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" Easy, little one." Darian breathed, placing a arm over her shoulders and steering her towards the exit at a relaxed pase. " dont panic.. Abel wont let it near us."

Even as he spoke Abel was gone, vanishing easily into the trees and keeping pase with them.. keeping a firm tab on the creature fallowing them. the murony vampire lept from cover just as Abel did, the two slaming into each other even as Abel's gun discharged. grabbing the mans lower jaw he wrentched it downward, satisfied as he heard the bone snap. " Darian, get out of here. Now, ill meet up with you when i can."

Freezing he looked at his brother, then caught Destiny's hand and started to run. " Come on!"

(( meet up with Darian at howlers?))

Lanius walked her into a hidden section of the gardens, a separate room from where he had heard all the racket earlier. It was huge, with night-blooming flowers, statues, and fountains cracked and overgrown with ivy and roses everywhere. The cobblestone path had stangle little white clovers growing over it and inbetween the stones. A large weeping willow was over several yards away from them, with very a nice marble bench resting below it.

"Yes...." I was happy to see it was still around, after 200 years of absense, and to see it had not changed much. Looking at her face, it looked beautiful in the moonlight, and with her head back, her neck looked so delicate and long... he wondered how it was he had not noticed these features so much about her before. Lanius let a small soft smile escape his lips, and his eyes showing through the shadow of his hat and his long hair, he said, "I'm pleased you like it here."

Lanius followed her, sitting down next to her. "Yes... it is a safe place to clear your head." He lifed up his head, taking in the deep unique air of the area slowly into his lungs, before speaking further. Before saying what he was about to say, Lanius closed his eyes and asked, "Ash...? Are you aware I did die 200 years ago, and have only been alive again for about a month now?" His voice was soft when he asked this, like a light breeze together with a deep thought.

Lanius turned his head towards hers and placed a soft kiss on her forehead. He whispered to her, keeping his head close to hers, he smelled like roses and fine cologne. "When I awoke to life again, and I came here... I was happy to see the one and only place where I had ever found peace, or beauty, not only still existed but thrived. And now, it seems I have found beauty in something else, as well." He moved his head back. There was more he wanted to tell her... but not quite yet, it could wait.

Lanius shook his head, showing he did not think that. "A person's beauty can't be found in the eyes of others... it is a subjective and personal matter. Intelligent, unique, entertaining, and with natural yet hidden beauty and with an edge... most certainly. A shrew?" He chuckled, and taking off his top hat, said, "Even during our worst moment at meeting, I did not think that. Not of you." Placing the top had beside him, Lanius moved his hand through his hair where it had been matted down on top, it shone like silk and looked very soft and dark in the pale light. "To think that shallowly of someone, especially one as yourself, shows lack of depth and deep blindness." Lanius placed his other hand over hers while saying this. "How anyone could be so blind to you, it is beyond me."

Lanius closed his eyes.... suprized to find he actually liked the feeling of her hand on his scar, which no one had ever touched besides himself. "I wouldn't mind... the other day I hit someone in the back of the head with a thick heavy hard-back encyclopedia." He didn't smile saying this, although he somehow let it be known he didn't regret doing that to Salazar.

"Nor is causing two massive genocides, among other things... however, if we are, I have no regrets." Lanius said, looking down gently at her. He had no idea.... how had he grown to feel any emotion, let alone so much? And for a person... this was not like him at all. Lanius had never cared. When he harmed the last and only female before this he cared for, he actually did not care... and had he loved her just because she was close to Edward? This was something he still did not know. For suddenly having feeling, a wanting to connect with someone... he did wonder if he had gone insane. But, now he had his secret... someone to hold close, someone to make an attempt to love... if this was even possible of him, if nothing else, to feel fondness of. Lanius lifted his hand to gently touch the tips of her dark hair, and feeling her warmth and closing his eyes, he suddenly felt more like himself again... the same comfort he use to get when he was alone, completely alone, he now seemed to only be able to experience with her.