City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)
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				Title: <strong>City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>30-10-2010, 09:06:24</strong>
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				The height of summer had passed over the Land of Oz and the choking heat that it brought slowly died a little more each day, the creep of autumn was quick to stalk its heels leaving its presence in the twilight hours.&nbsp; This was Oz, a land of wonder and magic, full of light and people.&nbsp; However, often the brightest light cast the darkest shadows.&nbsp; Even the shining Emerald City could not escape this; the dual nature of the city was evident, for every bright building and affluent family living within the heart of the city there were a dozen or more shacks and families in squalor laying in the outskirts.&nbsp; The Wizard himself was perhaps the pinnacle dichotic example, so many citizens of Oz believed him to be a benevolent and wise leader while those who opposed his rule saw the darker nature and subsequent punishment of their self-imposed ruler, the scattered refugee Animals of Oz seeing the brunt of this dark hand.&nbsp; <br><br>Yet there were still those that chose to stand and fight, working to overthrow the Wizard’s influence. As small in number and power as they were they are a dedicated lot, strict on the secrecy of their own identities … they do not even know the true face of their own comrades.&nbsp; A sad but necessary measure for if one of them were to be captured their cause would be safe, even under torture you cannot confess what you do not know.<br><br>Here we have one such figure, an anonymous body in a crowd.<br><br>The faceless shade ducked out of the crowded alley and made her way into the equally as clogged street, pulling the black cloak tighter around her bony frame. She was anything but inconspicuous, what with the natural green hue of her flesh, so secreting around the city was extra difficult for one such as herself - well.. when anyone bothered to pay attention. One can suppose that Elphaba was relatively safe in that respect - who paid attention to a single bent figure walking among the throng of people? Surely it was just an aging hag out on her own daily business, ashamed of her own twisted and age-wrecked body.&nbsp; <br><br>With her head ducked forward incredibly long tendrils of black silken hair tumbled out of the deep hood, a bright green hand momentarily appearing to snatch the troublesome threads away before returning back under the security the folds offered. No, this was no place to be caught at now and the tall figure ducked away, weaving through the crowd.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>30-10-2010, 09:26:50</strong>
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				In the shiny society surrounding the Wizard and the governmental leadership of Oz, two figures were emerging, under the wing of a well-known school leader named Madame Morrible. These two were to represent the decisions, ideas and future of Oz all in one to the public of the land. <br><br>First, there was beautiful Lady Glinda with blond, curly hair, always well-dressed and turning into a raising star among all the Munchkinlanders, Gillikins and all other folks in Oz alike, with her youth shining splendidly among the green roofs of the Emerald City. She was on her best way to becoming the most celebrated, loved and cared for political figure in all of Oz (the Wizard himself always excepted). And by her side, so as to present harmony and standing as a role model for the peaceful folk, was a strategist soldier in shiny armor, set out to protect Oz with his strength and intelligence, and perfectly well matched in political position, beauty and kindness to Lady Glinda. Her and Fiyero's engagement had been a nationwide festival, topped by moving into a wonderful mansion suitable for high political representatives. Glinda, always concerned about public image, had proclaimed their happiness and every poster, every news source had shown their pictures, laced with well-wishes and hopeful ideas for the future of both the representative couple and the land of Oz.<br><br>Currently publicly engaged on her own, for her dear fiancé was working hard on protective strategies for the Emerald City, Glinda had set out to please the crowd by her presence alone, send well-wishes to newborn babies and reach out to those in need, or compliment high-class business men on their excellent taste in fashion, sign a personal item here and there, all placed in a setting of cutting the emerald ribbon that barred the doors to the new art museum - the usual. Slowly, she was getting a bit weary, having been at this all morning, but she kept on smiling and reaching out for the sake of all the wonderful Ozians.<br><br>"Thank you, thank you my dears," could be heard in that bright chiming and slightly obnoxious voice that anyone at Shiz would recognize in an instant. Eventually, Lady Glinda excused herself from her admirers, finding that now that she gotten Boq distracted (she had asked him to pick up a hat she had ordered about twenty roads down south and he had happily complied), being surrounded by a huge crowd wasn't making her "unobtrusified" enough to take a moment of rest. She quickly disengaged from the other Shizians and dipped into the kind of crowd that didn't know her well (yet), or just didn't care, and which was headed for St. Galinda's square. <br><br>It was just so that Glinda flipped her hair out of the way to catch - in the corner of her eyes - that strip of familiar green. Not the green of the trees or the emerald city's fashionable wall-color, but one she hadn't come across in quite a long while and would recognize anywhere still. <br><br>"ELPHABA!! Yoohoooo!" she called out in pure joy (she would leave the frustration of being put into a taxi to find herself without Elphaba moments later for another time!) and tried to wave, but movement and call were almost completely swallowed by the crowd - between gigantic hats, heavy cloaks and bright jewellery, little Glinda, however obnoxious, had no chance. "ELPH-- ohwouldyoustopsteppingonlyfootalready?!!!" When she turned around the shimmer of green was gone - but she'd recognize that color anywhere. And it was headed down to the church - and she would, too. And if necessary, she'd take a bubble!
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>30-10-2010, 10:27:47</strong>
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				Our brooding specter's thoughts were a long and safe distance from her past, which only brought her pain if she dwelled on it too much and as a consequence distracted her from her duty. So, when that unmistakable bell-like voice pealed well over the droll din of the faceless crowd slowly flowing around her she nearly stopped... she almost really did!&nbsp; That voice could only belong to one other and it shot through her as easily as an arrow would have and pierced her all the same with memories and faces. <br><br>No... no it couldn't be.. could it? After all of these years.... <br><br>But it very well could be her.&nbsp; Afterall, even though Elphaba had chosen to remain hidden within the shadow of the great city the gossip and news of the city still circulated like the air and she had heard of Galinda (or was it <em>Glinda</em> now?) and Fiyero's elaborately celebrated engagement and of their current residency within the Emerald City. <br><br>Elphaba had to steel her self control from twirling around - just to make sure. If it was truly.. her...&nbsp; She couldn't risk giving herself away.&nbsp; No, not only for her but for Galinda she must move forward, disappear, dissolve once more into the sea of people. She quickened her steps and wove in and out of the people making a bee-line through the throng towards the dark doorway of the small convent dedicated to the reverent saint Galinda.&nbsp; If she was lucky she would only be seen as a bent hag come to pay her devotions to the pagan deity.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>30-10-2010, 10:33:21</strong>
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				Ah, such a shame! Elphaba hadn't heard her - no wonder with everyone babbling around her and trampling on things! Glinda realized that words wouldn't do much here and - let's face it - Elphie had never been a person for many words to begin with. <br><br>She made her way to the front plaza in front of St. Galinda's and tipped two boys blocking her way gently on the shoulders. She giggled. "Excuse me, you two sweetipies, would you mind helping me - I'd like to go in for prayer, but the crowd here isn't made of Munchkins. Not like I am a Munchkin, anyway." She giggled again. For emphasis. They moved aside almost instantly after her two second monologue and pushed the crowd a little apart in the process. She appreciated them with a gentle bow and a faint touch of her fingertips like a blessing as she passed them and ventured through the gates into the cool, damp air of the interior. <br><br>She felt very, very compelled to use the great acoustics for another call to Elphaba's name, but hell knew which bug might have bitten her this time. Instead, Glinda allowed her eyes an admiring wander over the artwork and then hooked them on the black-hooded figure that was just disappearing in an alcove. '<em>Well,</em>' she thought, '<em>at least she took my advice that black looks good on her.</em>'
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>30-10-2010, 11:13:51</strong>
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				Elphaba dove into the dank, cool alcove reserved for private prayers to those who wished for a little seclusion during their devotions. She wasn't quite secure in her knowledge that she couldn't have been followed... no, not even if it was - - <br><br>She cast the thought and memory from her mind and forced her rigid body to relax, pressing her back against the cool and aged stone. Her heart was still speeding with the nervous fear she felt at almost being recognized out there. She reached up and placed her fingertips against her forehead still concealed beneath the hood taking in a deep breath. <br><br>"What's wrong with you?" <br><br>She muttered to herself, hoping the even breaths would steady her mind and her body and redirect her thoughts to her current situation - getting back home. She had more than a few illegal possessions on her person that she needed to squirrel away for later, more important plans. For what, she wasn't sure but she had been instructed to retrieve it today from a specified location and she did not feel safe until it could be left at home... maybe it was safe to leave now? Perhaps she should take a small breather before slipping back out.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>31-10-2010, 00:26:33</strong>
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				Glinda snuck closer to the column, taking care that her heels wouldn't make too much sound. What was Elphie up to? Maybe she was meeting someone in that alcove and having a little rendezvous? After all the popularity training, Glinda had given her, maybe the effort was finally bearing fruit? In that case, it would be entirely inappropriate to disturb Elphie and ruin the fun. <br><br>Glinda settled for waiting. Her feet were tired anyway and - to her luck - there was a lonely stone grotesque sitting in the corner that she could easily sit upon. She patted the poor creature on the head and took her seat. It was dreadfully ugly. Glinda sighed, took off her shawl and draped it around the stone creature's neck. -Not perfect, but much, much better.- Then she proceeded to look around for the secret lover, but when Elphie didn't come out for a while, she figured he, she or it was already in there - and she couldn't help it but giggle to herself - who'd have known Elphie would develop a passion for more public places? Ah-- over they were, the sweet innocent days of childhood. And now that she was thinking about it - what <em>did</em> Elphaba look like naked? A year of sharing a room with her and yet she had never seen that woman show---oh riiight! The water. And the oil. How easily such little habits got forgotten! 
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>31-10-2010, 10:46:12</strong>
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				A fair few minutes passed and by then our green lady felt much more at ease and sure that the potential danger (if it was ever there at all!) had passed and that she was now free to go about her merry way back home. Oh, but maybe it would have been good to once again see Galin- - - <em>no</em>. <br><br>She firmly scolded herself, her sharp features scowling under the clandestine shadows, she wouldn't allow herself to go there, to show weakness by clinging to the past like some poor, simpering maiden. She had cut her ties. The bridges weren't burned - they were blown sky high, and she had set the charges herself. Going back wasn't an option anymore, that was made clear long ago, but she also reminded herself that what she was doing was for the ultimate good of every single person she had ever loved or cared about; for Nessa, her father, Fiyero, Glinda and, yes, even little obnoxious Boq.<br><br>Straightening herself and taking a last deep and calming breath she ducked out of the little room and made a discrete bee-line toward the entrance, sparing nothing around her any attention, the edges of her skirt and cloak billowing around her ankles.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>31-10-2010, 11:44:58</strong>
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				Glinda nearly missed it, but then - who could miss that Elphie-hunch and the typical inelegant stomp of her feet - hell, had she not practiced at all? All these hours of practicing and teaching her, and the moment she had snuck out of Glinda's care - <em>wham</em>! They'd have to have a talk about that, for sure!<br><br>Oh well, Glinda thought, congratulating herself secretly for her patience - all this: later. Right now it was time to see Elphie again. She hopped off the grotesque and made her way after her once-friend. She'd actually have <em>loved</em> to take a peek at the secret lover, but Elphaba was in such a rush, Glinda might just lose her. This was also not the kind of speed suitable for a lady! It seemed her pawn had forgotten everything she had once been taught and they were back to zero. How frustrating.<br><br>She hurried out the door and by the time she got there, Elphaba was merely a black ghost, hunched and hasting towards the end of the street. It was a disaster - at this rate, Glinda would get all sweaty and unpretty, if she tried to keep up with such pace! Plus, where on earth was that woman headed? For all Glinda knew, there was nothing worthwhile at that end of Emerald city - the area got increasingly more shady, people got fewer and seemingly darker. However, on futher reflection, she needn't be surprised: Elphie had always fancied deserted places and who could blame her with all the prejudice going on at Shiz and all that came out of it to populate the Emerald City? <br><br>Yet, there was still the problem of catching up with her without looking like a monkey on fire. She'd get all puffy and red-faced and altogether <em>unprettified</em> and she need not have that. But - "ah!" (and she did exclaim this sound to the utter surprise of those around her, which didn't bother her) - there was still the bubble! The one spell that never failed her - as opposed to nearly all the others. She mounted a pretty purple one and - surely nobody would notice being followed by a giant bubble - set to chase Elphaba. It also had the neat side effect of avoiding those puddles and other things that seemed to increase the further Elphie ventured into the darker parts of the city. It would only put Glinda's shoes and skirt in danger of dirtification and that would have been so very unnecessary. True, she could have called out to Elphaba and made herself known right now, but now there also was a certain curiosity within Glinda as to where Elphie was headed, how she made her home and maybe what business she was enraptured in. There would be plenty of time to say hello later (or so she hoped).
