Starting Over...

[Syani]

Syani's smile has never been so wide when Evangeline started to talk about her parents. Having no idea how having parents would be like, it always makes her happy to hear the experiences of others. "Having parents is considered a blessing as well!" She clasped her hands together under her chin and grinned.

Syani stopped picking on her about Lord Clark when Evangeline really does seemed like she had enough of the talk. She raised both her hands defensively and nodded, "Okay, okay~ Sorry, eheh. It's just...I've never talked to a female vampire like this before, it feels nice." Especially about boys. Clan Lord or not.

When the topic shifts to Syani though, she's not very good in handling it. "Y-yes, he's...a pure blood.." Speaking that out sounded strange, it further made her realize how small and insignificant she is.

Asking Evangeline how she fell in love with a human returned a smile to her face. There's something quite magical listening to how a person describes their loved one, even in Evangeline's wavering voice. Watching this once strong vampire lord, speaking so vulnerably about a human she loves, almost makes Syani teared up all over again.

"You're wrong," The half-vampire gently tries to console Evangeline, slowly placing a hand on her shoulder, "He's not gone." Syani wondered if this can be considered disrespectful to touch a clan lord in friendly gestures like this, especially when she's a half-breed. But at the moment, she doesn't care.

"There's something very special about human beings, and that is their spirits. They possess the strongest spirit of all, so strong that even after they physically had died, their spirit always stays with the ones they loved." Syani tilted her head to the side with a sideway smile as she said so.

"I'm willing to bet he's looking over you right now." Finishing that with a wide grin and her eyes squinted close, Syani pulled out a handkerchief, still wet from the water earlier, but with a swift magical flick of her wrist, the water turned into vapour, leaving the handkerchief now dry.

She politely offered the dry handkerchief to Evangeline, "Thank you for telling me." Syani noticed how the vampire often clutch the locket she wears there, so its obvious to guess who gave her that. "Is that his gift to you?"

[Evangeline]

Evangeline enjoys her talk with Syani about her parents as she nods to agreed with her about having a parents is a blessing too. "You are still young my dear, perhaps I can be your step mother so you can have some experience about having a parents~"she give her a wide grin to Syani. In truth, she does always want to have a son or a daughter but doesn't able to have that chance to do so. So she makes some wild random offering to Syani just in case if that offer is acceptable by her.

Evangeline din't give any comment when Syani explained about how she rarely able to talk to a female vampire. The former lord could tell why she did rarely talk to the female vampire.

When the talks was bout the person that Syani's love, Evangeline can only look at Syani's as she too was wondering about that as she don't have any clues regarding about it.

Evangeline eyes widen when the young vampire touches her shoulder and denying that the Krieg was forever gone. Listening to Syani, Evangeline can't really imagine anything about human spirits and such despite have lived for so long. "Human's...spirit?"she wonders about it. "Is that so...I guess I don't know much about human myself after all,"she glance at the locket on her hand. 'Krieg...have you been watching over me?' she speaks in her mind.

When Syani offers her handkerchief to she slowly grabs it on Syani's hand before she gently pulled her closer to her before she gave Syani a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you my dear~"she smiles as she release her while tooking the handkerchief. "You are so lovely and kind, perhaps thats the reason why he fell for you~?" she grins as she wipes her tear with the handkerchief. Evangeline feel more ease and calmer now. "You still need the handkerchief? If you don't, I'll keep it for the goodsake of memoir~" she grin. Her hobby was collecting things that interest her. From collectable things to the dangerous things, as long as it interest her, she'll keep it.

She smiles back when Syani thanked her. As Syani ask her about the locket, she cheerful look at Syani and nod. "Despite how he got a bad taste in finding a gift, this one surely my most favorite gift among all~"she carress the locket. That locket is important to her as its the only thing that her love one left for her. She'll treasure it more than her life for it.

