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"Well that sounds perfectly lovely," Nar spits out sardonically. Nothing about being stuck in an inanimate object sounds at all appealing to him. "Do you wish it hadn't? I mean, would you rather have just been done with and that's that? I really don't know what I'd do with myself, if it were me in your position. It seems a pretty sleezy trick to play on someone, to me."

"Oh, I'd meant more a trick of fate or a trick of life than the machinations of another person. Stefan?" he inquires, curiously. "An enemy of yours? Well, I guess you fooled him, then, in whatever capacity. Better here than hell, definitely, if that's your other option. Well, we all must make due, as it were. I think you'll find the present not so awful as it may seem. Particularly if you have somewhere to escape from it to."

"Your son?!" Naraka can't help but say, terribly shocked. "He tried to kill you?" Nar recalled Iden saying Vlad had children, but she didn't expound on the matter at all, and he's rather got the idea she doesn't know about this. But the question is 'why?' Ever curious, perhaps too curious, Nar ventures, "Why did he hate you so much? Or... was it something else?" He cringes at Vlad's expression. The mixture of pain and an attempt to cover it is grotesque and a little frightening.

"Oh, right, I suppose he did..." Naraka stifles a laugh, finding the situation disturbingly humerous. "Nobody cares much for vampires. particularly the people from whom we came. I doubt your generation was anymore forgiving than mine. And who could blame them? They're our prey. Your son, though.... that would be a very hard thing to take." Nar shakes his head sadly. "A very hard thing."

(( Irronically, I had plans to bring in a daughter of Nar's who'd try to do him in in the future x.x It hasn't come to fruition yet. ))

"But still... I feel it to be a little different when it's family..." Geez, no wonder this guy is so ornery. Everyone trying to kill him and how else could he turn out but vicious? Naraka puts a hand to his head, distressed. "I've never had children. That's one of the biggest things I've missed out on in my long life."

(( yah. A half-breed from one of the very few women who survived one of his attacks. She'd be.... a little on the angry side. I wanted to do something for everyone else in the Tarot thread plotwise before I did anything for Naraka, though. ))

Trying to explain the thing away through the workings of a monarchy really doesn't help. In fact, it makes him feel just that more depressed. "But family that you knew? Family that you raised from birth and on? I mean.. I mean real family and not just some blood relation. I guess I don't now how close you and your son were though...."

He pauses to look up at the heavy, dark sky, and then down the cliffs below. It looked like there was no easy way to the ocean unless he wanted to mountain-goat his way down the rocks, and he's not certain Vlad would be up for that. He simply stands instead. "I think I do. I know I do, but it isn't something I'd want even if it were possible at this point. I can't imagine the life of a half-breed to be any easier than the life of a vampire. I couldn't do that to any child. No matter how beloved they may be, immortality is such a heavy weight to bear."

(( I figure someone will have to rescue poor Nar from his impending doom. I just don't know if anyone will be willing. O.o;;; ))

Nar notices Vlad's avoidance of the matter but he doesn't put it. He's already recieved a large amount of information, as far as he's concerned, unless it's all fabricated. He suspects that it isn't. "That must be a harsh life to lead, when the people you ought to be the most attached to are out to kill you. I don't think that's what family was intended to be. For serpents and sharks, perhaps, who haven't got a real family to speak of, but not for human beings. I guess in the end it is what it is, but I wish it weren't so. I've missed out on family as well, or at least any memories of it, so I suppose I have a very idealistic notion of what it is." He smiles wanly and has a seat, watching the hypnotic seeth and swell of the water beyond.

(( able, yeah. ^_^;;;;; She will have been obsessed with finding him and doing him in. It might take a few people. x.x ))

Naraka shakes his head and smiles up at Vlad sadly. "Oh, I am afraid I don't know all of the history. I was way out of the country by then, and never bothered much with politics besides. Otherwise, we might have crossed paths. Well, I couldn't live in your family, I'm afraid. I just wouldn't be able to take it."