Nebb 11-27-2008 05:48 AM<br/>As Rowan was still concentrating on the spell he had cast prior to meeting up with Lady Cutra, and having moved to the front of the building, his area of affect had changed. He sensed Dherris before he actually laid eyes on him. But more importantly he also sensed a few others in the area, the most critical being the Prince, who's arrival was only a few blocks away. He dismantled the spell in his mind before exiting the building and applied one of his attainments â€“ the â€™subtle danceâ€™ as his peers had named it. Since he wasn't doing any magic, sleepers and mages would not notice anything auspicious, like a glowing aura or even having his nimbus being revealed, something he tried to avoid whenever possible. His attainment allowed him the benefit of manipulating the minds of those around him, so that they would only see him as someone they would expect to see. To those on the street, he would simply appear as a passer by, a guy delivering a message or just another nobody. To Dherris and Cutra however, he still appeared as Rowan, the Arch-Mage of the Mastigos. Another benefit, and one he indeed prized himself at having mastered, was the ability to detect subtle changes in fate, such as whether someone was telling the truth, or even reading unconscious behavior. This allowed him to sense small changes in things and people around him that others might miss or mistake for the ordinary.<br/><br/>Rowan walked towards Dherris and Lady Cutra, and a smile appeared on his face as he saw Dherris standing in front of him. A momentary glimmer of dread â€“ or possibly frustration - showed for on Dherris's face for not even a second before he was in complete control once more. Lady Cutra seemed fiercely besotted with him, yet having said that, she was a women and Dherris was a life mage after all. The benefits of which anyone could see, Dherris had made full use of. If oneâ€™s body was a temple, Dherrisâ€™s was a cathedral and even Xavier's battle hardened body had nothing on him. Rowan wondered if the feeling of â€˜loveâ€™ Lady Cutra was feeling had been 'induced', but he couldn't sense any residual magic effects on her. For now he accepted their little Romeo and Juliet dramatic piece, and smirked as he pondered if it would end the same way.<br/><br/>â€œPlease follow me.â€ He stated calmly and softly as he returned to the protection of the Council building. Once inside the confines of the building, Rowan knew that wards had put in place which would prevent any prying eyes and ears from learning anything that was said on the inside of its walls. Something himself and Xavier had deemed necessary since the last meeting had gone so horribly wrong. Even listening devices would stop functioning and once in the meeting chamber, even magic would almost cease to work. Turning to Dherris, Rowan gauged the mage for a moment.<br/><br/>â€œGood evening Dherris. I see your bravery knows no bounds. Having almost killed the last Prince, you show up moments before the new Prince is to arrive. Far be it for me to tell you what to do, but may I suggest you find some place to remain until this meeting has adjourned. Since you have blatantly defied the council, I am going to ask the council to convene afterwords to discuss your future in this city once again, with the hope in finding some middle ground. Perhaps your luck will change and a new outcome will be decided. Unless you of course have any objections to this that isâ€¦?â€<br/><br/>Nebb 11-27-2008 07:49 AM<br/>â€œPrince Enoch, my Sire has taken the 'long rest' and I have served the Ordo Dracul for 10 years since. I have completed every task they have given me and, on request, I have been given leave to follow whatever path I deem necessary, until my Sire awakens."<br/><br/>"Turbulence, war, struggle. These are my reasons for being here. News of this city has reached many a dark corner throughout the world. The stories tell of a constant clash between humans, lycans, mages, and vampires. There was one story however that did stand out more so than any beforeâ€¦the destruction of Elysiumâ€¦ and the countless killed by a new threat. This is also a reason for my being here.â€<br/><br/>A hunter of hunters, a killer of killers. Dragonslayers were embraced with one goal in mind. To take down the most powerful vampire of itâ€™s time. Dracula. Even though Ariel never put too much value into emotion, she felt it wrong that a predator be killed by its prey. And when so many predators perish by the hands of so few prey, then it disturbs the natural balance of things. It was so much more fitting for a predator to die by the hands of another predator.<br/><br/>â€œAs for why I am here. I am Azerkatil.â€ Her inhumanly green eyes staring up at him as if he should know the deeper meaning behind her words.<br/><br/>â€œYou have my word that I will follow and I will obey until the day I leave your city. And if you so wish, Iâ€™d like to request to serve you directly until that day.â€ As she finished these words, she felt the Beast within her subdued. Whether it was her desire for servitude, her need to protect a master, or lust for an enemy to destroy, she felt it was the right way forward and her Beast felt the same. Perhaps it knew something she didn't...