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Realms Converge	By : Candice Category: +G through L > Legacy of Kain Views: 3562 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Legacy of Kain, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.Don't get to Nosgoth itself til chap 5

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Edits as of 04/16
New chap! Some torture ref ahead for the first part if you have trigger issues or squick issues.
Chapter Twenty-one: Battles won...
I felt the familiar chill of the 'nightmare' as it creeped up on my mind. I was swiftly pulled from my normal dreams with a viciousness that dizzied me and left me prone on the 'ground'. I opened my eyes to see that familiar blackness and fog surrounding me. I shuddered under the weight of the cold air and pulled my wings close to my body. I stood and shifted into a defensive stance with my claws at the ready. I felt the sharp touch of claws as they scratched over my wings and I lashed backwards with my leg as I dropped low to the ground. Auron's cold laughter and cruel Aura filled the air around me. He suddenly appeared in front of me out of the foggy haze. I stood slowly, ready to attack him at a moments notice.
"Vous êtes devenus plus forts, my pet," Auron said with a smirk. "But never will you be strong enough to stand against me. You are mine and always will be. I will break you."
"Fuck you Auron," I growled as I bared my fangs at him in clear threat.
I struggled to hide the fear that had sparked in my chest. It helped that the sense of his Aura was less then Eldar Kain's. Auron's Aura no longer seemed quite so overwhelming to me now that I had a greater baseline to go off of. That knowledge more than anything gave me a boost of confidence that I could hurt the son-of-a-bitch in this place just as he hurt me.
"You will never have me!" I snarled out.
He laughed cruelty and darted toward me. I raised a hand to block the blow meant to slash across my face and attempted to counter with a feinted punch to his groin that shifted swiftly into an uppercut to his jaw. The blow landed and sent him staggering back several steps. He licked the blood from his lips and his eyes flashed solid white for a long moment. I fell back into a defensive crouch and bared my fangs once more in a clear threat-gesture.
"Fort effet. Never say never, my pet," he growled softly and he looked me over slowly. A disgusting look of lust curled his lips and he let out a low purr. "I will enjoy forcing you to your knees."
The shadows thickened around us and the cold in the air grew stronger to the point where I could see the fog of my breath with each exhale of air. I took a startled step back when he suddenly disappeared from my sight. I barely had enough time to register the sensation of a hand upon my wing, when I suddenly heard the sharp cracking sound of bone breaking followed rapidly by a flash of agony that seared along my spine. I choked down my cry of pain even as I spun free from his grasp. Pain flared throughout my now broken right wing and I hissed at him in rage-filled warning as I tried to keep a good distance between us.
"I will have you begging me for more," he purred as he stalked toward me. "More pain, more pleasure. Anything and everything that I can give you, my pet. You will beg for it all."
"Never," I hissed at him. I lunged forward and snapped off a series of left/right slashes with my claws.
He dodged most of the blows that I sent his way but fell for yet another feint toward his groin. I managed to lay his cheek open a moment later when he moved to catch my wrist. His eyes again flashed solid white with power and he back-handed me hard enough to send me sprawling to my stomach. I tried to scramble to my feet but rapidly found myself firmly pinned to the ground with his knee in digging into the base of my back and his hands upon my wings. Another sharp sounding snap filled the air as he broke my other wing and I had to fight down yet another scream. I struggled to breathe past the pain that shot through me and my claws scrambled grooves into the ground. He leaned in close as he dug his claws into my back right above my shoulder blades.
"I will have your every orifice again and again and you will plead for more," he whispered into my ear. "You will beg for the honor of servicing me by the time I am through with you. You are mine, my pet."
"Not... your... pet!" I snarled out through pain filled gasps.
