Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 7, 2009 17:52:58 GMT -5
Carmilla nestled closer, appreciating this, the pleasant stillness afterwards, almost more than the act itself. Being shunted off would have blunted her enjoyment of it in her memory, after all.
"It's a nice sacrifice," she admittedly, a little sleepily, "but I'd like someone to live for me once, all the same. You know. Which takes more effort."
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 7, 2009 17:59:06 GMT -5
"I don't plan on letting you or any other vampire kill me any time soon, don't worry."
Her words were harsh, but her tone was not- it was almost playful. Roxanna wondered briefly if, should Carmilla attempt to feed, she would even bother to resist. To die or to live in the arms of one so beautiful- it was shallow and lecherous of her, but it was not unpleasent.
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
Posts: 53
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 8, 2009 15:18:32 GMT -5
"I don't kill that often," said Carmilla petulantly, although with no real heat. Her sort might be considered weaker by Anne Rice some standards - murdered by beheading, by staking, all too easily, and able to consume mortal food in small amounts, or to walk, however weak and sleepy and powerlessly, in daytime - and as such Carmilla did not need to drain a body to the point of death to survive. This did not mean she did not kill, as the only real pleasure one got from death was in a slow visitation, night after night, until the intended victim was dead. Carmilla's intended victims were not quite that, though, but rather, intended companions, who proved too weak of heart or of mind to ever be brought over.
Carmilla cuddled closer, reached up a languid hand to smooth her hair off of her face, then, almost as an afterthought, to smooth back Roxanna's. Well, killing wasn't the only time she fended off the cold. She felt warmer than usual here and it was a comforting feeling.
"Although what I meant by that was... It's one thing to die for someone, because you die and then it's all over, isn't it?" Her accent was frankly Austrian, but her voice was soft and pensive. She had thought about this before, but had rarely bothered to try and articulate it. "But to live with them, for them... It's less glamorous and it's harder. Well. So much for that... "
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 8, 2009 16:11:56 GMT -5
"I suppose I can see your point. I haven't had much experience with it...but I won't bore you with a tragic family history unless you really want it."
Roxanna felt surprisingly comfortable in her current situation- not that she normally didn't enjoy this sort of thing, but she felt relaxed around Carmilla. Perhaps it was something a vampire learned early on, to lull their victims into a false sense of security, but she appreciated it nevertheless.
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
Posts: 53
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 8, 2009 16:15:49 GMT -5
Carmilla gently poked her cheek.
"Try and bore me," she offered softly. "If I fall asleep, you have my full permission to take advantage of me; won't that learn me?" More softly still, she half shook her head against Roxanna's shoulder. "I'd like to know."
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 8, 2009 20:08:44 GMT -5
Roxanna laughed.
"Alright, then. I didn't know the full story behind my family until I came to Paris. As a child, I'd been raised by a group of gypsies- the mother was the first to realize what I was. Child of a vampire and a mortal woman- and as I learned, these couplings were often unwilling on the woman's part."
She stared into the distance.
"As it was with my mother."
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 9, 2009 10:06:39 GMT -5
Carmilla had shut her eyes to picture things more clearly - which she often did while listening, which, unfortunately, made her look like she was not listening while in company; when her eyes were open, however, that was the danger, for she knew she was easily stimulated or distracted by something she might see - and her eyebrows furrowed.
"I'm sorry," she said softly, and meant it. "My... conception was similar. Well. Upper classes, more or less. As was my marriage."
Countess Karnstein, after all, a title being something a woman gained with marriage - unfortunately. The thought made Carmilla's skin fairly crawl and she nestled closer to Roxanna automatically.
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 9, 2009 10:23:20 GMT -5
"Your marriage?"
It was a question, not an accusation. She held Carmilla closer, almost an unconscious gesture of protection.
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 9, 2009 10:28:25 GMT -5
Carmilla shifted uncomfortably, but it also had the added benefit of bringing her closer. Roxanna's behavior stirred some little chord somewhere for her, brought back memories of her own vampire maker that Carmilla thought it would be best not to sift through.
"Hm. Yes. It is not uncommon for young women to be sold to the highest bidder without any regard for their feelings. Besides..." Carmilla propped herself up on one elbow and tossed her hair over her shoulder, biting the inside of her lower lip as she smiled with narrow eyes, as though contemplating something playful in a shrewd way. "Women aren't supposed to love without men."
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 9, 2009 13:18:43 GMT -5
Roxanna nodded. Her foster family needed her to help bring money in and would never have married her off, while she'd not been trapped with her father long enough to have him make such a decision.
"Of course. For quite a long time, I hated men because of that. But whatever my preferences, we had to survive..."
She turned back to Carmilla.
"And no, I didn't sell my body. Just my skill with a whip."
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
Posts: 53
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 9, 2009 15:01:13 GMT -5
Carmilla was struck by this again, and pushed her hair futilely off of her face - more or less just continuing to stroke it - as she thought about this. Carmilla had never hated men, despite what she'd been through; in fact, although she by far preferred female companionship in all ways, she had befriended them before. Well, it depended on what sort of man it was, most likely.
Roxanna's last comment confused her, though, and meeting her eyes again, pursed her lips and tilted her head, prompting further explanation.
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 9, 2009 20:44:34 GMT -5
"I was an angry young woman- at my father for my means of birth, at men for desiring me, at myself for not desiring them. And there are men who enjoy such anger from a lovely woman, and will pay to be beaten by one."
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
Posts: 53
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 10, 2009 8:21:26 GMT -5
Carmilla could not tell whether she found this droll or profoundly unsettling. It was something of a mix, ultimately, although the perversion was, as she saw it, that a man would want anything from a woman who was fundamentally incapable of wanting him. Carmilla did not comprehend men or their actions very well.
Carmilla tilted her head, her hair sliding down her bare shoulder, and reached down to stroke Roxanna's cheek. The gesture was deliberate, although it seemed characteristically absent-minded, as her affection often did. "Were there any other women in your life then? What I mean is... " She shook her head. "How did you strike upon it."
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Post by Roxanna on Feb 10, 2009 11:02:49 GMT -5
Roxanna considered this- offhand, she couldn't quite remember an exact moment when she had first learned her own preferences.
"It was something I sort of always knew about myself. There was never a time when a beautiful woman failed to catch my eye. But there have been women, though never anyone for a long period of time- I tend to be the one curious girls go to for a night to decide what direction they want to take."
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Carmilla
- In the Duggins -
Stop fussing. You get blood on this dress and I'll kill you. You know, a second time.
Posts: 53
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Post by Carmilla on Feb 10, 2009 13:07:14 GMT -5
Carmilla looked down into Roxanna's face, watching her golden eyebrows knit in thought or relax as her expression changed appropriately. Her own expression was shrewd, half-pensive.
This did not seem to be a complimentary thing, Carmilla knew, and knew from her own experience rather all too well - except that in her case, finding out a bit too late that a girl was simply not destined for the shores of Lesbos ended up in someone dying. Obviously not Carmilla.
She didn't think this was the sort of thing you told a beautiful woman you'd just gone home with, though, and neglected to mention it.
"If it's any comfort," said Carmilla, settling down again and stretching her neck, head lolling to the side, in a distinctly feline way, "I already knew."
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