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Lyra

"A pretty lil' girl as yourself pokin' around in these here parts...surely there must be somethin' goin now huh?" A large male Magistrey looked down at Lyra from a perch ten feet above the female lucain's head.
"What business is it of yours to be inquiring as to why I have ventured into "your" dark and "Dangerous" territory, as you so assume it seems to be." She growled back at the creature.
The Magistery simply blinked his one good eye, while the other remained shut due to a large scar.
"Fiesty huh? Well then I suppose a girl such yourself will fit in nicely then eh?" He finally responded. "Although I don't know how frightenin' you'll be should you encounter some type of hooligan or other. After all your one of 'em well groomed ones."
Lyra snorted in response. "You keep your tongue in your mouth mister and be staying out of way. My reasons for being here are my own. Leave it at that." She hissed.

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"Well it was mighty fine meeting ya to ma'dear." The magistrey laughed. "But if ya don' mind I would like to ask your name so I can tell the coriner when they find yer body."
"My name is Lyra. You tell the coriner all you want but I can garuntee you that it won't be my body they'll be finding." The lucain said boldly before turning her back to the large creature.
"Well ma'dear Lyra nows your chance to turn back. What say you? Tis' yer last chance." The magistrey said to the female.
"I say open the gates and let me in. I wish to mingle with the low lifes and dance with the criminals in your so called under world." The lucains unique accent floated through the air as she spoke her last words to the magistrey.
"Very well then but do not say I did not warn ya. Take head for there is no law in the underground dwellings of Lamenolai."
"Humph." Was all the response Lyra gave to the old Magistrey before she entered through the iron door that seperated the good of Lamenolai from the bad.

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Crash
The door to the outside slammed behind the female lucain eliminating any possibility of a change of mind. The only way out now was to cross the forbidden underground dwellings of Lamenolia to the sewer exit in the middle of the city. For most this concept would be a suffocating one, the kind that brings on panic attacks, but for Lyra it was just a daily part of her life. Deal with a few low lifes here, make deals with a few criminals there and boom, instant pay roll.
"Well I suppose then its just me and myself for the next hour or two." She said aloud before beginning her long journey down the pipe line that lead to the dwellings. Sticking her nose in the air she attempted to sniff and see if there was anyone else near. When she did not find any traces she began to walk.

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The sound of Lyras feet hiting the steel pipe ground gave off a strange clanking sound.
"A melody to my ears, welcoming me home after all these months." She said smiling as the sounds continued to ring out in every which way direction. Even though she had been absent for a while and not visited her usual stomping grounds she still knew the exact direction the dwellings lay in.
"I feel I have been missed." She seemed to hum upon the scent of an approaching creature. "Already sending me the welcoming team huh?" She laughed maliciously. "Then I guess I shall be polite and greet them."
Disappearing into the shadows she awited the arrival of the creature.

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Sedrick

"A creature they have sent me to find? But why? Why is this creature of importance? Is not Sedrick of importance? Should not Sedrick be pursued?" A venom gyrraptor trotted down the pipe line speaking to himself as though he was insane. "Yes, yes. Sedrick smells the creature but where is it?Does it hide?" He speach seem to consist of nothing but questions.
"Hello, hello? Do you hide the creature named Lyra?" He called out, stopping and sticking his nose in the air.

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Lyra observed from the shadows as the gyrraptor spoke to himself then herself then back to himself.
"It seems as though you are crazy my friend. I often hide from those who are crazy." Lyra called from her hiding spot. "But then I come around for I find the crazy people have the most to say." Lyra stepped from the shadows.
"Crazy? Sedrick does not believe ther are crazies in the world." The gyrraptor cocked his head and turned around to look at Lyra. "Ah a pretty lucain Lyra is! Sedrick finds lucain to be good company and interesting as well."
"Is that so. Well then I suppose it is a good thing you are to be my escort." Lyra smiled.

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"Shall be good company? Yes. But escort, well, Sedrick is not an escort." The creature answered.
"Not an escort? Then what are you my dear Sedrick?" Lyra was a bit surprised by Sedricks comment.
"Sedrick is a body gaurd for the pretty Lyra. The pipes are not safe for pretty Lyra. The boss tells Sedrick this, the pipes too." The gyrraptor snorted and spun his head from left to right to make sure no one was near.
"Not safe you say? Since when have they been safe?" Lyra laughed. "Your boss is kind and I will enjoy you around, but head of my word. If a fight should break out stay out of my way. I need no gaurd."
"If Sedrick is not correct, pretty Lyra has not been to the dwellings in months yes?" Sedrick asked.

