The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 24, 2010 20:18:21 GMT -6
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June 11th, 2010 Location: Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Time: 12:00PM
His head rolled on the ball of his neck as Shin took another deep breath, waiting. Kealey's class wasn't out yet. He'd walked her to FIT today, just like the last few days. He'd done it willingly. He'd wanted to protect her, and that was good. The waiting... not-so-much. He'd finished the book he was reading long ago. It had been a long book. He hadn't shrugged his reading duties by refusing to finish it. Its length had, unfortunately, failed to stand up to how much waiting time Shin was confronted with.
Shin rolled his focus up to the clock in on the wall of the student center, and counted how long he'd been waiting today in his head. Too long. Yup. Two words. He didn't even need to elaborate on how much too long actually was. Shin reached into his pocket, and pulled out the copy of Atlas Shrugged to thumb through it again.
"How'd this even fit in my pocket again...?" He stared at the thick book. Ah well. He started reading it over, from the beginning.
Who is John Galt... Hrm. Who was Kealey's teacher, keeping her this late was a better question.
He stepped up, away from the bench, for a stretch. Shin pulled his arm behind his head, and felt his back pop with a satisfying 'crunch'... then, suddenly found a shoulder brushing past his own. Shin turned to glare at the source as she rushed past him. He caught a blur of red hair as it vanished around the corner, down a hall.
Rude people, these days... He harrumphed. They just had no manners.
Now, where was he again? Oh right. Waiting. Shin sat back down.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 24, 2010 20:45:16 GMT -6
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“Summer Seminar” the words had been bold and blue in the subject line of the email Kealey had gotten from school. It had been soon, and the person running the seminar had been prolific. Kealey had really wanted to participate.
Shin, of course, had encouraged the idea and insisted that he accompany her there, especially since the plushie army couldn‘t. They hadn’t heard or seen anything about strange fires over the past few day…since Mood really, but despite her protests that school was the safest place she could be, Shin was unmovable on the subject.
Kealey didn’t mind the company, not at all, but she felt bad that he’d had to wait outside every day while the class had drug on. And how it had drug… It turned out that with fame came an ego the size of your bank account. The speaker had mostly spoken of his many accomplishments, awards, celebrity clientele, and clothing lines. The empath could feel the arrogance and self-importance rolling off the man and she’d found herself wanting to join in his lecture a couple of times with tales of her work for the X-Men.
At least it was the last day. Friday. Then she was free for the weekend and the rest of the summer. These seminars weren’t going to give her what she wanted. That’s what her classes were for, and they didn’t start up again until August.
Suddenly, people were clapping, and Kealey’s head snapped up from where she’d been drawing little swirls and squares on her notebook margins. The seminar was done and people were making their way up to the podium to rain praises on the man who’d just finished speaking. He was so derisive of the whole thing it made Kealey a little nauseated and she quietly slipped from her seat and left the room.
Her messenger bag was slightly heavy, loaded with some of the design books she’d borrowed at the end of the school year to help her with uniforms. Now was as good a time as any to return them, and as Kealey left the room, she checked her watch and let out a surprised little squeak. No wonder it had felt like so long, the speaker had ran over. Poor Shin had been waiting outside all this time…she picked up her pace towards the library, completely oblivious to the redhead that pushed off from the wall outside the classroom and followed behind her.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 11:09:54 GMT -6
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No. He stood back up. He'd been waiting long enough. It was time to do something about it!
Five minutes later, Shin stepped away from the snack machine, bag of Funyuns in hand. He tugged the bag open as he walked towards Kealey's classroom, sampling the crunchy 'onion' delicacy as he went.
Crunch, Crunch, Crunch...
Empty classroom. Kealey was already out of glass. Shin paused. Then why hadn't she popped in to let him know what was up? That hadn't been very nice. She must've been stuck on some specific thought or emotion. Maybe there had been something to take care of before she was ready to go...?
He eyed the grid of the room as he pondered places. She could have gone to the cafeteria... the library... another classroom... the student center... hmm... he would have seen her if she'd been there. He shrugged. Library it was, then.
