Finding Strange Things

[vampish_aleera]

I think I have found a cocoon...

I should bring it back, I think. Toshiko likes to study things.

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[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

[Written rather slowly]

You seem in good spirits. Does your strange holiday go well, then?

[vampish_aleera]

It is hot. But the nights are beautiful...

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

Good. Enjoy them.

I shall be sequestered for the time being, aside from the usual...errand.

[vampish_aleera]

Which... Usual errand?

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

To the kitchens. That cannot be avoided, though I take it late in the night.

[vampish_aleera]

Ah. Yes. A necessity...

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Further contact with...them...is to be severely limited for now. I was able to control myself while out among them, but that is all.

[vampish_aleera]

This... Gets easier with time.

It was not often we had such numerous guests.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

True.

I avoided fighting with the blonde Hunter. But barely.

[vampish_aleera]

I do not think it is in my best interests to... Thirst for vengeance.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

Aleera. I am not asking you to. I did not write asking you to fight my battles, or seek revenge on my behalf. I shall seek it myself if pushed to it.

I merely wish to keep current with you. Especially since I just discovered that these ports can come with...complications. But heat and strange cocoons do not sound so bad.

[vampish_aleera]

No... They are not. It is rare that our kind can be touched by the sun in these places without burning to destruction, too.

But be wary that you are not left behind in one. I think that those who do... They forget themselves.

It is best left untested. Suspicions or not.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

I will certainly take your warnings seriously. My memories at least remain glorious, and I do not wish to lose them.

[vampish_aleera]

I could have chosen to be mortal... As could Verona. We chose to remain unchanged, for reasons much like this.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

Yes, we did achieve some dizzying heights, did we not?

But it is...heartening reassuring it pleases me that you did not wish away what I gave you.

Should I somehow endure these trials I would never wish to be mortal again. Disdain aside, I am not made for it.

[vampish_aleera]

There are times I wonder of myself... Where my life's path would otherwise have taken me to. But I cannot imagine it to have been nearly so grand.

So majestic.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Take a turn around the sky for me tonight, if you would.

[vampish_aleera]

I cannot... This place had stolen such ways from me.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

...oh.

I am...sorry. I too have my wings clipped.

[vampish_aleera]

How strange... This was not so for me. I think not for Verona, either.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[long pause]

I suppose that the Admiral did not want anything...so closely resembling a demon aboard.

Or perhaps he or she assumed I would use the form to cause trouble.

[vampish_aleera]

One cannot fathom the reasons of the mad.

[feels-no-love.livejournal.com]

You are correct.

At any rate, I will find ways to compensate for the loss. I was a force to be reckoned with even as a human. Even diminshed, I will find ways to prevail.

Enjoy your holiday, Aleera.