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brave_kreyu ([personal profile] brave_kreyu) wrote2012-04-16 08:01 pm

OOM: Elysium or Shephard's quest for an arm.

Even before the Combine came, Shephard's world had few places left that had never known the touch of men. This forest has no name, for no tribe of wanderers has ever dared to settle here, to harvest the mighty oaks that tower far above his head.

It is nearly noon on Midsummer's day, but little light reaches Shephard and Kreyu down here on the forest floor. The only thing of note in the clearing is a large ring of mushrooms, a formation sometimes called a faerie ring.
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Right, okay," mutters Shephard, and glances at the shield, which is really a nice shiny bronze-

Who the fuck is he kidding? He's already wielding the sword in his damned off hand, and he's supposed to fight backwards based on a reflection on an irregular surface? Fuck THAT shit. It's undershirt over the face time.

And then it's time to draw that bronze sword and run at the noise as best he can, and start slicing anything that doesn't tell him to point himself the other way.
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Good," says Shephard, also panting. "Good. I ain't takin' this thing off yet, but... any of 'em got fangs still intact?"

Left to his own devices he'd skin the living daylights out of these things and take the hides home, but he doubts they'll have time.
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure would," says Shephard. "All's I need for me's one, but I know some trolls who'd take right well to that sort of shit."
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"They'd fuckin' shit themselves over five," says Shephard. "That'll do just fine. 'scuse me, I'mma go fix my shirt'n git some of this blood'n shit offa me while you're doin' that, if you don't mind."
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Good. That would be awkward.

When he returns he says, "I got to say, Kreyu, I owe you a fuckload for all of this. I ain't real sure how I'm even gon' start payin' you back for what you done so far, let alone the hand."
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Shephard thinks about this a while, and eventually nods. "Suppose that makes sense," he murmurs. He does, after all, remember Priam. "Still and all, I got to say- I appreciate all you've done so far. Even if everything else goes to shit. Wanted you to know that."
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Shephard knots what's left of his undershirt around them and tucks them away as best he can. "All righty, then," he says. "Let's go'n see the man about- shit. Is it a man? What'm I s'posed to call this Master Smith, anyways?"
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Sir's fine," says Shephard. "I c'n live with 'sir'."

It's kind of a reflex, considering.

"Anything I ought to know not to do or say around him?"
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Good," says Shephard, "because as far as that goes, I'd be dead fuckin' meat."

He pauses to listen to the sound of the hounds, and smiles a little. Not that he doesn't love Mrs. Wilson and her brood, but they're just not the same.
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Shephard glances sidelong at Kreyu. "That an invitation?" he murmurs. "Or is he goin' to tell the Master Smith he's got company?"
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Shephard lets out a long, low whistle at the sight.


"Well, I'll be damned. Ain't that somethin'."
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"And I pity the other guy when he finally is," Shephard mutters. He, for one, does not want to be anywhere near the wrong end of that sword.

Then he coughs, and draws himself up a little straighter. He's far from impressive right now himself, what with the infirmary recovery time in his immediate past. And the fact that even healed up by bug juice that stump of his still hurts like hell doesn't do his appearance any favors either. But he'll be damned if he lets that show any more than he absolutely has to. "I'll take your word for it, sir," he says. "That ain't my field, not by a long shot. I'm hopin' you'll be able to help me, regardless."
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[personal profile] hecu_marine 2012-04-18 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Whatever you say, sir," says Shephard, and, "Thank you."

The whole lot of it smells good, and Shephard- no offense to Kreyu's rabbits this morning- is hungry. He does, however, glance hearthward first. "Is it okay if I give him some of mine, sir?" he asks. "Been a while since I've seen a proper dog, 'n they remind me of home growin' up."

You don't hunt on another man's property without asking him first, and you don't screw around with another man's dog without asking the rules. What's okay by some owners is forbidden as hell by others.

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