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"Yeah, I don't get it."

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"Yeah, I know," snorts Celo. "Most people don't."

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"Well, anyway, if it helps, Lily's straight but in that way where she's weirdly affectionate with her female friends even though they don't actually have anything going on."

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Celo giggles. "Thanks! Of course, I'd have to go around interpreting to use it, and then Aether would give me that look."

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"I guess you'll just have to read a lot of nametags, then."

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"Yep," says Celo. "Oh well."

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"Oh, there's Lily," says Kerron, pointing. "Still wearing pink, didn't change her sweater."

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Celo looks. "Yeah, I see her," he says. "Might as well go say hi. See ya!"

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"Bye!"

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Lily is apparently lost in thought, leaning on a wall with her ankles crossed, looking at the ceiling.

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Celo makes his way over, still drinking his hot chocolate.

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Lily glances at him. "Okay," she says, looking him up and down, "this I've got to hear, why are you naked?"

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Celo sighs.

"Because I'm a nymph," he says. "And nymphs don't wear clothes."
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"Didn't stop Glass's kid from putting her miniature panda bear in a vest, I bet those don't occur in the wild. Why don't nymphs wear clothes?"

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"Sacred duty," he says. "Which isn't my reason, but it's the general one. My reason is because I don't wanna."

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"And the magical black bar is for those around you who don't wanna likewise, I see."

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"Yep," he says. "Or I could just never leave my world, but where's the fun in that?"

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"Yeah, I really like these parties. They're good for people-watching." She glances at his nametag, blinks, and then stops looking at it.

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"No kidding," he snorts. "Call me Celo; my name's kinda hard to pronounce."

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"And I'm Lily, which is easy to pronounce and also easy to spell."

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"Yeah, I heard," he says. "I asked Kerron who might wanna take a bite out of me and here's where he pointed."

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Lily sniffs the air thoughtfully. "Hmm. Yeah, possibly, I have an interest in - well, food - and I'm looking to branch out from human cuisine a little, which means seeing what's out there, everyone's so content to drink their bubbly seven days a week - I'm not knocking the stuff. It's great. But variety is worth investigating too. I'm not going to go all slasher-film on you, I'm just a half-vampire, you want me to take some from your wrist right now or what?"

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"Go for it," Celo says cheerfully, offering her his hand. "I'm curious."

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Lily takes his hand, sniffs again, and then bites his wrist neatly open and tastes. She hums to herself, thoughtful and apparently pleased, while she drinks, then eventually laps up the last of the blood and lets his hand go. "That's really interesting. I think your blood, straight-up no fiddling, would be decently competitive with bubbly if you could bottle the stuff in sufficient quantity and get it to a decent shelf life without affecting the flavor. You're the blood equivalent of one of those ecologically responsible smoothies with wheat grass that poked its head out of the dirt not five minutes ago in it. Very thirst-quenching - unusually so, actually, I'd want to see how a full vampire without a thirstlessness wish on reacted. Kind of herbaceous. I bet vampires who used to be vegetarians before they turned would love you."

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Celo laughs as a brief golden glow engulfs the bite mark and smooths it away.

"Wonder if I can just conjure some," he says, and pulls a square out of the air and tries it - nope - puts it away, tries a pentagon - and gets a gallon jug of blood, which he hands to Lily for lack of anything better to do with it.
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