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>31-10-2010, 12:24:07</strong>
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				Elphaba hurried along, looking like just another busy cityfolk doing her own thing in her own world. It helped that the dark cloak and her hunched form gave her a very convincing old woman appearance. Who paid attention to the old and invalid as they headed towards the shadier part of town? <br><br>No one, that's who (except maybe some bubble-fairing folk). <br><br>So off she went, ducking around and slipping through buildings, streets and alleyways alike, weaving her complex way (just in case someone deemed it necessary to follow an old woman) to her home: an abandoned corn exchange located in the dilapidated and vacated portion of warehouse district.&nbsp; &nbsp;This area of the Emerald City, like so many, was ghost-like and home to beings both human, animal and Animal who neither wanted to be found nor to be seen.&nbsp; Questionable business was commonplace and no one ventured into the area without a need for such a dubious purpose unless they were completely clueless blond socialites out for a spin in their great big, purple bubble. <br><br>Reaching the lower, unused level of her abode Elphaba cast a quick glance herself around before slipping between the aged doors barely hanging from their rusted hinges and scurried up the creaky and groaning stairs.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>31-10-2010, 19:46:53</strong>
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				Glinda followed in her own little bubble, humming along in the sound-contained space of the purpely roundness as she - in some distance - hovered after Elphaba. Not like she understood the zig-zaggy ways Elphaba took across town, but it lead to some place - however run down - and she could watch her enter a house and hear her creaking up the stairs. <br><br>Strange as this part of town was, she wasn't too concerned. It still figured that Elphaba would vanish in a district like this one though she was capable of being so much more than that. What a waste of talent and beauty, but it wasn't Galinda's place anymore to tell her the way. This had ended way back when in just this city when Elphaba had decided that they were to grow into adults apart from each other, not together. Now they were here, grown up women, and they could merely relive those years, not redo them.<br><br>Glinda dismounted her bubble, removed it from the world and knocked on the door (which would probably easily have come apart would someone with less politeness have decided to pay a visit). "EEEELPHHIIIIEEE~~~~" she called in her joyful voice, deeming it was time now to let the grand surprise spill and let Elphaba know they had found each other again. Ah! What a teary reunion they would have! Never mind the cat that fled from behind the corner at the obnoxious shriek - it was just she and Elphie now, two Shiz girls who had lost and found each other years later. Any second now, Elphaba would poke her head out of the window and come running to hug Glinda for old time's sake.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>01-11-2010, 14:42:47</strong>
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				Elphaba had just reached the top step, dusty shafts of sunlight peering through the poor woodwork ahead leaving golden dust motes dancing around her head as she slipped a single iron key from her cloak and opened the door with a smart click (it seemed not <em>everything</em> was in disrepair). She had just pushed the heavy door open when.... <br><br><em>"EEEELPHHIIIIEEE~~~~"</em><br><br>There was a lightening white blur that darted out of the door and bolted down the stairs. Elphaba whirled around her heart leaping into her throat, threatening to asphyxiate her, she held the key out in front of her as if it were a weapon. She was already formulating how to make her escape when she noticed the bubbly, golden-haloed figure bouncing at the food of her stairs. <br><br><em>//Galinda....//</em><br><br>All the fear melted from her - - only to be replaced with a volatile cocktail of anger, frustration, annoyance and even a little squeeze of longing which only dug into her heart like a shard of glass.&nbsp; &nbsp;It really had been her who called her out in the square and who had apparently followed her all the way here (albeit in the most gaudy un-cunning way possible).&nbsp; Elphaba would have been impressed if it weren't for...<br><br>"You have the wrong person." <br>She turned back to her door and roughly yanked it open. <br><br>"Go away." <br>She growled slipping into the dark comfort of her flat before slamming the solid door shut which sent a hoard of dust moats to rain down, accompanied by the start of frightened birds.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>02-11-2010, 12:29:06</strong>
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				Glinda was left dumbfounded for a significant moment as Elphie - <em>her</em> Elphie (and unmistakably so) - told her that she got "the wrong person". The tone of voice, dark and frustrated as it was, was even less possible to be mistaken for anyone else but the green bookworm, who could fly off the handle like no other, and make the lights flicker with her anger. She would have recognized that tone anywhere.<br><br>What on earth had just happened? Where was the big reunion? Glinda stomped her foot down - she was not going to be treated that way (of course little Glinda stomping her foot was only so-and-so-impressive)!<br><br>"Yeaaah, and just how many green-skinned girls with black hair are there?" she called smugly, though she originally had wanted to go for 'cheerful' (it just didn't work). "Though you do suddenly have a sense of fashion which <em>is</em> a bit confusing," she admitted generously, no malice intended, but the thought came to mind. Although she had to admit, she was hurt and angry, too, now. What kind of drama was Elphaba playing? This was neither the time for jokes nor for being dramatic. They hadn't seen each other in how long?! And Elphaba was dwelling on some drama of the past? Wait! There <em>was</em> no drama! There had never been any - Elphaba had just dropped off the face of the planet, leaving Glinda alone, and if anyone had a right to be hurt and frustrated...<br><br>"Oh, and you're forgetting that I am a witch, too!" She dug for her pretty wand, which was decorated with silvery, sparkly bubbles (an addition she had made herself to what once was a bare, boring, silvery stick) and held it to the keyhole of the door. "OPEN!"<br><br>Neither lock nor door even moved even an inch. "OPEN!" She frustateldy tapped the wand against the key hole and a spark crackled weakly at its tip. She had to admit she had never even wondered whether the silvery, bubbly decoration had any influence on the function, but maybe she had just gotten the spell or determination wrong? She tried again, but to no avail. It was not going to work, so Glinda dropped the wand and gave a frustrated sigh. "Well, never mind," she told the disobediant magicking stick and mounted a new, purple bubble to float in through the window. That one was locked, too, but of such bad making that even a bubble could pop the lock. <br><br>And it did.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>02-11-2010, 13:31:12</strong>
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				Elphaba was in a frenzy. Once inside she bolted the door and violently ripped the cloak from her body, tossing it carelessly onto her moth-eaten bed before taking extra care with her smuggled goods and slipped it into a surprisingly well-preserved cupboard. <br><br>"I said leave ." <br>She snarled at the door and stomped away - why did she come here? Why did she follow her? Why was she making so much bleeding noise?? At this rate EVERYONE in the Emerald City will know where she lives. This was ridiculous and it was getting out of hand.<br><br>"Go away - you have no business here!" <br>She stormed over to the window to let in some air (and hope that Galinda would get bored and eventually leave) when suddenly--- <br><br>Elphaba jumped 5 feet back at the ludicrously dressed woman floating in a giant iridescent bubble right in front of her. <br><br>"... Oh for the love of Lurline!" <br>Elphaba cried out after a moment of shock (where she was sure she could have dropped dead of heart failure).&nbsp; A bubble? <em>Really</em>?!&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>Could Galinda have really thought of a more absurd mode of magicked transportation than a Lurline-loved <em>bubble</em> of all things?&nbsp; A carpet? Too shabby! A broom? Heavens forbid! It had to be a bubble. It just <em>had</em> to be.&nbsp; Later, much later,&nbsp; Elphaba would reflect on this and realize that the nonsensical bubble perfectly matched the nonsensical Galinda. Or Glinda. Whatever.<br><br>She snapped the window open and hissed out at the floating woman. <br><br>"Get in before the entire city sees you - you bubble-head!!"
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>02-11-2010, 14:32:21</strong>
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				<em>Bubble-head</em>! Well, a bubble was a million times better than a stinky old broom! Well, Glinda took the invitation despite its rudeness and settled on the ground gently, the bubble in perfect control. She stepped out of it easily and the purple wonder vanished into thin air without even the slightest pop.<br><br>She felt like scolding Elphie, though - this just wasn't acceptable. "Elphie, this is <em>not</em> how you greet an old friend!" Ah, it was that dreadful little pain of disappointment that nagged her, and she knew it. She had expected - well, some more <em>enthusiasm</em> here, even from Elphie. "I do have business here, you're my long-lost friend," she explained the situation and spread out her arms.&nbsp; And there was - involuntarily even - a bit of a pout on that otherwise so shiny face. This hostility did hurt - Glinda couldn't recall anything she might have done to upset Elphie and could only hope that Elphie was simply driven by the guilt of dropping off the face of the Oz years ago. Anything else would have been <em>so</em> unfair. It was just like back then - Elphie expected her, easily, to understand those weird, life-changing, dreadful decisions she tended to make, without giving Glinda a chance to do so. <br><br>To be exact, it didn't just nag. It hurt. Obviously, Elphie wasn't half as happy to see Glinda as Glinda was to see Elphie... and she really would have thought their friendship was running more deeply than that. Some part of her, deep inside, hoped that all it needed was a little push, a reminder of the wonderful times they had had at Shiz, of the moments of trust and care.<br><br>"Now give me a hug."
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>02-11-2010, 15:50:40</strong>
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				Elphaba violently ran a green hand through her long black hair, tossing the messy sheet out of her face - a definite sign of her agitation.&nbsp; One that not even Glinda, in all her blond being, could possibly miss. Her tall and gangly form stomped to and fro in front of Glinda's primly and properly poised one, her elegantly draped arms held open to Elphaba in supplication and expectation. However,&nbsp; Elphaba would have none of it.&nbsp; None, whatsoever.&nbsp; Not an inch, not a finger's length, not even a hair's breadth would she give Glinda at this particular moment.<br><br>"Do you realize what you - -- how did you - - when did you - - ... why are you here??" <br>She abruptly halted her flustered stalking directly in front of the perky blond who still had her arms outstretched, which also still remained ignored.&nbsp; Elphaba's dark eyes shot angry and hurt daggers down at her friend.&nbsp; Though it did not strike her at this very moment to realize that this was what Glinda still was; a friend, even after Elphaba's abrupt abandonment in an attempt to sever those ties... somehow, those threads still hung on.<br><br>However! The subject at hand still remains; Did this woman <em>ever</em> think before she acted on something?
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>02-11-2010, 19:00:20</strong>
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				Glinda mustered the look that was shot - stabbed - at her from Elphaba. Oh, hell knew how anyone should comprehend this woman! Could she - <em>for once</em> just take a blessing that was given - that was there at the tip of her fingers? Did she have to overly-<em>complify</em> everything? This was a reunion, no matter what the circumstance, everything else could be dealt with later. But no, there just had to be drama!<br><br>She dropped her arms, which were not going to feel an embrace any time soon, and took a deep breath. Oh, how Glinda the good wanted to get badly upset! But this was neither image-conform, nor would it help anyone, so she steeled her composure with a hearty sigh before continuing: "Elphie," she said sympathetically, "everyone is missing you. Nobody understood why you just left like that. Everyone would be elated to see you again. I told them you had your reasons - I didn't want them to be angry at you -, but yet..." she sighed, serious now. "You're giving me a look as if I had come here to tell you I chopped off Nessarose's legs." She realized this could be misunderstood. "Not like anyone ever would chop off her legs - Nessa is fine." <br><br>She took a short stroll to the window through which she had burst in. Darkness settled across the city, like a slow, creeping shadow. In a distance, an emerald glimmer illuminated the sky - the reflection of the setting sun from the emerald palace. "Maybe you don't know, but I wouldn't stop being your friend because you ran away from us." And how dearly she wished, Elphaba's need for friendship was just as strong. Her heart felt so heavy, as it always did when bad emotions dominated a scene.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>03-11-2010, 05:30:29</strong>
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				Oh, this infuriating woman! <br><br>Elphaba was assaulted by a myriad of emotions at a rapid shot pace blurring through her heart and mind before she could properly assess them. <br>First was infuriation - what the hell was she doing here? <br>Next was fear - what if she was noticed in her unsubtle way of traveling? Or followed?<br>This was foollowed by a tight knot of longing and sadness which loomed and threatened to douse her more heated emotions. <br>And, of course, this was all packaged neatly with a giant wallop of guilt which choked her and made her all the angrier. <br><br>The green woman took a deep breath to steady herself and her storming emotions trying to feel around for words after Glinda had (rightfully) rebuked Elphaba for her abrupt abandonment of everyone she had ever held dear. She never expected to see any of them again any time soon.... or maybe ever again.<br><br>"Oh, Galinda... "<br>Elphaba tried, the words feeling foreign and thick in her mouth, falling on to the former pronunciation of the blond witch's name.<br><br>"It's -.... it's good to see you, surely, but you shouldn't be here. You shouldn't have seen me. Things are too complicated, I'm in too deep I -" <br>She bit her lip, realizing she was already saying too much. <br><br>"No one can know that you foun--...saw me."<br><br>Here Elphaba tried not to linger on those faces, those memories of people she unceremoniously dropped and walked away from, all for a cause she believed with every magical fiber, every cell of her body. Looking backwards never helped anyone, it only further complicated matters and endangered people, endangered causes and resolutions.<br><br>"I can't go back."
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>03-11-2010, 09:48:21</strong>
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				Well, there it was - an Elphie-monologue that made no sense whatsoever. Maybe Elphaba would chalk it off to that "blissful blond brain" of Glinda's, but in truth, she was babbling a whole lot of incoherent nonsense. Yes, this could take a while.<br><br>Glinda carefully dusted off - something - probably a half-decayed wooden crate meant to sit on, but she couldn't be too sure - and took a seat, emphasizing that she was not just going to leave. However, she took that seat rather carefully, always expecting her 'chair' could give away sometime in the near future - but the bold act was so necessary for the symbolism. Consequently, it wasn't the most comfortable of seats, but that was to be expected. In any case, symbolism was always very important (and that included dresses, bubbles, underwear and decorated wands), so here she was.<br><br>"Nobody can go back," she philosophized and found she sounded rather smart saying it. Months of being a diplomat had instilled a certain eloquence in her, after all. "Not you, not I, not the Wizard of Oz. We needn't utter truths we all know already. That's why I've been going forward and - oh look, where it has lead me," she added with a cheerful wink that wasn't exactly&nbsp; honest, but a remnant of public speech. Maybe it was just the prelude to that suppressed agitation that was still lingering inside of her. <br><br>What a drama! What a fuss - this was an attic of some sort, not a stage - not even a room full of people. In fact, the whole street outside had seemed deserted (that cat always excepted) and there wasn't a bird's chirp inside the walls of this ... <em>hole</em>.<br><br>"I've found a long-lost friend and she just so happens to live alone-" her voice grew gradually louder and a little more agitated, "with no one around to see I am here!!! Would you stop fretting already - your army of spiders doesn't have ears!"
