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The Golden Tether

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The Golden Tether

The Golden Tether

Loraen

Played by Angela

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Jacob Cross

Friend, Lover, Teacher, Mate

The story
T[/b]he story was improbable to begin with - on one side a slave belonging to the Tether for nearly a decade, her tenure leaving her aimless, erratic, addicted, and nearly broken. On the other side a wealthy, powerful member of the establishment's staff - one whose duties included dealing with the slave's increasingly problematic behavior, in fact.

But this isn't the story of him assigning her to his household duties to give her purpose, nor the story of her soon becoming indispensable as more than a simple servant. It's not the story of her, while toiling in that household, realizing the depths of her accumulated capabilities...and it's not the story of him, a perpetually lonely creature, being reminded what he'd always wanted in the first place. It's not even the simple, cliche story of a lioness not allowed to love meeting a lion who didn't know how to love.

No, it's a story of a burgeoning relationship being tempered in the fires of war. It's the story of Loraen and Jacob Cross - and as improbable and odd and even occasionally cliche as it may have been at the start, it has been irrevocably changed and rewritten by the Drakorian siege - along with both of them.

For Cross, the siege was an eventuality. A conflagration of variables and probabilities that he'd suspected for years - and, in a way, a chance at redemption. Surely, he'd be ready...until he wasn't. Until battle after battle turned against the Tether. Until wicked Drakorian blades stabbed and sliced at him until he could barely stand. No, he was going to fail again - his money and power and even his own skill all stripped away, leaving him with nothing but...her.

Into the atrium Loraen rode astride a griffon, quite literally hauling the battered lion out of the chamber and out of the Tether. Not twenty four hours prior, she'd been struck down by the Drakorians - her appearance forever marred as she was forced face-to-face with her previous life of helplessness, of servitude, of inadequacy. She could have laid down and succumbed to the marks etched into her scalp, she could have let it break her of her new-found freedom and confidence...but instead, she stood, she fought, and she saved her love.

For, oh yes, it was love. A bond between Handler and slave had become an awkward relationship between newly-made equals not so long before the invasion, and it had stumbled along as both participants found they were simultaneously ill-equipped for such a thing and yet determined to make it work. Only matter of hours before the siege began, those words first came - tumbling in all their imperfect glory from lioness and lion alike as she literally burned her past and he made some peace with his own.

Now they stand side by side in the jungle, hidden away at rebel camps or roaring into battle against Drakorian forces. While each has a chance at great personal growth, it is truly only thanks to each other. In one another's arms they have found what they always sought or never knew they could have - and they will stop at absolutely nothing to defend it. Be it roaring into combat, discussing strategy, or stitching one another's wounds - there is no love burning brighter in all Guildereim.
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- ~~Broamo~~ (played by Michonne) || September 12 2017, 11:17pm
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- DJANIRA (played by sulky) || July 16 2016, 8:07pm
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- Unicus (played anonymously) || May 22 2016, 11:44pm
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- Acaeus Vertis (played by Michonne) || April 4 2016, 1:04pm
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  A note was sent to Loraens office, stamped with a familiar emblem on weapons recently seen. A lambda.
  Because, there's a drug vampire cartel that Mirage has been trading with and they are trying to turn her. You want this kind of security risk running around on Tether?
  
  If not, let me know. I'll be showing you guys how to kill these vampires...
  
  - Acaeus
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- Nadira Ruya (played anonymously) || March 25 2016, 12:16pm
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- Johari (played anonymously) || March 18 2016, 7:57pm
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- Crow (played by Rook) || March 6 2016, 10:49pm
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- Erimear (played by Catie) || February 14 2016, 12:19am
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  Enjoy your Valentine's Day. I have even more moves to show you sometime if you'd like.
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- Jacob Cross (played by Cross) || February 4 2016, 12:55am
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- Keeva (played anonymously) || January 13 2016, 10:04pm
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  Lions man, lions."
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- ~~Celestina~~ (played by Nekomanics) || January 4 2016, 5:49pm
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  "What's a poor girl to do?"
  
  "I will find a magic trick you enjoy Loraen."
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- Gadadhara (played by Dothraki) || September 12 2015, 2:34pm
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  Such a delicious idea."
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- Jacob Cross (played by Cross) || August 30 2015, 10:57pm
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