Claudia
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Sept 18, 2008 14:38:05 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 14:38:05 GMT -5
To exist again. To once again feel the cool night air on her skin, to hear the small noises that drifted across the dark streets, to feel the power of blood surging through her.
The girl smiled, looking around the city. For all the time she had gone, not much seemed to have changed. Or perhaps somehow she had wound up somewhere else in time?
It didn't matter. It was her city, and hers to feed on. Grinning, she stepped out into the night.
It was good to be back.
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Sept 18, 2008 19:12:23 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 19:12:23 GMT -5
((FYI Armand is floating around somewhere 'round these parts, whenever Maggie gets back on))
*Lestat was passing by the opera, looking for suitable prey, when he passed the little girl. From a distance, he thought perhaps she'd make an easy target, but once he got close...
... she was a vampire! His eyes widened and once he was closer, he bowed slightly, unable to stop himself from wanting to know more.*
"Good evening, mademoiselle."
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Claudia
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Sept 18, 2008 19:15:34 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 19:15:34 GMT -5
Claudia was doing the same, already hungry again. One wouldn't have expected to miss the feeling, but she had. She glanced around, passing some targets, and rejecting them, turning around and observing someone walking towards her. For a moment, she didn't pay much attention.
"And good evening to you, Mon--" Suddenly, she broke off, whirled and looked him straight in the face, looking thunderstruck. "Lestat? You? But...but I thought you were..." Her hand went to her throat, and she played with the frilled collar on her coat. "And how did you get back to Paris?"
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Sept 18, 2008 19:19:43 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 19:19:43 GMT -5
*He blinked at her. He certainly would have remembered one of his kind so young, and so very pretty.*
"I... I'm afraid I don't know you, Miss." *He said, frowning confusedly (and a little affrontedly).*
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Claudia
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Sept 18, 2008 19:24:07 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 19:24:07 GMT -5
Needless to say, she was confused as well. Oh, she couldn't be mistaken; he was so distinctive, and she had lived with him for decades. Besides, he answered to that name. Yet he claimed to not know her?
"You don't mean to say that you've forgotten me while I've been away? Thirty years in New Orleans means nothing to you? Don't get me wrong, I would rather forget the later ones, too, but honestly, you don't recognize 'your' Claudia?" She curled one lock of her hair around a finger as she spoke, gazing at him with those faintly glowing eyes.
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Sept 18, 2008 19:28:04 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 19:28:04 GMT -5
"I'm afraid I don't know anyone by that name." *He said, a little coldly.* "Much less one who I'd call mine."
*She was cute, though, with those eyes and that hair... surely she couldn't have been turned as a child? And somehow, she felt familiar, and he felt his stature relaxing a little of its own accord...*
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Claudia
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Sept 18, 2008 19:34:36 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 19:34:36 GMT -5
"You know, somehow I'm not surprised. You never did want 'one happy family', anyway," she replied with an equal tinge in her voice. "After all, you just wanted Louis. Yes, I know, I know all about it. And now you deny it." She shook her head.
"By the way, about that...I was certain that I had been quite thorough in my preparations. However did you get out?" She sighed slightly, and shifted her weight from one foot to the other. Something about this was beginning to confuse her. While she was still herself, the same both inside and out, there was something different about him that she couldn't quite place.
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Sept 18, 2008 19:37:03 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 19:37:03 GMT -5
"I'm... not... dead." *He said slowly.* "Never have been, at least in the sense you appear to be considering."
*And what she said about Louis was frightening. He'd really only just met the man, but it was true he wanted him fo rhis own.*
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Claudia
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Sept 18, 2008 19:42:29 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 19:42:29 GMT -5
Claudia paused now, and took a long look at him, confused and trying to work out what this was all about. As she took him in, something slowly began to dawn on her, and her eyes widened, letting out more light.
Abruptly, she turned to look around her at the people, their fashion, the decorations. No...no, it wasn't possible, was it? But...it had to be. "By God," she murmured softly, barely shaking her head, "it hasn't happened yet, has it?"
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Sept 18, 2008 19:45:08 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 19:45:08 GMT -5
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about... and it's becoming tiresome." *He complained, a little whiny. But that was to be expected of him.*
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Claudia
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Sept 18, 2008 19:51:16 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 19:51:16 GMT -5
She sighed again, now getting aggravated, though not entirely at him. No, it would be just her luck to have this happen, wouldn't it?
"Of course not, because here it has not even happened. Listen," she added sternly, almost a command. As always, her sweet appearance belied her now firmly adult and rather harsh mentality. "In..." ((*insert year here*)) "...you came to New Orleans, where, after making Louis one of us, you decided that you needed something to keep him around. Thus, when he fed on me, of course you decided to bless me thus!" Illustratively, she mimed cutting her wrist open. "And with this appearance!"
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Sept 18, 2008 19:52:44 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 19:52:44 GMT -5
*He rolled his eyes.*
"Clearly, child, you are mad."
*Which didn't explain why she knew about Louis, but she could easily have heard something about them from someone or other.*
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Sept 18, 2008 19:58:16 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 19:58:16 GMT -5
In response, her eyes narrowed. "Just like you to say that. I doubt that there is anything I can do to fully convince one such as yourself, but perhaps you'd be interested in seeing this?"
She reached into her pocket, and removed something from it. It shone with a dull silver, tarnished at the end. It was that...trinket which he had used to prick his wrist, and unless she was mistaken it was monogrammed. He might even own it now. "I believe this belongs to you?"
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Sept 18, 2008 20:02:18 GMT -5
Post by Lestat Lioncourt on Sept 18, 2008 20:02:18 GMT -5
*He frowned at it, and reached into his pocket to pull out his own... but it wasn't there!*
"Where did you get that!?"
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Sept 18, 2008 20:05:32 GMT -5
Post by Claudia on Sept 18, 2008 20:05:32 GMT -5
Seeing his reaction, and not finding it, she swore under her breath. Of course he wouldn't be able to find it just when she was attempting to prove it!
"I took it from you...when you died. I thought it might be good as a souvenir, perhaps."
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