"Say, can you tell me more about where I am now? I've never been here, and I never even went out much from Leith,"she ask. She is completely clueless in where she is, and since Syani is here, its her chance to find out so she can start to make plans for starting over her life in this new world.

[Syani]

At Evangeline's sudden, unbelievable yet exciting offer, Syani pulled in the loudest gasp and slapped both of her hands over her mouth. 'No way! S-she's kidding! ...Isn't she..?' Even if it is a joke, Syani can't stop herself from thinking about this seriously.

She finds it very hard to believe, for a Clan Lord, a vampire, a hero she highly respects...offering to be her parent. It's like something paused her nerves because the half-vampire stayed static there, eyes wide.

Suddenly, she felt crying again, but then she giggled to stop herself. "T-that would...make me really happy.." While she managed to keep her eyes dry, her voice really sounded like she's sobbing. Syani cleared her throat to get rid of that, and immediately asked, "I don't want to disrespect you because you're still my biggest hero, hahah. So what should I call you?"

That question has been lingering in her head for a while. It's hard for her to treat anyone like an equal, a vampire especially, due to her blood, so she's often confused on how to address people correctly.

At the topic of human spirit, Syani nodded enthusiastically. "Mhmm! Vampires are cool, but humans are amazing as well~!" During her early years, because she recognize nothing of her parents and wanted to know them very badly, she got very interested in discovering facts of her roots. Thus is why she studied a lot about both humans and vampires.

Syani was ecstatic when Evangeline looks like she's reaching for the handkerchief she offered, just knowing that she's able to help someone, no matter how small the gestures, makes her very happy. It shocked Syani immensely when Evangeline pulled her and gave her a kiss on her cheek.

She blushed in embarrassment when Evangeline thanked her, it feels nice to be appreciated. Her blush deepened even more once the vampire complimented her and even stated that's the reason why Kaekeru's attracted to her.

"AH. STOP." Immediately, she hides her own face with her hands. That seems to be her pattern whenever she's highly embarrassed. Evangeline's question regarding the handkerchief made her peeked from her fingers, and slowly, she nodded, a smile curving up her lips again.

"In some places here, it's dangerous to wear a locket so obviously like that, people would want to steal it. So be careful, okay?" Syani warned about Evangeline's locket, then takes a second look at it. "It's pretty~"

At Evangeline's question of where they are, it directly corresponds to Syani's warning moments ago, so being the helpful little half-vampire that she is, she excitedly responds, "That's easy~ We're in a part of the expansion of Diabolic Domain~! Currently, we're at the country of--"

She paused. She transported here without knowing where she's going because she's trying to make a map of the whole expansion. Meaning, she won't know where she is until she can sense her nearest teleportation point.

"Ah.. Hold on for a moment." Grinning nervously at Evangeline, she then stood up from her seat, her red cape billowing slightly as she did despite it still being a bit wet. "Let me mark where we are first. That way I can connect to my other marked points and know where we are. Excuse me."

Taking a few steps back to make room, Syani began stretching her arms and fingers for a while before readying herself and closing her eyes. Slowly, a dark red glow appeared in a circle around her, then it continued to make serveral symbols inside it, almost like it was drawn by something invisible from the circle to her feet.

Once the symbols reached the center and touched her feet, it travels up her body rather quickly and entered inside her closed eyelids. Then, Syani touched both her closed eyes with her palms and after a pause, quickly pulled them off.

On her palms that were placed together side by side, now laid a black and red butterfly. Syani flutters her eyelids open, and at the same time, the butterfly fluttered on her palms and flew in the air on its own.



"Ow ow ow..." Syani broke her stance and shakes her head while holding the bridge of her nose, seeming like she was blinded there for a second. "Egh.. Damn I hate doing that.." Muttering that quietly, she then heaved off a sigh and looked at the butterfly flying in front of her.

