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 Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:39 am
He watches the both of them head out to the balcony, knowing full well that both had issues of their own. He had taken Kerri under his wing in a sense, to ease her into her new life, but she would still have issues to work out for a long time...There was no avoiding it. He leaves them to their own devices as Will takes him to the side...
His disposition changes from one of business to a stony composure as he listens to Will's intent. He keeps his peace though, accepting his wishes without opposition. Will did not wish for war, and their could be no refuting that unless war came to them first. He had decided his path, and thence there was no use attempting to convince him otherwise. If he failed, war would come...if he succeeded, war may still come, but from another source...Either way, Astande would get at least a part of what he wanted, and that was to eliminate any and all threats to the hunters...War would continue regardless, which is what he craved in the long run...but there would be action soon enough.
"Then i will do as you ask, and hope for your return...but know that either way, this war can never end."
He turns to once again look out towards Kerri, his knuckles cracking idly as he presses on them...
"You know from where i came...and i still know the location and workings of the Coven...I will not be attacked should i in turn show peace...i will do what i can as well...Though i am afraid your life will be in much more peril than my own. I will adhere to your wishes Will, and may your hunt be plentiful..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:42 am
Shortly after Will's departure, there is a small rapping at the door. Noticing that Kerri is currently indisposed, he answers, finding Liora at the door. He motions her inside, closing the door behind her...
"Good evening..."
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:43 pm
Krii'Ouse was in such a state that his mind no longer registered what he should or shouldn't do. Being that kerri was there, helping him through his pain, and in the same situation as he, he couldn't stop himself. He rose, and looked deep into her eyes. 'Kerri... we're the same, aren't we?' he asked, continuing, 'We may be two very different people, but we;re the exact same. We've been thrust into a world of daemons and torture, launched into another world of Immortality, one living, one unliving, and we've no way to cope with it.'
His eyes closed, and another tear escaped. 'We've got to stick together. You and I... we're one in the same.' His mind let go, his body moved forward, and he embraced Kerri intimately, his lips engaging with hers, and he had no idea he was doing it, but he was liking it.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:44 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:02 pm
One minute, she was consoling a friend, the next he was standing, talking to her, and then she realized that her lips were pressed against his. Her eyes widened as she realized what was happening, and before she could think, she stepped backwards from him, breaking out of his embrace sharply. She did not want to be rude, but right now she was confused, and everything in her told her that she needed to think.
Holding her head, she staggered slightly, "Krii...I'm sorry for reacting like that, but i need to think. I-I'll be back shortly if someone asks..." Jumping up onto the ledge of her balcony, she jumped straight up, grabing ahold of the balcony above and pulled herself up. She continued in this manner until she reached the roof, where she staggered once more in a sort of shocked stupor. She didnt know what was going on, everything seemed slightly blurred around her. Milling through things in her mind, she held her head with one hand, using the other to brace herself against the ledge of the roof.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:19 pm
Krii'Ouse watched her leap upwards, effectively flying to the roof. He put his hand to his lips. 'My God... I kissed Kerri...' he said, mentally slapping himself. 'Oh God... I... I'm torn... God have mercy... I've been unfaithful to Skiaska, gone behind her back before even breaking ties...' He slumped to the floor, back against the railing again.
'What do I do? God tell me what I am to do! I'm so lost...' His tears ran freely again. He didn't know what was going on anymore. With Esou gone, he was only human, he was so lost. Esou had become another part of him. With Esou gone, he didn't know who he was anymore.
'Kerri!' he called. 'Kerri please come back!' He went into the fetal position, coverng his mouth with his cowl, and putting his hood up again.
'Please... Kerri... I... I love you...' he said to himself.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:47 pm
Edith was overwhelmed with confusion. She looked frantically over her shoulder after hearing Krii shouting for Kerri to come back, what had happened? First Lydia had gone off to her room and now Kerri was gone somewhere...
Knowing there was absolutely no reason for her to be here in this apartment full of strangers, with the execption of Krii, she decided to leave. Krii and her had just met, she didn't expect him to trust her yet or ever, and Kerri and Lydia were total stangers but for their names and being hunters- at least one.
