Post by Mlle Bienvenu on May 11, 2007 19:58:53 GMT -5
CHAPTER TWO -
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Lilith: The Northeast borderlands of Amestris...
: a hand on her solar plexis :
Lilith: Yes... I definitely feel something strange....
Lilith: I wonder though...In the entire world, is it only the ruined city which is absent of this anxiety? Or is this feeling only in Amestris?
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Lilith: Sempai will know.
Lilith: Once I find him...
Lilith: How will I find him... this is a big country and he's probably in hiding.
Lilith: Maybe alchemy really is evil.
Lilith: Someone like Sempai...
Lilith: I can't really believe he would take human life...
Lilith: He always said that alchemy was for the good of the people...
Lilith: But I guess I thought the same back then too...
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: Flashback:
David: The universe is composed of many little parts that flow together to form the whole..
David: In essence... all is one, and one is all...
David: Everything we do affects that flow, because we are all a part of it.
David: when we do evil, it causes a negative flow
David: And affects the whole flow... the all...
David: That's why it's important to do good..to try to create a positive flow in the universe.
: endflash :
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Lilith: ! Someone's coming! Is it boarderland patrol?
Lilith: :: gets into tree from horse :
Lilith: : throws down a pine cone to scare the horse into leaving
Lilith: git! you're gonna get me caught!
Lilith: throws another pinecone :
Horse: : shakes it off like an annoying fly and eats grass :
Lilith: stupid horse...
Horse: :feels hoho coming and bolts .. lilith's bag gets stuck on a branch scattering scrolls and her notes :
Lilith: that's better..
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Hoho: : walking by muttering names : John... Paul... Apple...George...
Lilith: ... what is...: eyes widen: That uncomfortable feeling...
Hoho: Aidan... William.... Hazel....
Lilith:
This feeling is stronger than it's ever been before.... it clenches at my heart...
Hoho: Bill... Leonard... Deforest...
Lilith: The Demon : star eye, scary look a la gen armstrong : : shing! :
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Lilith: Aiyiyiyiyiyiyi! : leaps down from the branch :
Hoho: Hunh!? : perplexed caught off guard look:
Lilith: : lands on hoho's head and knocks him to the ground:
Hoho: Wait...
Lilith: : pins hoho to the ground:
Hoho: Please stop this...
Lilith: : encases his arms
Hoho: An alchemist? Wait a second-
Lilith: : produces a warrior priests blade from her sash :
Hoho: Please, I have no valuables...
Lilith: I don't want your money : holds knife to his neck : I would give you time to pray but there really isn't much point..
Hoho: Wa-
Lilith: : slits hoho's throat.... or tries to:
Hoho: How violent...
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Lilith: What!?.... what are... You ARE immorta! The Immortal Demon from the Ruins!
Hoho: Immortal...Demon...
Lilith: In the holy name of Ishbala, I swear you will die today! : stabs him in the chest... or tries to :
Hoho:.. NO! : breaks out of the bonds of the floor and sits up lilith topples to the ground :
Hoho: the picture! : takes it out of his ripped bullet holed jacket :
Hoho: : lip trembles : Ah... it's ruined.... and it was the only one...
Hoho: : shows sliced picture :
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Lilith: : tries to attack again :
Hoho: : grabs her by the wrist : That is quite ENOUGH! : twists the knife out of her hand, still grabbing her wrist and sticks it in the ground :
Hoho: : goes back to mourning his picture while lilith tries to beat him up with one arm : : where is the lost piece? Perhaps its still salvagable...
Lilith: Hey! Are you even listening to me!?
Hoho: Ah... there... maybe it's not so bad...
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Lilith: Hey! : calms down a little : Fight me demon! Now!
Lilith: : twists her arm from Hoho's grasp, stumbling backwards:
Hoho: ! wait! Be careful!
Lilth: : trips on a sudden drop and falls down into a ravine. tearing her dress.
Hoho: tries to stop her, but fails :
Hoho: goes after her :
Lilith: hangs upside down from a branch, dress in tatters...
Hoho: Oh dear...