"Alright, c'mere." Syani opened her palms and the butterfly hovered on top of them. Suddenly, its form shifted into a sort of eye-mask people wear in masquerades. Syani simply wore it over her eyes and she can instantly see where her last marked point is, successfully connecting them like she wanted.



"I see. So this is where.." Lowering down the mask from her eyes, she tossed it up the air and it transformed back into a butterfly, freely floating around. Syani returned back to her seat near Evangeline besides the fireplace and grinned up at her.

"We're now at Veyyard~! The country of the lost lands." She informed happily and then looked around her surroundings. "I think it's safe to assume that we're inside the Iron-Maw.. This is the mines they used to make weapons long ago. I think it's abandoned now."

[Evangeline]

Evangeline can see Syani's reaction when she offered her to be her step-mother. She can tell that the young girl was happy by that offer and give her some pat on the head. "Oh well, there is no need to treat me like a hero. I'm a villain, and I'm proud of it," Evangeline Grin as she state that. "You can just call me Eva for shorts, that's how he called me. Right now, you are my first friend in many centuries~"Evangeline smile at Syani since she do want to be friendly her first friend since many time before apart from her love one.

'This girl know a lot bout human and vampire in this region, i'm lucky to meet her first' Evangeline thought. She really needs to get all the information about this place, as she wanted to know the actual reason why Clark would've sent her here.

Evangeline can only smile and giggles looking at Syani's cute reaction when she tease her up. When Syani told her that it'll be dangerous to keep the locket visible, she gave Syani a grin with a slightly glowing red eye. "Then I'll make their heart stop~" she said with demonic voices of her. She really will kill anyone who tries to lay a scratch on her precious locket after all.

She then closely observe when Syani tries to located where exactly they are now. She waited when Syani asked her to and she could sense that Syani is chanting something with magic as she can felt magical essence flows in Syani's body. She watch silently to see what tricks Syani got in her sleeves while trying to understand what kind of magic she is using too. "Teleportation magic used as a map. How convenient," she said while smiling.

Took a while for Syani to finish what she was doing before she told her exactly where they was. "That was a spectacular thing to watch my dear~"Evangeline smiles at Syani. "Now that I know the name of this place and the region, I think its safe for me to start exploring, don't you think? Any recommendation you would like to give?" she ask Syani with excitement. Evangeline always love travelling. That's why she keep messing around the barrier between Leith World and the Human world before. Out of curiosity.

[Syani]

Before Syani stood up to attempt her mapping magic, she was smiling widely to herself that Evangeline, the Evangeline that she had read about in old books, is now friends with her, and wanted Syani to call her Eva. It made the half-vampire so happy, her face is reddening from excitement.

Though, once she had started her marking procedure, the raven-haired looks completely serious and focused. After she's done with the whole process, she reverted right back to her silly and casual self almost immediately.

"By the way, are you serious about... 'making their heart stop'?" She asked in a worrisome manner, "I mean, you can do what you want, but try to make sure that you don't attract much attention. There are people around here who will take an interest in you and might take advantage your confusion of this place to use you." Syani said in a highly serious manner that does not fit the young half-vampire at all. When she's serious, then she doesn't wish to sound silly.

Though, the second Evangeline commented on her mapping magic, Syani was back to her bashful state. "Nooo ack stop saying good things about whatever I did, I don't know how to respond properly..." The half-vampire hid her face in her long hair by looking down in an embarrassed manner.

She only raised back up her head when Evangeline stated what she wished to do, her cheerful energy back again, "Yeah! There are many countries here you can explore, and you can choose whichever one that fits to your liking to settle down, if you want~" Syani explained happily, but then paused a bit once she was asked if she can recommend a place.

"Hmmm... Well, by far, the most popular place is Ianne, because it's really fresh and natural. Peaceful, too." Come to think of it, she has no idea what kind of place Evangeline would prefer. "There's Tenka, this place filled with ice. Then there's Evane, the smoky slums. Gradia's the most advanced country, and it's located up in the air on a floating land~" So Syani decided to list out every country she can remember and their key description to give Evangeline a good grip of the places here.

