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(( this is the continuation of an RP in the shop on page 574. ))

"I ah.... I don't know." He looks around a little wearily. "Why don't we hang around here for a little while first? The park is very nice this time of year. All the flowers are coming out and it's fine-smelling and pleasant." He starts to walk again towards the local park.

Nar hops along from foot to booted foot, doing a kind of a funny dance as he moves down the street. He gazes off to the west and the very last of the setting sun, thinking on how pretty the sky looks. "Later. We'll go later. if you don't mind. And I don't know whether you could make me or not." He laughs and stuffs his hands in his pockets. "So what are you going to do with yourself, Iden? Do you go to school? What sort of things do you like?"

"You could if you whacked me over the head with a frying pan first." He look back over his shoulder at her, grinning. "Those are all good things to be interested in. Are you going to be a historian?"

"A good plan, perhaps. Well, I was only curious. I'm not trying to pressure you into being some kind of.... professional something."

By now they've reached the edge of the park, which really isn't terribly far from the shop. Nar ducks into the trees, fading in and out of the deepening shadows as only a vampire can. He seems to prefer the unbeaten path and, rather than taking the sidewalk in, just slides right into the bushes.

"No, it wouldn't be all that pleasant," he replies. "And you certainly wouldn't have to hit me to get me to go. I would if you asked."

"But you wouldn't always have to work in one, would you? At least you'd be able to be alone for a while. Historians can do that--just sit around and study away and not have to bother with people. I know someone who hunts for magical artifacts and he's practically a hermit, sitting up in his tower and pouring over texts. I think I'd begin to get very lonely. Spending too much time with my own head doesn't ever seem to do me any good."

They come out on a little footpath between rows of cultivated flowers, and Nar veers himself along it so as not to crush any of them with his huge boots. "I don't mind. Maybe I can help keep you company. And it's not as though I can ever drop by, at least by the sound of it. I shall have to rely on you for visits."

Nar laughs. "Well I didn't mean you'd spend all your life in a basement! Of course you'd have to crawl out to eat and things. I just meant for a job as opposed to social work or something where you'd have to deal with people constantly. I only meant that it seemed like something.... you could do."

He gives a little shrug. "When you've lived as long as I have, you can't help but meet interesting people. And the immortal ones tend to stick with you. We feel... some kind of brotherhood, I suppose. I guess we have to if we don't want everyone we know to disappear throughout our lives. We make friends because of it, you see? Sometimes you just have to feel familiarity. It's good to see someone after hundreds of years, just because they are someone you know, if that makes any sense. Anyway, he's lived for a good few years due to some kind of... oh, I don't know, some kind of alchemical process. I'm not certain. I don't dabble in sorcery at all. Anyway, I happened to meet him a long, long time ago. We help each other out sometimes. He always needs some poor fool to go out into the snowy wastes of his home and hunt down some artifact that may or may not exist ." He rolls his eyes, although he's still smiling.

"Oh.... I suppose... you'd just have to get some kind of grant or something." He makes an embarrased face and hops up onto one of the park benches that happen to get in his way. "I'm afraid I do. He always suckers me into doing things for him when I visit, which is why I don't often. I sent him a um... 'assistant' a while back. Hopefully she's doing whatever bidding he needs done."

"No, I suppose not... not if you're still in school. Well," he hops back down and continues on his way. "There was some girl who's job was to assasinate someone I look after. She was in trouble for being caught, so, to spare her from further torment, I sent her to him. So far, she's been kept safe."