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>03-11-2010, 12:12:11</strong>
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				Ah, if Glinda had one feature that anyone could easily pick out of a crowd of springy blonds wearing flowing gowns and sparkling tiaras it would be her voice. Her high, ear-piercing, bubbly and (above all) <em>loud</em> voice. Elphaba had always been sure that if Glinda had tried she could have easily shattered crystal with it, and probably a few eardrums as well.&nbsp; <br><br>Elphaba sprung into action at once, leaping to the air-headed blond before she began to shrill and clapped a smooth green hand over Glinda's (wide) mouth while darting paranoid looks, peering out the dust-caked window for any wandering passerby. <br>If she was lucky, maybe anyone who might be hidden away in this place, like Elphaba herself, would think that the screeching sounds coming out of the old building was just some pitiful she-cat in the throes of her heat.&nbsp; It certainly sounded a lot like that to the green woman right now.<br><br>Next, when the silence was regained, she knelt and was able to still reach the short witch's ear and hissed. "Will you please be quiet? Your voice is enough to wake Lurline herself!"
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>03-11-2010, 13:40:32</strong>
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				Well, unintentionally this appeared one way to get Elphie to make body-contact, albeit a very undesired kind of it. Glinda - never having experienced such insolence - was compelled to bite some cabbage - but it wasn't the right time or place to give in to such urgent, primitive needs. <br><br>Much more important was whether Elphaba had heard <em>anything</em> she had said at all. It seemed over the worry concerning volume, the black-green woman had completely missed <em>context</em>, as if the words had just flown over her head, be it on a broom or a bubble. <br><br>She grunted, but part of her could see and feel Elphie's haunted expression before she leaned in to whisper to her. What else was Glinda supposed to try? Pleading to Elphaba's emotions had shown itself to be fruitless, calling to her senses, getting angry, reprimanding her, screaming, hurting... Glinda felt like she was talking to a moss-covered brickwall. How could one get through that thick black hair of Elphie's and reach a more sensible vein? Threats? Those were beyond her. Glinda's only skill was making bubbles and friends - and maybe a tad of diplomacy. Well, diplomacy it was, then.<br><br>She peeled Elphaba's hand from her mouth, nodded and whispered: "Deal. I'll be quiet and you'll be... well, less hostile, I suppose."
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>03-11-2010, 14:35:38</strong>
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				"Deal." <br>Elphaba rolled her eyes at the inscrutable woman and threw her arms up in exasperation. Well, there was no use trying to get rid of her now anyways for the sun was still up enough to make sneaking about difficult, and someone of Galinda's caliber and appearance (not to mention fashion and mobility choice) had the potential of attracting unwanted attention.&nbsp; There were all sorts of attention in this side of town she could catch, most of whom would like to do more than a little harm to a sparkling princess who oozed of good fortune and beauty...<br><br>She stood and dusted the gray from the knees of her long black dress, once again towering over the petite witch.<br><br>"But you have to promise to leave when I ask you to."<br><br>Diplomacy was never her strong suit, that strength always lay with Glinda,&nbsp; and while she liked nothing more than the idea of tossing Glinda out the window she came through she knew this was not only dangerous for Glinda, but for herself... if she tossed Glinda out now she would likely cause such a ruckus that <em>someone</em> would be compelled to investigate and, if it wasn't some figure of authority, there were men out there who would like nothing more than to find two women, alone...
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>03-11-2010, 15:56:02</strong>
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				Glinda considered her options. It was the first time tonight that Elphaba had agreed to anything, but it was still only so-and-so. The moment Glinda would agree to leave when asked to, Elphaba might as well get her will by telling her to go right away. Did Elphaba really think she was that stupid...? <br><br>"If you left me stay for a considerable time," she bargained. That was still dangerous enough, but deals were usually made in small steps until a compromise was reached, so Glinda figured this was a good start. But while they were trying to get somewhere, she decided she should put some thought into tagging Elphaba somehow so she could find her again. Being as paranoid as the green girl seemed to be, she might just move to a new home tomorrow. There wasn't much to move here, anyway, and Elphaba could be gone in a blitz - and pretty much to any place, considering that handy, uncomfortable broom of hers. Glinda knew, however, how to engage Elphaba a little - hopefully, and maybe turn her thoughts away from throwing Glinda out right this instant. <br><br>Elphaba just <em>had</em> to hunger for news about everyone. She wasn't made of stone... and the turmoil in her eyes ever since Glinda had stepped in here told her as much. "Nessa has trumped everyone in magic this year and is now going - rolling - steady with Bi---Boq. She must have some of that incredible talent that you have, I suppose. She had made a definite decision on sorcery and we used to share classes a lot, though Madame Morrible missed you terribly, of course. And thanks to my technical advice, she is looking absolutely splendid lately. Nessa, that is - nobody can make Madame Morrible look splendid, though if she'd let me, I could probably perform a small miracle. In any case, it looks like Nessa is now heading towards politics, too. I wonder whether that was my influence..." And yes, she did make an effort to keep her voice down, even though she didn't see the point. This was, for all she cared, a desert when it came to the important kind of living things.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>04-11-2010, 13:16:58</strong>
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				Elphaba inhaled a deep breath through her nose and silently counted down from ten before exhaling and answering. <br>"<em>Fine</em>. But just until nightfall - then you leave, deal?"<br>At the next words to spill forth from that eternal fount that was Glinda's mouth Elphaba was indeed paying attention... though she tried not to care, willed herself to not care, she couldn't help but soak up these nourishing raindrops of information from Glinda, drinking up like a parched plant that had been caught in a desert drought all these years.<br><br>"Oh... that's... good to hear." <br><br>Elphaba turned and made her way towards the back of the apartment where a table and the fireplace stood.&nbsp; If Glinda would bother to pay attention she would notice that the sparse room wasn't nearly as devoid of furniture and life as it at first seemed to be (though it still likely wasn't up to high Glinda-standards): Though most of the ex-storage room consisted of empty crates arranged around the floor in a circle, in a corner a bedroll, a trunk with clothes folded on top of it squatted near her bed, some wrapped and stored something (possibly food), tin plates, piles of books (of course), a gruesome collection of dried things either laying on a crate or nailed to a wall: dried roots of other herbs, strings of teeth, bones, some dried and leathery avian claw (for magicking purposes, perhaps?), and to top all of this homely decor was an impressive elephant skull hung from the rafters with it's imposing presence glaring down into the room through empty eye sockets, a spray of dried pink flowers arranged and placed into the central sinus cavity in the skull.&nbsp; Below it hung a rough glass oval which showed its years through the scuffed and chipped surface.&nbsp; The only piece in the room that Glinda would possibly find any admirable value was a single three-legged sallowwood table elegantly carved, the three feet carved to resemble a doe's hooves.&nbsp; <br><br>Elphaba weaved through the crates and busied herself by pulling out an old and battered tea kettle and filled it with water from an open barrel, listening to Galinda as she did so.. she tried and tried oh so hard to seal that part of her that had been so dry and callous for all of this time, that part of her which was now being nurtured. And as it was, it began to ache almost at once.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>04-11-2010, 22:16:42</strong>
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				Once Glinda had made sure Elphaba wasn't running out of the door, she brushed a finger over her own wand, thinking, listening. Elphaba did seem only mildly interested, but part of Glinda felt that there was, once again, a shell over Elphie, designed to hide true feelings and in this case, true interest. She could not have pinpointed what it was, but she had seen it in Shiz before when people had taunted the green girl and she had pretended not to care. Maybe it was the way her muscles seemed to operate differently, maybe a lack of eye contact... it was <em>something</em>, and it was more reliable than words. <br><br>It also meant Glinda had a hook and a lure, and she was prepared to use both. So she decided not to agree to the deal, at least not verbally, and continued with the story time. "I won't keep it from you - she feels left alone. She felt you left her there and she's desperately clinging to Boq. I can't exactly blame her," she added with an air of snippishness, referring to her own situation. Oh well - she reminded herself that she wasn't going to harper on that. Not right now, anyway. "Well, at least Boq seems ... alright with the situation. Not particularly <em>elatified</em>, however."<br><br><br>She decided her pretty wand was not in the most pleasant spot there - it would get darker and before she knew it, either she or Elphaba would sit on it. So she carefully set it aside, on a remarkable fine-carved table that did not seem to fit the rest of the paupery-eerie place, where hollow eyes were staring at you and claws readily stretched out to grab. She fanned herself some air with her hand, feeling unkindly warm from either the setting sun or the flair of the place she was in. <br><br>"And Fiyero... well, he's really worried about you - and he finally knows he is going to marry me, but that’s only a side note." She had no idea whether Elphaba had either cared or at least picked up on the grand celebration of the engagement. But it was important news for Glinda, so she wanted to share... and also... Fiyero <em>was</em> truly worried. More often than she'd have liked to admit, their conversations circled about Elphaba - a mutual friend, lost to circumstances they both did not comprehend, and a painful, nagging pain in both their hearts.&nbsp; <br><br>How on earth would she tell Fiyero about all of this? That she was here now, watching Elphaba busy herself with her back towards her. The same slender figure, emphasized by the blackness of her gown, though there was something in her movements that showed caution. Elphaba was still <em>bold</em> in her ways, but she seemed to have acquired a new level of unobtrusiveness that, given her skin color, was quite remarkable. Her hair, still midnight-black, fell down her back in an orderly fashion - open now, and to hell with that childish braid. There was something almost majestic about her in this creepy room. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>05-11-2010, 12:30:19</strong>
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				With her back to her old friend Elphaba frowned, fingers searching and finding the deformed tin of tea from its shelf, feeling that dull ache sharpen acutely and dig into her. This was torture, Glinda <em>had</em> to know that.&nbsp; It was unforgivably painful yet, it was also very much a masochistic pain: the more she heard, the more it hurt but, at the same time, the more she wanted to hear. <br><br>"Boq's no good to her... I bet he's still hung up on you. Oh, Nessa..." <br>She sighed, her dark brows knitting together. <br><br><em>//I'm so, so sorry... but I don't expect you to ever forgive me.&nbsp; It would be better to forget me.//</em><br><br>Elphaba approached the low and poor excuse for a hearth and grabbed the black iron rod that hung next to it jabbing at the sooty ashes piled high until the glowing embers began to sleepily peer out from their ashen bed. At the mention of Glinda and Fiyero Elphaba's hand slipped and the kettle of water came tumbling down onto the poor fetal embers, aborting the poor coals in a wave of icy water and smoke. Elphaba cursed and jumped back to avoid the splash, waving the curling smoke and soot away.&nbsp; She stood there, stunned for a moment - they were going to get married?&nbsp; Oh, she knew this already - she had heard all of the grand and fantastic celebrations about it - but to hear the news firsthand from one half of the pairing...<br>A new and queer sensation arose from it's deep slumber with-in her breast, yawned a great yawn, and began to methodically gnaw at her innards as its first duty. <br><br>"Congratulations." <br>She stooped and retrieved her fallen kettle. <br><br>"Oh, well... future congratulations. When is the big day?" <br>She spoke with a casual air - perhaps a little too casual and mechanical for how she had been acting before as she cleaned the soiled kettle, not looking anywhere in the general direction her golden-haloed companion.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>05-11-2010, 19:33:29</strong>
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				“Oh, thanks,” Glinda had replied casually, “Madame Morrible suggested this move for practical purposes to him anyway. He has ambitions to be in the guard and- well, I will be an important public figure...," she related to Elphaba - but she couldn't have missed the kettle-drop that drowned all further ranting. The clatter of disproportionate volume actually made the floor tremble a bit - or was that Elphaba retreating quickly to avoid the water? And there Elphaba had told <em>her</em> to be quiet! <br><br>Well, it was fortunate the green witch's reaction was so fast, who knew what would have happened had that splash hit her...? Yeah... what exactly would happen? Glinda had always wondered about that - for she knew, living so closely to Elphaba in Shiz, how vehemently her friend avoided water, while other people at Shiz had regarded this as yet another silly oddity, if they had even bothered to look enough to take note of it. Which was good - if it was dangerous to Elphaba to contact water, people who had no other purpose in life than to not stand her should better not know.<br><br>Glinda got up with her wand and took the kettle from Elphaba. There was ash in the air like a little storm cloud, attacking Glinda's lungs (which were not very used to dust and smoke and other pollutive things in the air) and causing her to halt in a half-suppressed cough. As she took the kettle, half-distracted by controlling the noise of her own coughing, her hand was minutely touching Elphaba's - which was warmer than her own, and soft on the back. She quickly withdrew.<br><br>With her wand, she managed a miniature spark that could at least pre-light the mess in the stove, though it would need lots of fanning. Well, better not dwell on either Elphaba's clumsy, noisy mishap or Glinda's meager magic skills... "And - will you tell me anything about you or am I going to call you 'Elphie the secretive' from now on- oh wait, that's not a new name, is it?" Glinda suddenly wished she had a book on her... or something that belonged to Dr. Dillamond.... Something that would remind Elphaba of how she once had had a promising life before going all frantic about the Wizard of Oz. <br><br>Meanwhile, the fire was not even crackling... it was embarrassingly faint and would die at any moment. So Glinda blew into the flame heartily without taking even a clock tick to think about it beforehand. The result was that she ended up stumbling back, coughing and spitting, and all earlier attempts to stifle the noise seemed ridiculous in comparison. She ended up covering both herself and Elphaba in snow-flakes of gray ash. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>06-11-2010, 06:37:40</strong>
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				The frown deepened on her sharp features at the mention of her old nemesis: the woman who had once been a mentor whom Elphaba had hoped to impress at one point in her naive adolescence but things were different now, much different.<br><br>"You know Madam Morrible is only interested in one thing and you know that she-" <br>As per usual her words were snipped short by the eternal fount that was Glinda's mouth. That was certainly one thing that had not changed about&nbsp; 'Glinda the Good' and it was almost endearing if it still wasn't so obnoxiously... Glinda.&nbsp; It occurred to her at how little yet how much Glinda had changed from their days at Shiz and Glinda's days as 'Galinda with a <em>Ga</em>.'&nbsp; She was just as bubbly and motor-mouthed as she had been in those days, her grace and poise had been refined to an almost artificially perfect level, her taste in fashion had not changed much (just became more... extravagant), even her aura was a little more... <em>more</em>, Elphaba supposed that came with training and experience in being a public figure -<br><br><em>//Or puppet..//</em><br>She thought dryly.<br><br>Elphaba had registered the warm touch from Galinda's soft, perfect hand when she took the kettle, which sent a sharp jolt through her. The shock shot through the little beast gnawing at her breast and it keened for more of that which it had been denied; that warm touch of another... especially one so close (or one that <em>had</em> been so close at one time, but that was a long time ago, wasn't it?).&nbsp; With their bodies so close Elphaba noticed for the first time the soft, intoxicatingly sweet perfume of flowers in springtime that engulfed the sparkling would-be princess just enough to not be overpowering but enough to tickle the senses when one was able to get close enough, the little beast inside her howled for that scent. The affect Glinda had on Elphaba right now was so violent within her she was sure it was revulsion that the other witch incited within her, right?<br><br>"You know I ca-- Galinda wait!! The wood is still wet you're going to---!"<br>But it was too late, the small corner of the room erupted with an air assault of smoke and soot that attacked through the nose and mouth. Elphaba grabbed Galinda's thin arm and pulled her away and to the opposite side of the room, trying to hide her own face in the folds of her black dress.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>06-11-2010, 10:24:38</strong>
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				As Glinda was dragged away from the non-firey ash-cloud, she was still coughing and spitting in the most inelegant fashion, covering her mouth with a bare hand and closing her eyes as often and much as she could. She wasted no thought on the fact that she would, being who she was, still look remarkably elegant in a coughing fit, but it was a fact.<br><br>Yet, walking with closed eyes is only slightly efficient, and so it was not surprising that Glinda tripped and landed on top of Elphaba and lost all that remarkable grace in nearly an instant: Both she and Elphaba ended in an unfashionable smoke-and-ash covered and most clumsy, inelegant heap. <br><br>"Oh goodness,” - <em>cough, cough</em> – “…have I gotten you wet?!" she hacked, never forgetting that the soft emerald was really unhappy with water. Yes, the world may note that Glinda the Good's primary concern was other people. Though she wasn't always so grandiose as getting it exactly right - as with Boq and Nessa - the harmony and happiness of people in Oz, her friends, her mentors and those she cared for, was what made her the unintentionally popular politician that she was (not that she'd mind!). Her naive concern was, above of all, honest, and while some would have liked to accuse her of selfishness and arrogance, she, indeed, was trying hard not to be.<br><br>Right now, a primary concern of hers was Elphaba's well-being. So she didn't worry about the fact that her left leg was so entangled with Elphaba's, and she herself wasn't sure how to get up. What truly worried her, was that Elphaba's head had suddenly grayed in shock!<br><br>Oh wait! That was ash!<br><br>Well, it occurred to her that if Elphie was looking that ridiculous with dust and ash all over her, Glinda must be looking just as horrible. Or worse. And since they were both seemingly undamaged, after all, it was time to worry about it: How terrible! "Oh Lurline, I probably look like a - <em>cough</em> -" the rest was drowned in the last sad try of her lungs to somehow get the smoke out. Oh well, at least she'd be choking to death in Elphaba's arms - and with some luck, Elphaba would know to clean her up before presenting her dead body to the public. Comforting, indeed.
