Remnants of the Earth
SPACE STATIONS => The Cancer => Topic started by: Anonymous on October 03, 2007, 08:47:43 pm
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Vulcan was 'dead' for most of the day. It wasn't until evening fell that his heart started beating again-- it was the Kalicrate in him, or perhaps whatever bit of human lingered, but either way, his heart beat and he did breath. With the circulation returning to his limbs, the stump of his wrist oozed slowly along with the many abraisons his wings had recieved when he attempted to use them a catapolts to get himself up off the ground and away from his attackers. His body shivered and a cold sweat broke out across his ashen face, but he didn't wake up, not yet.
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“Meow!�
Even in the form of a cat, Raichou was just as curious as ever, if not more so. The Space Station Cancer was fascinating but she could only hang around the Red District so long before getting bored so she had snuck into the Gold District when some important looking official guy had been careless and had left the door open too long. A fly could so easy fit through.
The Gold District was a little disappointing though, it was quiet and mostly deserted, only a few people in uniforms came back and forth not even noticing a small silver furred cat with startlingly human like blue eyes wandering around.
So far she had seen the armoury which was full of several tempting weapons but they were too big for a pussy cat to sneak out. Some looked quite dangerous which made Raichou love them all the more, it wasn’t the fact they could kill that she liked but more the idea that she was holding something that could destroy things.
The small cat passed the entrance to the bridge but didn’t enter, there was more chance in there that someone might actually notices her and she couldn’t have that, the Gold District was a restricted area after all. She merely glanced in and saw the usual collection of administrative staff and pilots so carried on along the metal corridor.
She was just considering going back when she noticed something out the corner of her eye. She stopped abruptly and looked back just to check she was indeed seeing what she though she was. Lying on the ground surrounded by blood was a man.
Raichou walked up to him cautiously, he was in bad shape but it seemed there was too much blood for the wounds he had…how odd. She headed towards his face and nudged his head with her own. She wasn’t sure if it would wake him but if he was found there he would be in trouble, unless of course he died before he could be given the punishment.
“Hey mister!� Raichou tired to say but it came out as “Mew!�
Damn the cat body, she thought but she daren’t turn into her normal form, someone might find her and lets face it, her own skin was more important to her than some random guy’s.
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The scientis noticed the cat "GET OUT OF HERE YOU ANNOYING PEST!" the 34yr old yelled kicking the cat out of the way "Unless you want to be experimented on too" he then followed the men in jumpsuits as they carried the stretcher with the creature on into the Lab it's doors shutting and locking anyone without proper identification out. "Put him the cage yes that one" the men nodded and unlocked the vamp's limbs and lifted albeit roughly into the large cage. A girl with white hair and souless empty eyes entered the room "Ahh Sana be a good girl and chain my new subject up will you" "yes master Muraki" the girl said and entered the cage taking the Vampire wrists and ankles and shackling them she also put a metal collar around his neck, "Good girl" the man said, "thank you master" the girl replied. She appeared to be about 6 or 7yrs old but she was actually no more than 2yrs old and one of Muraki's greatest achivements.
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If Vulcan had had even a fraction of his strength under his control at the moment, it was unlikely they would have succeeded in getting him into the cage, but as it was, the only reaction even the cat had gotten out of him was a reflexive tilt of the head towards her warmth and blood scent. His body was in survival mode. It needed food, it didn't nessicarily need to waste what energy stores he had left by being concious and mobile. He looked rather ill, still pale and sweating just enough for his skin to gleam. He was hot to the touch, which was extremely unusual for him, being vampire and all.
As the little girl touched him, his mouth opened just slightly, revealing the tips of his incisors.
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Sometimes being a cat was very annoying, lots of people hated cats. However at that particular moment Raichou wasn’t a cat, she was a mouse instead and was scurrying through the ventilation looking for the guy who had kicked her, or at the very least that injured guy, he had been…interesting…which made a change; the rest of Cancer was boring.
Mice had very good noises, to hunt for food with, but she was using her nose to follow the scent of the wounded man’s blood, she figured if she found him she’d find the jerk anyway. For the task she’d be better off in the form of a dog but they couldn’t fit through the ventilations shafts.
