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Date Posted: 22:28:45 04/28/03 Mon
Author: Rachedith and Adi
Subject: Only to punish a fool *I'm also not small, by the by*
In reply to: Erashun 's message, "((the silver fog of remembered pain arises from steaming crimson droplets seeping into the ground))" on 20:37:30 04/25/03 Fri

Rachedith's icy voice pierces the air as she turns her face from the enraged red, yet it is to Jysulehn that she directs its wintry venom. The pain in her words is bitingly obvious, though. She slips away from her daughter, surprisingly calm.
"If she would only have the sense to keep silent when and where silence is due, there would be no reason to lift a claw against her, o hot-blooded one. Hear that to call me soulless is to miss much. I know enough of being a mother. I have fought for that child a hundred times, with a mother's desperate courage. I have borne as many wounds for her sake as I can count, and everywhere we have been except here, we both have been mocked, attacked, and driven out, she for her stripes and I for keeping her alive. I have seen her father and brother die for her, when she was just a tiny cub, as was he. He was a tan, weak and young, the poor thing, and yet he stood right in front of his sister when... when... Are all my children to end so? Perhaps you know such a life, mother-that-was, but you had more patience than ever will I. Perhaps you are right and I do not deserve to be a mother. But chew on that for a while, and see if you can be less... Oh, never mind. Your nephew is safe, as he is not so foolish, nor my responsibility."
Her eyes now almost black with emotion, she flashes a sharp glare at her newest tormentor and lowers her head once more.

Adi gets to her feet slowly, obviously little the worse for wear, looking around in astonishment and anger with blazing royal purple eyes. "Mother is no chitter! What she has said is true; I would be dead a hundred times over if it were not for her keeping me in line. Not that I appreciate being occasionally beat on, but it is better than being a bloodstain in the snow. She only does it because she is concerned. I may not look like much to you, and I may not even *be* much, but if you fight my mother and protector, you fight me as well. I hope that day may never come." Under her breath, she adds. "I don't know if the ol' snowdrift could kick *her* esh alone, though."

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Replies:

Aherm... -- Jysulehn and Zrego, 16:55:48 04/29/03 Tue
- Calm... nice... easy... -- Adi and Rachedith, 21:08:41 04/29/03 Tue
  - ~!@#$%^&*()_+ -- Deyt, 16:40:23 05/02/03 Fri
    - Absolutes? -- Rachedith, 18:07:56 05/02/03 Fri
      - ((sad grey ghost amidst the filthy rain)) -- Erashun, 19:52:35 05/03/03 Sat
        Yowber! -- Rachedith and Adi, 22:52:51 05/03/03 Sat
        ~!@#$%^&*()_+ -- Deyt, 10:48:46 05/08/03 Thu
        I got a heart full of pain... head full of stress... handful of anger... held in my chest.... -- Jysulehn, 13:29:49 05/10/03 Sat
        Coming at you from every side...! -- Zrego, 13:59:09 05/10/03 Sat
        Right on! -- Adi and Rachedith, 16:44:04 05/10/03 Sat