As she seated herself, Tellyah took a few deep breaths and laughed. "What the fuck was that thing, Earthworm?" She shook her head and pushed herself off the bed to stand. She lost her balance and fell against Ludwik. Her hands applied a slight pressure to his chest, as she tilted her head to look into his eyes. She blushed and righted herself instantly, then looked to the floor. "I'm sorry. I've never liked riding roller coasters." She smiled sheepishly, and sat down on the bed again. "I didn't think I had this weak of a stomach though." She looked around the simple room; it reminded her of the many rooms she had spent the past ten years of her life in. She swung her legs onto the bed and laid down; she closed her eyes as the memories came flooding back - some where good, but most weren't. She opened her eyes lazily and looked up at Ludwik. "So, " she smiled, "Is there anything you want to tell me? Seeing how we are going to be working together, or at least staying together for a while." She knew that there was much he wanted to know about her; and she would tell him, if he asked the right questions.

"Don't worry about it," Ludwik smiled to her, "everyone's like that the first time. You might get use to is eventually." Ludwik then walked over to his closet and opened it. He placed down his hand and took off his coat to do a quick change since he had some dirt on him from the pod trip. Carefully folding the coat on top of the closet, Ludwin then pulled out a similar coat out and wore it. He then began trying to look for clothes that Tellyah might possible fit into.

"Me wanting to ask you?" Ludwik answered back while he continued to search, "Hmm...Nothing at the moment. For now I'm not into business mode, if you know what I mean...Hmmhmmhmmm ah HA!" He exclaimed as he found the right outfit for now that Tellyah can use.

He turn around to show a long white shirt that can cover up to her hip and a black dress pants. "Now, after you go clean yourself up, put these on and we'll be on our way! We got much to do and learn today, my dear Tellyah." He then walked over to where the bathroom was and placed the clothes in there, "That of course, you don't mind wandering the streets with a bathing suit on." He chuckled at her.

Tellyah looked over the simple outfit Ludwik had found, then walked into the bathroom closing the door behind her. Once alone, she leaned against the door, fell to her knees and began sobbing quietly. Every part of her body hurt, her head was throbbing and she wanted to go home. For the first time in her life, she felt completely vulnerable and knowing that frightened her. She hugged her knees then stood and wiped her face. She walked over to the small sink and looked in the mirror. "I see a pathetic little girl who will always need to fight for her life," she said in a defeated whisper, "and will be alone in the end surrounded by the bodies of the people who she called friends." She wiped the new tears from her face and turned the faucet on. The hot water felt good against her cold skin, and it renewed the color to her face. She took her hair out of the ponytail it had been in; it fell in subtle waves and ended just above the small of her back. She picked up the shirt and put it on over her swimsuit. I may need it later and I don't want to have to be nude. She slide into the pants, and found that they were too long for her. She looked in the medicine cabinet, found a razor, and sliced the bottoms so she could see her feet. She put a fake smile in place and opened the door. "Well, how do I look?"

As Tellyah enter the bathroom, Ludwik began to hear a faint whimper from the room. He sighed as he wasn't fazed by her sadness and walked over to closet where he go her clothes again. Under his hanged clothes was a first aid kit that he kept just in case something happened to him. As he bought it over to his bed, Tellyah finished up her shower and came out with his clothes on. He then noticed there was something wrong with his pants.

"Aww," He frown a bit at her, "you didn't have to cut that did you? You could have folded it up!...But ah well!" His frown quickly changed back to a smile as he tapped his hand on the bed, "Sit here, you wounds haven't recovered yet, hmm? You need proper medicine to treat those up."

