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1[00:38:20] No longer feeling himself to be revered for his combative prowess as he was once before. A second chance at life feels to be a burden more than anything. Yet he threaded the path carefully and made up his mind.
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3Only returning to the volcano after finding some form of resolution. With the Atl tribe defeated, it was only a matter of time before some numb-skull tried to revive the group. Needless to say, the undead just simply desired something to end, to bring about the pain he felt inflicted on himself. 
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7His near perfect condition was wavering, eroding away from time and the recent defeat. Throttled into the assumption no time left to waste. To stagnate, would go against who he was when alive. 
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9"Hm. . ." 
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11Silent, nimble. Strangely enough he'd wandered into a small home on the volcano top. . . How quant. Looking up towards the open window to feel the bristling heat not too far off.
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16It is almost like meeting with a stranger all over again. Perhaps, it is due to the feelings that she held within her heart- the fright that came amidst her desperation when looking upon his form. If there is one thing that she knows- it is that she had betrayed his promise. And in doing so, it landed the two within a strange predicament. Somewhere trapped between life and death- an impossible wedge driving between the two. It is...Horrid. Depressing. But due to the time apart, she was beginning to accept that fact. 
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18". . ." 
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20However, upon opening the door to the small, humble home, she would have noticed the features of Kourin. There is an odd silence happening, the door steadily closing behind her- an uneasy feeling sweeping through her lithe being. "Kayne..?" Hands drift carefully infront of her body in nothing more than a mere clasp- a single, simple bow is given. 
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22"I ask for your forgiveness." Perhaps, she shouldn't have. "I don't know what happened. Everything was moving so fast and I couldn't control it. I couldn't control myself when they did what they did and I...I broke the one thing that I had promised." She said that she wouldn't become another Sachiko. She boasted that they were the ones alive and not undead and look at them now.. 
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24How saddening. 
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26"But I promise that I've a way to fix you."
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30[00:52:00] "Fix me?" Thinking over the words, their time a part caused the undead to become engrossed with his own inabilities. Confronting demons, swallowing his pride. To be shackled was a fate he never wanted, but accepted.
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32As such, he turned on his heel to face the kitsune, bits of his face thinner as the skin was forced to dissipate in eventual time. "I'm not broken, only this body. . ." Raising both his hands they gripped into a tight fist. 
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34"Can no longer be considered, manageable." A detour, digressing from the true topic he felt needed to be addressed. "Bits of me are lost, replaced by something else entirely. Or maybe it's nothing at all." Fist undone, pressed to the gaping hole in his chest, where his heart was once before.
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36"If I could feel something, i'm sure it would be pain." 
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38Merely a phantom of the man she once knew. Like the persona injected into a doll body, was he truly real?
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40Eventually his arms dropped to his side. A silent pace made off to the bookshelf. "Why did you revive me, Cho? A part of me, it feels as if it was done to spite the people of Jianghu. For all they'd done to us." Was it purely this? He felt it to be. 
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42In some manner or less.
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50"I didn't mean-.." It seems that she had chosen the wrong words for attempting to make things better. She had known that it would've piqued his ire. And it was the least that she should've done- especially when she hadn't had the chance to explain her intentions or desire for that of Kayne. "...That is what I meant to say." A quiet murmur, the flicker of light within her gaze beginning to dim silently. She hated the thought of things happening so quickly, so fast. But in the end, what more can she possibly say? 
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52"Your body can be managed...We would just have to visit Tarquin and he would perform maintanence on you. He could concentrate to give you the things that you desire- the feeling, the taste, the bits of you that are 'lost'...Although it isn't the real thing, it can be what you wish for." Her gaze drifts elsewhere, her breathing becoming rather shakey. To see where his fist moves only brings back images of him dying within her arms once more. 
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54"...I don't think that you would want to feel what I feel." Phantom pain is nothing like the visceral feeling within her heart. How it is wrenched just by the sight of him crumbling before her. But to be faced with such a thing makes matters worse. 
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56It feels as if it were done out of spite. 
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58Ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump. 
59"No.." She denies it despite knowing it to be true. "No...I didn't do it out of spite." She lies, because she doesn't know how to accept it. But surely, Kayne would be able to tell. Either way, the Kitsune visibly shrinks when he makes a move.. "I did it because I was desperate. You died fighting for people who...Who broke their promise to me- to us!" She shakes her head from left to right. "They sided with Ezton, they grew too desperate and betrayedme when they said that they'd go to war with the Atl tride. And then...And then they turned around and called me a warmonger for attacking him. You must understand.." It is difficult to control the whims of her heart but..
