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.It wore a harness of leather with variouspointy things that could be weapons attached to it.Pony pricked the creature with his sword, eyed the wound."It does not bleed.It is indeed frozen.""Ooookay," Tinker said."It is probably safe to assume that it will stay dead, even if it thaws out.""An elf would." Pony sheathed his sword."What do you think it is?" Tinker asked."It's a kappa." A voice called from above them.Tinker and her Hand turned, looking upwards.Riki perched on branches of an ironwood, highoverhead.He ducked back, behind the trunk, as thesekasha pulled out their pistols."Wait, don't fire." Tinker ordered."Riki! Riki! What the hell is this?" Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"I told you." He peered out around the trunk."It's a kappa.Ugly little brats aren't they? In Japan, it'sbelieved that they get their great strength from water in that brain depression and if you can trick theminto bowing and spilling out the water, they have to return to the water realm to regain their strength."Stormsong signed 'kill him?' in blade talk.Tinker signed back 'wait.'"It's an oni?" Tinker asked."Or an animal?""That's a blurred line with the oni," Riki said."I think you would call it oni they're fairly clever in ahomicidal way.The greater bloods made them by mixing animals with lesser bloods, just like Tomtom didwith Chiyo.Legend has it that they used monkeys and turtles a pretty sick mix if you ask me.""I didn't see any while we were making the gate.""There aren't any in Pittsburgh.They're clever, but not enough to pass as a human.""So you're saying it came through the gate?""The oni use them for special ops; they're strong swimmers and wrestlers."Tinker looked back into the discontinuity, the slow drift of blue mist.What were the oni up to? Werethey just testing these strange waters to see where they led or were they trying to salvage the gate?Then again, was Riki telling the truth that there were no kappa in Pittsburgh?"What are you doing here, Riki?""I need to talk to you.""Talk? Talk about what? How can I even trust anything that comes out of that lying mouth of yours?""I'm sorry, Tinker, about everything that happened.I'm really am.I know you're pissed the hell at me,but I need to talk to you about the dragon.""What dragon?""The one that attacked you.The one I pulled off you.The one that might have killed you and all yourpeople if I hadn't called it.""So it was a dragon?""Not an Elfhome dragon, but yes, a dragon.""An Onihida dragon?""What does it matter where it's from? It's a freaking dragon.Can we just move on?""Just answer the fucking question!" She shouted at Riki."It's rather simple.Was it an Onihida dragon?"Riki paced the limb like an agitated crow."For a long, long time dragons were worshipped as gods, Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlboth on Earth and Onihida.They lived in 'the heavens' and had great powers that they often used to helphumans and tengu alike.All the legends about dragons go on about the heavens and traveling from toOnihida or Earth and back.What that mystical shit might have actually been talking about is travelbetween universes.So dragons may be native to Onihida or might be from someplace else.I don'tknow."If Riki had told her the truth about his childhood, he was raised on Earth and probably was less in tunewith the mystical than she was.Not that she was particularly "in tune.""The dragon cast an oni shield spell." She pointed out the flaw in Riki's "not from Onihida" logic."No, that's not oni magic, its dragon magic.The oni true bloods figured out how to enslave dragons andstole it from them."So he said but how could she know if he was telling the truth."Dragon magic? Oni magic? What's thedifference?""Originally oni magic was only bio-engineering, just like the elves.""So the solid hologram stuff? Like your wings?""That's dragon magic.""And the tengu? They're both oni and dragon magic?"Riki did an angry little hop."Tinker! I just want to ask you one simple question, not give you a historylesson.""What do you want, Riki?""The dragon when it attacked you did it mark you with a symbol or tattoo or something like that?""Strange that you ask, but yeah, it put one right here." She half-turned and patted her butt cheek."It says'kiss my ass.'"Stormsong snickered."I know how pissed you must be, Tinker.Believe me, if this wasn't important, I wouldn't come anywherenear you."She scoffed at that."What does this mark do?""So it marked you?" Judging by the excitement in his voice, it was very important to him.Stormsong shoved Tinker suddenly behind her and activated her shields with a shout.At the movement,Riki jerked back out of sight.A second later, a bullet struck the tree truck where Riki had been standing,ricocheted, and struck Stormsong's shield."Shields,domi." Pony triggered his own and pulled his sword.Tinker felt a kick of magic from the west.She forced herself to find her center and cast the trigger spell. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlHer heart was pounding as the distorted into her shield.Sekashaemerged from the forest shadows; their wyvern armor and tattoos were the black of the StoneClan.Five in all a full Hand, the back two acting as blades, which meant they had someone to guard.They halted some twenty feet off, tense and watchful."Lower your weapons," a female shouted in High Elvish."Lower yours! This is Wind Clan holding!" Tinker shouted angrily."It's a royal holding," The stone clan'sdomi came out from behind one of the ironwoods."And you'reconversing with the enemy."Thedomi was short for an elf, several inches shorter than hersekasha , but willowy graceful as any otherhigh caste female Tinker had ever seen.She wore an emerald green underdress and an overdress with aforest of wildly branching trees over it.Her hair was gathered into elaborate braids, dark and rich as otterfur, twined with emerald ribbons and white flowers.Two small gleaming orbs circled around her, like tinyplanets caught in her gravity."Yeah, I was talking to him," Tinker almost dropped her shield but then she realized that hersekashahadn't put away their swords."It's a good way to find out things you don't know.Like who are you?""Hmm, short and vulgar you must be Wolf Who Rules'domi.What was your name again? Somethingunpronounceable.""This is one of my issues from court." Stormsong murmured in English."Lowest ranking introducesthemselves first; it's a matter of honor.You outrank her, so she should go first.She's trying to provokeyou since she can't call insult; you are still under the Queen's protection.""Fuck that [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.It wore a harness of leather with variouspointy things that could be weapons attached to it.Pony pricked the creature with his sword, eyed the wound."It does not bleed.It is indeed frozen.""Ooookay," Tinker said."It is probably safe to assume that it will stay dead, even if it thaws out.""An elf would." Pony sheathed his sword."What do you think it is?" Tinker asked."It's a kappa." A voice called from above them.Tinker and her Hand turned, looking upwards.Riki perched on branches of an ironwood, highoverhead.He ducked back, behind the trunk, as thesekasha pulled out their pistols."Wait, don't fire." Tinker ordered."Riki! Riki! What the hell is this?" Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"I told you." He peered out around the trunk."It's a kappa.Ugly little brats aren't they? In Japan, it'sbelieved that they get their great strength from water in that brain depression and if you can trick theminto bowing and spilling out the water, they have to return to the water realm to regain their strength."Stormsong signed 'kill him?' in blade talk.Tinker signed back 'wait.'"It's an oni?" Tinker asked."Or an animal?""That's a blurred line with the oni," Riki said."I think you would call it oni they're fairly clever in ahomicidal way.The greater bloods made them by mixing animals with lesser bloods, just like Tomtom didwith Chiyo.Legend has it that they used monkeys and turtles a pretty sick mix if you ask me.""I didn't see any while we were making the gate.""There aren't any in Pittsburgh.They're clever, but not enough to pass as a human.""So you're saying it came through the gate?""The oni use them for special ops; they're strong swimmers and wrestlers."Tinker looked back into the discontinuity, the slow drift of blue mist.What were the oni up to? Werethey just testing these strange waters to see where they led or were they trying to salvage the gate?Then again, was Riki telling the truth that there were no kappa in Pittsburgh?"What are you doing here, Riki?""I need to talk to you.""Talk? Talk about what? How can I even trust anything that comes out of that lying mouth of yours?""I'm sorry, Tinker, about everything that happened.I'm really am.I know you're pissed the hell at me,but I need to talk to you about the dragon.""What dragon?""The one that attacked you.The one I pulled off you.The one that might have killed you and all yourpeople if I hadn't called it.""So it was a dragon?""Not an Elfhome dragon, but yes, a dragon.""An Onihida dragon?""What does it matter where it's from? It's a freaking dragon.Can we just move on?""Just answer the fucking question!" She shouted at Riki."It's rather simple.Was it an Onihida dragon?"Riki paced the limb like an agitated crow."For a long, long time dragons were worshipped as gods, Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlboth on Earth and Onihida.They lived in 'the heavens' and had great powers that they often used to helphumans and tengu alike.All the legends about dragons go on about the heavens and traveling from toOnihida or Earth and back.What that mystical shit might have actually been talking about is travelbetween universes.So dragons may be native to Onihida or might be from someplace else.I don'tknow."If Riki had told her the truth about his childhood, he was raised on Earth and probably was less in tunewith the mystical than she was.Not that she was particularly "in tune.""The dragon cast an oni shield spell." She pointed out the flaw in Riki's "not from Onihida" logic."No, that's not oni magic, its dragon magic.The oni true bloods figured out how to enslave dragons andstole it from them."So he said but how could she know if he was telling the truth."Dragon magic? Oni magic? What's thedifference?""Originally oni magic was only bio-engineering, just like the elves.""So the solid hologram stuff? Like your wings?""That's dragon magic.""And the tengu? They're both oni and dragon magic?"Riki did an angry little hop."Tinker! I just want to ask you one simple question, not give you a historylesson.""What do you want, Riki?""The dragon when it attacked you did it mark you with a symbol or tattoo or something like that?""Strange that you ask, but yeah, it put one right here." She half-turned and patted her butt cheek."It says'kiss my ass.'"Stormsong snickered."I know how pissed you must be, Tinker.Believe me, if this wasn't important, I wouldn't come anywherenear you."She scoffed at that."What does this mark do?""So it marked you?" Judging by the excitement in his voice, it was very important to him.Stormsong shoved Tinker suddenly behind her and activated her shields with a shout.At the movement,Riki jerked back out of sight.A second later, a bullet struck the tree truck where Riki had been standing,ricocheted, and struck Stormsong's shield."Shields,domi." Pony triggered his own and pulled his sword.Tinker felt a kick of magic from the west.She forced herself to find her center and cast the trigger spell. Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlHer heart was pounding as the distorted into her shield.Sekashaemerged from the forest shadows; their wyvern armor and tattoos were the black of the StoneClan.Five in all a full Hand, the back two acting as blades, which meant they had someone to guard.They halted some twenty feet off, tense and watchful."Lower your weapons," a female shouted in High Elvish."Lower yours! This is Wind Clan holding!" Tinker shouted angrily."It's a royal holding," The stone clan'sdomi came out from behind one of the ironwoods."And you'reconversing with the enemy."Thedomi was short for an elf, several inches shorter than hersekasha , but willowy graceful as any otherhigh caste female Tinker had ever seen.She wore an emerald green underdress and an overdress with aforest of wildly branching trees over it.Her hair was gathered into elaborate braids, dark and rich as otterfur, twined with emerald ribbons and white flowers.Two small gleaming orbs circled around her, like tinyplanets caught in her gravity."Yeah, I was talking to him," Tinker almost dropped her shield but then she realized that hersekashahadn't put away their swords."It's a good way to find out things you don't know.Like who are you?""Hmm, short and vulgar you must be Wolf Who Rules'domi.What was your name again? Somethingunpronounceable.""This is one of my issues from court." Stormsong murmured in English."Lowest ranking introducesthemselves first; it's a matter of honor.You outrank her, so she should go first.She's trying to provokeyou since she can't call insult; you are still under the Queen's protection.""Fuck that [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]