Tellyah pulled the pants up a bit, then let them fall back down so the hems surrounded her ankles. "I'm sorry," she said shrugging, "I wasn't really in the right frame of mind." Shook her head, and walked over to sit on the bed; she looked at the first aid kit on Ludwik's lap and smiled. Looks like you're starting to care. How can a person such as you be so foolish? "I'll be fine; they're just minor wounds, they'll heal." She flexed her hands and winced slightly, her head began throbbing again. She looked at him out of the corner of her eye, then looked at the floor. "What do we do now?" She felt tired suddenly, and yawned. "It's funny, I don't know why I'm this tired. I mean, Master El or whoever put this rings on us knocked us out." she yawned again and leaned against Ludwik's side, placing her head on his shoulder. "I swear I'm not making a pass at you." she said to clear things up. "You're not even my type." she laughed tiredly before succumbing to the pull of sleep.

"Well excuuuuuussssseeee me, Princess," Ludwik said in an immature tone, "but wounds are wounds and they could get infected."

Ludwik then pulled out a simple medicine vial as well as the same wrapping band aids from before. As she lead on him, he knew that she was exhausted by the whole situation with her group and her meet with Reaver. Such a sad scene to see...and yet such a perfect opportunity to place a trap.

Ludwik stood back up while Tellyah just slumped down on the bed. As he walked off, he made his way around the bed so that he can be behind her. As he was walking though, he slipped his hand in his shirt pocket and broke off a piece of one of his cards off; a good one-fourth of it. He then quickly materialized it by hardening it and squeezed with all of his strength, turning the stone card into dust. He then carefully pulled out the hand with the dust and popped open the medicine cap with his mouth. He then inserted the dust within the medicine, letting all of the dust blend in with it. He then re-capped it and shook it a bit so that the dust would flow around the medicine, soon making it as if there was nothing in it but the healing cream. Finally he began to place the medicine over her wounds...

As he was treating her, he began to answer her questions, "Well, like I said before, we'll need to get to know each other more. After we have a nice chit-chat and have a grand whole time we'll start practicing on your ability to manipulate water more. After that I'm sure Reaver will be pleased to see you have learn all of your techniques and be jealous that I-," Ludwik hand motioned to himself, "Ludwik, have trained you successfully."

He then began to wrap her wounds up, "Hah, not to worry my dear Tellyah. Even if I'm not your type, deep down inside I know you'll love me."

Ludwik's trap was a success after he tightened the band aid. Now Tellyah's life was in the palm of his hands.

While Ludwik bound Tellyah's wounds, she slept soundly - until her dreams started becoming nightmares...

The wind beat against the windows and the wind screamed louder at the hurricane approached. Tellyah was frightened, she'd never been in a situation like this before. The house was threatening to be torn in half; she and her younger brothers we huddled in the corner of the room they shared - she hadn't seen her parents in 10 minutes. "Mama?" she called out. "Papa?" She stood against her brother's protests adn wandered out of the room. It was then hat she heard wailing. She ran to her mother's side, and saw her father's lifeless body on the floor. "Papa!" She called as she hugged her mother and cried. Then, she heard he brothers' frightened cries, as the house split in half.

"No!" she screamed sitting bolt upright in the hotel bed, wide awake now. There was sweat on her brow, and tears in her eyes; she was panting trying to catch her breath. It was then that she saw Ludwik looking at her like she was crazy.

After Ludwik finished treating Tellyah, she began to does off and fell asleep. Ludwik carefully placed her down after she passed out. Ludwik smiled at the unconscious girl; an orphan who seeks attention yet has a past filled with misery. Such a disgrace. Ludwik then made his way back to the closet to put away the aid kit and reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out the broken card. He then murmured something into the card as it began to glow an ominous green color with an odd texture appearing before it. He then threw it onto the symbol that he and Tellyah came out. The card then slipped into the group and disappeared from the room.

At least the organization will know that we have a Ring-bearer captive, Ludwik thought, but fear not dear Reaver, I have not said anything about taking care of them...

Suddenly Tellyah woke up suddenly yelling out 'No!' Ludwik freaked a moment by jolting from her sudden yell and almost lost balance to himself. He turned around to look at her as she began panting for air. He had a smile on his face still but his eyebrows were raise and twitched a bit at her.

"Haa..." He began to speak, "Welcome back to reality, dear Tellyah. Had a bad dream?"