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61"They were going to kill me and I didn't know how to live on. And I know what I did was wrong but the thought of bringing you back was the thing that drove me. I could not allow you to give your life to people who spat on it time and time again.." The woman looks the other way, her form taking a step closer towards his own. 
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63"I refused to just let it go- to let you go."
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67[01:17:36] To what progress can be truly made, only able progress to make his current position to be something /comfortable/. Yet the cure is what he desired the most. "I may be enslaved the neries, but I don't plan to request for a more comfy ride." The mere thought brought an unbridled thought of anger, sadness. 
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69His gaze reached past to see her words spoken in tandem to the emotional expressions her body took on. "I did die for the selfish, in the end. No matter the faction, we are but cattle in their eyes." Soldiers willing to die at a moments whim.
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71"It's something I regretted the most, besides one other thing." Flicking his fingers through the bluenette locks that seemed strangely in mint condition. "What have we become. . . Cho? Our tales been told once before. You know this, right?" Stepping forward to match her movements to him.
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73His ignorance to the livelihood she went on to have without him, kept his unaware, curious, but he cared more for himself and the revival than anything else.
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75"First coming to the land of Agartha. Do you remember, we witnessed the recent speech that came with the heavy weight. Commanders dead, Nine-tailed betrayed." Reaching out to grasp her shoulder, a subtle hold as black octaves expressed hallowed emotions. "Maybe we are their next generation. As Kraus had Azrael. . . The nine-tailed had the ex-commander. And you. . .?" His words fell silent.
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77Releasing her shoulder as he stared down. Taking in her features despite the dark room, candles being the only thing giving the room light. Probably adding a layer to the sickening features he held. Words spoken now weren't entirely pertaining to the same topic at hand, but.
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79"Why do you refuse to let me go? So I could be your idle an example of what Jianghu had made us into. What they'd done to us?" His reasoning for living when alive, was to keep the Kitsune alive. . . But what now? As she desired to revive him, what was he to do? It plagued him.
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84"You don't have to ask anything of him. I can be the one to do so- I've already been speaking to him and others about the situation as well. They plan on giving me control but...They don't know what I'm going to do with you. They don't know what I'm planning." She says, her gaze drifting elsewhere, her hands drifting slightly towards her heart. Looking at him now, only made her realize that she had wanted change even moreso than before. She wants him to live. 
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86"..We weren't supposed to be cattle to the slaughter. We were supposed to be the wolves- the pride, the very people that they loved and praised and yet, no matter our sacrifices, they turned against us. I.." she looks away in nothing more than silence. Her frown beginning to deepen considerably. She...
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88What have we become...Cho? 
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90They were now considered to be damned within the eyes of the public. There is nothing to be done for her anymore, but there is still work that can be done to save him. "Your situation is only temporary, unlike my own." She tries to hold in the chaotic, extreme emotions, but even that is difficult. "We are not Sachiko and Gorou." 
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92Flat and simple. 
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94"I refuse to be like her." Even when the stories are somewhat similar. "I will not allow the love of my life to...to just rot away within a body when I still live. I can...I can give you more than just that. We don't ride of the backs of people who have done things before us, because we can make our own path. Our own way." She says, shaking her head. 
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96"You deserve a lot of things. You've got a lot of bad things coming to you but dying like that...I can't. I couldn't." Her gaze flickers down. "You were not to be a testimony for what they did to me, Kayne. You are supposed to be the thing that shows them what they are missing. What they've failed to keep..." They were not a vicious warrior like Yohn but they are most certainly damn near close. 
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98"...I want them to see what they've failed to see. Our greatest strengths- our potential. And I want them to understand that they had the chance...That change must happen. And I brought you back because I want that change now, moreso than ever." The woman's chin lifts- her frightened disposition now steeled by determination and confidence. 
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100There is power within her gaze. Darkness looming in the distance of her very heart. 
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102"And I'm going to give you what you want."
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106[01:44:03] "Do /not/ ask for more, on my behalf." To feel the reminding sensations his body longed to have a refreshing touch of. Would only burn him hotter than the sun. "In the end, the roles we must play. Are the same as in Jianghu." For her control to be doubted was something to expect.
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108As the undead sighed, "They need only be reminded, this body and mind. Is not of their own. . . Or yours." To find control on his own, it felt to be the most suitable path to take for now, unaware of how long this path might be for the duo.
