These Weary Bones

[Zora Lee]

She sat submerged up to her neck in the water of the springs. It was the first break she had been given since her outburst with her mother and the argument with Rionos, and she intended on relaxing well before she went back to the Tower. IT was odd haveing both her grandparents back, even odder that they seemed to ignore each other when around one another. Somethign she never remembered. She didn't remember much from when she was younger but she did remember them being so into each other that it made her sick. She knew it was effecting them both, everyone knew that. Whenever Nailana visited the Tower she always looked happy on the outside, but her eyes seemed dull and distant. Somethign she knew was caused by deep sadness. She didn't want to end up like that so she had made a decission to stop pining over Alder and just let things happen as they came. She had changed a bit since their last meeting. She stopped thinking negatively and started to channel her agressions into training. Something she had taken up not long after her recovery. She wasn't the best but she was getting better. IT was one of the reasons why she was so sore and tired. But she knew in the end it would all be worth it. She closed her eyes and tried to empty her head, but Alder's face and his words kept ringing in her ears. She groaned and sunk lower into the water, making herself forget him.

[Fenrir King]

Walking along, sensing her from a few miles away, he wondered why he'd barely seen her and for that matter, Rionos as well, in the Tower. Moving along, in shorts and some boots only, he felt everyone's eyes as he passed on his scars, on his shackle and he just tried not to let it bother him and disappeared to where the Springs were and saw where she was. Moving slowly, he pulled off his boots and socks and slipped into the hot water beside her, amazed at how much she had grown in such a short time. Smiling, he just closed his eyes and tugged at his hair. Someone had thought him waking up to syrup on his pillow would be funny, so he had just given Vandos payback for it. Laughing at the surprise Vandos would be seeing, he just yawned and tapped Zora on the shoulder.

[Zora Lee]

She had finally been able to clear her mind and relax in the warm waters of the springs when she sensed someone close by. She didn't go any further in trying to discern who it was, she didn't care. She just wanted to enjoy the moment she had by herself. But she nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt someone tap her shoulder. She hadn't realized anyone had joined her so it had surprised her. She popped up out of the water coughing and spluttering, looking at the person. Finally she realized who it was and smiled a bit, "Uncle Fen! What the hell? You scared the shit out of me."

[Fenrir King]

"I noticed." he laughed loudly and shook his head."You should have sensed me. Someone could have drowned you." He shook his head again and just smiled, dunking his head under the water and coming back up again.

[Zora Lee]

She shrugged, "I just wanted to relax. I sensed you from a distance but thats as far as I went. I just wanted to relax." She sank into the water up to her neck and sighed, "Let them try I have learned a thing or two from our family. Who knows If someone did kill me, I could come back from the dead like grandma."

[Fenrir King]

"She never died though Zora, so perhaps you'd just fight to live." He nodded."Try huh? Very well then, let's see how you've done." He moved quickly and gripped her shoulders roughly and plunged her face first into the water, seeing how much her training had improved.

[Zora Lee]

She shrugged, "But she did. If not then she is now, of heartbreak." She raised her eyebrow, "What are you-" She didn't have time to finish her sentence, he had grabbed her and forcefully pushed her under. She chokced on some water but thats as far as it went. She knew what he was doing and she wasn't going to give up. She calmed herself, even though she couldn't breathe and needed oxygen, she was going to show how much she had improved. She closed her eyes and did not struggle. Finally her eyes opened quickly, now a ebony color. She brought her elbow back against his chest roughly, crabbing one of his arms in her other hand, she dug her nails in to his flesh, twisting the arm as she done so.

[Fenrir King]

He laughed and pulled her back up, holding her under her arms and looked to her nails in his arm."That's all Zora? But you showed me that you weren't going to act like a mad woman and splutter and end up drowning yourself. You calmed down which is the most important part." He let her drop and then looked under the water. "See, when someone does that, their legs are unguarded, and weapons they might have on their waist. Go for those two weakpoints Zora. Understood?" He eyed her."Again. If you manage to get the dagger, just nick me with the tip so I know you have it." He grabbed her again and sent her back into the water roughly, shaking her every now and then.

[Zora Lee]

She felt him pull her back up, and released her hold on him. She wiped the water and hair from her face and looked at him, "Do you really want me to hurt you? Because if I wanted to I could have just reached backa nd grabbed your nuts. That always gets them." She smirked but nodded, preparing herself for what was to come. She breathed in slowly, trying to calm the rush of blood that was filling her head. Suddenly he had done it again, but she had been taking deep breathes so being under for long wasn't going to be a problem. Again she closed her eyes and concentrated, but something filled her head. Ruthless words and horrible laughter, she struggled violently for a few moments before something came over her. She calmed down suddenly, and her arm shot behind her, instantly her hand connected with a dagger. She ripped it from his waist, but instead of nicking him, she violently pushed it into his leg.

[Fenrir King]

He felt the dagger run up to the hilt and into his leg and tossed her aside violently in reaction and groaned."What do you think you're doing?!" he eyed her angrily and got up and out of the spring, eyeing the dagger. Pulling it out, he just put pressure on the cut and then looked to her shirt on the ground, ripped a part of it and tied it around his leg, so the bleeding would stop and he just sat there, shaking his head.

[Zora Lee]

The moment she was tossed to the side she realized what she had done. She looked at him scared of what he would do, "Oh..Uncle Fenrir I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. One moment I was trying to follow exactly what you had told me to do, the next you were throwing me off." She looked down in the water and saw the blood then looked at his leg, "I did that?"

[Fenrir King]

"No, it was a magical dagger stabbing fish Zora." he eyed her and just laid back, closing his eyes."What in the world happened then?" It didn't hurt, but he hadn't expected to be stabbed either."Just be happy I'm not forcing you to go through endure pain lessons, those aren't any fun." He nodded.

[Zora Lee]

She frowned and pulled herself out of the water, "Oh Man..I don't know. I heard the blood rushing in my ears, and then I heard voices. They were saying things that no one I know have said. And Laughter, ruthless callous, and just plain evil. Then there was darkness and I didn't know what was happening. Then you threw me off." She looked at him and shuddered, "You can't expect pain to be fun. I've had my share though."

[Fenrir King]

"Not enough to be aware of it." He nodded."Not many have, you aren't alone. But I'm sorry, since you've never gone through what I have, you'll never know, but that's alright, you experienced your own pain." He nodded."Go to Malachi and ask him for a potion. It'll allow him to go into your head a bit. Find out what that could be."

[Zora Lee]

She nodded, "Uncle Fen I don't think anyone has been through what you have. And I don't think anyone regrets it more then I. I know I had nothing to do with it, but having to see you everyday, and know my real parents did that to you and Mae. It's an unbearable pain in it's own right." She raised her eyebrow at his suggestion. Deep down she knew what it was, but she had told herself she wouldn't think that way. "Do you think he can help me?"