Topic: At Night's Doorstep

The Anguissette

Date: 2009-09-17 18:58 EST
(Some Mature Themes. 18+ )

He gave them pain like balm, and they begged him for it, finding not redemption, but a love that transcended the divine

The years of servitude had honed her. Made her ever devoted as a Servant of Naamah, she was ever to be part of the Night blooming flowers. Amiryn after so many years had become a sacred mortal amongst them all, thousands of years had passed without the presence of a chosen mortal marked by Kushiel's dart. Kushiel's dart, the pinprick of red, the scarlet mote to marr the eye and ever reveal one as an anguissette. Throughout history there had only been three known, Amiryn the third to know what it was to be selected as anguissette, one that would ever feel pleasure in pain.

They said like the two before her she would balance the scales. Revered in rarity she was taken under wing and trained as not only servant of Naamah but spy. Those artic blue eyes would watch even as the woman would keep quiet, never to speak of the secrets or of what she had learned.

Even now she stood in silence, watching with fingers curling on the banister of the railing as she took in the many faces and interactions of the patrons below. Some were considered and watched with a far more cautious eye then the others. Her expression never would alter, deceive what she had learned.

Free from servitude she owned her choices now of who she was willing to love. Love as thou wilt. It was the way of her people and something she understood well. That quiet respect, primitive and sophisticated grace marked motions and nature.

Amiryn was like the briar rose that marked her flesh, her presence and spirit would be something archaic, born of dramatic vigor, something abstract. A woman meant to understand the world and the nature of a man and a woman as complex puzzle to be understood, even as she herself would remain a mystery.

The marque told her story for her flesh would never reveal the touch of rod or weal, of a cruel hand, of the passing choices of sadistic lovers. No matter what she endured, flesh would heal clean. Amiryn's soft skin would ever remain flawless and untouched by imprint of all that she had overcome. Her spirit though held the scars like thorns.


The Anguissette

Date: 2009-09-17 19:01 EST
Sweet bliss. Dark agony. Behind closed doors they were one and the same to her. He had left her without a name, only a title, what he asked of her to call him. She did not question it, Amiryn knew well of the man that had shared her bed and left her back in dark red ribbons of pain.

The Healers would come, knowing well of the nature of an anguissette, and yet still they would question if the woman pushed herself to a point that she might not overcome. If it was not death then it was not the point of breaking. Her eyes closed, she prayed to Naamah, to Elua, and finally to Kushiel. To the last she asked for forgiveness. For the fact that despite what she was meant to be, she loathed what she had become. What she was destined and ever meant to be.

A completed marque once would mean freedom of choice, but anything save for rape was acceptable by the Servants of Naamah, the Night Blooming flowers did not question the nature of love and the fashion it was offered in.

Her wounds treated with salve, she knew that come the morning there would not be a blemish on her flesh to show proof of all endured. Amiryn knew that ever this would be her burden, her blessing that she would carry in her silence.

In the quieter times she would sit at one of the tables at the Red Dragon Inn, one that would offer her the vantage point of the entire room, and what might not be visualized the mirror behind the bar certainly would. Amiryn had learned well to watch mirrors just as she was trained to judge expressions. Knew the way a man would close his eyes when he lied or how a woman would look away coyly in ways that did not have to speak of mere flirtation.

Watching the way that the people of Rhy'din would hold and possess their slaves, how the relationship of master or mistress would be kept to their slave. It was all different and she was adjusting. Those Artic blues not cold but strangely warm in their offering if they ever would be met. A burning temptation for the hottest part of the flame would ever burn most brilliant.

It was rare that she would keep her eyes to linger on the eyes of another for long, the soft gasps of surprise and the infinite questions she so patiently answered for the scarlet mote that marked her as chosen Mortal of Kushiel.

Sometimes she did not believe she was meant to hold the nature or right of justice, who was she to be considered and selected to balance the scales by wielding a nature of pleasure in pain forever in her spirit. There were so many questions she never would have answers still? and still her soul would ask.

The Anguissette

Date: 2010-01-23 14:48 EST
Barbed chain of branded mark was considered as it moved and snaked around her wrist. Supple and archaic it seemed to move and writhe at her flesh. Claimed as a constant offering of her awareness of the subtle changes the bond had made.

She had requested from Aukai a home for her and Abyrdan, a place to belong. Where there would be no accusation or misunderstanding of what was and how it should be.

An Anguissette. Taking pleasure within the pain. It was something that she knew so well and accepted within all that was her as part of her spirit. Though the nature of a courtesan, the respect she was accomodated toward was lacking in this place of Rhy'din.

Was this not the reason why she had kept her silent vigil of watching and learning from those that moved around her unaware. Only so recent that she found herself stepping out to find those....that understood.

The demon with his silent awareness of her, Aukai with the strange draw to that which she was and she perhaps to him for the odd nature of understanding. The rest yet to be known but she would learn.

It was time for her to step from Night's Doorway and to step beyond it....into something more of that which she would belong. That was hers to claim.

The Anguissette

Date: 2010-01-24 21:20 EST
They came to her like gathered offerings. Their presence in her life a new heat, smoldering temptation that quickened the blood and set her heart to race. Raw, savage need and desire. It left her body warm. Sweat dappled as she writhed in the sheets.

Her fingers curled into the silk, body arching as she gritted her teeth as pleasure became pain that became pleasure as she felt the blade slice across her shoulders.

Another cut and another. Left her gasping as her body shuddered under the sensation.

This was her price, her judgement in passing for the mark found upon her wrist that was not of their gods favoring. Love as thou wilt they had spoken, but this was forsaken.

Even Kushiel's blessing would not hold her from that price of disobedience to the others in the eyes of the other servants of Naamah.

Her fingers clenched going bone white as the mark of barbed chain shivered and rippled at her skin.

"Stop this, Amiryn." "I do nothing..."

A gasp out of pain as the man's hand struck her face, the sigil of his ring cutting into her jaw as her eyes ignited with a raw fury. Leaving those glacier pools to blaze, the scarlet mote vivid in its marked claim at her skin.

Hand around her throat left her eyes coveting the blackness as she fought to remain conscious. Strangling even as the man's hand shoved her into the pillow and silks as his body claimed hers as his own.

"You will learn....this is not their will....you will learn."

She screamed out a protest in the night and in those pillows. The mark smoldered at her skin, igniting the skin beneath it like a poison through her veins as the chain seemed to writhe and twist at her wrist as a black asp.

Amiryn turned then, fierce and violent as the man came from the bed and slammed into the wall.

A power unbeknownst ever to Amiryn seemed to all but explode from her.

The blood dripped from her skin, running rivulets of scarlet down her flesh and spilling to the floor in drops.

"It is not their will....It is mine"

A whisper. Teeth bared as her mind was a tempest of thoughts. How Aukai would devour her emotions like an overfed predator sated. Arkon's dark ways, the cold presence of the Frost King, Avita's shadow imprint and her annoyance at the emotions that slithered and crawled from Amiryn as serpents.

The feline shadow stalker that had been met in the Marketplace...and finally...to Abyrdan.

He had changed her.

In more ways then perhaps they both would ever understand.

A movement then. Swift and the blood spilled around her. Painted her in a vision near like war paint.

Crimson and sin. Hers to own, to possess. All was hers as the man no longer had his words to speak. His damnation on his tongue for her.

"I choose how I live. I Love as I will...."

She left him that night. Death in her spirit touch and Blood on her hands.

It was time....time to prove to her worth to the Covenant.