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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 18:23:30 GMT
Exo carried Aisha up to her bedroom with ease. The poor girl had gone through multiple feedings in the last couple of days and might be a bit weak at the moment. He was glad she had potions for this. Taking her into her room, he glanced at her face and saw that while not out cold, she was still....floating. Exo's eyebrows furrowed. He couldn't just leave her hear alone. So he went to the bed with her and sat on it and against the headboard with her in his lap. He gently stroked her hair until she came back to herself.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:27:40 GMT
Aisha was sort of aware that she was being moved but wasn't fully able to ask or voice anytbing in her state except for a few noises of content.
When she finally came to, her eyes focused on her room. She wondered how she had gotten here. Then she felt a body and hands in her hair and she looked up and saw Exo.
"How long have I been out of it?" she asked quietly, laying there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:30:41 GMT
"A little while..." he replied as he tilted her head gently and licked the wounds that Erskine left behind closed. "But I wanted to make sure you were ok...so I stayed..." he licked his lips and sat back against her headboard again. "How are you feeling?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:33:15 GMT
She watched him as he leaned into her and licked her neck. She put her hand to wondering what he did. "You didn't close your bite before?" She asked curiously.
"I feel okay. A bit drained but nothing a potion can't fix or rest." She smiled softly. "Thanks for watching me."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:38:03 GMT
He nodded and simply held her for a bit. "Of course I was going to watch you. We might seem like monsters sometimes Aisha...but we were once human. And even as vampires...we take care of our own. That's why I'm glad you came to us. So we could do just that." He stroked her hair again. "And it's good for me to take care of someone sometimes. Helps remind me of where I've been."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:42:45 GMT
"I seem to be a mess as of late." She sighs. "It is hard to understand the rage of emotions when they come crashing down on you all at once."
"I wanted to go to them though. To the Tremere. At first. I honestly did." She looked into his eyes, wondering which to focus on at first then settled for the third eye.
"I found it hard to come here. To accept things as they are. Still a struggle to understand everything that happens at least from my standpoint." She fiddles with her fingers for a moment or two.
"Thank you for not turning me away after finding out everything you did." She gestured to her mind. "In there."
She let out a breath. "Do you think we will find him?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:48:07 GMT
All of his eyes focus on her as she speaks and when she is done, he nods. "We take care of our own. We will find him...and we will punish the person who took him from us." He then puts a gentle finger on her forehead, pointing at it. "We will always think about the other side. Because once in awhile, it is enticing. And I understand your viewpoint. We are...different. Something you are not accustomed to and some of our ways can seem harsh. And you could have gone to them..." He shrugs and then taps her forehead gently. "But you didn't. You came here. Thinking and doing...two different things..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 20:55:29 GMT
"Are they though? In this world?" She ponders the notion out loud. "When Mary was going through her training with me, she said that I could not think of other things. Other things could get David in trouble. Look bad on him. On her, on you." She sighs, obviously confused.
"I understand actions speak louder then words, but even still, my thoughts can still cause problems for him. I mean come on. Tell me he won't get in trouble later for the ramifications of what we said or did in private? Some of those conversations you saw were just of him and I. Another was just Rose and I. He never went and spoke to them about the tea cup thing." She giggled.
"Though it would be funny to see if it worked." She smirked playfully. "Do I not represent him? Isn't that what you all told me. So therefore, going and talking to Rose about such things, as an extension of David, it also is an extension of you and Mary, his pack, your pack. The entire clan could be misconstrued over my mouth." She sighed. Brought her hands to her temples.
"Maybe it best I just don't come around for business. I don't want to cause issues with anyone, especially for David."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:05:55 GMT
"Yes your thoughts can get you in trouble sometimes...if you are thinking them in the vicinity of someone who could do something terrible to David. I wouldn't punish him for thoughts in private...as long as he didn't act on those thoughts. When in a setting where a lot of kindred are around or when higher officials are around, it is best not to think those thoughts at all. That's when you represent him." He sighs and shakes his head. "I know its confusing. I've had centuries to get used to it, so its second nature to me. You will understand, in time."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:12:54 GMT
She laughs. "How do you stop someone from thinking? I mean honestly." She sat up a bit, feeling dizzy, she leaned over and picked up her bag off the floor and rummaged through her things. "Need to make more of these." She opened her last bottle of blood replenishing.