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Lilith: : laughing somewhat madly :
Hoho: Are you alright?
Lilith : falls out of tree , still laughing, her ankle bent oddly :
Lilith: : tries to stand, but falls : cries out in pain which changes to nervous laughter
Hoho: Don't. it looks broken...
Lilith: laughing..no, no it's fine.. : alchemizes herself.. her eyes dilate: stands on it, high as a kite.
Hoho: : frowns : You shouldn't do that ...
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Lilith: : takes a few more steps then collapses :
: and doesn't get up :
Hoho: : looks at her, frowning for a second :
Hoho: .: looks back as though he wants to walk away : I don't...
Hoho: : sighs: How foolish... :
Hoho: : slings unconscious lilith over his shoulder :
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LIlith: : wakes up : mm.... ohh...where'm'i? :it's night time :
Hoho: : looking at the broken picture dolefully :
Lilith: : leg is bound with branches and a strip of leather from hoho's belt, her hands are also bound so she can't use alchemy ,
Llith: : forgets about her leg and tries to stand:
Lilith: : falls crying in pain :
Lilith: : tries to alchemize herself, but she can't because she's tied up :
Hoho: mmm? Oh... you're awake...
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Lilith: : unbind me, demon!
Hoho: You'll only hurt yourself again..
Lilith: I'll go to God before I'll let you-
Hoho: You have red eyes...you are Ishbalan right? Isn't it true that Ishbalans abhore alchemy as against the created world of God?
Lilith: ... Who are you to speak of such things!?
Hoho: : slap in the face look : ... No one... : goes back to looking at his picture :
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Lilith: : tries to work herself free , body begining to shake from withdrawal :
Hoho: : looks sadly at her : You're shivering...are you cold? : takes off his coat..
Lilith: No...
Hoho: ... and you're sweating....are you ill?
Lilith: Shut up!
Hoho: hmm....: thinks about alchemy earlier :
Lilith: : snarls and gnaws on leather strips looking desperate:
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Hoho: If I untie you, are you going to attack me again?
Lilith: : hate etches her face: I swear that I will not kill you ... yet...
Hoho: : Pitying look as though lilith were a small child that just didn't understand : You shouldn't walk on that ankle...use this to support your weight..: gives her a tree branch suitable to use as a cane :
Hoho: uses the ishbalan knife to cut her bounds .
Lilith: : immediately alchemizes herself :
Hoho: : sigh :
Lilith: Ah... holy Ishbalahahah..: sighs in relief :
Hoho: : looks revolted :Ah... It is as I thought...
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Lilith: : mood swing : well!... I can't go around looking like a vagabond... : fixes her torn dress into a sort of jumpsuit more suitable for walking and fighting : : Reties sash :
Hoho: : goes back to looking at his picture :
Lilith: lemme see that... : snatches it out of his hand :
Hoho: Hey!
Lilith: Looks at weeping hoho: Ishhh... some demon you turned out to be...
Hoho: It's lucky of you to have found me and not... someone else...
Lilith : fixes photograph and flings it over her shoulder almost into the fire :
Hoho: : catches it in midair :
Hoho: Sh.. should I thank you?
Lilith: I wouldn't be able to accept it...
Hoho: . . . I see....
Hoho: : looks at photo :
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Hoho: : tear trickles down Hoho's cheek:
Lilith: ... grin... : Are you...crying? You must be the most pathetic demon ever....
Hoho: Have you never had anyone you cared about? : broken look :
Lilith: : shocked face :
Llith: : then laughter:
Lilith: I did.... once...
:Flashback:
David ducks into a Xingian trader's shop :
David: : looks around guiltily and glances at shop owner for a second :
JX: : under hat :
David: : Then takes a small book from a lower shelf
David: : tries to figure out the Xing writing :
Lilith: : comes into the shop and scares the crap out of David :
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Lilith: What're you reading?
David: Nothing!
Lilith: takes the book from him : Is this Xing's language? You read this?
David: Er... a little... I'm learning....
LIlith: OHh... let me see! What's this say?
David: Uh.... I don't know! I'm not very good at it
Lilith: c'mon! give it a shot!
