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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 15:25:53 GMT
The time was near nine when Dristan arrived at the Three Broomsticks dressed in his normal street attire and chains with one chain under his shirt as usual. Upon entering he paused scanning the room and for right now no one seems out of the ordinary or suspicious. Walking to a table he towards the back he sat down now and ordered his favorite drink which was brought to him. Silently he sat there drinking and waiting for Mary to arrive with Lili and deep down hoping this was going to pay off and they at least get some answers before Mary had her fun. The questions needed such as who the man was, why was watching Lili and Dristan, who does the man work for.
Out of the corner of his eyes Dristan caught a flash of blonde and remained unmoved as the door closed to the establishment. He pondered how to handle this and finally stood up now made a quick scan playing it off that he was just here for a dinner and drink not looking at his surroundings but he saw the man and it was him now sitting across the room in the corner in his black suit reading a paper but the man's eyes were also watching Dristan at the same time but making it look like they were not.
Dristan ordered a bottle and walked back to the table and sat down. Alright so the guy was here, good...now to wait for Lili and Mary to arrive and see how this plays out. For right now the man was just watching and being casual but at the same time Dristan could feel his eyes trying to burrow through his occlumens shield. The man was trying to read his mind but to no avail currently.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:00:51 GMT
Mary prearranged with Liliana to meet her in the high tower where Liliana spends her sleepless nights. It's right after sundown. Mary is wearing all black, her dress strangely unadorned, with a sheer black veil draped over her shoulders.
She gets to the tower room, and is first there, and begins to pace.
"Hurry, child, your cousin will be waiting." she exclaims to an empty room.
The plan is for Liliana to meet Dristan at the Three Broomsticks, with Mary tailing in shadow, to catch this unwanted intruder into their lives. Once he was caught, and his motives and employ discovered, Mary planned to gift him to Erskine. New flesh was always welcomed by her feindish pack-mate.
She waited not quite patiently for Liliana to arrive.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:13:41 GMT
Liliana hurried into the tower. Her hair down and in long waves. "Sorry. I got caught by some little 1st year in the common room!" She breathed meeting Mary's gaze as she entered the tower. She was sporting low hipped jeans, a silver tank top under a black leather jacket and black converse on her feet. Wrist length gloves on her hands. She sighs heavily and looks at her.
"So, what exactly are we doing tonight that is so important to do on a school night" She teased. Not that she minded. But she was curious.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:16:31 GMT
"W're going to catch that man who has been following you and Dristan, and find out why. For this, you are having s late dinner with Dristan at the Three Broomsticks. Are you ready for a little cold?"
Mary grins, reaching out to take Liliana's gloved hand.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:19:33 GMT
She nods in understanding. "Right. I knew this might come up. I just didn't know when. She sighs. "Maybe something with my gift?" She questions. She looks to Mary's hand and takes it willingly.
"Good thing I brought my jacket" She said tugging on the leather jokingly.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:26:43 GMT
Mary nods to her, "We'll find out soon, one way or another." And then without much ceremony, Mary drags Liliana into a deep shadow in the corner of the room.
The scary bit was that the wall seemed to have vanished, and the shadow was pitch black like the deepest cave, and cold as ice, and Liliana thought she could hear things moving in the darkness ... then just as suddenly, they are standing outside, in a copse of trees on the edge of Hogsmede. Mary Lisa looking St Alicia a carefully, as if to assess her health.
"All good?"
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:30:13 GMT
Lili jumped walking through the shadow, her hand holding onto Mary's hand and sticking close. It was eerily quiet yet at the same time she thought she had heard noises and sounds all around her. A shiver running through her core as they walked, suddenly out in a patch of trees near Hogsmead. She shivered again looking up to Mary and nods.
"All good....just a little chilly." She shakes herself a bit to warm up her body and nods. "Okay. There...At least the chill is gone"
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:34:28 GMT
Mary nods. "Good. It can get a little nippy in there if you stay more than a moment. Now, you need to meet Dristan at the Three Broomsticks. I will be in hiding to trap our nuisance. Be assured that I am stronger than I look, and I will literally be right behind you."
Mary raises the veil from around her shoulders to cover her head and face, then she begins to ... flow? Flatten? Darken? In a matter of moments Mary becomes nothing but shadow, and she flows into Liliana's shadow.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:41:21 GMT
Lili nods to Mary at her words. "Okay. I trust you Mary. Just, do be careful..." She smiled watching the women disappear into her shadow. Wow...thats pretty impressive the girl thought to herself with odd look about her face.
With a sigh, she turns running a hand through her hair and made her way out of the grove of trees and to the main path leading into Hogsmead. She makes her way to the three broomsticks and pulls over the door walking in. Her eyes scan the area, raising onto her tip toes to see Dristan sitting in the back of the establishment and smiling. She had indeed missed her cousin and was excited to spent this little bit of extra time with him. Even, if it was all part of a trap.
