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Jaden didn't do anything except for get up and put on a set of jeans, his bushy tail still swishing gently. Other than that he glanced over at his crusted hands, looking at them with something akin to self loathing, though in a different vein. There had been a very long discussion internally but it had gotten nowhere at all. Still, looking at his claws he felt the same melencholy sensation that he always did after a senseless massacre.

Jaden smirked gently, being slowly pulled from his revere though a shower held no interest to him at the moment. He was far more interested in Sibyls attitude towards him. Never really scared, though she had seen him at his worst. She was one of those mysteries that helped to fill his mostly sleepless nights.
"It's not the palm reading so much as the markings." Jaden said quietly, more going from wisdom than anything. "Bodies themselves carry the ability to tell many things over the years, each small mark is some testament to lineage or history. We Lycan's though, have the power to heal our own bodies far faster than any humans, So most markings happen before we are turned." Jaden turned his hand over several times. There were dozens of small scars across his hands, some far deeper and more evident than others.
"Sometimes things happen that bring evidence to the contrary though." he said with something akin to a smile. "Like significant trauma. Here." He took hold of her hand and placed it high on his chest under his left arm over a starburst scar in a tight circle. "That was my own rib after I plummetted down a cliff and onto the rocks below. My body actually tried to heal over it before I reset it three days later. Or..." He placed her arm on the right side of his neck where a strange series of five scars ran up to his cheek. "That was my brother when we actually fought, the wounds were covered in ice so I couldn't heal them in time. Or..." Jaden actually used her finger to trace the diagonal scar the cut from the top right of his forehead down slightly past the left side of his mouth. "Black blood rune sword weilded by a vampire assassin." He finally dropped her hand, dried blood flaking off into her palm as he did so. "There are many, many stories."

Jaden smiled kindly, not used to being asked about stories. Usually in the past those that asked about his past were short lived.
"What kind of story do you want to hear then?" he asked with a smile of fangs. "Inform me of what you want."

Jaden's tail swished as he leaned back and thought. There were so many stories, not all of them his. And how were you supposed to choose from them all?
In abscent thought his tail swished over a small wound just below his right shoulder blade and he knew something to tell. "Let's go with a love story." he finally said, licking his fingers clean as he drifted back slowly. "We begin in a small village in France..."

In a village that no longer exists, back when the age of enlightenment was just taking hold and science was blooming, there lived a young man called Emil. Now this man was the most plain of plain individuals. A blonde haired, blue-eyed boy with nothing of note, on the surface at least.
Now Emil was gifted with his hands and had a certain affinity for metal. So under the tuetelage of the local blacksmith his skills grew, eventually up to a level that individuals from other villages came to view his work. In forging and blacksmithing Emil did have a special eye for beauty though, with the crude materials available to him he was able to create jewelry of exquiste quality.
Well, word of this magnificent jewler caught the ears of Simone, the daughter of the Countess De'Laroch. She was facinated by the concept that an apprentice to a blacksmith could fashion iron and steel into such beautiful creations.
Well Simone eventually convinced her mother to visit the village so that they may see this gifted man. Upon arriving there the women were overtaken by the beauty that this plain man could create from raw materials. Feeling that his skills were being wasted the Countess struck a deal with Emil. She said that so long as the young man gave fifty percent of his future profits to her family they would be his backer and provide him with the materials for a proper quality of jewlery. Emil gladly accepted the offer of the Countess, partly because it meant a greater quality of his work but he had ulterior motives. You see, as soon as he had laid eyes upon Simone he had fallen madly in love with the Countess' daughter, and with her family backing him he would have a chance to see her again.

Jaden paused in his story, apparently in thought. In truth he was trying to piece the information back together properly since a vast majority of this particular was known to him second hand from a far more... original source. With the puzzle pieces falling back into place he continued.

