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[color=cc3300]“(It’s a new home, my home. It’s nowhere you’ve been before but it’s certainly more comfortable than this mortal place.)”[/color] Evren said, starting down the road to the edge of town. As much as he would have liked to let Aava’s warning go unheard, not think about it and move on, he couldn’t just ignore her; he owed Aava his honesty, even if he hadn’t felt this vulnerable in centuries.
Trying to settle his unease he ran a hand through his curly brown hair and sighed. [color=cc3300]“(Lucifer is… my truest love. He’s the one who saved me from murderers and pillagers as a youth, and has given me more than I could ever repay, even if I were to live another thousand years.)”[/color] He blushed just slightly, seeming at once tense and sentimental. [color=cc3300]“(He’s a man of great intensity, full of purpose and eternally devoted to the good of all. We lived as lovers, until one day he wasn’t there anymore. Vanished, without a trace.)”[/color]
People occasionally stopped to stare at the two as they walked the bustling streets, not afraid or suspicious but maybe a bit surprised at their state; Evren’s torn old clothes and Aava’s long filthy hair certainly stood out among the pedestrians.
[color=cc3300]”(I mourned him for so long. From your little lake we would lure villagers to their doom… I loved it, and it made me wish for him more. So I left again, crossed the ocean and hoped to be finally far enough to go unnoticed. But he found me again, like he’d always been waiting here.)”[/color] Just a bit glassy-eyed, Evren continued. [color=cc3300]“(I wandered so long only to find my roots where they’d always been; with Lucifer.)”[/color]
Redhaven was a small city, with expanses of suburbs shooting off from the town proper like branches rather than encircling it around the center. This made the town feel quite sparse, and if you knew where you were going you could leave nearly any busy cobblestone street to find a way into the forests and rolling hills just a few blocks away.
After less than ten minutes of walking Evren led Aava to the edge of a dry gully, seperated from Redhaven by just a traffic guardrail. He stepped quite easily over it and traipsed clumsily down the eroded incline, looking back up to Aava before moving on. [color=cc3300]”(As long as I walk this earth, Aava, Lucifer will never hurt you. In fact, he’ll adore you just as I do. I swear it on all that I am. Today will never happen again.)”[/color][hr][color=black]"Speak up, I'm almost deaf."[/color] Haddie said curtly, tracing the tattoo on his right wrist with two fingers. He met Duckie's gaze, or at least looked him in the eye sockets, but something about the way he glared at the ghoul was inhuman. He didn't regard James as a living thing, as something sentient or even vaguely equal, but as some pawn that was newly at his disposal.
[color=black]"What is a corpse doing in a graveyard? Are you here to raise more like you?"[/color]