Do You Walk in the Shadow of Men...

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Characters: Valdis and open
Date: The Month of May
Location: Throughout Keeliai
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: In Headers


Moving out of the hotel didn’t take long. Valdis hired a few kedan to help her move her things to the small house near the former palace gardens. It was a comfortable enough space, moreso because Wan had built it. She wasn’t entirely certain why she had waited so long to move here, but perhaps she had just needed time to let go of Anton. The house needed a bit of work after having sat empty for so long, but not much and nothing she wasn’t willing to do. Valdis was capable of creating things, not just destroying them.

The KPD hasn’t let up on patrols and she’s renewed the watches on the water sources. She now had thirty-seven officers and the support of the Justice Guild, a far cry from where she had started almost a year ago. The addition of four Kirin to the KPD resources had been a bright spot, but now Valdis had to find a caretaker for them. She hoped that the four mounts could help reduce response times to crisis as well as aid in crowd control should something arise. Allying with the Guild of Justice and Arbitration had been a wise move as it seemed to calm things down a bit and give both parties a more stabilizing structure. Now she could hunt...

Comments

[ruinsprofessor]

"No soul?" Raine was immediately intrigued, and briefly forgot the pressing personal concerns in favor of the fascinatingly metaphysical. "How is that possible? How can you be so sure about that?"

...she wondered what Solomon would have made of him.

"I suppose this can wait for you to be done," she allowed after another moment, tolerantly patient.

[simulsimul]

"Noted." On both counts. But that was interesting; Devin had mentioned something about being damned, but Kratos hadn't equated that to a demonic lack. And he certainly still had mana.

This, a topic of thought Kratos would much prefer compared to Zelos's assertion. (He was not right.)

If Raine wanted to stay to discuss the science behind it, Kratos had no objection. He crossed his arms, standing somewhere between the bed and the door (and thus Devin and Raine), and watched Valdis, intent on ignoring anything else for the time being.

[annihilist]

"It's simply a function of my existence," he answered Raine, shrugging lightly. "To be a vampire is to have no soul, at least not within our bodies. They're bound elsewhere, damned for eternity."

His tone was far too cheerful for the subject matter.

"I can talk and work, but if she starts to wake you should find yourself somewhere else," Devin advised needlessly, but the point stood. No one ought to die over this. The wards would have to be bare bones at first, just to keep her here, and he turned to begin working on the other side of the door frame.

[ruinsprofessor]

Well, that's... hm. Raine frowned, and wished very briefly for Solomon to verify the presence or lack thereof of Devin's soul. She'd heard people express doubt about souls before, and yet... "That seems unequal," she noted, ignoring his general cheer about the topic. "How does such a thing come to take place?"

She was too curious to leave now. She'd just take his warning into account.

[annihilist]

"How do I walk and talk and do all other sorts of delightful things without a pulse? Magic, like anything else. Creation twisted into destruction. No one really knows, or those who do don't feel like saying," Devin answered, shrugging lightly. His hands continued to move deftly, leaving more strange indentations in his wake. "If you're turned, your soul goes with your heartbeat, or vice versa. Or you're simply born without either, in my case. We're funny, aberrant creatures, aren't we?"