I tried to roll away and his claws tore punishingly down my back as I moved. He tore the flesh of my back to ribbons from the base of my neck to the very base of my spine. He slashed at the membranes of my wings and I could feel it as his claws scraped against bone. I wondered dimly how this attack was going to affect my physical state and then pushed the thought away in order to focus on struggling free from his grasp. I managed to turn onto my side enough that I was able to land a solid backwards blow with my elbow to his groin while he was distracted with ripping my back apart. He roared as a result and threw me to the side as he cradled his injured groin. I hit my back roughly and gasped in pain even as I tried to roll back to my feet or at least get into a defensive crouch.
Auron stood from his hunched position and a spike-tipped whip appeared in his hand out of thin air. He smiled darkly, a vicious showing of fans and he snapped the whip out in a swift arch to strike at me. I yelped as the blow landed and tore open my cheek. I scrambled back a few feet and hissed at him.
"You know what you need to do in order to make this all stop, my pet," he said in a faux concerned tone. "Give yourself to me and this torment can end."
"You will not have me!" I roared at him from my crouched position.
He lashed out with the whip again and I raised my arms up defensively in front of me in an attempt to at least lessen the blow. A flash of light tore harshly through the 'room' and we both hissed with surprise as that sudden brightness. When I lowered my arms and could see again, I noticed that there was a barrier of some sort around me and a glow centered around my left wrist. The barrier had symbols upon it that twisted and turned, both drawing the eyes and forcing them away. I blinked at the barrier in confusion and a spark of hope flooded through me.
Auron let out a rage filled roar that I could barely hear and snapped the whip in my direction again. I flinched back but the barrier stopped the blow with another bright flash of light and Auron himself was forced back several steps as a result. He held a hand to his head as he stumbled and then struck out blindly at the barrier with his whip. I could not hear his resultant roar of rage but I could see clearly as he stumbled back and fell. I watched with wide eyes as he tried to attack me once more.
The light flashed blindingly bright and I jerked awake with a startled cry. I could feel a heavy weight on my thighs and there were hands pinning down my arms as well as my wings. Pain lanced down the line of my back in waves and I panicked briefly beneath the weight that held me pinned. Kain's Aura pulsed against me and I instantly relaxed under the familiar weight of his power. I panted heavily for breath even as I blinked and tried to clear my sight.
"Easy Childe," I heard Janos' voice to my left and felt his tri-taloned hands upon my wrists as he gave them a gentle squeeze. "Easy now. You are back with us now. You are safe."
I twisted my head around to look at him with another blink and then groaned softly as a flare of pain tore through me due to that movement. Janos moved his hands to make me hold my head still and he hissed softly in sympathy.
"Do not move my Childe," he ordered softly. "Your back and wings are quite the mess at the moment and need healing."
I blinked blearily at him and then noticed the bright glint of metal upon my wrist. I shuddered and trembled as shock started to assault the edges of my mind. I couldn't help the sudden, hysterical burst of laughter that escaped me.
"It worked... it worked!" I choked out in a strained voice that was near to giggly with my hysteria. "Barrier appeared around me... every time he struck at it he was pushed further away from me."
"Good," Kain growled from above me. "This means that he cannot hurt you as he has been any longer. Your back and wings have the appearance of someone who was poorly lashed."
"Oh... that's all?" I said blankly with another strained noise of pain as I tried to glace over my shoulder at Kain. He reached out and forced my head still. "He tore my back open to the bone in the 'dream state'."
Three sets of growls filled the air and I twitched as I heard Vorador's voice sound somewhere behind me and toward the right.
"You say that so damned casually," he growled out. "This bastard has done this before in truth, hasn't he?"
"I... yes," I answered weakly.
I jerked as something cold was poured over a spot on my back. Janos hummed a soothing sound next to me as he began to spread that cold, thick fluid over my back with gentle passes of the back of his talons.
"Just a healing salve, my Childe," he said soothingly. "Relax now. Ah, Nikolai, wonderful, you found more of the salve. Hand it here. Are you willing to donate as well?"
"For Kat, anything," Nikolai said as he moved over and handed Janos a large jar.
"Stay a moment then, until we are ready. Fresh blood will do her good," Janos said to him and Nikolai dutifully moved to stand to the side.
