Mariella

[Red K]

She prays silently in Waymoot looking in glowing light in temple of Lliira. She hears silent music around her and starts to swing her body humming softly. Her eyes stares light and she start to dance in Her honour. Her every movement is soft and full of passion when she dances orbiting dazzling light. Silent music speeds up and she follows faster rhytm easily. Her whole body lauds Lliira and her eyes sees only lightning glow. She dances wildly around light and her feet hardly touches ground when she spins and her long red hair surrounds her body framing her movements. When music stops she collapses and breathes heavily lieing in ground.

She stands up slowly and her eyes moulders with satisfaction. She looks up lonely figure who has stared her dance whole time and giggles. "Did you like it?" she asks happily.

[Red K]

She wokes up before dawn and looks at her fiancé silently. She leans over him and gives a kiss to his forehead. Then she sit next to him just watching his sleeping profile.

Mariella: Arial? *she whispers and small pixie arrives and looks at her*
Arial: Yes.. you called *answers silently and grinning to Mari*
Mariella: *nods and just hugs her "sister"*
Arial: Aww.. poor Mari. *Arial nudges Mari*
Mariella: *smiles warmly to Arial* You're only one who really understands me.
Arial: *lowers her voice* Yes.. I will stand your side even if you decide to follow this path.
Mariella: I don't know. I'm still standing in the fog and unable to see what is wise.
Arial: *pokes Mari* Just listen your heart. You have to be sure before you do anything irreversible.
Mariella: *looks at her fiancé smiling. Then she looks at silver bracelet in her right hand* I.. you're right *she sighs*
Arial: Always. *chuckles* You're now seventeen, still young. Don't rush in to anything. But not just wait either and hope that others make decisions about your life.
Mariella: I know.. I shouldn't but..
Arial: No buts *she strokes Mari's cheek* No buts sister. You have to be happy or you know what I'm going to do.
Mariella: *turns pale and shakes her head* No no no.. Don't think anything like that. I will see what happens.
Arial: Good. *hugs her* Because if you don't choose, then I will do that for you, not them. *pokes her chest* Oh oh.. What Kelric said? Will he participate with me as I demanded?
Mariella: Yes.. *she snickers to her* And he has no clue what he has accepted to do.
Arial: *grins* You'll send him a letter when it's time.
Mariella: I will.. but let's go now. He wants to sleep and not listen two giggling girl. *kisses Kelandros cheek and puts small envelope to her pillow* Now he knows that we are picking berries and coming back as soon as possible. *smiles to Arial* I love you Greenie sister.
Arial: Oh I know. *Kisses Mari's forehead*

[Red K]

Mariella's own lightshow

She stands near stream and start to cast silently. Sparkling balls appears to dance around her and her clothes starts to shine. She spreads her hands and Arial start to sing soft and melancholic tune singing in Sylvan.

She smiles to her fiancé and rises above stream. She flies in the air spins around smoothly. She dances affectionately to him in the air waving her hands and feets according to melody. She rises higher and air around her glows magically bright light. She bend her body elegantly and her focus is on him. She sends a blow kiss to him and spins around softly. Finally tune ends and she moves down to standing in front of him. She walks closer to him and gives him a soft kiss.

"A special show to my love," she says and kisses him again.

[Red K]

Mariella looks at pale man who sleeps near her. She sighs and takes paper, ink and quill from her bag. She starts to write short letter wathing man and frowning time after time. When she finishes letter she closes it and seals envelope. Then she leans on man and wakes him whispering to him: "I have to deliver a letter. I'll cast invisibility upon you so you can be safe and I will be back soon because I'm using teleport."

Man just nods when Mariella casts spell upon him and covers him with hays. She cast teleport and disappears arriving a bit later somewhere else. She covers her face with hood and walks quickly to tavern giving letter and some gold coins to innkeeper. "Give this envelope to man called Kelandros Armelis." Innkeeper nods and continues cleaning glasses when Mariella goes out and disappears in to shadows.