"Kumo is a nice oriental place. Fijion is also relaxing if you want to tone yourself down. Sougen is a prairie land. ...Then you have Veyyard, this very land we're stepping on, that's filled with crimes and darkness." Syani shrugged, thinking she finished listing all the countries. "Which do you prefer the most though?"

[Evangeline]

"Oh course I'm serious, this is my precious locket after all~" Evangeline calmly reply about it to Syani despite knowing that Syani isn't that type that love gore and fighting. "Well I guess you are right, since i'm actually not yet fully recover from my slumber and wounds. It'll be troublesome if I were to meet someone like Clark here, assuming that they are easily be found If I started to claim a city,"she shrugs as it was something bothersome for her. "Perhaps if you lend me some of your blood, I can conquer a village just for you. What do you say my dear Syani,"she grinned at Syani. She did manage to destroy half of her country, taking a small village seems to be easy for her.

Evangeline can only smile as she observe Syani's reaction when she compliments her. 'She is just too cute~' she thought. Then, Syani explains all of the name of the places and details about. After listening to it carefully, she decides. "Despite how I love peaceful-like environment, I just love place like Veyyard. smell of blood everywhere, makes you feel more lively am I right~?" she grinned as she slowly hold both of Syani's hand. "But I'll be very happy to go anywhere, where ever you go my dear~ It's a kind of a blessing to me,"she gave a sincere smile on Syani. Truth is, she is very happy to meet Syani. To be able to feel that happy after that event, it is a blessing to her. "Are you going somewhere after this?"

[Syani]

Syani's eyebrows arched high hearing how casually Evangeline spoke of murder and claiming cities. "...Vampires are truly terrifying sometimes." She sagged her shoulders down and muttered that to herself with a weak smile. Once Evangeline requested a blood donation from Syani, the half-vampire sat back up straight with a wide eyes. "Wh-whaa...? E..Eva, my blood is dirty, remember? It's like...water mixed with crude oil. Very icky."

It was strange calling her Eva, at least because she's speaking to a clan lord of sort. "A-a-and don't conquer any villages~! There's no need to..!" She flailed her hands, wondering to herself if Evangeline is simply joking or serious. Syani can't tell, whatever the case. Her view of things is obviously still stuck to how she lived before, where conquering and killing things are normal.

After giving a moment for Evangeline to decide, the blonde finally did. Syani didn't want to admit it, but she actually kind of predicted Eva would choose Veyyard. "I thought so.." The raven-haired sighed with a grin, but hearing further of Evangeline's reason for choosing Veyyard, Syani's expression is laced with shock again. "Really?? Wow, I try to avoid Veyyard because of that very reason! The smell of blood makes my nose itchy--"

Before she can even finish her sentence, the vampire suddenly held both of Syani's hands, along with saying how she preferred to go where Syani goes, and that in its entirety makes the poor half-vampire girl red again. Actually, she's almost close to crying. She quickly pulled one of her hands to put it over half her face to make sure she's not really crying and laughed nervously.

"Y.." She tried to speak but choked on her words instead, her voice beginning to crack, but then Syani laughed again to clear her throat. "You're the first vampire friend I ever have, ahahah... It.. It's kind of silly, sorry, but eheh, I always thought people like you would hate me, haha.." She took in a deep inhale to stabilize herself and finally was able to look at Evangeline properly with a wide bright smile.

"Thanks, Eva."

At Evangeline's question next, Syani blinked at her for a moment to remember why she's here in the first place. "Oh! I teleport here to mark this place in my map, because I'm in the middle of constructing the whole map of this expansion." Her eyes rolled to the side, trying to remember what was her plan again.

"Oh yeah! Well, my teleportation skill is still pretty weak, so I can teleport only twice a day, 12 hours is the period I need to wait before I can safely teleport again without loosing any particles in space or something." She explains excitedly, almost too excited. "So I actually planned to check out Veyyard a bit before I can teleport out of here~ I haven't got the chance to see it up close before!"