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				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>06-11-2010, 10:44:56</strong>
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				As Elphaba was attempting to rescue her friend from inhaling too much of the irritating cloud billowing behind them Galinda, in all of her grace, tripped herself up in the unfamiliar flat and went down - take the gangly beanstalk with her. <br><br>"Galin--oof!" <br>And down she went - <em>timbeeeeeeeeeeer!</em> - her head smartly smacked down on the dusty, wooden flooring. For a few moments all she saw was darkness and stars flitting before her eyes ,and at first she thought it was some Galinda-effect but they soon faded and she was left laying, unable to move properly for some reason. She responded to Glinda's inquiry with a small groan, her head throbbing. <br><br>"No... but you almost knocked me out." <br>She squinted up, realizing the dainty blond was laying atop her, legs intertwined in her skirts and leg. Glinda's slight weight, the warm and soft body sprawled on top of herself, soft breasts pressed close... Elphaba's heart nearly shot into her throat to strangle as it began to hammer away at the walls of her chest. She then noticed the blond was currently not so blond - the gray soot powdering her hair like an awful wig, that careful makeup smudged with a fine layer of gray darkened somewhat around her eyes where tears had gathered as she coughed relentlessly.<br><br>"You look... ridiclous." <br>Elphaba joked softly... also finding that her hands had found purchase on Glinda's hips, as if steadying herself there. Realizing this she flushed beneath her own layer of ash and abruptly pulled her hands away, feeling ashamed at herself, but somehow... she didn't really want Glinda to pull away yet, it felt so... so nice, like this.&nbsp; Was it really nice? Her stomach certainly wasn't agreeing as it knotted sickeningly at their close proximity.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>06-11-2010, 11:10:00</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda was just about to embrace death when the coughing stopped and Elphaba insulted her exterior - sadly, it was rightfully. She could literally feel the smudged make up at the corner of her eyes (it was like she had a special sense for this) and the fine layer of ash on her skin and hair. The moment she moved her head, ash rained onto Elphaba, so she tried to keep steady.<br><br>She looked at the green-gray skin before her and - with a small pout (but a nice one) - she responded: "Well, not like you're looking fresh out of the shower--" she stopped herself short as realized the irony of that statement - Elphaba! In a shower! For some reason, this seemed unbelievable funny to her and she started spluttering with laughter for a split second. A moment later, she realized the mistake and quickly clasped her hand over her mouth - so as to not be too loud (as promised). However, her already smudged eyes filled with more tears - but this time they were from the suppression of laughter. <br><br>The release, suppressed or not, was needed: Quite suddenly, all awkwardness had fallen off her and she felt rather well here on top of Elphaba - with a hint of old times coming back at her. The scent of oil from Elphaba's skin was there again, though laced with smoky ashes, as well as the little air of blunt honesty that Elphaba used to fling everywhere so shamelessly - she remembered how much she had missed that and now it was there again for just this moment. They were just two school girls who had come to friendship through unbearable amounts of mutual loathing, <em>Ga</em>linda and Elphie.<br><br>And to make things even better, Elphaba had not only tried to heroically save her from the attack of lung-killing ashes, but been holding her by the hips as if to steady her, though the contact hadn't last for very long. An important message had arrived <em>nonretractably</em>, though: There was the care there, still, the care for friendship, the care she, at the beginning, had only held for Nessa and only casually extended to other people, first of all G(a)linda. Within this blueish-cold exterior there was good old leaf-green Elphie - and it turned out that that one couldn't hide after all. <br><br>A spark of happiness filled Glinda's heart, but having her hand still clasped over her mouth to tearfully suppress her laughter, she couldn't quite show it.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>06-11-2010, 12:48:20</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				A phantom of a smile tugged at the corner of her thin lips, the smile felt out of practice yet it also felt good after so long. She knew she had missed the girl-turned-woman collapsed on top of her, and as much as she had tried to deny that, it was hard to ignore such a hard-earned friendship.&nbsp; It was true, however, that she had loathed and had taken the blond as another aristocratic brat (well.. there was still <em>some</em> truth to that) whose only concern was herself and her public image. However, Elphaba had learned in their time together that more lay beneath that flimsy and flighty exterior than she let on: Glinda was capable of much when she wasn't acting how everyone expected or wanted her to.<br><br>"O-oh hey, now.. don't - don't cry Galinda.." <br>For a moment Elphaba was confused and worried with a good double-handful of guilt at her friend's sudden tears, all the anger and irritation she had directed towards the other woman evaporated like vapor, gone as suddenly as it had arrived.<br><br>&nbsp;"It's okay - I don't hate you... I'm not upset ---- okay, well.. not <em>really</em> upset. Please don't cry?" <br>She tried to think of something to do, something that she could do to help... and slowly, awkwardly, she patted the slender and quivering back with her leaf-green hand. This felt strange, she was so out of practice, and her hand felt so large and heavy against Glinda's delicate body. <br><br>"There... there..." <br>She winced when a stray saline tear splashed down on to her neck, burning at her skin on contact.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>06-11-2010, 17:42:29</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's response was confusing enough to stop Glinda from giggling, made her remove her hand and look stunned for a second.&nbsp; Elphaba seemed <em>concerned</em>, which was the most displaced emotion that Glinda could think of right now. Amusement? Yes. Anger because of the noise and of Glinda's clumsiness? Certainly. But <em>concern</em>?<br><br>"What...?" she said to accompany her blank stare, confused and bewildered - until it dawned on her: There were, indeed, tears in Glinda's eyes and Elphaba thought she was crying out of misery - and - on top of that, she comforted her! Well, with her mouth covered to suppress the laughter, Elphaba couldn't have seen her smiling, but to think Elphie was angry at her would've been far beyond Glinda.<br><br>Realizing the blatant misunderstanding, Glinda grinned and bumped a loose fist against Elphaba's shoulder. "Oh nooooo...?" she teased, "Did you just try to comfort me, Elphie?" She laid a hand to Elphie's chest. "Is there a tinge of friendship left in you, after all? Did you just <em>expose</em> yourself for the kind-hearted girl you are?" <br><br>All the more this reaction served her. Glinda had been truly worried what was still left of their friendship, and if she had needed further confirmation that it wasn't lost, this could well be it.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 10:47:25</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba blinked up at Glinda, returning the confusion, until the giggle bubbled up and that shining smile and charisma returned, with a girly bump to her shoulder. She wasn't hurt or upset? Why in Oz was she so terrible at reading someone's emotions??&nbsp; The surprised look was quickly replaced by a scowl and she turned her head away, but it was too late:&nbsp; she was sure that Glinda would likely see through the thin attempt to maintain her composure.&nbsp; The green hue of her skin darkening on her face - an Elphaba blush.<br><br>"I don't know what you're talking about. I just didn't want you blubbering all over me... that's all." <br>She muttered miserably, her heart leapt at the hand placed so delicately on her chest and hammered with a queer feeling in her stomach, the skin beneath the delicate fingers rippled with goosebumps.&nbsp; She reasoned with herself that it was Glinda's perfume that going to make her puke at some point, she had to get away from it.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 13:13:28</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda smirked. Oh, what a feeble attempt at saving face - it only served to emphasize that Glinda had not been mistaken: Elphaba did care. A lot.<br><br>"Oh come on! There's nothing wrong with a little concern," she teased her friend, displaying a seemingly everlasting smile. She knew better than to continue along this line for too long though - she knew it was enough teasing for now. Besides, that little Elphaba-blush was too cute to ruin. How adorable the girl could look, indeed, if only she didn't always try to hide that side of herself. Oh, it was just like in Shiz, where Elphaba had proven, time and time again, that she <em>was</em> a girl like any other, wanting to be acknowledged, wanting to occupy her corner of pretty, wanting to excel in her own way and gain recognition... and with emotions ranging from disappointment and hurt to happiness, pride and sympathy.<br><br>Finding that in Elphie again made Glinda happy and she carefully began combing ash out of Elphaba's hair with her fingers. The silken strands still felt good under the dust. She wanted to thank Elphaba for the concern and sympathy, but she wasn't exactly sure how to put it. "Elphie..." she began... but words threatened to fail her. She pulled herself close to hold the friend she had lost for so long. "Thank you," she mumbled. And in fact, the last two words were not only for the concern - but Elphie did not have to know that.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 13:32:08</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's wiry body twitched in sudden discomfort under the slight weight on top of her squeezing in closer, the closeness becoming increasingly and uncomfortably warm trapped there under Glinda.&nbsp; Glinda, who seemed to think that everything, even this moment, was exactly as it was back in their days at Shiz, as though she could connect those last moments years ago when she said her goodbyes to the present, sew the two together and patch up the gap in time. There was no way it could be that easy....<br><br>That thick artery on Elphaba's neck began to flutter as she pointedly stared at some invisible point in a dark corner, trying not to succumb to the queasy feeling stirring in her guts. <br><br>"'Thank you?' For what? Being your pillow?" <br>Her voice had suddenly became quiet, that self restraint steadily crumbling beneath the comfort and familiarity.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 13:46:27</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				How she loved Elphaba's voice like that - not so harsh, not so forcefully reasonable, not so ... cold. There was warmth now between them, and though they in fact weren't the two Shiz girls anymore and a lot had happened in the meantime, there was something of that old time left - the parts that mattered.<br><br>"Nooo," Glinda replied, carefully unhooking herself a little from the entanglement. She smiled, still teasing, still so utterly elated by having found that piece of her old Elphie somewhere under the green rubble that was her new <em>exterionality</em>. "For being concerned, of course. That's so sweet." She patted Elphaba's shoulder, getting rather fond of the body contact that now, through odd circumstances, had become appropriate again. <br><br>Elphie was truly sweet right now, and who'd have thought she was going to bring up such a nice vein in herself tonight? It made Glinda's heart flutter with joy and maybe other things. Did she really have to leave tonight...? How could she convince Elphaba to not disappear on her again? Losing Elphaba a second time - she was not certain she could take it.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 13:54:50</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				"Don't know what you're talking about.." <br>Elphaba muttered, returning her eyes to the other woman as she pulled away, feeling a slight pang at the loss of contact... yet also relief. This was all very confusing to her body right now.&nbsp; Great Lurline - what was with this feeling? She was supposed to have had severed those ties, those feelings for her current work... and she had done a damn good job of it.&nbsp; She made sure of it!&nbsp; &nbsp;Then suddenly, in a cloud of glitter and bubbles, Glinda appears and shatters everything with a single touch of her immaculately manicured finger. It was just as simple as that for Glinda, and Elphaba's attention starved mind and body howled for more... <br><br>"... You know, you are really ashy.. did you happen to carry a spare dress in that bubble of yours?" <br>She teased and lifted a brow, trying to push her thoughts around to different directions.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 14:06:28</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				A spare dress! In a bubble! And Elphaba called herself a witch!? Evidently, she knew nothing of bubbles at all. Glinda considered explaining to Elphaba that bubbles were made from thin air and vanished into it as well and that of course they weren't a wardrobe or a room full of stuff.She considered elaborating that the bubble she had conjured up earlier was long since completely gone and any other bubble she might call up would be fresh and new and of the most brilliant color, whichever color suited Glinda's imagination (usually that was pink or purple).<br><br>She opted not to be so elaborate. "No," she replied matter-of-factly, "and I take it you don't have a shower." She attempted to dust off her dress, covering them both in a small cloud of ash and achieving absolutely nothing in terms of cleanliness. Well - now what, without a spare dress around? The idea of having to wear one of Elphaba's sacks was simply dreadful. Her eyes scanned the room - Elphaba had attempted to make tea or something before this disaster had happened, and nearly splashed herself... so... "But you do have water, so I might just rinse it and I'm sure in this hot attic, it's going to dry in no time... if you don't mind." This would certainly not replace professional cleaning with soap and a scrub-brush by professional cleaners... but it would maybe be unobtrusive enough to turn the ash-cover into something that looked like regular dirt on a dusty day... and it had been a bit of a dusty day today.<br><br>She wiped a heap of ash off of Elphaba's arm. "Plus... you could use an oil bath and new clothes yourself." She sent a shy smile Elphaba's way and the no-longer-hostile look on Elphie's face recreated those bubbles of joy from earlier. Without that pissy exterior, Elphaba could make a person feel quite good inside. If only she knew of that power and would call upon it more often.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 14:20:37</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Was Glinda seriously serious?&nbsp; Wouldn't this have been a perfect opportunity to excuse herself and return to her blissful and privileged life?&nbsp; Return to her glittering palaces. gourmet feasts, adoring citizens, loving fiance... Elphaba's thoughts darkened a moment in her own very private and very personal envy of her friend. But, she reminded herself she should not take such petty things as jealousy out on Glinda, who was here, after all...<br><br>"Yeah, sure, if you'd like... it's just rainwater." <br>She looked down and realized her black frock was now closer to gray than black thanks to the powdering from the fireplace. Elphaba sat up and thought a moment... one problem with her flat was that it was made for one person who was never expecting guests and so she never had needed any sort of privacy screen or even a curtain for her most private of matters.. the though made her uneasy as she stood up. <br><br>"You can wash over by the barrel and I'll be... on the bed. All right?"
