Escape

[Twenty-Six]

The energy crackled while a swirling black abyss popped in the middle of thick wood land and a lush garden and as the sound of thunder erupted through the skies a small figure stumbled through the portal and fell down upon all fours; a pool of thick pink hair concealed her face while dark green eyes peered out through the curtain of hair and settled that heavy gaze between the closed portal and the house.

Pushing herself up from the soiled ground below, with a stumble from left and right till she leant against the tree with only thing covering the milky pale flesh was an oversized button up, white men’s shirt which drifted against her knees in the breeze of the night.

[Ceverus]

Ceverus...his return hadn't been as warm and heart filled an arrival as he had expected, however he was still glad to be home at last. He had taken to the gardens, having always had an affinity for Mistress Sauri's taste in floral arrangements. He walks among the roses present with a contented expression on his face until the opening of a portal followed by a female stumbling forth appearing as though she had been through hell. He moved up to the girl, brow raised. "You look worse for wear...what happened to you?" he says more concerned with her well bein than who she was, inspite of the fact she was a stranger.

He removes his trench coat that he had worn due to his new susceptibility to the cold, and offers it to her, letting it hand of his extended fingers towards her. He had stopped a decent distance from her, more for her comfort than anything. "Here, put this on. It's freezing out here. I'll bring you inside." he says waiting for her to take the coat.

[Twenty-Six]

Dark green hues peaked through the hair as she lifted her head up and gazed towards the source of sound that had broken the eerie silence, but she didn't make any movement towards the man "W...w...who are you?" backing up slowly till her back pressed against the tree "I'm f...f...ine".

Snaking her eyes upwards and followed his hand which held his trench coat and stilled a questioning glance between him and coat before curling her fingers around it and pulled it away quickly and slowly slid into it "T..t..hank you" huddling into the warmth of the coat and took slow sluggish steps towards him but kept a save distance.

[Cerverous]

cross-legged, he sat. arms out to the sides with an upturned hand curling middle finger to thumb. Cerverous meditated in the basic form. soething not expected of him bar the fact of where he was. stars sparkled around him in litterally every direction, but he was not in space as we know. the air was strong enough to crush even him to nothing, in time, and thus he trained his body to endure it.

many names it had. the darkness, the void, the lanes between. Cerverous was in the dimension that held all lving worlds in a great see of darkness and his training was progressing smoothly. then a bolt of lightning ripped across barely missing him. this did sometimes happen and so he ignored it, until another came and another, this one connecting to leave a cauterized wound behind on his shoulder.

hs eyes shot open and he watched as the bolts grew in number and size. a rift was opening. a tear in the dimmension. someone. was jumping worlds. from the source of the bolt grew an orb, starting small, until it was the size of a human. he contnued o watch. hed seen it before. the orb exploded and with no nothing to do about it he took the full force of it.

like being hit by a missile traveling at multi hundreds of miles an hour, he was ripped from the space and hurled back to his owned, a fail-safe he had set himself. for brief moments it was a tunnel of all the colors that could not escape, then the gardens opened behind him. on the other end it was peace al was as it should be, until the very moemnt hed ripped a quickly closing black mark in the world with his fliing body and skidded o a stop on his feet, hands in pockets, a meere arms link from the wraith-man, dark red eyes plastered intently on the place he had come from. "beautiful" he said as his body smoked and steamed, and the multitued of wounded he sustatined simply erased tehmselves.

[Ceverus]

Cev gives a nod towards her, the cold starting to bite at him. He keeps a hand extended towards her, patience having always been one of his defining qualities. "I am Ceverus. You've chanced upon the Matashina Estate. May I ask why you came here as you did?" he asks a slight tilt to his head.

With the crash of Cerverous he snaps his attention towards the crater, three titanic shadow lizards jumping from the shadows and taking up a spot before him, growling low. In an instant a jet black blade rests in his hand, held infront of him with the point down. When he realizes who it was the blade returns to rest within the tattoos along his right arm. He waves a hand towards the beasts and they return to the shadows. "Cerverous..interesting entrance." he says before turning back towards the female to check And make sure she was still alright.

[Twenty-Six]

The left hand was curled tightly into the front of the coat which seemed very large over her much smaller build, but the right hand slowly but surely moved towards Ceverus extended hand and just as fingertips touched her whole hand grasped tightly around the males when another person made his appearance .

