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((XD I'll be on tonight if you think you'll be awake. I'll also be on tomorrow night, but I'll be gone monday and most of tuesday. College visit and whatnot.))

'Quill will be fine,' Akaelin said absentmindedly, thinking that her sisters recent drug problem was the source of Kitais somewhat-fetal position. 'She has Birch again and I'm sure he'll help her through whatever's bothering her.'

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Kieran didn't acknowledge the fact that he had understood Sivas words, even though he had. He just continued to strike at her, undaunted when he missed. He still moved with the grace and fluidity that he had been taught. It had been so forced into his mind that he doubted it would ever go away. Even if Siva hadn't been a Society warrior under Jetta, he didn't think that he'd be able to hit anything but the unmoving paper at the moment.
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((I might be awake; I'm dozing off and on right now))

"Actually, I miss Yoko," Kitai admitted. "I know that Hel will die if he does, but I don't want him to."

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Siva laughed in surprise as she dodged one of Kieran's strikes only to have an unexpected one follow shortly after it and wrap around her left wrist. "Nice job," she congratulated him.
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'Oh he'll figure a way out of this,' Akaelin said, crossing his paws. 'If he's still the wormy little bastard I used to know, he'll find something.' He wasn't sure if he would prefer just to kill Yoko, or have the fox back with them. Killing would be so much easier. He wasn't surprised that Kitai missed her friend. Akaelin sort of knew the feeling, whenever Nathifa was away. But he was pretty sure that Kitai didn't feel towards Yoko the way he felt towards his mate.

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Kierans face reddened slightly. For what reason, he had no idea. He unwrapped Sivas wrist by spinning the whip counter clockwise to the way that it had wrapped around. "...Thanks," he said quietly after a long moments hesitation.

((I have to go now. I'll be back at 9pm your time.))
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Kitai sighed again. It was true that she didn't feel about Yoko the way that Akaelin felt about Nathifa, but she still loved him in a different way. He was her best friend and nearly as close to her as Quill was. She didn't think that she could bear it if the twins that she was carrying had to grow up fatherless.

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Siva pressed her right hand against the red marks the whip left on her wrist and they melted away. "You have good fighter's instincts," she said. "I didn't see that one coming."
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"I...smell bad?" Kieran asked, confusing the word instinct for something that literally stinked. Although in Sivas eyes, if he smelled bad that appeared to be a good thing. He had been told many things in life, but never that he smelled bad.

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Since Kitai didn't respond, Akaelin settled back down, thinking solemnly to himself. There were strategies to make, tactics to organize. While the end of the world hadn't quite reached them, it was practicly on thier door step. Unlike Kitai, however, he wasn't worried about her children growing up to be without a father. Kitai was young yet, and even if she did had kids, one day she'd find a suitable mate to help her raise them.
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Siva laughed at Kieran's comment. "No, silly," she said. "Instinct is a kind of gut feeling. Fight or flight is an instinct that everything has for example. Fighter's instinct means sensing an opening or a way to strike when the opponent doesn't expect it."

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Birch came back out of the forest, but without Quill. "Where did she go?" he asked Kitai. She pointed to the trees in response. "Damn it. At least that cat-thing's scent is easy to follow." Birch changed forms and charged back out of the clearing with his nose to the ground. Kitai knew that he wouldn't be able to leave her alone for long, even if she was hooked on opium.
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Kieran was still terribly confused, but he refrained from asking any more questions. People had a habit of getting mad at him when he asked those 'dumb inquiries'. Whatever an inquiry was.

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Akaelin decided not to get involved in Birchs affairs. Quill was the tigers mate, so she was his responsibility.

The second group returned from their visit into the city, and the sun was starting to set. Akaelin was fine with sleeping outside, but anyone who wanted to find an inn was more than welcome to.
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Kitai turned around a couple times near the fire, getting ready to change forms to sleep as she usually did before remembering what Jan said about that. She reluctantly grabbed some blankets and laid down on her right side facing the fire. It would be very hard to remember not to change out of her normal form until she had the children since she was so used to switching naturally between those two forms.

