[FFML] [Exalted]The Broken Circle 4/5

[DB Sommer]

miashara at deepfriedpuppies.com wrote:

>"So, feeling froggy?" I asked Dog once they'd returned.
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>"Ready for anything," he agreed, which would shortly be proved to be a  
>complete lie.
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>I'm telling you this because I want you to understand how optimistic  
>we were at that point. Life was good. We were in a cozy den sheltered  
>by old hardwoods. This would last roughly nine seconds.
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% I don't like the out of sequence storytelling here. I'd rather just 
see it happen.

>Standing in the northern crater stood a figure nine feet tall. It was  
>covered in coarse fur over skin that looked like old leather.  
>Barefoot, if such a term was meaningful, its toes were knurled as tree  
>roots. From torso to toe and shoulder to wrist its underlying bone and  
>musculature looked human. It, or rather he, for he was both naked and  
>immensely, visibly male, was built like the colloquial brick shit  
>house. The head and hands were those of a southern lion. Its mane  
>expanded from the immense neck and flowed over the shoulders to mid  
>chest. With prehensile paws for hands, each possessing unnaturally  
>large blood red claws, its humanity seemed to merge smoothly with  
>impossible nature. The whole being was speckled with intricate  
>patterns in flowing white light that moved just beneath the skin. They  
>accented his form, blazing from chakrah to chakrah, expanding the  
>channels of his bodily energy from rivers to ocean currents.
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% This seems... bad.

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>Her primary problem was that the lion got better. He jammed his  
>forearm back into place and flesh leaped from his arm to forearm  
>dovetailing streamers of essence to reinvigorate the limb. 
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%Yes, regen is not something you want in a foe.


>The energy Angel had thrown into the ground had traveled deep,  
>bouncing off the geomantic lines of power that flowed through the  
>bones of the earth and returned, magnified a hundredfold by the soul  
>of Creation itself. Like magma breaching the surface, the ground under  
>her enemy erupted in molten rock and fire, throwing him into the sky  
>as it sheared earth and stone. The geyser of essence should have  
>ripped his flesh to pieces and fried the pieces to ash, but those of  
>the lion's kind are not so easily killed, even by geological  
>phenomena. He clung to life and consciousness as he tumbled into the  
>sky, and realized that even with his power, there was no way he was  
>going to survive hitting the earth again.
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% After all he took a fall from that height would finish him off? 
Interesting.

>Of circumstances become a connoisseur of being beaten unconscious, I  
>would like to grade the headache I had upon waking as a six out of  
>ten. Splitting internal pain mixed nicely with numerous external bumps  
>and abrasions, but lost points for not being potent enough to white  
>out my vision or leave my ears ringing. Also, since I was out long  
>enough for my spine to remember how to work, I had feeling in my  
>fingers and toes upon waking to, which put me slightly better than I  
>was upon going down. Excellent effort but underwhelming results, I  
>decided.
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% Nice description.

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>"Don't say that about him!" interjected Angel, before anyone could  
>beat some sense into me. She didn't have time to wait that long. "He's  
>smart enough to defeat me!"
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>"He did that because he's big and strong and too dumb to know when he  
>was beaten!" I argued with her.
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>"That's true," admitted Angel.
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>"Hey!" screamed the big guy, now feeling betrayed as well as insulted.  
>"I figured out you three are working for the northwoman!"
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>"See?" Hail told Angel. "He did. Tell her how," Hail encouraged him.
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>"Simple. You've been working for her all along. Shogg promised her  
>he'd help her find FrozenThane, but wanted her to take Ragara down a  
>peg in return," Seven Roaring Terrors explained.
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% Finally we get to the meat of things.

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>"A worthy choice. She is chasing the northman some nine miles north of  
>here. Shogg is aiding her, and in the forest he very
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% he is very


>ight." He groaned, leaned back to stretch out his abs, and twisted a  
>few times, working out the kinks in his back. "Well, let's get started  
>then, shall we?"
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% After all, there's only one chapter to go.

% And I'll get to it at some point, for certain.