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Rivera gave a low laugh. "I've never even met anyone from it. There won't be any friends there... I've heard of the Kaa-ferrvyne's harshness when it comes to justice. They are quite ruthless." She bit into a brownie thoughtfully, "That was the clan of my grandfather..." She recited the story that her mother had told her countless number of times. "He was the heir to the chiefdom... the prince of the dragon clan. However, he hated the strict codes and wanted freedom... so he left and concealed himself as a human. It wasn't long before he got used to living as a human and married a human wife and had a single son. The Kaa-ferrvyne finally hunted them down and killed them all. The son survived somehow, and was raised by wolves... It wasn't long before he discovered his wings and learned of his heritage through the voices of bards. In seeking full freedom from the Kaa-ferrvyne, he tried to flee to Aeterranchise. My mother, at that time, was quite agitated at my father. She was walking on the shore when the half-dragon arrived, half dead, an illegal immigrant. She tended to him in secret, fell in love and bore him a child. When it was discovered that the child was illegitimate, he was hunted down and exiled from Aeterranchise. However, the empress pled for my safety and I was allowed to remain in the court." She finished the other half of the brownie and took to the blood, draining it quickly before grabbing another brownie from the tray. "My father's name is Eridde... I am almost certain that he is alive, but most possibly imprisoned... They will have discovered of my existence, and they will most likely wish for me to live within the Clan's territory from now on."

"No hasty moves, Kira." She shook her head, "If my mother is right in saying that my father and I think alike, there is a good chance that he is doing this as part of his plan. If he's evaded the Kaa-ferrvyne for that long, and then suddenly gets himself caught, stalls and then lets it slip that I exist... then there must be a good reason for it. He knows very well that Aeterranchise is gone, and that I had been entombed in Britan, near Stonehenge. He may have used this situation as a ploy to bring us together again without sudden occurances." Rivera sighed and leant back against her chair. She was tired and she wanted to rest again... she felt pathetic for being so weak after that fight. She just slept for five days... it's not even been an hour yet and she was tired again.

Rivera cast him a grateful look. "That would be lovely... but don't bother with such formalities, Kira. You are my fiance. I never liked being treated as royalty or nobility. I wasn't cut out for the part." She reached out to take his hand, bringing his fingers to her lips and kissing them gently. "You... however... will always remain my prince... even if your charm is dimished by your dilatory common sense." She teased him, tacking on the joke at the end. Kira was a bit of a... brute force, fun loving sort of guy, a bit emotional, a tad slow in some places, but much better than the average... besides, she loved him. How can she not? They've been through too much together, shared too many laughs and too many hurts.

Rivera moved to snuggled a little closer to him, a small smile on her face. He had such soft, fluffy wings. The true angel... vampiric, yes. Dark, yes. Completely mentally thrown off when bloodthirsty, definitely. But of course... loving, won't have him as otherwise. She reached out to wrap her arms around his neck and pull herself closer to him, resting her cheek close against his chest, her head tucked under his jaw against his neck. She never wanted to let go of him... never...

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Rivera opened her eyes and pushed herself up slowly on her arms. Maybe she could try to walk a little... Her legs still won't move. Guess when they said a week or two, they meant a week or two, not... 8 hours... Whatever. She glanced at the clock. Lovely... she had time to study for that exam of hers before spring break. Some spring break this'll be... being stuck with dragons. Taking her Genetical Variation texbook from the shelf above her bed, she opened it up to a bookmarked page, put on her reading glasses from the shelf and began to scan the pages.

Rivera felt his hand brush her face as he took off her glasses. "Oh, I got them when I started using the chaos continuum too much. It was screwing with my sight." She replied softly. Rivera never told anyone that she wore glasses. She never liked contacts because they were close enough to mess up her scrying magic and misdirect things. She didn't like glasses either, but she had to get them. She was farsighted. "I don't look too strange in them, do I?" She leant over to give him a little peck on the cheek. The glasses were rimless, rectangular shaped and had clear plastic sides that made it seem just about invisible. Yet at the same time, they were perfectly clearly there.

"Genetic splicing, basically." She sighed. "And the sorcery involved with it..." Rivera stuck her tongue out at the page, obviously looking at it with distaste. "The test's in a few days and I'm nowhere near ready. I'll have to rely on a photographic memory for this." She quickly flew through the chapters. In about twenty minutes, she snapped the book shut and was about to get off the bed when she once again remembered. "Crap... I can't walk. Damnit..." She glared at the fridge and threw out her hand willing it to open. A giant double chocolate chip cookie flew out and arrived at her hand. She broke off a half and handed it to Kira. "Want some? It has white chocolate."

"Living Alchemy?" Rivera blinked, a little surprised. "Didn't know that you knew that." She replied lightly. "I was the junior understudy to the Gentic Department Research Office back then. Kai and I, and Usagi... we all had a riot doing the splicing simulation." She blinked. Usagihana did get relocated to this campus, but as a patrol officer and one of the emergency safeguard support androids. She wasn't her personal robot anymore... But she did get to revert back to that egg with bunny ears shape. Suppose that's better for the girls to giggle over. "Clover Inc. doctors said that I'd do well to learn some Genetic Variation. It's helped my combat sorcery a bit, since I know what I can do and what I shouldn't try, with my mixed lineage." She shook her head and gave a little smile. "Come to think of it... those dragons probably think that I'm a mutt, being so mixed-blooded and all."

"Campus patrol officer support droid." Rivera's answer was practically a recitation. She sighed and leant her head onto Kira's chest. "I'm boooored." She whined a little, but playfully. Rivera wasn't supposed to be a whiner, but she ended up much... mushier... when she was around Kira. There used to be a time when she was a powerful general... commander in chief of all of Aeterranchise's troops... She used to kill thousands without a second thought, and dealt with rule breakers harshly... all at the age of 13. Kira gave her a heart... it might be a good thing, but it might also be bad. She didn't know... but she didn't care as long as she could stick around him. "Can we go do something?" And as usual, she didn't know what they were going to do.