David: uh... It's saying something about a ... uh... philosopher...or sage maybe... : is sweating : I don't know...
Lilith: : looks at it a bit: Huh...
Lilith: Shishou is looking for you...Something about the festival tomorrow I think...: flips through text :
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Lilith: Are you gonna buy this?
David: Uh...er.... no!
Lilith: Alright then, I'll see you at the temple...
David: Er...okay, Tell Shishou I'll be right there...
Lilith: Right! : runs off :
:EndFlash:
Lilith: I didn't know back then, but he knew more Xingian than he'd let on... The truth was he was fascinated by alchemy...
Hoho: Rentanjutsu...
Lilith: It wasn't until later I found that out....
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: flashback:
Lilith: Surprise! : grin:
David: Oh hey... uh...
Lilith: It's Lilith...
David: Right! I've seen you around the temple...
Lilith: yeah...
David: ...
Lilith: Soo...Your little brother mentioned that the anniversary of your naming day was coming up, so I got you something! I think you're going to like it
David: Thank you very much....You didn't have to...
Lilith: Bah, it's no trouble..Go on! open it!
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David: : opens it :
David: O-o stares in disbelief... Uh...: looks around like he's holding hot merchendise:
Lilith: ^_^ It's the one you were looking at in the shop the other day. It's to help you in your studies...
David: Th-thanks! I ... really... think it's going to help....o-o
Lilith: Great! I knew you'd like it! : blush : The shopkeeper gave me a good deal on it... said she was always happy to help the spread of Xing's knowledge-
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Shishou: : walks around the corner :
David:
David: I'll go put it with my things right away! : runs off :
Shishou: : quirks eyebrow :
lilith: Good morning Shishou. : bows :
Shishou: Good morning : bows back : He's in a hurry today...
Lilith: Oh yeah... he was really excited about the Naming Day gift I got him ^_^
Lilith: He's so smart ... : blush: Did you hear he's learning Xingian?.
Lilith: Isn't that amazing? It must be sooo hard..I wish I could learn something like that <3:
Shishou: :chuckles: Ah young love...hohoho ^_^ :
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: voice over: :Those were happy days for me ..
VO: Eventually I worked up the nerve to ask him to teach me Xingian language too even though he himself was still only a student.
: David teaching her the basics of Xingian writing :
VO: Those days were near blissful.
VO: I don't think he ever knew how much I cared for him, he was too absorbed in his studies to notice...
: show lilith looking on david reminiscent of ed looking in on hoho :
VO: but it showed in my dedication to Xing's language
:lilith concentrating really hard over paper:
VO: and it would show too when I found out about his alchemy and followed him into the depths of alchemy's unholy art.
VO: By that time, I had become decently proficient in Xingian.. and he had become decently proficient in alchemy...
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: flashback:
Lilith: Senpai?
Lilith: Huh... he's not here yet...
Lilith: looks around david's room...
Lilith: Well, I'll just practice while I wait.
Lilith: Oh look... isn't this the one I got him?
Lilith: picks up and begins to read...
Lilith: Western Sage Story....
Lilith: eh!? This is about alchemy!?
Lilith: : picks up random books tearfully all of them having to do with alchemy.
Lilith: Ishbala!
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David: Walks in: oh Hi... sorry I'm la-
Lilith: What is this!?
David: It's ... a book.. : sweats :
Lilith: It's about alchemy!
Lilith: All of them are!
David: Lilith...
Lilith: Explain this! What are you doing!?
David: I .. er...
Lilith: grabs lapels : Tell me you're not studying alchemy!
David: I can't say that....
Lilith: gives him a crestfallen look
Lilith : runs from the room in tears :
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VO: My illusions were shattered. I didn't come back for Xingian lessons for weeks.... but when I finally came back, Something in me had changed... transmuted maybe...
LIlith: : comes in with a stack of books and slams them on david's desk making him jump.
David: Lilith! I didn't think you'd come ba-
Lilith: I want you to teach me alchemy...
Lilith : bows respectuflly : senpai...
David: But I thought you...