[Evangeline]

"Dear, no matter how bad the taste of your blood, it still worth drinking as it is part of you~"she grinned at Syani. "Also, you said it yourself, you are saving for that lucky person right~?" she said with her teasing voice. Evangeline somehow curious about the vampire that Syani mentioned, as not many vampires, specially pure-blood would accept half-breed.

Evangeline can only giggle looking on how Syani's reaction when she was mentioning bout conquering small village. "Joking, joking~ Since conquering is a troublesome work. Destroying everything is easier~"she grinned and giggles.

Evangeline observe carefully how her word touch this poor half-vampire. "Well, i'm glad that I was born to be hated. So I will know those pain that you've felt," Evangeline gently tightening her grip on Syani's hand. "If ever any new vampire tries to bullies you, I'll squeeze their heart for you, hehehe~" she laugh while showing her fang. "Want a hug~?" she grinned widely to Syani. It's another tease of hers to Syani.

Listening to Syani's answer from her previous questions, Evangeline listen before replying. "You are a map maker? That is a nice job," she murmurs. As she listen to more explanation from Syani, Evangeline concludes. "Then let us spend our time together then~ I'll protect you along the way-" Evangeline suddenly felt dizzy and fall to the ground seated. "Ergh, my butt..." she groaned in pain as she touch her back. She really are lacking of blood, although it doesn't endangering her life, but it still bothered her by much.

[Syani]

"Part of m--" Evangeline's little comment regarding Syani's blood rendered the poor half-vampire flustered. Usually she's the one who causes such fluster in others, so now to have it done towards her causes her to redden. "St-stop it, Eva!" Even her stammer shows how nervous she is.

"Destroying is even wooorssstt~" Syani flailed her arms at Evangeline, but there are traces of a smile on her lips. When the blonde vampire told her how she understood how she feels because she's hated too, Syani's gaze is of puzzlement. "But... I thought you were loved by your people?" At least that's what she gathered from her reading. Sure things started to go downhill for her when the incident with the human happened, but her contributions have been great assets to her kingdom.

The black-haired half-vampire dropped her head when Evangeline started to yet again joke about torturing whoever bullies Syani...or at least she thought it was a joke. "It's okay, everything's cool," she nervously declined, and that's when Evangeline asked for a hug, and right after she revealed she's capable to squeeze hearts too, "Noooo, it's fine, I'm good, thanks for the offer." Syani was quick to object.

Being asked of her map-making job, the half-vampire grinned proudly, "Yes! I'm partly a cartographer, but mostly because I want to use this teleportation skill to the best of my abilities." She's quite new in this magic business, because her main forte are potions, more towards chemistry than spells and magic.

Syani's enthusiasm returns when Evangeline said they can spend time together, but the vampire suddenly falls back. Syani attempted to catch her but she's too slow and her arms ended up hanging in the air towards Evangeline as she looks at the vampire with obvious guilt.

So Syani rushes to her side, "A-are you okay? Can you walk? Do you want me to carry you?" It didn't occur to her that Evangeline's sudden weakness was because of her lack of blood. If she knows that, then Syani would definitely be guilt-tripped into giving some of her blood to her new friend.

[Evangeline]

Evangeline is having fun teasing with Syani. She never really got the chance to be that friendly with anyone else aside of her lost lover.

She can always guess that of course, Syani will tries to stop her from doing anything like that. She then notice that Syani din't really fully understand about her situations back then in her home world. "No one loves me but my parents,"she paused. "Even when I was practically 5 years old, I was gifted with powerful vampiric power that exceed even a fully matured pure-blood vampire and rivals the clan leader," she faces up as she recalls her old days. "People fear me, as years after years... I got stronger and stronger as I have no limits. When I reached my matured age, I was noted to be one of the most powerful vampire, which amplifies peoples fears towards me,"she then put her pointy finger to her temple as she is thinking. "Well, added up that I am a pure-blood, and a daughter of another clan leader, no normal vampire would even dare to even look at my face directly at me. The other lesser vampire would have scrambled rather very fast if I don't hold them to the ground," she sighed. "I am a monster," she stated that with a serious look and cold tone.

