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Mordecai was already running after Sam, weapons out, ready to do what has to be done and gun her down right then and there, his expression set in grim determination... But instead of the trees rushing past him as he moves, he soon finds himself surrounded by that blackness again, and he comes to a halt... Blinking at first, then frowning hard as he seems to remember, and looks around at the sound of the familiar voice, trying to find the others.   

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Moiraine was half moving toward the girls, paws up as if to reach out for them and then everyting changes and she is back where they started. She looks around for the source of that voice and kupos "What... was that?"

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Lenneth stares  after the head carrying body, at a complete loss and then she shakes her head and starts to turn towards Moiraine as Mordecai runs past her. Though as everything fades to black Len straightens and puts hand to her sword while scowling. "It was... something.. That I'll agree, but release us.. or at least them since I drug them along." Len spins this way and that, trying to peer through the black shroud obscuring their view while attempting to locate the source of that familiar voice.

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"That?", the voice says in answer to Moiraine's question, "Oh, that was nuthin' more, or less, than fate.  Plain and simple."  And out of the blackness 'behind' the group two figures emerge, one wearing a familiar violet cloak, the other wearing dusky rust-colored cloak of matching cut.  The hoods are raised, but the shimmering cerulean blue eyes and impish smile of Lan-Lan identifies at least one of the pair.  Lan-Lan tsks and shakes her head, "Aw, can't release any of yah yet, sugah, you ain't gotten wha'chya came for, and I can't send -them- back without sendin' -you- back too.  So, tell me, what did ya think of ya little detour, eh?"

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A dangerous look ever so briefly crosses Mordecai's face at Lan-Lan's words, before he forces his expression into some form of neutrality... Wandering over to stand near Lenneth as Moiraine as he quietly holsters his weapons again, and he studies the cloaked figures before them. And after a moment of thought, he shrugs his broad shoulders, and rumbles out in his gruff baritone, "What was the point?"

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Moiraine says, "That was... not something I have ever experienced before, let alone heard about kupo!" She shakes out her robes and looks at the cloaked figures and kupos "I have learnt something new at least even if I do not fully yunderstand""

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Lenneth's brow lifts and then she grows contemplative and a quick look is cast towards Mordecai then Moiraine. For a few long moments the young woman shakes her head, "too many ways to see it. If they were The Fates then I could contemplate that they were my fate and that something was trying to steal it from me, which turned out to be the culmination of fate which is death so.. kind of self destructive there. Umm.. but the easiest seems to be that sometimes you have to protect your fate and that even then you also have to let it go... but nothing can change it. Which is all very confusing and depressing both."

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Lan-lan chuckles, though there's a weariness mixed in with the amusement, giving Mordecai a wry smile, "Yeah, that's tha million-gilder question, ain't it, Justicar?"  In unison, both cloaked women reach up to pull their hoods back; from beneath the violet hood spills fiery tresses in wild curls, and from beneath the rust-colored hood spills a long curtain of pale blond, the second woman's eyes opening to reveal warm chocolate brown.  In feature, the women could be twins, but their features are familiar, having been seen only moments before, but years younger, and the blond smiles knowingly at Moiraine's words, replying in a soft, well-educated voice, "Understanding will come, in time.  But you will have to work at it."  Lan-Lan nods to Lenneth, "Yeah, there's some truth in lookin' at it that way, suah.  But ya trip was fate for a numbah o'reasons, an' if ya learned somethin' besides, so much tha bettah.  See, you all had ta be there.  There was just no way around it."

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Mordecai snorts ever so lightly at the title bestowed to him, but otherwise keeps silent in response, not pretending to understand what's going on even as he eyes the older versions of the two girls as they reveal themselves, and listens to Lenneth's attempt at making sense of all this. Glancing at both his companions again then, he just shrugs some, and then speaks up again, "Fate or not, what's next?" 

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Moiraine inclines her head "All things come to understanding in time kupo, you just have to be patient and wait and learn and pay attention kupo. So tell me... was that the truth? Is your sister still out there or are there othger things involved?"

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Lenneth looks at Mordecai then back and she opens her mouth before closing once again, "well... ah... I.." Pausing Len reaches up and scratches lightly behind an ear. "I didn't see that one coming," she admits then before looking towards Moiraine as she questions them.

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Lan-Lan giggles somewhat at Lenneth's reaction as the blond, Teressa, answers Moiraine, "It was all true.  You were all there.  And without you, we would not be here today.  Our sister still roams.  She found her destiny before she was due, but has since... grown into it, shall we say.  Her destiny was simply a bit more literal, or a bit less depending on your perspective, than she thought it to be.  Whether there are other things involved, I do not know."  Lan-Lan, or Rachael, picks up after Teressa stops, "As for what's next, well, that's tha easy part."  She holds a hand out to Lenneth, "C'mere, sweety.  I think it's time ya got that bauble off ya arm, right?"

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Mordecai just shakes his head a little bit, seemingly still not sure what all this has to do with their original quest... But he rumbles out anyway, "You're welcome, girl." Before he glances at Lenneth, and nods at them to go ahead. The man standing back to see what happens next.

