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Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
As much as city life had always appealed to Art, he was beginning to open a bit now that he had spent some time out in the open. Truth to tell, he had always loved watching flowing water and had been the first to pop open hydrants in the summer. So this place was just about perfect, the roar of the water as it fell and the soft sheen of mist that drifted through the air. To Art, it was something straight out of a painting. Maybe he woulde even try that kung-fu thing and meditate right under the falling water.
Looking around, he found a suitable rock to sit on, cracking open the book he had brought with him, "Les Liasons Dangereuses" (translated), and begin to read. However, the pages didn't turn as his thoughts drifted away to all the people he had met so far, and how the relations in that book were far simpler then those he had witnessed in person. The girl who had suddenly fell into his arms, principally, those those two he had met just after...
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(1/15/07 5:34 am) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
Kane walked along by himself, deep in thought it seemed. There was so much on his mind, and the best way to try and solve the problems he had were to go somewhere alone and try to figure it all out. Originally the most logical thing to do would be stay in his room. After all, Kane had no roommate, and he wouldn't be bothered by anyone there. But his room was right next to Hawthorne's.
Dressed in his usual attire of dirty loose jeans and a black singlet, Kane made his way down to the waterfall. His hands were in his pockets as he walked. Kane stopped walking and scanned the area lightly. He spotted some kid sitting on a rock. Kane didn't take much notice of them. He walked to the water's edge and looked down at his own reflection. Just staring at himself made him think about his family. His blonde hair was the same colour as his mothers. But as Kane looked to the eyes of his reflection, the image of his father suddenly appeared before him.
With a quick blink the image was gone. Kane sighed, it was just his mind playing tricks on him. Lately that had been happening a lot. Thanks to that crazy fortune teller, Kane had been seeing his father everywhere.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
Art, out of some dire misconception, had far overdressed for the occasion, in his thermal pants and a brown sweatshirt. He was beginning to sweat lightly before had reached the waterfall, but the cool spray was more then enough to keep heatstroke at bay.
Sighing, he set his book down, not able to listen to any more of Valmont's boasts. He set his head in his hands, idly casting around for anything that could provide answers. When he spotted a head of blonde hair held back by goggles, he sighed deeper. That wasn't what he had been expecting, but ah well.
He tried at first to creep, but brush and sticks weren't nearly as forgiving as concrete and beer bottles, so he gave it up and simply strolled up behind Kane. He twitched his lips, adopting the same lisp he had used in the hot springs. "Hey there, pretty boy. It almost looks like you don't like what you see. Impossible as it seems." He grinned wide.
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(1/15/07 6:10 am) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"Hey there, pretty boy. It almost looks like you don't like what you see. Impossible as it seems."
Kane wasn't startled by the voice. He recognised it within a second. It was that guy from the hot springs, the one with that girl. The last thing he really needed right now was to be face to face with someone like that. If anything seeing that guy could possibly make Kane more angry than he already was. And Kane, with anger issues he had, would turn around and wring his neck in a heartbeat. Today was not a good day.
But instead, Kane just attempted to shrug his anger off. He didn't turn to look at Art, but he did look away from his reflection. He stared forward, a light smirk on his face. " No, it's alright." He replied calmly, his French accent lightly touching his words as he spoke.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
That had not been anything like the response Art had been expecting. Well, this guy had been a total pain the last time Art had run into him, and from what he had heard he had some perfect payback for him. What kinda guy gave a lecture like that and then drag a girl into the middle of a brawl? Above all Art disliked liars and hypocrites, and this guy was as big a one as he had ever met.
From the rumor, this boy had laid out a dozen guys. Rumors always grew in the telling, but one never really knew. It was best to respect such warnings, so Art kept back out of easy reach, confident his ranged ability could stop any attack cold.
"I heard a rumor, you know." His inflection shifted, unconciously picking up some of Kane's accent. "I heard that a boy a lot like you and a girl a lot like the girl you were with got in a fight. I heard people got hurt. I don't know, but it seems pretty... disrespectful to get in a fight in front of a girl, wouldn't you say?" He grinned. "As I was telling you, 'Tell not your brother he has a mote in his eye, when so clearly you have a log in your own.'"