She have live long enough, to fully understand how dangerous she was. "The people never like me, they are filled with envy and hatred. Because I have everything that they don't have. Power, Wealth, Influences, royalty and even Beauty, which actually confused me," she scratches her head. "I never actually care about my outfits and my looks, but those female vampire keep on babbling about my beauty that they can never have. Seriously, even you can see me that I look like a kid," she said with annoyed voice. "Those idiots only follow my words because they are afraid their heart to be squashed, which in the end, squashed by me. Hahaha, they asked for it!" Evangeline laugh with a sanctification face and a rather with funny posture. *

She felt sad when Syani decline the offer of hugging, despite it is a kind of tease. "Aw, why not? It's not harmful," she pouts. Then she realized something. "Come to think of it, I never really hugged someone. My parents usually the ones that do the hugging, specially my mother. Even him... but seriously, that hug was like hugging a child! I'm lot older than him," she suddenly got pissed and blushed as she remembered something about Krieg which embarrassed her. She then shakes her head break that image of the past as it was too embarrassing for her.

Evangeline were impressed when Syani was focused in improving her teleportation skills. "Impressive. Teleportation magic is a pain, as lots of memorization are needed," she smiles at Syani. "One question, can you teleport more than one people? Oh and does it really use much of magical power?" she asked. Despite that Evangeline knows many things, there are still lots of thing she needs to learn. She is curious if Syani can teleported more than one person. That means, travelling with her won't be that difficult, but will not want to burden her if the magic will worn her out.

As she falls to the ground, sitted with back due to lack of blood, she notice that Syani was quick to come and give her aid. With the concerned look Syani gives to her with questions, Evangeline tries to ease her mind. "Don't worry, this usually happens when I'm lacking of blood. It's been ages since I drank one after all," she suddenly yawn as she rubs her eyes. "And it sure makes me sleepy from time to time... It's really troublesome, that is why i'm stubbornly asking for a bit of a donor~" she looks at Syani with the grins of hers. It really troubles Evangeline to be in that weakened-state. She actually don't want to stay in that state for long as she never tries to put her guard down. Due to her life to be always targeted and usually with cheap tricks, she tries to not let any attacker to found her during her weakened state. It's already become part of her nature to protect herself. As well as, her very high curiosity in one's blood taste.

* Since that I am bad in describing a person's posture...Here is the references. gallery.minitokyo.net/view/297559

[Syani]

When Evangeline decided to share her backstory with Syani, the half-vampire listened intently to her, her golden eyes shining a bit. Slowly, the light in her eyes dimmed ever so slightly as Evangeline continued on of how she grows with everyone save her parents fearing her. Her expression then changed into concern when Eva said she's a monster.

"So it's the same in the vampire communities as well?" Syani questioned with a quiet tone, "I thought...that picking on someone who's different...only exists amongst the humans.. Guess I was wrong." She scratched her hair with a finger, eyes downwards, thinking how sad it is. "...I'm sorry they don't see you as you, Eva. I mean, I just met you, and you're already so wonderful." She spoke sincerely with a genuine smile.

When the topic about the hug came about, Syani chuckled nervously. "N-no, it's not that I don't want to, but really I just have this condition of touching people. It's not you! It's just me. Eheh..." The black-haired tries to explain with a weak smile, but she really felt bad for Evangeline of how she never really hugged someone...and then it made Syani smiled when Evangeline was reminded of a "him", in which Syani correctly assumed to be Krieg. "You were hugged by him~?" She poked with a grin.

