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 Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:45 am
'That might be a good idea.' she nodded, closing her eyes a moment, her long lashes touching against her pale cheeks. She opened her eyes and looked at him thoughtfully.
'I can make you something that will help you with your hunting.' she said, leaning forwards and speaking in an undertone.
'Something for your arrows.' she smiled wickedly.
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:23 pm
Lupinus leaned closer, intrigued. "Something to help with my hunting? What kind of thing?" He glanced at the table; he was speaking quietly as well, and raised his voice a little.
"Is this something to do with your... your alchemy things?" He smiled. "Maybe that isn't so boring after all."
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:17 am
'Well,' she said, interlacing the fingers of two hands and leaning on the table between them. Her cobweb thread fine hair fell about her face, casting shadows so that her eyes seemed to glow.
'I'm working on a way to en-venom spiders that dont have a deadly bite. Giving them deadly poison, poison that merely renders one unconscious - that sort of thing. I could let you have some of my extracts for your arrowheads. That way even if you merely only graze your prey they will still have fallen.' she pushed her hair from her face, sitting back and looking away.
'It might be good that you use them - for me anyway. I have yet to field test my toxins. Well except for when I sent my Kithain to sleep but I could not test anything deadly on her. She did release me after all,' she said, a wrinkling appearing on her forehead. She turned to him again.
'This interests you then?' she hoped he would agree.
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:05 pm
He listened intently, very interested. He was becoming more comfortable with interacting with another Fey, and his thoughts were coming together more clearly. Working together, they could be much, much more dangerous, and would be of great use to the Majestrix, he was sure. If he helped to test these poisons, they could be perfected and used in battles--for surely the Sun Court didn't have anything like this, did they?
Nodding, he tried not to sound too eager as he replied, "Yes, it does interest me." Noting her expression as she mentioned her Kithain, he added, "Does your Kithain realize you put her to sleep? Not that I imagine it would be difficult to keep her from realizing it."
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:14 am
'She thought she had simply passed out from fatigue,' she said with a mirthless little grin.
'Well if you come with me to the laboratory I can give you some small phials of the stuff I've already made.' she slipped off her chair, her feet making soft slapping noises against the stone floor. She turned back at the door to see if he was coming.
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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 1:58 pm
The ability to make another pass out and be none the wiser as to what had happened... that was impressive, he thought. Nodding, he said, "Sure," and jumped off the chair. He hit the floor almost silently--he'd have to work on that-- and padded after her. "Do you also study antidotes for your potions?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:42 pm
'I do, in case one of our Court were to inadvertently be given the toxins. Plus I need them for my Kithain, in case she reacts badly to something.' she pulled open her chamber door, and slipped outside into the corridor, leading the way to the lab.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:43 pm
"Yes, of course." He paused a moment. "It must be useful to have such a convenient test subject," he added, watching her as he followed her into the corridor. Closing the door behind him, he quickened his pace to match hers as they headed for the lab. He thought about poisons, and resolved to find a bow and arrows at the next possible opportunity.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:57 am
Aranea nodded, leading the way down the stairs to the basement. Their footsteps echoed about them, and the air was cold. She showed him into the laboratory that she had started clearing up. A great deal of the dust had been cleared, and the broken tubes and containers had been replaced. Going around the largest table she sorted through the labelled vials placed there.
'Lets see,' she mused out loud, pulling out the small lab journal she had started.
'Just working out what I have the most of, and what I'd like to see results on.' she explained to Lupinus.
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:20 am
Lupinus waited, impatient to find a bow and try out both his hunting skills and the poisons. He made mental notes of the way to the basement and the laboratory for future reference as he watched her sorting through her vials. "Ought to be going soon," he said.
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:05 am
Aranea nodded, picking up three black glass vials. She rounded the table and showed them to him;
'These are each labelled. One is a paralysis toxin, one is a sleep and paralysis, and the other is a slow working poison. The poison kills so be very careful with it!' she admonished.
'I have antidotes for all three but still.' she turned the vials around.
'The poison is clearly labelled so you cant really get them mixed up. The other two wear off after a time so if you accidentally administer them to yourself - or your Kithain its not such a tragedy. I need to know how much poison kills. Say one coating or two? I think the least amount might only make a person very ill - so I really need to know that. I also need to know how quick acting the paralysis and sleep-paralysis toxins are. I've adjusted the measures since I last tested them and cant really risk using them on my Kithain again.' she held them out for him to take.