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(1/15/07 6:38 am) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"I heard that a boy a lot like you and a girl a lot like the girl you were with got in a fight. I heard people got hurt. I don't know, but it seems pretty... disrespectful to get in a fight in front of a girl, wouldn't you say?"
Kane shrugged. Rumors may have given him that information, but he didn't know the whole story at all. Perhaps that day he did over react. " Maybe it is. But do you think calling a young lady a 'poorly dressed blimp' is nothing to react to?" He asked, a bitter tone in his voice when he thought back to those people.
He turned, laying a hand on Art's shoulder. " Rumors, huh? You believe that kind of thing?" He asked. A smile came onto Kane's face. He reached over and ruffled Art's hair. " I wonder what my reason for fighting was in this rumor." Kane commented. He shrugged once more, his smile becoming wider. " Oh well, I know my reason. Protecting a young lady from a bunch of thugs just seemed like the honorable thing to do." He added.
Kane reached over again but this time he tapped Art on the nose. He then laughed lightly. " Far be it for me to want to play the hero. It just turned out that way. But curiously what would you have done in my situation?" He asked.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
Art stood still as Kane touched him. He didn't seem to hold any malice at the moment, but that could change pretty quickly from what he had heard. Art's right hand flexed, ready to deliver a disabling blow to pretty boy's head if things started going in that direction.
" Maybe it is. But do you think calling a young lady a 'poorly dressed blimp' is nothing to react to?"
His eyebrow twitched. Words were words, and piling up bodies was an extreme response. Boy, did that girl keep some bad company. With friends like those she could probably walk across a room on the backs of the unworthy without her feet ever touching the ground. From now on, he was just going to find some shadows to fade into whenever he saw her comin.
" Far be it for me to want to play the hero. It just turned out that way. But curiously what would you have done in my situation?"
"We~ll..." he drew out the word, staring up in thought. "I'll admit I was there... but I'd have to say... that I would probably have done something smart." His gaze dropped, looking Kane square in the eye. "That doesn't seem like something you'd be good at, since the first thing you wanna do is just jump into a situation and impose your idea of what's right. What's wrong, they didn't like your sactimony right off? Or did you even get that far before you responded to words with weapons?" He grew more impassioned as he spoke. "All you were really doing was make yourself and everyone who comes to this school look bad. And for what, because you didn't like what you heard from somebody?" He turned, spitting on the ground. "You're not a hero, you're just a bully."
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(1/15/07 7:02 am) Reply
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Kane listened to him speak, and mentally shrugged off every single thing he said. The kid could have his opinions if he wanted, that didn't bother Kane at all. The fact was that those thugs were closing in on them, looking at Hawthorne like they were about to attack her. There was no way in hell that Kane would ever let a woman get hurt. Oh no, not again. When it happened to his mother that was something he didn't know about. If he knew he would have gotten his father himself.
" Call it however you like. You weren't there. You know what you get told in rumors. I was there, I saw what was about to happen and I reacted. That's all there is too it. It isn't your business, so maybe you should just stay out of it. Sound like a plan?" Kane asked him, smirking slightly. His voice showed that Art's words had to effect on him what so ever. To Kane, Art speaking up like this was just some little kid trying to act tough.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)" Call it however you like. You weren't there. You know what you get told in rumors. I was there, I saw what was about to happen and I reacted. That's all there is too it. It isn't your business, so maybe you should just stay out of it. Sound like a plan?"
Art shrugged. "Answer not a fool in his foolishness. Of course you reacted, because you failed to think." He backed away, retrieving his book. "As you say, I wasn't there. However, I will now feel free to ignore advice from any strange little voices I happen to hear." He smiled wide. "Well, at least you managed to save the girl, which is the one and only point in your favor. Your heart is in the right place, even if your head is... well, stupid."
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(1/15/07 7:27 am) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"Answer not a fool in his foolishness. Of course you reacted, because you failed to think."..."As you say, I wasn't there. However, I will now feel free to ignore advice from any strange little voices I happen to hear."..."Well, at least you managed to save the girl, which is the one and only point in your favor. Your heart is in the right place, even if your head is... well, stupid."
Kane looked at Art as he went for his book. He just laughed at what the young man had to say. " Now that's you being incredibly judgmental isn't it." He commented. Kane realised that Art failed to answer his question before. Probably because he wouldn't know how to act in Kane situation. Oh well, it just showed what kind of a person Art was. He could talk big, but it seemed that he couldn't back it up at all.