[Red K]

She sits on the bed and brushes her long red hair. They are well-groomed again and frames her pale face. She stands up silently and walks to mirror to look at her. Her dress is loose-fitting and if she has been always slim now she looks more fragile and fey-blooded than ever. She sighs and mumbles while spinning around: "I need to order new dresses from Yuppa."

She looks at her her faces more carefully and rough times has lost all baby-fat from her cheeks. Her cheekbones looks higher and her eyes looks bigger in her more slender face. Finally she realizes her a bit freckled skin what is appeared from being outside. She bites her lips and slowly smiles brightens her face.

She turns around and looks at gently in to bed where her fiancé is sleeping. She walks closer him and kisses his forehead. "You're giving me strenght to live through these times. You and Lliira." She smiles and her gaze is peacefull and determined.

[Red K]

Mariella giggles and runs towards King's garden. She sees fountain and jumps to the edge of fountain. She looks livelihood and lifts hem of her dress and start to dance in the edge. People stops to look at her and some of them shakes their head continuing their journey. But some of them start to clap their hands giving her energetic rhytm for her dance. She makes humorous jumps along edge keeping her balance. More people stops to look at her curiously. She start to dance jig and laces or her hems twils around her thighs. People claps faster and her feet moves like whirlwind. She grins mischievously to her audience and jumps high in the air making somersault backwards and landing in to the water dousing herself totally. She curtsies to flabbergasted audience and climbs away from water while her audience applauses to her.

She looks happy while she start to run again towards shrine of Lliira. Passer-by smiles to her when they see her catching beam. She is blessed with Joy and finally she understands what it really means.

[Red K]

She crouches down and looks at others. She knows how good she is and trust her skills totally. "Listen," she says to others. "I will cast invisibility on me and I will scout ahead. Wait me here." She feels new kind of self-confidence when turns to invisible and runs deeper in to forrest. She just runs and enjoys freedom what she feels when no one can see her. Then she sees it. Drow stands in front of her but it's not alive, it's ghost! But she don't care. She knows that she can win it. She really can.

Mariella returns to place where others are and asks Sarduk to set traps. Others she commands to stay in hide. This is her great moment. She will lure drow out. She runs again without caring that running exhausts her faster. She sees ghost. She concentrates and flaming arrows leaves from her hands hitting on drow. But ghosts isn't dead. It shoots her and burning pain hurts her soul when one of the dark arrows reaches her mind. She casts more flaming arrows and runs back.. ghost follows her and painfull arrows finds their way on to her hurting her more. Finally she reaches traps and runs over them. Ghost follows and suddenly it's gone. It hus burnt from alive.

She walks around trying to find resting place to them. Finally she sees one and leads group to there. Same time Wyn casts spell on her and she can't resist it. Her locked mind opens and she finally sees her foolishness. No more running ahead, no more risking her life. Now she is tired and need some rest. She asks Anthonio, Kaleb and Cassi to guard her rest and when she wakes up her mind is finally fully returned. Together they decide to walk into tower but their group is smaller now. Someone has left them.

[Red K]

Mariella's another shape is her pixie form. Young female transforms herself into a small red-haired pixie what would look like this.

[Red K]

Mariella walks along the road what passes Isinhold. She reminds villagers about witches because she has big black raven sitting on her wrist. Raven stares at her with his intelligent, black eyes and Mariella talks to bird trying to calm herself.

"Are you hungry mister Raven? I think I need to find you something to eat. Do you eat meat? probably." Raven caws and she says to him. "I know good place to you then. I'll take you take you there."

Mariella takes raven into Bramblewood and Raven alightens on a nearest rock and looks at her while she is casting. Suddenly Mariella stops her casting and starts to stare Raven because he casts same protection spells what she has cast. "Umm.. You're casting. I guess you're magical then." She says and Raven answer: "No witnesses and flies to kill bandits who were hiding near looking at their casting." Mariella blinks and her heart beats fast because she is witness too but finally she relaxes some because Raven doesn't attack on her.

"Umm.. You need name mister Raven.. hmm.. Would you like to be mister Claw?" She asks after a while and Raven caws to her. "Or would you like to be mister Caw?" "Claw," Raven answers and Mariella looks amazed again. Where that birds come from, she ponders quietly looking at black bird.

