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[Rose]

Rose slowed her horse, Zeus, to a walk as they approached the ruins of Masbolle. Magical protection spells gleamed in her magical sight; Sapphire blue, Silvery Amethyst, Emerald Green, Indigo. Two marble pillars stood where the gates had once been, a never dying magical flame flickering on top, changing colors from blue, to purple, to green, to indigo. Rose dismounted and climbed the stairs. Blood stained the once clean ground. Claw marks showed where killing machines and corpse monsters had scratched at the wall. She climbed the stairs to the battlements. A shattered sword lay on the ground, a gash in the wall where it had been forced into by Bael. She could still hear the cursed thing make that horrible screeching noise driving all the men mad. A ring of black soot showed where Jonathan had used magic to break a magical bubble that had been formed by Saraneth, which had held her, Claw, and Bael. Rose sighed. There were many horrible memories here, but so many happy ones at the same time. Memories of her page days and the times she spent with Nicolet and Ariadne came back to mind. She tensed, someone was coming up behind her. She kept her composure though, but ready to strike should the need be there.

[Rhianna Kiandra]

((Mods/Admins, please ignore the fact that my bio isn't accepted because I'm still Rose's squire.))

Rhianna mounted the battlement steps behind her knight mistress, leaving her riding horse,Melody, in the courtyard. She smiled as she saw Rose in the 'ready' position. "No need to fight me, Rose." Rhianna sighed and looked around. "Such wasteful destruction!"

((the colored flames are the Gifts of the people who fought there, right?))

[Rose]

(((yeah, mainly the powerful mages like Claw, Nicolet, Me, Jazz since she's a powerful wildmage))

Rose grinned. She was getting paranoid. But who could blame her? Standing her among the ruins, where so many had died...it was a possibility that evil could still remain here somewhere, lurking in the Shadows.

"No, I won't fight you Rhianna, not unless we're practicing, and theres a much more practical place to practice. I guess I'm getting paranoid since what happened." she said, offering a grin. "You know, Masbolle was a gorgeous fief when it was whole and not a pile of rubbish like this." she said, kicking at a loose stone. It clattered down the battlement stairs. "And yes, it is such wasteful destruction. We lost so many men. And there are still so many injured."

[Rhianna Kiandra]

((cool))

Rhianna nodded, sober(not like she was drunk). "Yeah. So many people and so many animals." She thought of the hawks and predator birds she'd called from beneath Jonathan's window who had either died, been too injured to save, or who were still recuperating. "Even Galaxy, who hardly fought at all, still has trouble with her shoulder sometimes." Galaxy, Rhianna's war horse, had taken an arrow in the shoulder. She was safe, but her muscles were working to get back to the strength they'd been. Out of a habit she'd developed since the war, Rhianna fingered a slim, almost invisible scar along her right cheek bone.

[Rose]

Rose nodded. Galaxy was a faithful war horse, and brave at that. Rhianna was right. The animal world had been hard hit also with deaths and injuries.

She leaned on the battlement walls, some of them sporting holes in them from where huge bolders had been thrown and gazed out at the horizon. A new fief was being built of course, but it would never compare to the old one.

Hooves clattered on the stairs as Rose's Unicorn, Shadow, walked up the stairs. She didn't turn, just continued looking around at the destruction.

Hullo Shadow. she said to him.

Hello little one. Hello Rhianna. he said, projecting the last thought at Rhianna so that he could hear her.

Rose finally turned around and surveyed the damage done inside the courtyard. The tree that had been in the middle had been torn from its roots when corpse monsters had wreaked havoc on the inside.

And then there was the matter of Bael. He'd been killed by Saraneth, but it was hard to say if he was actually dead. For all they knew, he could be lurking in the shadows of this very fief.

[Lirael]

Lirael stared blankly at Nicolet's old home. Remembering the battle.
Her horse grunted behind her, anxious to get moving, she felt it too, it was like souls where still in this place, it gave her the creeps too. She stared up at where she had been in the battle, holding her baby in her arms. She had left Myst with the Bazhir people, she had needed a holiday.

