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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:33 pm
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Antha only flashed Felix a smile that was made to be reassuring as she said, calmly, "Felix, this is uncle Stefan and Oncle Julien." She motioned to each of them in turn, cutting her eyes at Julien when she came to him. "Stefan, Julien, Malakai, this is Felix." She let go of Malakai entirely, going to stand beside Felix for a few moments just to touch the back of his hand, a very simple gesture of comfort. "Felix Mayfair, that is." With that, having been as courteous as her dear uncle Stefan could ever expect of her, she turned and went to Vikteren, standing before him for one moment to look into his eyes like she was trying to determine whether or not he was real before she took a place at his side as if it were the only place that could possibly suit her. "Uncle Stefan is the head of the family," she explained to him, leaning over to whisper it in his ear. In reality, it didn't matter whether or not anyone heard her, and they probably couldn't even had she spoken in her normal tone. It was just some small excuse to lean close. "He deals with all of our family matters---marriages, scandals, you know---and only I can argue his verdict without going against the family." She turned to look back to her family, but then, before her curls had even had time to settle, she turned again and put a hand on his shoulder as if to keep her balance as she continued in the same whisper, "Last month, Julien was officially made his successor. When Stefan dies, which I fear may be quite soon, Julien will be head of the family." The distaste was thick in her voice as she mentioned this, remembering again how much she loathed the idea of Julien having true, substantial power within the family. His great influence had been bad enough.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:02 am
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:59 pm
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.David Talbot. Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:38 pm
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+Rotting Lunacy+ Antha only flashed Felix a smile that was made to be reassuring as she said, calmly, "Felix, this is uncle Stefan and Oncle Julien." She motioned to each of them in turn, cutting her eyes at Julien when she came to him. "Stefan, Julien, Malakai, this is Felix." She let go of Malakai entirely, going to stand beside Felix for a few moments just to touch the back of his hand, a very simple gesture of comfort. "Felix Mayfair, that is." With that, having been as courteous as her dear uncle Stefan could ever expect of her, she turned and went to Vikteren, standing before him for one moment to look into his eyes like she was trying to determine whether or not he was real before she took a place at his side as if it were the only place that could possibly suit her. "Uncle Stefan is the head of the family," she explained to him, leaning over to whisper it in his ear. In reality, it didn't matter whether or not anyone heard her, and they probably couldn't even had she spoken in her normal tone. It was just some small excuse to lean close. "He deals with all of our family matters---marriages, scandals, you know---and only I can argue his verdict without going against the family." She turned to look back to her family, but then, before her curls had even had time to settle, she turned again and put a hand on his shoulder as if to keep her balance as she continued in the same whisper, "Last month, Julien was officially made his successor. When Stefan dies, which I fear may be quite soon, Julien will be head of the family." The distaste was thick in her voice as she mentioned this, remembering again how much she loathed the idea of Julien having true, substantial power within the family. His great influence had been bad enough.
Vikteren raised his eyes from her face to the fair-haired man on the porch when she said this. "If you dislike him, Antha, then I trust your judgement," he said, in a low tone, perhaps for the same reason as she had quieted her voice. "Yet he does not seem to intend harm." He brushed a loose coil of red hair from her cheek;the urge to return her touch was nearly overwhelming at close quarters. But the vampire was not in the habit of idle contact, nor was Vikteren nearly so adroit as Antha in inventing a reason to do so, and such small gestures helped to ease some of the--what was the emotion? Tension? He had met a few members of Antha's family before, but never so many as what their ancestral home promised to introduce.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:36 pm
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"He does not intend the sort of harm that, say, Sleet does," she whispered in something akin to a hiss, cutting her eyes at that face that was so sickeningly similar to her own, "But trust me, he does mean harm." With that, she heard Malakai utter her name and something about their cousins and she knew that they needed to go see them. They had to let them stare at Felix and pick out every family trait, every feature that was similar to their own, to wrap their energy around him and find some spark within him that recognized that power as the same as his, derived from the same blood. He was a shiny object and they were but little children who wanted to gawk at it and explore it. She shifted beside Vikteren before she decided to go to her brother, a hand still on his shoulder as she went to kiss the side of his neck in a faint brush of lips, something that was only a bit more intimate than a casual comforting gesture. "Come. I think Courtland will be quite pleased to see you again." And then, in a whirl of black and red, she was walking to her brother. "Of course he will. They are family, after all." As she spoke, something in her mind was seeking out those chains that bound her cousins to her, reaching down them and finding the ones within Mayfair Manor. It made her pause for a minute when she found one she did not recognize, a very faint, weak connection that she had no name to attach to. It even brought a faint puzzled expression to her face before her gaze swept across the yard and found Felix and it simply clicked inside her mind. The chain bound Felix to her. She laughed at that, something brief and amused, before she took her place at Malakai's side, reaching down all of those many chains and sending thoughts that were wordless, voiceless, conveying only the idea that she was there and she had something important to show them, and then there was one single word before she withdrew into her own mind again, safe behind the thick barriers she had worked so hard to construct---library. "Come, Felix," she ordered in a tone that was soft with a smile as sweet as sugar. "Pardonnez-nous, oncle Julien," she excused them when she turned to face him, giving a brief, careless curtsy and then vanishing into the house.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:48 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:00 pm
