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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 20, 2015 20:56:21 GMT -5
As soon as Veidt had gone, Loki went to close the door.
"It was all I could do to not kill the vampire," he snarled.
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Post by Teja on Nov 20, 2015 20:57:49 GMT -5
Teja was startled and scared by the sudden ferocity, and crept backwards from him as though he were angry at her - which he could have been.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 9:25:14 GMT -5
"The way he spoke about you- I could have struck him down where he stood..."
He pushed his hair to the side- he had already remembered that it didn't like to stay back very much on its own- and exhaled wearily as he looked up at her.
"Oh- oh, my darling, please don't be frightened!"
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Nov 21, 2015 10:40:44 GMT -5
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Post by Teja on Nov 21, 2015 10:40:44 GMT -5
She was shaking now. "What do you mean? What did he....say?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 16:17:32 GMT -5
"He thought I had killed you, and scarcely cared if I did," Loki muttered angrily. "The most casual and unconcerned of tones- like he was scolding me-"
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Post by Teja on Nov 21, 2015 16:21:57 GMT -5
"What? What do you mean?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 16:26:58 GMT -5
"I did as we discussed, you and I," Loki said as he sat on the end of the bed. "I tried to play the jealous lover. I told him you begged me to do otherwise, but I didn't listen. He called our arrangement harlotry, and he supposed I had killed you in my supposed anger-"
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Post by Teja on Nov 21, 2015 16:29:34 GMT -5
She was pressing her temples with her fingertips trying to follow the thread of logic here.
"You mean he - he didn't care-?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 16:56:40 GMT -5
"That's my point-"
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Post by Teja on Nov 21, 2015 17:00:03 GMT -5
The relief and the distress mingled to the point of nausea.
It wasn't so much an unhappiness that he didn't love her as the sickening feeling that he'd - tricked her into putting out, and she couldn't take that back -
"I don't think i can talk about this-"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 17:29:07 GMT -5
"You were right about his son," Loki admitted, swiftly changing the subject just enough to hopefully distract from the immediate problem. "He tried to sell him to me-"
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Post by Teja on Nov 21, 2015 17:30:04 GMT -5
"He what?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 17:38:48 GMT -5
"Offered Herbert for whatever use I could have of him-"
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Post by Teja on Nov 21, 2015 17:48:22 GMT -5
"But what did he- what did he mean by that-"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Nov 21, 2015 17:57:27 GMT -5
"I meant to frighten him into submission by threatening his son. Instead he implied I could do whatever I wished with him-"
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