Looking for Professor Kestrel [May 7th]

Aisha smiled as the door opened and Mary met her, she looked like she had just stepped out of bed. "Oh dear, I hope I am not interrupting." She took in Mary's outfit and then the room. "I am not sure which looks better. You or your office." She laughed softly as she came into the room and shut the door behind her. "I figured you would want the door shut. I hope you don't mind."

Aisha heads towards the fire place that had the chairs Mary pointed out. "Yes, yes please call me Aisha, all those I call friend do dear." She smiled and took a seat. "I think I came calling to early. Do you need a minute? I don't mind waiting dear." She was calm and polite she really had hoped she didn't interrupt her.

She wasn't sure what Mary's schedule involved when she was waking up. If that is what it was called. She still wasn't sure.

Aisha enjoying the smell of the tea Mary had brewing took the cup and held it in her hands. "This tea smells lovely." She watched her pour herself a goblet of deep red liquid, to which Aisha assumed was blood. She made no mention of it and didn't make any outwardly signs that it bothered her in the slightest. In all honesty it didn't, Mary stated before she was a vampire and that is what vampires did is it not? She had seen her fair of things, though nothing like this, but she always had an open mind to different ways of life and this was Mary's. Who was she to come in and judge.

She offered a smile as Mary sat down to join her. "I had a good weekend. Spent time out in Hogsmeade with Ambrose. We had a lovely time." She smiled and had a spark in her eye as she spoke mentioned her weekend. "And how was your weekend dear?"

Aisha drinks a sip of the tea and the flavor is delicious. She smiles and looks up again as Mary seems to be warming her toes by the fire. "It was a good weekend. He is a kind and caring, I hope after the weekend we had he realizes that he doesn't need to be so hidden from everyday life. He seems so shy and quiet when he doesn't need to be. He has a wonderful spirit inside of him. He just needs to let it shine." She smiled taking another sip of the tea.

"I enjoyed our tea time last we spoke. I hope you enjoyed yourself as well. It left me with a week full of curiosities I must say."

Aisha listened as Mary spoke about this club. "The girls are pretty much open-minded about anything and everything. Only a few have restrictions. I am sure I can send a owl out and have some that would have no problem taking part in this opening. I am intrigued now as well." She laughed. "I would presume that the girl's will be well compensated if they become food and none will have any permanent harm to them." She paused a moment thinking.

"It would be ashamed to loose them, it is so hard to find such open-minded girls these days. There are some boy's that would enjoy such a thing as well if that is something you and your partner are interested in as well."

She took a sip of her tea again. "As for payment that can be discussed later once I know what girl's or boy's wish to join. The minor details of it all." Aisha smiled answering the questions.

"Oh no dear, they are not all witches. Just a handful of them are. My main contact is a witch, she is who all my contact goes through. None of my boys are wizards either. The majority are the group are muggles. If you prefer no witches, that can be arranged as well." She responded politely

"Very well dear, that can be arranged then. As for ID's, I don't have labels for them, but I can have them in a certain attire that marks them in a uniform of sorts. I doubt they would want, 'Hi my name is...and I am your food.' Labeled on them" She laughed at the thought. "Though that would be a hysterical sight to see, they may not take kind to it."

She takes another sip of tea and stretches just a bit to adjust her seat.

Aisha enjoyed the laughter they shared for a moment. "A neckband might not be a bad idea either. Let me know what this Mr. D says and I will let them know."

She held her cup out to Mary as she topped it off. "Thank you dear." She took in the scent and smiled.

"Ah, yes I did. I was on the track of thinking about different cultures and ethnicity and I wondered if vampires had something similar, or if they were all the same type? If there was a type to be had. Then when you opened the door, I started to think about if your kind slept the same way." She rambled quickly through her last line as her thoughts started to come back to the questions that she had for Mary.

She only hoped that she wasn't speaking to fast and her accent wasn't to heavy that the woman would understand her.

Aisha listened and took it all in as Mary explained the differences of the vampire races so to speak sipping her tea as she went on.

"So each vampire, then is able to track their line? Say to the first one? Does each line have it's own 'first' or are all vampires from one vampire? And have they been around as long as other humanoids?"

She took a breath. "Also, when your sleeping is described as dead, how are you able to rise again? Does your body just wake up like ours would then?"

She sipped her tea again. She was so curious about new things, ideas, ways of life that she never thought about anything other than sating it with finding the answers.

Aisha understood she thought the division, but expressed her thoughts out loud on the matter. "Caine as in the Christian Biblical reference? The brother who killed his brother over favoritism I believe yes? Something alone those lines I believe is the story. As for the division it sounds similar to that of our kind. Religion separating many because no one can agree on anything and everyone has their own belief system, whether raised that way or came to that conclusion at some other point in their life.

