Completed In the depths of a mine...

[Deleted member 2578]

He held her in his arms the entire time.

She rested peacefully. "Since I was a boy I could never sleep." He never knew the why of it back then either, and he didn't think it was true insomnia. It was something else maybe he was just wired different. "Never could any medic tell me why either." He said to her quietly. He kissed the top of her head gently. "I watched you sleep once you passed out." He smiled at her. "I wonder what do you dream of?" He asked of her. "You slept so peacefully."

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

"I watched you sleep once you passed out." He smiled at her. "I wonder what do you dream of?" He asked of her. "You slept so peacefully."

It was oddly comforting, the position she was in. “I don’t dream. Vampires in general don’t dream.”

She squirmed a bit to face him, still sore in basically every place on her body, to face him head on. “How long have you been doing this? And where did you get all your eh... equipment?”

 

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Nosdyn nodded it was a simple question. "As you are aware by now...I have appetites. So me and my wife have been indulging different ways to entertain those appetites. I'd say for several years now it has been like this now. Anya rarely goes away because it is difficult for us as husband and wife to be apart. As me and you have both learned our cultures are different and having more than one chosen mate is accepted Velera. You being a Vampire does not bother me, it never has." He sad to her honestly.

"As for our...equipment. Me and my wife...have tastes. She'd acquired those items as part of this over time."

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

"As you are aware by now...I have appetites. So me and my wife have been indulging different ways to entertain those appetites. I'd say for several years now it has been like this now. Anya rarely goes away because it is difficult for us as husband and wife to be apart. As me and you have both learned our cultures are different and having more than one chosen mate is accepted Velera. You being a Vampire does not bother me, it never has." He sad to her honestly.

“Yeah, clearly. And in those years, you two have been fighting off the Empire? It wouldn’t be long before another attack right? Speaking of, where is she?”

"As for our...equipment. Me and my wife...have tastes. She'd acquired those items as part of this over time."

“And based on last night, usually you’re the one calling the shots? Or always?”

It wasn’t then that the door opened, and Anya stepped in. “Always. But there’s no way in hell I’m letting you take the top role in any way. Since I can’t prevent it, I’ll just make sure I’m involved.”

 

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He smiled at the Lady Anya. "She's right there. But she was away on an errand. Something we had to take care of mutually." He looked at Anya carefully. "My lady, I sent Ellsa back to the fort as you instructed. She would have been a liability and I cannot give her what she wants." Nosdyn said n a surprisingly calm sort of way. The war had taken so much away from Nosdyn. But he'd always retained his desire to be a good man.

"Was the matter taken care of?" He asked of Lady Anya. "If my hunch was correct we don't have much time." Nosdyn said to both Velera and Anya.

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

“Yes it’s been taken care of. So I see you’ve been enjoying someone else in my absence.” She said distastefully, “I hope you made sure she didn’t get any ideas.”

She looked back at him. “So how long do you think we’d have? If we have enough time I might take the opportunity to,” she glanced at Velera, still tied. “Enforce some rules.”

 

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"If my hunch is correct no less than a month to prepare. As long as we stay here in the fortress." Nosdyn said calmly explaining his thoughts. "If this one is like the one's we have fought in the past he will attempt to come at us at an angle. We have to prepare." There were too many variables.

Nosdyn also considered what they could all loose. "If you contacted your people we should all make final preparations before the battle just in case. Just in case we can't win...and it all goes to Hell." Nosdyn was scared they'd fought many long hard victories to get there. Only to potentially have it all taken away from them. By an unknown enemy. He suddenly had a flash in his mind. The original Vampire that they'd fought during the first rebellion in the mines. He tapped the side of his head. "We don't have much time." He looked at Velera. "We will proceed forward as planned." The vision convinced him that the attack would be brutal and many would perish even himself potentially but there was always a chance...if it meant becoming one of them he would take that risk.

