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"The mouse? You must be all pretty, because I was told once that mice have wriggly noses too." Pteryx shifted closer to the woman, taking up one of her hands after feeling around a bit. She stroked it in a gesture she hoped was seen as comforting, and whispered, "Don't worry, I think he is too busy brushing his hair. Someone told me he thinks he is handsome."

Pteryx never stopped pretending her eyes were totally useless, almost clutching to the Mouse's hand as she shifted back again for 'help'.

"Really?" Pteryx was a bit taken back, was this friend sun court? That was interesting at least, Lupinus being close in looks to a Sun Court fey... or someone friends to a Sun Court fey. But she continued on as if she hadn't noticed, "Really, you spend time with horses? Do you only like horses then? I've never seen a horse... of course... but I always wondered what they were like. Horses, I mean. I don't care about boys, they have germs and stuff."

"I think I like horses too, from what I used to be told in books about them." Pteryx lied, but she was hardly going to say she loved the wolves more than any other beast from the real tales she'd been told... "And maybe I will have a horse of my own one day."

She stared at 'Mouse' letting the real shock take over her face. She hadn't been told this piece of news! ...No wonder why the woman was acting so strange. "Oh! No one told me that."

Pteryx inside scowled, she hadn't wanted to resort to this. But she wriggled closer, and ... with a lot of self control to not do harm... hugged the woman. "Poor Mouse, I was wondering why they were acting funny. I would be sad too if I lost someone important to me," Pteryx's voice went a bit quieter and hinted at the real loneliness she'd felt during the mirror to make it seem more real, "I will come back then later, maybe."

Standing, Pteryx did her 'blind girl' act till she was out of the cell, and then as soon as she was around the corner and out of sight of 'Mouse', she started to twitch, make faces and shake her limbs as if she was trying to get some invisible dust off herself.

Aranea padded back down into the cool of the dungeons, several flask and phials now on her person. Walking past the empty cells she was sure she could hear voices; had her fellow Fey come to view their poor guest? She wondered who had come down here. As she neared Muris's cell she saw Lupinus and smiled. But who was the higher voiced person? She hadnt seen anyone, but she hadnt exactly been paying attention to her surroundings. The cell door was open, and she looked the mouse-fey over. Oh the poor dear had been crying. How utterly delicious. The stupid Fey had believed the lie she had spun. A smirk touched her features.
'All alone in the dark...' she sighed.
'How are you finding our hospitality?' she mocked.

Aranea slowly placed her tools, phials, needles, darts and even a flask of water on a protruding stone ledge that jutted inside the cell. She held each one up in the dim light, not to see what it was herself - but to frighten the mouse-fey. And then, without waiting to hear the woman's reply, she stepped from the cell, moving towards Lupinus. The wait would not weigh easily on the Sun Court Fey, and the thought caused her to smile.
'Well...it has been a while since we last talked.' she looked at him, a hand tucking a strand of hair behind an ear. And it had been. Comparisons with Feles sprang unbidden into her mind; he was stronger looking to be sure, and she could imagine whiling away time with him privately. But could he incite other feelings within her? Well a dank dungeon probably wasnt the time to dwell. Her brows arched as she waited his reply.

She glanced over;
'Poisons..very slowly. Its made from snake venom. I should be working on something else. But this is a fun diversion.' she grinned, showing her white teeth. She touched her wound under the long silken dress she was wearing.
'Its healing. I didnt stitch it no. It wasnt - accessible for even me.' her eyes flickered over him again.
'Feles did it for me.'

'He's good with his hands,' she said simply. Let him read into that what he would! She wasnt searching for his approval in her relationships after all.
'She cries - she'll do a great deal more of that before the end.' She glanced at the female in the cage briefly. Truth was she wasnt sure what would happen after she had gotten what she wanted from her. A swift end; well thats what the Sun Court deserved. But maybe she could be of greater use. If she was sent back to their Castle in a terrible state then maybe it would serve as a warning. Counsel was needed from Majestrix Nox on that.