Nathifa returned with Sykino after the two had run a bit in the general direction of where they would be heading tomorrow to see if any danger lay up ahead. The big hyena left the smaller one to go return to the rest of the pack while Nathifa went over to Akaelin.

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Siva glanced up at the sky and noticed the setting sun. "That's probably enough for today. You've exceeded expectations and the sun's setting," she said, grabbing her connected knives out of the two trees. "We should probably head back to camp so you can sleep before we do more travelling tomorrow."
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Akaelins ears perked forward and his tail wagged slightly at Nathifas approach. He reached up and licked the hyenas cheek as she got closer, ears pressing back against his head. 'Find anything?' he asked.

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Kieran coiled the whip up in his hand, knowing that the burning sensation it emitted was all in his mind. Turning, he waited for Siva so that he could follow her. Never did he lead someone anywhere. It 'wasn't his place'. If there was anything that Kieran knew, it was where he stood in the world. And that wasn't very high up.
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"Nope, the coast is clear," Nathifa replied, laying down next to Akaelin. "Either they don't know where we are or don't think we're a big enough of a threat to bother dealing with. It's most likely the second one."

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"Well, come on," Siva walked over to Kieran and linked arms with him. "I'd skip back, but I'd probably trip over something. Then again, probably not. I see pretty well in the dark, thanks to being one experiment that actually worked."
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'I agree. Unfortunately, it's one of the most common mistakes people like them make.' Never underestimating your opponent was one of the many things that Arlyn had taught him. While he judged people quickly (and usually negatively), when he got on the battlefield, he never expected or assumed anything.

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Kieran tensed at Sivas touch the same way he had before, clenching his teeth and sucking in his breath. He let out the air he had just taken in and tried to relax, not wanting to offend the younger girl. It wasn't that he didn't like her. He was just so used to being touched in a rather 'negative' fashion, that flinching was simply a reflex he had yet to grow out of.
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"All we can really do is sleep and just see what tomorrow brings," Nathifa agreed. "But we should try to warn whatever villages we run across. Even if they're leaving us alone they will probably attack villages at random."

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Siva noticed Kieran's instinctive cringe away from her touch. "I'm at least ten years younger than you," she protested. "You didn't have any people my age abuse you, did you? Or did you?" She shivered at the thought. The Society had trained her mind to look at sex as only a way of making children, so there was no point in it for Society members since they were all infertile.
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Kieran bit down on his bottom lip, allowing his facial expression to respond to Sivas question. Young, old, male, female, were, elain, henkilo, hell someone had once brought in a horse and made him fuck it. You named it, he had screwed it.

((Poor Kieran probably as AIDs or some other STD or something. XD))

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'For now,' Akaelin chimed in. He didn't honestly think that the norse gods would be content with just attacking villages randomly for very long.
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"I'm sorry," Siva said, truly meaning it. She didn't really know anything about his life other than the general idea.

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((Yosh.))

Akaelin had a rare, undisturbed night of sleep, and awoke reluctantly the next morning. He rose to his paws and shook himself, sending out a shower of white fur. Shifting to human form, he gave a slight frown of disapproval. This wasn't the right season for shedding. Perhaps he was stressed or something. His coat did lack its usual luster.

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Kieran had woken up as the sun started to rise, and had merely sat back, watching the others start to rise an hour or two later. He saw Syn shaking Sayne out of a tree. Vane - in cheetah form - awaking with a yawn, stretching in a cat like manner. Akaelin shaking himself, frowning upon the shedding he had caused.