Aisha nodded her head in understanding. "That must be nice, to not have the fog of waking up like us. Do you feel rested at least? In the same way that we would?"

"Astonishing that someone that old is still around today. Oh to pick that brain on the facts of history would be something." She was surprised that Caine still walked this earth. "How can one hide so well, even now when the population of the planet is now over seven billion people." She took a drink. "Oh yes, wait shadows. That would make sense, as you come from them and meld into them so easily. It must be the way it works." Her brain was working overtime making notes over their conversation.

"So even though the facts are there, some where along the line they wanted to what break free? Thus denying it while making more of them?" She could see the appeal in wanting to be free from any sect or group but then again being part of a family insured safety didn't it? "I would love to meet more of your kind. To watch from the background." She chuckled softly. "It would be intriguing to say the least."

Then she thought about her studies and asked a more rhetorical question meant for her mind. "I wonder if a vampire could be transfigured through a witches magic? Theories. I should write a paper and do some testing. Then I should.." She looked from the fire. "I am sorry, my academic mind takes over from time to time. What sort of powers does a vampire have? If you wish to share? That would be interesting seeing as you said their are different gifts, Maybe a sort of magical one? Even if a witch doesn't keep her own powers, do they have an equal gift on the vampire side to match her abilities when she was human?"

There were so many questions and each answer produced a new question, Aisha could only hope she didn't run Mary thin on her curiosity. It was an intriguing world though to say the least.

Drinking her tea she listened to Mary answer some questions and explain her answers. It was all stimulating to her and she enjoyed learning and absorbing the information given to her. "That would be an interesting study to find out whether natural born abilities move with you through the change, uh embrace" She made comments as the conversation went along.

"Living or dead" She wondered about that. If the applications could apply as the do for inanimate objects and animate objects just rearranging the spells. "I wonder if the words could be switched because both are animate objects, yet human, and human transfiguration is doable as is animal, so it could be possible." She was muttering to herself as she thought about the applications.

"Aside from that, can magic work on a vampire? Such as charms, potions, spells? And if they could work, could a vampire who was witch apply skill to say, potion making? Or in turn use such from an actual witch to help them with whatever the case could be? Would spells work on them or charms? Like say a love charm or a polly juice potion? Or even say spell to bind one to another?" She looked over at Mary as she asked the questions, she knew there were many of them just coming off her in waves.

"Please don't feel obligated to answer anything." She chuckled softly. "Everyone has secrets I understand that. I am just a curious bird" She smiled thinking about her falcon then for some reason. She was curious to say the least.

Aisha listened and once again took mental notes as she spoke, she wondered then if she turned someone would they have her power then? Or would they have someone else's due to their own blood? Or is their blood drained? And then......She stopped..Her train of thought lost as she dropped her tea cup and stared as Mary and the shadows in the room combined into a single being.

She gasped audibly and her jaw was dropped as she fumbled to find what emotion was running through her. Fear was the first one as her eyes grew large frozen though in shock and awe as she watched the woman pick up the goblet and drink again. Aisha trembled, she was frightened but her body wasn't responding, which in the recesses of her mind, in her sub conscious she was amazed at the ability. It was unlike anything she had every seen.

When she returned to her former state Aisha still had her mouth agape, her eyes unblinking as she stared. Mary's words registered some where in her mind but she still didn't have the capacity to speak, still stuck in her mind the form the vampiress just took. She wasn't shaking uncontrollably, but that tremble was still racking through her body, a sheen of sweat on her brow as she sat there.

Entranced was the best word to describe her current state.

Aisha seemed to snap out of her semi like daze as Mary patted her hand. The cold touch was a welcome to her suddenly over heated body. She needed to wipe her brow she though as she looked at Mary. "I...Uh....just.." She stumbled on the words for a moment. "Yes, yes I am sorry." She cleared her throat and looked down to realize she had dropped her cup. "Wow." Was all she could think of for words at the moment as she watched the shadowy figure once more come out. She had met him the first night she had tea with Mary.

"I..I am sorry" She took a breath "about the mess." She smiled sheepishly as she looked from the cup back to Mary. "Um.." She wanted to know if everyone she herself embraced had that ability but she couldn't find the words to ask any more questions. Her heart still thumped in her ear like the deep base of music playing inside of her.

Aisha took the cup graciously and took a long drawn sip of the hot liquid. It felt good running down her parched throat. "I am alright. Thank you." She smiled then and nodded to Mary. "Party trick or not it was unexpected and still quite amazing if I may say so. The implications of one can do with shadows seems endless. Shadows are everywhere."

She looked at the cat curled by the fire for a moment lost in thought. In a soft voice almost with hesitation she asked the question. "Does everyone you embrace obtain that ability?" She found her voice again and continued her extended question. "And does that apply to any vampire embracing one? They receive their power? Sort of like genes passed from parent to child?"