Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:48 am"Don't underestimate the benefits of a good physical regime, even yoga," she says with a chuckle, "I actually studied yoga for several years in India."
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:48 amRe: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:02 am"Oh, like I'm the one leading a sedentary lifestyle."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:22 am"You have that damnable werewolf metabolism working in your favor. It's unfair, really."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:42 pm"Ah yes, you always complain about that. Except for the times you don't."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:46 pmErica smirks, "You would bring that up. What do you want me to say? We were bad for each other after a while. I distinctly remember you threatening to bite me on more than one occasion."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:47 pm"Oh, we were horrible for each other. Doesn't mean I'm likely to forget."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:53 pm"Hindsight and all that. It seemed like a wondrous idea at the time," she says with a shrug before adding, "I'm still the better witch."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:57 pm"Mostly because kissing pretty girls doesn't make someone a witch, no matter how much her father would've liked that to be so."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 9:01 pm"Exactly," she says, "But there's no accounting for idiocy. Hang around and you might find a new pretty girl to kiss. I'm told there's several, even among the professors here, as unlikely as I find that to be."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:48 pm"Seems a bit like cradle-robbing, but I suppose everything is."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:12 pm"Unless you want to crawl back to me, I think you're going to have to look long and hard to find someone who isn't super young compared to you," she grins.
"Oh," she says, tapping one of the presents, "Delivering this one in person might result in some uncomfortable questions. I'd recommend dropping it off outside her room."
"Oh," she says, tapping one of the presents, "Delivering this one in person might result in some uncomfortable questions. I'd recommend dropping it off outside her room."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:52 pm"...just what are you getting me into?" She quirks a brow.
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:53 pm"Nothing your considerable skills can't handle. You are the great stalking hunter are you not?" She smirks.
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:03 pm"Let me guess, the fairy princess?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:18 pm"No. The sphinx. Surely you've seen her around."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:24 pm"The one who's serenely convinced she's Batman?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:06 pm"I believe so," she nods, "Maybe she'll figure out what to do with the gift, maybe not, but she at least need the opportunity."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:09 pm"If she hasn't already been kicked in the head too many times."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:20 pm"That is a distinct possibility," she chuckles. "You would be an expert on that condition."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:56 pm*** After the incident in London ***
There's a business-like knock on Isolde's door shortly after lunch one day.
There's a business-like knock on Isolde's door shortly after lunch one day.
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:49 pm"...everybody seems to think I'm pleasant to visit," she mutters, getting up and opening the door.
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:57 pmOutside the door was a short-ish woman with iron gray hair braided and wrapped into a bun and secured by two things that looked suspiciously like knitting needles. She's dressed in a black casual suit that makes her look like someone's secretary. She looks Isolde up and down and Isolde gets the distinct impression of having been weighed, measured, and sifted all in that glance. "Miss Schwarz. I believe we have business that needs discussing."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:59 pm"...and you would be?" She asks, quirking a brow.
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:02 pm"Miss Weaver will be as good a name as any," she says after a moment's pause, "I'm here about Miss Johansson."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:03 pm"Ah, so it's like that, then."
She steps back from the doorway.
"Come on in."
She steps back from the doorway.
"Come on in."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:09 pmThe woman nods and steps through the doorway. She smells like a textile mill, all cloth and machine oil... except for the distinct sense of silver coming from the needles in her hair. As Isolde closes the door, the woman faces her. "It has come to our attention that Miss Johansson has selected you as her guardian. Is this assessment correct?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:13 pm"Yes, I'm fairly certain we're in agreement on that."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:16 pm"I see." Some disappointment registers briefly on her face as she folds her hands behind her back. "And you accepted the position. Why?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:17 pm"Because death has a habit of sharpening your perspective."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:21 pm"Yes, that snarl in the skein was quite disconcerting. Are you aware of the weight of what you're taking on? This isn't some murder-for-hire hunt you've agreed to."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:40 pm"I'm aware that this is long-term. I can do long-term."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:45 pm"Can you now?" The woman says, stepping closer to Isolde, encroaching on Isolde's personal space. "Why should we believe that this is anything but another example of your short-term, disastrously poor decision making?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:56 pm"You can believe what you want, but the child of earth is awake, and she's entitled to choose."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:03 pm"Of course she is," the woman says, "But respecting her choice is not approval. Consider this your warning not to abuse her trust... or our respect of her choice. You, guardian, are not what we would have chosen for her."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:04 pm"Well I'm not about to drink her blood, so how bad can I be?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:06 pm"Yes, her former guardian left a lot to be desired as well, but we had precious little choice in that changing of the guard as well. This child is causing quite a lot of consternation."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:33 pm"You like being in control, don't you?"
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 11:16 pm"And you do not?" The woman raises an eyebrow.
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 11:23 pm"I think you're rather spectacularly missing the point of the children of earth."
"A cistern is not a river."
"A cistern is not a river."
Re: Isolde's Room
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 11:29 pm"Even a river can be diverted by applying the right or wrong... pressure." She punctuates the word 'wrong' by giving Isolde another once-over.