Lilith: Don't. I've thought a lot about this and there's no way you will change my mind. I bought every text the Xingian trader had...
Lilith: If you don't teach me, I'll learn on my own...: determined look :
David: : shocked look :
David: : scratches back of his neck : heh.... How can I say no?
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VO: These were also happy days, although not blissful.
VO: I had given up my innocence.
VO: But I gained knowledge
VO: what we believed was the right kind of knowledge.
VO: It was an equivalent exchange...and I was content with that.
VO: I even began to believe that perhaps it was the backwards-thinking Elders at the temple who had admonished alchemy. And not Ishbala himself.
VO: Alchemy recognised a universal force that moved through the earth... Lung-Mei
VO: Couldn't that be Ishbala's manifestation in Xing as God of the Earth?
VO: And so I settled into a new image of myself. Lilith the alchemist and servant of God
: show david creating lilith's tattoos... like a big Yin Yang design with bowls of white and black ink:
VO: I swore I would learn medical alchemy and become a healer of my people.
VO: I would help in the war effort...
VO: I even came up with a technique to manipulate ki to alleviate pain, induce sleep or wakefullnes and other effects..
VO: But even those days would end too soon
VO: The war was coming closer to Kanda
VO: and soon we would be forced to flee...
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Lilith: taking as many scrolls and whatnot as she can :
Lilith: Senpai, I was able to get some of the texts..
LIlith: :half smile half realising something bad was going on.. :
Kimbley : : on rooftop :
LIlith The military has arrived already!
Lilith: Rushes down the street to help, dropping scrolls.
Kim: goes to clap, showing the circles on his hands
Lilith: A national alchemist!...Senpa-
Kim : makes the ground explode:
Lilith: is knocked backward into a building:
Lilith : Eyes widen and pupils constrict:
Lilith: : is knocked unconscious :
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Lilith: When I awoke, everything was quiet... I thought everyone was killed... that Ishbala had allowed me to keep on living as punishment for my alchemy... as if saying, you don't deserve to die with your people... you/re one of 'them' now... you're an outsider...
Hoho: : guilty look because he thinks something similar.
Lilith: But I was wrong... Senpai is alive...
Lilith: I have to find him ... : determined look :
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:Flashback:
Lilith: : walks through the ruins of Ishbal, weeping and wearing a mourning veil :
Lilith: Mother...Father....Senpai...... Anybody....
LIlith: Ishbala!
Lilith: ISHBALAAA!!
Lilith: I... just wanted to help our people....your people
Lilith: I thought I could...
: sees knife on the ground still clutched in the hand of a dead warrior-priest :
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LIlith: : picks it up :
Lilith: : looks at it dolefully :
Lilith: If I am now an enemy to you.... then I should die as one on this sanctified blade of your holy wrath...
Lilith: : drops to her knees :
Lilith: : holds it to her breast :
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Lilith : : draws blood :
Lilith: : drops to all fours, :
Lilith: Ah, Isbalah...I can't.... I can't....
Lilith: : lays crying for awhile :
Lilith: Oh holy Ishbala who created this world. I don't know whether to think you abandoned your people or brought them home to your side, but I know I'm here, alone... and.... I know I must be forsaken.... Cursed....:
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Lilith: If this is your will...
Lilith: :
: Then so be it...
Lilith: : holds knife to her head : I will live on... and wear my shame for all to see...
Lilith: : cuts hair :
Lilith : holds bundle of hair in her hands :
Lilith: uses the edge of dagger to shave the hair from the sides of her head until she has a young!scar-like haircut :
Lilith: : The punishment of a female sinner... the short hair of a man...
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Lilith: : looks at knife :
LIlith: : takes sheath for the dagger from te dead warrior-priest
lilith : ties it on :
Lilith: : puts it in her belt :
: leaves the ruins still clutching bundle of hair :
Lilith: Let this warrior priest's blade drive me, the enemy, away from your sacred lands...
Lilith: Let these feet not find rest...
Lilith: Let this soul not find peace...
Lilith: Let this sinner not find absolution...
Lilith: Until even the hairs on her head proclaim the grace and beauty of her soul once more..