Janos passed the new jar to Kain and he opened it to start spreading the salve across my back whilst Janos focused on my wings. I twitched and jerked painfully as they spread the salve over my wounded flesh. I could not stifle all of my cries of pain as each twitch tore at the wounds even as the healing salve began to boost my healing factor. Janos continued to speak soft and soothing words to me and Kain had to force my fangs out of my lower lip several times as I tried to stifle my pained cries out of habit. Vorador's voice echoed through the room again, a harsh and rage filled thrum of sound.
"It is one thing to enjoy pain and to give pain when both parties understand the rules and have an agreed upon safe word," he snarled out, "to torture to gain information or to met out justice or vengeance in turn. To do this to one unwilling when there is no cause is abhorrent."
"Safe... word?" I queried weakly as I glanced in his direction.
"She does not even know what I mean!" Vorador roared out and his Aura flared briefly as he threw up his hands. "Kain, you had best slay the worm that has caused this."
"Stop your blathering," Kain snarled out as he started to spread the salve over the base of my wings where the main joints lay. "Do not think her a weakling that needs be coddled and cannot handle her own foes. She will slay Auron herself."
Vorador growled back at Kain but refrained from speaking further. Kain's hands pulled away from my back and I watched him hand Janos the jar out of the corner of my eye. My entire back had started to go numb by then. I let out a soft and pained groan as the agony began to fade into a dull and bearable ache.
"Good, the salve is working," Janos said as he noticed my changed expression. He gave my hand a soothing pat. "Kain, shift her a bit. Nikolai, if you would?"
Kain shifted me slightly, not enough that I was on my side but definitely enough that Nikolai was able to move forward and give me unimpeded access to his wrist without my having to twist my head at an odd angle. I blinked at my human friend and frowned at him.
"You don' have to..." I started weakly.
Kain flared his Aura even as he leaned forward to nip my ear with a gentle, reprimanding bite. I gave a weak hiss at the nip and frowned at him.
"Silence yourself and feed my Little One," he growled softly.
Nikolai offered me a comforting smile as he pushed his right wrist toward my mouth in a mute offering. I let out a soft sound of apology, as I knew exactly how this was going to affect Nikolai's body. I then sank my sharp fangs gently into his willing wrist. He let out a grunt as I started to feed and his other hand lashed out blindly to lock onto Janos' wrist as the closest thing he could grab onto. Janos shifted himself around to wrap his arms around Nikolai, both I think to offer Nikolai something else to think about as pleasure wracked through his body and to prevent Nikolai from bucking free from the weakened grasp of my jaw.
I closed my eyes and curled up around Nikolai's arm as much as I could without aggravating my wounds. My hands reached out to clench his arm in a firm grip to prevent the willing food source from being pulled away from me as I fed. I let out a soft hum of hunger as his heart beat started to thrum through my mind.
The interesting thing about feeding from someone not already dying or paralyzed was that you could feel the heart beat of the donor bound within your mind as if your ears were right next to a heart monitor. One became far more aware of that heart beat as one's vampiric instincts called for the continued survival of the willing donor. A willing food source might deign to serve you again later on and thus deserved more care then a bandit on the road. I focused on that rapid heart beat as I fed, the beat a steady staccato rhythm against my tongue. Only when that beat began to tremble and give that first startled and forceful skip did I instinctively remove my fangs.
I let go of Nikolai's arm and blinked my eyes open to look at him. I felt a sudden flash of concern when he fell limp in Janos' grasp. I shifted to try to sit up and reach for him with a worried hiss. Kain was quick to push me back down onto my stomach in full and held me pinned down as I struggled weakly.
"Calm yourself and stay still lest you re-open your wounds Little One. They have only partly healed at this point," he ordered firmly. "The boy will be fine."
I twitched and indeed found it a little easier to move my wings. I couldn't help but squirm a bit under Kain's firm hands, but mostly stayed put as I watched Nikolai recover from my feeding. It took him almost a minute but eventually he gave a full bodied shudder and arched against Janos as he moaned weakly. He opened his eyes and blinked up at the ceiling.