Tellyah glared at Ludwik. "A bad dream?" she said standing to face him. "A bad dream? You jerk! Of course I had a 'bad dream'. Why didn't you do anything? Why didn't you wake me up? God damn it! I hate you!" Tellyah formed an ice spear in her hand and threw it towards Ludwik; it crashed into the wall to his left. Damn, why can't I aim right? She formed another spear - it crashed into the walll on the other side of the man. Upset with herself, she ran to the bathroom door, but didn't go inside the room. "Promise me you'll never let me sleep again." she whispered. She walked into the bathroom, found the flat razor and walked out again. She held the knife-like bladed to her throat. "Promise me that you won't let it happen again. I couldn't care less what happens to this stupid ring. I don't want to be its master. I just want it all to end. I should have died. It should have been me that died." she pressed the blade into her skin and felt the sharp prick as it began to draw blood.

(( Kaine, if you're wondering about all the sudden mood swings, it's because of Tellyah's element. Think about the ocean. It's never the same, sometimes it's calm, sometimes it's a hurricane. I hope Ludwik can deal with that.))

Ludwik tilted his head from Tellyah's un-stable anger. Suddenly as she formed her first ice spear in her hand Ludwik quickly moved his hand to his chest about to remove a card. The spear then flew past him and hit behind him. He then slowly placed his hand down and forgot that she was an amateur at her power. He frowned at her as she threw the next one as it missed as well, not reacting or being fazed by her sudden assault. As she then began to speak about how she didn't want to sleep again, Ludwik was about to say something witty to her when she then pulled a razor from his bathroom to her neck.

"Oh brother-," Ludwik murmur as he saw she was drawing blood from the weapon. He then quickly reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a card and shot it out at Tellyah. The card swiftly hit the razor out of Tellyah's hand and landed into the wall behind her. He then rushed at her and held her body down by holding her as if he was giving her a hard hug. The girl was panicking; she can't mentally control her own power yet.

"Shh shh shh..." Ludwik began to shush her as she was freaking out, "Calm down, calm down...You're jumping to conclusions because you are still a novice at your power. Shhh..." He continued to hold her until she calmed down.

((Thanks for telling me that ^_^ Haha, I feel like Ludwik is acting like a mother to Tellyah right now XD))

Not only is he smart, he's fast. Tellyah thought as she tried to control her shakes. She felt a slight pain in her hand that she easily could ignore. Ludwik had her in his arms, whispering for her to calm down. It's almost like he cares. She even started to relax. But in her mind all she could her were screams. She couldn't calm down, not after that dream. Even as Ludwik held her, the memories came flooding back...

Her father's pale face, her mother's tears, the disappearing echoing screams. The hurricane raged around her, but she couldn't hear anything. Everything seemed to move in slow motion, the roof falling as the walls collapsed, the rain stinging her already cold skin, it all seemed to slow to a stop as if time itself ceased to move. Then she blacked out. By the time she had awoken she was alone. Monitors beeped around her, the lights above her head hurt her eyes. "Where am I?" she muttered.

Tellyah tried to shake herself free of Ludwik's grasp. "No!" she yelled at the memory. "Leave me alone!" She pushed against the man's chest, but he didn't budge. She stared at the ring on her hand - which was caught between their to bodies. She glared at the ring, wishing against everything that it would just fall of her finger. Reason caught up with her and she sighed; her self control regained. "I'm fine." she said in a defeated voice. Her body lost its tension and she relaxed against Ludwik's chest. "You can let go of me now. I-I'm sorry for acting like that. It's funny, before I had this ring on my finger, I could control my emotions. I wonder why I can't anymore." She couldn't explain it, but she suddenly felt completely safe. She stood on her toes and kissed Ludwik on the cheek. "Thank you," she smiled. "Earthworm."

As soon as she calm down Ludwik let out a long sigh. After releasing her she gave a light kiss on his cheek again. He still couldn't understand this girl's personal life. If she were to have lost her mind at the moment Ludwik had the choice of ending her life. Maybe that would have been the right choice for her. But, organization needs her alive. Make everything complicated...