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 14:31:09</strong>
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				Glinda, way too concerned with her precious gown by now to care about festivals, glamorous dinners or even privacy - or Elphaba's worries about privacy. She nodded her okays, her mind already somewhere else - by her precious, stained dress, and disentangled herself from Elphaba completely. <br><br>She slipped out of her once-clean dress and poured water into the bowl that supposedly was serving as a sink. Standing there in only bra, shoes and short, frilly underwear, she turned the cold rain water into grayish slush and wondered whether that would do any good to the dress or make everything considerably worse. Possibly, the gown was forever ruined and her heart felt a little heavy at the possibly loss. She had really liked it, like all of her wardrobe. And even if she could have infinite new ones, she loved every single one as a personal, special item. <br><br>At least her white bra and white panties had been left clean. She kneeded the cloth a little, awkwardly, for she had little experience with clothes-cleaning and then pulled it out to rinse it in fresh water. Eventually hung it over a lonely box to dry. In the darkness, it was hard to see what color it bore now - white or gray? - or whether the shadows on it were made of slushed ash or just shadows and seams. She wouldn't see the damage until the next day and closer inspection proved itself to be hopeless for the arrival at a definite conclusion.<br><br>It was only then that she realized how near-naked she was and crossed her arms nonchalantly, sinking onto yet another box. "Uh.... good thing it is so warm in here..." she commented, feeling a tinge of - what was this? - shyness?!
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 14:48:24</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Upon reaching her bed Elphaba took her vial of oil (scented with lavender… the cheapest she could buy) in hand but looked back over her shoulder, towards the physical manifestation of her past… and the sight caused her heart to arrest.&nbsp; There sat Galinda - no, <em>Glinda</em>, shimmery dress discarded, sitting in her camisole and frilly panties, the creamy pale skin of her smoothly curved shoulders and petite back, her blond curls tumbled down her shoulders, the golden tips caressing her back. The view threw her mind and her heart back… was it 5 years ago? More? Less?&nbsp; Glinda had changed physically, Elphaba noticed. Oh, she was still ever the gorgeous petite blond with beautiful golden tresses but she had certainly 'filled out' in their years of absence - not to say that Glinda was fat in any way shape or form!&nbsp; Her body appeared toned, more full of feminine curves and generally very pleasing to the eye.<br><br>Elphaba turned away.<br><br>It threw her back to those days in their shared school dorm, that turbulent time full of intertwining winds of indignation and hope, the dark times with Madam Morrible’s betrayal, Dr. Dillamond’s death, spotted with light… the light that came from Galinda. Galinda and her friendship. Especially those quiet moments in their dorm when Elphaba would snatch peeks and glances over at Galinda when she got dressed. Now, nothing of any real consequence was seen but those secret looks filled Elphaba with mixed feelings… part of it she was sure was of jealousy for Galinda’s perfect pale skin and feminine body. But now… now she wasn’t so sure that that was the case.<br><br>The emotions that rose up in her chest threatened to strangle her, the needle-sharp pricks in her heart, the deep ache, the hard hammer of her heart… it was too much. Too, too much.&nbsp; It was a kettle that had now boiled over and which burned her hands.&nbsp; Elphaba leapt to her feet, dropping the bottle of scented oil which hit the ground with a heavy thud and rolled away, the top coming loose and spilling some of its contents out. It only took a few long-legged strides to reach Glinda and Elphaba roughly yank her to her feet.<br><br>“You have to go. Now.”<br><br>Elphaba’s voice quivered with unshed emotion, her stony front beginning to crack and fracture at the revival of old, long neglected feelings and memories. She couldn’t afford to allow this to affect her – she was part of the arrow, she had a job to do… this would only be too dangerous (and too stupid) to involve Glinda, no matter how much she ached for it.<br><br>“Please, ‘Linda, my sweet… don’t ask. Just go.”<br><br>Her brown eyes were hidden behind a dark veil of hair but surely they were…
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 16:07:59</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda felt rather attacked by Elphaba's sudden rush - and since she knew her so little by now, almost felt threatened by it. Could it be that her friend would have a knife or other hidden in the folds of her shabby garments? But no - they were friends and absence did not kill friendship, it just made the bonds harder once reunison was possible. What a stupid fear that was, she scolded herself, and how unjust towards Elphaba with whom she had spent so many years peacefully and happily side by side. <br><br>All the more strange, then that Elphaba should ask Glinda to leave as quickly as possible - so suddenly even. Hadn't they just decided that Glinda, under some conditions, was allowed to stay for a little? But in all the time she had tended to her dress, what had happened inside of Elphie's strange mind, so that she made the decision to throw Glinda out with such urgency? It seemed to be a new feature in her friend that she would change her mind every so often these days, almost a kind of ... new... instability. Hadn't it been Elphaba who had always been so firm in her decisions, so sure with the directions she chose? Well, nobody knew what had happened to Elphaba in these past few years in - what must have been - the harsh underground of the Emerald city.<br><br>However, Glinda had now settled for staying in more than one way - the primary being the decision to discard her clothes to let them dry for now and thus stand around in bra and panties. Her dress was dripping wet and while this attic was sufficiently warm, she was sure the street was not. And honestly, she did not want to be caught outside in underwear, especially not in <em>this </em>part of the city - bubble or not. And for the matter, not in any other, either: The news would be all over the city the next day - Glinda the Good, caught half naked on the street, only <em>days</em> after her grand engagement party. No, this was not a role she wanted to take on.<br><br>"How? - Naked?" was the only answer she could snap back right now, befuddled by being so painfully close to Elphaba and pestered by a strong scent of lavender coming from somewhere. "Look, Elphaba, you just said I could stay,..." she reminded her friend, looking up at the taller woman's brown eyes and wondering what it was she could see in there. Fear? Decisiveness? Worry? Something told Glinda, now that she got such a close look, that if she was to leave, she might never see Elphaba again. The thought hurt. Losing a friend once was hard, but losing a friend a second time would be unbearable.<br><br>And at the moment the harsh reality of this became clear to her, her elegant fingers dug into the black gown before her. Her voice turned into a quiet, painful beg: "Please don't ask that of me, Elphie...!" <em>Don't ask me to leave knowing I will never see you again.</em>
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 16:21:56</strong>
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				Elphaba felt another fluttering stab in her chest which rippled pain throughout her wiry body at Glinda's plea, those deep blue eyes so clear and so without clouded judgment or sinister plans hiding behind their depths... so unlike herself. Thin ivy fingers twined around Glinda's ivory digits and held them there a moment, feeling the cool warmth and satin soft skin beneath her rough and worked fingers.... held them there, just a moment, applying a last gentle squeeze before pulling Glinda's hands off of herself, holding them away.<br><br>"You can't stay here... you could be in danger... you may already be in danger. Can't you understand that?"<br><br>Her dark velvety voice shivered with emotions, still barely contained... more fractures spiderwebbing across her resolve. Glinda... how could she possibly turn her out like this? But, she must... there was just too much at risk, namely Glinda's own safety.&nbsp; Oh, this was too difficult.. and it hurt so, <em>so</em> much.<br><br>She squeezed the delicate hands encased in her own long fingers...
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 16:32:45</strong>
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				Elphaba's touch was so warm, so where her eyes under this hardened surface that would not serve to fool Glinda, yet her words were so cold. Glinda stayed close, even with her hands removed. Her body was cooling rapidly without proper clothes, despite the warmth of the attic, but she barely felt it. Her mind was occupied in different ways: She knew different measures were needed. She had always been the ditzy blonde girl, and most of the time she probably was, but too many people didn't give her enough credit for decisions - for acting upon things - sometimes - and even less people gave her enough credit for the social skills that had put her where she was now in the society of Oz. And most of all, nobody gave her any credit for bravery. But she had it all inside of her, and it made her who she is and put her in the social place she was currently occupying.<br><br>"I understand that," she said finally and firmly. "But I've already spent <em>years</em> with you, and I should be cursed if I couldn't still read you a little." She looked up into Elphaba's eyes, her own properly watering. "If I leave now, I'll probably never see you again, and any danger is worth preventing that, Elphie."<br><br>There. Plain and simple, just like Elphaba's style. And necessary. Because it was Glinda who feared, and what else could she do but speak her heart as she had always done? What else could she do but let her emotions well to the surface and show Elphaba that there was some bravery and determination in her and that she was not going to run like a foolish little girl and risk everything she had just found.
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			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 16:47:09</strong>
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			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda, oh, Glinda... <br><br>Elphaba had always known that there was so much more to her than what she allowed others to see.. she could accomplish so much when she actually tried... and she saw right through Elphaba's smokescreen to get her out. It was true - Elphaba was already thinking of a place on the other side of the slums to take up residence, tonight in fact.&nbsp; However, if there was one thing that Elphaba could not take in her life it was the sight of someone she loves and cares for crying... especially if she was the one to cause it, and right now, it was Glinda, after all these years, with her beautiful crystal blue eyes shimmering with tears. Tears that Elphaba herself had cast there with her harsh attitude.<br><br>And, in the end, all it took were those pure, crystalline tears to shatter the underground rebel's will and resolve as if it were nothing but a robin's egg.<br><br>It all happened so fast that not even Elphaba herself was sure of what was going on.<br><br>One moment she was towering over the petite witch in front of her, ready to cast her out, and in the next her arms were wrapped around the tiny frame, holding her tight and close, face buried against Glinda's near naked chest while hot, stinging tears shattered her further.<br><br>Oh, gods, she had missed this... she had missed this so damn much. That hollow part in her chest had been breached and all the pain and longing of these past years cascaded into it and out her eyes.<br><br><em>//Oh, Glinda, Glinda.... my darling, sweet Galinda... I've missed you so much. Don't leave me, not now... not ever..//</em>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 16:52:55</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Finally! Finally the last shell of ice crumbled - finally, Elphaba was back. Glinda pressed her cheek against a warm shoulder, wrapped her arms around the thin, tall frame and held on tightly. This was answer enough and such relief, too, causing her to shed more tears, but of a different kind. This times, they were tears of relief. <br><br>Elphaba, her beautiful, ivy-colored Elphaba, would not leave her just like that. Not anymore. There, frail and half-naked as she was, she finally found the warmth she'd been seeking for - particularly, the warmth that Elphaba's words had been lacking earlier and the warmth her body needed without her dress.<br><br>If only she could tag Elphaba so she would never lose her again because shifting and changing as Elphaba's decisions were today, the moment she was alone she might just change her mind again and pull it through. But right now - right now Elphaba wouldn't let her go, and that was one step forward into their reunison.<br><br>And in the emotional ride of the moment, all Glinda could really say between her tears was the truth: "I've missed you so much, Elphie."