Lilith: Let it be so... : lets the wind take her hair :
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Lilith: The Northeast borderlands of Amestris...
: a hand on her solar plexis :
Lilith: Yes... I definitely feel something strange....
Lilith: I wonder though...In the entire world, is it only the ruined city which is absent of this anxiety? Or is this feeling only in Amestris?
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Lilith: Sempai will know.
Lilith: Once I find him...
Lilith: How will I find him... this is a big country and he's probably in hiding.
Lilith: Maybe alchemy really is evil.
Lilith: Someone like Sempai...
Lilith: I can't really believe he would take human life...
Lilith: He always said that alchemy was for the good of the people...
Lilith: But I guess I thought the same back then too...
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: Flashback:
David: The universe is composed of many little parts that flow together to form the whole..
David: In essence... all is one, and one is all...
David: Everything we do affects that flow, because we are all a part of it.
David: when we do evil, it causes a negative flow
David: And affects the whole flow... the all...
David: That's why it's important to do good..to try to create a positive flow in the universe.
: endflash :
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Lilith: ! Someone's coming! Is it boarderland patrol?
Lilith: :: gets into tree from horse :
Lilith: : throws down a pine cone to scare the horse into leaving
Lilith: git! you're gonna get me caught!
Lilith: throws another pinecone :
Horse: : shakes it off like an annoying fly and eats grass :
Lilith: stupid horse...
Horse: :feels hoho coming and bolts .. lilith's bag gets stuck on a branch scattering scrolls and her notes :
Lilith: that's better..
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Hoho: : walking by muttering names : John... Paul... Apple...George...
Lilith: ... what is...: eyes widen: That uncomfortable feeling...
Hoho: Aidan... William.... Hazel....
Lilith:
This feeling is stronger than it's ever been before.... it clenches at my heart...Hoho: Bill... Leonard... Deforest...
Lilith: The Demon : star eye, scary look a la gen armstrong : : shing! :
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Lilith: Aiyiyiyiyiyiyi! : leaps down from the branch :
Hoho: Hunh!? : perplexed caught off guard look:
Lilith: : lands on hoho's head and knocks him to the ground:
Hoho: Wait...
Lilith: : pins hoho to the ground:
Hoho: Please stop this...
Lilith: : encases his arms
Hoho: An alchemist? Wait a second-
Lilith: : produces a warrior priests blade from her sash :
Hoho: Please, I have no valuables...
Lilith: I don't want your money : holds knife to his neck : I would give you time to pray but there really isn't much point..
Hoho: Wa-
Lilith: : slits hoho's throat.... or tries to:
Hoho: How violent...
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Lilith: What!?.... what are... You ARE immorta! The Immortal Demon from the Ruins!
Hoho: Immortal...Demon...
Lilith: In the holy name of Ishbala, I swear you will die today! : stabs him in the chest... or tries to :
Hoho:.. NO! : breaks out of the bonds of the floor and sits up lilith topples to the ground :
Hoho:
the picture! : takes it out of his ripped bullet holed jacket : Hoho: : lip trembles : Ah... it's ruined.... and it was the only one...
Hoho: : shows sliced picture :
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Lilith: : tries to attack again :
Hoho: : grabs her by the wrist : That is quite ENOUGH! : twists the knife out of her hand, still grabbing her wrist and sticks it in the ground :
Hoho: : goes back to mourning his picture while lilith tries to beat him up with one arm : : where is the lost piece? Perhaps its still salvagable...
Lilith: Hey! Are you even listening to me!?
Hoho: Ah... there... maybe it's not so bad...
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Lilith: Hey! : calms down a little : Fight me demon! Now!
Lilith: : twists her arm from Hoho's grasp, stumbling backwards:
Hoho: ! wait! Be careful!
Lilth: : trips on a sudden drop and falls down into a ravine. tearing her dress.
Hoho: tries to stop her, but fails :
Hoho: goes after her :
Lilith: hangs upside down from a branch, dress in tatters...
Hoho: Oh dear...
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Lilith: : laughing somewhat madly :
Hoho: Are you alright?
