Silas' grip on Kallista's hand did not make her loosen her grip in the slightest, her eyes still intently focused on Cherry's terrified ones. "Kallista," Silas said softly, "She's a vampire. Of course she bit a human. How was she to know the human's love would come after her?" There Silas went, making Kallista feel as if she were the unreasonable one. Her grip loosened only slightly, "Now come, you're scaring Paetra," Silas said, turning away with the confidence that Kallista would relent.<br/><br/>She did, sort of. She turned her head slightly to look over to Paetra worriedly, her anger renewing at the sight of Paetra's frail form. "You live today," she bit out to Cherry, tossing her over the bar and causing her to crash into the shelf of glasses. A cacophony of glass hitting the floor filled the room, along with the coughing and choking of Cherry regaining her breath. She had been making her peace with death when Silas had finally piped up. She decided it was probably best to just sit where she was and collect her wits--maybe wait until Raz came back from the room. Kallista was much more terrifying than she had ever imagined. Raz was right, she was too cocky for her own good.<br/><br/>"We'll have to send her to a new school, sheill. I think this might've kick started your genes in her," Silas said to Kallista, causing the dark haired woman to turn with even more concern etched on her face. "That is a disappointment," she said softly in her native tongue. She had hoped that somehow Paetra would take more after her father.<br/><br/>"Maybe mine, too," Silas continued as he brushed back some of Paetra's hair, revealing her newly pointed ears. "She might never age..." he said in elven, clearly not wanting Paetra to understand him. Kallista was much more fluent in elven than she was new common and responded with ease, "What do you mean? That she will be stuck as a teenager?" Kallista asked with a slight hitch to her voice, panicked at the thought of having to deal with a teenager for the rest of her life.<br/><br/>Before Kallista could say much more, the sound of sirens wailing approached the club and soon there were emts to help Paetra. "What happened?" one of them asked, clearly disturbed by the body that was oozing in the corner. "It does not matter," Kallista replied with a pointed look. The emts looked at one another and seemed to come to a consensus that only getting the girl to the hospital mattered. "I will go with Paetra," Kallista said turning to Silas, "Will you go pick up our things?" she asked softly, the adrenaline from the day beginning to drain from her now that help had arrived.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>As Mira rushed towards her escape, Kai had managed to catch up to her. He placed an arm softly against her back while the children ran back to their instructor. Mira, for the most part, was mostly focused on trying to calm her rapidly beating heart. "Sorry. I forgot you weren't used to being around us yet," Kai started gently, "though it's good the children like you. That'll go a long way towards making a case for you being allowed to go on living. Or at least, living as a human. I recommend trying to spend some more time with them, for your own sake." The woman shook her head in the negative, her chin crumpling some as she tried her best not to become overwhelmed by her emotions.<br/><br/>Kai either did not notice or decided to not comment on Mira's defeated expression and instead began to lead her to a wall that seemed to be totally blacked out. The strange man turned to look at Mira to watch her expression as he led her into the room. Mira's eyes filled up with wonder and awe as she took in the variety of bio luminescent plants---especially the vines that seemed to crawl up the high walls, lighting up the room with their own source.<br/><br/>"Welcome to the Dark Room," Kai finally said with a grin, "This is where the plants that are hardest to care for are kept, along with some of the magical ones. I wanted to teach you about these first, because the ones outside will seem like child's play if you can learn these. Plus they're a lot prettier to look at. Come on. We're going to the top floor." Mira, who had only been half listening, turned to look as Kai held out his hand to her. She took a step back and gave him an incredulous look, baffled as to why he thought she would be willing to hold his hand. As pretty as the plants were, they sure as fire didn't make her want to hold his damn hand.<br/><br/>"It's because of the vines. Watch," he stated with a roll of his eyes. He walked towards one of the walls, only for the plants to begin shriveling up as he came within a few paces of them. When he walked away, the vines seemed to spring back to life. Mira furrowed her eyes, confused as to why a plant would do such a thing. "I did say they were hard to care for. They don't let anyone walk around in here alone. Besides, I'm sure taking my hand won't hurt you," he stated, his hand held out once more, "It won't be for long. Just until we get to the top floor."<br/><br/>Mira was rather hesitant, but decided to humor Kai. If a single plant shriveled up when they passed, she'd immediately let him go on the count of him being a liar. If the plants were fine, then fine, she could handle holding his hand until they got to the top floor. She begrudgingly put her hand in his and allowed him to lead them further into his insane world.<br/><br/>"Why are there kids here, Kai? This doesn't seem like a great place to have young, impressionable children," Mira finally said after a few moments of quiet walking. "In fact, how did you even end up with godchildren? None of this place makes any sense," Mira stated, clearly starting to go down some rabbit hole with her thoughts. "Is any of this even real? And what's with the porcelain lady? What the hell was she staring into my soul for? I could feel that, you know. I couldn't see her eyes, but I felt them...."