Shin turned and left the classroom, court charted for his destination.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 11:38:13 GMT -6
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The library was all but deserted, and Kealey was slightly shocked to find that even the librarian had abandoned her post. Granted, this library was small even in comparison to the one at the Mansion, a mere broom closet compared to the NYC Public system, but still…
The blond sighed and made her way across the room to drop her books off in the proper receptacle, hoping that nobody would get impatient and take one before it had been properly checked in. She checked her watch again and clicked her tongue against her teeth, she really was getting late now. Out came the cell phone and Kealey shot a quick text off to Shin, apologizing for taking so long and letting him know that she was in the library and would be along shortly. There was a book on versatile clothing designs for gymnasts and ice skaters that she was hoping to find after looking it up in the online catalogue. While most of the X-Men had no desire to look like a performer, the suits lent themselves to the types of materials commonly seen in such designs.
Kealey had just found the proper section and was skimming the Dewey Decimals when a piercing buzz cut through the quiet air of the room. After the initial shock of the sound, Kealey stood and turned, eyes locked on a brightly blinking red light suspended from the ceiling of the library. It was the fire alarm.
Instant alarm all of Kealey’s own rushed through her at the sound and while she told herself that it simply had to be a drill, the smell of smoke made its way into her nose and she knew…
”Hallo there.” called the voice, and there was something familiar in the musical lilt of the accent. Kealey whipped around and found herself face to face with a figure engulfed in flames, no seemingly made of flames. Back she scrambled with a little yell, until her back came up against the shelf of books she’d been looking at moments before.
”Y’don’t remember me, do ya?” came the voice again, and as Kealey squinted into the light it dimmed somewhat, revealing a woman. A redheaded woman who looked anything but happy. For the first time since the alarm had started blaring, Kealey cast out for emotions and the hurt, anger, frustration, jealousy, and elation were so strong it was almost overwhelming.
” S’alright. Everyone else forgot about me too. But they all remembered you…sister.”
Kealey stood, rooted to the spot, eyes locked on the figure in the flames, almost oblivious to the fire slowly starting to spread around the FIT library and the fire alarm that was still blaring in the background. That voice. That face too…older, but still the same.
”Maire?” Kealey breathed, coughing slightly on the smoke that was starting to build in the room.
The red-head smiled, but it wasn’t a kind smile of recognition. It was something all together different, ”Yes, sister. And this time, nobody’s goin’t’forget me.”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 13:51:26 GMT -6
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The course met a detour as Shin's cellphone went off. He slumped against the wall, checking his messages.
Aha!
So, she was in the library. He wouldn't need to search those other locations now (not that he'd been planning to, much). Shin fired back a response, 'ok, xo'.
He paused. Blinked. Huh. Had he just... eh. Nobody would notice a thing. Shin shrugged and moved on.
As he neared the library, Shin knew something was wrong. He could hear alarms ringing. His head snapped around, looking up and down the hall. Fire? But where.
Wait. His eyes swung back towards the library's entrance. Smoke billowed from the door. His stomach flopped. Kealey!
Shin rushed towards the door, kicking it open, but stopped. Flames blocked the entrance. Dammit!
He couldn't get in...
"Kealey!" Shin called, through the flames. "Are you okay!? The doorway's blocked, but... I'LL FIND A WAY"
He looked around frantically. The smoke was getting heavier now. Shin stifled a cough.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 14:20:10 GMT -6
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This was some kind of sick joke. Some sick…sick joke that someone was playing on her. Kealey knew, had known for years, that her sister was dead. There was no way to bring people back from the dead, no matter how badly you wanted to, and that’s why Kealey was having such a hard time comprehending what was going on right in front of her. There was no way…it simply wasn’t possible…her sister…alive.
”Why!?” Kealey exclaimed, voice raised over the roaring of the fire. How was there so much, but so little around the two of them?
”It was so easy t’forget about me. For y’to move on.”
”It was so easy for everyone t’believe that we’d all died. And even easier for them to discount the pathetic creature that showed up weeks later, trying to claim what was hers.” she stopped and looked around them, at the flames licking up the walls and devouring the books.
”It was a miracle, what happened that day, the fire was so hot…it burned so badly…but then, I was free. Only, I couldn’t get back…not right away. By the time I could, it was too late.”
The story…it rang true to Kealey, the conviction and bitterness in her sister’s emotions were far too strong for it to be anything else.
