Topic: The Expected Visit

Shai Vevea

Date: 2013-06-29 10:47 EST
"Chasmyr, you have no rightly business here in Belglade." Rochelle nearly stammered after the door was opened and the foreboding figure stood there in all of his glory.

"Ma Cheri, you wish to keep me from my....how you say....congratulatory fortitude for the elusive Grecian....pisha, do not dally, let her know of my arrival. She will see me, for this I am quite certain." The bloodstone twittering between his fingers, an almost sardonic smile lacing the fringes of his lips.

SLAM! The door vibrated it's argument before Rochelle ever could and with a lifting of her skirt's, she moved up the stair's and burst in upon Shai who was sitting before the window's, pen to parchment in the making's of an overdue missive abroad.

Shai turned, arched brow ticking even more so. "What is it, Rochelle?"

The older woman was fuming, pudgy fist's clenched. "That....Chasmyr has dared to seek you out and is standing at the door!" Almost hissed between her teeth.

Unplussed, the pregnant Greek rose to her minute stature and smoothed the robe adorned. A check of her hair in the nearby mirror, Shai knew this moment would come, ever since she had ventured back to Rhydin and was aided by Hazeal. The two male's were thicker than thieves in every regard, Shai being of no exception to that. "I will go down to him..."

Walking into the closet, Shai stood on a stool and tugged down a small box. Just large enough for documents and the like, it was taken out to her desk and a quick rummage through it was given.

"You almost seem as if you were expecting him, Shai..." Rochelle allowed that to flutter free as she watched from the bedroom door.

"I have, Rochelle, it was only a matter of time that he sought me out." Assured the bank notes and papers were in order, the box was closed and she turned to face the older woman.

"Do I send Angelo to fetch the Blacksmith?"

"No, that will not be necessary, Rochelle."

"Are you quite certain? The last time you were in his company, he took his anger with you out on the girl's."

"I am well aware of that, but assure you, it won't happen this time. There is no reason for it to occur. Kruger has his business, much like I have mine, we do not interject where it is not warranted."

"You are incorrect Shai, you are going to stand before him, pregnant and wed...!"

Straightening, Shai's shoulder's rolled and she couldn't help but smile a little at the Italian woman's dramatics. "You seem to forget, my time with Chasmyr was paid for, handsomely in fact. It troubles me little that he staked a claim upon me and is something he will get over, as he is a grown man with a wife and family of his own. The poor dear, he cannot have his pastry and eat it too this time. That has changed."

Rochelle was not amused. She had seen Chasmyr at his worst, it was simply not something pretty to behold.

Brushing her way around, Shai was careful down the stairs and left Rochelle standing there staring at her back.

"Chasmyr, what a pleasant surprise..." The greeting trailing off as the door was snicked closed behind her.

(tbc)

Shai Vevea

Date: 2013-07-11 13:08 EST
Chasmyr of course was waiting on her there and crooked his arm for her to take. "Shai, it's good to see you...shall we walk?"

Lacing her hand there, she gave him a nod and glanced up to him fully. He still looked the same, nothing had changed. Large and foreboding, his hair was still touched by the sun and his gaze a fathomless pool of cobalt. "Oui, through the garden's would be most pleasurable."

Several sets of eyes trailing them, Rochelle from the kitchen window and Sophie, as she was playing there on the porch with one of her rag dolls. "I won't be far, Sophie." To which the child nodded quickly at her Auntie and regarded the male with a quizzical expression that only a 5 year old could carry.

Assured they were out of earshot, Chasmyr leaned down slightly while breathing in the blooms nearby as they trickled through the summer breeze.

"Am I not welcome in your company, Madame?"

Shai near chuckled to that and released his arm to lower down onto one of the benches. The box settled nearby as Chas sat down as well. "Welcome is a lose term, Chasmyr. I have not been in your presence for many year's and you simply appear. I knew it would happen, but I honestly did not think it would be here, at Belglade."