Lilith : falls out of tree , still laughing, her ankle bent oddly :
Lilith: : tries to stand, but falls : cries out in pain which changes to nervous laughter
Hoho: Don't. it looks broken...
Lilith: laughing..no, no it's fine.. : alchemizes herself.. her eyes dilate: stands on it, high as a kite.
Hoho: : frowns : You shouldn't do that ...
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Lilith: : takes a few more steps then collapses :
: and doesn't get up :
Hoho: : looks at her, frowning for a second :
Hoho: .: looks back as though he wants to walk away : I don't...
Hoho: : sighs: How foolish... :
Hoho: : slings unconscious lilith over his shoulder :
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LIlith: : wakes up : mm.... ohh...where'm'i? :it's night time :
Hoho: : looking at the broken picture dolefully :
Lilith: : leg is bound with branches and a strip of leather from hoho's belt, her hands are also bound so she can't use alchemy ,
Llith: : forgets about her leg and tries to stand:
Lilith: : falls crying in pain :
Lilith: : tries to alchemize herself, but she can't because she's tied up :
Hoho: mmm? Oh... you're awake...
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Lilith: : unbind me, demon!
Hoho: You'll only hurt yourself again..
Lilith: I'll go to God before I'll let you-
Hoho: You have red eyes...you are Ishbalan right? Isn't it true that Ishbalans abhore alchemy as against the created world of God?
Lilith: ... Who are you to speak of such things!?
Hoho: : slap in the face look : ... No one... : goes back to looking at his picture :
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Lilith: : tries to work herself free , body begining to shake from withdrawal :
Hoho: : looks sadly at her : You're shivering...are you cold? : takes off his coat..
Lilith: No...
Hoho: ... and you're sweating....are you ill?
Lilith: Shut up!
Hoho: hmm....: thinks about alchemy earlier :
Lilith: : snarls and gnaws on leather strips looking desperate:
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Hoho: If I untie you, are you going to attack me again?
Lilith: : hate etches her face: I swear that I will not kill you ... yet...
Hoho: : Pitying look as though lilith were a small child that just didn't understand : You shouldn't walk on that ankle...use this to support your weight..: gives her a tree branch suitable to use as a cane :
Hoho: uses the ishbalan knife to cut her bounds .
Lilith: : immediately alchemizes herself :
Hoho: : sigh :
Lilith: Ah... holy Ishbalahahah..: sighs in relief :
Hoho: : looks revolted :Ah... It is as I thought...
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Lilith: : mood swing : well!... I can't go around looking like a vagabond... : fixes her torn dress into a sort of jumpsuit more suitable for walking and fighting : : Reties sash :
Hoho: : goes back to looking at his picture :
Lilith: lemme see that... : snatches it out of his hand :
Hoho: Hey!
Lilith: Looks at weeping hoho: Ishhh... some demon you turned out to be...
Hoho: It's lucky of you to have found me and not... someone else...
Lilith : fixes photograph and flings it over her shoulder almost into the fire :
Hoho:
: catches it in midair : Hoho: Sh.. should I thank you?
Lilith: I wouldn't be able to accept it...
Hoho: . . . I see....
Hoho: : looks at photo :
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Hoho: : tear trickles down Hoho's cheek:
Lilith: ... grin... : Are you...crying? You must be the most pathetic demon ever....
Hoho: Have you never had anyone you cared about? : broken look :
Lilith: : shocked face :
Llith: : then laughter:
Lilith: I did.... once...
:Flashback:
David ducks into a Xingian trader's shop :
David: : looks around guiltily and glances at shop owner for a second :
JX: : under hat :
David: : Then takes a small book from a lower shelf
David: : tries to figure out the Xing writing :
Lilith: : comes into the shop and scares the crap out of David :
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Lilith: What're you reading?
David: Nothing!
Lilith: takes the book from him : Is this Xing's language? You read this?
David: Er... a little... I'm learning....
LIlith: OHh... let me see! What's this say?
David: Uh.... I don't know! I'm not very good at it
Lilith: c'mon! give it a shot!