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Nathifa shook Akaelin's fur out of her fur before changing forms also to join her mate standing up. "Good morning," she said, planting a soft kiss on his cheek. A quick glance around the camp showed her that Jetta was already up and gone, probably hunting for herself and the pack. At the edge of the camp was a line of the three other Society warriors in their half-sleep resting against their swords. Siva's head had rolled to the side to rest on the shoulder of the woman next to her. It was hard to believe that they had been putting girls her age into active service.
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Akaelin gave a small huff before he cupped his hand under Nathifas chin and gave her a real kiss. He wasn't real into chastity and all that innocent junk. Jan came slinking back through the trees, looking exhausted. He heard a loud shriek and a complaint as Sayne started to peck angrily at Syns head for waking him.
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Nathifa kissed Akaelin back passionately, oblivious to Jan and the Syn and Sayne. With the end of the world coming at an undisclosed time, all she wanted to do was get away from the rest of the group and screw with her mate until they were both too tired to move. But they would of course have to lead the remaining Rebellion through whatever would come. With a glance at Kitai's sleeping form Nathifa wondered if the werewolf or any of them would actually live long enough for her to have her children.
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"Much better," Akaelin said quietly as someone whooed obnoxiously. The wolf made a mental note to kill them later. Until then, he waited for everyone to ready themselves for the start of the day. ...Or he could take Nathifa off into the woods and the rebellion could take all the time they wanted. While the second option was far more appealing, the first was the most practical, and the one he went with.
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Nathifa shook Kitai gently to wake her and helped her get up onto the horse that she had been previously riding. If and when Quill returned she would be able to ride on something with a much smoother gait, but for now the horse would do. "Do we really have any plans as to where we're headed?" Nathifa asked Akaelin.

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"Yeah," Akaelin answered falsely. The last thing he needed for the Rebellion to know that until he got ahold of the whole situation, he had no idea what he was doing. Nathifa might be able to tell that he was lying. He wasn't sure if she recognized the fact that he had a habit of blinking twice at one time when he lied. He could only pray that wherever they went, something interesting would follow.

((I have a place for them to go to, but it'll take place after Yoko pops in again. For now they'll wander and I'll insert some random action.

I have to go for tonight. Sorry! I'll be back tomorrow night.))
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Nathifa noticed that Akaelin was lying, but nodded. After all, there wasn't really any good place to go. Nowhere would be safe from the apocalypse, not even the Sanctuary and eventually not even the realms of the gods. Even if the Rebellion was forced to sheltering themselves inside of the oasis it would only forestall their fates. Set had once found a way into the oasis without an invitation, so even though the triumverate wasn't as familiar with the kind of work the egyptian pantheon did they would eventually be able to discover it and infiltrate it.
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"So where exactly are we going?" Vane asked, looking more for a town name or something. "...That way," Akaelin said after a small pause, pointing in some random direction. Vane gave the wolf an amused look, and his features threatened to break out into a wide grin. You don't know where you're going do you, he thought to himself. He would've loved to say it out loud and tease Akaelin, but he didn't want to risk someone hearing, deciding that the wolf was a suckish leader, and try to assassinate him or something like that.

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"Wren. Get up. ...Seriously, like...now."

Instead of staying with the group, Wren had camped with Sai the previous night. He had his arms wrapped around her, his body spooned up against hers, and his face buried in the back of her neck. He purred quietly, content for once and still asleep. Sai had heard the Rebellion starting to stir, and figured that they were getting ready to leave. "C'mon Wren," Sai mumbled as she tried to wiggle out of his death grasp. "Let. Me. Go!" At last she broke free, and the snow leopard arose as soon as she did, a rather characteristic pout on his face.
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"We could head toward the Salinas border," Birch suggested. He had recently joined them from the trees. "You can call on the guard at any of the towns there. They can stay with us through the months until it's time for Kitai to have to leave and they would also add to our offensive power until then. Most of the members won't talk to me any more, but I can still call a group up to join us." A brief flash of color in through the trees plus the light padding sound of large paws suggested that Birch had brought his mate with him, who was apparently reluctant to show herself.
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"That works," Akaelin said. "Anyone else have any little fighting thingys that could help us?" he asked no one inparticular. He turned to Syn, however, since the wyvern was the closest. "Don't look at me," Syn replied. "I come from a third world country. We don't have anything besides pickpockets and petty theives."

"I could probably fly off to Celes," Enthea chimed in. "My people specialize in world destroying prophecies, so I'm sure they'd be willing to help."

"I'd ask the falcons, but they're not too happy with me at the moment," Jan said, translating for Sayne.
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