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[Lovely]

July 2, 2006
Phaedra's Lair
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Tarka had come to visit Phae and after a few hours in her attention he wanted to talk to her about the demon he'd been discussing with Trent earlier. He was explaining the situation and what little information he'd been given...

"Yes, my sweet warrior darling," pouts and runs a finger down his neck, and knee up his thigh. "Tarka, darling... I'm sorry... did you say something?"

"I said some flesh eating demonic creature has entered the realm.. and I have to go kill her.. can we talk later?"

"Darling.. you're a flesh eating demonic creature and so am I. Do you have to kill tonight?" blows a kiss and gives a come-hither-red-gleam from glowing eyes.

"I'm a blood sucking fiend... get it right." he grins... eyeing her. "This is... my.. duty.." his eyes move over her, tongue flicking over his lips.

"Oh yes... you are, aren't you?" coos and rolls, lazing an arm behind her in her web, stretching bare and comfortably. "Duty can wait, darling. If she's already here, what harm can she do in an hour or two? I'm hungry... I want my warrior." she pouted.

"She could kill our friends..." he mused, his eyes never leaving her as he stepped closer to her. "She could kill many... innocent people.."

"Hmmm.... maybe she'll just kill the not so innocent ones and let you stay with me a little longer." She reached and pulled him by a finger with a loop of web, moving her leg to wrap around him as he got close enough. "You don't have any friends... what are you worried about?" She teased him .. and teased him with her leg.

"I do have friends... like Trent.. and... well okay pretty much Trent, but still I'd be sad if that vile thing got ahold of him."

"Tarka... he needs to be gotten a hold of once in a while, hm? It's good for you creatures with souls to enjoy a little .. .challenge? You've never told him, have you? Why you did it? He doesn't know, does he?"

"Know what?" He leaned down to her. "What does he need to know?"

"That's alright, I'm sure he'll find out when it's time. We all have a secret or two, I suppose," she mused, running a finger on his beautifully hollow cheek. "So our dear young man might be in danger from a hellish, flesh devouring demon? What sort is she?"

"Something so wicked she's been kept away a thousand years.. and a little more.... Some sort of charmed, cursed creature... A demon.." He whispered softly to his love. "Strong, fast, agile... not nice to tangle with at all.... not alot of information about her.. strange really... with my sources I would have thought I'd have more to go on.."

The red in her eyes flashed and her palor paled further as he described the details of the demon. "Your sources may have had an off night, darling. Maybe there's nothing much more to go on and it's merely a farce... nothing to worry yourself over, hm?"

"I worry Until I know and if it is not a farce and I do nothing? You know I have to... and I will kill the beast if she is what they say she is."

[Lovely]

"Tarka.. don't go," she said quietly, pleading to his eyes with something other than her hunger for him.

"It's my... why?" He asked softly, brushing his hand over her smooth leg. "What is Phae?"

She reached up to kiss him passionately, almost with a sense of human-like melancholy tainting the sweetness as her lips pulled away. She stared deeply in his eyes, the red piercing and mesmerizing like blackened suns, glowing fiercely. "You can't kill her... there's something you don't know."

"Phae... you are not yourself... what do you know? You know this demon?" His piercing eyes raised from her silken skin and the fingers that carressed, stilled. His gaze met hers. "Tell me."

The presence in the realm had alerted her like a chill in a breeze, a forwarning. As the child stepped into the shadows and out again, she could sense her even closer and could nearly reach out to her, but safety warned against it. Safety warned stronger now as the secret came to unfold like the child did from the shadows. "I know her.. as should you, Tarka," her words were distant and hollow like a gazing ball filled with a haze, vague, but growing clearer. "Someone... you should know well as you know me."

"Someone I should know? Was she.. when I went.. you know.." He looked at Phaedra, perplexed. "As well as I know you? I doubt there is such a creature that I should, could, or would even care to know as I know you... Love.. now is not the time to speak in riddles... is she one of yours? A guard.. one of your army?"

"Yes... and yes," she hissed, her eyes glowing brighter as the girl led flawlessly through her shadows to safety again. "One of mine.... and yours, darling." Her voice lofted with a delight as she spoke of the child... the one he'd not known. She peered into his soul and sent it warmth and passion from deep within her. "One of ours."

"One of.. " He shook his head. "What nonsense is this?" He scowled and started to rise. "I do not have time for games.. How could this creature... be one of ours? Ours have just been born not long ago.. there is no way this creature could be one of them."

Her leg held him fast and her hand gripped him at the throat to hold him still. Her gaze pierced through him as she spoke clearly and plainly. "Our... daughter... born two halves dark, before your soul was returned, lover. You came to fight for it back, or have you forgotten? I kept you... I had you... then I had her. The balance was tipped and a bargain was struck. To return the light, she had to sleep... a thousand years, my sweet warrior... your girl has woken and is here."

He stilled in her grasp and searched her eyes. "You...? And you never told me?" He was in shock, her actions and reactions telling him her words were truth. "Then I hope she is not the horror they claim her to be.." He murmured, prying her fingers from his throat.