Regarding the woman's belly, gaze finally reached her's and he laughed aloud. "It is not as if you have ventured into the city given your present condition. I thought to pay call to your husband's forge, but gave it another consideration. Amusing I find it however, you with child and married of all thing's. Obviously, no thought was given to your health in that." Tsking slightly. "Hazeal has said that there was an incident, one with a group of trapper's." He would not continue, willing to gauge what her reaction would be.

As quick as a snap, Shai looked away towards the house and then finally back to him. "None of which is of your concern, Chasmyr. I did not call for you, that being the first hint that all was well." The line of her jaw going piano wire tight.

"No, it was more of you to put on a facade that everything was well, Shai. Not that it truly was. Now you sit here, large with child and a newlywed. Quite the tryst I think, would you not agree?"

"You bore me with your declaration's, is there not somewhere you should be...? Some damsel's brow you must smooth and convince you are there for the greater good?" The tone she took with him not one that was common any longer, she had no time for this. Nor would she reclaim an old battle with him.

Dismissing the entire line of conversation, she slid the box over. "Your proceeds from the Salon in Venice and the stone. They are your's and the final tie, please claim them for I wish to not lay eyes across them again."

Chasmyr would take the box, that could be counted on, but for the now it remained wedged between them. Much like the mountain that had suddenly appeared there as well. "I did not come here to fight with you, I came to see you with my own two eyes. So that I may now be convinced that all is well as Hazeal claimed. I am not here to stake some claim or declare such a notion as is running through that pretty head of your's. History cannot be erased, dear one. It can only start another chapter once that one is closed. If that is so your wish, consider it done. But do not forget that history."

Shai's tone moving into that of a whisper, a slight shake of her head was given. "You will never understand, nor face what all you did not accomplish, Chasmyr. You simply refused to admit that in everything, the pawn persevered and rose above."

"Rubbish. Where are Tristan and Molly? Sequestered far away, I am certain." His own tone taking on a cold quality with the inquiry.

"Tristan and Molly are fine and have been sent for. Their mother is within the realm, and they belong with her. They have always known I was not their birth mother and understood a day would come, when they would be returned to their rightful blood. What was asked of me by Dante is complete, it's time."

Listening to her intently, Chasmyr nodded. "And so it shall be. You did well by them, Shai, don't ever forget that."

(tbc)

Shai Vevea

Date: 2013-08-31 18:00 EST
"No, I shall not forget it. But where the two of us differ is as clear as day. I will not in turn use them for my own rise in the very hierarchy I have fought to put behind me. You may keep your political boundaries where you see fit, Chasmyr. But in that same revelation, you have little choice but to respect mine."

A large fist curled and was pressed into his thigh as Shai's words rolled through his line of hearing and then spiraled beyond into his mind, teeth near grinding. "Hazeal stated you finally tired of Dimitri and his ill played game. I always wondered about the man-child and thought perhaps he would be of some use in Athens, but alas he proved his worth. As nil. Eh?"

Smoothing her palms across her lap, Shai was watching Sophie and the corners of her lips twitched lightly. Such a beautiful creature she was and then her attention was once again grabbed by the male sitting next to her. A deep sigh then. "Chasmyr, times have changed, matter's have moved forward. My usefulness to you in any arena has ceased, for which I am thankful. Let it lie dormant. I earned at the very least, that. Allow the door to close."

"You speak RUBBISH, mon cheri....absolute RUBBISH." Tone and volume near vibrating. Snatching up the strong box and rising, Chasmyr then bent to come almost nose to nose with Shai and nearly hissed. "That door will never be truly closed, Shai...mark my words as fact."

Sophie had jumped up, doll in hand and watched as her Aunt did not shrink back, did not flinch and did not make one move to distance herself from this man. Nor did she hear the whisper that fell from Shai's lips to him. "Vous retirer de ma ligne de mire, Chasmyr. Vous cessez d'exister plus longtemps dans mon monde."

There was not another word that passed between the two, and as quickly as Chasmyr had appeared....he was gone. Shai rose and closed the distance to Sophie, took her by the hand and went inside, where Rochelle was waiting.

Shai would speak to her husband that evening, informing him of the visitor.