<br/><br/>Ladypuppet 11-27-2008 09:12 AM<br/>*Cutra looked over at the man of Rowan and hissed at him through clentched teeth and held onto Dherris arm as the slowly leaned on him and closed her eyes beforeing opening the nice and loving Cutra Rowan had just witness was gone and a more dark cutra replaced it. Walking back into the room she could faintly feel remants of magic use and looked she then stood protectivly infrom of Dherris. Her eyes stared deeply into Rowan almost boring into them.*<br/><br/>*Growling out of pure rage.* "You know just becuase I'm an utter bitch to somepeople doesn't mean that I don't have a heart and it sure as hells means that I can still love one." *She stated as she looked his feet sinking into the floor and being held ther and some vines spourt and held the man's hand in place she wasn't going to take an chance.* "Rowan he not stupid I was the only what that didn't want him to leave the council and your to F***ing stubborn to change you mind." *She hissed out the vines cutting of the circluation to his hand.* "He is hear because he is my new understudy, like it or not he is staying and there will be no second council meeting about weather Dherris stays." *Raise a brow she waited for the man to object.*<br/><br/>Nebb 11-27-2008 12:05 PM<br/>Rowan didnâ€™t need to use magic to see the change in Cutraâ€™s psyche. She wasnâ€™t acting herself, emotionally she was taking strain and whatâ€™s more, she wasnâ€™t behaving as one as with the responsibility of being a Council member should.<br/><br/>Rowan knew Cutra could lose her position on the council if any mage decided to press the issue of her aiding or embedding an exiled mage. On that premise alone she should have displayed more control.<br/><br/>Attacking a council member within the confines of the council hallsâ€¦ requesting the cooperation of an exiled mage that was known to have gone against Council wishes, hers included, not once, but twice.<br/>Attacking and almost killing the Prince at meeting at which the visitors safety should have been assured, and disrupting the only chance they had at resolving Solaceâ€™s blatant problems.<br/><br/>The situation could have be far worse, and from Rowan's perspective, she was getting off lightly. But it didnâ€™t seem as if she cared. She didnâ€™t seem to have a grasp on things, or if she did, it seemed to be only just. He could change that of course, but he would not directly assault a council member unless the council decided otherwise. She had earned that right from Rowan's perspective. However, if her erratic behavior did not stop, he could possibly be forced to defend himself. And unlike most mages however, Rowan only rarely used his magic on other mages, and when he did, it was as a final resort and rarely with good consequence. He felt a touch of anger flair up. How could they not see he was trying to help?<br/><br/>â€œCutra, if you truly feel love towards Dherris, then you must know that this is NOT the way to convince us. Do you really think you can get your way by attacking and killing all the mages who don't agree with you? Wipe away your blind hatred and see clearly that my intentions are not ill intended. I am not your enemy.â€<br/><br/>Tied up as he was, Rowan gave Dherris a cold calculating look, which spoke volumes of what he was capable of should the need arise. He then looked back at Cutra waiting either of them to respond.<br/><br/>Ladypuppet 11-27-2008 12:17 PM<br/>*Cutra looked at him, maybe she wasn't acting herslef she wasn't going to lost another person she cared about. Her Mind swriled around as she shook her head trying to clear it her hands went and sliped through her hair she fell to her knees as she felt the tears slip from her eyes and down her cheek shaking soflty. She closed her eyes and whimmpered to herslef. Had she truely lost who she was all over this man, this exiled mage? Would he be the end of her?*<br/><br/>*Cutra had not attacked the mage, she had only made it so that he could not attack her or Dherris, she wasn't going to let another fight happen in her council hall. She wasn't excatly ebbeding the man, she had took him under her wing, if he went anywhere he couldn't work after his repuataion being trashed, he had no were else to go. She keep her eyes tightly closed and shivvered scream out of frustration, tense and pain. A pain that peirced her heart on that she had never felt before. What had happened to her. It all started after the night she fainted she seemed off, but why? *<br/><br/>*Soon the vines released him as well as the floor her mana faded and retruned her swirling around her make a visiable black orb around her. She couldn't find herself, she couldn't clear her mind, it was almost as if she had changed into a new person. She spoke in a softy raspy voice a wishper.* "I don't want to lose, I don't want to hurt." *She spoke out not making much of any sense, she was fine untill Dherris came and then its like she completly changed. What controled did this man have over her.(Not literaly.) * "Yet you voted him off with no remores, no caring, I know your not an enemy." *She looked she riased her hand and grabbed the clothing above her heart feeling it hurt with every heartbeat. She was having another mental break down. She looked feeling weak and pathic and arch-mage reduced to this, a sob blob on the floor, shivvering again. Her tears it the floor making softly plattering sounds trying to regain her composer*