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"That is indeed true but I feel that your boss underestimates me." Lyra growled.
"No, no he does not. The lucain believes she is strong. She may very well be. She has been gone though hasn't she Lyra. She does not know what has happened." Sedrick said quietly, shifting his eyes about.
"What has happened?" Lyra narrowed her eyes, suddenly feeling uneasy.
"The most terrible of things. The most terrible of things indeed." Sedrick mumbled shakign his head about furiously.
"Sedrick tell me what has happened?" Lyra's voice became very serious.
"Death has happened pretty Lyra. Death."

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Lyra let out a sigh of relief. "Death is a part of life my dear. It is something that always happens thus is silly to worry about."
"The pretty lucain gets ahead of herself. She tells Sedrick to head her word yet does listen well to others." Sedrick snapped.
"I listened quite well thankyou. You told me death has happened so I told you death of life. What could I have possibly missed?" Lyra snapped back.
"Why must Lyra assume death is a thing. Cannot death be a person? Does she not know the legends?" Sedrick whimpered in response. He did not take well to being snapped at.
"Aye, I know the legends of the death spirit but its all nonsense." Although Lyra spoke as though Sedricks comment did not alarm her, it infact caused her heart to skip a beat.

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"It is not nonsense pretty Lyra. IT IS NOT! Sedrick has seen it. Sedrick has survived it. For this alone the boss feels I can help you. But lyra wants no help does she." Sedrick hissed.
"So then you have seen it?" Lyra inquired.
"Yes."
"And why should I believe you have? Why should i turst you?"
"Because Sedrick feels you wish to live. Since Sedricks encounter he can feel when Death is near. Thus he can lead pretty Lyra away and safetly to boss." The gyrraptor said nodding his head.

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Lyra sighed. If Sedrick was telling the truth and Death was infact rampant in the dwellings it would benefit her more to stick close. If he was lieing then should could simply fight him and escape. She knew enough of the pipes to be able to get away.
"Fine then my dear. I shall follow you but only if you tell all of what is going on. Donot try to trick me for I smell through lies." She said slowly walkign past Sedrick.
"Very good, very good. Sedrick is Happy pretty Lyra will follow. In turn he will indeed tell you the happenings. Now no running away?" Sedrick asked raising an eye.
"I swear."

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"Alright lovely, follow Sedrick. We shall pass through the pocket pipes. They are small yes, yes but safe." The gyrraptor cried excitedly.
"Lead the way my dear." Lyra nodded. Sedrick nodded furiously back and began to trot forwards. "Now begin your story before I become bored with the subject."
"Yes. Yes. Lyras wishes to know and indeed Sedrick can tell. But where, where, where shall he start." He babbled.
"With the beginning. I always find the beginning to be the best way to start a story." Lyra smiled.

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"Well then the beginning it shall be. But Sedrick believes the beginning to not be exactly known..." Sedrick sighed.
"Well then tell me of what you do know." Lyra was becoming unpatient.
"Yes, so sorry, yes." Sedrick shook his head about. "Well four months ago right after it was lyra left am I right?"
"Yes. Continue now and no lingering." Lyra growled.
"Ok. Well it was the day after pretty Lyra left, according to boss, that death emerged."
Lyra's grew tense. 'The day after?' She thought to herself.

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"How was it known that death had emerged?" Lyra's tone was pushy.
"Well it wasn't exactly known yet. No. It was simply a dead body found. Local gambler. No loss, is Sedrick right? Yes he is. But when a renowned theif wound up dead, it was a loss. To economy, to trade, to the dwellings. No law is present in the dwellings but bounty hunters were hired to find the murderer. Dieing death is a part of life in the dwellings but death death is not."
"That still does not answer my Question Sedrick!" Lyra was becoming testy.
"Sorry! Sorry. Sedrick is trying to tell all." The creature cried.

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"Then I suggest you tell all Sedrick because I am growing tired of this." Despite Lyra's initial like of Sedrick she still did not make an exception for him.
"Yes. Well, four more deaths occured while all suspects remained locked up. It was assumed to me a super Mercenary. That conclusion dies quickly, yes."
"And how was that?"
"Death was spotted in the form of an old magistrey, the creature form of legend."
A cold sweat flooded over Lyra's entire skin.
"When he was approached he disapeared in a cloud of green."