☼ Demon Hunters ☼ Destruction of Angels ☼

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- { Dαmíєn Stαvє } -
Hearing more, seeing more, is that really living more?

Damien's face fell a little when Caia said that he was avoiding work, "I spend more than enough time working and filling in paperwork, and then sleeping on the paperwork because I have way too much of it... So I did the important stuff and then let Trinity teleport what's left to a random councilor's room. I used to keep it in the second office, but there was an infestation of archdemons who thought it was brilliant for nesting and I had to get someone from the council to come clean it up because it stunk badly and Trinity refused to go in there and kill them." He'd gone back to the expressionless face he generally kept up when talking about stuff related to his job now he'd been reminded of it.

He'd learnt not to bother with being surprised at the vast quantity of food Caia could eat, and that she meant what she said when she claimed she'd be able to eat it all. He accepted a plate from one of the waiters who was eyeing up the food and then eyeing up Caia and Damien and not understanding why there was so much food, and then picked a dish at random that had no meat in it and put about half of what he'd usually eat on the plate. "I think you're likely to worry a few of the people here, they may think you're unfortunate enough to have a black hole in your stomach."

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

'And he's back.' There is was, the completely blank face everyone knew so well. Well, it wasn't like she meant to make ilike that. Geez. "You use the council like they were your little elves." She watched him closely as he dished out whatever he wanted onto his plate, naturally avoiding the meat (there was barely any to begin with in the first place), and once he was finished she grabbed free reign over the rest of it. Starting with the priest choking one. Spinach dumplings that could strangle priests sounded interesting. Maybe it was so good they accidently choked themselves from shock.

"You call it unfortunate, I call it a blessing." Caia replied, cutting one of the dumplings in half. "We didn't have much variety in the Artic, so once we could leave and travel through the rest of the world, I was amazed by how many ways people could prepare food, and so differently. It was fascinating." She paused a moment, appreciating the taste before speaking again. "If I didn't have such a large appetite, I wouldn't have enough lives to try everything this world has to offer--oh, this is seriously good. Literally heaven. But I am in heaven, sort of, so I guess that makes sense."

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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Damien shrugged, "The council is an amusing waste of time, if they didn't keep so many secrets from Demon hunters then they would find that they wouldn't be blackmailed. Anyway, the old council had free reign over everything they did, and they acted like they were above the law. There was an academy a while ago, it blew up twelve years ago, it was reported to demon hunters that demons had blown it up - nope, the council authorized it to be blown up because they were trying to catch Trinity and she'd just killed the head teacher. They blew the whole school up, killing more people than Trinity ever did and then blamed it on Trinity. So, treating the new council like elves and blackmailing them, means that they don't abuse their power and start doing stuff that they really shouldn't."

He chuckled a little as Caia explained that she needed to be able to live longer so she could eat everything in the world, "You could just stay in Lii, the angels copied their favorite parts of the human world. As long as you steer clear from fae food you'd be fine... This isn't heaven, that's reserved for those who've died. If you want to know about heaven, ask Angela or Castanet. This is Lii, sort of a place in between worlds. We're in between the Otherworld and Earth and Lii keeps them apart."

- { Trínítч Lσurd Kαnє } -
Should we live to expectations - Or fight to break them?

The key clattered to the floor when Esme had disappeared, and Trinity crouched down to scoop it up. Esme was actively telling her to go to the demon cafe? Trinity was quite surprised at that, and wondered why. Either Esme was finally beginning to trust her and let her in on some of the families secrets that she knew as little about as someone from the other families did, or she was divulging the new location of the book. Trinity doubted Esme would let the book within a mile of the Demon Cafe and it's reputation, so she decided it must be something else like picking up dry cleaning. She slipped the key into a pocket that had been very cleverly stitched to the inside of her boot and then continued along the corridor. She would have gone back to the party then, but she couldn't be bothered. Deep down she knew it was childish, 'Heck I'm starting to think like a grown up.'

- { Príncєss Cαstαnєt-Cσnstαncє Alαznє } -
When life is laid out before you, fight to break free.

Castanet raised her eyebrows slightly when Griffon made a comment about not needing more demons to deal with. "Councilor Wings, if you'd kindly refrain from using a sterotype against my species I'd be rather grateful. Humans can be as bad as demons if they so wish to be, and they are in no way better than a demon." She smacked him around the head, not very hard, but enough to make a point. If another Wings member showed up and hit her back she'd decided she was going to turn them into toads. "So don't dare talk to a demon about 'dealing with' demons when they know it entails a hunter killing any demon they find, including young children sleeping in their beds." She calmed herself after that, reigning in the hissing and the fangs that always seemed to come out when she was angry.