" So you wouldn't fight off a bunch of people who were trying to attack an innocent girl? I'd sure like to wonder what you'd do. Try and talk about it? They would have smacked you down before you had the chance." Kane asked. He was beginning to get what kind of person Art was, and didn't really like what he saw and heard. He seemed very full of himself, and unable to listen to what people said. Kane had attempted to explain the situation and still Art didn't understand him. Maybe a little growing up was what Art needed before he could. Though Art kept calling Kane stupid, it was almost as if Art was the stupid one in this conversation.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open) So you wouldn't fight off a bunch of people who were trying to attack an innocent girl? I'd sure like to wonder what you'd do. Try and talk about it? They would have smacked you down before you had the chance."
It seemed like pretty boy was trying to justify his lack of imagination by challenging Art. Well, let it never be said Arthur Wilborn would come up short in a battle of wits. He looked up in thoughts, beginning to count off in his fingers. "Well... let's see... the first thing to do is run. I know it's not very manly, but bullies will often give up in search of easier prey. If nothing else, you could talk to them long enough for the girl to get away. If all else failed, you could stay there and take a beating as distraction." He yawned. "Those are the simple options. You could have made enough of a scene to draw a crowd of witnesses. You could have acted too crazy to mess with. You could have goaded the leader into single combat and made a joke of him. You could have agreed with them and said the girl was yours, assuring them that you'd be rough with her on your own. You could have spooked them into thinking cops were coming with that ability of yours. I could have dropped a few names, but I guess you don't know the people I do." He nodded, satisfied. "There's always several things you can do in any situation. And, to forestall your next statement, yes, I would have thought of them and yes, I have used methods like those successfully before."
He set the book back down, giving Kane a hard look."I do agree, however, that the one thing you could not do was abandon that girl to her fate. And if I seem judgemental, I'm just following general principles that pain and injury are bad things."
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(1/15/07 11:13 pm) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
Kane listened to all the things he would do. Though after seeing Hawthorne's past, he knew that there would have been a few things better to do than fighting, but she was experienced at the kind of thing. He'd seen it. When he mentioned the one senerio of claiming her to be his own, he was extremely happy that he didn't go in that direction. Hawthorne had been abused in her past, and that would have scared her more than anything else he could have done.
" I could never do any of those other things. It might be my pride, but I did what I thought was right. If you're not fine with that, I don't really care. You don't have to be. But the only person that mattered to me at all that day was Hawthorne. I wanted to protect her and I didn't want to screw around while doing it. She's safe now. She wasn't hurt. That'll all that matters." He explained.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)
Ok, so he was an idiot, but he wasn't backing down from what he thought was right. That in itself was fairly rare, and was worth something to Art. Even in the face of contradiction he was standing up for what he believed, and really, Art couldn't fault him all that much. He had been in fights before, as infrequently as he could manage, but Art had left his share of bodies on the floor.
"Allright, so, you're honorable fellow. I can appreciate that." Art leaned back, looking up into the sky. "Might want to get some consuling with those anger problems, you and that Ayeka girl." He chuckled, imagining the two of them together, standing back to back breaking noses. "Well, I bet that studded girl was pretty impressed with you. Oh, and you'll be happy to know me and Arion, the girl you so casually insulted, remember? We're getting along very well and have managed to keep all our fun times in private."
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(1/15/07 11:55 pm) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"Might want to get some consuling with those anger problems, you and that Ayeka girl."
Kane had never met Ayeka. But he had heard a little about her from Hawthorne. She was the one who made her buy dresses, even if it made her very uncomfortable. He also heard about what happened to Art in the mall. The macing and all that. " Trust me, they used to be a lot worse." He commented, yet a smile was on his face.
"Well, I bet that studded girl was pretty impressed with you. Oh, and you'll be happy to know me and Arion, the girl you so casually insulted, remember? We're getting along very well and have managed to keep all our fun times in private."
Kane laughed lightly at what was said. It seemed this conversation was practically taking a 180. " Good to know. And I'll have to see Arion sometime, apologise to her about what I said." He replied. It was on his list of things to do. But the first thing was to try and improve on the situation with Hawthorne.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)" Trust me, they used to be a lot worse."