"Ha, well," he said as he panted for air. "That was... interesting."
Vorador let out a soft snort of breath and he moved closer to inspect my back. Kain gave a soft, warning growl but allowed the older vampire to gently prod at the healing wounds. He inspected the damage to my back with an almost clinical air as the wounds slowly closed.
"All the time you have been here helping the Cabal and you have not fed another before now?" Vorador asked my human friend idly as he shifted one of my wings to check its' mobility.
"Normally help..." Nikolai paused as he swallowed and he let out a shuddering breath, "just by filling the blood vials. Never let anyone feed directly before."
"Congratulations on the loss of your maidenhood then," Vorador said dryly as his hand moved to my shoulder and he prodded the flesh there with a light press of his talons.
I swiped my claws weakly at Vorador because of that painfully prodding touch even as Nikolai let out a groan of annoyance and rubbed at his forehead due to the Eldar's words. Vorador caught my wrist easily enough and gave it a warning squeeze that made me hiss weakly at the tight grip. I tried to pull my arm back and he let me go only after he'd made it plain that I would not have been able to free my hand from his grip on my own with the weakened state that I was in. It was a subtle warning to not attack him again. He turned his head a moment later to address Kain as if nothing had happened.
"Her wounds should heal without any scarring by this point," he said. "I would suggest that she continue to rest for the day however as the underlying damage to the wing and shoulder muscles may take longer to heal."
He turned to leave the room even as Janos stood and gathered a near to boneless Nikolai under one arm. He leaned over the bed, easily able to support Nikolai without loosing his balance, and brushed my hair out of my face with his talon.
"The bracelet will have to be charged every few months," he said firmly. "It is also spelled as to not be removed without explicit permission and most individuals will find their eyes sliding off of the bracelet and will forget that it is there. Keep it on you at all times."
"Yes Sire," I responded with a small, tired and fang-hidden yawn.
Janos shifted Nikolai in his grasp so that he held the human in both arms as he turned and left the room. Kain started to rub his hands soothingly over my wings and he nuzzled his lips against my, now mostly healed, back bear the base of my wings. I twitched faintly under his touch, both pleasant and aching, but he only pulled me in against him so that my head rested on his chest as he laid down next to me rather than attempt more pleasurable pursuits that might well have caused me pain at that point. I tucked myself into his side with a small sound.
"Sleep now my Little One," he purred out. "This was a victory."
"Hnnn," I groaned tiredly, unwilling to voice coherent speech what with how exhausted I was. I curled up against his side.
I hesitated a moment but then extended my right wing out so that it was draped over the both of us. He let out a satisfied rumble and reached out his hand to stroke his claws lightly through the soft feathers of my wings. My eyes fell shut and I fell back down into a blissfully dreamless slumber.
-*-/-*-
Auron continued his attempts to attack me in my dreams over the following nights, but each and every time the cold, dark fog started to wrap around me he would find himself barred from approaching me thanks to the protective barrier produced by the bracelet that Kain had found. Auron would poke and prod at the barrier but each time he tried to force his way past it, he would be repulsed. It wasn't exactly a restful sleep on those long nights but at least I no longer found myself waking up wounded due to whatever magic he or the Sarafan Lordling were using to affect me so.
The barrier came with its' benefits, but there was also a down side. With Auron hounding me for what felt like hours at a time during those dream visitations, once he'd finally 'leave' for the night I would find myself slipping into a true sleep that would be plagued with nightmarish memories of the past. As Kain had his own duties to tend to, he was not always there when I woke from one of those memory-based nightmares and I would find myself stalking the halls of Sanctuary during the early parts of the day. I did not need as much sleep as a human, but I still found myself plagued with a nightmare induced insomnia that was interfering with my normal, healthy sleep patterns.