At Evangeline's question, Syani beamed, "I'm glad you asked!! Oh my god, I've been wanting to rant about that to someone but nobody I know here is into these things so nngghh..!" She did a little squirm with her balled fists near her head in excitement, "It's so HARD, and dangerous!! I mean! If I messed up even the slightest bit, I ended up only transporting their body and their limbs might get left behind, argh, the law of matter is so hard to crack, I can't with the molecules--"

The frustrated half-vampire calmed herself down with a long inhale and proceeded to answer Eva's question in a calmer manner, "Yes, I can bring someone to teleport with me. I did it twice before, but I think I can only do it if those people are very important to me. The first time was because of an emergency..." Syani's expression got increasingly gloomy when reminded of how she almost lost Roy that one time, "And the second time was because...."

Her voice trailed off, now remembering how Kaekeru couldn't remember her that time and she's trying so hard to remind him of her, "..because of him." Syani released a sigh, wanting to forget about that time. Looking back up to Eva, a smile was back on her face. "I guess I can only do it sparingly. Because I got really tired after transporting." But she's already on the right track to figure out how to fix that problem.

After Evageline had fallen and Syani went to her side to assist, she felt bad that she's just letting her friend in this troubled state when she understands what Evangeline really needs. Syani looks upwards as Evangeline hinted again how she needs a blood-donor, staring at the stalactites hanging down from the cave's surface with a pained expression. 'Erg... I'm so sorry, Kae-kun..' She mentally apologized to him before looking back at Evangeline.

"Okay, okay. Since I can see how seriously you need blood, I'll give you mine." Syani stated seriously and paused for a bit. "Wait, I've never got bitten before, how is this supposed to turn out and what should I expect..??"

[Evangeline]

Evangeline grinned to see Syani's explanation about why she don't want to be hugged. 'That's only makes you cuter~' she thought in herself. Just as she thought she was teasing Syani, now its her turn to tease her back when she told her her that its Krieg that hugged her. "I told you, its more like hugging a child!" she denies as suddenly she remember a very embarrassing moment about it. With her face at red, and her fang shown. "I-its not as what you think!!" she suddenly growl as she was angry about something that not even being told by Syani. Shaking her head, she tries to forget it.

Evangeline listens through all Syani's complain about her teleportation ability, literally. With her experience, she knows that even complains holds knowledge, and also are more honest than just a figurative speech. She noticed one important thing, which is the side effects of teleporting. Taking note that Syani will consume her energy doing such troublesome magic, she makes up her mind about drinking her blood, seeing that Syani even finally gives in and even ask how did it even work.

"I change my mind," she suddenly told Syani whom already prepares herself to donate some of her blood to her.

"Yes, I changed my mind," she repeats herself just in case Syani din't get it the first time.

"I can sense that you are not fully willing to it, and as for that I do not wish to force you no longer. I do not want to hurt you," she told Syani after making her mind. Noticing that her words are full with care, she suddenly blush before adding up some details in her words.

"D-don't misunderstand! You did mentioned that you'll used much of energy when teleporting, I don't want you to suddenly pass out after I drank you blood. It'll be troublesome," she points at Syani as like she demands her to believe that. Evangeline never really care about anyone that much apart from her lost love. Although Evangeline can be a super selfish person, she can still be sensitive, specially the people she care for. Thou, she been having hard time showing that soft spot of hers.

Evangeline notice how Syani feels sad about the truth of vampire's community in Leith. As when Syani make a remark on how she see's Evangeline differently, she suddenly show a serious face. "Human, Vampires or even any living creatures are the same, when they have 'fear' in them," she explains as her eyes gazes the lake.

"Fear can be divided in various forms, thou I can summarize some about it," she paused as she looks at Syani's eyes. "You are feared, because you are 'different', and something that is 'unknown' to one's mind," she explains before suddenly her eye glows red as terrible wicked aura formed around her. It is the same aura she shows during her outbreak on Leith. "But I, am feared, because I am a monster!" Sudden burst of wind around Evangeline as her dark red aura condensed around her.