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110"I am, Kayne. . . No puppet." Albeit, he was currently in the enslavement to a /master/. "What I want, Cho. It can never be granted. After all, the past cannot be undone." Quietly he covered the hole in his chest, embarrassed of it.
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112"But your talk of change. In the loop of everything, I've become distant to everyone. Even you." Turning away, he dared not even reach out to hold her any more than a simple grasp. Reminding him what he missed. Thus grew a passion.
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114A symbolic connection as his magic attuned more and more to his emotional state. "Even now, you claim everything is for I. All your wants and my desires. At times it felt like together, there was nothing we couldn't overcome. But in death, I learned this isn't true." 
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116It's why he came to now side with another, "I will fight for Valmasia for the time-being. . . I will interact with their necromancers and those of importance. Returning to the living is not where I wish to stop." Ambitious to the very end, if only he could learn to stop his temperamental attitude from kicking in. 
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118"Do you still love me, Cho?"
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120A question brought upon the spur of the moment, but it's something he wanted to know if it still existed.
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125"..." Her hands lift carefully, fingertips pressing against her lips to hold her tone. She knew that she held very little in decisions when it came to Kayne. And while he did not wish to feel the sensations of the living, it is better for him to be alive instead of rotting. "Then allow me to ask him to atleast...Fix you up. To not allow you to rot-- the necromancers are more powerful than ones before them. It can happen, you just need to allow it to." Stubborn to a fault, but even he knew that it shouldn't be easy. Nevertheless...The young woman grows slightly unstable. 
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127"You have to understand something.." she says, her gaze flickering towards his own. "I understand that you wish to control yourself- that you want your own free will but that cannot happen. Not as long as you are within the body that you are in. You can fight for control, can ask him to release you but...Without the proper support, you will fall." She grows silent. 
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129"You are not being forced to fight, to battle- your will is yours alone. You are a being once more- amongst the living. And what you want can happen." She nods silently. "Who cares for the past when it is behind us? Who cares for any of that when we can change the future. Forget it. Forget all that they've told us- forget what they've done to us, what they've called us and we move on. We focus on our future, on our growth, and our will to become more than all of that. We let these memories drive us and then we leave them behind." She is sick and tired of wallowing in defeat- in darkness. There needed to be more. 
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131"Distance does not concern me." Although it had at one particular moment, her heart- her mind, her very spirit had understood why it is that Kayne had done such a thing. But that didn't stop her from loving him any less. "...You are back because I broke the promise. I made you into this because of my desperation and I want to give you life again." she says before pausing slightly. 
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133"You don't have to stop but...I won't stop until my promise of having you alive again comes true." But his final question brings about silence. It is long and uncertain...Because she's not sure how he could possibly react. Love is strange and seeing him die once only makes matters worse. However..
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135"...Yes, I love you. I've never stopped loving you but..." Images flicker within her mind. Her gaze drifting elsewhere. "The love that I feel is not the same as before." Her chin lifts slightly, "I'm not the same woman as before...And I cannot go back." She shakes her head from left to right. "I will give you life once more and then I'll set you free to decide what it is that you wish to do."
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139[02:09:39] "Leave the past behind. . . Heh." Ironic, he felt those words to be when he lived. The future is what he strived to witness for himself. Though now, from the perspective of an undead. Time no longer mattered, eating, sleeping. . . All were lost. "To do, I may as well become dust." For it's the past that clung this soul to the living. 
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141A passion to deliver punishment to the ignorant people he'd once called allies. Allowing his death for such trivial matters, putting the livelihood of Gehennians over their own people. 
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143"Who do they think I am. . ." The words he mumbled beneath his breathe, it was this talk that aimed to open his eyes to his surroundings more than anything. Closing his eyes, his face fell in the direction of the floor, speaking calmly now. 
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145"As I lived. . . I'd fought for the lands revival, for our progression. But now, none of that seems to be as important as they used to be." Feeling as if they were running a full circle. "If I cannot cling to the past. If my only desires are to be alive and kill those who wronged me. . . Is this enough to live on for?"
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147Because things may have been somewhat clear to the dragon, love was something of the past he'd thought of. Another meaning behind wanting to return to the realm of the living, as one of flesh and blood. To love and feel once more.
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149"I have much to think on. . ." Stepping forward, the dragon seemed intent on departing for the time being. To where? Somewhere the somber bones could lie still and pretend for a few seconds. It could actually fall to rest.