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Moiraine says, "Well dear kupo... I am glad we were all able to be there and to help you kupo-po... I am a bit confused I shall admit but Lord Mog saw fit to respond to my prayer against the darkness so I know what we did must have been true and noble kupo!""

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Lenneth hums about their sister, but decides not to pursue that line as the removal of the curse is so close. She looks down at the bracelet for a moment then up before walking forward. "You know, I want it off and for it to be at an end, but I can't say part of me won't miss it.." She shakes her head then erms and points at herself, "since I'm currently a girl when you remove this I'll revert back to being a boy again, right?"

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Teressa accepts Mordecai's acknowledgement with a bow of her head, and Rachael chuckles, nodding to Moiraine, "I'd be surprised if ya weren't a bit confused, deah.  It's one hell of a tangle, lemme tell ya."  The twins then turn to Lenneth as she steps up, Teressa giving the cursed woman a smile, "All things must end, Ka'Len, and this is no different.  But the end of one thing..."  Teressa trails off, the sentence picked up by Rachael almost immediately, "Is tha beginnin' of anothah.  And yeah, sweety, you'll be fine, once we're done."  The redhead holds out one hand, "Now, hand me tha bracelet, please."

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Mordecai continues to watch silently... And he's atleast a bit curious as to what's going to happen next, waiting for Lenneth to approach and get this all over with. 

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Moiraine smiles at Teressa, "Well Miss kupo, I am glad you are willing to help Ka'Len take that bracelet off kupo-po and everything is always connected as you say. All things are interlocked together in the end and lead from one to the next kupo. Or so we are taught."

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Lenneth releases the clasp and pulls the bracelet with the ying yang symbol off before handing it on over to Rachael as she asks for it. A brief look is cast over her shoulder at Mordecai and Moiraine before she looks back to the sisters once again.

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Rachael nods in agreement with Moiraine's statement, adding with a smile, "Well, only natural that we help.  We made tha thing, aftah all."  Accepting the bracelet, she clasps one side of it, holding it out as Teressa clasps the other side, then the two women each take one of Lenneth's hands, Teressa telling Lenneth, "Now, brace yourself."  Rachael adds, "Yeah, this might be... uncomf'table."  With no further warning, power surges through Lenneth like high voltage through a completed circuit, the sudden flow creating a stiff wind that radiates out from the trio as they are surrounded by a blinding halo of light!

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Lenneth being hit by that power is the last thing Mordecai sees, as he has to bring up his hand soon after to shield himself from that blinding light, grunting even as the wind buffets into him, whipping his clothes around. And he instinctively braces himself then, hoping everything will be fine again after everything is said and done. 

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Moiraine throws her hands up at the flash, catching her pom-pom and turning to shield it, she doesn't want a backlash of energy ice-cream headache thank you very much! "Oh Mog kupo...."

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As Len's hands are taken the youth looks back and forth for a brief moment. A nod comes and there's a brief stiffening of limbs as they visibly brace themselves. However as the wind starts to buffet, causing Len's hair to break free of the velvet ribbon it's usually tied back in, and the halo of light blinds everyone, even causing the one at the epicenter to close their eyes, a strange sort of sound emerges from Len. Half scream, half yell erupts from Len's throat.. one sound distinctly male and the other female.

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The roar of wind, the blinding light, and Lenneth's strange screams last for...  Well, it feels like eternity and mere seconds all at once, a vertigo of conflicting senses akin to standing on the edge of a very high cliff and looking down to have the sensation of falling and of not falling all at once.  Then, all at once, everything is still and quiet, the wind has stopped, the light is gone, and all is silent.  Teressa and Rachael still stand, each holding Ka'Len, now a man again, by the hand, while, in their other hands, each holds one half of a broken bracelet.  But one thing is different in comparison to before, and that is the body of the naked woman floating just above the trio's linked hands, the very mirror image of Ka'Len himself.

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Mordecai's first instinct when he hears those screams is to rush in and break them apart... But that is only instinct, and he quickly suppresses it, staying in place instead, still shielding his eyes from the light, and bracing himself against the odd feeling that the nearby unleashing of power forces on him. But then, as it all suddenly stops, the man slowly drops his hand... Opening his pale eyes and looking around with a mix of mild confusion, and curiousity. His gaze soon falling upon the scene before him... And his brow arching at the floating, female version of Ka'Len. 

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Moiraine lifts her head, peeking over at Len, she sits up "Oh Ka...." she trails off staring up at the woman floating above their heads "Ah I did wonder what wold happen to her... she does exist now kupo"

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The cry was lost somewhere in the roaring wind and as suddenly as it all began the young man is left swaying in place.. his features drawn as if he's had every ounce of energy taken out of him.. and given there's now a female who looks remarkably like himself standing there, well that's no great surprised. The exhausted young man can barelly keep on his feet, but he manages and looks up, blinking for a moment before starting to release the twins hands so he can catch the naked girl, despite the fact that if he had to he'd probably crumple to the ground with her just now.