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

With this information she said, “I’ve already taken the liberty of ordering preparations to be made. People setting up various ways we can’t trap and injure him before we reveal ourselves, then finish him off with minor difficulty. We don’t need to bust our butts,” then she looked at Velera, “but I’m definitely going to bust her butt. Care to watch Nos? Maybe see what I can do to my fellow pet?”

 

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Nosdyn smiled at his woman, his wife Lady Anya.

He considered carefully what was being asked of and said. He knew with them working together, they would be more of an asset on the field of battle. Nosdyn narrowed his eye and closed it for a moment smelling their scents. Their natural scents, even Velera's were unique to them both.

He never really appreciated something simple as a woman's scent before that moment. When he knew that it could all potentially be taken away from him.

For his freedom, for his family, and his two wives...he would defy fate itself.

Soon they would face a superior enemy and be forced to adapt tactics to face that enemy.

He hoped with the decision he was going to make that he would be more than ready.

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

Velera trembled, this time actually frightened. “Master Nosdyn? She’s not going to hurt me too badly is she?”

Anya grinned, “I’m not going to cause any permanent damage no. I can’t promise that you won’t scream though.”

Velera looked nervously at Nosdyn and whimpered, “help?”

 

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Nosdyn chuckled a little by that point. "If you need to inflict pain you can use me for this." He told them both, more than physically prepared to handle great physical abuse.

He smiled at the two women knowing full well this might be one of the last times they would ever have such a moment. He was prepared to face the end if need be...he would die with dignity.

But he was glad for this one moment where he could be with his two women.

Always a deep thinker, Nosdyn rarely let people in on his personal thoughts.

Only Anya held that right.

He trusted her with his very life...

But he looked towards the blackened windows of the chamber bedroom. Their bedroom, their home. He missed the old life at that point being a humble miner. Toiling away for his simple and pathetic lot and life. Suddenly, he slid out of their bed and walked towards the window. "It's night you are protected at night Velera." He opened the windows at the point that led to the beautiful fortress balcony. "As if it's never been used...shame really." Nosdyn, completely skyclad walked out on the balcony for a moment as he stood in thought. He didn't mind...a part of him knew the old life was slipping from his grasp with each passing moment and he'd never again be "just a miner." He was meant for more.

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

Spoiler

"If you need to inflict you can use me for this."

What do you mean by this?

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

"If you need to inflict pain you can use me for this."

“Oh no no no Nosdyn. Between you and me, you will be the one on top. I’ll only ever bring this little beauty down on her, not you. You’re the alpha after all.” She says to him with a wink.

So after Nosdyn was given a show, then handed the whip to Nosdyn for use. She joined him on the balcony after he left, “you okay Nosdyn?”

 

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"There is a beauty here." He told Anya. "Look for a moment. The moon shines overhead, somehow that's a blessing." He looked at the mooon as he wrapped his arm around his wife's waist and pulled her close. "I think...this is a blessing we were allowed a time to reflect before our battle with Lord Grendric." He was always a kind man, and enjoyed very simple things in life. "Whatever happens..." He turned to look at his wife with a soft expression on his face.

"I want you to both know how much I love you both." Nosdyn said calmly. He'd scour hell itself for both of his women.

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

Anya, being tugged into his side looked up at him. “Grendric won’t be easy to beat Lord Nosdyn. I hope that we get out without a hitch.”

His confession, “aww, I love you too Nosdyn, I don’t know about Wench in there.”

 

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He chuckled a moment. There was no malice ever in his voice for either of them. He held his woman close looking a the moon and motioned for Velera to join them. "Look." He says pointing at the moon. "My people would worship the moon and celestial bodies. They were fascinated by the stars above." Nosdyn wanted to tell them something about what he had learned in recent days...

"Once my people had many clans. Not that different from the Vampire Nations. But our numbers dwindled over time. A contact I have has been giving me information." He looked at Velera. "The ones who were conscripted by Lord Grendric...I will take those in my command directly should we win the day." He wanted to know all he could about his people the thought of learning more excited him...but would be a project for another day. "You two are my moon." He said to them both, a saying of endearment from his people.