Together they travel deeper into forest. Mariella walks and mister Claw flyes near her. Suddenly pack of wolves attacks on them. Mariella barely has time to attack when mister Claw casts a spell and huge shadowed lady appears and screams so that only wolves can here it. They falls down in pain and dies twicthing horribly. Warning bells rings on Mariella's head and demands her to flee but she cant let this bird fly freely around killing everything.. She can't!

They continue their travel and finally they're deep in Bramblewood. Suddenly pixies arrives to lookt at them curiously and mister Claw caws: "No witnesses!" "NO Claw, NO!" Mariella screams desperately and runs towards pixie begging it to fly away and casting invisibility upon her. Pixie sees fear in Mariella's eyes so she flyes away without asking more questions. Mariella looks relieved and turns to look at mister Claw.

"Are you enchanted somehow? I mean.. I have heard about tales where people have been enchanted to frogs and only something has released them. Imagine if you would be a human who has turned to raven." She speaks herself and digs a scroll from her bag. She reads scroll and tries to dispell magic what could tight someone on to that raven form but nothing happens. Mister Claw casts same spell to himself but still his form stays same. "hmm.. Maybe true seeing could help.." Mari thinks and casts it to herself. She blinks a couple of times and looks at raven who now looks like a raven. "Oh my! You really are a magical bird." Mariella is totally confused and just looks at birds what seems to annoy it.

Suddenly mister Claw caws and another raven appears to somewhere next to Claw. Together they says "Lucius is worthless and weak." Mariella shudders and looks scared. Maybe Lucius has harmed birds somehow she thinks herself. But who Lucius. "Do you mean Lord Blackspur mister Claw?" but raven remains silent and stares at her. Their eyes kindles murderous look. Mariella gasps and steps backwards and ravens mounts to sky flying away. Mariella follows them a while and sees them killing everything what they see but then they flyes higher and she can't see them anymore. She runs towards Isinhold and her hearts beats fast. She has more questions than answer on her head. But who could answer them.

[Red K]

She stands on the cliff and looks at roaring waterfall. Usually she enjoys to be there but now it makes her sad. Her brother's face comes to her mind and she thinks all the adventures what they have gone through. she wipes away her tears and listens nature around her. It doesn't comfort, not this time.

She mumbles silently: "What I've done to earn this Lliira? You know that I'm not the strongest person still you don't care if everyone fades away. Still you demand to joy overcome about everything. It isn't possible. It's not. What I am doing now? I'm sorry.. I shouldn't think things like this but everything I do seems to end to personal catastroph. You aren't the bad one.. I am. I'm the one who always only waits. When it's my time to live?"

She sighs and walks away from the waterfall. She only wishes to become as strong as what others seems to be. Maybe some day.. maybe not.. Only time will tell.

[Red K]

New spring has appeared to her. Yesterday she lived in a grey world and now everything seems so colourfull when she runs towards Royal gardens to sniff all lovely flowers and dancing in the middle of them. She doesn't notice passer-bys so suddenly she collides with old woman. "Watch your steps girl," She croaks to Mariella. "Oh, I'm sorry mrs but everything is so wonderfull today. May Lliira blees your paths madam" She returns happily and hugs unknown old woman. Then she continues her running when old lady just stays looking after her. "Blessings to you as well," She mutters and turns her back to Mariella.

[Red K]

She sits on the Whailing wheel and holds a letter in her hands reading in carefully. When she has read whole letter she inhales deeply and start to read it from beginning. Light shiver thrills her body and she seems to have cold even sitting in front of fireplace. Finally she folds letter and put it back to the envelope what she hides carefully to her bag. She stands up and walks out from Wheel looking extremely nervous.

[Red K]

Mariella stands in King's forest and and pretends to play horn when Arial steps proudly in front of her. Arial stand in a little stone and waits what Mariella is going to say her.

