Suggested changes: {before : after}
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:51:33 -0500 Django Wexler <dwexler@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
This is the end of fanfic writing for me, at least for the
moment. (Until I get the urge to actually write
Cute-Blue-Haired-Girls-Conquer-The-Universe, my Eva/SM
Gray/Nadesico/Crest of the Stars crossover.) However, I'm doing some
more serious fantasy stuff, and I'm happy to take on pre-readers.
Anyone interested, get in touch with me.
She realized, absently, that the black sword had relaxed its grip,
letting her take back at least some of her mind. The power was still
there, though, and she caressed the hilt at her side and felt it bubble
and spit, just below the surface.
Does she even remember at this point killing Sumiko?
Mary stalked the length of the table, one hand on the sword at her
side. The man in the chair raised his glass as she approached, as
though in salute. He was tall and handsome, with hair past his
shoulders, dressed in {an : a} dark, immaculate suit. Gray eyes glittered
with intelligence and malice, but when he smiled, the almost physical
force of him lashed at her. Mary shrugged it off{, :} and her eyes
narrowed.
"Ayre..." His voice was a croak. "Help...me..."
Robyn screamed. "AYRE! Where are you, they're *here*, they're--"
"_When_you_get_to_hell_" -- Mary swallowed, hard -- "wait up."
The sword shrieked in her mind. She breathed out.
[I am *not*--]
She breathed in, and slammed the dagger home.
--[afraid.]
So Ayre/Deus had been playing with them all all along. Was he behind
Eternity's queen as well?
Kei shook her head. Her thoughts swirled, uncontrollable, and she
felt as though her mind were falling apart. The marble hall grew fuzzy,
indistinct, and only Ayre remained solid. His eyes -- one black, one
white -- looked at her compassionately.
"Now I'll have to find some other way to amuse myself," said Ayre,
more or less to himself, and the only Category Seven in existence
teleported back to the Timestream with a 'pop'.
Deus circled the car and opened the rear door, tossing something
long and cloth-wrapped into the backseat. Then he opened his own and
climbed in.
Rin couldn't help staring at his eyes. They were different colors
-- one black, one white, with no apparent pupils.
I did expect Ayre to be the only real one in the Outer Realm, but I did
not expect him to be Deus as well.