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IC: Nikarra

 

Nikki looked straight at Dor as she noticed his reaction, mouthing the words 'fight me'.

 

"Hm? Oh, yeah, me and Dor spent a while in each other's company back in the day. Met in a casino. Had a few dates here and there, one in a hospital, one on a ship..."

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I shrugged and pursed my last cigarette between my teeth. I'd need to buy more wherever we stopped at next.

 

Ko-Wahi.

 

I needed to see the Temple of Peace. Make sure for myself. Then I'd buy some cigarettes. The news of Ko-Koro's fall had hit the villages of Mata Nui as fast and hard as Echelon himself. If Joske had been traveling before he heard the news, his guard may have...

 

No.

 

flick flick

 

I took a deep breath as the small, beaten silver lighter sent a flame crackling to life on the end of my cigarette.

 

I'll find out myself. I'll prove this all wrong and then head back to Ta. Maybe get a job at the Magma Lounge, I fit the clientele. Or...or the Guard, even, go back to Angelus and schmooze a case or two a month. Something small-scale. Something that doesn't involve saving people.

 

"We break camp an hour before dawn. Get some sleep."

 

There's something out there for me. All it had to do was wait for me any place but Ko-Wahi.

 

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IC: Mar and Zelvin (Motara Desert)

 

I sat near the fire, taking a breather after the hazardous trek in and out of temple, covered in dirt and grime that wouldn't go away for a while in this environment. I wasn't a stranger to hard work, just to the heat of this ill-tempered slice of the island. Inwardly, I raised a thank you to the heavens when Dorian and his "old flame" decided to communicate exclusively through facial expressions, the silence was just what I needed. I didn't need to be asked twice when he told us to settle down for sleep...

 

Zelvin made a few half-hearted attempts at making sense of Dorian and Nikki's voiceless interactions, but her mind was too clouded and tired for her to care. The glow she'd felt earlier that day for her new job had disappeared somewhere in the same direction that her faith in love and goodwill to all had years ago.

 

"Yes, some sleep will hopefully do nicely"

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IC: Nikarra (Motara Desert)

 

Nikarra kept up a smile for as long as it took her to turn her back on the group and pull Dor aside, the shift to sobriety as instant as it was chilling.

"You wanna tell me what happened down there?" she half whispered, looking Dor dead in the eyes. "Something spooked you, and don't even think of trying to tell me otherwise. The ##### is going on here, Dor?"

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"Oh, come on, you know how these old temples get. Give a penny, take a prophecy." At the resulting glare I got, I took a deep breath and lowered my voice slightly. "It's nothing that will affect me, honest. I've been hunting Joske Nimil, and these temples were the places he was heading. I asked around and got some spooky riddles back. As soon as I find him, hale and headache-inducing, it'll be out of my life. Now,"

 

and here I twisted the wrist that gripped me by the collar - not enough to hurt, just enough to loosen her hand while I adjusted my neckline and dropped her arm by her side,

 

"what happened to you?"

 

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The change in Nikarra was instantly visible; her shoulders sagged, her eyes looked down to the ground, avoiding Dorian's, as her expression became one of hesitance and uncertainty. "I... I got in with a bad crowd."

 

"What, like a circus? What happened?"

 

"You know how it is," she sighed, the irony of the echo of Dor's own attempts at deflection not lost on her. "Your mom spends your whole childhood telling you not to get involved with Toa Teams who name themselves after Deadly Sins and try to incite wars, then one comes along and you can't help but join in."

 

"So yeah. Kinda like a circus."

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"Oh."  girl what have i told you. you have the most addictive- personality i've ever seen on a person in my life, you're better than this. you're better than me, too. move on.

"I gotcha."

 

...

 

I spared a glance back at Cipher, who shared first watch with Nero, and my right hand man spared one back to me. Typical Ciph. Got that this was serious and made sure it was left to us.

nikki want you to know to talk to me. i owe you my life for what i've done to yours. i would have brought the whole crowd of them to

"Are you okay now? Did one of them...?"

 

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"I'm okay," she assured him. "I'm... I'm okay."

The Toa of Lightning hoped that he might believe it, even if she didn't.

 

She bit her lip, wondering how to phrase what she had to say next. "I had a... thing, with one of them. Just for a little while. She was different from the others. Or... I thought she was. I don't know anymore."

I thought she was someone who could be something better.

Someone like you.

 

Nikarra looked back up into Dorian's eyes, big and blue and so sad, almost as sad as hers, and the icy blue became only more appropriate as the waters below the surface churned, waves of rage and regret crashing through his mind as every protective instinct he felt for Nikki kicked into gear. "I was in a bad place, Dor. And I didn't think I could get out. The Daedra... it seemed like a way out. I'm sorry."

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"C'mere."

 

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If hugs came with onomatopoeia, the one I wrapped around Nikarra's shoulders and waist probably would have been worthy of one.

 

"...I thought the Lust thing was just a phase."

 

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"So that's why you left. You got shafted in the sin department. You know sloths are renowned for grabbing their own arms after naps and falling out of trees, right? Yeah, I watched a benefit play about 'em one time. It's a big problem out in Le."

 

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You have to tell him.