"I might look at whoever is around and suddenly think about shoes, or David and the shoes...or shoes doing this or that...then of course I could just jump down a rabbit trail. My brain can move rather quickly." She shook her head.
"Like I started with the tea cup thing, then got into this long drawn out conversation on if it was even possible and if it was, are their last effects? What could go wrong? Then theory came about and well I just kept jumping thoughts from there."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:18:33 GMT
Exo nodded. "I can understand that. But let's look at it this way. You are here now. Do you still want to turn me into a teacup? And if so...out of malice? Or out of blatant witch curiosity?" He blinked his three eyes at her slowly, waiting to hear her response.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:24:47 GMT
"Oh now? Just blatant curiosity. I mean, changing things is my specialty in my world. Can you blame me?" She laughed again.
"I shall have to show you sometime. When I am not under the effects of blood. They weaken my magic. Takes to much to try and cast anything."
"I mean I feel the magic there but it is hard to reach. Instead I feel other things, like for some reason I feel as though I have strength. Which was funny when I picked David up." She laughed at the memory then felt a ping of pain. She missed him.
"I miss him." She whispered.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:32:27 GMT
He wraps his arms around her and lays a light comforting kiss on her forehead. "I know. When Maria was gone...I missed her too." He sighs as he openly admits that. "We've been talking about emotions and echoes, her and I. We...it seems she was shown that we, us kindred, do feel our emotions. We believe they are echoes because we change and believe that change changes everything...including how we feel. Apparently...I might have been wrong for so long." He is quiet for a moment as they sit there in the dark.
"I was wrong. And since I was wrong...and I now know that we feel? I imagine that he misses you as well."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:38:03 GMT
"Mary mentioned that earlier as well." She says with a soft smile, a sadness in her eyes. "It is sad that you both didn't get to believe that your emotions were real. I told David as much, about echos, bringing memories, memories allow you to feel what you once did, an echo of it, but if you can feel that, then why not feel the rest also?" She said quietly.
"If you can feel anger more than anything else? Then why not love? It only made sense to me." She shrugs. "I am glad you both have found that emotions are very real. Though maybe don't go tell the world." She chuckled. "Besides, you wouldn't want everyone to know that would you?"
"He did call." She whispered. "I know he does."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:50:07 GMT
He chuckled and gave her a gentle squeeze. "So you know he is alive. We will find him." He is quiet for another long moment. "I never got to tell you everything the other night...but...you dance very beautifully. Hopefully, one day soon, we can share a dance..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 21:52:17 GMT
"I like to dance. I don't do it often enough, at least that is what David tells me." She smiled.
"But could you even keep up with my style of dancing?" She laughed and stood off the bed. "So come on. Let's see what style of dance you use." She grinned holding her skirt in one hand.
"I doubt you could keep up" She winked in a playful challenge.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 22:17:13 GMT
He chuckles and shakes his head as he gets up. "You don't know what you are saying..." he remarks with a smirk and pulls off the vest and shirt, tossing them on the bed. Kicking his shoes off to the side, he was now barefoot and topless in loose pants. Cracking his neck, he looked at her and started to mimic some of the steps she was doing in the garden.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 22:19:18 GMT
"No, no" She laughs. "You are doing it wrong. Elegance is the key. Let the moves flow through you."
She chuckled softly leaned over in her bag and pulled out her hand symbols and put them on.
With a click and clack of the sounds, she started to make a beat and began to swirl and move to the sounds she was making.
"Like this."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 22:48:35 GMT
Exo adjusted his steps to the beat and would soon be following her movements, his own smoothing out as he got more comfortable with the dance. He smiled as they moved, his hair whipping around him, loose and free, which it rarely is. There's a...noticeable joy in his face as he moves to the beat. Eyes closed, movements becoming second nature.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2017 23:08:28 GMT
"See there you go." She laughs as she suddenly changes the beat and wonders if he can match the next part with such ease moving from one sound to another.