The dark eyes widen beneath the thick pink tresses as they stared at the man and the creatures. Dainty feet moved quickly back and pulled the other man with her "Who is that?" eyes filled with fear and a questioning gaze upon them both but the grip around Ceverus's hand tightened more.

[Cerverous]

he remained as he stood, paying little attention to anything. his arms came up and his head inclined as he looked down at the tatters of his clothes. "anything less wouldnt be me" dropping his arms and sighing, he kickd teh dirt and spun around at them "someone decided to rip a hole in the dimensions. and blew me up as a result"

his gaze, from Ceverus, shifted to the girl. "hello. who might you be?"

[Ceverus]

Stumbling slightly when he was pulled with the female he turns towards her offering a comforting smile towards her, not minding her hand squeezing his, "Relax, he's a friend." he says, remaining by her. Something was troubling her, that much was obvious, what it was tugged at his curiosity.

His attention returns to Cerverous, a light chuckle and a shake of his head. "I suppose you're right on that. That someone was her." he says giving a light nod towards the female clutching his hand now. "She stumbled out full of fear. It seem to me she was running from something.." he says trailing off as he looks towards the female again. "Tell us who you are. No harm will come to you." he says reassuringly.

[Twenty-Six]

Those words repeated over and over inside her head as they both asked for a name, but she didn't have one to give only a number that her master had gave her "Twenty-six" her hand kept grasping but it would feel like flesh but it had a numberfragile feel of porcelain with his hand as she kept him in front of her shriving figure.

Eyes peaked around the man towards the other one and glanced between him and creatures "Will they hurt me Will uses hurt me?".

[Cerverous]

he tilted his head slightely at her and looked on as he took in all that was presented to him "chances are very high that we wont hurt you." he looked away to his right as the coresponding arm came from its pocket and made a down sweep beside him. he then began tapping at the air, pressing the invisible buttons. "your 'master' already seems to me lke an uncreative prick at the least" came hs words wihout him looking up "didnt even give you a name.." he mumble in atacthment.

[Ceverus]

Raising a brow at the name, or lack thereof rather, he turns a bit more to look at the girl, craning his neck. "Twenty Six...Interesting." he says before glancing to the beasts still lurking within the shadows. "Denizen, Belial, Zarok. Go, I will call you if I need you." he says and the beasts disappear as he ends the command. "They will not hurt you and, the grumpy one is right. We don't have a reason to hurt you." he says with a slight nod.

Hearing Cerverous again he looks over, again his brow inclines. "Necer gave her a name? What a douche..." he says before withdrawing his cigarette case and opening it, looking within. "Hm...have to get Belial to pick up some more...Anyone want one?" he says as he places one of the cigarettes between his lips, lighting it to release a smell of incense rather than the harsh scent of normal cigarettes, offering the case to the two.

[Twenty-Six]

Head tilted onto the side and stared in wonder when the creatures left, but her eyes soon enough fell back on the two men "Sir Alex doesn't believe in giving names to something that is created not born" slowly stepping around Ceverus and stood just beside the man and gave her full hidden gaze on Ceverous and smild at the two of them "He gave me life and i was only one that worked and dolls don't deserve names" quoting the man's words.

Tucking the strands of hair behind her ears, as she looked up at them now "Thank you for your kindness" the words were for both of them.

[Cerverous]

"a douche" he said in reply to her explantion, still tapping on the invisible buttons. without so much as a glance from them he reached out and took the offer, placing in his pocket "i might need it later"

his hand then abruptly stopped and with another down sweep both were replaced in his pockets s his gaze turned toward them again "everything that has life deserves a name. no matter who or what granted it, and no matter how its vessel was made, i cant truthfully be called life if its not real"

[Ceverus]

Nodding as Cerverous takes the cigarette he closes the case, replacing it in his pocket. He then looks between the two. "He's right again, you know? Every living thing deserves a name. My pets you just saw even have names." He says as he takes a drag off the cigarette resting between his lips, the smoke coming from his mouth being thicker than normal. "Oh and Cerverous, just a heads up. These are a specialty blend of plants from my realm laced with ambrosia squeezed from the souls we have collected there. Much more potent than human cigarettes." He says with a nod.

[Twenty-Six]

Curiosity was a sharp glint in her eyes as she stepped forwards and snatched the cigarettes from Ceverus and Ceverous, and twirled them between her fingers and took a little sniff of them and pulled back from it with a wrinkle upon her face."They smell strange. What are they?" head tilted as she stared up at both of them.

"But why name a creature? I'm only a living doll but was human once".