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The girl with metal wings; Anyone is welcome to join in
Topic Started: Nov 26 2006, 01:38 AM (4,251 Views)
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Misery watched the money fall into her hands with a surprised look. It was quite a lot of money. Lahziel had never given her so much at one time. "Okay....thank you." She said, looking at him and then the money before folding it up and putting it in her pocket.

She left Asher to his reading then and noticed it was beginning to get dark already. That day had flown by so fast. It was as if someone had sped up time. She went to Asher's room, or rather her room for now and sat on his bed. It was kind of embarrassing to suddenly start using someone elses room like this, but she couldnt help but look around.

She then remembered something and reached into her pocket and pulled out the creme. She put it in front of her and stared at it for a few minutes. It didnt even have a label, which made her begin to wonder. That and she didnt need it for the pain in her back to go away. She took off one of her gloves revealing a delicate slender hand then opened the jar and spread a little of it on the back of her hand and rubbed it in. She replaced her glove then and the lid on the jar and lay back on the bed with the back of her hand on her forehead.

She stared up at the ceiling and her eyes glazed over as she thought about everything that was going on, trying to piece everything together. As she thought she drifted off to sleep, as she was exhausted.

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"No problem."

He spent some time reading after that, before he saw he get up and start to walk back into the room without a word. As she vanished in there, he waved a little.

"Goodnight..."

What was he supposed to do..? He wasn't sure why it bothered him so much that she was still distant with him, maybe it was because with everything he'd seen he had developed an affection for her.... he couldnt blame her for it, of course, he was a stranger who had come in and turned her whole world upside down... still.

"Well... oh well, what can you do... I can only take care of her, I suppose..."

He stayed up for a while, still reading the book - there was so much here, all about nanomachines, integration, programming... it was the first book he had ever read that he actually had a hard time understanding some of it... the theories sure, but the math and everything was new - he loved it. He stayed up for hours, a pad at his side, and he made notes here and there, scratching things out, making sketches... by the time he finally fell asleep, hours later, there was almost a full pad of paper of notes he had made at his side, and he fell asleep with the book open on his chest. He'd missed a challenge...
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As Misery slept, images and scenes filled her head. She kept seeing Freya and Gerald and the life they had together.

Freya.... A voice seemed to call, FREYA!

Misery sat bolt up right, eye wide. She sat there a few minutes, staring at the wall, and then rubbed her eyes. "A dream..." She said sleepily to herself.

She got out of bed and wandered out of the room and spotted Asher asleep on the couch. She couldnt help but smile at him. She picked up the pad of notes and looked through them and then took the book, marked his place and closed it.

Misery moved off into the kitchen next. She searched around quietly before finding everything she need and began to make breakfast. He did have to many groceries, so she was stuck with toast and eggs. "Too bad." Misery whispered, "Blueberry pancakes would have been delicious...."

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Asher finally woke about and hour after she did, and he looked around a little bit, seeing the book marked and put down, he smiled a little. Well that was nice of her... he looked at the notepad for a few moments, then he swung his legs off the couch and rubbed at the back of his neck - he'd fallen asleep in a chiropractically unsound position, it seemed... there was a ton of information in there... so many years ahead, it was almost insane. Still... after going through it all he actually thought he might be able to make some things out of what he was learning, but he wanted to read the rest of those books before he tried anything - hell, most tech had ramifications, he didn't want to go playing in it without knowing. He'd been doing a lot of his own calculations too, and found the old man's so far to be remarkably accurate, there were only a couple inconsistencies... or maybe it was just too far ahead. He'd work on that more later. He smiled when the bird flew over, and he patted it's head a little.

"Hey little guy."

He stood, then and walked over into the kitchen where he saw her, and he smiled a little sheepishly.

"'Morning, um... still not sure what I should call you... sorry there's not more food around here, we can go shopping for that too if you like."
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Misery looked behind her when Asher entered the kitchen. "Good morning." She said with a slight smile. "Breakfast is ready." Misery had already eaten her breakfast, but she pointed at a plate of hot food on the table for Asher.

She was drying the dishes and putting them back where she found them. She nodded to Asher about shopping, "Yes, that is a must. You cant eat cold sandwiches all the time." She paused as she opened a cabinet door. "As for a name....I suppose you can call me what ever you want."

She put the rest of the things away, then sat at the table too. "Is that all you do? Make modification for people when you need money? Or do you have a regular job?"

She rested her chin in her hand and glanced at Asher and the bird. "I guess he really likes you. He never clung to me as much."

The bird gave a loud chirp, and then continued to sing in his ear. Misery laughed slightly. It was probably like having another voice in your head. The bird did that to her sometimes and when it did she couldnt concentrate.

