The castle is chill, in the hallways, and dark apart from pools of light created by torches placed at wide intervals on the walls.
Havelock is moving, if possible, even more silently than usual. He'd be twitchy if that wasn't a surefire way to mess up your stealth. The shadows are blending obligingly around him, more strongly here than they had in the bar.
Puck can take care of himself, he knows that, but also holds out no hope that any of this is going to be particularly pleasant.
Havelock is moving, if possible, even more silently than usual. He'd be twitchy if that wasn't a surefire way to mess up your stealth. The shadows are blending obligingly around him, more strongly here than they had in the bar.
Puck can take care of himself, he knows that, but also holds out no hope that any of this is going to be particularly pleasant.
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:22 pm (UTC)From:He seems relaxed enough; but he still has yet to give her his back.
"I seek," he says, slowly, and glances up at her.
"To recall to him who he is. Not that he is in danger of forgetting-- of losing faith, perhaps."
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:34 pm (UTC)From:"If he does that, he vill not be half the man I thought he could be."
She watches his body language in faint puzzlement, but her voice is didactic.
"He is pragmatic. He saw the advantage, and so I did not make him subservient. I vould have done so if there had been no other vay, but that vould truly have been a vaste."
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:37 pm (UTC)From:"Beg pardon-- if he does which?"
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:39 pm (UTC)From:"Do you think I turn just any young man to vander past my door?"
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:44 pm (UTC)From:"... Except, perhaps, on precisely how the lady chooses to define the word 'wander.'"
Does the 'v' make the difference between carelessness and kidnapping, he vonders?
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:46 pm (UTC)From:"He is different to the others. It stood out."
Clearly is was innocent and idle curiosity that led her to kidnap him!
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:49 pm (UTC)From:"As it happens."
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Date: 2010-02-20 11:58 pm (UTC)From:"It seems not. I doubt you would even be here, othervise."
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:07 am (UTC)From:The sound is, unlike his earlier one, perfectly human.
"I yield, madam, to your analytical powers."
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:25 am (UTC)From:"Indeed?"
Idly she stroll in the direction of the sword rack to put hers away. She passes close by.
"Your primary objective seems settled enough. Vhat else are you here for?"
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:29 am (UTC)From:Just for a moment.
"You think so, mistress?" he laughs. "What else might I be here for, then? I hardly care for you or your house, welcoming though it is."
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:38 am (UTC)From:"You are quite velcome to leave or stay whenever you care to," she says coolly.
"Havelock may not go, of course. But do not get in my way, and I shall not stop you."
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:42 am (UTC)From:"Havelock may not go," he repeats thoughtfully, giving each word equal weight as if they were stones in the palm of his hand.
His smile spreads, and for a moment it is--whether by accident or design-- apparent that his own teeth are. Quite. Sharp.
"And what shall I say falls under the category of 'getting in your way,' madam?"
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Date: 2010-02-21 12:51 am (UTC)From:She smiles back politely.
(Only the tips of her teeth are visible against the red of her lower lip, but Puck might still get - aha - the point.)
"Oh, let us say... anything hindering his progress. He has forever to live and grow accustomed to vampirism, of course, but only a little time before he must return to his city. I vill not have that time wasted."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:01 am (UTC)From:"'Tis Havelock's satisfaction I look to, and no other's. I shall make no promises to you."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:06 am (UTC)From:"I think you shall find we agree on this. He has not tried to escape me, nor will he until we are done."
(Up to a point, she is right.)
Then she shrugs.
"I care not for your motivations. That we understand each other is enough."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:13 am (UTC)From:"And I care little for yours. Though I suspect my understanding of you, mistress, somewhat surpasses yours of me."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:22 am (UTC)From:"Vell, ve all have our illusions."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:26 am (UTC)From:"So far as bluffing rejoinders go, madam, I admit by now I expected better of you. You are so able with a blade, after all."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:31 am (UTC)From:She turns sideways absently, stretching out her hands to warm them in front of the fire.
"You know vhat you know, I know vhat I know... It matters little."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:34 am (UTC)From:"Ultimately, perhaps. We are not, I suppose, enemies in the traditional sense."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:45 am (UTC)From:Heroic types do tend to get irritating, even for lady vampires.
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:47 am (UTC)From:"Besides which, despite Havelock's attempts to instruct me, I am afraid I remain a rather abysmal pupil in the combative arts."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:52 am (UTC)From:"Just as vell then."
She glances up.
"Ah."
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Date: 2010-02-21 01:54 am (UTC)From:...
The room is ominously quiet, but they both seem to be in one piece.
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