Welcome! (Back?)

[Lih]

During the lull triggered by his run-in with the rougarou’s, Lih had trudged to the domovoi office for a quiet word with doctor Alex, in the hopes of patching up some of the bad feeling that had begun to eclipse, thanks to weeks of escalating nightmares and the absence of Costa his partner. Unfortunately, Lih has chosen this day to forget his pills from Alex, come over to the Vega estate, and drink wine, as a consequence of which he felt quite flustered. This was a strange turn of events, and it disturbed him.

At that moment, Vitya Lih realized that the wolf sister had said something that had disturbed him more than anything else. In the confusion and excitement, it had been passed over. Only now, with his mind painstakingly running back over the conversation again, did officer Lih see it.

It was a single word, and the word was “channel”.

Aiden, Sage, how’d you two meet? Can he channel too?

Sage was tall, with a slender face and disturbing eyes. Lih couldn’t tell much about the man.

To Siobhan, Sage blinked and said something like, “I take care of Aiden, and my friends” Lih wasn’t precisely sure what he’d said because he was too busy falling over to listen. The counter stool had somehow bumped into him, and the impact, though gentle, had deposited Vitya Lih unto his back. He no longer held his gun.

Officer Lih laid on his back and looked up. Two men and a woman of exquisite beauty were sitting on the counter seats above him, framed in the kitchen light and the white light of the glass shades overhead in circular splashes like pools of sunlight. They were upside down to Lih, and the men seemed to be holding hands.

Lih searched for his tinted lenses, which were, of course, beside his fallen cap and put the lenses on. The blue shades took the edge off the hard, white light.

He reached up and tugged open his wallet with his free hand. As he did so, he saw that his hand was shaking. His hand was shaking, and there was a tiny spot of wine on the back of it just under the knuckle of the middle finger.

There was a word for this type of situation, but it wasn’t one Vitya Lih would ever use around boys and girls. As he sat up, there were no children present, so he used it freely and often.

Ooc: feel free to help Lih up, or not!