Crystallized Miracles

Azan heard someone else's voice, faintly. He stood up, noticing that this cat could be anywhere by now. He squinted, and made out a few shapes by a fire. As he stumbled foreward, he stopped just before Kori, and smiled, At least I'm not the only optimisic person here. "Yes. But, who are these "guys" you are talking about... I can't see them?" He felt stupid with his bad eyesight. Of course, he was always smiling, so you couldn't really tell he was thinking something like that. He sat back down, edging closer to the fire until he could feel a blast of heat hit him. He moved back a few inches and finally got comfortable, laying down on the dirt. "So, who else is here?" He asked, slowly looking around. If only there was a way to see better...

Jason snatched Azan by his shirt and pulled him close, as if hugging him from behind "Hey, cutie. You are gonna hurt yourself walking in the night.." Jason ad holding Azan gently to him. "You need rest because tomarrow we will need our energy..." he smiled and leaned over by Azan's ear "Who knows.. what we may do tomarrow.." he whispered jokingly before letting go of the red head. He giigled, still expecting Kiri to fight him for the knife. He wouldn't dare fight back, but the fact being, she wasn't going to get the knife back until they left.

Rose awoke hours later, startled that she had moved dangerously close to the stream. She wished that she could rest forever, but Rosalie had sensed movement by the fire ring. Rosalie stood, her ankle barely supporting her own body weight as she limped back up to the camp. Rosalie noticed a few new faces, but was too shy to introduce herself to anyone.

A small smile crossed her lips as she put one hand into her pocket and gently stroked Milo, her field-mouse friend. He, too, had lasted another few hours, and Rose was happy she still had her little companion. She sat down silently, her smile slowly fading away, as her pocketed hand brushed up against the knife that she had stolen and used to murder someone with. Rosalie quickly pushed that thought to the back of her mind, and hid her other palm.

Originally posted by Sora The Brave
Kori coughed rather roughly, his head pounding. It was just one of those days... He took out an herb he had documented, and chewed it up in his mouth. Aside from a stomach ache, the herb relieved most pain. Kori smiled and looked around the campfire. Everyone was just so... Dark and quiet... He couldn't understand why.
"You guys should lighten up! I mean, yeah this is hell, but surely you see the brightside in this?" Kori was just trying to lighten the mood, though it was tough...

Kori had grabbed John's attention with the cough and he watched him eat the herb. He waited for him to finish chewing, but decided that he had perhaps spoken too much and was going to wait for someone to say something. He watched Kori's smiling gaze around the campfire, expecting him to say something, and when he did, John said, "Yeah, I suppose you're right, it might be hell, but I think we can all agree it's better than where we were before, and besides once we all get to Crystallized Miracles, we'll be free, and I don't mean free like we are right now, I mean free from our fears, from the dogs." He looked down at his dog, Christian, as he said this and added, "our master's dogs..."

Zen sat the cat down so it could walk around as he got up and walked outside the tent. "....*sigh*...." he sat down a bit farther away than the rest, he didn't feel like tlking right now. he seen his cat go around and look at every one. "Meow. Mew meow mew mew." Zen thought it was counting for some reason becaus the cat only seen five people out there. the cat sat a slight distance from the fire, but enough to keep it warm, it didn't want to singe any fur off. the cat was hoping some on would see it. "Mew."

John watched Zen walk outside his tent, and then when he heard the cat purring he looked at it. He wondered why it did so five times in a row, and wondered if it was counting. He sighed, then smiled. He was trying to read a cat's ming. He laughed to himself and watch the cat sit in front of the fire. He would have picked it up, but with a dog in his arms, that might not be such a great idea. The cat again purred and John set Christian down on the other side of the log he was sitting on and walked over to the cat, he pet it, and moved it a little further away from the fire, so he wouldn't be blamed if it burned itself.

Zen seen him move the cat, and he didn't really mind at all. he continued to watch the cat as it started to move close to the fire againbut turned to look at every one else again. the cat slowly walked towards rosalie. "Mew." it could smell the field mouse but he didn't eat mice he was a gentle cat who didn't like to fight. "Mew." he didn't know who she was and he decided to find out. "Meow!"

Rose watched the small conversations of others, but it was nothing really worth her efforts. Some were a bit too optomistic about this whole situation for her liking, and it was almost a little unsettling. But then again, she didn't know any of them well and they didn't know her. She planned to not tell anyone of the crime she had comitted, but she knew it could cause problems later on.

