Meeting of the Dream Walkers

[Zeure]

"Yes, I'm sure that if I ever met her I'd see quite a bit..."

Yun's gaze sort of faded out remembering things as he stared off into the distance for a moment.

"Uh...But, you miss my point, how can this one woman be worth all this risk you are taking?"

Damnit, of course, Yun had to be going up against a friggen immortal. Why did it seem that every other spider was immortal one way or the other? Yun's ningyo curse left him unaging, but he certainly wasn't immortal, he could be killed by any of the conventional means one would employ.

Yun's token resistance to what Sprinkles was saying was a joke, but maybe in Sprinkles' answer, Yun would find something he could use... And Maybe Gaijin don't practice court as hard as Rokugani do and he wouldn't even notice how uninspired Yun's verbiage was.

[quarim]

"I venture to gain more than I could ever loose. Not only will such an amazing woman be mine but she will give me the power to destroy all my enemies once and for all."

Sprinkles decided rather than trying to hide the truth perhaps the best way to deal with this situation was to let it out. Soon Haruka would be his and if not then Senshi would be forced to murder his own wife. It would destroy him. Either way Sprinkles would benefit from the out come.

[Zeure]

"Is that all she is to you!? An Ability!? You just want her for what she can do for you!?"

Yun's words were forceful. Sprinkles might notice that there is more there than Yun was letting on. Yun attempted a recovery, but it may have been too late.

"If I thought so highly of a woman I would not speak of her so lightly."

Yun closed his eyes and turned his body away from Sprinkles in an attempt to hide how obviously angry he was. Unfortunately the dream state would betray him, there was a smokey aura forming around him, one of superheated air like what happens in really hot temperatures.

[quarim]

Sprinkles noticed the changes around him.

"What are you not telling me? Why does my relationship anger you so much. Are you a Scorpion spy perhaps? Or is there something else?"

[Zeure]

Yun turned back around to face Sprinkles and his eyes were fierce and angry. His posture was confrontational and his hands were clenched into fists.

"Because Haruka is not some tool for you to use!"

Yun snarled the words at Sprinkles, his teeth clenched now that he had gotten that sentence out. The smokey aura around Yun was even more intense. He had completely blown any chance at a cover. It was too apparent now that he was connected to Haruka, somehow. No honorific, only using the given name; all those courtly talents gone to waste because of anger.

[quarim]

The thunder returned. Sprinkles own anger mixed with Yun's. The dream seemed divided. Hot anger poured from Yun and cold vengeance from Sprinkles.

"So you were with her. Not that it really matters. You have nothing to offer her. I can give her forever you can't even give her yourself."

Sprinkles said the words to hurt Yun, but his own doubts began to creep in. 'If she is using him perhaps she is just using me as well. If she can wrap Shoju, myself and now him around her finger, then she may be the biggest threat of all. And if she gets her hands on the jinn before me...' Sprinkles feared for the first time in a long time. Death was not something to be afraid of but the jinn were.

[Zeure]

"If your spell hadn't deposited me in her dream I wouldn't even know her! Though I can say honestly that this would be the first time that a failure such as yourself has helped me. If your immortality is as good as your spell-work then you'll kill her before you make her immortal. I, at least, can offer her a more-than competent shugenja in addition to fact that I am not only interested in what she can offer me, but rather interested in her personally."

Yun spat every word with as much venom as he could. This Gaijin attempting to go toe to toe with an Isawa Shugenja... the nerve.

"You've done nothing but rub me the wrong way, Gaijin; and I could forgive that and just ignore you, but with you being a danger to Haruka, I can not ignore you. If I see you in the real world, I will kill you. No matter what it takes and no matter how hard I have to try, if you go near MY Haruka again, I will end you!"

[quarim]

Sprinkles who had planned so much out did not know what to do. Should he try to make allies of his enemies to take Haruka down? No! They would never believe him anyways. Best to let them think he still wanted her.

"Your own master couldn't match my power what chance does his pet have? You are nothing to me. I have lived centuries and lead armies. You are a pathetic insect, annoying for a moment then gone, erased in time. You will not even be remembered. The Isawa will forget you, your crazed master will forget you, and MY Haruka will forget you."

It felt so strange to fight for someone he now planned to kill. He would need to visit her again soon and make her even more secure that she had him where she wanted him. He needed to know if she had learned anything yet.

[Zeure]

"I've spoken all that needs to be said to the likes of you. As we've reached the point where I would evaporate you from existence if we were not in the dream state, I am leaving. But mark my words when I say that every word was meant as a dire promise. Just one more word from Haruka about you visiting her...."

Yun let the obvious threat linger there without finishing the statement. He turned to face Bob and Bob vanished from Sprinkles' sight. Yun floated up into the air as the inky blackness seemed to part to allow him his exit. Just before Yun was gone, he noted a curiosity. Behind Sprinkles, some distance away in the darkness there was a different figure. Something vague and indistinct and Yun did not care to place it. But it was definitely humanoid and shadowy and moving about the shared dream state.

[OOC]And end to the thread. Thanks to Quarim/Sprinkles for the good ride and don't you fret readers. There will be more adventures of Yun in the future! Stay tuned![/OOC]