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Oriana offered a hand out to Auren, "Why don't you ride too. I'm sure that fight wasn't too easy on you. Even though you're hiding it pretty well."

She didn't a step in the doorway before Damir swooped her up in his arms and rushed her upstairs to a warm bath, and a night of pampering.

After two hours of nonstop fussing, Oriana finally got to be alone in her room, though she had to fake sleep to get it. She reached over to her personal bookshelf and selected her little black book. flipping to where the page was bent, she continued reading with an intense fascination burning in her eyes

Oriana hissed at the sudden turn in her book and flung it across the room. she then fluffed her sheet up into the air and snuggled into her sleeping position as the blanket fell around her. she continued to mutter in the darkness, when she soon realized she wasn't going to get to sleep this irritated. she got up and walked past Auren as though he were a decorative suit of armor in the hallway and went into the kitchen to fix a midnight snack.

She sighed, "I guess so, but that's what makes you read the next one i guess..." she stopped stirring her tea and looked over her shoulder at him, "Why don't you ever sleep? just because you don't need to sleep doesn't mean it isn't fun to do... I don't need sleep... hell, I've gone weeks without it... but i'm out for a week straight after..." she looked into her tea to see her reflection swirling in the liquid, "You're odd..."

She blushed and turned away from him, "Hey! to this realm it's normal to be able to summon Ice puppets!" she looked back into her tea and mumbled, "Is it really that odd?"

Oriana hunched her shoulders forward and tried to hide her face with her hair, while slowly stirring her tea. she stayed like this for quite some time, getting more and more uncomfortable with how warm her face seemed to be.

"Don't you have some patrol's to do or something... " she mumbled while staring into her tea. she shifted her tea a bit and when she noticed his reflection in it she suddenly shot up, "I'm not really in the mood for tea... I'm going to try and sleep." she swept out of the kitchen, but paused briefly in the doorway to mumble a half-hearted goodnight.

The next morning Oriana awoke to soft singing and someone running their fingers through her hair. struggling to open and focus her eyes, she managed to make out someone looking exactly like her, "Mom..." she grumbled as she rubbed an eye and blinked.

"Good Morning Oriana... I'm afraid your sister has left with Hans hours ago, and your father took Vadim out fishing... So it's you, me, Bridget, your dog, and him..." she pointed over at the tall blond man in the corner.

"That's Auren..." she grumbled as Oriana slipped her feet onto the cold wood floors and shuffled behind a dressing curtain to get ready for the day.

Vienna looked over at Auren and smiled, "Just Auren, Huh... Well, Mister Auren. I'm Vienna, Oriana's Mother... I'm sure she would properly introduce us if she were awake, but since she's about as alive as her suitor... It would seem I'm doing the introductions today."

she looked around the room at all the books, then sighed, "What ever did happen to your suitor... Hali just said he died... That's it. Gone... Almost as though it didn't matter. I would have asked your father, but he would have given me a dramatic drawn out story of half truth's and i wouldn't get any closer than what i did with Hali."

Oriana tipped over her dressing certain, dressed in her second layer, and eyes glowing with the intent to kill, "What do you mean It didn't matter...?" she hissed.

Vienna looked a bit panicked to see her daughter in such a fine rage, but smiled to see how much she cared about him, "You know how your sister is..." she propped the curtain back up, "She can be as heartless as your father in his teens..."

"Oh, Just stop Auren... Is it really worth getting me all flustered again?" she said, doing her best to control her trembling voice.

Her mother could feel her pain and it made her heart sink to the floor, "Sweetheart, Don't cry... Please..." she was near tears herself, "You know how emotional we get in the morning..."

Oriana threw the certain aside, dressed and ready for the day. She had a strong appearance, but it was a mask; something to hide her weaknesses. She walked over to her mother and comforted her, even though she seemed to be making her mother more emotional. "Let's go get some tea..."

Vienna stood and dried her tears, "That's sounds great..." she followed her daughter out of her room and down the stairs where Oriana boiled some water for her mother, and poured herself some Iced Tea.