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Generally, Antha was not on guard within Mayfair Manor. This being the case, Jack's sudden attack surprised her and she had a moment to scream before they hit the ground. When that moment was over, she was already wriggling out of his hold, flipping him over and pinning him to the floor. "Fils de a chienne!" she cursed, stabbing his knee with her own, "I said to meet in the library. How is that an invitation to attack me?" She held him there another moment, grinding hos wrists very hard against the cold boards of the porch, before she rose and entered the house yet again. "Honestly, I don't think there's any sense left in you!" But she smiled as she said it, however wickedly, and then held her hand out as if reaching for Felix, beckoning him forward. Eleanor and Vittorio passed her as they made their way up the stairs to the library, Vittorio having to usher Eleanor along before him. She wanted to linger, to gawk at the new witch boy her cousin had brought along. They didn't have to ask if he was a Mayfair---it may as well have been written on his face. "Keep going, Eleanor," Vittorio grumbled before he got truly annoyed and merely picked her up and tossed her over his shoulder. She tried to hold to the banister and then the walls, staring at Felix as if he were something truly amazing. "But I want to look at him, Vittorio," she whined, her voice trailing behind her as they vanished up the stairs. He set her on her feet beside the desk when they were safely in the library and tucked himself into the most remote corner, leaning against the wall with his arms folded and eyes alert. It made Antha laugh as she took Dolly Jean's hand, dragging her along with her up the stairs after them. Dolly Jean stared at him over her shoulder as Eleanor had, but there was something shyer about it, less certain. Being weak-minded, Dolly Jean didn't catch onto things as quickly as her cousins. "He's pretty, Antha," she said softly, as if her cousin couldn't hear her. Antha only laughed again, calling out to Felix as she reached the landing. "Come along, Felix." And with that she proceeded into the library and her laughter began again as she released Dolly Jean to the room, letting her hide beside the door and peek through it, watching for Felix.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:24 pm
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.David Talbot. Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:41 pm
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The moment he sat down, Antha went to Courtland as if pulled by a string, curling up in his lap with her back against the arm of the chair. "Who else's would he be?" she answered, rolling her eyes at Cyrus. To Jack she merely replied very shortly, "Bulk." Courtland had said had she felt, no need to repeat it. A very long time ago, Antha had decided that if she absolutely had to be married then it would be to Courtland. She never expected it to happen, but she was very set in her decision, and he had agreed. "He looks like he'd take a long time to break," Eleanor commented, a dreaminess overtaking her expression that was so cruel Antha struck out at her mind quickly and messily, making it sting. It made her give a little cry and collapse into a chair, holding her head, but she went silent and looked at Antha with eyes that were both apologetic and fearful. Dolly Jean was still at the door, waiting for him. "Don't say such awful things!" she whined, turning and staring at Eleanor with eyes that were truly hurt, "He's family---true family---you can't hurt him!" Eleanor looked like she was about to reply, but the moment she opened her mouth she went still again and turned her fearful gaze to Antha. When she hadn't turned out to be what anyone---even the Mayfairs---would call a good or even decent person, Antha had been very careful to make Eleanor completely and absolutely terrified of her. That way, fewer bad things happened because of her.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:42 pm
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Antha smiled at Felix when he was at the door, trying to comfort him as best she could in a room full of strangers that, to be quite honest, were all psychotic to the marrow of their bones. "Don't be rude," she scolded her cousins, making a vague gesture at the bulk of them to rise, "Introduce yourselves." Dolly Jean went first, already standing beside him at the door. "I'm Dolly Jean," she said with a little glimmer in her wide brown eyes that said she was both nervous and excited. She opened her mouth to speak again, but instead found herself running to Vittorio, her prematurely silver hair making a veil around her face as she burrowed it into her chest, hiding. Vittorio was not pleased that she had gone to him. But whether he liked it or not, he received her quietly, putting a hand to his head and running it through his tangle of black hair. "Vittorio Mayfair," the boy introduced himself very shortly, giving a nod of his head in Felix's direction as he stroked Dolly Jean's hair to calm her. His gaze never wavered, never left Felix. Once, when his skin had been so very pale like most of his cousins, the red-brown of his sharp eyes had been frightening. When his skin had tanned to a much darker shade, he had lost a good deal of that edge, so the gaze he gave Felix, though cold by nature, was not entirely unnerving. Next was Eleanor, who didn't quite trust herself to get too close to him. She merely stood from her chair, holding to the armrest, and gave a more graceful nod of her head that made her blond waves of hair tangle in her face. "I'm Eleanor Mayfair," she said before she was very abruptly back in her seat, the gray of her eyes dark with something she was trying very hard to hide.
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