☬-Thorn of The Rose-☬ 2x2 W/ Wolfrunner & Spiritstar3

[owl0430]

" He's an odd one no doubt, but he is nonetheless a gentleman at heart. Now keep this between you and me-" though it was dark, the male still winked. "but he told me once how he desires to give you a proper proposal and wedding ceremony, one without fear of retribution from the king. An event that your siblings could attend as well, and if you so desired one where your kingdom could celebrate with you. He's just trying to figure out how right now. "

a sigh.

" Plus, I fear he worries for you still. You may be fine now, but for how long? How long would you actually be able to stand being the only one all cooped up in the manor, unable to leave because of your identity? If you are to be freed of your queenly duties and mortal restraint, he doesn't want you to be unwillingly trapped in there."

[wolfrunner]

"Then let us be off."

Rigel offered a hand to Nina, only to have it be ignored as the little girl promptly got up on her own. He watched as the girl walked around the opposite side of Haruna to take her place there not unlike one of the Runemeth Soldiers standing at attention. She didn't appear fond of either of them but at least slightly less so of the human prince....though it was likely only because her sister seemed to trust him. But whatever worked. The long game was too be expected in all honesty. At least now with both girls up on their feet they could be on their way.

"We'll go meet the carriage now then. And on our way stop by and pick up a few things the girls need until Madam is done with their wardrobes. I do not recall there being anything at the manor too suit them, and they can not wear your or my clothes for several weeks on end."

[Spiritstar3]

Konan Semantis- 20- Genderfluid (m)- Ember Infiltrator- Bisexual- his house- Tags: open for now

The dark haired vampire sighed and shook his head. He tried not to worry, but she was panting a lot, and he couldn't help it...He didn't know if pups could die if born too early. Was a week or so too early? Well, it was a little less than a week now. Still, he didn't know how it worked with animals.

Haruna- 18- male- Embere Heir- homosexual; Rigel is crush- Ai and Nina- kitten Dream- manor- Tags: Ai and Nina, Rigel

The dark haired boy hummed and shook his head a bit. He had thought they looked cute using his shirts as night shirts. It was true they needed their own clothes, though. He thought of taking Rigel's hand, but stopped himself. After all, Nina was one one side, and didn't seem to like him. Ai was on the other side, already holding Haru's hand. He nodded and said "Yeah, let's go." He then waited for the blonde vampire to take the lead.

Ai- f- 4 y- July 12- human- bi when old enough; no crush- sister Nina- wants a pet- Tags: Nina and Haruna, Rigel

The reddish brown haired little one hummed and sighed...However, then Nina joined them and she smiled a bit. She waited for the two guys to finish talking. When they were talking, they weren't walking.

[wolfrunner]

“Since that is settled then-“

Lucas rose back to his feet. Though as he did so, the eldest Renier also scooped up the human in the process so that she was held in his arms by the time he once again stood up right.

“-then let us search for a suitable place together. Surprisingly you are a lot lighter then you appear, not that you have ever seemed more then dainty too me. I am afraid that working can not be avoided upon our return however, at least if I am too keep the town safe and provide for you the way in which you deserve. You are concerned I shall no longer have time for you? Is that it?”

[wolfrunner]

Yes. Aralynn didn’t say so outloud but she didn’t think she had too say that she agreed with the red red haired male about their sire. She’d known that Al was a gentlemen, or at least a gentle soul, from the earliest point at which they’d met. It wasn’t until a little while later that Aralynn would really say she started to notice the male changeling was a gentlemen. Maybe that was why the girl was never afraid of him. Could never bring herself to be afraid of him even knowing full well what he was, even when he tried to scare her. Why the blonde female was willing too put so much faith in him despite Adrian’s attempts at frightening her off with his so-called warnings and telling her of his past.

“I’m not going back. And they’re no longer my people. I’d be plenty happy just to share the day and the celebrations with everyone at the manor, in fact I’d even prefer it. Just us together and everyone back home though I do appreciate his desires. Don’t worry though for I won’t breathe a word of the fact you told me all this to him. Promise. He may deny it all anyway, though it would be very funny too see him get all flustered from embarrassment.”

The fact that Valentine explained he suspected that Al was still concerned for her despite her efforts and determination too quickly adapt to the household and her new role, wasn’t shocking. Sigh inducing perhaps. But nothing more then that.

“He really worries too much for me but then wonders why and isn’t fond of me worrying for him. And speaks up on us not letting him wallow in his misery. He wasn’t kidding when he said there was nothing to be done with him.”

[owl0430]

As Lucas had lifted her into his arms, she had wrapped her arms over his shoulders. Twas no surprise he had no trouble carrying her, seeing what he was, but it still felt right.

Yet in response to his inquiry, "P-perhaps. You are a general on top of everything else. Tis quite the burden you bear. Time consuming too. " and it means we wouldn't be able to be like this anymore....cheerful and free. And I daresay if that sister of Orion's makes an appearance again- but what power would I have against her? She could easily rip me to pieces if she so chose.

"A-Anyways, somewhere high up with an unobstructed view would be best. Like a nice balcony overlooking the town, or a rooftop. For watching the stars."

