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(OOC: Nooo! Tyler just won't be the same! *dramatic teardrop* I'll try my best with his character . Just let me know when you want me to include is POV in my posts. Have fun at your summer camp!)

Ellie purses her lips. "I honestly think I would remember a little bratty version of me." she says, completely unfazed at how bizarre this situation is.
Little Ellie's expression visually darkens. "Shut up," she hisses, "and just hear me out, okay?"
She has to contain her laughter, otherwise her little 8 year old self would get even more pissed off. "Okay."
"Good." Little Ellie smiles, but it looks sinister than sweet. "Now, you might have a teeny tiny - nah, screw that - an incredibly high chance that you might die."
"What?!" The older girl's eyes widen, and she tries to get out of her chair. She can't. "What the hell do you even mean?!"
"Your body was in a drastic state of dehydration and hunger. You suffered too much blood loss, including your dog bite wound that had opened. It's very possible that you might not make it."
Her heart sinks. "B-But...Dorian, Matt...Tyler..."
"I know, you miss all your BFFs." Little Ellie is clearly making this situation worse. "But this is part of life. And 'ya know, this probably wouldn't have happened if you didn't yell at Dorian like that!"
"No, no, no. This can't happen now." A million thoughts go through Ellie's head, and she struggles to stand up and walk out.
"Just calm down." Little Ellie says, resting a cold hand on her older self's shoulder.
Before the older girl can reply, a voice breaks out into the atmosphere of her world.
"I'll get you to safety...then I'll come back for them...Kinda hard to be an optimist right now,"
"Tyler! That's T-Tyler!" Ellie says loudly, struggling about even more.
Little Ellie's eyes widen. "Y-You're ali-"

Her eyes open, and she has no pain. All she sees is darkness, and she knows that she is back to Earth. Ellie sits up, slowly, afraid that her bones would snap if she took any harsh movements. I'm alive. Her eyes fill up with tears - gosh, how much she hates them - and turns to see a collapsed Tyler next to her. She sighs in relief, smiling the tiniest bit before patting his head. "I'm gonna hug you so hard when you wake up." she says, before beginning to inspect his wound.

Dorian watches as the child versions of Seluné and himself run out of their dead masters domain and for the first time in their young lives get to see the sky above their heads, Dorian wakes up chained in a chair in a dungeon "Well ain't this grand? I think I might summer here." Dorian says, his wounds bandaged and all but healed. "The questing and torture will start soon.. " Dorian sighs before going to sleep figuring he might as well rest while he has the opportunity

[OOC: There might be wifi up there, I'm crossing my fingers ]

Tyler's dream is different this time, he doesn't see Serra at all. Instead he sits at the head of a very long table. There is nothing on it, just the brown wood surface. On the other side of the table sits a familiar face--Matt. "Hello, Tyler," he says, his voice calming.

"Are you-?" Tyler begins.

"Shhhhhhhhh," Matt says, he grins and nods slowly, "But it's not your fault. You had mercy on me. I could have left. I chose this," Matt says. "Do you remember the question I asked you?" he asks, causing Tyler to nod immediately, "What do you fight for?"

"I fight so that the innocent don't get hurt. S-so that innocent women and children don't get hurt..." Tyler says, looking up at Matt.

"That's not true, is it? I want the truth," Matt says, his voice isn't calm anymore and instead sounds angry and condescending. "I want the truth. There's no one here, just your own imagination, Tyler."

"I fight to get revenge for Serra. I kill because it makes me feel like I'm not a completely empty shell," Tyler says.

"You kill because it's fun," Matt says. Tyler shakes his head, "You left me and Dorian behind! You're a coward who chose the easy way out! You killed us! You did it!"



Tyler's eyes open and he quickly sits up, sweat beading on his forehead. No more sleeping. No more goddamn sleeping.

(OOC: Alright, just let me know ^^)

Once Ellie finishes bandaging up his wound - which nearly took half of her sleeve to patch up - she decides to look for the rest. Tyler is kept in a shaded area while he sleeps. She goes toward where she had last seen them, and surprisingly sees no one there. All she finds are discarded swords and blood. A cold chill runs down her back once she gets the feeling that the blood want from any guards who were killed.
A wave of guilt passes over her. If only she had stayed hydrated...no, if only she hadn't used all her arrows so quickly...if only she had apologized to Dorisn. Another dreadful thought passes through her - will she ever apologize to him? She gathers the leftover weapons and halls them back to where she had left Tyler.
"Oh, you're awake. How are you feeling?" she asks, her expression unreadable as she drops the weapons near a tree. She sits down across from him and stares up in the sky, before she feels tears rolling down her cheeks, guilt and anger and frustration and irritation and sadness and relief mixing up Ito one big ball. She puts her face in her hands, hoping that he hadn't seen this side of her. "I just searched the area. I...can't find them."