”I waited so long, tried so hard t’find you Kealey. Find you with your perfect, fancy life here in America with your mutant friends,” the fire burned hotter, closing in more, and Kealey coughed at as the smoke thickened. ”I’ve found you now, though and…”
A voice cut through the flames, through the angry red head’s voice, and straight through to Kealey.
Shin. The text message.
Kealey opened her mouth, frantic to tell him to leave, to not risk it. He was absolutely frantic with worry and need and she nearly reached out to push the feelings away. She stopped though. She’d made a promise after Roland…
”Shin!” she called back, words interspersed with coughs, ”Help! Back here!”
Time…she desperately needed more time. She went back to the emotions in her sister’s head. The elements of shock and surprise had done a lot to numb Kealey before, but now she was concerned for Shin as well it all seemed so crystal clear…but it was getting so hot…and the smoke was so thick.
Down went the bitterness, away went the anger and resentment. Jealousy evaporated and in it’s place welled pain and sorrow. The redhead wailed, and battered against Kealey’s powers, rage and frustration trying to take hold. The emotions were so intense…so built up…Kealey shook her head, there would be time to think on it later. As her sister curled in on herself, flames still engulfing her figure, Kealey looked around the library.
The fire wasn’t getting any hotter now ,it was behaving like normal fire, but the flames were large and the smoke was thickening. Kealey dropped to a crouch, pulling air in almost desperately. She’d bought time…Shin would have to do the rest.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 14:38:14 GMT -6
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The door was blocked. Flames were everywhere. How would he get in, became the obvious question. But in front of that was another question.
Why were the school's walls so thin?
Wall dust spread out behind him as the wall ground away. A strong, sharp, thin drill of blue shards burrowed, and broke the other side of the barrier. Shin burst through, dead center. The spotlight turned to him, and his entrance through the wall.
"Kealey!" Worry broke through fear, but determination burned in the forefront, overwhelming the other emotions. He wouldn't let her get hurt, wouldn't let anyone hurt her. His eyes darted around the library, searching for her. Searching for the way they'd get out of this. He pressed through the scattered areas of flame, deeper into the library. He rounded a bookshelf, and his eyes fell on the scene. Kealey was there. In front of her, a flaming figure was on its knees.
Was that what had caused this!? Shin's eyes flared as he hauled the triangles from the drill away from their hovering spot by the door. They shot across the library, joined by brother and sister shards, forming a cube. He wasn't thinking much beyond that one desire, to make the fire stop. He didn't know who she was, or what she was doing, or even why she was here. He didn't care. All he wanted was to get Kealey out of this safely. Fire needed air to survive. He'd take it from her. He'd box her in, and keep her in place.
The walls of the shard cube built up over the floor, encompassing Maire's entire being. As the last triangle snapped into place, Shin rushed to Kealey's side. He wrapped his arms around her in a hug. "Kealey! We have to get out of here. Have to..."[/color]
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 16:28:49 GMT -6
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The pain…the hurt….it had all been there for so long, was so central to her being that Kealey was momentarily staggered by the power. It hurt and it had hurt for so long. How did she deal with it all?
A deep breath and those emotions were also pushed down, leaving Maire in what had to be a state of staggered numbness, but the fire raged on. It seemed as though her powers were both something she fueled with her rage and held in check through sheer power of will. All of those things were absent now and she flared brilliantly.
Whoops.
Thicker and thicker the smoke came, hotter and hotter the flames flared. There had to be another exit somewhere in the library, but Kealey didn’t have a clue where it was. The alarm blared, the flames roared, the smoke billowed, and the drill hummed as it tore through wall board.
Wait…the drill?
Kealey could hear the sound, and she held the emotions of her long lost sister in firm check as the sound intensified, followed by a rush of emotion. Worry and fear were present, in equal parts intensity, but determination was forefront. Kealey nearly lost her resolve at the feelings, but pulled herself together. If Shin could battle through unknown flame and fire to get to her, she could hold it together, just a little while longer. She heard her name through the fire and smoke and somehow knew everything was going to be alright.
The smoke seemed to clear after a moment, and Shin emerged from around the side of a bookcase. Kealey coughed and hoped he’d take that for an exclamation of glee at his emergence. He did…something, and suddenly shards were arranging themselves around Maire’s prone form, effectively boxing her in.
Shin moved forward, and Kealey fell against him, arms miming his as they wrapped around her. ”You came for me…” she wheezed slightly.