She knew what was coming of course, she was controlling the beat as it were. She laughed again as she picked up the beat and changed the pace.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 3:42:09 GMT
Now that he had the steps down, adjusting to beat and tempo was simple. He moved with a grace that his normal clothes covered up and he smirked at her. Taking her hand, he pulled her into the dance so they could dance together.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 3:45:55 GMT
Aisha laughed and danced with him. It was nice to just be for a few moments. Though with everything she had been through over the last few days, the sudden impact of everything caught up to her and she slowed. She suddenly didn't feel like dancing anymore.
She sat on the edge of her bed, tears threatening her again. "How can I be happy? How can I dance like this? I don't know what he is going through. What kind of pain or battle he is going through? It isn't fair that I should be feeling good when he may not be." She felt the tears start to fall down her face again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 3:53:10 GMT
Exo stopped and watched her sit and soon moved to kneel in front of her, wiping her tears. "Because he would not want you to be miserable. If love is everything it is supposed to be? Then David would be alright with a little distraction so that you are not miserable. If I am to have emotions? Then that is something I have to believe in..." He wipes her tears and cups her cheeks as his ink black eyes look up at her from his kneeling position.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 3:57:24 GMT
Aisha sighed as he knelt in front of her and wiped her tears. "I." She sighs again not sure what to say.
"Distraction doesn't help if I can't find leads. Distraction only keeps me from looking more. If he managed to get a call to me, he distracted them long enough to do so. I can't afford the luxury of happiness, not yet. Not now."
She stands and takes his hand pulling him up with her. She hugs him and kisses his cheek lightly. "Thank you for the moment of distraction, I have to get back to my work. Quinn's plans. I have to do something. I can't be idle. Idle hands never got anywhere."
She fights her tears down this time and it seems a quite resolve settles over her and she seems more determined then ever to help find her husband.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 4:08:58 GMT
Exo nods as he stands and is kissed gently. With her wanting to do something he felt...dismissed. But he understood. She wanted to be as helpful as possible. He understood all too well what it was to be useless. He moved to grab his clothes and made for the door to head out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 4:19:20 GMT
"Can you read Hindu?" She asked him. He seemed to be saddened suddenly and sh didn't want to bring his mood down. She sighed. She wasn't doing anything right.
"You can help, maybe some of my culture religious magic could help if you can read the language." She looked at one of her books on the bedside table.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 4:24:09 GMT
Exo turns to her. "I'm fine Aisha..." he said, reading her face. "I just understand doing what one can for the ones they love. I loved my sire...she was good to me. It wasn't romantic...but it was important. But...she lost something near and dear to her heart. Nothing I could do to help her. It broke her and now she lies in torpor, far far away...and has for centuries." He shrugs slightly. "Your help will be valuable to your sire. All I could do was hide mine to keep her safe..."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 4:26:52 GMT
"What is torpor?" She asked.
"Besides, I don't have a sire yet." She smiled softly. "Some day maybe, but I am not loosing my magic anytime soon. Nor do I want to stop teaching either." She said as she sat back on her bed.
"What did she loose? Why couldn't she get it back?"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 4:30:54 GMT
He leaned against the doorway. "Torpor is a sleep for vampires. It happens in various ways, but sleep is the best way to put it. A sleep that we usually need help getting out of." He tilts his head. "What did she lose? Her lover. He died fighting and doing what was right in a situation that overwhelmed him."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 4:37:34 GMT
"I am sorry for her lost. That must have been hard. I hope I never have to have that lost. I know what it feels like to loose it, but I also know that David is still alive. I hope that if or when you wake her, she can find another to walk with in this world, as David has." She smiles softly and stands.
"Would you like to take me somewhere to eat? I haven't eaten real food in days and could use a real meal." She asks, knowing he can't eat with her, but the company would be nice.
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