Ainsley Jeane Daniels

Life kicks you around sometimes. It scares you and it beats you up, but there’s a day when you realize that you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior. You’re tougher than anything it throws your way.

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OOC

Can we wrap up round table? I can’t remember where the hell we were going with that. 

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if history says anything if it says at all it says this: all women know how to do is burn if her story says anything and it says everything we girls have been raised to walk through fire

— Salma Deera

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Watch me. I will go to my own Sun. And if I am burned by its fire, I will fly on scorched wings. — Segovia Amil

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Current Paragraphs

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A Gift || Kitty and Ian || August 22 (pending on anya)

For The Team || Ian and Matt || September 2 (pending on anya)

Round Table || All || September 3 (pending on anya)

Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5 (pending on anya)

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Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5

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She waited for sometime, evidently the question had thrown off the Red Woman. In the end, Mara pulled back as the answer had thrown her for a surprise the way the question had done for Lexa. Peace among everyone. That sounded very diplomatic. Regal. Mara is almost certain that their High Queen could have, would have, said something to that effect.  “That is a lofty kind of wish.” Noble, even. Yes. It is a noble sounding kind of thing to want. Just as it sounded rather sad to feel as if one lacked a purpose and calling. In the end, is it truly what Lexa wanted or was she playing it safe and parroting someone else? 

“You are kissed by fire.” 

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Lexa made a face at Mara. Was it? A loft sort of wish? Was it so taboo to believe that such a thing could be accomplished? Lexa knew in her life time, she would not be able to complete her mission, yet if she was to find followers, and they were able to continue her legacy, then within some time, the world could see a better life. “One only needs to have hope. If they are able to plant the seed in others, much can be accomplished.” To Lexa, violence was never the first answer, even if she was as great as a warrior as any other here thanks to the commander’s private lessons. Not that many would know if it.

The woman looked over at the other younger. “Kissed by fire?” Why did that amuse her so? Was it so because of her hair? She knew that unlike many of the others here on the island, she looked fairly odd with her fire like hair. Or was it because of the way she had arrived? How would Mara have known that other than through gossip. “What is it that others say of me, Mara?” It was purely out of curiosity.

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Current Paragraphs

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A Gift || Kitty and Ian || August 22 (pending on anya)

|| Jane & Ian || August 30 (pending on anya)

How Are You? || Serah and Jake || August 31 (pending on anya)

For The Team || Ian and Matt || September 2 (pending on anya)

Round Table || All || September 3 (pending on anya)

Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5 (pending on anya)

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Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5

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“I should think that if you stand for those, that your heart, conscience and soul are in the right place.” One could die in peace, with such morals.

“What is it you want, Lexa?” Mara turned abruptly on her heel to face the Red Woman and asked a question that seemed beyond her years. 

“There are few who who are born with the gifts that you possess.” From the red hair, to magic. Magic. Yes, there were few with such magic, it was on display at solstices when they came down from the mountains, each practitioner shrouded in a deep blue. Ornamented blue cloaks, with hoods so full that their secrets remained hidden. Individuals were recognized by their voices, their gates and what jewelry they wore. Such were their mages, and one had to be born into it, the way they were more often then not born into being a Night Blood.

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“I would have to agree so.” It seemed many, if not almost all, of the women on the island agreed with the saying. The believed in each other and being loyal to their queen. 

For once, Mara had caught her off guard. What is that she wanted? Lexa looked at the girl, raising her brows. She was quiet for longer than she expected before she spoke, “Even in my years, I have not found what my heart truly wants other than Peace among everyone.” It wasn’t for herself, rather for others to live a better life. 

Lexa laughed, “My gifts?” The only gift the others possibly thought she had was to predict some sort of future, rather to advise what to avoid. Truth was, she was no seer, rather she had a very strong connection to the world around her and when she knew things would go wrong. “What sorts of gifts do you believe I have, Mara?” 

