Tarot Beach Party

[lady_moon]

There are those of the tarot who know how to set up for a party.

Ruin had spent most of the afternoon building the bonfire. He has carefully made it much in the way he would have with the villagers of his mortal life when they would celebrate the harvests. Charity, Unity, and Skill had spent most of the day setting up food, both their sorts of foods and the sorts the sentients would be expecting.

Moon watched it all with rapt fascination, her eyes on the marshmallows Skill told her firmly she isn't allowed to touch yet. But they're white and fluffy looking and Moon is curious. Mons barks at her, warning Skill, and Moon is shooed off.

It's Fortune who puts out blankets, spread all over the beach area for everyone to use. Moon watches her family set up for a party, for guests... real guests who are coming simply to come instead of for answers. She watches Fortune set down a large stack of very warm looking towels, and she grins.

Swimming. Damian will like the swimming.

Her wolves run up and down the beach in excitement, and Moon knows it's time.

Disappearing back to Milliways, she sets it up so people can come and go as they need to, pleased with herself and her family.

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Damian stares at the food and drink. Just... stares.

The two vampires he sees most often (outside of work) both have marks with humans or lycanthropes that allows them to taste and enjoy what he sees in front of him.

Ironic... that he has lived longer than both Jean-Claude and Asher, and yet he will never have the power to exchange the marks with another. Only master vampires have that power.

He thought he had accepted the fact that he would never taste food again, but the smells make him realise that even acceptance can waver at times. Whatever is being served here, he has no doubt that it would taste better than the fare he 'enjoyed' as a warrior from a poor family in the Viking Age.

Re: Food and Drink

[wheatencrown]

Demeter notices how he's watching the food and comes over,

"What's wrong, child?"

Re: Food and Drink

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Damian's emerald eyes dart over to the woman who speaks. He is wary for a moment, but then he remembers that all those here were invited by Moon and the tarot. No one here would do him harm. He chooses to trust that... because doing otherwise would probably make him so tense and worrisome that he wouldn't enjoy himself at all.

"Nothing really," Damian says softly. "I'm a vampire who can't enjoy the food here. Such a display makes me wish I could."

That's rather honest and open for this vampire, who has a tendency of shutting down and not admitting when something is wrong. Then again, he doesn't believe anything is wrong, so the rule doesn't apply, right?

[ooc: Just tagging before heading to bed. Hopefully I'll catch you later! Nice to get Damian talking to someone new. ^^]

Re: Food and Drink

[wheatencrown]

(OOC: I'm about to fall over too, but I've been meaning to have Dem talk to him. Definitely later.)

"That seems a shame, but I'm sure that there must be something here that you can enjoy. My name is Demeter."

Re: Food and Drink

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

He eyes her. "The Greek goddess?" he asks, wanting clarification. The only other Demeter he had known was a vampire of a territory that She Who Made Him thought of as a rival. At his mistress' orders, he had tortured and killed her. One in a very long line of victims.

It's not a pleasant memory, and it makes shadows flash across his eyes.

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[wheatencrown]

"Yes, that's me and who are you?"

He seems rather quiet which worries here but that's also Demeter's way.

Re: Food and Drink

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

There is a small measure of surprise at being in the presence of an actual goddess, but he supposes that Milliways truly does bring in all sorts of individuals. There is no reason for him to believe that gods and goddesses are exempt.

"I am Damian. Moon invited me, though I know that Nathaniel, Jason, and Asher are here as well. They are all from my world."

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[wheatencrown]

She gives him a thoughtful look,

"You're one of the vampires? I hope things are getting figured out. I spoke to Anita and she's such a strange woman."

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

He nods, having stated his state as one of the undead when she first addressed him. There is a small, quiet chuckle at her description of Anita.

"Strange or otherwise, I am bound to her as her vampire servant. Her necromancy allows me to rise from my coffin each night." In other words, he is completely dependent on her, whether he likes it or not. It hasn't been so bad the last couple weeks, since she has needed him to help with the ardeur, but now that Nathaniel and Asher are back in her life, things are getting lonely again. She has a lot going on, yes, but he is also starting to fear that she is avoiding him again. After so many steps forward, it feels like a giant leap backward.

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[wheatencrown]

"Bound, that must be a hard thing. She is so confused about what she wants, I hope that she hasn't been hurting you along with the others."

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

"She is trying. Compared to my former mistress, she is wonderful."

Notice, however, that he doesn't comment on her hurting him. She does, but he knows it isn't intentional, so he is better able to deal with it. He has endured far worse.

Re: Food and Drink

[wheatencrown]

"Trying is important and she loves so clearly and she will learn to move past her own ideas."

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

"The path takes time to tread," Damian agrees.

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[wheatencrown]

"It does especially for such a stubborn woman as she is, but I think she realized how much she is loved."

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

"Nathaniel, Asher, Jean-Claude, and Richard. She has more love being thrown at her than most women hope for in a lifetime."

Though Anita is trying and making a small progress with him, he still doesn't believe that he loves her. He is bound to her and cares about her, but he doesn't love her. It's saddening, in a way, to be bound forever to someone with whom you can't even say you have a strong friendship.

Re: Food and Drink

[wheatencrown]

"I think she's slightly scared by it but that doesn't matter now. Tell me of yourself."

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

That's a command Damian doesn't do so well with.

"What do you wish to know?" Otherwise, he'll have no idea where to begin. He doesn't usually share much about himself. Most of the time, it just seems irrelevant.

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[wheatencrown]

"Where did you come from and what journey brought you to St. Louis?"

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

That, he can work with.

"I was born in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. I was turned into a vampire when I was twenty-seven. The one who made me was a night-hag, a vampire who could feed off fear in addition to blood. I spent a little over a thousand years in her service. Jean-Claude, the Master of the City of St. Louis ransomed me from her. The council intervened on his behalf, and I was brought to St. Louis to be part of his kiss. When I nearly died in his service, Anita saved me, and I have been linked to her power instead of his ever since."

Needless to say, he has not had the most pleasant of existences. Coming to St. Louis was a relief, even if he has had many near-death experiences already in the service of Jean-Claude and Anita.

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[wheatencrown]

"So you have always been used by another?"

Re: Food and Drink

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Damian thinks before answering, but eventually nods.

"One way or another, yes."

Re: Food and Drink

[wheatencrown]

"Oh, child, that's not right."

Then he is hugged quite tightly, hopefully he doesn't mind.

Re: Food and Drink

[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Damian's eyes widen at the sudden hug. He knows that Moon and the lycanthropes have a natural tendency toward casual contact, but he hasn't for a very long time. It's only been recently that he could handle it himself without visibly recoiling. The only ones that touch him regularly are Anita, Nathaniel, and, less frequently, Micah.

Under most circumstances, he would pull away immediately, but he relies on the knowledge that this is a party, and no one who was invited would do him harm. He is very still in Demeter's arms. He'll need a little time to warm up to her.

"Right or wrong, it is the way of things. True freedom is a fantasy for a vampire like me. I will never be a master vampire, so I am dependent on another to raise me from my coffin each night. I may serve a kind master or a cruel master, but I will always serve. I am not powerful enough to do otherwise."

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[wheatencrown]

She releases him but the look she is giving him is very much a mother's look,

"You have friends though who help look after you so that you can find happiness."

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[mr-smarty-vamp.livejournal.com]

Unlike the sudden hug, that comment brings a small smile to his face.

"Only recently, but yes."

Nathaniel seems to make everything a little easier to bear, and Jason could also be counted as a friend, since he knows he can go to the werewolf to talk if he ever has need.