@Cio@Eviledd1984Lucifer laughed dryly.
“My dear. If this were purely a Yakuza matter, you wouldn’t have called for me.” He said, beaming with self-importance.
“You will not go hunting for this girl until midnight, and you will not harm anyone you find with her. If you cannot swear this, we have no deal at all.”
Evren carefully sheared away the green lengths of hair, letting locks fall to the floor between them.
“(I am, too.)” he agreed flatly. Even for a vampire, Evren slept very rarely; in his centuries as a soldier it was rare that he slept more than a few times a year. Over time it had certainly made him weaker, along with the countless other damaging things he’d done to himself.
“(There’s a lot of daylight left, waterlily. It’s barely midday. You haven’t even seen the lake yet.)”Eventually Aava’s hair was a choppy bob, not at all styled but at least an even length that framed her face. Unbothered by the hair on the floor, Evren took a few leading steps back toward the door.
“(Would you like to see?)”The hillside was scattered with deadnettles, potato beans, snakemouth orchids and toadflax, giving way to less conspicuous pond grasses and arrow-leafed marsh plants as the even plain became a swampy shore. It was hard to tell exactly where the land ended and the water began in the marshiness, starting with thick grasses and thinning out to overgrown mucky shallows that gave way to the greyish depths before them. Willows gave cover to the lively shallows, which stretched out across the lake likely toward wherever the stream let out, somewhere just out of sight as the shore curled away behind the black ash and sour gum trees.
“Solvation and Congelation…” he mused, turning over the paper and scribbling on the blank side, drawing up several odd symbols, including the astrological symbols for Cancer and Taurus. He tapped the charcoal pen to the paper in though before he added two more symbols next to the zodiac; what looked like a triangle upon a plus and a female symbol with horns.
“If you have enough power to dissolve a soul and mind, the body remains. Dead. What would congelation do after that?” Beside him on the grass he saw a little dead spider, dried up and curled into a ball. Haddie’s eyes lit up with sudden inspiration.
“Maybe…”He scooped the dead thing into his right hand and held it in his closed fist. With his charcoal pen he drew the symbol for Taurus and the two strange symbols, along with one more; a circle with a line through the center. He wrapped his left hand around his closed left fist, and with a gasp let go to open his palm. The spider scrambled across his fingers and dropped to the ground on a silken thread from Haddie’s thumbnail, and he watched it with hungry, awestruck eyes.
“Great minds think alike?” Beck offered with a shrug.
“Or something. Whatever. I’m just parked over here, so if you’re ready, we can go.” She gestured out of the alley and started toward her vehicle, taking a look back to make sure Nessa was following. She didn’t get too far ahead without her, not entirely convinced that Nessa had healed so completely.
