☣Ɯ α я☣ {1x1 with Alpha*}

[koi97]

Pantera is silent as well, just scanning the scenery as it passed by them. The steady sound of Max's hooves on the ground is relaxing to the elf, to where when Max breaks the calm silence; he jumps. He quickly looks at the back of Max's head. "I don't know," he responds honestly. Thrre is a certian tug on his soul, something very weak but so persistent about it.

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Bailey just stares at Ammonia, listening to the nervous words spoken by the young girl. Her eyes widen. Bailey looks at where the children are at, eyes staring at the boy in question. "I never would've guessed. Thank you for the warnings. I will make sure to be extra cautious with him," she says softly.

[Alpha*]

Max sighs when his companion jumps. "Sorry I startled you, " says the creature before speaking again. "I suppose I'm used to you talking. " explains the shifter.

--

Ammon smiles shyly at Bailey, "I have a question, " she says softly, "do you know anything about this pendant?" There is a finger that taps her necklace, "i got it from Anne."

[koi97]

Pantera tilts his head. "I guess. I don't know, just...something feels different. Off. I don't understand it," he tried to explain, feeling embarrassed by such trivial things. "I'm sorry," he whispers, not even knowing what is happening.

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Bailey holds her hand out. "May I hold it? Get a closer look?" She asks, not wanting to invade Ammonia's space. She also knows that some symbols can look different up close, when the detail is more visible.

[Alpha*]

Max stops walking; "get down, elfling," is said softly, his hands quake as he speaks, and this time it has nothing to do with his shifting of forms. When he deams it far too long of a silence he swallows and speaks again; "i ... had a mate, once. A true mate." Max doesn't change forms, not the way that he intended too. He begins to change his face, his hair, his eyes, his voice.

"This is what you are missing. " He can't do it. He cant. He's LOOSING. Losing his chance. But how can he possibly do this? Lie? Pretend he doesn't know?? And suddenly standing before Pantera is the form of Morag.

It isn't the same man. Not close. There's no bond. Not even the whispers of it like silk on skin. "This... man.... is what you're missing Elf."

---->>>

Ammonia wets her lips and then pulls the pendant from around her neck; there's a thrill, a burning feeling that pulls in his chest and suddenly she's knows.

Its missing.

"Of course !" Is spoken maybe too brightly, passing the 'stone' over to the fairy, pale fingers reluctantly dragging away. "I've seen no runes.."

[koi97]

Pantera moves swiftly, alarmed by the sudden change in Max's mood. He can barely answer before Max is shifting forms. Pantera steps away, watching with confusion as suddenly a different face stares back him. Pantera shakes his head, heart pounding by the sudden on slaught of emotions.

"Max? What is the meaning of this?" He questions, suddenly dazed by the feeling of deja vu.

Emotions blurr together. Pantera takes another step back before something nags at him. Pain strikes through his temple. He hunches over, palms pressed tightly to his head as a sudden war of feelings assault him.

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Bailey tilts her head once the pendent is in her hand. "I don't feel anything....most pendents are made with some kind of Magick, as they serve a purpose. Either to protect the wearer, stash extra magic, be a source of magick" she whispers, glancing up at Ammonia. She senses something is amiss, but would much rather have Ammonia tell her over trying to guess.

[Alpha*]

Max wets his lips, "the meaning of this... is your mate." Is said softly, heart breaking. "Your mate who is dying... your mate who left to make it so you wouldn't watch as he fades away. " he swallows, twitches and he changes back into 'himself', or at least the face Pantera is most comfortable with, but on two legs, not four. He crouches beside the elf, hands extending to try and offer comfort. "He told us to keep the memories from you but I- i cant do it to you. I can't. And I know it's tearing you apart but -- I cant."

---->>

Ammon wraps her arms around herself, like holding herself together. "It burns," she whispers, "in my chest," her voice breaks, "and then i can't change forms, i just know it."

[koi97]

Pantera glances up at Max, listening to words as his head swims. "Max....I don't feel right," he whispers as his vision swims. Everything seems to be moving. Pantera's head is pounding with pain. The elf sways on his feet, body and mind at war. Something seems to trying push forward, trying to break down this invisible barrier in his head that only now he feels. He never noticed it before. His stomach churns, and bile coats his throat and tongue.