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154The woman finds herself beginning to shake her head for that matter- her lips beginning to press into a small smile. "Perhaps I'm not the one understanding you." She says while beginning to shake her head from left to right. "I brought you back because I believe that you deserved a second chance at life. The past is nothing more than the past- we may desire to reshape Jianghu and things of such nature but...how could you possibly do that as the same person that you were before?" she murmurs, her gaze flickering elsewhere. "You must understand that...I'm doing this because I want you to succeed. I'm doing this because I want you to have the life that you never had." She adds. 
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156"The life that you lost.." she trails off before continuing onward. "Killing those that have wrong you is nothing...The point of you reaching back and coming to live again is to forge a new path. To make new desires and new ways. I brought you back so you can start anew without having to remember the things that we went through. You can become an entirely new person...Noone would know who you are. Noone would know a thing." she says. "Not unless you told them.." It'd be a secret.. 
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158"Yes- you may look back to the past and use it as motivation but I...I am tired of looking at the times where I was weak and inept. I want to be more than just that- more than just 'Kayne' and 'Cho'...Don't you?" she questions, her hand reaching outward, pressing lightly upon his chest. 
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160"Think on it..And come back to me when you've got your own answer." She adds before turning. It seems that she is intent on departing as well. 
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169[10:33:58] Returning to the volcano top, the undead spent most of his time in the company of other tainted beings. Colored black by their ill nature, as sweet and kind as they look. The dragon took no compassion to be held for those who could be considered his, savior. 
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171Discontent with his position, but accepted now after so long. A resolute glow in his undead eyes as the man slowly came to what he presumed to be the kitsune's new home.
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173I am to continue living. . . For myself. If I cannot bind myself to the past any longer. I lose my will to live. . .
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175It plagued him, the thought of forgoing his initial ambitions for the sake of a more promising future. To be who he desired, do what he wanted. Rather than task himself with the burdens of others.
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177Yet, he was drawn to the human attachment, as much as he shaded light on the feelings otherwise. "Hatred binds this form, a hate for the world I live in and those who still breathe as I once had." An exhausted sigh, the poisons he endured crept on him. Exhausting his undead form in an unusual manner. 
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179"I'm sorry, lady Cho. . . But the past, I can't so easily let it go. As you have."
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184Click, click, click. 
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186There are matters that she must attend to- and although she had promised that she would stay safe. It seems that dwelling within the belly of one of Mai Shuren's books would prove to be rather difficult. The young woman finds herself beginning to grow silent while gazing towards Kourin- her lips pressing together in nothing more than mere thought as she pauses a few feet away from him. 
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188". . ." 
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190There is a mild frown upon her features, her gaze flickering towards the waterfall as she speaks. "I understand that you cannot get rid of the past- atleast, not as you are now. And that is why I'm here to help you. To fix that part of you that cannot move forward...Not until you've experienced humanity yet again." she says, her smile beginning to turn slightly into a frown. 
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192"The Valmasians are making something to where you do not rot- a homunculus. They can create an artificial body for you that will not rot away...You can look the same, you can be as you were...That is, until I get you a true body." Her gaze drifts elsewhere- her hands moving towards the book. "Come..Let's go inside. I'll start my training now.."
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196[10:45:04] To hear her speak, pained him as words parted past her lips to spill like a waterfall. The memories clung so dearly to his mind, numbed only by the sake his body could not truly feel any pain. Only what it could remember the sensation to be.
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198"Nothing is free, Lady Cho." The undead explains, "This new body. . . It will come at greater cost than simply reviving me. You know this, correct?" In the mind of the undead, things between the two had not yet changed. 
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200The kitsune had always been one to speak with words and the dragon, his blade. "It's likely. I will be /forced/ to eventually prove our loyalty to them." What else would it take to prove such? His bravado was unmatched, so maybe this ordeal wasn't as dire as he stated it to be.
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202I wonder though. . . Will another chance at humanity, be my recuse.
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204If things could no longer be the same, what worth was it to fight so hard for the future he'd not know of. Could he bear the weight of walking alone? "Lead the way. . ." The dragon mumbles beneath his breathe, stepping aside with thoughts on his mind. Evident by his expression, which seemed so far away from here.