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

Caia continued eating as she always did, but was listening intently. She had never really met the old council, outside of their visit to the Artic when the Greys were discovered. There was no Grey councilor at that time, seeing as they were thought to be all dead, and the Councilor himself had died of some incurable disease during the twenty years of isolation. She didn't really tend to think about them, unless it came up during a point of interest, so she didn't know too much about them. Her grandfather didn't speak much of them either, because, he said, he didn't really know much either. Was he lying to her...? No, Caia didn't think so. If he did know something, he would just tell her he couldn't say anything about it. He never had the heart to outright lie to her (which, Caia admitted, she used to her advantage once or twice when she was younger).

"Is that so." Lii was a pretty interesting place, but she wasn't an angel, so it wasn't like she had free reign over coming and going. That would probably be rude, but it was nice of Damien to offer. But right now, she was a little more focused on what he said about blackmailing the council. "You sound like an enforcer. I guess you're not as much of a pacifist as I thought."

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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Damien shrugged, "I grew up among fighters, and even though I don't approve of violence, words are brilliant to prove a point and I have to admit that they are needed sometimes. There are few angelic halflings right now, all apart from me live in Lii and Solace gets his orders from the angelic council to stop the demon hunter council doing stupid things. I like to join in, it winds up Esme and Thorisan, and I get to sneak around the council island. Deryn keeps getting confused as to how I keep turning up on the island and then magically disappear again before he catches up with me. All you need is a door... And yes I just gave up the secret of how I find out all the council secrets so easily."

"There are angels on earth however, it amuses me greatly how easily people miss them. The head nurse is an angel, the forest around Horia is filled with angels... Fooling the council is something I've been doing for a long time and really it's their fault for making me half angel."

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

"What?! The head nurse is an angel???" She definitely didn't see that coming. That woman was always so pushy. Were angels allowed to be that way? Well, it wasn't like they should fit the stereotypical image the world has of them, but it was still just weird. Finished with the first plate, she moved on to the second and continued eating. "Well, it's not just the council you're fooling, you know. I was fooled, Cordell is fooled, all our students, etc." She thought about it for a second, and then glared at him. "So we amuse you that much, huh? I see."

She was silent for a while, eating and staring in another direction, and it wasn't until she was almost done with the linguine that she spoke again, having another thought. "But the current council doesn't know anything about you being an angel. They weren't the ones behind the experiment. I mean, I understand that you don't like some of them, and I also kind of think they're a little infuriating, but..." she paused. "I'm not the greatest when it comes to judging someone's character, but when I think hard about it, I can't really see any of them willing to sanctify anything like your experiment." Caia didn't know a lot of them too well, or at all besides her grandfather, but she still couldn't imagine it. Even if someone suggested the idea, there would an enormous amount of opposition, wouldn't there? Her grandfather would definitely shoot the idea down as soon as it came to light.

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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"You find it amusing to pick up my glasses when I'm looking for them, and then watch me stumble around my office looking for them." He pointed out, relating back to when he'd been looking for his glasses during the Valentine's mess.

He pretended he was busy eating to comment on Caia's thought as he thought about it, "I'm not giving them the experiment plans ever, not even if I liked them all and they were doing a brilliant job. My parents were the ones who agreed to the experimentation when they were on the council, and if this one has any drive for power it's likely that it will happen again even if it is in secret by one or two council members who agree with it." He didn't mind telling them about him being half angel really, it would probably raise a few eyebrows but he didn't see it having any permanent damage. "Telling the council that Trinity is half demon is the problem though. She'd be kicked out of the Kane family and she'd probably head back to the Otherworld and we'd have to watch out for another Solitude problem."

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

"Well, I'm not saying you should tell them, just that I don't think they're as bad as the last council probably was." He had a very complicated look on his face, which was appropriate for this kind of conversation, she supposed. And now she was a little confused. Caia was never too good at the heart to heart, or other complicated people situations. Her own fault, really, and she doubted she was helping Damien at all by even having this conversation. Maybe it would be better if she changed the subject.

"You know, you're just to easy to tease." She pointed her fork at him. "And the fact that you can't see without your glasses is your own fault. Shame on you for having poor eyesight."

.* I want to protect, so I will dirty my hands for you *.

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- { Dαmíєn Stαvє } -
Hearing more, seeing more, is that really living more?

He was glad of the change of subject, the situation of angel and demon experimentation was hardly going to be solved over lunch. However the subject of being easy to tease wasn't a preferred subject really. "How is it my fault for having bad eyesight? ...And I'm not that easy to tease..." Well he hoped he wasn't. "Easy to beat up, maybe. But I'm not that easy to tease am I?"

[Ylva Rane]

.* Caia Grey *.

"Unless it is genetic, your eyesight is your fault." Caia put the now empty plate aside and grabbed the next one. "And it isn't 'maybe'. You are easy to beat up. You can't fight... very well, and I don't think I have ever seen you beat anyone. And," she point her fork at him again. "You are extremely easy to tease. If I wasn't too busy making sure people learned things at school, I'd do it more often."