The Heirs (-Invisible- & Brookgirl) 1x1

[fly away.]

Jason swallowed, thinking about it for a moment. "If your escaping, I am too." He said softly, nodding to himself as if trying to convince himself of it. "Get out of this godd*mn place." He shook his head, blowing his hair away from his face. Trying to figure out what to do, or say. "What did Sam mean, though?"

[Black Velvet]

"The BARRIER is thinner along the path right by the mine. Sam knows I want to escape, but he will not join us. He has status here; if he is re- caught he must start all over again. He says that he has food and shelter here and that is enough. The point is, if we go through the barrier, our torcs will be disabled. The catch? I know you've felt wizard flame more than once, but that is what you will feel again, until you reach the end of the barrier." River gritted her teeth, remembering the flames that Drake had sent coursing through her. Then she smiled sadly, "For me, it doesn't matter. Drake will do the same if I stay... You don't HAVE to come, just promise you won't tell," she begged him desperately. Then she added quietly, "I hope you do come..."

[fly away.]

Jason shuddered as she mentioned the wizard flame, as if he was feeling it again. "I'm coming." He stated simply, nodding. "It's not like they won't hurt me if I don't go. It'll be the same no matter what. So I'm going with you. Because I'm pretty ure once we get out of here, we'll be safe. They can't really enslave wizards."

[Black Velvet]

"oh, they can't, eh?", River smiled, "Then how did they do it in the first place?" Then she spoke seriously, "Come on then.

[fly away.]

Jason nodded, and took a step forward, no longer leaning against the door. "Force, power. Everything in between. They do it by using people's weaknesses against them."

[Black Velvet]

River spoke quietly, "You know we WON'T be safe after we escape. Drake and Hestia will probably look for us. They KNEW we were wizards, at the Market. They sensed something SPECIAL about us. Why do you think they risked enslaving us?" She pulled a black outfit from her bag, identical to the one she was wearing, and dropped it onto his bed, "It doesn't have spells on it, but... maybe you can change that." Then, turning to leave, she whispered, "Take what you can- spare clothes, your book of spells, anything you can carry away. It might be usefull later. Meet you on the path- near the mines, where the barrier is thinnest." Pacing quickly through the building, she reached her room and grabbed her book, her spare clothes (including the servant robes), and the small thermos the slaves used to carry water, shoving them into her handbag along with the small blanket from her slave's cot. She was about to leave when she turned back and grabed her pillowcase, too- it would be good for carrying things, she reflected.
She was not ready to meet Jason just yet- first she had to steal some of the slaves` meals for the journey. She would need them- after all, she had nowhere to go- the seer who had cared for her when she was younger had also been taken by the men, and River had no idea where she was. Quietly, she snuck towards the slave`s kitchen.

[fly away.]

Jason slipped the outfit she had given him on, after lacing it with an invisiblity spell. He had heard something about an unnoticeable spell, but you had to have a dryne sefa for that. So the invisiblity would have to work for now. He then grabbed his pillow case, and stuffed everything in the room he could find that he thought would be useful. His book of spells, extra clothes, a thermos. He swallowed, then slipped out of the door. He walked onto the path, agile and swift. He then stood next to the mines, where, apparently, the barrier was the thinnest.

[Black Velvet]

River hurried to the slaves` kitchen and shoveled several boxed meals into her pillowcase. Then she climbed onto the sink cabinet to reach the upper drawers, and took 10 assorted cans of soup as well. She almost tripped over a plastic bag lying on the ground, and grabbed that, too, filling it with granola bars. Finally, she found 7 bottles of water- she could purify her own with magic once she reached a stream or lake- and raced ou of the kitchen. Silently, she crept past the doors and let herself out of the building, making her way down the mining path.

[fly away.]

Jason barely made out her figure in the darkness, he nodded at her. "You ready for this?" He asked, touching his torc absentmindly, remembering that it would be disabled as soon as they got out of the barrier. It was getting through the barrier that was going to be the worst part.

[Black Velvet]

River nodded, then tripped over something on the ground, landing in a heap. She regained her feet imediately, but felt incredibly stupid. Then she looked down to see what had tripped her- it was an amulet... an amulet she had seen before. Not the one she had given to Ja=essica, but... she gasped. `Jason, it`s Hestia`s amulet!`, and picked it up carefully, holding it out to show him.