Tilly's footsteps were hard as she made her way back through the Ionian woods.. trying to get out of here before she lost her mind completely. Already she could the flashes continuing to creep back up on her. Tilly's Sword was hefted onto her shoulder as she walked, eyes forward.
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Feb 28, 2013 6:36:24 GMT -5
While some had had enough of this forest, Talon hadn't. He knew he'd been ejected from Ionia before, but he didn't much care, their hate, unwarranted in his mind, meant nothing to him. It had been too long since last he had been able to relax in nature, there was no better place than the vast expanses of Ionia's woods.
The crunch of heavier footsteps, however, ruined that idea. They sounded heavy, and the slight clanking sounded like armor, perhaps a weapon as well. A quick dart into the treeline on soft steps took him out of sight, a hop into the branches of a tree removed him from where most would look. All that was left was to see them pass and carry on.
This hiding was beginning to grate on his pride, however. That Ionia could be so blind as to despise him, or any other Noxian for that matter, was simply foolish to the assassin. It made no sense, from a purely logical standpoint. He dismissed the thoughts in an effort to quell the confusion it was bringing with it.
Tilly kept on walking, sighing a little.. her thoughts were elsewhere, but her warrior instincts always kept her sharp. Once she got into a clearing, she stopped dead in her tracks.. her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked up at the trees.. she saw nothing, but couldn't help the feeling she was being watched.
A flash of red.. the trees were ablaze again. Tilly quickly closed her eyes before she descended deeper into the madness that had already burrowed into her mind. "Whoever you are... there is no need to hide from me.." Tilly called out, opening her eyes to gaze back at the trees.
She called out to the person, because was curious why they were hiding from her. And there was no point in trying to hide from them; it is likely they could see her.
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Feb 28, 2013 7:14:10 GMT -5
"She's going to hate, you, Tal. They all do."
"Don't talk to m-" Talon shot back in his own mind, only to be cut off by the real woman's request, rather than the one who haunted his mind. The words roiled through his mind for a few moments. Whoever they were, he'd underestimated their ability. It wasn't something he typically did.
A flash of purple and he was on the ground, shaded by a tree and only distinguishable from the waist down, which showed only that he wore metal boots and purple pants. Still, he said nothing and simply watched her, expecting an attack.
Tilly watched as the figure dropped down into the shadow of the tree.. she couldn't tell who he.. or she.. was, but they had not attacked her, so there was no reason for Tilly to do the same. Just when Tilly was about to ask this person who they were, her eyes flashed again, and the figure was an Ionian woman, pinned to the tree with arrows, a look of agony on her face.
"GO AWAY!" Tilly screamed as she shut her eyes tight.. the scream was directed at no one as she looked up to the sky when she did. Her head hurt.. the longer she was in this place.. the more she felt her mind slip further away. Tilly stabbed her Sword into the ground, resting her head and hands on the butt of it as the flashbacks faded.. like they always did.
It was then that Tilly remembered the figure, and shifted her head up to look at it. She noticed the purple.. but nothing rang a bell. "..Who are you?" She simply asked, her voice was tired, but still strong. She then sat in silence, looking over the figure with her sapphire-emerald eyes.
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Feb 28, 2013 8:03:41 GMT -5
"She's insa-"
"Be quiet, girl."
Talon hushed his own insanity, striding out from the shadows confidently. As confidently as he was able, at least, once she had seen fit to allow her own neurosis to subside. He'd grown accustomed to his own internal commentary, so the fact that it was now listing everything about the woman before him was largely tuned out. Where her armor looked thinnest, where she was exposed, every aspect of what she looked like. The killer's mind kicked into overdrive. She'd all but disarmed herself.
He chided himself for thinking that another innocent life was worth taking without orders, without reason. She didn't seem aggressive. She didn't even seem sane. Nevertheless, she'd asked a question in what appeared to be a moment of lucidity so he answered, stopping a few paces from her.
"Talon." He said, keeping the shade of his hood over his face to hide the deep rings of exhaustion from being seen.
Tilly looked at the man who revealed himself.. looking over him with her eyes, taking particular notice of his arm blade. Though.. he had not attack her, she certainly wasn't in a state to be in a fight. "Talon".. the name didn't ring a bell. Tilly got more of a grip on herself and hefted her Sword back onto her shoulder.. still scanning the man with her eyes. She could not tell where he was from.. though it was clear he wasn't from Ionia. "..Where are you from?" Tilly then asked.. only because it was the next question that popped into her mind.