"With the blood of vampire still runs through your vein, even you can feel the fear in yourself," Evangeline slowly walks towards Syani as she continues to explain with her demonic voice. "When one has such vast amount of power, the weak will cower, because they know that they can't do anything against it," As Evangeline finally got that close to Syani, she cancel her form, which end the malicious energy that circles around her and her returning back her voice.

"Pardon me my dear, I just want to make sure, that you actually know whom I really am and understand me more..."she says as she close her eyes. "I can't blame you if I scared you, even Krieg does... sometime..." she sweats when she remember some part about it. "As for now--" Evangeline suddenly collapse before her tiny body leans to Syani, enabling her to catch her. "I'll... need some slee--" just when she was about to finish her sentence, she falls asleep. The show off skill use a lot of her blood power, and with so few left in her, she have to sleep to regenerate some of it again.

[Syani]

"E-eh?" Syani blinked her wide golden eyes when Evangeline changed her mind. "W-wait, why??" She pressed, wanting to know the reason behind her sudden decision, at least. Evangeline answered her right after that, to which Syani stared in awe of this vampire in front of her.

Even after Evangeline explained in a rather flustered manner of her reason, Syani can only blink at her in surprise, her mouth parting slightly. Then, very slowly, a small smile formed on her lips. "Okay. ...B-but tell me when you're really seriously weak till you can't move, I'll force you to drink my icky blood." Syani added with a wider smile, now seeing how thoughtful Evangeline is, thus the half-vampire became more willing to do this for her.

When Evangeline began speaking of her wisdom, of how all creatures have fears. Suddenly, the atmosphere thickens, and before long, Syani can pick up the change of aura around Evangeline. Pulling her arms up in front of her face by the sudden explosion of wind, Syani slowly cracked her eyes open to see Evangeline advancing towards her with a very malicious aura and a threatening tone of voice.

Something got stuck in Syani's throat as she stared up at this vampire. True to what Evangeline said, she can certainly feel that familiar fear when facing upon a vampire who has all the power to kill her in an instant. It felt so familiar, so painfully familiar, that her quivering lips curved into a smile and one of her eyes leaked a drop of tear.

For a moment, she just froze there, staring at Evangeline with a smile a her eyes tearing up, and after the dark malicious aura suddenly disappears and Evangeline is back to her pleasant self, Syani let out a singular breath of air...and then giggled mutely. "I know," She finally voiced out in between her mute chuckles, lessening her laugh into an understanding smile, "I know who you are, as you really are."

Syani then closes her eyes into a happy squint and grinned, "Of course I'm scared, but that doesn't mean my view of you changed." This fear, it's so familiar to her, that she actually feels happy that she remembered this exact fear. It's all because of him. That's why she smiled, because this exact fear awakened her courage. Just as Syani about to speak about that, Evangeline falls towards her.

"Ah!! Eva!" Automatically raising her arms in reflex, Syani caught her small body and lowered her arms down carefully. "Are--" She couldn't even finish her question when Evangeline literally fell asleep mid-sentence, so Syani rested Evangeline's tiny body down so her head is against Syani's lap. "...For an all-powerful vampire, you look cute when you sleep."

Smiling down at Evangeline's sleeping form, Syani stayed static there for a moment before deciding to document this in her little hand-sized journal. So as she waited for Evangeline to recover, Syani wrote down her experience of meeting this vampire in her journal via telekinesis. Smiling as she does so, happy that there's a real full-blooded vampire nice enough to even talk to her, she feels blessed.

Next, Syani telekinetically opened her unfinished map of Veyyard and began to plot on which areas she hasn't covered yet, as well as jotting down the materials she can acquire here to possibly make an energy potion for Evangeline. 'Hmm... Maybe I can use my blood as a boost ingredient..?'

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