Urgency was ahead of the pack as far as emotions went now, and he said they needed to go. The blond nodded her head…yes, out of here would be good. Explanations and more thorough thanks could come later.
Kealey’s head spun slightly as she turned back towards the cube and the figure inside as they moved away. The fire inside was dying and finally Kealey let go of the hold she’d had on Maire’s emotions. As they flowed from her, Kealey sagged slightly against Shin. She’d never tried that hard before….
”She’s…she’s my sister…” Kealey said the words feeling almost foreign in her mouth. ” Make sure she’s safe for when the police come to get her…”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 25, 2010 20:26:43 GMT -6
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The sprinklers kicked on shortly after they left. As water fell from above, Maire's inner fire was washed down to a flicker. Her angry eyes gaped up at the ceiling through the walls of the cube. Her face was dry, save for the twin rivers of tears trickling down her cheeks. Slowly, the flames dropped down in the cube. Eventually, they stopped. The fires in the library died down. Firefighters and police moved around her.
The sprinklers cut. Someone approached her. A black man in a police uniform, with a shaved head and a goatee. She stared up at the police officer, through drenched eyes. The shard cube disassembled, and vanished into nothing.
The officer looked at her seriously, but behind the brick wall concealing the emotions on his face, there was a sadness. He jerked a thumb towards the back of the library, where Shin and Kealey stood, draped in blankets. Shin had his arm 'round the blond's shoulder. Around them, medical workers were stationed, checking to make sure they were fine. "They tell me you set the fire," He said. "That you're family. I'm going to have to take you down to the station." A pair of handcuffs flashed metallic silver in her field of vision. "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say, can and will..."
Back by Kealey's side, Shin turned to glance towards Maire. His arm hugged Kealey's shoulder tighter. "They'll help her," He murmured. "She'll get the help she needs..."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 26, 2010 8:17:22 GMT -6
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For a while, Kealey simply stared at the woman behind the wall of shards. Was it wrong that despite everything that had happened, everything the woman had done, Kealey was happy to see her? It was something she’d have to think about later. Her own feelings were still something she struggled with occasionally, and this was going to be one of those times.
The sprinklers had come on, and it had been hard for Kealey, watching the fire doused and feeling the hopeless helplessness from Maire as she cried in the cube. How long had she harbored the feelings? How long had she been watching Kealey? More questions that would have to wait for answers. In the grand scheme of things, there was only one that was really important. She and Shin were okay.
It had seemed like there was so much fire, so much smoke, and when the flames had been put out the damage to the library had been impressive. The smoke had made Kealey’s throat a little raw, and her face was smudged with a little soot, but she was unharmed.
Shin’s arm tightened around her shoulders and Kealey leaned into him more, watching as the police officer approached her sister with the handcuffs. All the fight had gone out of her. Kealey wondered why she felt guilty.
Shin spoke, and Kealey nodded her head, wondering how he always seemed to know exactly what to say.
”I hope so. She was so angry Shin…but underneath…” Kealey stopped talking and sighed, shaking her head.
”That could have been me…” she added softly, wondering what life would have been like, feeling so much anger and bitterness. She had grown up lucky, she was still lucky. Kealey turned slightly and hugged Shin again, ”Thank you again…so much.” she said before releasing him and stepping back to watch the small procession that had started.
The police led the redhead from the room, and she kept her head down as she walked, not even sparing a glance in Kealey’s direction. Why did that hurt?
The firemen were still poking around in the rubble, looking for hot spots, but it seemed like the police had finished their part.
”Can we go home?” the blond asked, the emotions of the day catching up.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 27, 2010 15:13:41 GMT -6
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>>”I hope so. She was so angry Shin…but underneath…” ”That could have been me…”
He didn't say anything, only hugged her shoulder tighter to let her know he was there. And then, she was hugging him again, and thanking him. The usual Shin calm mixed with something else. She didn't have to thank him. Her safety was thanks enough.
His eyes rose up from Kealey's shoulder to fall on her sister as the police led her away.
He watched, quietly. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. After all the emotions, and all the drama ignited by the event, he couldn't even focus on the sad. All that was left was a cool calm, and hope, that Kealey's sister really would get the help she needed. Hope that they could all walk away from this unscathed.