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209Nothing is free, Lady Cho. But there are times when she believes it to be true- there are times when Cho believes that she can do things without paying, especially when it only requires 'time' and not 'effort'. However, as much as she wills for him to be wrong, she knows that it's rather true. Valmasia has a way with toying with people- with revealing secrets and more when it benefits them. And it's about time that they've learned a lesson or two. But that might not happen anytime soon. Atleast, not with the way that she feels..
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211"You're wrong." 
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213Partially with his new statement. "You don't understand the 'cost' or the 'weight' of bringing you back to humanity. You do not know what it does to people- what it will do to me." The winds of desert's fury sweep within the distance, the orbs around the woman orbiting before dissipating into nothingness. "In order to bring you back, it will require a massive amount of power...Something that even my own soul, might not be able to handle." It is a risk that she would be taking. He could likely die...She could likely absorb him...She could likely roam the realm for all eternity. There is little to say of what might happen.. 
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215"You won't have to prove your loyalty to them.." No, not when they've already found a way to 'secure' her within their clutches. And that's partially to blame for her desperation...Either way, the Kitsune would soon move to sit at the table...Opening up the book of Mai Shuren's followers for the first time, her gaze drifting elsewhere. "They have other means of doing that through me." However.
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217"You do understand that...I'll need to practice before I can do anything." she says. "I'll need bodies..For now, I'll start with demons and then we'll be forced to move on to actual people." It is grim, but in order to give Kourin life. Someone...Something has to die." I've already got the key. I just need access..." she adds. 
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219"I'll also practice on you, to get a feel of your mana coils...So please, prepare yourself." She adds.
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223[11:02:59] "Other means, Cho?" He responded, unaware of everything that had transpired thus far. But to delve too deep, he didn't desire it. On the surface of things, he'd take it at face value from the kitsune. For now.
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225"You told me before, you didn't wish to be weak. . . To be just /Kayne and Cho/. But no matter how hard you fight against it. That is what we will always be." Words engraved to where his heart would have been.
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227After all, in his final moments. It was just he and her that he saw, only they existed in this hell. The others, demons who wished them harm. 
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229Walking over now, he seated himself. Removing the garments of his cloth to reveal his chest. Brittle, exposed. Flesh was rotting away, decaying from his recent defeat. Stains of tar like substances protruded like slim from small holes in his chest. But he paid it no mind.
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231"You're still weak, cho. . . It saddens me to see how far you'd fallen without me." Clenching his fist tight, "My death was a mistake, but being revived as much as I hate it. Gives me the chance to correct things. In due time. . ." 
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238There was someone who had came into her life at one particular moment. She had thought the worst of him- believed him to be just as the other Valmasians. She had sworn up and down that he was a part of their plan as well- that some things, are too good to be true to be true and real. In a strange way, Valmasia had ways of making certain that she would not be leaving. And it is through him, that they might not test the loyalty of Kayne- even when he is his own separate person from Cho. And although he claims that he is not owned by her...In their eyes, he is. His body, his being, his soul...He might not be seen as a puppet. 
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240But they'll always see Kayne 'and' Cho despite her saying otherwise. But to hear him say it is something different. The woman finds herself placing the book upon the table- reading through the notes, in which, the first step seemed to be preparing a body for the transfer. But instead of doing such, she would assist with her own 'runes'. "When you get your own, your new body...That saying will be nothing." She adds. 
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242"We will hold a ceremony for you...One that I wish that I could've done. And I'll invite those that you have not seen in years." The woman's gaze flickers. "You will be remembered. We will be remember as what we were...But will things remain the same?" She grows silent for the moment, leaving the question open-ended..
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244You're still weak, Cho. It saddens me to see how far you've fallen without me. 
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246There is a pause to his statement. Her vermillion gaze flickers up to him in silence. Several audible clicks can be heard before she speaks, "I was once what you say that I am now." She murmurs. "When you died, I've fallen hard...Worse than what I seem to be now. But you're wrong." she adds. "I am not weak.." It is a whisper. It almost seems that she is ashamed to say it but.. 
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248"Through your death...I only became stronger." Being alone, having to fight through your emotions, your own mind, the darkness of your own heart. It credits for something. "I've fought in many wars, I've bled many times...Your death was unexpected, but I am strong enough to handle that weight. I just need to prepare for it." After all...She is no divine being. 
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250She can not easily move a soul to the whim of her fingers. "Undress." Not just his armor. Everything. 