Dorian gets splashed with a bucket of water waking him. He sees a man with a black hood covering his face holding the bucket. Dorian starts laughing at the man. The hooded man his him with the bucket but the laughter doesn't stop. "Oh you must be new in this job haha!" Dorian says. The man pulls his arm back getting ready to hit Dorian again when he is told to stop, another smaller man about the same size as Dorian steps out of the shadows also wearing a black hood which makes Dorian laugh again.
"Silence!" The man yells. "Who are you? Why did you attack our camp are you stupid our crazy?" The smaller man asks
"Dorian Hollowtree and stupid shares a fine line with crazy so take your pick on what you deem I am." Dorian says before laughing at the men again.
"Why are you laughing you idiot? Do you not realize the situation your in? Why did you attack the camp?!" The man yells again
"I can't take either of you seriously, you are horrible at your job!" Dorian says bursting into another fit of laughter before getting hit in the side of the face with the bucket which doesn't do much to stop the laughter, just adds some bloody gurgling to it.
"I laugh because you are afraid of me, and if you must know I went into that camp peacefully, I wanted a job as your masters elite guard, it took almost the entire encampment to bring me down! Haha!" Dorian says, blood pouring freely from his mouth and the side of his face the bucket hit.
"You are caught, we don't fear you any more than we fear mice." The man says matter of factly.
"Your faces are covered by those ever so intimidating bags, which means you are afraid to let me see your faces, which tells me you are afraid that I'll escape and find you. And you should fear mice. Enough mice and they'll eat all the food in the larders leaving nothing for you, mice aren't scary but dying of hunger is haha!" Dorian continues laughing which unnerves the men interrogating him.
"We will torture all the information we want from you!" The man says trying to scare Dorian which only makes him laugh harder. They two men look at each other before running from the cell and locking the door, the walk out of the dungeons, Dorians laughter echoing behind them.

Tyler gets up and walks toward Ellie, an empathetic smile on his face. "Not doing so well," he says, "This...what happened is all my fault," Tyler says, thinking back on his rash decision to leave Ellie behind. "I'm sorry for leaving you back there...you could've..." Tyler's voice trails off and he hugs Ellie again. "And now we are going to make every single one of them pay," Tyler whispers in her ear.

Ellie shakes her head and wipes the stray tears away from her face with the back of her hands. "No, this wouldn't have happened if I didn't act like that toward Dorian." she mutters, sniffling a bit. Her heart sinks as he mentions what could've happened if she stayed up in that tree unconscious. A shudder goes through her, but that fades away once Tyler hugs her. "What matters is that we're here, and alive." she says quietly, before hugging him back as gentle as she could. "Hell yeah we are." she whispers back to him. "Oh yeah, and thanks for saving me back there. As cheesy as it sounds...I really could've died if it wasn't for you."

Dorian looks at his shackles and starts trying to get out of them. He gets one hand free after rubbing the skin raw, he sucks in his thumb to soften his nail before biting it off then holding it in his hand so it gets hard again before using it as a pick on the locks of his shackles getting himself. He then works on the door, after what seems like forever the tumblers fall into place and the door opens, "I'm gonna have some fun ." Dorian says mischievously sneaking his way out of the dungeon and into the armory, not finding much in the way of weapons aside from a short sword and a dagger he starts sneaking around what he can only assume is the opal palace killing the stray soldier when he can and hiding the bodies.

"We need to have a plan. Last time didn't go so well," Tyler says, stepping back from Ellie, "I was foolish. I think Matt's..." Tyler trails off, shaking his head in frustration. Can I really trust a dream?

"We need rest. We can't rush back there now," Tyler says, looking at her shoulder wound, then his own. "We need a real plan, I don't want that to happen again. I can't have you dying on me," Tyler says, offering her a half smile. "Maybe if we take their armor we can sneak in. Look for Dorian," Tyler says, his voice unsure.

[OOC: If I go 24 hours without posting, then you can take over, there may be wifi up there ^^]

(Okaay~)

"Definitely." Ellie agrees, pulling her hands away from him and folding her arms over her chest. She raises an eyebrow and frowns as he mentions Matt. Being the nosy girl she is, she opens her mouth to say something about it, but decides not to. Instead she goes back on the plan. "A good rest might get our brains working." she murmurs with a yawn, laying down on the ground without another thought. She sees him glance over at her wound, and she can't help but smile. "It doesn't hurt anymore, don't worry. You're a better medic than me." she said, raising herself up to face him. "And I can't have you dying on me. How's that wound doing?"
She pauses for a few moments as her brain twists and turns in an attempt to form an idea. "We can do that. There are some dead guards around here with their armor on, I'm sure they won't mind if we take their fabulous clothing." she replies, before yawning again. "I feel like I'll pass out again if we go do this now. Maybe in a few more hours..." Then she slumps on the ground again and her eyes close.

