<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White spoke to Auxana through her magic again. "Mommy no, creating a ring from your soul or life force would be really dangerous. Your soul is very delicate and has to be handled carefully or better yet, not at all. There's no telling what would happen if you took a piece of it. If you can't do it with magic alone then you shouldn't do it, Daddy wouldn't want you to get hurt." </span>If Auxana took a very small part of her soul to make the ring, the consequences wouldn't be permanent, just having this empty and sad feeling for a little while. But if she wasn't careful and took too much, there could be serious and permanent damage unless someone else gave her some of their soul to make up the difference, but not all souls are compatible.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White felt sad, she had this feeling something bad was going to happen soon, but had no idea why she felt that way. "I love you too mommy, so please be careful, I don't want something bad to happen to you."</span><br/><br/>Havoc smiled as Auxana held onto him, he felt good with her there. But there was a nagging feeling that wouldn't go away. He had accepted that he would never unite with anyone, that his problems were too severe to put them on someone else. Uniting was about dealing with personal issues together, he couldn't do that to anyone, his personal issues were horrifying. Going on rages, having spurts of massive energy that needed to get out sometime, or going on depressive lapses where he wanted to die, couldn't even get himself up in the morning. Not to mention seeing people who weren't there, having delusions, and even having times he thought someone he cared about was his enemy and that he should have nothing to do with them. Auxana had not seen all of his issues and how severe they could be, he had accepted no one should unite with him. But now Auxana made him ache deeply for it, he wanted to be that close to her, he wanted to help her with her personal issues, whatever they might be. But he couldn't, so he pushed the feeling away and focused on Auxana being physically close to him, which he appreciated it for it's own self.<br/><br/>Riding as he did with Auxana behind him, was the nicest time traveling he had ever had. Even though he didn't have Mallory to talk to this time, which he was concerned, afraid their father somehow made her gone for good. The trip was fairly uneventful, though a caravan had passed them a short distance away. It was odd because it looked like some of the carts had cages on them, but he couldn't be sure because they were all covered. Havoc wasn't rushing Henry at all and the journey was slow, he didn't mind since it meant Auxana would be this close to him for longer.<br/><br/>Eventually they did reach the village, with a little light left in the day. There was some stables at the edge of town, he took Henry to them and had parked the cart not far away. Havoc didn't know how bad the town would be so he created two skeletal constructs to guard his possessions. He looked at Auxana, he was serious but he couldn't help but smile lightly. "Remember stay close to me, I'll feel better that way. I don't know what the town will be like just yet, most of the ones I've been to have a sort of Patron deity that tells you a little of what to expect." Havoc went with her towards the center of town looking for an inn, as they went they saw the buildings looked pretty nice, though some had dark looks to them. There was one that had a skeletal design to it that looked like Havoc might have built it with his magic. A good number of them were bat themed. Eventually they could see a large black temple in the distance, it had towers and had this somewhat dark look to it.<br/><br/>There didn't seem to be a soul around, Havoc was surprised since they still had a little time before dusk. Then someone did come out, he was a thin man who wore a completely black outfit with unnecessary buckles on it. He yawned and looked as if he had just woken up, he shot some magic above his shop window which made a glowing sign that said 'NightWalker's & Stalker's Shirts, Skirts and Gowns.' Havoc had a pretty good idea which god these people followed with all that he had seen.<br/><br/>Another man then came out of that shop, he wore really tight semi see through dark grey clothing with small metal bats all over it. He kissed the first man on the cheek before talking quietly to him. Havoc liked the first man's outfit a lot and wondered if Auxana would like him in something like that. Havoc smiled at Auxana and said. "Come on, we should ask them where we can find an inn." He held her hand as he walked over to them. Other people came out and were setting other shops up as they walked over to these two.