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255[11:24:19] "You're right. . . If I ever come to be once more. It will no longer be that." No restrictions, no boundaries. The impossible would become a reality and hell would be unleashed on the lands of Agartha. Pain spread across every nation as he felt the phantom emotions nearly a reality to be.
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257Instead, his hand could only motion in silence to his exposed hole. Digits collapsing in to twirl and weave. Dancing in the hallowed hole, a figurative representation to how he'd been feeling so far. "I learned in my life time. . . Battles do not make you strong. You bled and fought, but what we strive for is the past to be undone. In the image of our future." Only the victor could create history after all. The past would cease to exist, should they find the strength to rewrite it.
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259"There is a reason I was revived after all. . . You know it, deep down. Beyond the desires to exact revenge on Jianghu. To spite their people through use of Necromancy. Across the sea of pain you felt could be recovered in my absence." There was still much for him to uncover, as she still had.
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261A trail of bones hidden in the wake of their light. "Fate drives our actions without us knowing." As much as the undead coming to life could be considered the opposite of such. Fate to the valmasians were very much different and the insight he gained from dying. Opened this to him.
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263"We are different than the people around us. It's why, there will never be an absence of you and I. We strive for the beyond as the rest live content with their lives. They've no understanding of what we desire and want. Only a claim to understand. To get close, but in the end. My death caused you pain. . . Because I am the only one who can understand, us." 
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265Going silent now, the undead had began to fully undress. Albeit, embarrassed over his nudity. Not for the nature of it, but the nature he defied by being undead.
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270"At that point, people will realize just how terrible things have become for the both of us." she says, her gaze drifting elsewhere in nothing more than mere thought. "At that point, I believe...That I'll be capable of changing the world." Perhaps, she shall take up Mai Shuren's mantle. Perhaps, she'll be able to bridge the spirit realm to reality- so that the possibility of death and life will continue onward. And although the spirit realm is linked to many bad things.. 
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272There is also good. 
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274She can only assume what it is that Mai Shuren had wanted...She can only assume the woman's intentions for turning her back upon Jiuweihu, but it must've been good. Her motive for bringing about the Shaytan of the Nethradins must've happened after something drastic...Cho will find out on her way to self discovery, but until then.. 
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276"Battles are only the half of it- but if there is one thing that is true, it is that victory, through any means, is necessary. I understand why it is that Jianghu clings to the savages as they do- because they are desperate...Just as I was to bring you back to life. And while it was selfish for me to leave after what they did to me...I am still right." However, she pauses..
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278"Spite?" She looks up at him from the book. "Spite.." There is bitterness within the next time she says it, venom that drips from her very lips. "The moment that I left, they assumed that I immediately brought you back. They assumed that I ran to Valmasia to follow in the footsteps of Sachiko and Gorou...They burned my home down, everything that we created-- they took that from us. And now, there is nothing left. Not in Jianghu...So was your resurrection out of spite?" she questions, pausing..
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280"...No." It was steadily becoming a half-lie. Partially out of her spite for the rest of them but mainly, "I was desperate to see you again, desperate to hold you in my arms- to keep you close to me. I was manipulated, but I was also driven- driven by my own heart and soul." As one half would drive to the other in a heart beat. 
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282But still..
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284"You were not the only person to understand us as a whole, but I felt that way, entirely. Your death had broken many people- especially, Vohan, who looked up to you in ways that many others had not." She grows silent for the matter, her gaze never leaving his form- even as he undresses. 
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286"People loved you. People who understood us...Loved us. But I'm afraid that it may have changed over the years." The woman grows silent for that matter- her hand drifting towards the tip of the spear. And carefully, would she 'knick' her thumb on the blade- wincing as she speaks. 
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288"But I suppose that we'll see just how real that love is in due time.." The woman's thumb would move carefully. Her blood presses against his flesh- warm, in constract to his cold skin. "We'll see..." A mutter, a whisper as she draws runes upon his flesh in intricate circles- occasionally looking towards the book for further direction.
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290"Are you ready?"
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294[11:50:46] "Love. . . I wonder if such a thing can exist for people like us." Even through the harsh reality they were forced to endure, they survived. In some manner. It's why his expression twisted at the sight of her condolences to the legacy he left behind. 
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296"Shut up, you're wrong, Cho." Closing his eyes, his gaze was casted to the window in a moment of silence. "It's much easier to accept and deal with the reality of your situation. Than it is to change it." Looking back at the kitsune.
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298"Vohan. . . Zagan, Aerin. They followed us, because they believe it best to follow. Unable to lead a life for themselves. Without you. . . I, they would be lost." He was no shepherd looking to crowd in the weak. 