Dorian almost gets caught but managed to kill the guard before they could sound the alarm, he hides the guards body and strips him of his armor, he finds a spot to hide his own armor and dress himself in the dead soldiers armor. Now in disguise Dorian walks freely and in the open, he goes to the wall surrounding the opal palace and tells one of the guards that he is there to relieve him, Dorian walks the entire length of the wall taking note of defenses, weaknesses, number of soldiers potential escapes routes and for some reason Dorian feels as though he has seen all of this before. Perhaps in a dream? He tries to shake the feeling of deja vu but he can't and he doesn't know why and it quickly angers him. He holds his composite enough to operate without drawing attention or suspicion to himself though. In the back of his mind he wonders if Tyler and Ellie got to safety before cussing under his breath " the mission comes first. He says so that only he can hear it.

(It's been way more than 24 hours, so I'll include Tyler's POV in here as well as Ellie's.)

Even though Tyler wanted to jump right up and rescue his companions, the painful ache in his wounds stops him. He presses his hand against the wound. "Yeah," he grunts in reply and rests once again. The bark scratches against his back is usual as he leans against a tree. He lets out a sigh, struggling to keep his eyes open as the night grows darker.

"I'll keep watch for the night." Ellie says quickly, resting on the tree across from Tyler so that she can keep an eye on him. "This is payback from last time." she says with a small grin, before looking off into the distance. She is so busy in her own thoughts that she barely hears Tyler's snoring.

Dorian tenses for a fight when another guard runs up and yells "a prisoner has escaped! Everyone be on the lookout!" Dorian smiles behind his helmet and thinks to himself "took 'em long enough." Dorian keeps the disguise as a guard and heads into the soldiers barracks and wherever else he is free to roam and captures move and rats when he finds them, he goes into the larders and release them to great on the food supply before trying to find a way out of the opal palace.

Tyler reluctantly allows Ellie to take watch, knowing that he would need some rest to rescue Dorian. "I'll take a shift. You need sleep m, too," Tyler says, yawning loudly. He tries hard to keep himself awake, but it fails almost instantly as he snores away.

"Don't get comfortable, Tyler," A voice says in his mind, "Tomorrow's gonna be a long day." . And as quickly as it started, the dream ended, just pure, soft, quiet, peaceful unconsciousness.


[OOC: I'm back in business, bitches!!! ]

(OOC: Welcome back! )

Ellie only grins as she watches Tyler attempt to stay awake, but he ends up falling asleep much like she did before. Now completely awake, she stares into the night and waits for it to pass. Throughout the night there are no distractions, except for the occasional scuffling in the bushes from what she hopes are just small animals.

The next morning, she stands up and stretches. She glances over at Tyler before kneeling beside him, deciding to wake him up first before going to do anything else. "Tyler?" She places a hand on his shoulder and gently shakes him.

Dorian finds a draw bridge and adds it to the map in his head, he continues walking around the palace till nightfall before going back to the draw bridge and climbs out through a gap rather than dripping the bridge and drawing unwanted attention he gets to the encampment he tore apart before making a run for the tree line. He stumbles and trips a few meters in not used to wearing a helmet it obscures his vision. Though he was wearing a helmet he hit his head hard enough to knock him out. "I forgot my armor" Dorian says before slipping fully into unconsciousness.

"Mornin'" Tyler says, getting up and stretching. "Did I miss anything?" Tyler asks, his voice still obviously tired. He checks his shoulder and is happy to see that the bandage held overnight. He takes a swig of his water and gurgles it around. "How's your shoulder holding up?"

Ellie shakes her head in response to Tyler's question. "Nothing much, except for how ridiculous your snoring sounded in your sleep." she said with a joking grin. She reached over for the bag that contained what was left of their food and pulled it out. "My shoulder?" She had completely forgotten about it. She glances over at the wound, and pokes at it. "It doesn't hurt - at all. How did you even bandage this thing?" she asks with a chuckle, smearing honey on a slice bread and handing it to him. "How are you holding up?"

Dorian finally regains consciousness, he rips off the helmet and kicks it away, yelling as he does so. "I have to go back, I need MY armor, not this crap..." Dorian says to himself before slowly walking back towards the opal palace.

Tyler's face turns red at her comment at his snoring, "Guess I was more tired than I thought," He says, scratching the back of his head. He thanks Ellie for the bread and slowly eats it, trying to savor every bite of this goddaamn delicious honey. "I've gotten pretty okay at bandaging people up," Tyler says, a hint of pride shining through. "I don't know," He says in response to her question, searching for a better response than: Well, a child died because of me, we haven't made any real progress without having to retreat, and there's a good chance we're all gonna die. Tyler is enlightened when he finds his answer: "I'm alright." He says, although the lack of emotion in his voice makes it clear that he isn't. "Thanks for taking watch last night."