David: uh... It's saying something about a ... uh... philosopher...or sage maybe... : is sweating : I don't know...
Lilith: : looks at it a bit: Huh...
Lilith: Shishou is looking for you...Something about the festival tomorrow I think...: flips through text :
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Lilith: Are you gonna buy this?
David: Uh...er.... no!
Lilith: Alright then, I'll see you at the temple...
David: Er...okay, Tell Shishou I'll be right there...
Lilith: Right! : runs off :
:EndFlash:
Lilith: I didn't know back then, but he knew more Xingian than he'd let on... The truth was he was fascinated by alchemy...
Hoho: Rentanjutsu...
Lilith: It wasn't until later I found that out....
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: flashback:
Lilith: Surprise! : grin:
David: Oh hey... uh...
Lilith: It's Lilith...
David: Right! I've seen you around the temple...
Lilith: yeah...
David: ...
Lilith: Soo...Your little brother mentioned that the anniversary of your naming day was coming up, so I got you something! I think you're going to like it
David: Thank you very much....You didn't have to...
Lilith: Bah, it's no trouble..Go on! open it!
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David: : opens it :
David: O-o stares in disbelief... Uh...: looks around like he's holding hot merchendise:
Lilith: ^_^ It's the one you were looking at in the shop the other day. It's to help you in your studies...
David: Th-thanks! I ... really... think it's going to help....o-o
Lilith: Great! I knew you'd like it! : blush : The shopkeeper gave me a good deal on it... said she was always happy to help the spread of Xing's knowledge-
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Shishou: : walks around the corner :
David:
David: I'll go put it with my things right away! : runs off :
Shishou: : quirks eyebrow :
lilith: Good morning Shishou. : bows :
Shishou: Good morning : bows back : He's in a hurry today...
Lilith: Oh yeah... he was really excited about the Naming Day gift I got him ^_^
Lilith: He's so smart ... : blush: Did you hear he's learning Xingian?.
Lilith: Isn't that amazing? It must be sooo hard..I wish I could learn something like that <3:
Shishou: :chuckles: Ah young love...hohoho ^_^ :
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: voice over: :Those were happy days for me ..
VO: Eventually I worked up the nerve to ask him to teach me Xingian language too even though he himself was still only a student.
: David teaching her the basics of Xingian writing :
VO: Those days were near blissful.
VO: I don't think he ever knew how much I cared for him, he was too absorbed in his studies to notice...
: show lilith looking on david reminiscent of ed looking in on hoho :
VO: but it showed in my dedication to Xing's language
:lilith concentrating really hard over paper:
VO: and it would show too when I found out about his alchemy and followed him into the depths of alchemy's unholy art.
VO: By that time, I had become decently proficient in Xingian.. and he had become decently proficient in alchemy...
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: flashback:
Lilith: Senpai?
Lilith: Huh... he's not here yet...
Lilith: looks around david's room...
Lilith: Well, I'll just practice while I wait.
Lilith: Oh look... isn't this the one I got him?
Lilith: picks up and begins to read...
Lilith: Western Sage Story....
Lilith: eh!? This is about alchemy!?
Lilith: : picks up random books tearfully all of them having to do with alchemy.
Lilith: Ishbala!
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David: Walks in: oh Hi... sorry I'm la-
Lilith: What is this!?
David: It's ... a book.. : sweats :
Lilith: It's about alchemy!
Lilith: All of them are!
David: Lilith...
Lilith: Explain this! What are you doing!?
David: I .. er...
Lilith: grabs lapels : Tell me you're not studying alchemy!
David: I can't say that....
Lilith: gives him a crestfallen look
Lilith : runs from the room in tears :
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VO: My illusions were shattered. I didn't come back for Xingian lessons for weeks.... but when I finally came back, Something in me had changed... transmuted maybe...
LIlith: : comes in with a stack of books and slams them on david's desk making him jump.
David: Lilith! I didn't think you'd come ba-
Lilith: I want you to teach me alchemy...
Lilith : bows respectuflly : senpai...
David: But I thought you...
Lilith: Don't. I've thought a lot about this and there's no way you will change my mind. I bought every text the Xingian trader had...
