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	[@Morose] [@FantasyChic] [@ONL] - Remember - the burn was/is still painful - it just got more painful if you tried to walk away. It isn't something that is just "oh that hurt" - all three characters are now branded with the ring on their fingers. So the skin is blistered and red, perhaps a little blood - just as if you had branded a cow. So it is searing. The image in the river is gone but the brand on your finger is permanent and it still fucking hurts. (Please make corrections in next post as needed) 

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	Vera looked up at William and rolled her eyes, of course he would be like this. Smoothing out the front of her skirt she then pushed some of the bangs out of her face. [color=f7976a]"I doubt you could ever make me loose sleep Mr. Drake,"[/color] she hissed back as she gave an rather over exaggerated huff. Looking over at Reginald she nodded as she swooped up several of the books she had dropped and walked back over to her desk but not before driving her heel right into Williams foot; a smirk on her face showed that it was for once no accident. 

	Seating herself down behind her desk she flipped over one of the books in her hand and then another. [color=f7976a]"Oh Bastet is a very interesting dear uncle Regi. Not as war like as you might like but I find her truly fascinating. In Egyptian Astrology in fact, today is the beginning her 3rd cycle this year. The Udjat you have been seeing, to most known as the Eye Of Horus, is one of her many symbols. She is quite the sinful Goddess, well not her but her cult following thousands of years ago. Her festival was one of the most sought after and deviously wicked in matters of the flesh in Egyptian History,"[/color] she prattled on, looking up slowly as she finished speaking and her eyes locking with William. Her checks suddenly went warm s they pinked before she coughed and looked away. 

	[color=f7976a]"Anyways, she is usually depicted as a woman with the head of a cat but before that she was represented as a Lioness. The favorite daughter of Iris and Ra themselves. She is known mostly for cats of course, the guardians of the underworld but less known is that magicians and healers of old followed her,"[/color] Vera added as sh kept flipping through books before finding the [url=http://www.mojoii.com/pic.aspx?p=/pic/201009_b/sh00030a.1.eye.horus.ring.egyptian.jpg]image[/url] she was looking for and turning the book to show Reginald as she set it down on the desk. [color=f7976a]"How long have you two been seeing the udjat?"[/color] she asked as she blew a piece of her bangs out of her face. 

[hr][center][IMG]http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/img.php?f=1479&s=100&t=Aziza%20Tarek&c=a187be[/IMG][img]http://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/1b617e2b-de2e-4952-bd44-410f7b633b8c.jpg[/img][hr][b][i][color=a187be]Location: [/color][/i][/b]Alf Leyla Salah at Opera Square[/center][hr]	

	Aziza hissed some as Lauren cleaned up the cut on her head, her fingers curling some from the pain but she let out a long breath as her eyes shot up to Lauren and then Harry. She couldn't believe that two people she had only known a short while were offering to help her feel more at peace and safer. Maybe they were just being kind maybe they wouldn't be if they knew why she was just attacked. Granted she wasn't sure if the reason she thought she was hit by the stone was the real reason but after what was shouted at her it felt like it was. 

	[color=a187be]"Thank you, both. Very much,"[/color] she said and was about to say more but Lauren then asked what it was about and Harry said there was something on the stone. Reaching up slowly she took it from his fingers, hers gently grazing his as she did. Looking at it, she turned it over and read it, her face draining of color. She just froze there for a moment before she started to shake horribly and the stone fell from her fingers as they went limb. Closing her eyes she tried to breath, to steady her nerves but it was no use. It was obvious that she was beyond terrified. 

	[color=a187be]"It says... almawt qadim.. Death is coming,"[/color] she finally was able to squeak out before lowering her head and covering her face in her hands. This couldn't be happening. She hadn't been back to the village since they day they drove her out trying to stone her to death for a crime she never committed. How could she ask these two to help her if she knew what was in store for her. [color=a187be]"I... I should go,"[/color] she said nervously as she slowly stood up, steadying herself as her hand fell to the back of a chair.