Make yourself at home

[Lovely]

June 27, 2006
Morte's Abode - Venge's area


Venge had finally got around to bringing Raven back home after quite a bit of scavenging and she was eager to see 'everything'. "Oooo barley and hops -yum." She said with a child like joy as she dipped her finger into a cup and then put it in her mouth to taste what it was.

"so the birdy is feeling at home is she?" Venge asked with a slight chuckle as he watched her.

"Mmmm.. " She thought about it and shook her head a little. "Well not yet but she seems to like her companion." Rave spoke about herself in the third person, not realizing her error for the moment. She started taking off the dress as soon as he spoke of her being at home, he said she could wear it till they got home and that's where they were.

He started thinking she may need to be careful around his other 'kids'... being the collector he was... it was likely had spiders and snakes and icky things that might eat her. He wasn't sure why he was snickering at the moment.. hm or that she'd eat - hungry birdy. He'd take care of her.... whether she's hungry, thirsty, needy... he'd be sure she's got whatever she needs or wants.

It was a sudden movement, as he pondered that very thing. She reached, grabbed, and shoved something in her mouth, looks at him -all innocent like, with little legs or such wiggling out of her mouth as she starts to swallow the 'critter' whole.

"Hey that took me hours to catch.. spit it out... out... down... le'goooo!"

pouts, opens mouth slowly so he can take it.

*peels fussy icky bent multi-legged thing off her tongue*

smacks her lips some, still has a little flavor from it, but pouts cause she couldn't eat it. drops dress from other hand and wanders off into the room to look at all the 'shiny' things.

*plucks the buttons off the dress and stashes them in the 'room' of shinies*

"will it still work -with out those?" *tips head and looks from buttonless dress to him*

"as well as it needs to." *snickers* "for us anyway..." *buttons fall heavily into a bowl full of other sparkly buttons*... "we really have no need of clothes. Humans don't see us anyway, unless we want them to. You, however, are a different story."

She pouts and climbs down from where she is 'investigating' everything, to come over to him. "You broke the dress.. what will I wear now.. since I am different story?"

"Anything you want. You're a scavenger - you'll find something. I suppose we can find something for you, though I don't see the point. I like you like this... though you'll attract a lot of attention when you're not wearing your feathers."

She looked down at herself, tracing a lin from her navel up to her throat with one finger. "You like me like this... ?" She looked back to him, curious and then reached to hook a finger in his shirt so she could look in to see what he looked like. "They said I have to wear something when I go out.. but I don't when I'm here?"

"I'll make it easier. Here." His shirt was an illusion, part of his form. As she pulled it turned to a vapor, melting away to show the man beneath, bare and proud, though thin and lank. "Better? We're animals, Rave. We care little for coverings except that which keeps us warm or protects, or has a function - scales, feathers on our wings for flight... Humans are the ones that put importance in these things. Though I like how they place importance on things that catch the light, hm?" He held out the ring she'd found and given him, letting the light shine off it before he settled it on an upright boney arm and hand that he had made into a holder for such things. The skeletal 'tree' was heavily adorned with earrings, rhinestones, glass gems and beads of all colors suspended from their various hoops and chains.

Raven's eyes moved slowly over the form he revealed to her and her hand followed from his shoulder down, lightly. "What are you? You're not what I am.. and not human?" She asked, curious still, though her eyes flickered to watch the movement of his hand. Her eyes widened as she caught sight of the shiny tree and she moved closer to it, tilting her head to watch the pieces catch the light in different ways. One particular piece seemed to catch her fancy as she giggled and moved around it. She glanced back at him and then slowly moved away from his shiny things and back towards him.

[Lovely]

"What's funny?" He looked at her from the side as if he were in his bird form, curious if she laughed at his expense. It was just like Deacon to do that and he wondered what the man had said to her. Sitting down, he covered himself from the chill in the room. "I am not human. I am not like you. I am like Deacon and have no soul - Morte keeps it hidden away to amuse him when he wants. I suppose I'm a demon, but I am also a bird, never quite a bird completely, though, and never quite a man, completely... although all the parts work." He felt it necessary to add that point.

"Shiny... pretty.." She pointed to the piece she'd been admiring as she stepped closer and curled around him where he sat. "I like your things." She smiled and inspected him more closely. "What do your parts do?" She asked,poking his arm gently before leaning to lick his neck and see how he tasted.

"Sit like a good girl and you'll find out what they do. I can't really show you at the moment, but if you keep tasting me like that, that might change. You don't know what that feels like, do you?"

"Why can't you show me?.. how will it change?" She pulled back from lapping her tongue over his neck again and looked at him. "How do I sit like a good girl? How what feels like?" She was excited to learn more and as each piece was placed before her she soaked it up and it helped to order the jumble of information which had been put in her head by Morte.

"Wrapped here, like this, it's like a chill when it's cold even though you feel warm, like this," he whispered, licking her like she'd done to him.

She didn't understand his words as much as she did his demonstration. A tiny noise of surprise came from her, somewhere between a quiet caw and a gasp. He'd surely feel and see the reaction as she shivered and squirmed lightly, her hands coming up to grab at him, whatever she might find to hold onto to keep her steady.

"Mm hmm. See? Explain that to someone else. When you can, then I'll show you the rest," he teased, holding her a little tighter.

Rave looked at him with wide eyes and shook her head, pouting a little. "I.. I.. can't explain that.. I.. " She stared at him quietly for a moment and then slowly reached to touch his neck where she'd licked him. "It felt like that when I tasted you?"

"I can only imagine it did, but since you're not me and I'm not you, I'll have to pretend," he smiled softly. "It makes things... um..." Not feeling cold now, he moved his hand away to hold her arm. "Happen," he added, not sure she'd look or if she could feel the change of what her touch did to him.

Her head tipped again and her expression was curious. "Things happen.." She repeated softly and shifted as he moved his hand, her eyes glancing down and then back to his. She froze for a moment and then looked down again. "That happens?" She admired this part of him as she had the bauble on his tree, only from above as she sat with him. Her fingers curled and opened slowly, she wanted to touch but wasn't sure if she'd be scolded for it.

Venge nodded, keeping her hand away. "That's a game you don't want to play today," he said sternly. "Not yet. You have to know a few more things first."

She pouted at not being able to touch what she wanted but nodded and looked back to his eyes. "Know more.." She murmured softly and closed her eyes, bringing one hand up to touch her head. "It is all .. jumbled.. if you show me.. I know."