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300Not any more.
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302"I know this more than anyone, but it's easier to say what you can do, than to actually do it." A testament to his words when saying he'd refuse to the leave the womans side. "In this state of blight, I resist. Where others would find joy. You to, may be not now. Will realize, we are truly alone in this world." No matter what he spoke though.
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304Silence would eventually grip his throat. Watching as she pricked the bed of her fingers along the spear, a reminder to who he was prior, amazed really. She still wielded his weapon, it pained him to see it. 
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306"Let us begin."
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310[12:15:31] 
311"Love exists.." There is nothing more than a heavy pause given after the statement. "It is a real thing that happens, regardless of any situation." she adds. "And more often than naught, it can lead to disastrous endings...Endings in which those involved, could have, perhaps changed, if they had not fallen in such." Because when it comes to love- pain is inevitable. And when it comes to pain, there becomes an overwhelming sense of it. A strange need for it when you have experienced the same sensation time and time again within your life. 
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313"Am I truly wrong..?" she questions. "A part of accepting my reality and dealing with it, is changing the situation that I am in. I've spoken of change time and time again- from the moment that we got to the boat and now. And I've never stopped working on it. I never will." she adds. "I can make this world crumble...Or I can lift it up. Same as anyone else can..Do not deny the fact that it'll happen, regardless of what I'll say." They held their disagreements. They'd argue over the little things but.. It doesn't change the predicament that they are in. It won't..
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315"But they've done so time and time again. Aerin, started her own family- went on her own expedition, died for her own wishes and wants. Zagan? Doing the same- occasionally visits but his presence was scarce anyway and Vohan..?" There isn't much to say of Vohan. "...He is not the same since you've been gone. It is not that he is lost without me. It seems that he is lost without you." He might've viewed her as the shepherd and them as the sheep but there are power in numbers. And although they might seem 'weak' in comparison to others..
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317They hold strength as a family. 
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319"...I know what lonely feels like and I can assure you that we are not alone. Many others are devastated just as us...The only difference between us and them is that we are more vocal. And we are working through our turmoil, rather than rotting and growing stagnant. But you are right, though, others do not understand.." 
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321Nevertheless, she would have soon began. While reading the book, the preparation and incantations would soon spill from her lips. Areas where her blood marked his flesh would light up with cerulean--- the power running through her body, muscles flexing underneath the pressure of weight. "Kcalb os luos a tibahni ot ,kcab og I elihw ,htrof mih gnirB .ecalpsid I tirips siht ekaT ,ecalp siht ni dna emit siht nI." Words are spoken backwards.. But for those who are curious. In this time and in this place, take this spirit I displace. Bring him forth, while I go back, to inhabit a body, completely black. But to digress...
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323The moment that is complete- Kayne would feel his leylines being grasped by the Kitsune. The elements of her magic running it's course through his body- but those that stood out the most would be the presence of the desert. For him, there is no mercy for the oasis- just the impossible heat of the sands surging through his very body, the pain of changing, of being 'ripped' apart and caught in the midst of the sandstorm occurring. His spirit...Would be temporarily 'jarred' from the practice.
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327[12:51:21] "You'll never understand what I've been through, Lady Cho." His voice would interrupt. "The fleeting feelings that occur once you've passed on. Forced to relook over the decisions you made in your life. . ." It was both bliss and torture, to feel alive in a dream was unlike anything he'd experienced before. 
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329"To be there once more in those moments to touch, taste and feel. To love as if it were the end all over again." He'd relived those memories, stepping once more in those shoes before he was brutally torn from the lifestream, forced to live this curse.
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331"I felt warm. . . Content, oddly enough. There was so much i'd regretted. I knew the star of our people would not accept me. I could feel it Cho. . . All that I was being rewritten. The warmth of a womb nearly consumed me and life. . . It almost flipped like a switch." Snatched before the grace of a /true/ second chance, in the omnipotent views of the life stream. 
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333To relive his life was not a second change, simply an undesirable end for the forsaken. "Maybe because I can no longer feel. That I make the assumptions I do. But my thoughts on the matter will never change. Not till I can witness it for myself." Love, appreciation for existing. Others that weep and woe as they do.
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335For him, it existed not. All but alone behind four walls that fell like a toppling mountain onto his shoulders. Only did his silence occur when hearing the words of her chant come to life. 
