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azoftheoz ([personal profile] azoftheoz) wrote in [community profile] taxonomites2012-04-24 07:02 pm

[01 | Sanctuary{holo} | Arrival] Loss begets pain

Take my hand.



Despite all she had been through, something in those words broke through the mental cage the witch had Azkadellia trapped with. All that she had witnessed second hand and through a fog and yet now she could see something more. More importantly, she could feel more. The sensation of emotion flood through her and for a moment the annuals seemed to have melted into nothing. Suddenly it was Azkadellia herself standing there in the light, the emerald ablaze about her neck and Ambrose's brilliant device twisted and on the verge of bringing darkness forever to the O.Z. Grown and hated by so many and yet the young girl that had lost herself to the witch's power that fateful day in the woods.



Reaching out, she could feel the witch fighting her, the rage buffeting her like a wild storm, tossing her about even as hands that were her own and yet unknown to her brushed against DG's. Clasping tight, holding onto that lifeline as she felt it. That sudden snap as the witch lost her hold, driven out by their magic joined. Stumbling from the dais, staring into DG's so pale eyes and then there was another wrenching, the world shifting as if the entirety of the Outer Zone was turned on its head. Then blackness.


Azkadellia came to in a small room that looked nothing like any place she knew in the Tower. Metal above, everything so different from her chambers, from that balcony where she stood during the eclipse, the darkness bathing over her

as the witch changed her world. Now her world had changed again.


"Don't let go!"


The words came from her lips before she could stop herself, scrambling to her feet. Heavy boots thudded on the floor as she looked around, gilded bodice gleaming as she turned quickly, looking for answers, looking for an exit, looking for one thing.


"Deeg?! Where are you?" Voice rising as she checked the walls, seeking a door though she found nothing but a table with a small device. The screen lit up, a small dot on a map blinking at her. Hand trembling, Azkadellia snatched it from the table, spinning on heel as the door slid open behind her.

"Hello?" She paused, peering at the door before taking a quick step toward it. Another careful step, eyes narrowing slightly. "Is anyone out there," she called, ignoring the tablet in her hands though viewing screens of a magical nature weren't entirely new to her. "Deeg? Anyone? Can you hear me?"

Another step toward the door, fingers clutching the tablet. Her lower lip quivered as she stepped out of the room and hurried along the hall, whispering under her breath.

"I swear, I didn't let go."

((ooc: For those that did the arrival on the voice test, feel free to handwave to outside the building, ie DG obvs.))
genequeen: (Far Off)

[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-27 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
"I know what that feeling is like. I really do understand." That horrible feeling of being sure that you'll never see them again and that you're at fault for it?

Yeah, Maddy knows that one pretty well.

"Has anyone given you the general welcome to Taxon speech yet?"
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-27 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
"If you've gotten the general advice, I will tell you to be open. Some times are different here and ... well, it isn't all bad."

Madelyne smiles faintly, trying to cheer up the other woman as best she can from a distance.
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-27 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"The accepting is the hard part, I find. We all adjust."

Madelyne is likely talking a bit more about herself than she is about the other woman but, well, it works, doesn't it?
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-27 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, my ex-husband is here, so that's why it has been a little more challenging for me." Her smile is a little more strained but it is still genuine.
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-27 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
"It has been.... awkward. Though we're getting along much better than I had any ability to believe would happen." Madelyne chuckles softly, "Never would have imagined."
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-27 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, we shall see where it goes. If it goes anywhere. I don't, really, know if it will or not." Looking down, she shakes her head a bit, "I hope it goes well for you. I'm Madelyne, by the way, since I don't think I did."
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I think it is a lovely name. And I apologize. I seem to tell everyone who appears all about my life. It... It must be something about this place."

Madelyne smiles faintly, tilting her head to the side, "I wish you luck in your ability to find friendship with your sister. that sort of relationship is challenging even in the best of circumstances."
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Madelyne murmurs to herself, "... inside looking out...."

There is something familiar there. She doesn't remember much about her time as the Goblyn Queen but what she does remember, there is really a sense of having been trapped inside of herself.

"Good luck. She seems a good person, alien meddling aside."
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-28 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd like the chance to get to know her better."
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-28 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Good luck in getting to know her now. You two deserve the chance to be happy, even if it is in a weird alien zoo." She chuckles about that last point, as if it is more funny than it is.
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[personal profile] genequeen 2012-04-28 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank /you/. I hope you have a good day."

She pushes hair behind her ear, "If you need something, let me know."