Eden smiled an uncertain smile at Midnight and stroked the small kitten. The kitten- at the moment- was the only comfort she had... Her social life as a huntress was pretty sad, though she had just recently joined haven so she had to give it time. So far she had met Reno and Krii and she'd seen Kerri, Integra, Sady, and Lydia as well as the two others who were currently in Kerri's apartment.
Deciding to linger no longer, Eden stroked Midnight gently and brought the kitten into her arms. Careful to be quiet, Eden stalked lightly to the apartment door, gently reached out, and screamed while stumbling and falling... A huge crash could be evidently heard and with the scream added, it was almost impossible to miss.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:16 pm
Liora blinked in mild confusion as several peculiar sounds reached her sensitive ears, seemingly one right after the other. From outside, Liora thought she heard someone calling out to someone else. Then, before she could properly discern what was going on, Liora heard a loud scream and a crash near the apartment door. She noticed that the woman whom she'd nodded to earlier had vanished and was apparently trying to make a quick exit. Smirking, Liora crossed the room to the girl. Her initial reaction was to laugh at the humour of the situation, but Liora noticed how jumpy the woman seemed to be.
"Are you alright, there? You should be more careful next time; you wouldn't want to hurt yourself."
Liora observed her for a moment more before extending a hand. Should the woman chose to accept it, Liora would simply help her to the feet. After all, Eden looked like she could use some assistance- especially after a fall like that.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:27 pm
Eden had face-planted herself and was still alittle stunned from her sudden fall. She'd landed on her arm, but it luckily hadn't been broken... She was surprised to see Liora come to help her up so quickly.
With abvious embarassment Eden timidly replied through deep breaths of air, "Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you for the concern and I'll be sure to be more careful." Eden smiled at Liora- though her smile was crooked and her teeth were partly clentched together to hide her bleeding tongue.
Another swift smile and Eden gladly and awkwardly took Liora's hand. She was alittle stunned and had hit her head, causing her balance not to be what it normally was. She wobbled slightly as Liora helped to pull her to her feet, but Eden luckily managed not to fall on her way up. Once again turning to Liora, she uttered a modest thank you and went to lean against a wall to rest for a minute.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:40 pm
The air around the girl reeked of blood; apparently, Eden had done a bit more damage to herself by falling than she was prepared to admit. However, Liora was not going to harass her. She knew that Eden was the best judge of whether or not she was okay, and it would have been rude of Liora to second-guess that authority.
"You're welcome, but take it easy next time." she murmured offhandedly to the girl before turning away.
Glancing outwards in the apartment, Liora saw what appeared to be a figure doubled over in either grief or agony outdoors on the balcony. That was none of her business, either. Liora sighed and cooly turned around again. She was not sure what direction she should face in order to give everyone ample privacy. Eden was still recovering from the fall; the figure on the balcony was obviously working out his own problems. Neither of these two things involved her in the least. At last surrendering to this fact, Liora turned to face Astande with a helpless shrug. Her bemused but quizzical facial expression spoke better than words could have: What is going on, here?
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:40 pm
She heard him screaming after her, but she could not bear to go back down. Too many things were going on at once. Flashes of a forgotten past began flooding her mind, many of the images bringing back even more terrible memories that she had spent the better part of 10 years trying to forget. Her emotions were fluctuating like one couldnt believe. She couldnt breath...the world seemed to be spinning rapidly around her, causing her to stumble and slip into a sitting position rather hard on the concrete of the building.
"What is wrong with me?!," she screamed at herself in her mind as she tried to gain control once more of her emotions and feelings. She had always been in control, and right now she felt as if she were trying to subdue an entirely different person. Why she was freaking out so much over something as small as a kiss, she could not comprehend. But whatever the reason, it was clear that there were other things involved which she had repressed into the unconscious.
