01-05-2015, 04:37 PM
Aria had felt the stab of jealously in Lucas, but it was something to deal with later, her house was full and she was feeling more than worse for wear. The days events had been trying enough, now she had guests in her house. Hours before she'd been locked up in a cellar, trapped by a maniac bent on torturing, raping and ultimately killing her. It sent a shudder through her body. And now she sat with two people she trusted explicitly, and two strangers who were as foreign to her as Moscow had once been. How the world revolved on, even if your world didn't feel like it should.
Aria was glad to hear that Ashavari was okay, not that she doubted it, she could feel the curiosity in her, and wondered if there were fewer people here how things would react between the two of them. She'd met one Sentient before her father, and she was a brick wall. Aria ground her teeth at the thought of Dane's doctor, prying in on his thoughts. Aria knew that the mere thought of Dane would bring the darkness to bear, it floated through her and she fought to push it away. The darkness hung so close, so many people here, so many bodies to feel their pain, the call was there but Aria had to push it away.
It was but a moment, but it felt like an eternity for Aria, she was tired, her body ached and now she had company, sleep seemed even farther from the discussion than before. Aria took comfort in the fact that Lucas was still here, but this was not his world, and he'd already had an abrupt entrance to it. She sighed and stood up and smiled, though it didn't touch her eyes. She was just that tired. "You are welcome to stay as long as you need. We can work out the details when it's quieter."
It was the first part of her statement that made Aria smile for real. She reassured Ashavari, "Up until recently I didn't know what I was either. I was told I was something different, trained to be something different. But now it all makes sense and the world is a less complicated being."
It wasn't fully true, it was only partially the truth, the world was only one item less complicated, but that realization had also complicated matters even more.
"I've only met two others like myself, one only briefly, and the other well."
Aria wasn't sure how much to say about her father. It wasn't exactly like it had been a pleasant encounter. "Let's just say it didn't go so well."
Aria had questions of her own. But she wasn't sure how much to ask in front of strangers. Not that Aria wasn't a stranger to the woman. "I assume, you aren't from a Sentient family. It's typically genetic, but mutations do occur to create our abilities. I assume you are the latter, my father was Sentient, my mother was not. I knew neither. One day I'd be interested in hearing about your emergence, I guess you could call it."
Edited by Aria, Jan 5 2015, 04:40 PM.
Aria was glad to hear that Ashavari was okay, not that she doubted it, she could feel the curiosity in her, and wondered if there were fewer people here how things would react between the two of them. She'd met one Sentient before her father, and she was a brick wall. Aria ground her teeth at the thought of Dane's doctor, prying in on his thoughts. Aria knew that the mere thought of Dane would bring the darkness to bear, it floated through her and she fought to push it away. The darkness hung so close, so many people here, so many bodies to feel their pain, the call was there but Aria had to push it away.
It was but a moment, but it felt like an eternity for Aria, she was tired, her body ached and now she had company, sleep seemed even farther from the discussion than before. Aria took comfort in the fact that Lucas was still here, but this was not his world, and he'd already had an abrupt entrance to it. She sighed and stood up and smiled, though it didn't touch her eyes. She was just that tired. "You are welcome to stay as long as you need. We can work out the details when it's quieter."
It was the first part of her statement that made Aria smile for real. She reassured Ashavari, "Up until recently I didn't know what I was either. I was told I was something different, trained to be something different. But now it all makes sense and the world is a less complicated being."
It wasn't fully true, it was only partially the truth, the world was only one item less complicated, but that realization had also complicated matters even more.
"I've only met two others like myself, one only briefly, and the other well."
Aria wasn't sure how much to say about her father. It wasn't exactly like it had been a pleasant encounter. "Let's just say it didn't go so well."
Aria had questions of her own. But she wasn't sure how much to ask in front of strangers. Not that Aria wasn't a stranger to the woman. "I assume, you aren't from a Sentient family. It's typically genetic, but mutations do occur to create our abilities. I assume you are the latter, my father was Sentient, my mother was not. I knew neither. One day I'd be interested in hearing about your emergence, I guess you could call it."
Edited by Aria, Jan 5 2015, 04:40 PM.