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337A tension to his body as the pain was caught in his throat. His face lifting to stare into the ceiling. Thinking over, who he was now. As he bared the pain.
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341[13:01:36] 
342Concentrate. 
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344The power that resides within the midst of the heart- the agonizing pain that comes with doing something so 'dangerous', of 'learning' bares heavy upon her body. Everything threatens to crumble as she trembles, but all that she keeps in mind is the very disc that she had been introduced to- even as she 'lightly' embraces the soul of the undead infront of her. Surely, Tarquin would be able to feel a tug at his mentality- a mild 'test' of control before she had finally faltered. 
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346Breathe. 
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348Everything that she had felt within her heart would be pressed forward- and although 'failing' slightly. . .She had learned something extremely important. She figures that touching his leylines first- fully 'connecting' herself with the depths of his shell would allow her to move forward...Now, the issue is stopping. 
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350In. Out. In. Out. 
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352The negativity spills from the tips of her fingers and eventually, all of the pain that continues to rack through her body would finally begin to subside. The cerulean glow that ushers into the room vanishes, leaving the woman out of wind- terribly weak, and terribly, terribly broken all over again and yet..
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354"You are right..I could never know what it is like to die. To be killed and brought back. But that does not mean that I will stop the way I feel." Ragged breathing occurs, her composure steadily rising once again. "I can't afford to stop." It's just that they're different. Sorely different now.. 
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356"I'm done...I'm done for now. I was just testing it. I need to rest and keep reading..For now, I'll send you and the others out on an expedition. I'll need these things to complete your ritual.." A murmur is given, her gaze drifting elsewhere. 
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358"Be careful, please." Upon the list, would be items such as 'Arcanium, Soothing reed, adamantite, tyrium, and more. Some of the things were already crossed out- such as rare myterials like 'amber' and 'fire crystals'. "By the time you all are done, I should be prepared. I'll be practicing with Valmasia's Necromancers so...We should see by the end of the year."
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361[13:22:04] Feeling like he was trapped in his damn mind, alive in the night time, as the light grew dim in the house. Only the sounds of muffled groans, contraction was the focus of the scene. The undead naked and light afire from the injection of the kitsune's mana. 
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363Effortlessly his mind became numb, more attached to his mana than the likes of others. After all, he lived only because of magic. So thus, this pain went beyond what he felt when alive. Tearing and wiggling through him, forcing past his own natural systems kept in place to keep him alive.
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365The entirety of the time, kayne himself spoke fewer and fewer words. Only mumbles and gasp for air; as if it mattered. And after some time the ritual had been finished. A pre-cursor for what was to come in the future. 
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367Weakly the undead pulled his belongings together and adjusted his clothing on once more. Concealing the rot and scum that was his body at the moment. Making way towards the door, his body went limp atthe middle. Nearly departing without a word.
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369However he did have a few things to say.
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371"Life is a race against time, what can we accomplish before our demise. . . If you claim you won't stop moving forward. Then show me the truth to your words. Who you've become, i'll be watching." As much as he desired to say it, to do so might have him ended. 
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373Trapped in the past as I am. It's why you strive to revive me. The only semblance of resolution you can find is not in yourself. It's why you'll remain weak. But maybe he was wrong with how he felt. Leaving the small house soon after.
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377[13:30:36] 
378If there is one thing that she knows for certain- it is that she cannot, and will not allow herself to suffer through the same things that she had been through. The woman said that she would change, she said that she would become more. Stronger. Better than what it is that she had been and although it hurts like hell. And although she trembles before the might of the 'practice', it only adds to what it is that she desires. 
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380Breathing is steady, albeit, still ragged. Her body weakly straightens up once more, regaining what composure that she held. "We've always been against time- it's just standing out moreso than anything else." she says, growing silent to his next statement. She had been watching him all of her life but now...It seems that it is his time to do what she had been doing. 
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382Perhaps, he'll find the fire that once existed within himself at that moment. Or maybe, he'll fizzle out. Either way...The young woman would soon move forward- leaving the house, her head held high. If he believes that she is weak because she is trapped in the past, he is wrong..
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384Cho has moved on. 
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386She only dwells there, because she is fixing a mistake on her part. She is bringing him life...as an 'ode' to what he stood for her in the past. And if that is perceived to be weakness, then so be it. "Be safe." Her reclamation of the world is through her own uses and her own way. She no longer needs to hide behind a shadow of another being. That much, she feels.
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