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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:17 pm
It was an odd hour. Eve was wide awake, sitting in bed with a distressed and exhausted Leila gathered into her lap. Intuition, however, said there was a chance Aleksy might be awake, too -- so she dialed up his number, and was greeted with his familiar voice. "Lex. How are you feeling?"
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:24 pm
Several seconds of tired Russian cusses followed, and then the sound of someone getting up and out of bed. "Not ******** sleeping," said Aleksy, as he flicked on the lights in his little studio. " Pizdaty. Not your fault. Sorry." He got settled and put the phone on speaker. "Is Leila home?"
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:34 pm
"Yes, she's here with me right now. Did you need to tell her something?" Leila mumbled out a greeting for Aleksy, which Eve relayed. She had been uncharacteristically untalkative since her return from her trip to the other Ashdown, which meant that something so tremendous had happened she wasn't ready to talk about it yet. "I called to tell you something, actually."
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:36 pm
"No, I was... checking on her," he said. "We had... an adventure. It's hers to tell you of." Aleksy paused in mixing his new colors, palette knife held delicately between his fingers. "What is it?"
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:41 pm
"Yeah, I got the impression." She took a deep breath before starting. "I'm sorry I was so ignorant towards you about your Sight, Lex."
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2016 8:52 pm
Aleksy dropped the palette knife. Luckily, it didn't go far, since the sheet of thick glass that served as his palette was only on his lap. He picked it back up and mumbled another cuss--it was the south side of two in the morning, Eve had no reason to give a s**t--as he tried to recover the mistake. "Why," he asked. "You were right."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 3:06 pm
"Maybe, but I still wasn't being respectful to you. And I'm also sorry for having a selfish reason to apologize." Pause. "But I still wanted to warn you, so you can choose whether or not you want to see me again."
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 5:08 pm
"What do you mean," asked Aleksy, because he wasn't continuing this conversation further without more explanation than he had.
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 5:41 pm
"You've seen Lucas," she explained. "He's a shapeshifter. So am I."
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 3:04 pm
Ohhh. Ohhhhhh ******** that s**t. Why did that other place have to take his... have to take Eve too? "I," he said. "I'll have to. Think about that," he said. He was the scum of the earth. He was a coward who would desert a dying man. But he didn't think he could take going to see Eve's familiar face and seeing something else instead. "I'm sorry," said Aleksy. "I don't think I can..." Deal.
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 4:36 pm
"I understand. That's why I called." She was idly smoothing out Leila's hair, both to soothe her beloved and to soothe herself -- as if the action could also comfort Aleksy, somehow. "But no matter what you choose, I promise I'll still love you. Okay?"
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 12:44 am
"Okay," said Aleksy, small, softly. "I'm sorry."
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 10:33 am
"Ah, one more thing..." She'd almost forgotten. "Your sister... her body was stolen, by something evil. She wanted me to warn you."
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