[Saraneth]

Saraneth urged Briar to catch up to Lirael. Her faithful gelding had been wounded in the battle, but thanks to the wildmages he was good as new. He'd taken his own sweet time to recuperate, but Saraneth didn't push him. She stopped him next to Lirael's horse, Dancer. She remembered when she and Lirael had ridden from the edge of Meron Forest to the gates of Masbolle, and how scary it had been. She'd been appointed head of Masbolle's spies by Nicolet, so she'd been occupied in the castle instead of out in the field. But then the time came where Yannika, Carmine's mage had needed a diversion to shield the minds of Carmines men. Saraneth had ridden out to distract Bael, and had ended up killing him instead.

"Lir, there are people up on the battlements." she pointed out.

[Rhianna Kiandra]

Hello, Shadow. How are you? Rhianna smiled at her knight mistress's big black unicorn. Rhianna looked out over the crenellations in the battlements towards the forest.

A low clicking preceded Rhianna's wolf companion up the stairs. Midnight laid his big black head against her thigh, and Rhianna let her hand drop to rest between his ears. Hello, Midge.

[Sapphire]

Sapphire slowed on her horse as she neared the sight. She had blurry vision, cheeks fresh from tears. "Hi Rose, Rhianna, hows things with you?" She asked seeing the others.

[Rhianna Kiandra]

Rhianna turned on the battlements and waved down to Sapphire. "Hello, Fhire. Things are okay. What about you?"

[Lirael]

Lirael looked around, dazed, and realised it was her sister.
''Their are?''
She said, complely suprised, She had not noticed them before.

[Rose]

((Just a friendly reminder, remember that the admins want at least 2 paragraphs per post...I'm not sure what happens if you don't do that, you'd have to ask them.))

Rose looked out at the horizon and saw a cloud of dust rising up on the road. There were people coming towards them. Calling a hawk to her, she sent it to see who they were and what they wanted.

Nightfire (the hawk) flew towards the two people at break neck speed. Surveying them and seeing them to be Saraneth and Lirael, who were friends, she flew back to the battlements at Masbolle.

Well? Who are they? Rose asked.

They are Lirael and Saraneth m'lady. Nightfire replied.

"LIRAEL! SARANETH! We're up here!" she said, waving at them.

[Lirael]

((sorry, I just didn't have much to post.))
Looking straight up to the battlements as she heard a voice from above.
"LIRAEL! SARANETH! We're up here!"
Realizing the people might be somewon she knew, she looked at Saraneth.
''Sar, you have good eyes, can you see who it is?''
She said to her sister. She also saw a hawk, near the clouds and wondered what it was doing. She had no idea it was actually talking.
Thinking about people she knew who knew masbolle, she looked to the sky, and saw a distant flick of purple, amethyst purple to be exact. Amethyst.... Rose, she might be the one on the battlements.

[Rhianna Kiandra]

Rhianna smiled at Rose and let Nightfire land on her arm, reaching up a hand to stroke the hawk's plumage. So Lirael and Saraneth are her, huh?[/COLOR] The hawk dipped its head, dark eyes glinting. That's good then.[/COLOR]

Midnight put his forepaws on the lowest part of one crenelation and stuck his mighty black head out, tail wagging. He liked meeing new people.

[Saraneth]

Saraneth turned Briar to face the ruins of the fief. The sun was starting to set in the sky, they should be returning home soon. But not until they found out who this was. The sky was turning a brilliant amethyst, orange, pink, and yellow color. She squinted against the setting sun.

A flash of amethyst caught her eye. It was coming from the top of the battlments.

"I can't quite see yet Lir, just a second." she said. She made out two human figures, a smaller one and a taller one. There was a furry form next to the smaller one, some sort of animal. And next to the bigger one...a huge black unicorn. The sun was flashing on his amethyst gem. It was Shadow. Which meant it was Rose.

"It's only Rose and Rhianna Lir. It's safe." she said.