<br/><br/>He was about to ask his question, but the outfits in the window caught his eye and he couldn’t stop staring at them, they were beautiful black skirts with small metal loops and buckles. The man with the bats looked at him and spoke up. “You two look new to town, I’m Stalker, this is Walker. You probably don’t know about the sale we’re having for the Rave tonight. Which you should deeefinetly come to, there’s no dress code, but we’ve got many wonderful outfits for dancing, robes can kind of get in the way.” He was smiling at both of them but his gaze lingered on Auxana for a moment. ”Feel free to look around, we also have a room you can try the clothes on in the back of the shop.”<br/><br/>Havoc rubbed the back of his neck while saying. “Um I don’t know about dancing, for me at least, but would you like to at least look around for a little bit and see if you like anything?” He said to Auxana, kind of hoping she would, this was the style he liked and was interested to see more of what they had. He then added something to the two men before he forgot. “This town worships Meena right? So it’s a more nocturnal town, but I assume you have an inn that we can use at night if we’re tired.” Stalker smiled mischievously at Auxana and said. “Tired, or other things.” Walker playfully hit his companion's arm and answered the question. “Yes, there are two, the best one to go to would be on the west side of town. The other one is closer to the temple for when you're too drunk to get far, the noise would probably keep you up.”<br/><br/>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Kryban wasn’t sure, not doing something for someone else’s sake was completely against everything he knew. That is what came naturally to him, an intense need to do something for someone. Kryban had to be the person people could lean on ever since his dad died. She then kissed him on the cheek and his eyes stopped shining, he was lost in memories and pain.<br/><br/>His wife had kissed him on the cheek when he went out to work the fields the day of the fire, the day everything started to go to hell. It wasn’t just then, all the times she kissed him, did ever mean anything to her, did this to Norah? How could he know? He always thought his wife loved him, and yet she tossed him aside, with nothing he could do about it. If that wasn’t true, how could he know if this was for Norah? Kryban stopped himself, for one he couldn’t lose faith in people, and he didn’t, only when it came to romantic interests, but he didn’t want that either, he should trust Norah not to do what his ex-wife did to him. He also thought about what she said, about not doing anything for each other’s sake.<br/><br/>So he didn’t think about was this real and true for Norah, but if it was real and true for him. It was, he would never abandon Norah as he was. Not out of a sense of duty and what was just, which was the reason why he had done most of the things he had done for his wife in the past years, but because he cared about Norah and that was a feeling out of affection and not a feeling out of rightness. He finally smiled lightly at her as he said. “That idea is definitely going to be different for me. You may have to teach me a little, I hope that’s okay.” Even the simple request for help with this was hard for him. He noticed her hand was back to normal and he was relieved, he wanted to ask about it, but decided it wasn’t important, he was just worried about her. “And you are okay right?”<br/><br/>The caravan then stopped, Torusk opened up the back of the carriage. “I believe we are on the other side of the water of where the slaver’s tracks disappeared from. It’s dark, so stretch your legs, once we make out the trail again we’ll have a ways to go and the best chance we have of catching up to them is resting little, so it’ll be good to take advantage of this.” The others in the carriage got out quickly, but Carmichael looked to Kryban before getting out himself. “If there’s time we’ll have a dreaming in a little while. Norah, you’re welcome to join us.”<br/><br/>Kryban then got out himself and offered Norah a hand in getting out. This kind of tracking wasn’t his strong suit so he didn’t really have anything to do, other than keep Norah company if she allowed him to. Torusk and a couple others could be seen trying to get a sense of things, the physical trail was too old here, but they had a connection to the magical trail that was left. The process of finding it again could take hours, so there was time to do a few things. Kryban noticed that a few of the vampires had started sparring with each other. There were only a few vampires here that wouldn’t require him going easy on them. Not all vampires were equal, the further a generation got from the alpha vampires the less powerful they were, with there being a bottom line that were all equal. Carmichael was pretty close to the alpha line, so he was just one below that. Even with his poor diet, his power was impressive.