M: "You know.. you have serverd Cormyr very well and Kelric wanted to thank you."
A:"Oh he is finally keeping his promise and seeing me? *snickers*"
M: "Umm.. no. I think he scares you still a bit. *grins* You're so big and horrible. But he wanted to give you this. *offers silver medal to Arial what seems to be almost as big as what little pixie is*"
A: *takes medal and bites it* Auch! This isn't silver cookie!"
M: "*chuckles* No it is called medal and everyone who served in militia earned one."
A: "So I'm not anything special?"
M: "Not to them."
A: "Oh crap! *giggles and gives medal back to mari*"

[Red K]

Mariella looks around in a room in Isinhold. Everything seems normal but something is still changed. She smiles when realises that she's the one who has changed. Joyfullness fills her heart and she dances around in a large room while Arial just looks at her nibbling cookie on a bed. Finally she ends her dance and crawls under blanket. Just before she falls as sleep she smiles to Arial and whispers one meaningful word. "Kheaj.." They both smiles to each other and silence fills the room.

[Red K]

She kneels in a temple in Waymoot and closes her eyes and begins to pray silently lips making words without voice.

"May you smile reach over him who needs aid for you. I've been heard that one who wishes to follow you is being cursed. Save him and make him your child. He spreads plague now but without that he can do anything to it. Please show your Joy and heal him. He has wished to pray you if you allow."

She looks at her priestess and smiles brightly while stands up. With lighted heart she prances towards tavern when she remembers that she had to prepare one surprise.

"Hmm.. yes yes. I gotta buy cake! or frosting!" She snickers and opens inn's door disappearing inside.

[Red K]

Red-haired young woman runs out from the tavern in Waymoot. Weather is fresh because of the rain but now after storming night sun shines. She runs towards Lliira's temple and greets cheerfully priestesses there. She prepares herself for the dance and warms up. Then one of the priestess takes her flute and begins to play joyfull tune. Mariella dances around temple and joy shines from her face.. But suddenly she loses her balance on a slippery stone and falls down. There is breaking bone voice when she hits her head and falls on to unconsciousness.

Priestesses runs directly to see if she is alright but she isn't responding to them even after healing spells. They decides soon that only good place for her is the healing house in Suzail and they order caravan to take her to Suzail. There are nurses allready waiting her and carries small woman on to the house of healing. Clerics examines her and realises that she got bad hit on her head. her skull is fractured and it will take time before she heals back to normal and even then she might have some troubles with memory. At times she wakes up and looks around asking Sweetie. if she sees him she talks for a moment smiling and then says she needs to rest again falling asleep. If not she usually sighs and falls on to unconsciousness quickly.

//Mari is going to be on break. Sorry guys. Just too much ooc griefing because of the game. Playing should be fun after all and not an endless nightmare. so needing at least couple weeks break from all of you.. even nice ones.

[dorkling]

Once finding out Snipe dashes off to Suzail to be with her. He seems to blame himself for her "accident" thinking it was another one of the Morninglord's practical jokes or maybe even a punishment this time. At times he sobs at other times he paces. He seems confused, upset and even lost at times. He gets her flowers and tries to comfort Ariel at times. Sometimes he seems to get mad at himself and leaves, only to return to her side later.

[gainreduction]

A Purple Dragon arrives, carrying a handful of red geraniums. speaking to Kamina briefly, he finds Mariella and leaves the geraniums by her bed.

He whispers a short prayer to Lliira. Then deciding she needs rest to recuperate, Kenji slips out before anyone else returns.

[maeglhachel]

A group of three enters the houses of healing late at night, a somewhat drawn man dressed in greenish colors and with slightly wild hair, a short-haired redhead woman looking a bit subdued, and a dark-skinned elf.

After looking around awkwardly for a bit, the woman says, "Really good, they have places like this, right?" She pauses for a moment, and when all she gets from the man clad in green is a nod, she continues gesticulating slightly, "You know, when I made my donation to Call after he healed me ..." A dry chuckle escapes her inspite of herself, "I heard that was a bit over the top ... but ... um ... I hope they put it to some use like this."
"What donation?" the man in green heading straight for a door to their right, asks without a lot of enthusiasm. "Oh," comes the mumbled reply, "After I was killed, you know? When he removed my scars and restored my finger."