Her hazel eyes looked over the other patrons quickly, to not draw attention to herself and and made her way through the crowd to the back table where Dristan was sitting. "Dristan!" She called as she neared the table with a smile.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:47:50 GMT
Dristan turned his head hearing his name and smiled and stood up now and wrapped Lili up in a bear hug and quickly his lips to her ear whispering. "Back corner..do not look, do not react. I have him busy right now he is trying to invade my mind." Dristan let go and smiled. "Looking healthy. Looks like you are finally getting some sleep Lili." He chuckles and and pulls out a chair for her to sit and then sits down himself. "So tell me about your day? How are things going?"
The blondie shifts a bit not liking the fact that he was having trouble invading Dristan's mind but no matter he had broken men before and to him Dristan would be no different. Again he tried hiding his muttering behind the news paper and Drsitan closed his eyes for a moment starting to feel the man push harder against his mental shield around his mind.
Slowly Dristan opens his eyes as a waiter comes by. "Whatever she like it is all on me." He smiles.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:50:54 GMT
Mary hears Dristan's words to Liliana, and slides away from Liliana's shadow, slipping across the floor, between feet and table legs, to plaster herself across the wall behind the blonde man, appearing nothing more than another patch of shadow in this shadowy inn. Two could play at the surveillance game.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 23:55:20 GMT
Lili finally made it to the table and wrapped her arms around him in a big hug. She breathed in as he spoke, listening to his words and nods as they step back and he pulls a chair out for her. She sits down crossing one leg over the other and rested her hands into her lap. Even shrugging off her Jacket and drapping it over the back of the chair. "Finally, Yea. Im getting a little more sleep lately. Which is good considering that final exams are coming up."
She sighs sitting back into her chair. "It was okay. Mostly studying and getting ready for the end of term. Going through all my stuff and making sure to pack it all." She loosk at the bartender. "Butterbeer for me please" She says with a smile, adjusted her gloves a moment and looking back to Dristan.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:24:35 GMT
"Keep the bourbon coming for me please." Dristan told the waiter and smiled. "Well you are an Adamson so I know you will do very well on your exams Lili." He winks. Again Dristan closed his eyes and where Mary was she would see blondie concentrating and behind the newspaper jotting down notes about Dristan's ability to keep him out of his mind and writing down both their descriptions and how they were interacting.
Dristan chuckles and pops his neck a bit and sighs. "So Teagan and I will be moving the wedding up to August. And I may have gone to her father's who she has not talked to in years and hopefully a reunion will happen." He smiles as their drinks were brought to them as he opens his eyes once more.
"Blondie is strong..." He whispers.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:31:21 GMT
Lili thanks the bartender who brought her butter beer and Dristans bourbon and nods. "I'm hoping so" She says with a smile. She sips the drink and sighs contently. "Oh? Because of..." She pauses. "Thats cool. I mean, I was exciting for you both so it's not wonder I'll be excited for you now. Just make sure to let me know what you want me to do to help"
She ran a hand through her hair and looked to Dristan. Her eyes saying it all, more nerves then anything about what could happen in these few moments out. "You're stronger" She whispers back.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:32:09 GMT
Mary continues to watch Blondie. But now she's not alone. Dristan would notice another smaller shadow appear near the man, independently animate. He can only guess that it's Balthazar. The shadow slips under the table, between Blondie's feet, making him cold.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:35:17 GMT
Lili's words brought a smile to his face and his concentration and focus increased and slowly he leans back a bit now and takes a drink. "Indeed." He whispers. Blondie on Mary's side looks rather annoyed and rubs his temple. He mutters something in german out of annoyance then he begins to shiver as he looks around for a moment losing focus on Dristan and Lili. He seems nervous.
Dristan took a slight glance and chuckled seeing the second smaller shadow at Blondie's feet. "So how are you and Dmitry doing? Everything alright with the both of you?" He asks.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:39:48 GMT
Lili smiled sipping her glass again.
"We're okay. We've both been busy with final exams and such so we havent really seen much of each other." She shrugs a bit. "It happens. Just ya know. Its the girl missing her boy."
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:43:31 GMT
Balthazar moves away a little, to give Blondie some breathing space, while mary leans closer, flowing up the wall beside him, ready to pounce. The shack outside town is where they'd arranged her to take him. The moment he seemed ready to leave, or do something adverse, she would pounce.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:51:29 GMT
"Definitely falling in love it sounds me if you miss him that much." Dristan winks to tease Lili about Dmitry. "Well I have a good feeling you will get all the time you want during the summer with him so knock out the exams and the summer is yours." He smiles.
Blondie still looked around keeping the paper up trying to figure out where the cold came from even after it was gone. Again he looked towards Dristan and Lili and just noticed drinks and began to plan his next move. Slowly his paper closed now and folded up. He would give one more try and jot down what he could and complete focus and concentration and tries to break Dristan's mental shield again.