On one of the mornings that Kain was there to sleep away the daylight hours, I woke from one such nightmare with a start. I tried to carefully squirm free of Kain's firm grip around my waist, hoping to avoid waking him up as I moved to get out of the bed. I'd barely gotten out of the bed itself before I suddenly found myself caught by the back of my shirt and tugged swiftly under the blankets. He nipped reprimandingly at my ear and let out a low grumble.
"Yeowch!" I hissed in pain and squirmed in his grasp.
I tried to push away by using my arms and wings but that merely resulted in my right wing locking up with a major cramp and I found myself curling around the twitching limb with a yelp. Now normally I would have drawn my wings in to help them heal long ago but Janos had wanted me to leave them out to see if the magically damage limbs would heal at my normal rate of healing or not if the damage was no longer as critical.
I had been annoyed with the request but had allowed it as I realized that he had a point in that we needed to figure out how fast my wings could heal when not tucked away. Now though, I was regretting it because of the damned cramps that occurred whenever I moved them the wrong way. Kain let out an amused growl as he turned me onto my side and he began to rub at my cramping wing even as he nipped at my ear, though this time it was a lighter, teasing nip.
"Where do you think you are going, my Little One?" he asked. "You still need your rest."
"I just need to move," I grumbled at him as I grimaced in pain.
"And what has you in such a state that you cannot sleep?" he asked and his voice gained a more serious lilt to it.
I shrugged and relaxed as the cramping eased and stopped completely due to his skilled ministrations.
"Just memories," I murmured softly.
"What memories? Speak," he ordered softly as he started to trail his claws gently through the feathers of my wings in preening strokes.
"As if you want to hear me complaining about the past," I responded with a shake of my head. "It's nothing."
He rolled us both so that he was on top of me and had me pinned down on my stomach. His hand threaded through my hair and he tugged my head back at a near-painful angle as he pressed his fangs warningly to my throat. I stopped trying to pull free and let out a soft, submissive keen as I went still beneath him. He held me at that angle for a long moment before he pulled his fangs away, though he still kept my head tilted back as he hissed softly into my ear.
"Do not assume what I do or do not wish to hear, my Little One," his voice held a dark warning note to it and I shivered. "Running from your past will not strengthen you in the long run, it will only weaken you. Now. Speak."
"Alright," I said and then let out a sudden and pained laugh. "If Janos hadn't explained the Marks I'd still find myself confused as to why I keep submitting to you so damned easily. I never once gave in and submitted to even the smallest demands that Auron made. That's... what I've been dreaming of. Those damned demands of his and the resultant pain when I denied him."
Kain's grasp on my hair eased and he moved his hand to rest against the side of my neck. His claws gently scraped over the line of my throat. He let out a soft and soothing rumble of noise as his Aura brushed lightly over me in a gentle caress.
"And what were some of those small demands?" he asked.
"Things like letting him bathe me and then clothe me as he wished and then I could get a decent meal as a result," I frowned and a soft growl rumbled in my chest. "I refused to let him touch me if I could help it."
"Wise. If you capitulated even in the smallest of things he would have taken advantage of it to make you do more," Kain said as he ran the back of one claw along the shell of my ear. "Was it only small things?"
"No... there's a reason I don't like the thought of torturing other people beyond even what I was put through myself," I said with a shudder. "Sometimes he wanted me to help him 'punish' one of his other 'pets' for their bad behavior. I'd have gotten 'my own room' instead of the dungeon room that I was normally kept in if I had helped him. He even took me into the room that would be 'mine' and..."
I twitched at the memory and reached up to rub at the bridge of my nose. Kain grabbed my wrist as he moved off of me and to the right. He pulled me up so that I was able to lean in against his chest. I nuzzled against his chest and took in a slow breath through my nose in order to take in his dark, musky yet sweet scent.
"And what my Little One?" he prompted firmly.
"I... was forced to watch rather detailed lessons in how to torture someone and keep them alive throughout the entire process," my breathing had picked up a bit. "Most of the time it still ended with their deaths but... I wasn't going to torture anyone for him. All I could do was watch and deny him my assistance."
"My stubborn Little one," he ran the back of a claw over my check. "What else has been haunting your slumber?"
