Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:56 pm"Who said it was these days?" Isolde asks with a toothy smirk.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 11:56 pmRe: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:02 amTereza eyes her, "What do you mean?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:03 am"Oh dear daughter, they didn't turn me over to counseling, they turned me over to the witch hunters."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:13 amTereza stops, "Okay, the werewolf thing I can buy. Some things are hard to explain otherwise, but I'm having a little trouble with this. But let's get one thing straight there are two people in this world who could conceivably call me 'daughter' you are neither one of them because I *haven't* encased you in ice on the spot, so you can drop the whole 'daughter' thing."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:24 am"...I may never have children. That was the price."
"Someone who shares my blood is the closest I'll ever have to a daughter."
"Someone who shares my blood is the closest I'll ever have to a daughter."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:04 am"Then I guess you may get to have the same disappointment in me that my parents have," Tereza says with a growl, "Because I didn't become what they wanted either."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:08 am"...let us start again."
"I am Isolde Schwarz, the miller's daughter. And you are?"
"I am Isolde Schwarz, the miller's daughter. And you are?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:22 amTereza obviously weighs giving her a response formed from pure elemental sass. Then she frowns and says, "Tereza Rozanov, the spy's daughter."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:28 am"There is a story behind both our roads, I think."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:37 amTereza gestures to start moving again, "Cautionary stories if nothing else."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:40 amIsolde nods, continuing on.
"It is very American, yes? 'Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be werewolves.'"
"It is very American, yes? 'Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be werewolves.'"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:07 am"That's probably not high on the list of 'things to be' at your average career day, no."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:12 am"It is not what I expected, either."
"I was no witch. I was a God-fearing girl when they put me on trial."
"I was to be burned the next day. I prayed to anyone that would listen."
"Then the zwerg came, and offered to make me strong. Gave me the envelope."
"I was no witch. I was a God-fearing girl when they put me on trial."
"I was to be burned the next day. I prayed to anyone that would listen."
"Then the zwerg came, and offered to make me strong. Gave me the envelope."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:17 am"The 'zwerg'? My German's not what it could be."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:21 am"I am sorry. Old habits. The dwarf, I mean."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:25 am"A dwarf? With an envelope?" Tereza shook her head, "I suppose it could be stranger, though I'm not sure how."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:29 am"They say he only comes to the truly desperate. Always, there is a price."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:30 am"Yours seems to have been exceptionally steep. Thanks for sharing it."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:34 am"This is not the cost. This is what made it so they could never hurt me again. This blessed madness."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:48 am"So if this... curse wasn't the cost, what was?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:52 am"It is as I said. There are stories of those who give up their firstborn. I gave them all up. I am barren."
"It may not seem much to you now, but it was a different time."
"It may not seem much to you now, but it was a different time."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:56 am"No, I get it. Quite the sacrifice. But that raises the question that all sacrifices raise. Was it worth it?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:02 am"I am... not who I was. Greta is long in her grave. Not by my hand, either. Even... as cruel as she was, I couldn't do it."
"She married. Had children. Her children had children. Sometimes even now I see someone on the street and I wonder."
"Perhaps that life was never meant to be mine. But I lived. I more than lived. You and I are more alive than most could ever know."
"She married. Had children. Her children had children. Sometimes even now I see someone on the street and I wonder."
"Perhaps that life was never meant to be mine. But I lived. I more than lived. You and I are more alive than most could ever know."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:58 amTereza's frown deepens. There are a few parallels here that bother her, which in turn activates the automated sarcasm defense system, "Well, I was just starting to live again and your little gift almost *ruined* it, so thanks for that."
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:44 pmIsolde fixes Tereza with a gaze as they walk.
"...is this about the girl?"
"...is this about the girl?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:48 pm"Her name is Sam," Tereza says, returning Isolde's gaze without flinching. "And yeah, I could have killed her that first night. Not exactly a good way to end a first date."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:49 pm"Then it is good that I warned you, yes?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:01 pm"How exactly did you *warn* me? You were distinctly less than helpful that night. And how are you in my head?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:07 pm"I warned you that you were far from your wolf. When that happens, it does as it will."
"We are linked by blood. A pack does not need words. You could learn it, in time."
"We are linked by blood. A pack does not need words. You could learn it, in time."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:20 pm"So I have more 'siblings' out there?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:21 pm"Some. There have been others. Many the hunters got."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:29 pm"Good to know. I'll make sure the Headmistress is aware." She tenses as they enter the point and get into the smaller hallways. "And I'm fairly certain my wolf wants to take over. So it's dangerous near and far. Guess it's the latest in a long litany of impossibly bad choices."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:25 pm"If you view it as an enemy, then it will be. Your wolf can become more like you. You can become more like your wolf. It is a compromise."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:32 pm"Hard to not view it as an enemy when that's how it started out. I managed to get it to heel, but that didn't feel exactly good either."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:34 pm"Because it is not a dog, and never will be."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:49 pm"So you want me to revel in it and become like you."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:54 pm"I am telling you how it works. What you do is up to you, but I have lived with it much longer than you."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:56 pm"Does your living with it include hunting my plant friend when he was little?"
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:58 pm"Oh, if I was really hunting him, you wouldn't have had the pleasure of knowing him."
Re: Blood is Thicker
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:16 pm"So that raises the question of who you are hunting. Because it can't be me, you didn't expect to deal with me and my friend and like you just said, you'd be trying to kill me right now if that was the case. I get that you're all ecstatic about having a 'daughter', but I'm not the reason you're in Maldon."