oneman_onevote: (Apprehensive)
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.

Date: 2010-02-20 11:46 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
Margolotta shrugs gracefully.

"He is different to the others. It stood out."

Clearly is was innocent and idle curiosity that led her to kidnap him!

Date: 2010-02-20 11:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
"Such has not escaped my notice," Puck says dryly.

"As it happens."

Date: 2010-02-20 11:58 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
"No," she says, drawing it out.

"It seems not. I doubt you would even be here, othervise."

Date: 2010-02-21 12:07 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
He laughs.

The sound is, unlike his earlier one, perfectly human.

"I yield, madam, to your analytical powers."

Date: 2010-02-21 12:25 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
Margolotta rolls her eyes.

"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?"

Date: 2010-02-21 12:29 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
Puck does not shy away from her-- but there is something tense in his muscles, almost thrumming with potential energy.

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."

Date: 2010-02-21 12:38 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
She slides the sword away with care and turns to face him, still close, her own stance poised, but like the cultured host of a party, not a combatant.

"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."

Date: 2010-02-21 12:42 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
Puck's smile is absolutely unshaken.

"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?"

Date: 2010-02-21 12:51 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
"Not until his training is completed to my satisfaction. And his."

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."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:01 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
Puck sniffs, folding his arms over his chest.

"'Tis Havelock's satisfaction I look to, and no other's. I shall make no promises to you."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:06 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
Her smile doesn't waver.

"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."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:13 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
He laughs.

"And I care little for yours. Though I suspect my understanding of you, mistress, somewhat surpasses yours of me."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:22 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
"Is that so?" she asks, eyeing him askance.

"Vell, ve all have our illusions."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:26 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
Puck blinks, looking wounded.

"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."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:31 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
"Should I have vainly attempted to demonstrate how wrong you were? Perhaps ennumerative the things you could not know?"

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."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:34 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
He laughs again, leaning forward against the back of the armchair with his elbows resting atop it.

"Ultimately, perhaps. We are not, I suppose, enemies in the traditional sense."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:45 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
"Not traditionally, no," she says dryly. "Else ve should surely be duelling to the death even now, and that does grow tiresome."

Heroic types do tend to get irritating, even for lady vampires.

Date: 2010-02-21 01:47 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
"Rather," Puck agrees, wrinkling his nose.

"Besides which, despite Havelock's attempts to instruct me, I am afraid I remain a rather abysmal pupil in the combative arts."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:52 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
That is pleasant to hear.

"Just as vell then."

She glances up.

"Ah."

Date: 2010-02-21 01:57 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
Puck turns, and permits his expression to brighten because Margolotta can't see his face from where she is.

(Yeah, yeah, he knows he's not fooling her. Sometimes it's about the principle of the thing.)

"--Oh," he says.

"Hullo."

Date: 2010-02-21 02:06 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
"There you are, Havelock," says Margolotta, turning around and raking him with a critical eye.

Apparently he passes muster, as she continues briskly on.

"It seems your friend may be staying for a time. Find him somewhere?"

Date: 2010-02-21 02:27 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] puckishly.livejournal.com
Puck pushes off lightly from the chair and goes to him, throwing Margolotta a backward glance and a beatific smile.

"Ought I to be worried?" he says under his breath, smile unmoving.

Date: 2010-02-21 02:31 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ye-dyskians.livejournal.com
She just raises her eyebrows back at him as if in innocent incomprehension.

"Call for Igor to settle him in when you find somevhere," she tells Havelock. "Then come back here for an hour and we vill run through an exercise or two."

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