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 17:22:44</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				For the first time in what must have been a cruelly drawn out eternity Elphaba let her emotions out, let it flood out of her like it had never done before, her fear of losing Glinda again the taking the lion's share causing her to only hold onto Glinda all the tighter, just in case she manages to disappear in a cloud of glitter and bubbles.<br><br>This was it. This was home.. it had to be. The last remaining shred of her past she had worked so hard to eradicate had now come back to her, squeezing through her defenses and presented itself to her.&nbsp; And she seized it like a starving child.<br><br>Her shoulders shuddered with silent sobs, the hot saline stinging her face and cheeks with liquid fire.<br><br>"I missed you, too..."<br>She croaked back in a hoarse voice, the twined arms holding her as though Glinda might vanish at any point. Lifting her head she looked into Glinda's shimmering eyes, dark pools overflowing and suddenly she was completely overcome with another wave of knee-bending emotion. She chanced unwinding an arm from Glinda's hip and touched the flushed, skin of Glinda's soft cheek, and finding she wanted nothing more than Glinda... right here... right now.<br><br>In the next heartbeat, before her mind had time to process her desires and put down the necessary breaks to prevent it, she stooped down and snatched Glinda's lips in a kiss... not with a silly and shy schoolgirl kiss but one of nearly a decade-long longing, real need and fear only adults could understand, which had been pent up for far, far too long. The kiss was hot and needy, starved for affection, demanding and asking that Glinda never leave.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 17:30:32</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Oh, seeing those tear-filled eyes - how they must sting Elphaba - from someone who could conjure up such a cold shell and held so much control - this way they had twice or even ten times the meaning they'd have on any other person. And oh, how sorry poor Glinda was that Elphaba must cry so, that no other reunion but a painful-joyful one was possible. <br><br>Anything she'd have expected - a painfully tight squeeze, irrational accusations, even, and endless apologies. However, Glinda suddenly found herself in a longing, forward embrace with Elphaba, kissed like no prince could kiss, held like no knight could hold. It took a moment to register that Elphaba had claimed her lips with such force that it nearly threw Glinda over - hot, needy, longing and desperate, her lips clung to Glinda's, making no excuses for this being anything but a kiss of passion.<br><br>And all Glinda could, in her not-so-quick mind, comment to that was: 'Oh yes, please.' And without knowing it, she meant two things by that: First of all she had been kissed before, but never ever had she been kissed like that - uncouth and uncasual, yet with every layer of romance and passion entwined, making any fairy tale princess envy her. And, secondly, <em>Elphie</em> was kissing her. It wasn't army-pumped-up Fiyero (who still was incredibly wonderful and breathtakingly sexy), whose chest had become so hard and strong, and whose duty had at times made him too exhausted to care for much but himself. It also wasn't little Boq who had certainly managed to steal his kisses (unwelcomed and outrageously misplaced) from an unknightly "below", nor anyone else of the once so arrogant people at Shiz or the foul hypocrites in governmental duty by her side, many of whom had tried their luck with beautiful Glinda. No - this was Elphaba, unconcealed and direct and honest.<br><br>There was no question as to what one should do when being kissed like that by someone like Elphaba: Participate. Glinda's hands clasped the long, thin frame before her more tightly, pushed herself up on her toes and hungered after Elphaba's lips passionately - conveying, without words, that she wouldn't survive another parting. 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 17:43:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's heart thudded heavily - yes, despite her own sudden scalding desire she was still nervous as hell - remnants of her school days she left far behind? No... because she knew, behind that cloud of passion and desire that what she was doing was morally wrong... and to her best friend of all people! She could have just as easily ruined such an important part of her life (again) with this but...<br><br>When Glinda's thin arms found their way around her angular body and suddenly there was a pressure pushing back against her lips - -- that was all Elphaba needed to know.<br><br>In her time in the Emerald City she had met a suitor or two, some whom she satiated a night's lust with, so she was no blushing virgin to such moments of carnal play but this... this was different. So much more different.<br><br>Elphaba quickly moved her hands, one claiming the small back and pulled the frail body up against her own, feeling the soft, plump pressure of Glinda's breasts crushing against her, the other crawling up to the back of Glinda's neck, spindly green fingers claiming the sensitive skin and holding her there. Lips devouring, pulse quickening, heart aching. Her eyes and face still burned from her tears but she ignored them - instead pouring herself into this, into this little safe island of hope and comfort.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 17:52:48</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				&nbsp;Elphie's forwardness should've been quite frightful, especially after the previous struggle of wanting to throw Glinda out, then not, then again, and now - again - not. However, somehow, Glinda understood this so clearly as if she herself was stuck in Elphaba's boots. And maybe, to a part she was - if not in the same boots, then the same boat. Maybe she knew exactly how Elphaba felt because she shared the feeling with her, this subdued, long-nourished longing that now suddenly sprung to the surface as if it had just waited with certainty and patience for its moment to come. Maybe she had known, somewhere deep inside, that all this wonder and amazement as to what Elphaba might look like beneath that silly frock was more than simple curiosity... that the cheerfulness she felt when a wave of Elphaba's oil would cross the room towards her bed wasn't just because she liked the scent...<br><br>Glinda could feel her tears on her cheeks which were further nourished by those from Elphaba joining them, feel the small chest against her own, the needy hands holding her possessively. It was exactly what she wanted to feel - she wanted Elphaba to cling to her and pour that passion over her, and she wanted to return it on an equal level. She had to, or she would explode.<br><br>The delicate play on her spine and neck gave Glinda goosebumps that rippled over her arms and back like a spreading infection. Her own hands rose higher, as if their pressure was needed to hold Elphaba down and close, crawled under the curtain of black hair between Elphaba's shoulder blades and locked her in a secure embrace. It didn't matter that she shouldn't do this, that she had scolded Biq (or was it Binq?) for just the same thing when he kissed her despite being engaged to Nessarose... it didn't matter right now because this was worth much more than some old, dusty engagement.<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 18:03:18</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				When it felt as though her lungs would simply burst Elphaba, reluctantly, pulled away while sucking in air scented by Glinda... by her body, her hair, her mouth.<br><br>"Oh, my sweet..."<br>She breathed. Elphaba's face felt scalding hot and itched from the burning tears, she looked down at Glinda's tilted face - the soft, creamy cheeks and elegant cheekbones stained a lovely shade of rose red. She looked down into those deep crystalline eyes, holding them with her own tear-hazed gaze, as if trying to commit the exact color and pattern that created Glinda's iris. Her hands were tickled by those golden curls, bodies pressed so tight she had trouble for a moment distinguishing where her body ended and Glinda's began...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 18:18:30</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda looked up at Elphaba through her own wet eyelashes, taking in the soothing, soft color and the darker green on her cheeks, her warm wood-colored eyes stained with the red of recent tears. Their lips were apart now, but their bodies were still entangled so comfortably and so close. Glinda could feel Elphaba's chest press against her, then relax again, in time with both their slightly faster breathing.<br><br>"Elphie..." she held the gaze, finding wonders between their interlocked eyes, misty and hazy yet, but unmistakably there. Elphaba's cheeks were glistening with wetness, produced from her own body, and yet so toxic to her. "That must be painful..." she whispered, pushed herself up a little further and began kissing the tears from Elphaba's cheeks, tasting salt and scenting the natural flavor of Elphaba's skin that reminded her of the wilderness of nature and the freshness of a forest in the rain.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 19:44:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba was grateful. Oh, so grateful that she wasn't being pushed away right now.. that she was receiving such affection from someone so wonderful, so beautiful, so pure... and someone from her past.&nbsp; That brief beautiful time, where she had been met with real friendship and had had at one point real hope for her future...<br><br>A soft, hoarse chuckle bubbled in her throat.<br><br>"It doesn't hurt much...."<br>She lied but, in fact.. she would much rather be...<br><br>Seeing as she hadn't been turned away the first time, Elphaba angled her head down and caught Glinda's salty lips with her own once again, quietly devouring the soft bits of flesh finding she did not want to stop... not for anything. Not now, not ever.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>08-11-2010, 22:30:41</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda was quite taken by surprise by the sudden re-claim of her lips, but not unpleasantly so. She rather enjoyed the newly-formed contact and had no troubles joining into the now softer tone of the exchange. Elphaba's massaging lips, which had turned soft through the frequent application of oil, sent a warm, tingling sensation rippling through Glinda, causing her heart to beat nervously and her mind to spiral in an emotional dizziness.<br><br>She lifted one hand to thread through Elphaba's dark hair, releasing the earthen scent trapped in there, and massaging her scalp with perfectly manicured, pink fingertips. Why, all these years, had she not wasted a thought imagining this or even seeking it? - Would it have been too painful or too surreal? But no thought could have surpassed this painfully wonderful reality, anyway.<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 03:48:58</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The frail fingers curling in her hair, caressing and tracing her scalp sent unbidden goosebumps to trickle down Elphaba's spine... yes, she enjoyed that. The simple touch sent her body alight with new desires and feelings, burning lips crushing and kissing.<br><br>This was good. No, wait, it wasn't good - it was exactly what she wanted. What she needed, in fact. And yet, greedy as it may be, she wanted more.<br><br>Emerald petals parted and a shocking pink tongue slid out to taste pink tiers - the sweet, slightly salty flavor of Glinda's petal-soft lips sent another heady jolt of longing through her angular frame. The hand possessively clinging to Glinda's hip began to massage the curvy part, relishing the gentle curve... Glinda's body held so much that the green witch wanted to explore.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 08:28:01</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The excitement that captured the blonde witch wasn't unfamiliar to her, it was the intensity with which she felt it. Oh, indeed, she has burned with passion before, given her all and everything, and received the same passion in return, often to full satisfaction... but there was a layer of intense longing, as if harbored for years, that made this kiss unique. The simple touch to her hips, now made palpable through soft movements, started a fire within her that she had never felt in this way before. Her hips involuntarily writhed under the touch; she was simply unable to keep them still. Yet, she nearly froze in shock when Elphaba's sharp tongue turned gentle began playing with her lips. Such boldness from anyone else, except her fiancé, would have resulted in heavy protest under any other circumstance, but here she was, enchanted and approving.<br><br>In fact, Glinda longed for that new flavor, her curiosity nearly stung within her as to what Elphaba's tongue and mouth would taste like... feel like.. what made the difference between this kiss and any other, what accounted for this brathtaking intensity? What was uniquely <em>Elphaba</em> about it? Glinda allowed the lean witch to explore her lips and taste for as long as she could bear it, then she had to let her own tongue participate - meet that gentle snake from the jungle grove and play with it while sparks of excitement crackled through her every vein.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:01:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				An approving sound reverberated through Elphaba's throat, excitement and blazing passion began to devour her from the inside out. The leaf green hand at the gentle hip slithered around, following the writhing curve to Glinda's narrow back, placed her palm flat against her lower back and pulled the squirming hips closer to her&nbsp; own body, wanting to feel Glinda's excitement for herself.<br><br>Elphaba puffed a held breath through her sharp hatchet of a nose and licked, tasted, and enjoyed the soft almost candy flavor of Glinda's pliable lips. It was truly unlike anything she had ever experienced, it was as though the years of longing had added a unique spice of its own making Elphaba crave it all the more.&nbsp; Her heart hopped when she felt the closed tiers she was tasting part and her pink muscle was joined by Glinda's slick and cool tongue which felt like wet velvet rubbing against hers. The proclaimed Wicked Witch gave a soft groan, her body aflame and demanding more.. more of Glinda.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:07:18</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda's heart hopped at the sound Elphaba elicited - so unashamed of herself, so true to the feeling. She felt her own hips pressed hard against Elphaba's body, fanning excitement and pushing her underwear towards ruin. Even through the cloth of Elphaba's shirt, Glinda could feel the evident excitement of portruding nipples pushing her, certain that Elphaba could feel the same through the thin cloth over Glinda's chest. <br><br>How had they ended up like this? Who'd have expected it? Glinda was not even sure what was happening to her, or why this situation went so far off the book, happened in ways that were illogical and yet felt so right.<br><br>But Elphaba's skillfull tongue sent such sparks through her, it made it impossible to shape a clear thought, or bring up the will to do so. She wanted Elphaba completely - her skin, her taste, her scent... she longed to dive into this well and bathe herself with all Elphaba had to offer. Her hands dropped, lower and lower, scratching half-involuntarily over Elphaba's back as she used them to pull them as closely together as possible. If she could have melted into one with her, it would barely have been close enough to satisfy her right now.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:26:31</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				This flavor, this heat, this feeling... this is what Elphaba wanted, not from just any John or face in the crowd but from this single warm, soft, beautiful body now so closely pinned to herself. Her mind could hardly registered the reality of this situation, leading her to acquire a dream-like feel to this moment (of course that could be attributed to her lack of oxygen, racing pulse and adrenaline)... could this really be happening?&nbsp; There was time to think of regrets or to worry about fears or repercussions, this moment was too beautiful, too long in coming to be ruined by that nagging conscious... <br><br>Elphaba inhaled sharply at those small nails clawing up her back as they did which sent goosebumps and shivers throughout her narrow frame.&nbsp; She slipped and slithered her oral muscle, twining with Glinda's and slowly gaining ground into her warm mouth. Itching fingers gently clawing at those delicious hips grinding ever so slightly, fanning her own desire.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:40:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's aroused body was so real and alive against Glinda, filled with the underlaying vibrato of passion. She wanted this, exactly here, in this dusty attic-like chamber, so secretive, small and wild... but was this even real and not a hazy dream? Was she not in bed with Fiyero, sleeping soundly, dreaming of a green, heated snake making lunch of her heart... but no, this felt too real... And would not her longing still be unfulfilled - would she not still have that empty spot inside of herself that was meant to be filled by Elphaba, if this was not real? But all these needs felt so satisfied...