"I guess when you finish eating, we can head out." Misery added, leaning back in her chair. She rubbed her hand slightly, feeling a little pain in it. She forgot to check it when she got up this morning. She pulled her glove off to reveal the backside of her hand bruised. This seemed to sadden her a little and she quickly put her glove back on.

So he was hurting her already and she didnt even realize it.....

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"Wow... well thanks."

He smiled to her, and sat down, picking a fork up, but he looked back over to her before he started eating.

"Well it's your name... what do you want to be called?"

He was still eating when she came and sat down, so he swallowed what was in his mouth, and he shrugged a little, gesturing around

"That's kind of a side job of mine. Mostly I've been working as an physicist, but it's kind of a front... the city employs about fifty of us, but considering the Queen's embargo on technological advancement, guys like me who got into science to invent find ourselves a little shafted... I mean, we owe her everything, but this is one law that's more than a little crushing... so I do a lot of my own work, and... well honestly it's more than a little illegal, as that man noted..."

He shook his head slightly, then looked over to the bird on his shoulder and laughed.

"Yeah, guy just seems attached, and sure we can... what's wrong with your hand?"

He hoped she wasn't hurt badly... according to what he had read so far, a person - for lack of a better word - like her should be entirely self-supporting so long as it recieved proper sustenence. Asher wondered idly if she knew she only required about a tenth of the food a normal human did... he wouldn't tell her, she was just as human as he was, as far as he was concerned, and he didn't want her starting to put a distance between her and people... the less she knew about how different she was, the better.
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"Well, I have two names. Two identities. Misery Sariel and Freya Smyd.... I am not sure which one of those I am...." Misery said looking down at the table.

"I was just doing a little experiment is all. Besides, it’s only a bruise." Even if Misery did tell Asher what she had found out about what Lahziel was doing, there was nothing he could do about it. "Are you finished now? I am not sure how long the shopping will take, so it is best to start out early."

She paused, a worried look coming over her face, "What if he comes? What will I do then? Why does he want me so bad, and why are you so intent on keeping me from him?" She looked up at Asher then, "I want to know why."

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"Well... maybe you're neither of those people anymore."

He smiled a little bit, then he nodded to what she said, taking his plate and everything back to the kitchen to clean it up.

"Thank you for making breakfast."

A little expiriment, huh...?

"Okay."

He'd leave it at that for now. She didn't seem to want to talk about it, so he wasn't going to press the issue any further. When she asked why the man was after, her, though... how did one respond to that...? There were two reasons... and somehow he didn't think she'd believe at least one of them. When he was done washing the plate, he put it in the rack, and put his hands on the counter, leaning against it with a sigh.

"The letter said... you hold a key. I'm not sure where it goes, but I'm increasingly certain that Gerard wasn't from this world, and maybe he found a way back... whatever it is, he hid it inside you... I think thats what that other man is after. As for me... I guess I want two things - I don't want him getting the key, and even though I had only met you once... I don't want him hurting you either. Even more now that I know you a bit better"
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Key? Key to what? This was getting more and more confusing by the day! She knew that that she did not have a key, or at least a little metal object that would open a locked door. Maybe it was a different type of key. Maybe it was a code that was locked away in her memory. But the question still remained. If she did have a key, what did it go do? Pandora's Box?

His last statement though made her look over at him. No, she shouldn’t get close to anyone else. One of her fathers is supposedly dead, and the other betrayed her. What would Asher do in the future? Abandon her? Betray her? Kill her? It was inevitable that he would die one day, but he could be killed because of her.

Misery stood then, "Let's go now."

Maybe a little normality would cheer her up a little. "Are we going to take your...vehicle?" She wasn’t exactly sure what to call the modified car. "What would happen if you got caught with all your illegal scientific inventions? I understand why you build things, because I like to do things like that too. I really haven’t built anything useful though, mostly just a bunch of useless gadgets and things like that bird on your shoulder."

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"Alright then, off we go."

He smiled a bit, and pulled his coat off the rack, then he noticed the bloodstain and the tear, and he hung it back up.

"Not that one..."

Laughing just quietly, he took a long white coat off the rack and pulled that on - it wasn't a lab coat, but he sometimes made jokes about it being similar. He'd actually bought it so he'd look a bit more stylish at work - not because he cared but because it was funny - though that had been shot down by one of the superiors... his job was sometimes terminally dull like that...

"I suppose I don't know what happens if they catch me. I'm not really worried about it, really. I'm just doing what I do, what I've always done... if I get in trouble for it..."

He looked back over at her, and remembered - what would she do if he was arrested...?

"I'll have to stop, though. I don't want to get taken away and leave you on your own... we can take my car or we can walk, it's up to you."
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