Nikarra pulled gently back out of the hug. "Look, in terms of why I was there, how I... how I found myself at rock bottom again... I spoke to someone, outside your house. That time you sent me to break in."

Her eyes locked on to Dorian's. "Malik."

 

...

 
The Toa of Iron's lips twitched in time with three rapid blinks.
 
"How'd..." His voice caught, but when he spoke again it was as smooth as ever. "How'd he look? Hit his growth spurt in one piece?"
 
"He looked kinda grim, actually," Nikarra continued, too caught up in herself for the sentiment behind Dor's words to sink in. "Seemed to think you'd killed his family. Your family."

She stood in silence for a second more, then faltered, and looked at Dorian's expression, saw behind it for a moment. The anger that dragged her down and crushed her newfound faith in him back in Ta-Koro flickered and died, its certainty suddenly shifted as an alternative truth began to present itself.
 
"...did you?"

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"Nikarra...I've killed a lot of people, girl. I mean, Dark Toa, Guardsmen, Mark Bearers. I helped sink a Koro. I..." The words caught in my throat. "I killed Turaga Vakama. Pulled the slug right out of his crippled old back. I've only missed one contract in my life. Everyone else - love 'em, hate 'em, never met 'em before in my life, I killed. But Malik...we...survived the Four Peers. Not me. Aurelia, Ambages, whoever else they were working with. God only knows I've threatened to a million times, but...I've never touched family."

 

What did Malik even look like now? God, a, he'd be all grown up. And Nikarra had met him, talked to him...

 

"Why do you think you're still here?"

 

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IC: These girls needed to stop comin' out of the woodwork like this.

 

I stayed the course of scanning the North and West of the horizon around us, glaring holes into whatever unfortunate tumbleweed dared to come into my field of view.

 

 

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Nikarra didn't say a word. She stood in silence, looking at Dorian, letting everything he said sink in.

 

"Why do you think you're still here?"

 

- - -

 

"Are you going to kill me, Dor?"

 

 

"Ohhh, sweetheart," Dorian sighed, tracing her lips and pulling himself into a sitting position; Nikarra adjusted by wrapping her arms and legs around his back, clinging to him like a leech, and as he lifted her up so their gazes were level, he could see the sheer devotion reflected in her eyes. "Someday, maybe."

 

"You sure?" she pouted. "I mean, I don't want to rush you if you don't want to be rushed..."

 

"Thoughtful of you," he said, smiling with such perfect, even white teeth that when Nikarra looked at them, she saw her own gaze staring back at her hungrily. "Don't worry. Someday, soon, I'll kill you. Just be patient."

 

- - -

 

"I've never touched family."

 

Nikarra took one step forward and wrapped her arms around Dorian, holding him tight, far tighter than she expected, as though her very life depended on her refusal to let go. And for not the first time that day, she communicated without a single word everything she had to say. I love you.

And it's going to kill me.

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IC Onamazu

"Ah, not exactly." She said a little awkwardly in response to Volin's inquiry.

 

In danger of going cross eyed staring down at the lit cylinder, she decided to turn her gaze to Arvas and her question and took a deep drag on the cigarette-

 

EHKMAHEMEHKM she burst into an onomatopoeic fit of coughing as the smoke seared it's way through her throat and into her lungs. Taking the offending cylinder out with her right hand, she spent the next twenty seconds clearing her throat in between gulps of water from the offered canteen. Now thoroughly red in the face, she sat back up. "S-sorry about that, I wasn't quite expecting that..."

...but close to it

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Not much else to say after that. Finally, after several minutes, I gave one brief squeeze of my arms and took a step back.

 

"Time to crash. We march for Ko early." 

 

...

 

"S'good to see you."

 

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Nikarra smiled. "Good seein' you too."

 

She glanced over to the campsite, where almost everyone else was already trying to get to sleep. "You do realise I don't have a sleeping bag, right? Unless y'all brought a spare."

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"Thanks, Dor. Give me a shout if you end up needing somewhere to crash and have to share."

She smirked jokingly as she finished her comment, deciding that was a better route than a wink, and smiled once more. "G'night Dor."

 

With that, she walked over to the campsite, finding Dor's sleeping bag and setting herself up in it. Here's to another sleepless night under the stars. If I fall asleep I'll wake up screaming.

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"Hilarious." Arvas smiled, taking his canteen back. Mata Nui, she'd almost drunk it dry. He'd have to refill it at some point.

"I'll ask again, though,' he turned to face Onamazu. "Can you fight?"

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Her alibi was quickly falling apart, the jury was all but convinced at this point. Her eyes darted back to the cigarette, innocuously harmless when it wasn't near her lungs.

 

She raised it and, mustering up a significant fraction of her will power, took another drag. Managing to make it look reasonably suave, reasonably experienced and definitely legitimate, she was a pro!

 

"Yeah I can fight alright, what kind of ally of justice could I call myself if I couldn't fight?" She responded to Arvas raspily.

...but close to it

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Yeah, no, she hadn't smoked before. With a sigh, he handed her the canteen again.

"Drink the rest, you sound like a broken vacuum cleaner." He commented.

"Just making sure, we're gonna be fighting Rahkshi."

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"He's not going to make it."

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