Lilith: If you don't teach me, I'll learn on my own...: determined look :
David: : shocked look :
David: : scratches back of his neck : heh.... How can I say no?
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VO: These were also happy days, although not blissful.
VO: I had given up my innocence.
VO: But I gained knowledge
VO: what we believed was the right kind of knowledge.
VO: It was an equivalent exchange...and I was content with that.
VO: I even began to believe that perhaps it was the backwards-thinking Elders at the temple who had admonished alchemy. And not Ishbala himself.
VO: Alchemy recognised a universal force that moved through the earth... Lung-Mei
VO: Couldn't that be Ishbala's manifestation in Xing as God of the Earth?
VO: And so I settled into a new image of myself. Lilith the alchemist and servant of God
: show david creating lilith's tattoos... like a big Yin Yang design with bowls of white and black ink:
VO: I swore I would learn medical alchemy and become a healer of my people.
VO: I would help in the war effort...
VO: I even came up with a technique to manipulate ki to alleviate pain, induce sleep or wakefullnes and other effects..
VO: But even those days would end too soon
VO: The war was coming closer to Kanda
VO: and soon we would be forced to flee...
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Lilith: taking as many scrolls and whatnot as she can :
Lilith: Senpai, I was able to get some of the texts..
LIlith: :half smile half realising something bad was going on.. :
Kimbley : : on rooftop :
LIlith The military has arrived already!
Lilith: Rushes down the street to help, dropping scrolls.
Kim: goes to clap, showing the circles on his hands
Lilith: A national alchemist!...Senpa-
Kim : makes the ground explode:
Lilith: is knocked backward into a building:
Lilith : Eyes widen and pupils constrict:
Lilith: : is knocked unconscious :
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Lilith: When I awoke, everything was quiet... I thought everyone was killed... that Ishbala had allowed me to keep on living as punishment for my alchemy... as if saying, you don't deserve to die with your people... you/re one of 'them' now... you're an outsider...
Hoho: : guilty look because he thinks something similar.
Lilith: But I was wrong... Senpai is alive...
Lilith: I have to find him ... : determined look :
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:Flashback:
Lilith: : walks through the ruins of Ishbal, weeping and wearing a mourning veil :
Lilith: Mother...Father....Senpai...... Anybody....
LIlith: Ishbala!
Lilith: ISHBALAAA!!
Lilith: I... just wanted to help our people....your people
Lilith: I thought I could...
: sees knife on the ground still clutched in the hand of a dead warrior-priest :
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LIlith: : picks it up :
Lilith: : looks at it dolefully :
Lilith: If I am now an enemy to you.... then I should die as one on this sanctified blade of your holy wrath...
Lilith: : drops to her knees :
Lilith: : holds it to her breast :
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Lilith : : draws blood :
Lilith: : drops to all fours, :
Lilith: Ah, Isbalah...I can't.... I can't....
Lilith: : lays crying for awhile :
Lilith: Oh holy Ishbala who created this world. I don't know whether to think you abandoned your people or brought them home to your side, but I know I'm here, alone... and.... I know I must be forsaken.... Cursed....:
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Lilith: If this is your will...
Lilith: :
: Then so be it...Lilith: : holds knife to her head : I will live on... and wear my shame for all to see...
Lilith: : cuts hair :
Lilith : holds bundle of hair in her hands :
Lilith: uses the edge of dagger to shave the hair from the sides of her head until she has a young!scar-like haircut :
Lilith: : The punishment of a female sinner... the short hair of a man...
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Lilith: : looks at knife :
LIlith: : takes sheath for the dagger from te dead warrior-priest
lilith : ties it on :
Lilith: : puts it in her belt :
: leaves the ruins still clutching bundle of hair :
Lilith: Let this warrior priest's blade drive me, the enemy, away from your sacred lands...
Lilith: Let these feet not find rest...
Lilith: Let this soul not find peace...
Lilith: Let this sinner not find absolution...
Lilith: Until even the hairs on her head proclaim the grace and beauty of her soul once more..
Lilith: Let it be so... : lets the wind take her hair :
