... happy. It vas a truly terrifying feelink at first. Zee problem is zat i stopped caring about vat i did. It vas good, it felt good. Zee sweet smell of blood in zee air, its taste in my mous as i bathed in it, zee flesh... zose sings talked to a more primal side of me, and i started caring only for zee pleasure of killing, not even feeling guilty anymore ven zee ozer side of me got out. I started to sink more and more like him, even vithout zee mask. I vas unable to feel anysink ozer zan zee pleasure of killing and torturing."[/color] [color=9e0b0f]"Zat vas when all began. Vithout being able to stay too long in zee same place due to zee beast's hunger and zee rumors zat followed me i lived travelling. Looking for somesink, anysink zat could help me to balance my inner beast and my own self. Each day zat passed zee beast grew restless, it needed blood, I needed blood. It didn't matter how much i tried to supress it, it alvays kame out, and when it did... vell... you saw vat happens."[/color] [color=9e0b0f]"Getting rid of it? You surely must be askink why i haven't got rid of him aren't you? Vell... if it vas possible i vould already have done, but as much as i tried to run or hide the fakt, zis beast is not only inside me... it IS me. But ven i met you, even as a beast i felt somesink."[/color] he said, looking directly to Avalon's eyes. [color=9e0b0f]"After a long time, i vas able to feel somesink. As vee danced, i felt my heart palpitate, a strange varm feeling. Being near you vas better zan zee pleasure of killing or torturing. Zee vay you looked at me, not afraid by zee beast, but vith curiosity... I think i have fallen in..."[/color] he suddenly stopped talking. You could see he was about to say something, but he started to blush heavily and stopped looking at her, looking to the ground instead. [color=9e0b0f]"Vith you, frau Avalon, i don't feel broken anymore. Zee beast calms down and i feel like i could... somehow be whole again, take both parts of my broken soul and conciliate zem, both zee beast and myself. You give me hope mein fräulein."[/color] he said with a heartwarming smile, looking at her again. [color=9e0b0f]"I vish ve kould dance again, but a proper dance vis a proper musik. No blood, no enemies, no fight, just you and me. Maybe drink a good wine... "[/color] he said to her, obviously daydreaming. [color=9e0b0f]"But i'm being very indelikate again, am i not? I'm sorry Frau Avalon. I don't know why but i feel safe near you. I feel like you are someone vis i could entrust all my sekrets and open my heart vis."[/color] [color=9e0b0f]"I'm sorry by all zis... You probably don't vant to know about my ramblings and yet i just started to tell you my story visout you even asking anysink about it. I'm deeply sorry."[/color] he said with a deep bow, apologizing himself. [hr] [color=0072bc][center][h2]Shai[/h2][/center][/color] Interacting with:[@Superboy][@TheDoctor][@Dark Light][@Noxx][@Deos Morran][@Ellion][@shagranoz][@WeepingLiberty][@Fetzen][@Bright_Ops][@Bright_Ops] "[color=f7976a]I think it might be a good idea for me to stick with you for the time being...[/color]" the other hunter said, standing protectively near Shai. [color=0072bc]"Thank you... I appreciate. Although i wish it wasn't necessary, i know the danger i am by being near Seren's Folly."[/color] she said looking down, a little disappointed and sad with the situation [color=0072bc]"I don't know why, but i expected it would be different... But it was foolish of me to think so..."[/color] she said. Concentrating again on the task of siphoning the hunter's magic out of him, she continued doing so. The heat ward she conjured with her cards should help her to protect her skin from the heat. It was a delicate job. She couldn't do it too fast because it would be dangerous to the hunter. She didn't know what was happening inside him, so she needed to be very careful with that strange magic that dwelled inside the man. "[color=f7976a]I'll be back in a moment... Keep an eye out and try not to get yourselves killed.[/color]" the other hunter said, heading to the tavern. Although Shai was feeling safer for having someone near her, she knew that he probably had more pressing matters to attend to, so she just continued her work, hoping no one tried to attack her. As she continued siphoning the man's magic she kept asking herself what was that thing inside him. She had never saw or felt such thing. Its magic was clearly not that man's own... It was filled with rage and hatred... It seemed to exist only to destroy... Until she found out what was that thing and what was happening with that man, she would only be able to siphon his magic little by little. [color=f26522]"You there, creature."[/color] An hostile voice called Shai. While the hostility clearly startled her, she needed to be very concentrated due to the delicate procedure and tried her best to keep calm. [color=f26522]"I will go ahead and thank you for your help, but as a hunter and an agent of God I can not overlook your presence here. And while I would not like this situation to escalate more. Us hunters are a bit tired after these events. However,"[/color] [color=f26522]"You will remove yourself from Serens folly, or I will do it with [i]force[/i]"[/color] The hostile woman said, pointing her crossbow to Shai's direction. Fighting herself to keep concentrated on the siphoning, she responded: [color=0072bc]"I-i was only trying to help... If it wasn't for me, there would certainly be more casualties." [/color] [color=0072bc]"The barrier i did was the only thing protecting the town while you were fighting. The orb that illuminated the battlefield was the thing responsible for your bodies feeling lighter and you moving faster than you normally would. What am i doing right now is a very delicate procedure and i need every tiny bit of concentration i can in order to help this man."[/color] she said. Althought you could perceive some notes on her monotone voice showing that she was afraid by the woman's hostility, you could clearly perceive that she was fighting to keep herself calm and concentrated. [color=0072bc]"I'm helping you all, protecting you and even healing your wounded. I don't think that threatening me is the most honourable way of being grateful. Once i finish helping this hunter," [/color]she said with a pause, emphasizing the word hunter as best as she could without losing her concentration [color=0072bc]"I will get out of here. Don't worry. I'm already used to being reje-" [/color] While she was talking, Shai was caught by surprise as a surge of magic erupted from the man in her direction. With a cry of pain, she felt the energy hitting her. A searing heat and pain came with the magic, pure hate and rage flowed from the man directly to her. Thanks to the ward she put between the two, she was not burned with the heat, but the danger wasn't the heat itself... Shai is very sensible to magic and its flow due to her unique connection with the flow of magic itself. Only being near black magic or other magic with similar "negative" nature were enough to make her very wary and tense. Absorbing them, especially when she wasn't prepared, not having even a minor ward to protect her against them was an entirely different thing. She let out a cry of pain, falling unconscious over the man. To anyone it would be very strange to see her in pain without having suffered any type of wound. But for those with knowledge of magic and how seers felt it differently from others, knew that she was experiencing a strong mental shock. The strong and negative aura that magic passed was too strong for someone who was already sensible to the nature of magic to handle without protection. As she fell unconscious, the orb started hovering over her head, emitting a mild blue light with the cards and the dices spinning slowly around it.