Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140323001956/@comment-3293219-20140401100732

The sun had long since set over Riften, the lamps came on, to illuminate the streets and many of its citizens and tourists had gone home, knowing full well that the streets aren't inhabitable during the early hours of the morning.

Now was their chance...

Lucian pulled Nepht to her feet, she wasn't exactly steady on them, given that she'd been refusing food for the best part of a week now and she felt like she had a ten ton weight on her shoulders. Her walk had been reduced to a shuffle, like the former inhabitants of Fort Farragut.

Daniel had arranged to meet them downstairs, hoping to find them an exit, which would lead to a not so crowded alleyway. He stood, patiently, awaiting their descent down the stairs and continued to worry for the poor girl. He couldn't help but feel responsible, though it wasn't the most logical way of thinking; he had broken the news to her, even if it wasn't intentional.

He heard her faint footsteps and looked up to see them slowly walking down the stairs. Nepht was too weak to do more than one step at a time and she had to hold onto Lucian's hand and the banister. The Breton looked even more defeated upon seeing this, she seemed so eager before, so full of life and now it had all be seeped out of her. She was pale, sickly, weakened…

Like a walking corpse…

"Will she be alright on the road?" Daniel asked them as she shakily made it to the bottom step.

"Yes, she should be..." Lucian replied, in an effort to appease him, though it wasn't very convincing. He continued to support the Dunmer as she shuffled over to the door, she didn't seem to notice Daniel as she passed him.

"Nepht?" He had hoped to say goodbye but she didn't seem to respond, she'd zoned out. She eventually snapped out of it, shook her head and looked over to him as she became a little more sentient.

"Are you feeling alright?"

She looked over to Lucian in confusion as if he knew better than she did, the Dunmer then looked back to him and her eyes began to shimmer as her broken voice began to speak.

"Y-Yeah..." She whispered, looking around as Daniel wrapped his arms around her and buried her face into his chest. Her eyes were still stinging from the tears, so she often felt like she was crying and her eyes felt so heavy.

"Goodbye Nepht..." The Breton whispered to her, tightening his hold and pulling her in closer. She'd lost the will to put up any kind of resistance or acknowledge his embrace in any way. After their long goodbye had come to a close, Daniel finally let her go and waved her off as her arm was taken by Lucian and she was escorted to the door, from which she'd step out and commence her life as a blood sucking freak.

Nepht hadn't really come to terms with what she was yet, it was strange but she already had a lot on her mind before she was told, so being told that she was a monster was just something that had to wait its turn for her to get around to dealing with it.

Though she still craved blood, a problem that she was fully aware of, thanks to Lucian and his 'gift,' she found that she lacked the capacity to care. Nish, her only friend, was dead and so was his wife and she had no other friends. Now she'll live forever, lonely, cold and shuffling closer and closer to being a lonely old spinster, with no friends or family, living no life of any kind...

"Okay..." Lucian whispered, interrupting her cheery trail of thought.

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"I can see the gate; it’s across the main square..."

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Great..." Nepht mumbled, though she hadn't truly heard him as she was too tired to pay attention. The Vampire took note of this and looked back at her, growing slightly frustrated as her lack of focus as this made things a lot harder.

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Nepht? This is important..." He awaited her response but she was preoccupied by the tiles on the road.

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Nepht!"

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">She jumped out of her skin and gave him her full attention as she didn't like it when people raised their voices.

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Y-Yes?"

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He rolled his eyes and began to speak, before a butterfly showed up and took the spotlight away from him again.

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"There maybe people in the square, if you can feel the bloodlust coming on, you need to tell me, okay?"

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Nepht nodded, she knew the bloodlust as she had felt it for days. She didn't want to attack Daniel and she was probably too weak to kill right now, so she figured that she’d be okay.

<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> “I have a flask of blood in my pocket, if you find it too much, just say the word.” Lucian looked around, she truly had no idea what temptation she was about to face and sooner or later, she’s going to realise that she nothing left to lose.