<br><br>Glinda's tongue chased Elphaba's, felt rough green lips and a warm, moist tongue, sending a rush od adrenaline from the pit of her stomach. There was no need for words, gestures said it all... and for the first time, Glinda felt there was a distinct, feminine shape that was still unmistakable under all the boniness, felt the hips and the thighs with her wandering fingers... and loved every curve that she found.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:45:08</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba enjoyed the soft, pliant curves under her slender fingers, the full bosom crushed against hers, the soft candy-lips devouring her own... she could hardly believe that such need, such lust could spring forth at just a few touches and kisses. Yet, her loins were aflame with desire, every little touch, little gesture, scent, sound from Glinda adding to the growing flames.<br><br>Elphaba pushed her snake-like tongue in-between Glinda's soft lips, no more shallow plays and light touching... no, she wanted more, and she was going to take it. Her tongue slid easily in, penetrating past into the warm depths, green tiers crushed once again against pink, a breath passing from Elphaba into Glinda.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:48:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda could hardly catch enough breath - this was so hot and exciting and she couldn't even imagine where this could lead and how it would be... but she had a burning urge to find out. Her hands dug into Elphaba's hips involuntarily, knowing she'd explode if kissing was all she was going to get.<br><br>he pink petal-lips enclosed the green leaves that were Elphaba's, inviting the probing to her mouth, enjoying the rush of warmth and desire it stirred up in her. One leg slipped forward, trapped in Elphaba's skirt, seeking contact. 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 09:57:45</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's tongue slithered and licked, wriggling in-between Glinda's soft lips tasting this new world that was Glinda, claiming and possessing this mouth, Glinda's mouth.<br><br>The leg slipping forward was very welcomed and Elphaba pressed herself against the approaching leg, her skirt-clad thigh brushing against Glinda's, the dark fabric rode higher and caused her breath to quicken, her groin to throb with the beginnings of liquid heat.<br><br>This was exciting, this was wonderful, this was all she wanted right now.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 10:05:38</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				A small moan wormed it's way out from the back of Glinda's throat, involuntarily and very genuine - she loved this - the touch of Elphaba's thigh sent rushes through her, wishes, hopes, maybe some imagination... and at least a cartload of desire. Her body felt so small and fragile against these powerful feelings Elphaba inflicted upon her.<br><br>She wanted more... that skin, the unveiled scent and feel of it, the movement of the velvety green as muscles played beneath it. She wanted to know what she had missed seeing all these years under the unrevieling black garments... almost too hastily, Glinda's hands began untucking Elphaba's shirt from her skirt.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 10:14:53</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba purred in approval against hot, wet lips, tongue sliding under and toying with Glinda's. Her breath hitched at those delicate, aristocratic hands suddenly and desperately groping for passage under her top, the boldest move so far either of them had made since their lips had made contact. And, hells, it was from <em>Glinda</em>.&nbsp; Did she need anymore proof that Glinda was, indeed, as curious and as caught up in the moment as she herself was?<br><br>She allowed those hands their greedy path and granted herself the opportunity to run hard, blunt nails down the back of the naked and dainty leg pressed between her own thighs, pulling their bodies closer for better wriggling, grinding contact against those parts that needed it the most right now.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 10:25:25</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda elicited another moan, her body feeling so alive and heated with Elphaba's skill. Could it be that Elphaba wanted her just as much...? There was no opposition or resistance to something that had been a matter of privacy for years in Shiz: The usually clothed parts of Elphaba's body. She pushed her hips forward asking more touches and grinding... while her hasty hands found their way under the shirt to feel warm, oil-smoothed skin under the delicate tips of her fingers.<br><br>"You.... have a bed...?" <em>//Well, or something that can pass for one.//</em>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 10:33:55</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hot, desperate, lucid desire sluiced through her veins making every nerve, every hair tingle with it. Kiss-bruised lips parted she panted, body afire, brown eyes darkened and half-lidded with lust, and she nodded, walking Glinda backwards towards her meager, hard bed while she resumed her heated assault. Scalding lips claimed the pale column of Glinda's neck, marking it with kisses, scraping the warm skin with her teeth until their movements reached her bed.<br><br>Elphaba gently but hastily sat herself onto the worn bed and pulled Glinda onto her lap, lips and teeth never left her neck in the whole process. Hands pawed at the thin camisole, wanting to feel more of Glinda's pale flesh under her hands.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 10:40:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda followed as if magnetically pulled along by a strong power of attraction, already regrettingt that the grinding business was lost due to walking, but she also had a certain feel as to what the reward for that would be, so she was not quite so opposed. And there still were Elphaba's hungry kisses to her neck, making her tilt it aside and follow blindly, every touch from Elphaba's lips burning like a flame. <br><br>She followed onto Elphie's lap eagerly, straddling the black skirted-legs and resuming her attempts to relieve Elphaba of her shirt. She could feel Elphaba's warm hands, so welcome to Glinda's body, attempt to return the favor of unddressing, but didn't let it stop her. She, after all, was already in underwear - Elphaba still had a lot of cloth to lose.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 11:26:45</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The creamy, delicate thighs that straddled her lap made Elphaba suddenly very glad she wasn't really born a male as she was expected to be for if that had been so, she would have been sporting a mighty large hard-on right now. Though, instead, her groin pulsed and ached, blood filling and swelling her with ravenous hunger.<br><br>Elphaba chortled against Glinda's neck at her impatience (and eagerness?), retracting her assault on Glinda's camisole to show Glinda's all too eager fingers the buttons on her top, helping the delicate fingers remove each button, teeth nipping along her exposed throat.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 11:32:56</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda eagerly took the silent help, racing down the track of buttons and leaving a wide gap in her path. There, under the mysterious black lay a warm, inviting meadow of green that Glinda needed to explore. Once she was all the way down she parted the cloth almost ceremonially and descended her fingers onto the unveiled skin. This was Elphaba - green as ever - and there was no doubt that it was exactly what Glinda longed for.<br><br>Warmth and liquid rushed down between her legs; her hands were quivering delightedly. She knew she'd never forget a second of this moment, but hold it dear no matter what would come afterwards. Oh, and how her heart was pounding, pumping blood around her body and pouring it down into her groin where it made her swell with excitement between her legs. 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 12:11:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				A longing moan trickled from between her lips when those cool, delicate hands met her scalding skin... in an area touched by so few people, and never in such an adulated fashion. Elphaba disengaged her lips from the now lightly marked neck and leaned backwards, hands moving behind to rest on the bed holding herself up, chest and torso pushing out towards those fingers offering and pleading... eyes sliding shut in ecstasy at those hands, goose flesh washing over her emerald green flesh.<br><br>How long she had wanted to be touched like this... no, to be touched by Glinda, to feel this liquid fire burning her veins. Never mind the thin, glittering scar barely visible on her small, flat belly... that didn't matter right now, nothing did but those hands touching and loving her body right now.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 12:45:54</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda pushed the cloth aside some more, revealing more of Elphaba's chest that, in the faint light within the chamber, seemed to be layered with mystery and softly disturbed by a wave of goosebumps. Ah, really now, she, Glinda was causing this? How exciting! Her exploring fingers began tracing the curves on Elphie's chest excitedly... felt the smooth slide from the collarbone to the small, round breasts, circled nipples and pushed gently agains the underside of the soft tissue, watching the shape move and change by the impact of Glinda's palms.<br><br>So enraptured was she in the delicacy that was Elphaba's chest that - for the time being - other parts escaped her. Long had she admired the line from Elphab's chin and jaw down her slender neck, when she had been reading or contemplating or relaxed on her bed back in Shiz. Her arms, her hair and slender fingers were all so familiar to Glinda, but this... this was new. And there was so much to take in here that she had not time just yet to notice the edge of a scar, much lower than where her eyes were currently traveling.<br><br>"I've said it before... you're beautiful..." she whispered, still out of breath from excitement and kissing.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 12:58:21</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba, eyes closed, shuddered at the feel of cool cloth sliding against and away from her heated skin only to be replaced by the night's air and Glinda's tender hands. She released a soft gasp when those soft fingers made contact with her meager breasts, head tilting back, body quivering with unveiled desire.&nbsp; There was a warm, wet stinging against her thighs, against her hot and throbbing groin.. ah yes, Glinda was really having quite an effect on her right now...<br><br>"You're crazy..." <br>Elphaba half-whispered, half-hissed out in another gasp, pressing her narrow chest forward and closer to those wonderful fingers.&nbsp; She was very thankful that the evening light was fading with twilight filtering in through the high skylight above them, for she was more than a little self-loathing when it came to her body.&nbsp; Elphaba knew Glinda's glittering eyes were on her body, drinking in those parts of her she always had made a point of concealing, she didn't need to open her eyes to know that.&nbsp; She felt like such an oddity, such a freak for sure.... and this made her stomach clench in nervous spasms.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 13:21:30</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Oh yes... I am. With you here, I'm sure I am..." Glinda breathed out, leaning over to plant kisses on the closed, sleeping blossoms that shaped Elphaba's boobs. She kissed the portruding tip of the bud, as if that could induce non-existing petals to unfurl and blossom. Then, like a diligent bee, she moved on to the other, feasting from that bud as well.<br><br>Slowly, her hands pushed the cloth down Elphaba's arms, freeing the green velvet from the restrictions of the contrasting cloth, letting it slide to frail-looking elbows and rest there. Oh yes, she was beautiful, may she know it or not, especially now as the last sunlight sweeped over her. The twilight bounced off her fine green skin in multiple colors which lightly faded into one another, caressed the curves and drew artful shadows over her.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 13:29:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba hardly had any time to respond, any words or anything resembling coherence for that matter was swept away in a sharp inhale - those lips she had claimed and devoured earlier were now flitting against her exposed breasts. Wet, warm lips briefly, oh so briefly pressing against the sensitive nubs caused Elphaba to sit up a little higher to support herself, hands moving back to the delicate body perched on her lap.&nbsp; Eyes opened once more and she pushed her fingers up Glinda's thighs to the hem of her camisole, wanting to see and feel the beautiful body hidden by this flimsy piece of fabric.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 13:36:24</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda didn't protest - in fact, she gently let go of those delicate breasts to grant Elphaba access to the camisole, then slowly and very willingly lifted her arms to allow Elphie to take it off, eyes half-lidded in pleasure. The night was sparkling with excitement behind those half-lidded eyes, the pure intimacy of this little gesture - of being so divinely disrobed in this clandestine moment - made&nbsp; Glinda strangley rapturous.<br><br>Between her legs, she felt warm and moist - her body was inviting touches, demanding them, even, and Glinda's head found no reason to object...<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 13:52:53</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba slowly, gingerly slid her green hands beneath the thin, silky material, her fingertips coming in contact with quivering, hot skin. She relished in the feeling and her hands hungered for more so she slid her hands higher, caressing up smooth sides, the fabric catching on her arms and lifting oh so slowly. It was like a ritual, her hands blindly exploring the delicate and hidden body, loving every inch every curve she came in contact with, and craving those she did not.<br><br>Her fingertips brushed past what must be Glinda's bra and.. before she knew it the camisole was up and off of Glinda, discarded somewhere unimportant. Elphaba took a moment, her dark, intelligent eyes soaking in this view... the narrow curve of Glinda's hips, the heaving full breasts nestled in her elegant and tasteful bra, the flat yet succulent tummy all encompassed in that soft skin the color of alabastar...<br><br>"You're so beautiful..."<br><br>Elphaba reached out, caressing across a warm, quivering belly with both hands, head dipped down to kiss just above the swell of her breasts, savoring, feeling, touching, catching scent of Glinda's skin so close.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:02:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Like needlepricks, Elphaba's ginger touches and kisses teased Glinda's body, pushed against the nerve endings like she was an instrument to be played. Heavy breathing lifted and relaxed those ripe grapes in her bra, but her eyes were all on Elphaba, even as she slowly descended her arms. She was enraptured by Elphaba's face, the admiration with which she explored Glinda's body... the soft green tone of her lips and the delicate long neck descending into an equally beautiful body, delicious and fascinating.<br><br>Glinda's hips writhed involuntary, while her hands reconnected, gingerly, with Elphaba's upper body to touch and explore. She moved and shifted, so uncomfortably comfortable in her wet, aroused state and in such desire for friction and touches.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:08:48</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's hands were light green vines against pale marble on Glinda's tight belly and she enjoyed the queer contrast. She slid her fingers higher, admiring the body beginning to impatiently writhe atop of her, which pulsed and breathed beneath her hands. Glinda's skin was so delicate and soft... so unlike those she had shared brief nights with.&nbsp; This felt nothing like those fleeting and forgettable moments, they were times that had called for the need of instant gratification.. this felt like so much more than that.<br><br>Fingers crept higher and higher, gaining ground before finally sliding over those large, warm mounds, playing with their soft, swollen and lace clad shapes in her palms, she could feel the erect nipples straining against the lace. and pushing on her palms.&nbsp; Elphaba's hips pushed up, also wanting friction and stimulation to ebb the ache wrecking havoc between her wet, stinging thighs.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:17:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Oh... goodness, Elphaba.." Glinda exclaimed in a state of pure exstasy when Elphaba's surprisingly gentle hands massaged her lace-clad breasts. She tilted her head back and pushed her chest forward, every inch of skin itching for the contact with Elphaba's crawlins fingers, growing about her like green plants seeking to conquer.<br><br>Glinda's cheeks felt hot and flushed, though she could have sworn all her blood had rushed elsewhere... Absentmindedly, her light-skinned fingers flowed down those delicate green sides, like melting snow flowing over green pastures... and when Elphaba squeezed Glinda's sensitive boobs, her nails dug in involuntarily, while her teeth descended onto Elphaba's lower lip, muffling her.