And he was gracious too, able to smile at his own faults. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all. "Yeah, you should have met me back in the day. We could have mixed it up pretty good." Given the vast disparity between their apparant physical abilities it might have seemed absurd on its face, but Art was unshakably confident.
Good to know. And I'll have to see Arion sometime, apologise to her about what I said."
Better and better. "That's very nice of you. I'm sure she'd appreciate that. Guess I should do the same for Hawthorne. I mean, I did kinda get in her face twice. One time more so then the other." He squinted up into the sky. "How is she doing, after all that?"
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(1/16/07 12:21 am) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"That's very nice of you. I'm sure she'd appreciate that. Guess I should do the same for Hawthorne. I mean, I did kinda get in her face twice. One time more so then the other."..."How is she doing, after all that?"
Kane wondered if she would be happy with him telling people about what happened. She seemed so shaken up after the fortune telling session. But he was only asking about the fight, so Kane supposed that he wouldn't have to go into anything else that happened. " She was a little scared. But she's seen worse things before, so the fight didn't really seem to bother her as much as it would a normal person." He explained.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open) " She was a little scared. But she's seen worse things before, so the fight didn't really seem to bother her as much as it would a normal person."
Yeah, he should have guessed that seing people in pain probably wouldn't faze that girl. Heck, she might have just swooned into his arms straight away. Sure, he'd make nice, but it seemed like as long as she had an escort he was never going to care for her company.
"That's good. Wouldn't want to see a lady in distress, after all." Something she said struck him as odd. "How do you mean, she isn't normal? She seemed normal enough to me, although I didn't meet her for long."
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(1/17/07 11:38 pm) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"How do you mean, she isn't normal? She seemed normal enough to me, although I didn't meet her for long."
Kane sighed. He probably shouldn't have said that. The one thing he didn't want to have to go into was anything about her past. She would kill him for saying one word about it, especially to someone he knew she didn't like all that much. " She's normal, but she's seen things that most other's haven't. She's been through a lot and it's made her a stronger person than most. More admirable than any other woman I've ever met." He explained.
Which was true. Though so much had happened to Hawthorne and although she'd tried to run away she still stuck with everything and managed to be happy.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)" She's normal, but she's seen things that most other's haven't. She's been through a lot and it's made her a stronger person than most. More admirable than any other woman I've ever met."
While he had not made it through tough times so well? People so often admired that which they could not achieve themselves. So, she had been through hard times, and reacted to it much better then he had. Something to tuck away and consider another time. No need to ruin the moment by digging.
"That's admirable. There is a lot of darkness in the world, as well I know. Those who can still see the good are rare." His lips twitched and his voice turned wry and joking. "And if she sees good in you, she is obviously very accomplished."
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(1/18/07 9:29 am) Reply
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)"That's admirable. There is a lot of darkness in the world, as well I know. Those who can still see the good are rare."
Everybody had their tough times. Kane went through his and apparently still had many to go through. He could see the good on most, but there were some that had none left in them. People like his father or that man from Hawthorne's past. They were the type of people who weren't good at all. Anyone who would be willing to do the kind of things they did couldn't be good, there was no point in trying to look. " Hm... But what to do when there's no good to see?" He muttered. It was not a question he wanted answered. He knew how to deal with the demons of his past, it was just a matter of waiting for them.
"And if she sees good in you, she is obviously very accomplished."
Kane smirked at his joke lightly. It seemed to bring him up out of that train of thought. He'd been thinking too much about it, but it was kind of hard not to. " It's not hard to find, you just have to want to." He replied. He wondered what Hawthorne was up to now. She hadn't been in her room, they were neighbors. If she would have been he would have known. He hoped she still wasn't upset about what happened.
Re: Spear and Shield (Ed then open)" It's not hard to find, you just have to want to."
Kane's eyes were growing distant. It was obvious he was thinking of something else; probably that girl. So pretty boy thought she was good? Well, maybe she was, in her own mind. Pretty boy seemed to think so too. Well, if he found something he liked, then good for him.
Art thought of a poem he liked, and began to quote:
"Yes, the world has still much good
but much less good then ill;
and while the sun and moon endure
life's a chance, but trouble is sure
so I treat it as a wise man would
and train for ill, and not for good."
He broke off, smiling. "Can we agree at least that far?"