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Teressa and Rachael give a nod of satisfaction, in unison, before Rachael throws up her hands unexpectedly, "It's a GIRL! Congratulations!"  After which Teressa, completely deadpan, smacks Rachael on the back of the head, getting a small "Ow." from the redhead.  Rubbing the back of her head, Rachael smiles at Ka'Len, "All done, sweety."  Teressa looks at the floating woman, then, as an afterthought, "Someone might want to get something to cover her with.  She's a bit, well... unclothed."  Rachael follows that by adding, to Ka'Len, "A few days' rest, and both of ya'll be fine."  The girl, for her part, just floats serenely, sleeping peacefully.

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Mordecai quickly steps forward to catch both Ka'Len and Lenneth if he must, the man looking a bit confused, but atleast not letting it stop him from acting. And at Teressa's comment, he simply nods, working at shrugging off his coat to put it around the newly created girl. At which point he suddenly speaks up again, shaking his head a bit as he looks at the two women, "... I'm not sure this solved anything, at all, but thank you?" His voice gruff as usual, and sounding fairly unsure about all this, as he takes a moment to peer at the two Len's. Probably wondering what's gonna happen next.  

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Moiraine lookjs around and kupos "Well I haven't got anything to cover the lady with kupo-po, just.. me and my clothes won't fit. Ka'Len give the lass your coat already kupo-po"

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Ka'Len lets Mordecai take Lenneth and he smiles weakly, but stays on his feet for now. "Maybe.. there'll be alot to think about and work out, but..." He looks at Mordecai and smiles crookedly, "one set of problems for potential others.." Smiling at Moiraine then as he lets himself fall onto his lap. "Lenneth, her name's Lenneth." Though admittedly the /other/ twins are given a bit of a smirk.

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Rachael smiles as Ka'Len remains standing, nodding to herself in evident approval over him managing it despite that he can barely hold himself up, while Teressa smiles at Mordecai, "Solve?  My dear man, all we aimed to do was remove the curse, which we did.  All that energy had to go -somewhere-."  Rachael smiles at Ka'Len, "Like we said, end a' one thing, beginnin' of anothah.  How ya explain it to ya mothah that ya suddenly went from an only child ta havin' a twin sistah, well...  Good luck."

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Mordecai takes care to wrap up the sleeping Lenneth, before taking a moment to see if Ka'Len is doing alright, noting how tired the lad seems to be. Also shrugging at the two women in response to them, he offers no other comment about the matter, not being a man of many words obviously, prefering to figure all this out later on. He simply waits to see what happens now. 

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Moiraine says, "Well Mordecai, this makes your relationship with Ka'Len a bit more interesting kupo-po... " she places a paw on the sleeping LEnneth's arm and smiles "Welcome Lenneth, ti-var-da mondra Mog, tik tik kupo da Famfrit bo so kupo ta la nee Ark so Kupo-po!" she speaks a quiet blessing, the sort used to welcome new born mogs and bows to the Twins. "YThank you for your help in this Rachael, Teressa,""

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Ka'Len blows out a breath and then murmurs, "Father won't care as long as I'm back to just me again. Likely he'll try to marry her off," there's a little frown as he looks at Mordecai's bundle and then shakes his head, "and mother will be happy that she finally has a real girl to dress up." Len pushes himself up and bows his head to Rachael and Teresa, "thank you though.. I'm sure we'll be able to sort things out." He looks at Moiraine then before snorting softly and smiling, "well you can say that again.."

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Rachael smiles, "Well, that's that, then, all things accounted fah."  Rachael and Teressa both step back, nodding to Moiraine as they are thanked, and Teressa nods to Ka'Len, "Perhaps it will be as you say.  And I'm sure you will sort it out.  I trust that, as her brother, you will help her see her -own- desires come to pass, whatever those may eventually be.  Realize, though, that for the moment, you are both far closer than any siblings have ever been, as she knows all that you do up until this point.  It is from -here- that she will grow to be her own person."  Rachael nods, "Yeah, take good care of her.  As for us, I doubt you'll see us again."  Teressa folds her hands peacefully before her, while Rachael puts a hand on her hip and gives the group a saucy wink, the pair speaking in unison, almost with one voice, though their unique tones can still be picked out, "Gemini wishes you well, travellers!"  And, in a blink, the adventurers, in addition to the girl in Mordecai's arms, find themselves suddenly in the alley behind the bordello, just out of view of a side street and any passers-by that might notice their sudden appearance out of nothingness.

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Moiraine looks around as they re-appear in the street and kupos "Well.. Ka'Len that was an adevenmture and a half and we didn't even ave to leave the city... no pickingup weird bracelets any more kupo."

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Ka'Len nods to the girls and he reaches up running hands through his hair for a few moments. He looks towards Moiraine then points at Mordecai, "he's got a strange pommel without a blade, so next time it's not my fault." He smiles a little then looks at Mordecai and Lenneth for a few moments, tilting his head before murmuring, "best to get her back to the orphanage for now and out of this dangerous place." The young man motions for Moiraine to join them as he starts staggering down the road.

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