Kealey asked if they could go, and Shin nodded. "Yeah," he said. They'd already been questioned. The medical team had deemed them healthy enough to leave. Shin hugged Kealey's shoulder as he led her, out the door, across the campus. They were going home.
He hailed a cab. They got in. Shin let out a breath as it all caught up with him, and relaxed. It had taken him longer than Kealey for things to sink in. He'd needed to be the one she could rely on. It had been hard work.
In Kealey's pocket, something buzzed. Shin didn't notice it, as he directed the cabbie towards the Mansion. The cab pulled away from the curb.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 27, 2010 15:36:24 GMT -6
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So many emotions. There were lots of people in the room, though, and Kealey was honestly a little surprised that she was holding together so well. Then again, Shin was so calm and collected about the whole thing, it was hard not to be. Calm, collected, hopeful, relieved. All emotions that people in a crisis look for in others, Kealey was simply lucky enough to be able to borrow them in a more literal sense than most. And lucky enough to have someone there who seemed so able to provide them.
Her own relief surged as he said they could leave, and as they made their way from the building Kealey wondered what would happen next. Obviously there would be jail time of some sort for her sister. You couldn’t burn things like that and not be punished. Jails had visiting hours, though. Maire had been right about one thing. Nobody would forget her again.
Shin called for a cab, and again, Kealey was relieved as they climbed inside. Public transport just might have been too much for her to deal with at this point. She was worn out. This would be faster too. She’d have to offer to split the…
Something in her pocket vibrated and let out a trilling little beep and Kealey was just tired enough to be confused for a moment before realizing it was her phone. Text message notification.
It didn’t take long to find the message, a response to the one she’d sent Shin to let him know she was in the library. It was a short little message, but it kind of said a lot.
Blond head tilted to the side, Kealey turned to look at Shin next to her in the cab. ”Uh, Shin?” she said, curiously, holding the phone out for him to see, ”Was this to me?”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 27, 2010 15:52:26 GMT -6
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He'd been resting his eyes. After giving out the directions, Shin had sunken back into the seat, and let his eyelids sag. They crept open at her question.
It was a simple enough question. He could solve her quandary with one little peek. One little peek and...
xo
The hugs and kisses danced in the grid of his mind, like two variables straying from the equation because it divided by zero. They had to be free, together, to ponder the answer.
Their love was undefined.
He blinked at the weird math pun imagery that had just two-stepped through his mind, closed his eyes. Didn't blush.
Nope. Not one tiny bit. Not a single hint of redness on his Asian-brown cheeks.
"Nope," He said. And again, for the viewers at home, he did not blush. He wasn't embarassed.
Not. One.
Well, maybe a tiny bit. "Why?" He looked to her, curious in his own unembarrassed, curious, way. "Is there something wrong, if I did?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 27, 2010 17:02:09 GMT -6
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Why was she blushing? No, really…why was she blushing? Kealey’s cheeks had been burning for several moments before she realized that Shin was embarrassed. He was looking at the phone…and he was embarrassed.
Did that mean…
>>”Nope“
Apparently not…but then why was he embarrassed…and so curious?
>>”Why? Is there something wrong, if I did?”
Well. Maybe…
Kealey was confused. Confused and tired, and Shin wasn’t quite so calm and collected anymore. Was this the slightly loaded question it seemed like, and if it wasn’t, why was her mind taking her in that direction?
She shook her head.
”No. No, there isn‘t.” she said, pulling the mobile device back and looking at it in her lap for a moment before locking the keyboard and putting it back in her pocket. Kealey’s head leaned back against the seat, chancing a sideways glance at her traveling companion. ”I was just curious.”
She was still curious. Incredibly curious, but from Shin’s closed eyes and the emotions flowing from him, she figured more questions were a bad idea. Kealey frowned slightly. What did it all mean? She shrugged her shoulders slightly.
”It’s just that if you had…I’d have wondered what that meant.” Whoops.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 27, 2010 19:00:08 GMT -6
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>>”It’s just that if you had…I’d have wondered what that meant.”
She was blushing. Why was she blushing?
He was blushing.
Oh. Well, that explained that. "Um," He started gloriously. "Well, that is to say..." Gulp. He'd been keeping that from her, hadn't he? Keeping secrets was bad. Maybe he should... come clean? "You know how I said... that I'd protect you? Back, when Roland...? And since then?"