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Post by pride on Aug 11, 2007 0:13:29 GMT -6
Muraki chewed on the wand. The core seemed to be a different taste. He rather liked it. He couldn't place it, but it was tasty. Not as tasty as brains, nothing tasted as good as brains.
The two humans were talking. Muraki couldn't process the words, but the next thing he knew, they were spitting up. He sneered, chips of wood falling from his gleaming sharp teeth.
He was going to eat brains tonight.
Muraki followed the girl into the dark, stepping silently on the ground.
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Post by purrfection on Aug 11, 2007 20:05:32 GMT -6
"Right. But what's wrong with him? Why isn't he ra--...wouldn't he be raping--...is he high?"
Michael, who had been staring at Muraki with palpable circumspection, stopped rubbing his wrist and looked over at Ruana. If the Dane and Katharine they saw were from the future, that meant that this Muraki was, too. Though Michael highly doubted that Muraki was on drugs, he was positive that time had changed him drastically. Maybe he'd given up raping for the more productive past-time of...er, wand-chewing.
At the crunching sound of wood-against-teeth from the other man's direction, Michael turned back to catch a glimpse of a wood chip flying through a glint of moonlight to the ground. A pained expression crossed Michael's features. He really hoped that wasn't his wand; he liked his wand, he didn't want to have it replaced. And besides, without any wand at all, how were he and Ruana going to get away? They could always run, but if they couldn't take down Muraki, how were they going to handle things if anyone else decided to attack them later on? That was, of course, provided that they actually managed to get away if they ran. Muraki looked distracted by the wand in his mouth at the moment, but Michael didn't want to take risks.
When it came right down to it, he and Ruana were going to be fine if they just stuck together and found the other wand--
"I'm going to go check over there. If my wand's not there, it's probably mine that he's got. You look around here--or wherever you dropped it."
It took Michael a moment to catch up to what Ruana was saying because Muraki was creeping him out too much for his brain to work properly. When he finally caught on, Ruana was already tip-toeing away into the darkness.
"Wait!" Michael whispered to her, but she was already out of hearing distance.
To Michael's horror, a mere turn of his head head revealed Muraki slowly advancing on Ruana. Michael, apparently having gained short-term memory loss within the last hour, reached into his pocket for his wand. Amazingly, it wasn't there.
Oh, right...
But there had to be some way to distract Muraki. If Michael could somehow keep him away from Ruana while she looked for the other wand, they would be able to escape. He hoped that Ruana had good eyesight. After a few seconds of looking around desperately for some attention-grabbing object and finding nothing extraordinarily damaging in arms reach, Michael swiped up one of the larger rocks that had been thrown at him, got to his feet, and hurled it at Muraki's head.
To Michael's amazement, the rock hit its target dead-on, with precision that only a lucky fool could have managed. "HEY, MURAKI!" he shouted. "I'M OVER HERE!"
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Post by pride on Aug 18, 2007 6:03:24 GMT -6
The rock struck Muraki. He wheeled around, his eyes skimming over one of the mortals. As is frequently demanded on this site, I will deliver every single portion of Muraki's thoughts in a ridiculously long post which is mostly filler and very boring.
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Then, seeing as he had an extreme lust for brains which I really do not need to state, he dove at Michael, jaw lashing and biting.
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