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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Feb 25, 2014 22:40:57 GMT -8
They were considering going back inside, but practicing powers in the gardens seemed less creepy. They called each other back and forth, tried to use shadow powers (Ru and Cameron could do nothing, Tristan could make his body a little darker but still easily seen by vampire eyes), and tried to climb the estate's walls (Tristan could stick to the wall enough to climb up on all fours, Cameron could do nothing, and Ru could only stick to the wall enough to take his feet off the ground, but going nowhere). None of these powers were very demanding, so they were in full vigor as the night wore on.
About an hour before sunrise, Ru was trying to disappear into the bushes, when he suddenly heard a voice nearby, turned and saw the man of the house. Dragomir- "Hey kid. Learnin' the ropes tonight?"
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Post by Dr. Jar on Feb 25, 2014 22:57:20 GMT -8
Ru- Ru seems startled by his sudden appearance, and takes a delicate step back, before smiling nervously. He was standing awkwardly in a bush and definitely not turning into any shadow. Or even looking darker. His feet sticking to a wall didn't count. "Hhh...hi. We were just learning how to become shadows. And walk on walls." Ru concentrates, and then focuses on Demetri first...
DEMETRI COME TO ME. DEMETRI I NEED YOU HERE.
Then on Cameron;
CAMERON COME TO ME, CAMERON I NEED YOU HERE.
He put his hands behind his back idly and tried not to look as worried as he felt after everything that Demetri and Chloe had said.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Feb 25, 2014 23:13:01 GMT -8
Dragomir- "Oh yeah, I'm a pro at that shit. You should totally talk to the source, if you wanna be cool."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Feb 25, 2014 23:17:30 GMT -8
Ru- "You have a variety of talents, I hear. Even more than we have seen, like turning into animals. You must...be the source of coolness. You or Gaston-Louis... You guys are both pretty cool. Demetri and Tristan and Cameron are cool also. There must just be cool all around." Ru was slightly better at not seeming nervous, though his expression was becoming a little tighter. He was glad that he didn't have to worry about sweating with fear anymore. It was scary enough being right here. Why couldn't he become a shadow again?
DEMETRI COME TO ME. DEMETRI I NEED YOU HERE....
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Feb 26, 2014 21:01:29 GMT -8
Dragomir- "Huh. Well, I guess you're in the right place then. You wanna be one of the cool kids, Ru?"
Dudes were on the scene. Demetri- "Ahem, well, Good evening Tomasz. Going for a stroll?"
Dudes- "..."
Dragomir- "Eh. Kids got your hands full? Want me to take 'em off your hands?"
Demetri- "Oh, not at all. We're doing well. Say, where is Sarah?"
Dragomir- "Eh, she went off to help Ellen with a snake. Kids these days, amirite?"
Demetri- "That sounds delightful."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Feb 26, 2014 21:35:32 GMT -8
Ru- "I'm sure like all children, it brings some excitement into their lives... I wonder if she will have a pet snake here.." Ru seemed reassured by the sudden appearance of the others, but made no indication that he was going to flee back to them, and instead stood in front of Dragomir as he had been. His smile seemed a little more genuine though.
He placed his hand on his chest as a gesture of politeness in the meanwhile.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Feb 26, 2014 23:37:12 GMT -8
Dragomir- "Ehh... Not interesting. I'll see you kids later."
He floated quickly into the air like a fresh helium balloon, and disappeared over the roof of the mansion. Demetri- "Good work, Ru."
Dudes- "..."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Feb 27, 2014 13:15:01 GMT -8
Ru- Ru beams, and then suddenly hugs Demetri. "Thank you." He brushes off his shirt and then clears his throat. "What time is it?" He asks the others as one. It was hard to judge how long they had been doing this without a watch. Not like they would turn to dust at dawn but it felt like all night.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 3, 2014 22:32:19 GMT -8
Demetri clearly didn't anticipate a Ru hug. Demetri- "... Yes, thank you."
Tristan- "Aww."
Demetri- "Mm. Just a little bit longer 'til dawn. Let's go in. I don't think I should leave all of you alone just yet. We'll have a chat, whatever, and then a little after sunrise, I'll go to bed."
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 3, 2014 22:44:04 GMT -8
Ru- "Ok. Can we still drink tea? I guess not if no one was drinking their wine at the party. We can pretend to drink tea. Maybe I could find out more about you if you had anything on your mind you wanted to share. Cameron, I feel like I don't know everything about you besides knowing you...And Tristan, you seem like a nice dude." Ru made an encompassing gesture to indicate they should all sit down and talk about things somewhere. "Where do you sleep?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 4, 2014 0:29:58 GMT -8
They talked as they walked back to the mansion. Demetri- "Tea? Not unless you're interested in losing it later through the mouth... You'll certainly learn more in time..."
Cameron- "It's alright, man. Sounds like, maybe we have a long time."
Tristan- "Oh, I sleep with Miss Sarah."
Demetri- "And I'll be sleeping much closer to you fellows, so that I'll be readily available..."
They discussed things, talked a bit more about powers and politesse, and got settled for the night. Tristan stayed and chatted with the others until Sarah called him a while later.
Day would soon be upon them, but Demetri was careful to stick around til the end. Ru went to bed, and waited in the darkness for sleep to come. He could clearly hear Demetri and Cameron talking in the other room, which assured him visitations by creeps would be unlikely and brief.
As he lay, he could hear a small animal come into the room, hear its breath and its fleshy little paws touching the hardwood between rugs. He could also smell it, all weird musks and oils, a hint of feces and a hint of decay from its mouth, but none of these things had the same revulsion for him they once held. The world was too smelly to get worked up about little things at this point.
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 4, 2014 11:13:52 GMT -8
Ru- "That's a shame, I liked tea. At least it's better than when other animals can't digest things. I used to have a ferret that well...liked to eat watermelon..." Ru chattered happily with the others, he was shy but seemed to be doing his best to be friendly, and preferred to let the others talk over anything else.
He wasn't particularly disturbed by the rat that visited. He had drank blood today and worse so what was a rat to them? He wondered if being a rat would have been a lifestyle more different from his human life than being a vampire now.
Ru would have drifted to sleep thinking about his mother worrying over him, but the rat busted a move.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 4, 2014 17:57:21 GMT -8
((Note edit above))
The animal leapt on the bed, and he instantly knew it was a cat. He looked at it. It wasn't looking at his eyes, focused more at the moment on his form under the blanket. It pawed at the narrow hill his legs made of the blanket. Cat- "There is a thing here now. What is it?"
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Post by Dr. Jar on Mar 4, 2014 18:16:30 GMT -8
Ru- "...Uh...Hi... cat.. I'm a person named Ru. Are you a vampire?" Ru had never had a cat, but he assumed said animal would enjoy him jiggling his legs around and getting its attention. He looked for something to show it, but decided that, being just a cat, it wouldn't find much interest in that sort of thing. He sat up slowly, to avoid scaring the animal off. "Or are you just a cat? Can I talk to cats?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Mar 4, 2014 19:23:37 GMT -8
((I forgot to put fire effects on him, but he's a hot little body - no vampire.))
The words were meaningless to the cat. He jumped back from the legs, looked at Ru's face, cocked his head, and did seem to derive one conclusion from the babble. Cat- "It's a vampire."
At this point, Ru realized it wasn't words he was hearing from the cat, but "cat language"... He was just able to make perfect sense of its body language and intentions, somehow.
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