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Feb 28, 2013 8:41:39 GMT -5
"Noxus." Talon replied, short, almost curt. He'd expected to be well-known enough, being a champion, but apparently the woman was a shut-in who didn't know the world or its movers and shakers. Maybe she was as insane as she seemed. It didn't really matter.
"And who are you, woman?" Again, it was cold and dispassionate, but it was better than thinking about ways to kill the poor girl.
Tilly's eyes widened slightly and she simply stared at the man. Instinctively, her hands tightened around her Sword.. but she made no move to attack, only because he had made no move to attack her first. However, it seemed to put her more on edge than she previously was. Tilly simply stared at the man for what seemed like hours... another flash sprang to life, and the man before her was now dressed in a Noxian commander uniform, the dead littered the ground around them. The vision screamed a war-cry and charged her, Tilly shut her eyes to it and turned her back to the man, staring at the floor.
"Noxian.." she muttered softly under breath.. it had been over a decade since she had ever seen another one. But the fact that he wasn't trying to stab her seem to relax the woman, if only a little. Tilly simply sat turned away from him, trying to shake these accursed terrors from her mind.
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Mar 1, 2013 0:16:48 GMT -5
"You could killed her right now. Her back is turned and everything. Then we can get back to our walk."
He ignored the internal voice and while it was true, he felt no desire to take the poor insane woman's life. He knew what mercy was, but thought it was perhaps best not to be merciful. She was not bleeding out, she seemed only to be grappling with a deeply-rooted issue. Perhaps she had done something akin to what he had.
Either way, with how she was acting, it wouldn't matter who she told. Even if they believed her, it wouldn't make a difference, it's not as though these forests were off-limits. That he knew. A quick shake of his head and he didn't care anymore, stepping around the girl to continue along his way, sparing only a moment to look back at her, something akin to pity rising up within him.
"..Why are you here." Tilly said as the man walked past her.. her voice was just above a whisper, just loud enough for him to hear it. Her eyes were locked with the green grass of the ground, her Sword stabbed into the earth beside of her. A hand, resting on the butt of it. She did not look up for fear of seeing more terrifying visions. The man hadn't attacked her, so she figured he wasn't going to.. then again, he didn't exactly know she was Ionian either..
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Mar 1, 2013 3:13:19 GMT -5
"I like the natural beauty of the place, I suppose is what normal people would say. If you must know, it is because I have yet to associate this place with killing. It is not a feeling I get to experience often." Talon explained, gruff voice low to keep from being carried away on the breeze that made his cape bristle slightly as he looked back.
Odd, that she was so curious. Was it not obvious just by the way he dressed what he did? Perhaps she had given up on life, wished it ended here. Between her armor and her weapon, she could no doubt put up a valiant fight, but Talon knew that it wouldn't be a fight. He didn't do fighting. He killed. The thought sobered him from his grim inflection for a moment, turning to face the warrior below him with his arms crossed.
"Your name, girl." Talon asked, though it sounded significantly closer to a demand then anything else.
"Do not refer to me as such.." Tilly said, shifting her head to stare at the man. "I am grown woman." Tilly narrowed her eyes slightly, what would her name matter? Though, he had given her his own name without any problems. Tilly sat in silence for a minuet before speaking. "Till.. my name is Till."
Post by The Blade's Shadow on Mar 1, 2013 14:28:23 GMT -5
"If you are a woman grown, why do you lounge upon the grass like a child bereft of a toy?" Talon scowled down at the armored woman, meeting her gaze without hesitation, though the shade of his hood still covered much of his face, all save for the hard line that his lips made.
"You are a warrior too, or is that sword just for show? If I've offended your precious honor, defend it." He spat, surprised that he was being quite so harsh with the woman he didn't even know. Perhaps it was the lack of sleep, the ramblings of another woman in this own head, or simply spite for the world that drove him to do it, but he did it. His left hand, free of his armblade, also shot out petulantly to offer her aid to stand, fully expecting it to be ignored.
Tilly simply narrowed her eyes at the man.. but they quickly they looked surprised when he offered his hand.. Tilly let out a sigh and took it. Allowing him to help her up. "You did not offend me.. I just.. am not-" She was cut off as the man before was a Noxian commander, blood stained the both of them. Tilly shut her eyes tight and grit her teeth before opening them again, the vision was gone.
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