Rosalie's attention was brought back to reality when she noticed a cat purring at her feet. Milo, still in her pocket started to squirm as he too probably sensed trouble. She gripped the little mouse gently, and kept him still so he wouldn't jump out of her pocket. Rose smiled slightly as she leaned over and stroked the soft fur of the cat.

The cat went around to the pocket where the mouse was in. "Meow." it tried to stick it's head inside the pocket to see the mouse. "Meow, mew mew." Zen sighed as he stared at his cat. "...*sigh*..." he was very hungery but he hid it some how. he'd eat when he felt he really needed too. he was tired and fell to the ground onto his back, he needed the sleep. the cat continued to try to look at the mouse, than soon after quit, he looked back up at Rosalie. "Meeow." it started to pur again.

Kiri's eyes widened as her one and only mean of defense other then her arms was snatched violetnly away from her. Her now widened eyes took the shape of aggrivated slits as she glanced ar him dodgedly and make a quick grab for the small blade. She sighed in dismay as the moment she made the move the man placed his arms against another's. She rolled her eyes and turned away. He had, indeed, said he would return it eventually.

She nodded at Zen, and then his feline companion. It seemed everyone here had a pet of some sort. Elle, however, was more then simply a pet to her, but her only family. This caused her to gaze over at the small, grey animal as he slept quietly. His ears flickerd, and a snort rumbled fourth from his strong throat. He clicked his teeth through an unknown dream, and then shifted his weight to his left foot. Kiri smiled, and then looked towards Jason, as he had called himself. She then looked over at the other girl who stood nearby. An almost invisible smile crossed her sheer lips. Good. She wasn't alone then.

Oncce more her eyes wandered to Jason and the man he was holding. She cocked her head and gazed at him. His eyes...Uncontiously she lifted her hand to her eyes, blushing suddenly as her sleeve fell. She hurriedly returned it to its post on her thin, bony arm and looked around to make sure no one noticed. Following this action she walked slowly over to the tent in which the other had directed her. She cralwed inside, taking caution as not to disturb his few things. She pulled the blanket over her frail body and sighed, wondering what to expect, what to heed, who to trust. These questions weighed her mind down, and fianlly willed her into a light sleep.

Jason let go of Azan and looked over at Kiri in the tent. He smiled like he usually does but blushed. he turned away and pulled out the knife from his pocket. he smiled gently and cut the tip of his finger wiith it. he held the knife out so the blood could drip off of it. He noticed it wasn't just his own blood. "Hmm...." he said as he looked over at Kiri in the tent. He walked over without being seen and slammed the knife into the ground next to her face. "Who's blood is on this knife, love?" he asked sweetly sitting next to the knife.

John saw Jason walk with a knife into his tent. He didn't think Jason was going to do any harm to her, but just return it, but just to make sure, he stood up and ran into the tent, he pulled the flap up, and without stepping in asked, "What is going on in here?" It was his tent after all, and he didn't want a murder to happen in it, but he was more worried just regretting the fact that he had let Kiri sleep in here. He didn't want to sleep in a place where anything that he wouldn't approve of had occurred. He saw the knife stabbed into the ground and Kiri still asleep with Jason hovering over her and wondered what the hell was happening and waited for Jason to answer his question...

Jason took the knife back and pushed John out of the tent and leaned down infront of Kiri's eyes. "Watch." he said simply before sliding the knife down his arm, cutting himself deeply and grimicing from the pain. He stoped and let the blood drop off of his arm onto the ground. he turned Kiri over with his foot, and held her down as he cut himself again. "This is what you like doing?" he said with a grimice as he cut himself. It hurt him. He had a low tolerance for pain. He had tears in his eyes from the pain. As the tears slid down his face and smiled "It hurts. and until you stop, you arent going to get the knife back, and you are going to have to watch me suffer..." he said and walked out of the tent. he took off his jacket and shirt as blood gushes from his arms to the ground. he stood in the cool breeze for a moment, soaking in the cold air crying from the pain. he had to bear it, and he was serious. He will keep doing it until she quits.

