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He barked a rueful, mocking laugh at Lilette's question. "You think even vampires would accept this?" His hand melted into a biological mass of twisting mouths and eyes belonging to many species before solidifying to a hand again. "You may be accepted among your kind or similar things but...

"This upsets you. Your nature hurts you?" Orchid was not inexperienced at this. His own nature was something he had always known but there were times he pained for a single form or at least he thought that's what was happening. "Perhaps that is how all life feels." The walk continued in...

"But you are not an Elf, at least you are something that was an Elf. Now you are a vampire. Does that nature not now dominate your Elf nature?" Change as a simple effect of being alive was the only nature Orchid knew. From his perspective, Lilette long ago ceased to be an Elf just as a...

It irked him to rely on anyone but he supposed it was not the worst thing in the world. "We could." It felt like a concession and Orchid did not want to make it. Weakness was to be despised, especially within the self. As Lilette made an impressive lep up the barn and came down a few seconds...

"Anirians know how to kill and take, it's not much it serves us well." It certainly served him well enough. "You misunderstand the Anirian perspective. Elf labour is oft used in the Vels and there is not reason to destroy such a potent source of workers. Most raids are just to take people, not...

Brother was an odd word. What Orchid knew about his own *brother* was that after he was killed part of what was left was a key ingredient in his own construction but even he was not a natural thing. Monsters boiled down to make more monsters. "The city of magic, hmmm." It was as good a place...

"Hmm." Orchid could not help but wonder what he might have become had he been so abandoned. The early months were so painful they passed in a blur of unsteady sensations. "So is it revenge you seek, against you maker for abandoning you? That's what I should like if I was able but my dear...

It was perhaps not a good idea to tell Lilette that the old man they had both fed on was a bit greedy but not one who preyed on others. No he would not share this, she was clearly more discerning than he. "I see. So you remain who you were before. What then of your maker? Did they not instruct...

The Fallwood, Orchid had never been himself but had read much. Lilette was correct however, he had not read nor heard of her house or home specifically. Less pleasant was his remembering of his own origins and what he knew of them. "My mother is a noblewoman of Vel Anir and a monster like...

"Hmm." It certainly was a bit of an odd spectacle to see. At least his first experience with a vampire was a polite one. "You do speak in an old fashioned way, I always supposed that vampires would blend into their surroundings like a snake or some such. You stand out though Miss Blackbriar...

Orchid hesitated, what might be shame passed over the monstrous face it wore before it returned to the young man's firm it casually took. "I don't have a "true form" so to speak. It's one of the less that wonderful things about my being. I can take the form of any creature I touch though. Which...

"Dare we say, a tail?" Orchids thin mouth shifted into a smile as he slunk into a posture so poor it looked as though he might break. "I think you might look well with one. Nothing too garish, something slim and sleek and pale as you are would do." A short laugh as he imagined it escaped...

Orchid sent his eyes toward the sky in thought for a moment before answering. "It doesn't hurt, it's more like, stretching out a stiff muscle I suppose. When I'm like this..." His thin arms displayed himself. "I am like a vapour trapped in a glass jar. Capable of much more than my shape...

Orchid was quiet for moments that felt longer than they were. "I see." Standing now he turned his back sharply then turned back again to face her. "I don't know other than what I have read, perhaps you can tell me fact from fiction." An eye full of disdain flickered to the corpse for a...

The dark eyes in Orchids face became lidded at the insinuation of him being offered his own treat back to himself. "I don't just need blood, my diet has to have more substance." As the vampire spoke he ground his teeth. "I do not have a kind to speak of but yes I am a thing of magic I suppose...