Delivery (Alumina)

[Venetia de Artio]

A tall woman wearing a long blue dress was walking to a certain room in the north tower. She had been told to bring the weapon to this spoiled costumer, but she had been paid extra for doing it so she would do as he wished. Reaching the place she went inside carefully placing the sword he had ordered on the floor. Not really sure if she should leave or not, Venetia stood still for a moment, looking around to see if he came to get it.

After waiting for quite a while she sighed, leaving the sword alone like this could be the perfect excuse for this man to say that it was stolen and that it was Venetia’s fault because she left it alone. Leaning against the wall she crossed her arms over her chest, letting her eyes scan the room. It was surely a pretty room with furniture she could just dream of buying. The room wasn’t one of those small places where you would sleep, but more like a bigger hall with a pretty diamond covered hanging light in the middle of the ceiling.

Letting her eyes rest on the lamp she admired how beautiful it was when the sunlight hit it, sending small rays of light out in the room as the diamonds reflected the sunlight. Not taking her eyes away from the beautiful sight in front of her she started imagining how she could create something just as beautiful with her own ice powers.

Hearing steps not far away she snapped out of her daze and turned to the man that came into the room. His back was overly straight and he walked proudly towards her with his head high. Kneeling down she grabbed the sword and held it out to him. He quickly snatched it out of her hand and threw a bag of money to her before walking off, without a word and without waiting for her to count the money. Still she believed him, taking a quick look at what was inside the bag, she could tell it was the right amount of gold and platinum pieces.

He left the room almost as soon as he’d gotten inside, leaving Venetia alone again. The blue dress she was wearing and all the accessories made Venetia almost look like a princess where she stood. She was wearing her nicest jewelleries that she had made herself and a dress she only used in special occasions. The high heels she had on her feet, made her extremely tall close to 6’3 feet high and she looked almost more lanky than usual. Having been several feet taller than the noble man she’d just given the sword to, she felt huge and told herself to never use such shoes ever again. Sighing she shook her head, wondering why she’d even bothered herself by dressing up so nicely, it’s not like she wanted to impress anyone. Nobles, especially royalties were all the same. Dressing like this might make them show some respect, but as soon as she returned to her normal clothes and life they would look down on her yet again.

Turning she started towards the door to make her leave.

[Alumina Nadine]

Alumina traveled her way up the stairs, the stony cases sprung her closer to her destination with each step, she saw a man. A very large man wearing black taking deep steps down the stairs, the thumps made by his boots caused small vibrations that even Alumina could feel.

His shoulder bumped into the side of her face thanks to the differences in height, Alumina pressed her side to the wall and held her cheek, she gave a scowl and a disapproving look at the man as he made his way down the stairs, but he took no notice of her. He was trying to get away from..something, and he was holding something as well, but he was concealing it so Alumina couldn't make out what it was.

Alumina sighed, letting it go, her finger-nails, painted a sharp blue traveled across the walls, finding it's way along the ridges like water in an irrigation ditch. She stopped moving when the vampire came across the door and she reached her hands out to slowly open it.

Alumina had been looking for a place to stand, to look out to the sky and just think for a bit but instead she found herself facing a woman who wore a dress as blue as the finger nails that had traced the walls on the way to the tower.

Alumina suspected at first it was a prostitute. A woman in a pretty dress hiding in a tower right after a man had left it? That was no Rapunzel after being visited by Prince Charming. Then the smell came. And Alumina knew that was no prostitute or princess.

The smell wasn't like...humans...it was a bit more like....well, Alumina's own smell. She froze when it struck her, she had suspected she was the only vampire in Venus and thought it impossible she was wrong.

Alumina always knew what two vampires near each other brought; drama, fights, blood. Something Alumina tried to avoid most of her life by locking herself up in her home and only leaving to feed, she closed the door slowly behind her and stepped up to the woman.

"Just who might you be?"

[Venetia de Artio]

Venetia stopped and her eyes widened slightly as she found her way blocked by a small white haired girl. She truly had to look down at what she thought was a younger girl than herself. This made her feel slightly jealous at the smaller girl that in Venetia’s eyes had about the perfect height.

At the question Venetia’s somewhat surprised expression hardened a little and her hand lowered to slightly touch her own sword that she usually brought wherever she went. She could tell this woman was from a higher class than herself, but hearing the way this little girl spoke there was no way Venetia would show her any more respect than she showed her. “Venetia de Arto, weapon store owner. I was here to deliver a weapon to marquis Alf Lavender.” She replied truthfully, not seeing a reason for lying to the stranger.

Not looking away from the other girl’s blue eyes she continued. “Now why don’t you tell me who you are.” There was something out of the ordinary with this girl Venetia noticed. It was almost as if Venetia could feel that this girl wasn’t a human but something else. Being only half vampire her ability to sense other vampires wasn’t that good as of a full-blooded vampire, but she could still tell that there was something about this girl that could make this day a little more exiting than usual.

[Alumina Nadine]

No pats on the head, no "move along little girl,nothing to see here", no being treated like a child in general. Alumina definately liked this woman despite the differences in height that caused Alumina's neck to strain when she lifted up to try to face the woman.

"Alumina..."Alumina placed two fingers against her forehead and slowly slid them up to brush two pieces of white hair that had fallen away from the rest of her bangs. "Alumina Nadine,"she grinned, eventually revealing the two sharp teeth that had been concealed by her lips before.

Alumina couldn't help but examine the woman. Blue covered her from head to toe, which attracted the vampire even more as she herself was quite the fan of the color blue. And she was beautiful, and tall. Alumina thought how lucky the woman was, as she assumed the woman "changed" at the height of her beauty as a young adult and not as a child like Alumina.

[Venetia de Artio]

The black haired woman’s eyes widened a little as she saw the other girl’s teeth and without even noticing herself she had raised her hand up to her own lips. Opening her mouth slightly she touched one of her sharp teeth in her own mouth and it was just then that her mind seemed to understand that the other girl was a vampire.

Not that Venetia really cared about the matter, but still meeting someone that was at least more alike her father’s kind made her curious. How did the other girl react to her blood? She wondered. That was a question she had asked herself for years. She was only half human, but still was her blood just as attractive to vampires as other human blood or did they find it less interesting since she was half vampire herself? Looking back at the other girl the forced the question away, but maybe she could ask about it later.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you Miss Nadine.” She stepped forward and held out her hand, giving the other girl small polite smile.