RumikoOhara

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

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"I don't really like animals, specifically dogs. Horses are fine, we use them and we get use to how they work. Dogs, I think they are annoying and I hate how everyone has one. I saw that one dog that got messed up by the bear and thought about how much we wasted to save it. Also bringing back a baby bear, I must be fucked. Then there is you, staring at me all the time - I don't like it at all. I'm tired of being judged, especially by someone I don't know. By someone who talks to animals, you're kinda silly." was the Angered introduction Summer received from Amy.

The diminutive young Witch paused weighing her response then spoke in a sweet and gentle tone she reserved for wounded animals she might come across in her exploration.

Dogs do work as well guarding, hauling, fighting, and keeping you warm in the high snows; I owe my life to a pack of wolves I have befriended and they are only technically dogs. Your assessment of the effort wasted for the life of a dog for the dog wasn’t your family as it is April’s so the effort is her’s to ask and to give.

The cub would be dead if Wacantoognaka, Generous Heart had not taken her in and become her mother and once more Petra’s choice to make.

Her words are gentle and her expression friendly curiosity but behind it all is a sort of cold bloodedness almost a warning like Summer is one of the animals she speaks to and her tone is almost a copy of Amy's own voice.

I like watching you Amy, you have yet to reveal your true nature and like a blossom unopened of a strange flower promise revelation, perhaps beauty but not all beautiful flowers are matched with a pleasant scent.

You are accepted into the People who have found hope and that makes you family to me, to everyone in the Bands. You lack trust in others and yourself and wonder why you are isolated, to be trusted you must give your trust, if you will trust me then I will accept you Amy daughter of the Coyote. I will give you the trust you desire.

I know people think I am strange, my habits Silly as you have pointed out but they use the medicines I make or have taught the others. People think you are strange and silly for your love of machines. Some wonder why you and others like you try to hold tightly the old world, why you don’t accept its fall; I am grateful you and the Techs don’t surrender even though I belong to the past now made whole as your’s dwindles with each year I pray for your success for it keeps the Beast at bay. Summer pauses as a sly smile blooms on her lips

You have seen the Beast Amy, the one that walks like a man. You know his danger and how his anger knows an expression of cruelty which as a child you thought existed only in nightmares and the stories we read, watched, or heard.

I know that till he breathes no more your heart will never feel completely safe. You are not alone and his days measured less than one year now because even now the Council plans his end. I know that is why you became a Trooper, why you have made yourself strong.

Touches Cloud her White Raven flies over and settles on Summers left shoulder the huge Raven threatening to crush her under his weight.

Summer picks up her pipe and strikes her lighter to it and inhales the rich and pungent mixture and smiles holding it before exhaling

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I almost wanted to have Sydney read a magical text and summon something

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Sydney parked her Mercedes in the Visitor’s lot of Metropolis University and as she got out of her car glanced over at the huge building of Star Labs and wondered what sort of things they might be involved in at the moment then dismissed the thought as none of her concern. She was here today at the request of Dr. Werner to decipher strange alien texts found in a dig conducted by the school in Central America.

They were suspected to not being of this earth or at least that’s what the schools antiquity department assumed and she was here to verify their findings and write for them a decipher key to be their Rosetta stone. She had done this little chore in several universities around the world; sometime they brought the articles here to her or flew her to them and this was local so no flying required.

She was met by the doctor and his eager staff then lead into a clean room where she had to wear a full body suit and surgical mask because the medium was a fragile form of paper which they were worried might degrade if they didn’t control the humidity and even light so she was required to do her reading in a dim light. She had experienced such problems before and knew she could work around it so she walked in and sat down with a smile.

She began by reading the parchment in it’s original language using a stylus

To indicate which symbols correspond with which sound which took her only a few minutes for each page then she began again in English in their phonetic order and finishing in what she called common

"Hail, you who carry away hearts! Hail, you who steal hearts, and who make the heart of a man to go through its transformations according to its deeds, let not what he has done harm him before you! Homage to you, O you lords of eternity, you possessors of ever lastingness, take you not this heart into your grasp, and cause you not words of evil to spring up against it; for it is the heart of the offering, and it belongs to him of many names, the mighty one whose words are his limbs, and who sends forth his heart to dwell in his body. The heart is triumphant, and it is made new before the gods: he has gained power over it, and he has not been judged according to what he has done. He has gotten power over his own members. His heart obeys him, he is the lord, it is in his body, and it shall never fall away therefrom. I, Manyhands, victorious in peace, and triumphant in the beautiful waters and on the mountain of eternity, bid you my heart to be obedient to me in the underworld." she read the first page

12 pages later the Doctor was beginning to be able to translate the texts on his own and his staff was beside themselves though she could see that one was still doubtful of her abilities and when she was younger she would have tried to convince the young woman but now more experienced she left the matter as it was and went to fetch a cup of coffee.

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

Sweet Dreams

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

Catherine the Great? That's been proven as propaganda

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

Her true love is 2 the horses not men ;)

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Horses are more reliable

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@RumikoOhara
I think it would definitely be interesting to see more of her and a different side than just the sort of authority figure!

@NarcissisticPotato

Petra is actually a caring young woman and if she'd have been allowed the life she was expecting as a child she would have been the woman who pushed Charities

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

I'd love to delve into Petra more as an NPC

I see her as an odd combination of Privileged Equestrian, Drill Instructor, and Big Sister to her people.

In Lasthope she's known to chose her lovers usually 5 to 8 years her senior but has never gone steady with anyone

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

@RumikoOhara
Well when you're sleeping the body can dedicate more energy to recovery because you're not expending much else!

@NarcissisticPotato

Let's hope that's the case, I do admit that an hour after I wake I feel sharper, more in control and it's lasting longer before the Migraine begins

14 Years and Counting // Walking Dead

Get 8 hours of sleep -.-

@DeadDrop

In the last 48 hours I've been asleep about 20-25 of those, I'm hopeing as a friend of mine says that I am healing and like an animal sleep is speeding it up