Topic: Get what you Need

Sulissurn

Date: 2013-03-17 08:36 EST
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands

You can't always get what you want

How long she had slept was not known. She remembered white dresses. White promises. White lies. She remembers a dance with a masked man who should have remained dead. Of Fio's kiss--rousing herself from a pile of lustrous gleaming furs, a hand to her side told her the kiss had long since healed. But the scar would remain. This pleased her then and it did now, despite her clouded state.

Spreading out as sweet as any sin, Suliss'urns unbound hair was glow-fall in lichen light. Speaking a soft command, faerie fire burned deep; throwing rich purple light in the cavern she called her home. A bed for sleeping. A table for sitting. A chair with that table. They were clawed and ruined things, this table and chair. Much like their master. Other than that, the cavern gleamed with books: enchanted books, books with ice on their spines, books with dancing runes and normal looking books too. But that was not all it gleamed with. Treasure. Stolen things. Gold, silver, mithril, platinum....if anyone were powerful enough to break the seals and find her lair, they would mistake it for a dragon's.

The distant tinkle of water was as it should be. The silence, too. Why then, did she feel as if she were missing s....

There was a man at the table. The man had green eyes as bright as balefire and dark hair shorn short to his skull. His features were severe, his mouth down-turned slightly as if he found everything distasteful. She hissed.

"You are naut supposed to be here." There's a note in her rasp that might have actually been a tentative question.
"Are you still living in this hole?" He sighed, disapprovingly.
"You are naut supposed to be here!" Her voice rising, as her emotions solidified and as always, anger became fore-front.



Ghostly Visitors SL]]
~You Can't Always Get What You Want: Rolling Stones

Sulissurn

Date: 2013-03-17 16:20 EST
He arose out of the chair all stiffly as if he would be called to duty at any time and to do anything else would be less than seemingly. The crisp jacket of his uniform was pulled down in a short, quick, absent gesture. Then he put his hands behind his back and tipped his head to watch her as a bird of prey might puzzle out the confusing death-flops of its future meal. The single sputter of faerie fire made the green of his eyes appear inhumane, the scars in his skin deeper in addition to the black of his hair highlighting deep shades of violet. He looked down the end of his hawkish nose at her--but it wasn't haughty. No. It was distant as he tried to figure her out. It was a familiar expression that made the ravens in her chest fall as if plucked featherless from the sky of her ribs.

"Where, then, am I supposed to be?" Hypothetically, of course.

"Dead."

His brows went from meeting over the beak of his nose to riding toward his hair. "Dead?"

"Dead," flatly.

He loosed his arms from behind his back to look at them. Pluck at a spotlessly neat uniform sleeve, brush his shoulder and then scratch at the stubble heard but-not-seen upon his chin. They were all pointed gestures.

"I seem to be quite the opposite, perhaps you should enlighten me as to why you think me dead. And why you are here and not--" He paused and she could imagine the words he did not say. Suliss'urn shut her eyes. In the dark of her skin, it was as if someone snuffed out two candles with a single strike.

"Go away," lowly the drow rasped. Humans always made noise. They were often unaware that each breath they took rustled fabric; their bodies wavered constantly no matter how steady they visually appeared. Her command made him stop moving. Stop being real. She could not even hear him inhale. Finally, he exhaled slowly, patiently, if she thought about it too much it even sounded...confused.

"As you wish," neutrally delivered. She heard the scuff of his boots as real now as they were years ago.

"Stay," she whispered. He stopped again. "Nau--"
"Do you want me to stay or go? Are you going to explain anything to me or shall I simply guess? I do not have time..."

She was so quick to shoot up from the furs. A little black snake with more poison in her eyes than any of the daggers strapped to her body. Silver scars and angry marrs--that's what little naked drow were made of.

"You left!" She spat at him, her teeth clacking harsh enough to rattle-snap together.
"Yes, well, I hardly was in control of--"
"You left, again, and I, like a child, dropped everything for you. When did you give me everything? When? I came running! I came running! Not once, not twice, but three times!"

She slunk toward him in dangerous, dangerous tones. A tongue-lick of a lover against a blade and each foot made not-a-sound a human could pick up. She was angry. It resonated in the air. It felt like ozone before the heavens cracked to cook the unfortunate below her.

"Dos zhahen ussta ssussun!" Her finger was a sliver in the dimming purple glow. It pointed, accusatory. He knew what he did. He knew. He made her do a thing she said she would never do. He made her something different. Something new. Something weak...He had made her trust. The confusion on his face was almost enough for her to stop. To think. To revise the anger bubbling up as well as over inside of her.

Almost.

"I don't--" he began.
"Get out," she whispered. The purple light went out with a sputter, a last gasp and then died plunging the cavern into a darkness that was a finale.

"Lotha Oreb.." She could see him form the words with his mouth. Hear the puzzlement clearly.

"GET OUT!" She screamed at him, for if he were alive, it was the last warning he would get. Get out now, she wished. Get out now and leave me alone. Leave me. I cannot break for you again. Her answer was the silence. A solid void without his scent, his presence, his warmth or his voice. She doubted at all that he had even been there. Everything was as it should be.

She could not explain, then, why she felt so empty.