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Bailey looks at Ammonia, trying to understand. She isn't the most versed with shifters and their magic, especially not in Ammonia's case. "I can ask my husband. I...I haven't been around shifters in years, I'm a little fuzzy with the different magic each shifter possesses," she murmurs, holding the necklace back out for Ammonia to take.

[Alpha*]

He's messed up. Hasnt he? The creature pulls the elf into his chest, holds him tightly as if he could fix everything by doing so. Max rumbles deep in his chest the sound meant to be a comfort. "It wasn't meant to be this way," is whispered- "the bond is sacred." Carefully he pushes that invisible wall with his own magic, trying to fix what has been stolen. Fix what is broken both by the angel, and by himself.

Yet his skin crawls.

"I'm sorry." The shifter offers heart beating wildly in his chest. What has he done? Finally, finally the wall comes down, like it had never gone up in the first place.


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The werewolf pads after the pair, eyes full of animal intelligence and nothing human. But this is a member of his pack, he knows, and so tails the pair. He waits until they are sitting to make himself known, and the pain of the word 'bond' brings back some semblance of his humanity. It's been months since he's been on two legs; yet when he appears before the elf and mimic he takes that form, head tilting just so.

----->>

Ammon takes the necklace back with a surge of irrational relief and clasps it around her neck with cool fingers. "Please.. do. Im sure that any insight would be helpful. " The girl replies.

[koi97]

Pantera squirms at the feeling of Magick curling in his veins. A grunt of pain leaves him as something begins to crumble in his mind. He grits his teeth, trying to with hold the scream that is building in his throat. The wall crumbles, and memories surge forward. Pantera pants harshly, curling up in Max's arms as the creature holds the elf. He is barely aware of the newcomer as the pain from regaining his memories assaults his senses. Pantera can't help but bury his face in Max's chest, trying to use the pressure from the contact to alleviate the pain.

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Bailey smiles softly at Ammonia. "I'll be right back," she murmurs before standing up to find her husband. He shouldn't have wondered off too far, as she learned he seems to enjoy hovering around the many children that Ammonia and Toshiro have adopted into their little clan.

[Alpha*]

The wolf in man form surges forward with a snarl of yellowed teeth; the words 'whathaveyouDONE?!' leaving his mouth in a slur - the words not quite forming correctly around lupine teeth and with a monsters' tongue. Jaws click shut at Max's throat, a hairs'breath from ripping flesh and tasting blood. "Broke, You broke." Comes in a hiss, "promised.. broke the Lasts' mate. Whatveyoudone?" NoLand twitches, his whole body jerks. "Mmmm," is groaned, wondering however briefly if HIS magic still works. Clawed fingers rummage in the bag the wolf had brought with him and out comes the pendant full of Angelic Grace.

He grunts in recognition, the Renak blistering his fingers and healing immediately in that achingly familiar way he'd once known --

Spastically his hand clenches around the jewelry. "Take, " is ordered to Max, ".... I take.. " There is the snarl again of warning and rage, then, the lanky, shaggy beast is before them and he stares with ichor-yellow eyes at the thing that broke its word.

Max.

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"Shh ive got you. Youre okay..." comforts the mimic. Max swallows as he notices NoLand appear and then lurch closer, not nervous until the wolf bites at him. He leans back from the fangs, creating distance. He'd known, hadn't he? Known what he'd done --

"I've got to fix this," moans the shifter wishing he hadn't been so weak. "I'm so--" and NoLand is looking for something. What?? He inhales sharply, swifly thinking through it
"you're right. You're right-" the words are mostly to himself, and then the man-shaped-thing moves. Max gently positions Panteras' arms and body around the wolves' body and neck (like riding him, mostly obscured by that thick fur.) "You have to go with NoLand now, Pantera," is whispered. "I'm going to fix this. I-i promise."

And then the wolf and the elf are alone. (The wolf inhales nuzzles the jewelry into the bag and picks up the bags, his fangs winking in the sunlight against aged leather. NoLand starts walking, back the way they'd came.)

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Silas is kneeling outside near a pile of muddy snow, delicate fingers are pressed into the soil and his eyes are closed. He is seeing in one of the few ways he can. Footsteps nearing him have him retract his mind and 'eyes' and he turns to listen for his wife and mate. "Bailey," is said in a low voice.