As it happened, Emil was gifted but he had never worked with precious metals and stones before. Well, the first and most amazing piece he wanted to create was a potential gift for Simone De'Laroch as a token of his love. Based on his inexperience he chose to create something simple as his first attempt at fine jewelery. The item he chose to create was a silver hairpin for his newest creation. This hairpin was a simple creation, no jewels to adorn it just an intricate working of metal. Emil spent nearly a week on the hairpin, bending it and twisting and reshaping the metal as he tested his new medium. Finally settling with his new skills Emil set to work producing many fine bracelets, necklaces and broochs, among them was a necklace of exquiste gold inlaid with silver and a large opal that he thought might please his love.
After a month of working with his new materials Emil set out to the mansion of the Countess with his creations.
Within the reception hall the young jewler set his new pieces out on the large table and await approval from his backer, but more than anything for the approval of Simone.
Emil then offered any of his works as a gift to Simone in thanks for her gaining her mothers ear and giving him this opportunity. Simone was extremely flattered at this, you see among all of her suiters none had ever offered her creations wrought with their own hands. Among the items she searched through she came upon the simple silver hairpin and immediately placed it in her long dark hair.
The young man was surprised at the choice from his obviously better and more costly pieces. The young woman smiled to him and said "Of all your amazing work only this piece contains the full range of your skills."
That moment was cemented to be the time when their love truly blossomed for each other.

Jaden rotated his right arm as he considered the next phase, slightly more tricky to tell as the other characters came in. Still, it was a story for Sibyl.

A few years passed and Emil did quite well for himself, keeping his relationship with Simone a secret as they were of different classes. It was not as open as they desired but they were happy with their lives, so long as they could see each other.
Well, as most love stories go there is usually a rival, and even the story of the plain but gifted Emils was no exception. As fate would have it Simone De'Laroch had been discovered by the young nobleman who ruled all of the surrounding region. This man, Julian, was attractive and powerful and he usually got what he wanted. Simone's mother was growing weak at this time, and she only wanted what he thought was best for her daughter. So she promised Simone to Julian.

Sibyl listened intently and since she was horrible at acting and lying it was clear that she was enjoying the tale because her lavender eyes sparked with curiousity as she clearly began processing possible questions to ask him after he was finished. Her full attention was on Jaden and she didn't interrupt him once though she did get the urge to ask him her questions but she decided to withhold them until his tale was over. She would treat him as she had any elder that she'd listened to within her pack, with respect.

Sibyl had been attentive and quiet throughout the story and though she'd looked at Jaden to assure him that she was listening as was a human tendency to do, she'd been taught, she didn't look him directly in the eyes. Her lavender eyes looked at the walls behind him and watched him through her peripherals or she looked just below his eyes at his nose or just above at his forehead. However, she simply decided to just settle down in her little nest she'd made for herself and stare at the ceiling. She had her legs resting on the back of the couch while her head was dangling off the edge of the couch, her brilliant auburn hair cascading down the couch like a magnificent red waterfall.

"Am I to assume," Sibyl asked just to be certain there were no misunderstandings since she had a way of misinterpreting many things that humans said to her, "that you were the wolf they managed to capture and paralyze and that's how you know this story? And that you were his hallucination and watched over him as he died? A big black wolf, a man with long black hair and a wild look to him, that sounds like something a human would use to describe you is it not? How did you manage to have a young human noble woman stick a hair pin in your back? You struck me as a little quicker to react than that." Her last two sentences were uttered with a smile, she was teasing him though her voice had been fairly monotone so it was difficult to tell.

Her smile then changed to one of wamrth and tenderness as she recalled the parts of the story where the couple had been united. "You did a good thing, you know. You didn't kill Simone when she asked you to keep quiet and you did just as she asked you and you let her leave. See? You are a good person and you have a good heart, you just need to recall that and if it's through your stories that you remember then so be it."

She did a perfect crunch in order to bring herself back upright on the couch so that all the blood didn't rush to her head. The wolf hated that feeling quite a bit along with any other numbness symptom or causer. "No your behaviour is not the point of the story but it influcened characters within the story so I decided I wanted to know more about one of the key characters that played such a vital role."