"Look dear," Ludwik said as he guided her back to the bed to sit down, "I'm going to take a wondrous guess at why you might be getting these odd mood swings. You see when you react like-" He started circling his hand around her, "this, you act as if you're a rushing waterfall, trying to crush anything down below as well as bring yourself 'down' I might add. When you received the ring you claim that you can't control your emotions anymore. The possibility that the reason why you can't is because you got this power that's completely new to you. The more you try to think about yourself, the more you become unstable."

"You, the waterfall, have no control over your rushing feelings because it's being manipulated by your power. What we need to do is find a way to make that waterfall to calm down and slowly turn it into a nice river flowing down the path of serenity. In other words, you need to control your power to find some peace within yourself."

Ludwik stood back up walking toward the exit, "Due to time you will find a way to control yourself, and in that time you will find your peace. For now I'll put up with your emotions and feelings that you have yet to reveal to me. And I will also be the one that will help you free yourself from your curse..."

It wasn't like Ludwik to make one of those witty speeches but he had ways with words. He smiled to her and opened the door. "Now behave while we're out. Let's have some fun now, shall we?"

Tellyah let Ludwik's words sink in before she stood. "I'm lucky then," she said walking to stand next to him, "That your element is earth, I mean. Aren't dams - the objects that control rivers - made from stone?" She smiled at him and walked into the long narrow hallway. She stopped just outside the door and waited for Ludwik to join her. The lights above gave of a sinister glow, something that seemed familiar...

"Where am I?" she muttered as the room she was in came into focus. The lights above hummed, and made her wince. The walls were a cheery pale green, and there were matching green curtains covering a window. She tried to sit up, but something prevented her from rising. She felt trapped, and looked down to see a leather strap holding her to the bed. She began panicking as she tried freeing herself. She shouted for someone to help her, and after a few moments she heard the door click. A finely dressed man with a cane walked in, and stood at the foot of her bed. "Hello Trinity." he said, his voice aloof. "If you'll stop acting like a child, I'll tell the nurses to undo your bonds. If you will not, I will have no choice but to leave them in place. Will you cooperate reasonably?" Tellyah nodded because she couldn't find the right words to say. "Now, behave when I call them, alright?" the man said snapping his fingers. Two uniformed nurses came in, untied the straps, then left. "My dear Trinity Masters," the man said, patting her leg, "You belong to me now."

Tellyah shook her head and blinked away the memory. "Sorry," she said looking at the floor. "I have a terrible headache." She raise her head and smiled at Ludwik weakly. Tellyah secretly hoped he could help her, that he would keep his promise to. She put out her hand for him to take. "Shall we go? I can only imagine how hungry you must be."

(I'm going to wait for Zen to post and respond to my pm for a sister character before I get back into the rp. We need someone to hold down the fort with Telly's absence :()

(( Sam's has a sister? ~gasp~ Don't worry, Tell will be back before the end. I'm busy scheming what the future will old for her. In truth. I miss everyone. :cry: ))

((i know right??))

(( Sezu, Would it be odd if Tell knew the number Ink dialed to call Justin? Because I was thinking about using the fact that Tell can know what a phone number is based on the tones. She was a spy after all.))

((no, Sam doesn't. It's just one of El's interns back from college. The super nice type who'd be a perfect glue char and I'm asking for her to be the wind orphan :))

(( Yeah, I totally forgot that we don't have a wind orphan... oops. How old is she going to be? ))

((college age, 22 or 21))

((.....Lenge?))

(( No~ if tells a spy then it's not weird))

(( Okay. If Tell can get her hands on a phone, Justin is going to be getting a voicemail. ))

((finally we're going to be getting somewhere!~))

(( I'll try to keep Tell and the group linked. Seeing how she has agreed to work for the Organization, I not sure they'll let her use a phone. She knows that the group is going to Rushmore, and she hopes that Justin is with them. She did leave before she saw him. She going to kind of be a double agent. ))