"Hnnn," I shifted further into his touch and let out a soft sigh. So much about my own nature was the same as the vampires of Nosgoth, so I went with an assumption with my next words. "Did you know that heart blood can be addicting for a vampire if they feed on too much of it?"
His claw went still against my cheek and he frowned down at me with a look of almost concern. I relaxed against him further still at that look and felt an odd warmth settle deep within me.
"I do know this," he said in a careful tone. "You have shown no predilection for heart's blood however."
I flashed him a near to feral grin as I spoke.
"Only because I kept spitting the heart blood he'd try to force feed me back into his face," I said.
Kain burst into soft and dark laughter at my words. He licked the shell of my ear in a slow swath before he stood up. He reached out for the Soul Reaver and slipped it and its' sheath onto his back. He turned and crooked his claws at me.
"Come, let us work off that excess energy of yours. It has been some time since we have spared," he said with a smirk. "I would see how much you have learned from Vorador's Bride's and you are well enough for this at the least."
I chuckled as I stood. I moved after him to join him for the impromptu sparring session with an eagerness that surprised me.
-*-/-*-
It took another week for my wings and back muscles to heal enough support me in flight again even with my vampiric healing. Whatever magic Auron and the Lordling had been using to attack me in the dream state had left lingering ligament damage throughout my back. Any attempt to use them before they had healed resulted in pained cramping along the wing muscles and membranes. Janos conceded that if something happened in the future it would be best to do as I had been doing; draw them back within my body to heal unimpeded.
Once they were healed enough we went out to the canyons as a group. Kain and Vorador watched, each with an expression bordering on wistful, as Janos and I flew circles above the canyons. I wasn't able to fly long however and found myself landing near the land-bound pair far sooner then I would have preferred. I let out a soft groan as I alighted onto a smallish and low to the ground boulder next to the pair and reached back to rub at my shoulder. Kain moved over to my side and gave me a small shove to turn me around as he reached to rub at the base of my now very sore wings. I hissed at him softly, not really a threatening sound, more of a sound of exasperation, but I submitted to his ministrations readily enough.
The boulder I was on was fairly wide and Janos landed next to me a moment later. Between him and Kain I found myself being forced to spread my wings as they looked over the tense and somewhat pinched membrane muscle. I flashed Vorador an almost desperate look as Janos showed Kain how to massage the affected areas that were all but unnoticeable underneath the feathers. The green-skinned Eldar merely smirked at me. I let out a squeak of pain as they started to work on a particularly knotted bit of muscle and tried to pull away from them. Vorador laughed outright when they both pinned me down.
"Stay still my Childe," Janos said firmly. "You will continue to find it hard to fly unless these muscles are made to relax."
"I told you that they would have healed better the other way," I growled at him.
A talon flicked lightly over my ear and I grumbled as my instincts made me still at the reprimanding gesture.
"You've made your upset with the situation clear, my Childe," he said as he massaged away the knot in the wing he was working on. "Do not belabor the point further."
I grumbled but fell silent. Vorador chuckled again and I flipped him off. He raised a brow and tilted his head at the gesture.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" he asked, both amused and curious.
"Humans don't have this gesture here?" I asked with some surprise. "Archery is fairly prevalent here so... well, that's another difference I suppose."
Kain's fingers kneaded loose a small knot and I let out a soft groan of relief as the tightness along that wing finally eased up.
"What does it mean dear Katrina?" Kain prompted when I had remained silent for too long.
"Ah? Oh.. sorry," I shook the growing lassitude off and raised my hand and repeated the gesture. "Multitude of things that all amount to pretty much the same thing, 'fuck off', 'fuck you', 'shove it up your ass', 'up yours' or 'go fuck yourself and the horse you road in on' are all ways it can be used."
The three of them let out amused sounds at that and Vorador rolled his eyes at the last one. I lifted up my index finger to make a 'V' and chuckled.