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

"You two are my moon."

Anya blushed. She spoke, “aww, thanks Nos.”

Velera had no idea how to respond. She had only just slept with him the night before. She just looked down for a moment, then looking back at him she burrowed into his chest. “I’ve never meant anything to anyone before, thank you.”

 

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He nodded calmly listening to both of them.

Because of Velera's response...he learned more about her that night.

"Let's go back inside." He said calmly at that point and let them go in first, he shut the balcony doors so no sunlight could come in and potentially harm his Vampire Lady. He would need to talk with Velera at some point with regards to what she said...for them to continued to defy fate and destiny they would all have to work together as a team. He looked at Velera and licked his lip. He nodded to her at that point and whispered to her.

"Tomorrow night meet me at the library for more instructions." He said to her calmly, he wanted to get to know more about her, everything about her. The hunt...he liked it. He sat down on the bed after that and looked at Lady Anya and Velera for a moment. "Begin." He ordered the two of them. Their night session would happen properly after that...

 

[Ser Anya Kinniger]

"Tomorrow night meet me at the library for more instructions."

She nodded in acknowledgment. Then she followed him back into the room, and saw him lay back comfortably on the bed, and looked at her and Anya in a very, aggressive way. Then he ordered them to begin, which she didn’t understand completely. But she understood perfectly when she was suddenly shoved into the bed, and Anya secured her arms behind her.

 

[Deleted member 2578]

The next night...

The library had become his favorite place in the castle.

He wasn't sure if it was the Vampirisim or something else, but he had a deep desire to acquire knowledge and wisdom. He was a Vampire but he had accepted it, and had accepted their culture. He sensed Velera nearby. "You're here." Nosdyn said with a audible sense of wonder at his teacher.

At that point his mind cleared. Seek the knowledge of the Old Ones... He tapped the side of his head for a moment when the voices spoke to him. He did not feel well each time that happened to him he was not sure if it was a physical entity or something within his blood.

Either way, he would accept the advice of the voices within. He turned to Velera. "What are The Old Ones?" He had to ask, he had to know what he was dealing with exactly. It was perhaps knowledge he would never have normally acquired, but he recalled his observant knowledge of the slavers when they first began their rebellion.

 

[Velera]

"What are The Old Ones?"

Velera who had been reading her own book stopped cold. Her voice was shaking with fear. “Why do you ask?”

 

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Nosdyn studied her reaction for a moment...she was withholding information. Something was not adding up there.

He let her response linger in the air for a moment. "I read for a reason you know." He said to her calmly. He was not sure how she would react if he told her about The Darkness within. "Some of the passages in the older tomes mention those entities and I have a reason to believe I am connected somehow to one of them." He studied her very very carefully. Her reaction would not change anything between them. He knew given her reaction he had to withhold some information from her, he didn't like it but she was lying to him as well at that point.

You are learning my child. The Darkness spoke within his mind with a grim sounding voice.

 

[Velera]

She looked him square in the eyes, “If you’re connected to the old one’s then you are definitely from an older vampire line, definitely half mortal and getting more mortal as it went along, but if you have any connection to the old ones, any whatsoever, you could be one of the most powerful people in the world.”

 

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Nosdyn considered what she was saying. He decided to tell her the truth.

"It calls itself The Darkness." Nosdyn explained, he had a feeling she would understand the terminology.

"I've been communing with this entity since years ago...I am not sure why it would pick me though." Nosdyn was challenging it back whenever he could. He liked the other part of it that she said...he would be one of the most powerful. He would have to more diligently train.

"He has been guiding me since long before you turned me." Nosdyn considered what he was telling her. It would have serious repercussions. "Velera...I kind of like it." He admitted to her.

 

[Velera]

She looked at him, and he would see in her face something he hadn’t seen since the day they met, fear. She was afraid of him. She set her book down. “That would be Skotadi in the old language. He’s a subconscious that has always been with the vampire lords of the original line, not an old one himself, but he makes his host be on par with them.”