[owl0430]

" Perhaps there is nothing to do with him now...but over time, maybe there will be. Even the hardest stones erode over time, sometimes revealing gemstones underneath. Plus, knowing him, he probably appreciates your worry for him, though as you said, he denies everything. "

deciding then to lay himself down on the cave's foundation, he continued. " If we may get a bit more serious for a moment? Humans turned into vampires by force, or unwillingly- whether that be a vampire looking for entertainment and or companionship, or a new or young vampire slipping up- they all have their own way of coping with that. Our sire here copes with his own lack of humanity by bearing the burden on his own, but also by setting an example of what not to be. By then using his own boarish behavior while hunting as another way of coping- a rather unhealthy way of forgetting his troubles.

And as much as I know you wish not to think of it either, these events are just adding to his list. When he's talked before since then, there is a subtle quaver in his voice. Almost unnoticeable. "Tis not fair to pressure him into talking, but unwise to let the emotions continue to simmer as well.

For starters, that man..Cecil, had it been? Some type of dastardly creature living between our worlds- not quite human but not quite a vampire, either. He smelled human, yet he bore our crimson eyes and our fangs. His blood even carried with it the feintest hint of a vampire. Why? Even changelings don't normally hunt other vampires like that. They find brethren to help them keep them grounded, or they loose their mind- but they don't hunt their own kind. Their sires, maybe, but outside of that? 'Tis most unusual. Plus, the woman...I...I think..." his breath shook, as if still processing the next information himself. " I think she was a descendant of his original family."

The male then shook his head, moving on. That's getting too far off track. And it's not to say you do not have your own emotions you're trying to hide. You do not need admit or reveal any of them to me, but perchance the two of you could find solace in each other? It may not be the worst idea in the world."

[wolfrunner]

"Yet you can be sure I shall always find time for you. Now. That is not to say you may not have to come and demand me to stop what I am doing to recieve said time, because you may dependent on what is going on."

Lucas shrugged his shoulders a bit as he started walking with her in tow. Each step he took careful so that he did not trip and drop the blonde as a result.

"But I shall always stop what I'm doing to give you the time you want from me. Always. Now. About someplace for us to watch the stars.....perhaps from a boat? I can always bribe some seamen again. Or we can investigate where we were earlier? We were told 'tis open to the public during this festival after all."

[owl0430]

" ...As kind as the offer to watch from a boat would be, and the view likely grand, the thought of potentially falling into those waters at night is more frightening than doing so during the day. Checking out earlier location is a decent plan while we consider the two options. "

A laugh from the female. " and don't worry. I won't bug you too much. Duties are indeed duties, and I have to make sure your family gets plenty of time with you as well! Orion's sister is another story though. "

[wolfrunner]

"You....want me to talk with him? Or get him to maybe talk too me about it?"

At that realization the blonde leaned forward adjusting Al enough to ease him inwards closer to herself as an automatic form of instinctual defense. Her body curling forward to hang over him as though to keep something or someone from getting to the sleeping injured vampire. But Aralynn becoming sort of a living shield around their sire wasn't the only reaction to her recalling recent events. Of the feelings of that wild, intense, pure fear and fury starting to slowly claw their way back too the surface yet again. Oh no.. For, though currently blended too the darkness of the cave, the girl's shadow shifted ever so slightly in a way not unlike a resting beast who was beginning to stir at sensing it's master's sudden change in mentality. Just moving a bit as though it was curious.

"I don't...I don't know...not sure if-"

'-why not use me? Al. Why not use me as your speck of light, as a warm fire to keep away the cold?'

Just like that Aralynn's words died on her lips.

Those words.....no, more like her words. When Al first told her of Adrian having left his soul and described the sensation of it, those were the exact words she'd responded with. The blonde told him to use her as a speck of light to brighten the darkness around him. A fire to fight back the cold he'd described to her. And yet Aralynn also wasted no time in shutting down any plausible opportunities for that very thing when she told him that nothing that happened mattered, which of course it didn't but still what had happened... Maybe, just maybe, the female vampire had shut down the male's attempt to talk about what happened because she didn't want to hear everything he'd gone through herself. Maybe doing that was causing more harm than tossing the memories too the wind like they never happened.....because they most certainly did happen.

Al had come back in frightfull shape when he returned to the farmhouse.

The humans had chased them with dogs and cornered them.

They had been torn from each other's arms.

He had been chained in front of her.

And then there was that man which both he started to speak of and Valentine mentioned. The one called Cecil. That man... That thing..... Even with the red head's words she was sure that, should she ever catch scent of that male again anywhere near the manor she'd most definitely hunt him down and kill him herself this time.

And that women.... If what Valentine said was true and she was a decedent of the sleeping changeling then she should have been delt with a long time ago. Her death would be far too overdue if she somehow made it out of the blaze the chef had set to consume the village. That was a certainty.

The sound of nails or something metal like a blade of some kind scrapping against rock echoed. There would be a large deep jagged slash mark engraved into the wall right by Aralynn's head once one could see, even with nothing but the trio being around to make it. So it seemed.

Though right then the female buried her face into the dark head resting in her lap trying to push back the previous events having taken place in that surely now pile of ashes which were brought about by the current topic of discussion. The female taking deep breathes all but inhaling his scent as though she was trying too absorb it all. If Valentine felt the need to move in anyway in an attempt to comfort or ease her he'd better not for his own well being. Even if what was responsible for the wall didn't get him, there was no way that Aralynn wouldn't at least lunge out at the chef due too mistaking him from someone wanting to take her lover from her again in her current state. Agitated. On tense gaurd. Scared. It was as though she was back there in the steadily burning town of Argentum having just hauled Al off the pyre. As though she was once again cradling him close with gentle arms so as not to further upset and worsen his wounds and cursing Cecil to burn with the town and rest of those that lived there.