"This one can be fun in my world. Hold it out like this," I held out my hand toward Vorador with palm toward him, "and I'm pretty much saying 'Yay! Victory!' or 'Yay! Peace and love!' to you depending on if I just succeeded in doing something or if I am just walking past you, respectively. Like this," I flipped my hand around to that the back of my hand was facing him and left both fingers up, "means the same thing as just flipping you off with a middle finger would."
"And why was such a distinction 'fun'?" Vorador asked with a confused tilt of his head.
"Most people who pissed me off at my old school never really realized it when I was insulting them and smiling at them nicely at the same time," I said with a lazy smirk. "Especially some of the asshat teachers I had to deal with."
"You've mentioned schools and teachers before," Janos said as he let go of my right wing. I gave the wing an experimental beat and found that it moved easier. "You were noble-born?"
"No...?" I said slowly. "I mean compared to the living arrangements for humans in this world the answer could well be 'yes', but mom and I fell into the 'well-off middle-class' bracket back in my realm. Mom didn't have to work what with us being the beneficiaries of dad's will, but we weren't as well off as the upper class. I still had to work to pay my own way through college, but college is an upper tier level of schooling. It's the law for everyone to go to school once they reach a certain age in order to learn how to read and write, social studies, history, maths, basics of science..." I noticed their surprised looks and had to smile. "Ignorance breeds fear and hate. My world has done much to focus on knowledge and part of that is making sure that everyone has the ability to go to school and get an education. Yet even then... we have our own problems."
"I truly doubt this 'schooling' of yours amounts to anything for humans," Vorador said with a sneer. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Is the planet round or flat?" I asked him in a dry tone.
"Round," he growled out in a 'well duh' tone of voice.
"Do we circle the sun or does the sun circle us?" I asked with a raised brow. Kain and Janos remained silent on either side of me and watched the two of us.
"We circle the sun," another 'duh'-toned answer from him.
"Hmm, on to something more complicated," I grinned at him. "Lava is..?"
"Lava is magma that reaches the surface of our planet," Vorador answered as his eyes narrowed on me. "My turn; what causes magma to reach the surface?"
"Oh, that's easy," I waved my hand at him. "The tectonic plates of the planet are constantly shifting and bumping against each other. When the pressure builds a 'break' can form and cause an eruption of molten earth. Voila, you have a budding volcano or an existing volcano goes off. What causes an earthquake?"
"The same shifting of said tectonic plates," Vorador answered as he grinned darkly.
This had to have been information painfully gathered through magical study and at least a dozen human lifetimes worth of learning. I could see the clear amazement in his eyes that one as young as I knew at least the basics of such things. Kain reached out and rubbed the back of one of my wings as he looked back and forth between us, though he remained silent as we spoke. Janos suddenly pipped up with his own query.
"Name the states of matter," he said, ordered really.
"Solid, liquid, gas," I paused for a moment and then grinned when he started to look almost disappointed, "and plasma."
"Ah," he said as his brows flew up. He smiled at me with a proud expression that had me all but preening.
"Mind you, kids only learn about the first three and it's only later as an a near to adult that you learn about plasma unless you do self-studies," I said to him with a grin as I reached out with my wing to give him the Eldar a small push.
"And the rest?" Vorador asked.
"Basics learned by the time a kid is ten. There's even a fun experiment when learning about how pressure affects things when you mix baking soda and vinegar together," I said as I turned back to Vorador. "Humans on Gaia have made a lot of advancements and honestly, if I am stuck going back there, then I am going to bring some of the good advancements, especially any medically-based advancements, back with me. Knowledge that can help shouldn't be horded and can only assist those here."
"And weapons?" Kain asked dryly as his claws moved to scratch at the back of my neck. I shivered under the touch and looked at him with a serious expression.
"Some cats need to be left in the bag," I said to him. He tilted his head at me.
"Perhaps," he said.
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***french used, rough translation
vous êtes devenus plus forts = you have grown stronger/you became stronger
fort effet = stronger indeed
if someone is a learned french speaker/writer and I mussed that up please review with fix :)
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