Her breathing had slowed to normal, though she still felt a little dizzy as she went over things in her mind. In the past 15 minutes, she had seen a number of faces she thought she would never be able to look at again, and had also had professions of love thrown at her. That in turn had drudged up a host of memories she now had to either deal with, or try and supress once more. The memories she had seen had clearly shaken her, as she looked rather pale; even for a vampire.
"Alright Kerrigan....get it together. Dont freak out over nothing...im sure that it was just a spare of the moment kind of thing...he probably didnt mean it......it was a subconscious emotion what was channeled through into reality from the immense emotional anxiety he has been experiencing. Nothing but a flood of hormones and neurotransmitters." Deep, steady breaths were the only thing that was keeping her controlled as she spoke softly to herself, allowing another cool night breeze to wash over her. She glanced at her watch, cursing slightly. It would be dawn soon...
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:58 am
Skiaska bit her trembling lip and it stilled. She had seen Kerri break away from something and run, and then Sethe calling out to her... But hsi next words scared her, and it made it even worse when he claimed he loved Kerri... "God..." Her throat clenched slightly and she turned, quickly running away, before Edith came through the door.
((Exit to Hunters))
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:35 am
Kerrigan? The thought floated through Kerrigan's mind for her and her alone to hear. It everything all right? I heard your scream all the way from my room. The thoughts were coming from Lydia, who was sitting in her room surrounded by various drawings. Do you want me to come up there so we can talk?
After she had retreated to her room, Lydia had pulled out many of her most recent drawings while Mischief slept on the bed. Looking over all of them, it was obviousl who Lydia knew well and who she had met once or had never met at all. The better she knew someone, the more drawings their were of them scattered around, and the less she knew them, the fewer drawings of them. Pictures of Mischief were now also appearing; the cat was a reading and willing model.
The person who Lydia knew the best was obviously William. There were more pictures of him laying around than anyone else by a great deal; there were more of him than there were of Mischief even. She had thought that maybe looking at her drawings would drain this...this passion that was flooding her, but it was doing the opposite. With an angry wave of her hand, all the drawings went back into the dresser neatly.
This was bad. Very bad. Rogue's dream was going far beyond what the vampiress had originally intended. The desire Rogue had wrought was making a tight, painful knot of her stomach, and she knew she was near the breaking point. If she left this desire alone for too long, she knew that soon she would be thinking of taking the first man she saw into her bed. And that was something she did not want.
I need you, William. She thought, but she was not sure if it was a message to him or just a thought.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:29 am
As Lydia's voice echoed through her mind, she thought for a moment in silence before thinking a response back to her, hoping that she would be the only one to get it. "No...no, its alright Lydia, i just have to think alone for a few minutes...I'll be fine." She tried to sound calm and collected, though she was not sure that she achieved that in her message.
She stood up, clambering nto the ledge of the building and stood there, letting the wind wash over her a few times. Her dark attire kept the mortals below from seeing her, something she was grateful of as she probably looked as if she were about to commit suicide. This of course was absurd, but then again, those on the streets below did not know a lot of things about their world...emotionally confused vampresses were sure to be on that list. Silently, she lowered herself into a sitting position, dangling her bare feet over the edge absentmindedly.
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:32 am
He crosses the room in a heartbeat after hearing the scream from the balcony, noticing Krii in a fetal position and Kerri nowhere to be found...He had not bothered watching the entire show...
He opens the glass door onto the back porch with such benevolence that a crack snakes it's way up the glass...He fixes Krii with a gare that could kill, and gives the same towards the direction in which Kerri had gone off to...He whispers, but it is felt like a whip cracking in the air...
"WILL YOU TWO GET A HOLD OF YOURSELVES! THERE ARE MORE THAN PETTY EMOTIONAL DRAMATIZATIONS WALKING THIS NIGHT! AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR US! WE ARE AT WAR! NOW IS NOT THE TIME! YOU BOTH HAVE A JOB TO DO AND AN EXAMPLE TO SET! IS THIS THE FACE OF THE HUNTERS YOU WISH TO PRESENT TO THOSE WHO WOULD JOIN US?"
He motions behind him discreetly, towards the two newer additions to the hunter regime in the room behind...
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