Late night, Apr. 28 - Divining by firelight

by **Chloe Grant** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:42 am

"Ah, yes." Chloe said "I heard that you'd had a bit of bad luck recently."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:44 am

He shrugged. "It's all perspective. I've had things happen that weren't very pleasant, no, but will they end up being bad things? I've got no idea."

by **Chloe Grant** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:56 am

"Yes, but seeing a horrible dystopian nightmare on the heels of a bad break up can't be easy." Chloe said "Forgive me if that was too personal." she added hastily.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:57 am

He shrugged. "It's fine. The future sucked, but we learned a lot from it. And the breakup sucked, but it's better to find out now that she's going to stay fixated on other guys than later."

by **Chloe Grant** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:06 pm

"Is that what caused it?" Chloe said.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:14 pm

"What, the bit with Kyra? Yeah, I got sick of her fixating on Gabriel, and evidently me not liking her pining for other guys is 'being unreasonable.'"

by **Chloe Grant** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:13 am

"Thats odd." Chloe said "That she was still into him, I mean. I didn't think that he liked her at all."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:17 am

"He doesn't," Daniel said, rolling his eyes. "And apparently, that just added to the appeal. Made it a challenge or something. Kept keeping tabs on every freaking detail of his personal life."

by **Chloe Grant** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:29 am

"She was stalking him?" Chloe gasped.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:30 am

"Nah, I don't think so. Just being very attentive to what was going on and collecting all the gossip. I just got sick of hearing about him, you know?"

by **Chloe Grant** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:19 am

"Yes, I can see where that would make you jealous."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:20 am

He looked back at her with an annoyed look. "Wouldn't strike you as wrong if your boy-toy kept obsessing about some other girl's personal life?"

by **Chloe Grant** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:33 am

"Of course it would." Chloe replied "I would totally have gotten jealous, yelled at him, and dive bombed the girl. Jealousy gets an undeserved bad reputation."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:35 am

"There's nothing to be jealous of with that douche," Daniel maintained.

by **Chloe Grant** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:30 am

"If you say so." Chloe replied, not wanting to press the point.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:30 pm

"You can only get jealous of someone if they're better than you. So you wouldn't get jealous and yell at him, you'd get angry and yell at him," Daniel clarified.

by **Chloe Grant** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:27 am

"I'd be jealous of the attention he was paying her." Chloe clarified.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:31 am

"Angry at. You're still better than her. Don't downgrade yourself," Daniel corrected her, but now there was a playful smirk on his face.

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:54 pm

"Speaking of which, I need to go, my honey is waiting for me."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:55 pm

Daniel made a waving motion. "Have fun. Don't do anything I'd do," he said, smirking.

by **Chloe Grant** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:59 pm

I'll keep that in mind." Chloe said with a laugh, and then walked off.

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:33 pm

A few minutes later, Kyra walked by "Hi." she said, standing just outside of the ring of firelight.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:35 pm

Kyra would feel Daniel's anxiety crank up a few dozen notches. "Hello," he said, still focusing on the fire.

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:42 pm

"I haven't seen you lately." Kyra said, sounding more than a bit nervous herself. "How have you been?"

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:46 pm

Daniel seemed to relax a little. At the very least, she didn't seem to feel the need to start this off rubbing in that she was sleeping with some other random guy now. "Not bad," he said. "Still surrounded by idiots, but they're not too hard to run off lately."

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:49 pm

"Is that a hint?" Kyra asked, almost teasing.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:55 pm

Daniel actually considered this carefully before asking. "Don't think so," he said.

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:05 pm

"Cool. Mind if I stand by the fire? Its a bit chilly."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:09 pm

Daniel considered this again, then nodded. "Just don't stand closer to the fire than I'm sitting. Just... trust me, okay?" he said. Given everything that'd happened in the past few weeks, he didn't want her to have to watch any of the tragedies over again.

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:18 pm

"Ok." Kyra said, standing next to him "This is new." she remarked after a moment.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:26 pm

"Lots of powers around here to take. I get bored with the same ones for too long," he said, shrugging.

In the fire, the images started swimming again. This time, it showed, in rather graphic detail, Daniel's first painful combat mission as an Accolyte. He winced at the images, even though in the images, he wasn't the one getting hurt.

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:43 pm

"Can you look forward, or is the pyromancy strictly rewind?"

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:45 pm

"Just backward," he said. "Looking forward wouldn't do anything for you. It can all change."

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:07 pm

"I never realized exactly how bad state housing was." Kyra said, noticing what the flames were now showing.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:17 pm

Daniel shrugged. "It's not supposed to be permanent. So they don't end up getting the money you'd need to be... well, homey or anything," he said. He actually reached out and swatted the fire with his hand to make it skip over a Christmas that he wanted to remember even less than any of the others. The images swam backward in his past even farther as he pressed the power.

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:39 pm

"Yeah, but even so." Kyra said, her eyes widening as she watched the images further.

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:42 pm

Daniel shrugged, a little uncomfortably. "You aren't supposed to make kids want to stay in them," he said. "You do that, they stop even trying to be suitable for adoption. Hell, even as it was, there were a lot of us who didn't." As the scenes played out, it was rather obvious that Daniel, in each of his progressively younger appearances, was not one of those children.

by **Kyra Raphael** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:55 pm

"No offense, but I'm sort of glad my parents decided not to take you." Kyra said "You as a brother would have been weird."

by **Daniel Uriel** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:59 pm

"They wouldn't have taken me anyway. Your grandmother wouldn't have let them," he said, his eyes locked on yet another view of the various tours of potential families coming through. It was... odd seeing them like this, since the rejection had been progressively easier after each one, meaning that he was watching them in order from easiest to hardest.

by **Amanda Weinrich** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:08 am

"Yeah, for some reason she'd only let them take girls."

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