'Come back to me once you have had chance to use them and let me know how you got on.'
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Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:58 pm
Taking the vials, he checked their labels and carefully tucked them into his belt. Yes, he'd definately have to begin experimenting as soon as he could... this would be interesting once he found some test subjects. "I'll be back later, then," he said, and he turned to leave, heading back to his own chambers.
End Session
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:58 am
8th December 2004
Sayuri stood outside the door to Aranea's chamber, bags and boxes at her feet. She gave a shiver; the corridors of the Castellum were a little chilly and she had been waiting a while. She would have waited inside Aranea's chamber but the Fey had locked it, and she wasnt entirely sure where the girl was. Finally she looked up at a small noise, and saw Aranea moving along the corridor towards her. When she drew up to her Kithain the Fey fished out an iron key, pushing it into the lock and turning it.
'Have you been here long?' Aranea asked offhandedly. If her Kithain had that was her problem though.
'Not really. I would have looked for you..' Sayuri started to say.
'I was in the lab - I would not have wanted to be disturbed,' the girl said, her voice cool as she clambered onto her bed and watched Sayuri bring inside the bags, and boxes.
'I have some stuff - its getting close to Christmas and thought it would be nice if your room was decorated.' Sayuri opened the boxes, revealing strings of tinsel.
'And why would I care about that?' Aranea said, although she was intrigued by all the packages and really did like pretty things.
'Because,' was all Sayuri said, as she put the decorations up. When she had finished hanging the wall decorations, she opened the biggest of boxes, standing it on one end and sliding the box off from the top. What was revealed was a miniature christmas tree, but because of the size of Aranea it was taller then her;
Aranea's eyes widened. It was decorated in blacks and reds - her favourite colours. That was a nice touch, she admitted to herself grudgingly. Sayuri opened the remaining boxes.
'I got you some more ingredients - they are labelled as to what each one is';
 
Aranea turned each one over in her hands, stopping at the last one, and shaking the red liquid contents;
'Spider's blood,' she muttered. Sayuri sighed.
'You did say you wanted to test the effect on your spiders without hurting them. This is the only alternative.' Aranea bit her bottom lip and nodded. Yes, sacrifices had to be made.
'And this is the last thing - I thought you might like pets other then spiders.' she staggered under the weight of a large, deep glass bowl. Carrying it over to a low table by Aranea's bed she put it down and Aranea peered into the water. Two fat fish with interesting markings were lazily swimming about;
 
Sayuri tidied up the left over packing, stuffing it into a bag to take back home and dispose of. She stood for a moment, looking at Aranea.
'So...do you need anything before I go?'
Aranea shook her head, pushing strands of hair impatiently from her face.
'So you wont tell me what you were doing down in that gloomy lab?' Sayuri tried asking, her tone light.
'No - its not gloomy to me.' she snapped.
'You can go now,' and she turned, crossing both sets of arms and standing with her back rod straight. Sayuri sighed.
'Okay Aranea - I'll come back soon.'
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:42 pm
A small package is left outside your chamber door wrapped in dark cloth. Inside is a small card and a toy. The card reads:
Happy Yule, Aranea!
~Majestrix Nox
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:52 am
27th December 2004
Aranea woke, peering out from under the sheets, grumpily glaring at the door that vibrated a little with more knockings. She swept her hair from her damp forehead, and scowled at the door.
'Go away!!' she yelled, her voice croaking. She shivered as the cold air hit her and she squirrelled back into the warmth of her bed.
Sayuri sighed, leaning against the rough wood of the door. She hadnt spoken to Aranea since before the Christmas weekend, and she was worried about the Fey, even though she seemed to want little to do with Sayuri. Aranea didnt sound good, and she tried the door handle - which unsurprisingly was locked. She shook her head.
'I'll come back later,' she said, backing away and leaving the Castle once more.
Aranea snorted, coughing. She felt worse then she had ever felt before - even after being freed from her glass prison she hadnt felt like this. She watched the tiny twinkling lights on the Christmas tree in her room dance before her eyes, and as they grew heavy she fell into a fitful slumber.
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