<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=46369.msg2341125#msg2341125">Quote from: Myrleena on 15-10-2009, 01:38:57</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Sylria</strong>, Atop Winter's Bliss [Sylria &amp; Lillian]<br/>....<br/>"Yes, I am more at ease in the woods.  It puts me more in touch with nature, even if this place feels different.  Almost...alien, I suppose.  But that is probably mostly because <em>I</em> am alien.  Without a past, and likely without a future." I tell her, my voice relaxing a little for the first time in a while, gazing around me. "But my book?  It depends on if you mean <em>my</em> book, or the book I found in your library before I fell asleep in my chair.  The one from your library was...odd.  It had some letters drawn in the dust on its spine, and then, while I was speaking with Ashley, the letters began to bleed."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div class="floatleft">(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3985/lilianmontague.jpg)</div><strong>Lillian Montague</strong>, Atop Winter's Bliss [Sylria & Lillian]<br/><br/>Lillian's eyes opened a bit. "You have a book too? And a book from my library?" She could feel the heat of the girl behind her, against her back. It was distracting. Combined with the movement of Lillian's body in the saddle, it bordered on arousing. "You said, that a book bled on you?" Her mind was trying to make sense of what the elf was telling her, and at the same time she was warring with her own thoughts. Lillian had taken lovers before, and she wondered what her friends would say and think if she attempted to seduce this elven mystery.<br/><br/>"Sylria? What do you think about getting down off this mare? We can sit beneath a tree, if you like, and talk for a bit? I...have some things that I should tell you, about this land, and why I claimed you as a relative, even though we both know you clearly aren't from my bloodline. And you can tell me about the book as well. If something is bothering you at Avonleigh, I want to know about it."<br/><br/>The girl licked her lips, and gently pulled on the reigns. Winter's Bliss came to a stop before an elder tree; it was tall with widespread branches, and there was a bed of leaves at it's base from the prior fall. Lily dismounted easily, sliding from the mare. She put one hand on Sylria's thigh, over her dress, as if to reassure her. "Come, lean down and put your hands on my shoulders and I'll help you off, so you don't fall and hurt yourself."