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Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5

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“It is a great honor,” Mara began to reply. “My mother, and her mother before her were. It is our trade.” It is the same line she has told many a persons who asked. It is a noble, honorable kind of answer. At least Mara would like to think so, and it is in part, mostly the truth. She wanted to continue to honor their name, the position came with the association that she would be closer to her dead mother this way.

“It is devotion and sisterhood, doesn’t everyone want that?”

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“Family honor and duty then.” Lexa very well understood her train of thought in becoming a Night Blood. Lexa only wished that she had some sort of calling, some path to follow on. She was found by Camilla, taken to their queen and suddenly named her adviser. It had happened all so fast that she never truly understood what is was she wanted. 

“Everyone wants many different things, Mara. We assume we all want the same.”

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Molten Chocolate Soufflé

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Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5

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“Very much so,” a heart was a heavy burden and there was nothing nearly as difficult as being groomed since coming of age to be a Night’s Blood. But it is not nearly as hard as loosing a mother, loosing an adoptive mother after that. Truth is that Mara would happily weather any amount of training for just a day or two with her own.

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Lexa turned on her heel half way as she stretched her right hand out towards the path away from the rest of the Night Bloods. She smiled briefly, waiting for the other to follow before she let her arms drop to her side. Lexa walked in silence for a short moment until they were out of earshot of any others. 

“What made you want to become a Night Blood? What truly made you decide to take the path?”

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Current Paragraphs

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A Gift || Kitty and Ian || August 22 (pending on anya)

|| Jane & Ian || August 30 (pending on anya)

How Are You? || Serah and Jake || August 31 (pending on anya)

For The Team || Ian and Matt || September 2 (pending on anya)

Round Table || All || September 3 (pending on anya)

Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5 (pending on anya)

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Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5

Lexa had found herself fairly busy with Camilla and hiding what they had found from their Queen. It was hard enough having to be the advisor, let alone keeping tabs on Mara without her knowing. It was fairly easy enough but the woman still had a feeling that Mara was still under their Queen’s biding. If she had told, it was not mentioned yet by her grace. “How is your training?”

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Mara lazily re-corded a bit of leather around her braid, it had become stressed during her training. The gesture was accompanied with the slightest little noise from the soft tin bells she wore as part of the regimen, ideally one was to be so quiet that the bells in their air would not make a sound.

She did not know familiar Lexa was with Camilla now. They were more then friends, were they not? “Difficult, but I expected as much.” She wanted to please the Commander. She wanted to please the High Queen.

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Lexa’s eyes went to Mina’s braid. Many of the women here wore their hair as such, in a variety of style. Her own at the moment was worn down with a small twisted braid in the center. The bell jingled quietly, taking Lexa’s attention for a brief moment. 

“The Queen’s night guard is only of the best.” Camilla trained them, and Lexa had never seen such intense and discipline warriors. Then again, she had never seen any others than the ones before here on this island. She smiled over at Mara. “Do you wish to ease your heart with a walk?”

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Current Paragraphs

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A Gift || Kitty and Ian || August 22 (pending on anya)

|| Jane & Ian || August 30 (pending on anya)

How Are You? || Serah and Jake || August 31 (pending on anya)

For The Team || Ian and Matt || September 2 (pending on anya)

Round Table || All || September 3 (pending on anya)

Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5 (pending on anya)

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Catching Up || Lexa and Mara || September 5

Lexa had found herself fairly busy with Camilla and hiding what they had found from their Queen. It was hard enough having to be the advisor, let alone keeping tabs on Mara without her knowing. It was fairly easy enough but the woman still had a feeling that Mara was still under their Queen’s biding. If she had told, it was not mentioned yet by her grace. “How is your training?”

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Current Paragraphs

A Gift || Kitty and Ian || August 22 (pending on anya)

|| Jane & Ian || August 30 (pending on anya)

How Are You? || Serah and Jake || August 31 (pending on anya)