John blew past Jason and ran into the tent, but Kiri was alright. He turned back around and looked at Jason, "What were you doing, cutting yourself?" He actually thought it was an attempt to murder Kiri, but he couldn't think of why. It occurred to him that maybe when Jason was trying to stab her, she forced the knife into the ground and when Jason pulled it out she had taken it and sliced Jason's arm, but there was no sign of a struggle. He saw the blood run down Jason's arms. "You'd better bandage that up, or you could bleed to death, or from infection..."

Jason looked at him "Well... im going to suffer until she stops.... mind your own buisness, hun..." he said sweetly, pain writhing through his body. he smiled slightly and looked at john. he walked over to him and kneeled down to be at eye level. he kissed him on the lips, hoping to catch john of guard. "Sorry if i hurt you when i pushed you..." he said with a mischivious grin and stood up, letting blood drip from his arm. "I can keep this up until she decides not to cut herself... i will eventually get sick... and die if it continues.."

John ignored the kiss, he was too busy formulating what he was about to say in his mind. "True, it's not my business, but you just took her knife, if I had done so it would be my business, and not yours. Anyway, you're going to suffer until she stops cutting herself? And by the way you didn't hurt me at all, but what is she going to cut herself with if you have her knife? And when she came here, I didn't see any slit wrists. From what I can tell..." John looked at Jason's eye and then his arm, "you're the only one who cuts yourself here, so I wouldn't accuse other people of doing so." With that John walked back the campfire and his dog, Christian...

Jason smiled slightly "We live in a camp.... im the only one with a weapon now.... I suggest we formulate how to escape tomarrow.... get Kiri and everyone else, because i might have a plan..." he said as he walked away towards the entrance to the camp. only one guard. "Teehee..." he joked to himself. he looked at the guard gently "Hey cutie, would you mind coming here and looking at these cuts... another slave attacked me..." he said. The guard groaned and walked into the camp.

"Who attacked you, slave?" the guard said with a husky german accent.

Jason pointed to johns tent and stood still until the guard walked infront of him which is when Jason walked behind and silently slashed the throat of the guard. "Teehee... ashame you are a guard... we could have been together you know.. i always thought you were the cutest...." Jason said as he watched the guard gasp for air, dying quickly. The guard tried to grab his gun but was stopped by a knife through his wrist into the ground. Jason waited until the guard was dead and drug him back to his post and put the knife in the guards hand. He took the guards gun and walked back into the camp. "Silly guards.... one of them committed suicide." he lied to John, forgetting about the blood from the guard that was on Jason's hands and pants.

Jason smiled as he walked back to the shadows, holding the gun. "Perhaps i am a murderer....." jason said to imself "But im the oldest... i need to protect them, and i will so with my life." he said before standing up. he cleaned the blood off of his body and ran ro the other guard post "One of your men killed themself!" Jason said with a fake panic, causing the guards to run to the dead body. "My slate is clean....." he said as he walked back to the campfire, the gun hid in his pants. "Teehee...." he said to himself, staring at the fire.

John waited to get everyone. First, he wanted to see what Jason was doing, but he knew he wouldn't do anything knowing he was watching. When Jason's back turned to him he snook behind his tent and watched him point at John's tent. He wasn't saying Kiri had attacked him, was he? But then he saw him slash the guard across the neck. The guard pitifully tried to reach for his gun, but Jason put an end to his hopes of shooting him when he lopped his hand off. When Jason looked towards him he made it as though he had just come out of his tent. Jason must have told one of the guards the man the other committed suicide, he wouldn't be desperate enough, or have enough thoughts of guilt, to end his life by confessing to the murder, would he?

Jason looked at John "You're a naughty boy.... i told you to mind your buisness" he joked. He got up and walked to john "You saw me killed the guard..." he said smiling, his good eye still forced to be half closed. "Look, sweetie, i cant have any of the guards know what i did, or they will kill me... so im going to have to kill you" jason joked and saw the horrified look on John's face. "I'm just kidding!" jason said frantically. "I needed to get the guards gun so i can carry out my little plan to escape with everyone."

When Jason was chastising him, John paid little attention, but when Jason said he was going to kill him, the horrified face more as a slap back to reality than taking the threat seriously. John expected the "I'm just kidding!" and replied, smiling, "I know." When Jason talked about his "little plan to escape with everyone" he remembered he was supposed to wake the refugees and walked back into his tent to first get Kiri. He then proceeded to all the others and told them to come sit around the camp fire...