Dristan felt the slam in his mind and leaned his head on his hand and sighs. "Okay....now he is ticked." He whispers. Dristan closes his eyes now as he leans back up with complete focus and concentration fighting Blondie.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:55:25 GMT
"It's possible" she said softly. "I mean....He did say it to me when we were all last in Hogsmead" She smiled bigger at the thought. IT was true. She could be finding herself falling in love in that boy. When Dristan leaned forward head on his hands she tried hard not to react to his jump.
"Your strong, It's why he's pissed" She whispered leaning against the table. She really wanted to do something to help Dristan, but she wasn't sure what she could do. "What can I do to help" She asks softly, fighting the urge to turn around to look towards the back corner.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 0:55:58 GMT
Mary looks from Blondie to Dristan. It is clear her brother is fighting hard. Now might be a good time to act.
While Blondie is intent on Dristan, Mary sprouts a plethora of black tentacles that reach out and grab a Blondie firmly : waist, arms, legs, throat ... immobilising with Potence strength only an elder can possess ... and drags him with her through the Abyss, lingering long enough to wear him down.
To the room, if you were looking, it's like Blondie fell backwards into the shadows of the corner, and simply vanished.
Balthazar approaches Liliana, nuzzling her hand.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:05:07 GMT
A moment later Dristan's eyes fired open and he smiled not feeling Blondie at him anymore and looked right to the back table now and noticed his foot as he vanished into the shadows. "Well now....." He looks to Lili. "Shall we take a walk dear cousin?" He winked and noticed Balthazar and smiles.
"I have not seen you in a long time little guy, good to see you again." He watches Balthazar interact with Lili. "Grab something to go, I know you are hungry."
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:07:35 GMT
Lili looked back just as the food disappeared into shadow and back to Dristan. She looked down to Balthazar and smiled carefully picking up the shadow creature and letting him perch on her.
"I'm okay. I at in the Great hall...I wasn't exactly sure what we were doing..." She smirked that knowing smile before slinging her purse over her shoulder, careful to not hit Balthazar and nods. "Where exactly are we going?"
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:12:35 GMT
"Good then lets get our answers shall we." Dristan smiles and stands now and walks out of the Three Broomsticks with Lili now and starts heading out of Hogsmeade. "We are heading to the shack on the edge of Hogsmeade. So lets see what we can figure out before my dear sister has her fun." he winks.
It did not take them long to arrive and Dristan walked in first and stood in the main room now and leaned against the wall waiting oh so patiently.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:22:05 GMT
Lili nods to him. "Okay. Onto the shack then" She looked at him as she followed him through the bar and outside. "Okay. So, we're going to confront him. Got it." She said softly. She follows Dristan into the main room. She'd never been in the shrieking shack before. Maybe once or twice early on, but never really....
She looks around waiting for Mary to come back with the blonde, nervously, unsure of what was going to happen.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:22:22 GMT
The place is dark and shadowy, only a little light coming through the windows and cracks, and from Dristan or Lil's wands if they wanted light. As they arrive, the deep shadow begins to writhe, and out pops Mary, still veiled but in her human form, with a dozen thick black shadow tentacles erupting from her, holding Blondie firmly everywhere, and one actually in his mouth.
He's a little wide eyed, perhaps panicked, perhaps scared shitless, and his struggles are weak and ineffectual.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:29:33 GMT
Dristan stands quietly with a dark smile watching Mary appear with Blondie. "Oh this is going to get interesting." He whispers and shifts a bit on the wall. "What do you think cousin? Should we make this quick or let her play a bit before we ask our questions?" He winks at Lili.
"Totally up to you."
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:35:35 GMT
Lili stands near Dristan, her eyes darting around the room. She watches the man, and pure panic on his face.
"I think being where ever Mary had him may have been torture enough for now.." She whispered. "And what he faces after we're done could be worse then even that small time in the darkness" She looks to Dristan and Mary.
"Besides. I'd rather know what the bloody hell is going on."
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:44:38 GMT
Mary gives him a small shake, then steps forward out of the shadows. Behind Dristan and zliliana, on the wall, is a huge mirror. It's mostly dull and flaking around the edges, but the centre still reflects cleanly, and it's showing Liliana, and Dristan, and a Blondie squirming weakly in mid air. Mary, and her tentacles, appear to not exist. Perhaps it's this that renews Blondie's struggles. Perhaps it is Lil's suggestion that there is worse to come.
As the struggles weaken again, Mary removes the tentacle from Blondie's mouth, allowing him to gasp for air, and cough a little.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 1:49:10 GMT
Dristan looks from Lili to the mirror and smiles remembering this part of being in Mary's clan they cast no reflections. Dristan now turns and glares at Blondie after hearing what Lili wanted this evening and his cousin would get what she wanted one way or another. His anger growing more and more as he stared at the idiot that one messed with Lili and two tried to invade his mind and lets not forget that this git dropped a freakin chimney on him a while back.
"If I was you I would start singing little birdy." His voice cold and so much anger behind it.
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