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:24:41</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba licked her drying lips, her hands seemingly so much larger against the tiny frame of Glinda's, her hands almost encompassing those tender mounds nestled between her hands.... she could even feel those cherry-tipped nipples poking through the lace. Elphaba curled her fingers till the tips dipped into the fabric and began to tug down Glinda's bra, fingers sliding along the edge to her shoulders, sliding the bra and straps down enough to allow the constraining lace to loosen.<br><br>Elphaba hissed at the nails which dug into her skin, briefly kissing at those lips that clung to her own lower lip before she leaned in to seek her lustful revenge by nipping at the side of one of Glinda's soft, perfect breasts... hands sliding in to support the twin orbs as the lace fell, revealing her snowy breasts with their cherried tips so hard and inviting.<br><br>"Nh... Glinda.."<br>Elphaba breathed, her lips sliding down the succulent curve towards a nipple, green petals caressing against the hard tip while her hands held, caressed, touched and worshiped the soft shapes.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:29:57</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda sucked a sharp breath into her body - like electrical currents, Elphaba's artful touches to her nipples sent sparks through her body once more. The feeling of pleasantly coaxed lust spread over her entire body... and then Elphaba said - no moaned - her name, sending Glinda's head spinning. Oh, would she ever have dreamed of hearing her moan the word like that? Would she have dared to? No, never.<br><br>"More... please," she begged, out of breath as she was, and slid her nails down to the hem of Elphaba's skirt, tugging impatiently. This was all taking way too long - she felt giddy and impatient like a teenager.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:37:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba did not need any further begging from the hot, needy woman writhing in her lap, her voice which begged with a breathy need tugged at her belly, at the desire consuming her and she simply needed nothing more. Nothing more than this confirmation of Glinda's own, heated lust and need mirrored her own right now.<br><br>Elphaba's lips snatched the nipple she had been toying with a moment more between her lips, sucking the delicate bud into her mouth, tongue lashing out against the trapped tip flicking and playing. Her hand found the other, neglected nipple and she caught it between her fingers, squeezing the shape, rubbing and twisting...<br><br>Her position, hands latched onto Glinda's breasts as they were offered Glinda no opportunity rid Elphaba of her top, which clung to her forearms, distracting and constricting some of her movements.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>09-11-2010, 14:51:46</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda writhed and shifted, still, unable to keep her body at rest. She elicited small mewls and hot breaths as Elphaba toyed with her nipples, making her crave the attention more and more with every touch. Fingertips dipped under the hem of Elphaba's skirt. Glinda's mind was already elsewhere - naked, on top of Elphaba, grinding and kissing and getting sweaty with need. Oh, they'd have all night, but if it took that long, she'd wither away in need.<br><br>"Ahh.,.. Elphie... Elphie, please..." What she was begging for, she did not know. Progress, most likely - coming closer to that vision of hers with both of them naked and living the need they felt.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>10-11-2010, 00:01:26</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba, in all of her own carnal need to devour all of Glinda's body perched atop of her lap, almost missed the delicate fingers trying to worm their way into her skirt. Yet, even through the hot haze a little alarm and unease went off in the last little lucid part of her mind and she gently shooed the fingers away from the hem, removing her own hands from those delicious breasts to guide Glinda's hands to her own diminutive ones.<br><br>Clawing hands dropped down when the deed was done to latch onto the squirming hips, nails hacking in and yanking them harder against her own bony hips, lifting her hips to grind against the body spread on top of her. Craving, hungering, desperate for friction on those hot and aching parts.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>10-11-2010, 00:07:40</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda was first confused by having her hands drawn away, but then figured Elphaba liked more attention to her boobs, and who was she to object to that? She gladly cupped those delicious cones and rubbed her palms against the skin before letting her fingers dance on eager nipples. Plus - the grinding below was very distracting in a rather positive way, making Glinda elicit sounds of joy and hot breaths of desire. She pushed her hips down to aid the feeling... Not in her wildest dreams would she have imagined being in this place, moving like that...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>10-11-2010, 04:56:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				A moan rumbled in Elphaba's throat, very much enjoying those warm, soft hands cupping her mounds pressing, squeezing and playing with pleading tips. Glinda's voice, her hot breathes and obvious sounds of delight at their carnal dance was like kerosene to Elphaba's already blazing lust.<br><br>Hungry, hot mouth once again found a pert little nipple and roughly sucked it between her lips, tongue lashing against the tiny captive.&nbsp; Hips rose and fell, grinding and applying an annoyingly paltry pressure those wet, aching parts, moving as though they were in the act itself. Fingers clawed down Glinda's thighs till she found the hem then instantly slid under, dragging angry red trails up those milky thighs pushing her panties higher, wanting and needing to feel and touch those desperate parts of Glinda.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>10-11-2010, 08:38:36</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Eager thumbs stroke over the portruding pearls of Elphaba's arousal, tugging here and pushing the hard knobs against the soft tissue beneath to give Elphaba a sensation that would at least be close to the mind-wiping tingles coming from Glinda's nipples thanks to Elphaba's skillful tongue-play. <br><br>Glinda's eager legs were spread wide left and right of Elphaba's - straddling her to move her own hips as lowly as possible and achieve some much-needed grinding. She moaned in approval as Elphaba's wandering fingers made their way down there. There was too much pent-up need here to go casually and explore with slow curiosity - there'd be time for that another day.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>10-11-2010, 12:11:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Swollen lips released its captive with a hot, aching breath at Glinda's hands tugging and teasing her desperate green buds. Elphaba angled her head up, lips parted in hot, shallow pants watching the angelic face of Glinda's, crowned in gold curls, so lost in her own mind-warping desire.<br><br>Snaking fingers dragged blunt nails all the way up those luscious thighs slipping under the hem of Glinda's wet panties at the front of her thighs, catching them in her fingers to pull up achingly slow, applying some much needed pressure to her swollen bud.<br><br>"You feel so wet..."<br><br>Elphaba purred in her dark mocha voice, wanting nothing more than to explore Glinda's honey... to taste and feel it... but that would come soon enough. Right now the very Glinda musk rising from her arousal tipped Elphaba's carnal side even further, pulling harder against those torturous panties.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>10-11-2010, 18:54:44</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda threw her head back at the sudden, much needed friction, releasing her otherwise so angelic voice in a sound of pure lust and need. Oh yes, she was wet - she could feel the damp texture against her liquid-sheened arousal and she was certain that Elphaba was very aware of how much she was wanted. Likewise Glinda had no reason to doubt that Elphaba wanted her in ways they'd never have dreamed of before. <br><br>As the friction increased, Glinda's head fell forward, hungrily against Elphaba's neck, to put that hot energy into kisses, nibbles, licks and suction against the skin of a green sex fairy, who took somuch control over her. Again, her nimble hands eagerly wandered to the hem of Elphaba's skirt. She wanted it off ... she wanted to feel <em>Elphaba's</em> moisture down there, see those lovely hips scantily clad in underwear, watch them move, dig her nails into the skin...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>12-11-2010, 12:10:28</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's mind and groin reeled at such a sound drawn from such perfect lips. She was well aware at how this must seem:&nbsp; Elphaba was like a hellspawn seducing a heavenly figure to her own fallen state, each kiss staining her purity, each touch dragging her away from divine light.&nbsp; She never did care much for religion.<br><br>She gasped and desperately yanked down Glinda's panties, succeeding in pulling them onto her thighs just a little. Those succulent lips of Glinda's were claiming, marking and devouring along those sensitive nerves along her neck making this dance all the more wild.<br><br>Oh, but this couldn't <em>all</em> be perfect.&nbsp; After all, this was their first dance and Glinda did not (and could not) know the personal boundaries set by the green witch.&nbsp; Elphaba's bony arms gently knocked Glinda's eager hands away from their busywork trying to remove the skirt.<br><br><em>//no, no my sweet.. don't touch there, please..//</em><br><br>Instead, she decided to distract this fallen angel by dipping a finger down, down, to the saturated seat of Glinda's exposed panties, relishing in the slight tingling sensation it gave her fingertip as she traced along the swollen crevice.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 11:43:12</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Ah... Elpha....bah...." Glinda's neck tinted itself red with embarrassment and lust, so needy was she down there, but also slightly shamed by that loss of control Elphaba magicked into her. Now with her panties off, she felt so pleasantly exposed, especially since Elphaba was still wearing her heavy skirt that now, for sure, would get stained with sauce à la Glinda. The contrast alone made for an interesting game - Glinda, such vulnerable, gold- and pink-stained wax in Elphaba's hands, and Elphaba in control, protected by the thick folds of her skirt.<br><br>Under Elphaba's skillful, devilish fingers, Glinda ascended into the heaven of pleasure, distracted from dissolving into glitter only by her continuous latching on to Elphaba's tasty skin. Her lips were now descending upon those boobs and, since Elphaba's skirt seemed out of bounds (maybe she liked stains on her skirt or wanted to take it off herself?), her hands were clinging, scratching and digging into Elphaba's back.<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 13:58:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Delight and ardor tingled through Elphaba at hearing her own name spoken in such a way by this un-Ozian creature writhing and exposing herself so readily in her lap. What happened to that prim and proper Glinda? That bubbly public figure who maintained a pure and virtuous image? She was far, far away from this desperate, needy creature perched and spread atop of her.<br><br>A hiss squeezed between lips at Glinda's delicate nails clawing angry lines across her back, tearing and clawing at green flesh.. the slight pain mixed well with the sensual lust capturing her body right now.&nbsp; Probing fingers pressed deeper in-between pink petals and she was surprised to find no contact with springy golden hairs she had imagined down there, but instead they touched and traced along the slick, swollen lips so smooth and hot with her juices, readily coating pale green fingers with their tingling heat.<br><br>Her own body howled and pleaded for attention similar to what her own hands were doing to Glinda but Elphaba discovered how easy it was just to fuck men compared to.. this. They didn't care about touching so long as their cock got wet but here... Here all they had were their bodies, their hands... how to proceed?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 14:05:04</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				&nbsp;Glinda clawed at Elphie's sides, heated with lust, wet with desire and roused by Elphaba's green fingers, exploring her most private parts like a curious and insolent green snake. Glinda pushed herself up on her knees, releasing Elphaba's legs from the weight of her body momentarily to gather up that heavy skirt from the other direction, starting at Elphaba's hips. Oh, what lust must lay beneath that heavy cloth and how sexy it would be rub her needing, aching parts against bare green thighs.<br><br>And she had to touch Elphaba - she wanted to feel Elphaba's arousal and settle her curiosity as to what it was like down there at Elphaba's fountain of pleasure... And she wanted to return that sensation that those green, bold fingers evoked in her own body... oh Elphaba had to feel what it is like to have such curious fingers play with body parts that were so desperate for attention... 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 14:18:35</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Elphaba's fingers were momentarily denied their exploration when Glinda sat up onto her knees, the slight weight lifted from her skirt, but those eager fingers quickly found their way once again, prodding deeper into the swollen, dewy petals, caressing and blindly exploring this new terrain.<br><br>Elphaba squirmed in her seat, the stinging wetness by now saturating her own panties and making her skin uncomfortable and somewhat irritated down there but once again she stopped Glinda's hands before she could get too far and took a moment to yank up her long skirt until the hem lay across her upper thighs, exposing so much of those thin green legs.&nbsp; Next, taking Glinda's hand, she guided her up between her writhing thighs making sure those fingers went no higher than the necessary and even then her heart thudded, some of her lust quailing in nervous heat.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 14:28:47</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda's heart thudded with excitement as she was lead under the skirt - with some compromise, for she didn't get to see, but right now, this was more than thrilling. She felt her way along those warm thighs, as if exploring an unknown cave for the first time, and she felt adventurous. Momentarily, while still squirming, this distracted her - she felt like she was intruding upon something sacred and divine and quite liked the devilish flair of that. <br><br>Elphaba's thighs felt soft from the oil she always applied, warm from having been trapped under the skirt during their game... and it was exciting to have Elphaba's fingers lead her along... <br><br>She could feel the tips of her fingers approaching where the underwear must be, maybe a wet hem would soon bring a new sensation to her fingertips... "This is so exciting..." she whispered with ecstatic honesty, and fully meant it.<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 14:38:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Those honey covered fingers momentarily paused in their plundering of those pink petals while she concentrated on leading Glinda down between her legs, where she felt most exposed and vulnerable, most uncomfortable to be touched but right now.. it felt necessary. She needed a touch, some friction, <em>something</em> down there to ease the longing aching down between her thighs.<br><br>Shallow, hot breaths panted between parted lips, brown orbs were cast down, concentrating on the smooth pale hand sliding up her skirt and towards those wet, intimate parts of herself.. this was a dangerous game but it was all she wanted right now.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Acinonyx</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 14:43:28</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glinda's excitement rose, bubbling with tingling pleasure between her legs, as the tip of her fingers felt the wet cloth of Elphaba's underwear... she had ventured forward to find a treasure trove of pleasure and she was absolutely willing to dive into it. She walked her fingers along the hem to the top where she could grab the cloth - remembering very well what mischievous Elphaba's earlier strains on her underwear had caused her to feel.<br><br>Slowly, she gathered the cloth in her hand, then pulled upwards, pressing the sturdy fabric against Elphaba's neglected need, hoping with a held breath that it would do to Elphie what it had done to her.<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: City of Emeralds and Secrets (ElphabaxGlinda) (Muninn, Acinonyx, ???)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Muninn</strong> on <strong>13-11-2010, 15:13:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				"Ugh..!"<br><br>Elphaba's narrow frame shuddered as she gasped, her own wet panties now used against her much as she had used against Glinda; pulled taunt to press into those hot, swollen and wet parts that ached so. But, but yet.. Glinda's fingers which had momentarily escaped the lead Elphaba had granted her flitted high, much too high and much too close at the top hem of her panties. She slid her hand down into her own panties a little, cushioning Glinda's hand from her own flesh even as she shuddered and groaned with delight at the pressure being applied to her most needy parts right now.
			</dd>
		</dl>
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