They try to open the door but find it locked, a nurse in the back looking over at them and shaking her head slowly but with a look of determination. The woman puts a hand on the shoulder of the man with the wild hair gently, saying, "Well, I guess, it's very late ... um ... or still very early."

"Yeah I guess no one is seeing her. Cecil must have it locked up."

"Or the nurses to protect her sleep."

"Maybe."

The woman lets go of his shoulder and twirls a strand of hair shifting weight from one let to the other awkwardly, "I ..."

"I ... kinda never got to fix my relationship with her."
She winces and adds hastily, "yet ... yet."

"Well thats her fault."

"Always two people involved. I enjoyed hating her for too long."

"Well she is still jealous or worried about you."

The reply comes with a small sigh, "Well, I haven't done a lot to make her feel differently."

"No matter how many times I tell her you are too smart to worry about me."

"Um ... yes, well." The woman glances at the door, then back at the man next to her. "You're silly, Snipe. You know I care."

"Should I leave?" comes a simple question from the elf standing at a little distance. At that the woman looks up half shocked, half tired, "No, no, Nuvian, please!"

"Who knows.....she might wake up and run off with Cecil anyways ... Not that I dont deserve it. Or maybe she already has."

After scratching her head for a moment, the woman inhales and looks the man beside her straight into the eyes, "I thought she looked genuinely happy by your side." And after a small pause, "And I didn't think she was that fickle, either."
She winces again, adds "is", and rubs the back of her neck.

"Thanks."

A weak smile appears on her face, "You know, I wouldn't say it, if I didn't mean it."

"I know...you got a big mouth and you like to use it."

She wrinkles her nose a bit but doesn't stop smiling weakly. After a long and awkward pause, she starts to talk, again, "Hmm ... not much we can do here, now, is there? ... How about getting some sleep, Snipe ... you look tired."

"Yeah...I better. Really not much I can do here." The man turns and heads for the exit, slowly.

"Hey, Snipe"

"Yeah?"

"Um ...," the redhead eyes something in her hand for a moment, then shakes her head, "Oh, no... nevermind ... rest well, will you?"

"Yeah sure...you two take care."

"Always try to," she replies while the elf nods silently, "You too."

[Red K]

Mariella stays awake more but usually she is too weak to even read anything. So she allows small pixie next to her to read for her. She talks quietly in fragile voice and she is still very weak physically. Her cheekbones looks higher when skin is pressed against them and she seems to look more like Arial when days passes.

She looks at flowers what has brought to her and smiles gentle smile. She has some visitors but priests limits her guests because she couldn't handle any stress for now. Sometimes she takes small golden figure to her thin fingers and strokes it like remembering at time when she was able to walk without feeling dizziness on every step.

"You know Arial.. I think this world is rather selfish and anyone who isn't thinking only herself isn't surviving among humans. They're the most cruel race for sure." Small sigh comes from her lips and she looks sad. After a moment she adds. "There is only few who were not like that but most of them has left.. Cormyr does that.. it crashes or changes gentle souls and those selfish ones stays." She looks at walls around her and then back to Arial. "I still hope I could open few eyes so that they could see what they're and change direction of their life before its too late."

Arial looks at her sister silently and bites lips while seeing Mariella being so stubborness. "How anyone can be so blue-eyed?", she thinks herself. "No one will change if they do not want that theirselves." But she isn't saying anything aloud. She hugs mariella lovingly and whispers to her ear. "You silly.. You shouldn't think or worry things like that. You promised to make me a small dance so concentrate on that choreography or I'll tickle you." Small chuckle comes from Mari's chest and she looks at Arial. "You're the best, sister." "I know," Arial replies simply.

[dorkling]

Sneaks in when Cecil or the little old ladies aren't looking and brings her chocolate cake and treats from around Cormyr and spends as much time as she allows with her.

[arisnorman1]

*a man wearing a dark tunic walks into the temple where she is and leaves roses near her bed after talking to her for a while*