Raichou followed her nose until she came to one particular shaft which looked right down into a room with a large cage and in the cage the wounded guy, looking just as bad. There was a strange girl as well who a very unusual scent. She put a metal collar around the man’s neck causing his mouth to open slightly, revealing…fangs?
“So he’s a vampire…� Raichou said in mice language which sounded more like a squeak sound.
This made things even more interesting. She had heard of vampires, creatures of the night, nosferatu or whatever people called them but she had never met one. Smiling a smile (or as close to a smile as a mouse could get) like someone about to watch an execution, Raichou transformed from a mouse into a midge, something so small it was unlikely anyone would notice it and if they did they wouldn’t pay her any mind.
She flew down towards the vampire, a little disorientated now the world had suddenly got much bigger, and landed on his shoulder. She was surprised to feel heat radiating off the vampire’s face, that wasn’t normal…
She then turned her attention to the girl. Raichou was certain she hadn’t noticed her. Who would notice a midge anyway? ...Well maybe an insect enthusiast.
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Souless orbs looked up at the man "He is ill master what do wish to do with it?" came the little girl's voice with no emotion in it, "Hmm I suppose that is a problem can't have a sick subject or he might be alive long enough for me to study" the unstable scientist said and then thought for a moment " ahh yes " he thought "Sarane come here" a teenage girl with silver gray hair came running up " yes master Muraki" "I want you to take care of this creature until it's back to full strength for my studies" ruby eyes looked at the vamp chained land caged like an animal "yes master Muraki I will do that" "good girl" the scientist said and walked away "come Sana we have experiments to do" "yes master" the small yokai said and walked alomst soundlessly after him the only sound she made were of her bare feet on the marbled floor. Sarane watched them leave and got an icebag from the freezer and a blood bag from the medical cabinet . She entered the cage and began to gently wiped the vampire's hot skin with it, she stopped for a minute to put her hand to his forehead " he's burning up who could have down this to him?" she wondered as she eased him to a laying position as far as the chains would let him and placed the icebag on his forehead and then exited the cage and watched as the men in jumpsuits locked it.
My nightmares
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His body was fighting off poisons and venoms from the land he had died in and the creatures he had fought, hence the fever that just kept spiking. Had he been human, it would have fried his brain already, but, being heatproof, it didn't harm him, though it seemed highly likely that it would.
THe ice began melting, and he began shivering, the restraints clattering, bolts loosening as he was much stronger than a human. Feverishly, his eyes opened and landed on the girl, trying to focus, but failing. She was a blurry outline that wavered in his vision, followed by much blobbier looking figures (men in jumpsuits).
He opened his mouth as if he would speak, but his stomach muscles clenched. If he'd eaten anything in the past several days, he might have vomited, but he simply made a hissing groan and slumped against the chains.
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Sarane watched the vamp opening his eyes but they were glazed over with fever and she watched him slump in his chains, the men in jumpsuits began to leave and she used her physic powers to take the cage key from one of their belt loops once she had it she unlocked the cage and entered kneeling down next to him she gently stroked his hair the way a mother would a sick child and sent a cooling wave to his forehead with her magic that she had learned. " Poor thing he's so ill" she thought the vampire needed a warm bed not chained in a cage in a labortory, but she then decided she would be the vamp's friend and take care of him.
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I need to feed His mental voice whispered to her's, but then somewhere his his feverwracked brain, logic penitrated. If he fed, he quite likely would vomit. That settled it. Feeding was out of the question. Water He whispered in the same faint mental voice. I need water He could still vomit water, but not having water would end up being worse than not drinking anything after another day or so.
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Sarane was a little shocked to hear his voice thinking he was out cold and nodded at his request walking out of the cage and returning with a soaked cloth , she gently placed the cloth by his mouth "Here you go take it easy though" the Dhampir girl said gently.
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Vulcan sucked at the cloth, his fangs slightly more visable now, though they weren't huge. He could even pass for human if he wanted to. He'd seen humans with 'fangs' bigger than his own-- theirs just weren't as sharp. Thank you....what happened to me? He was trying to piece it together, but so far, things were still too heat fogged to make sense of. He drew a deep breath, his lungs rattling slightly. She smelled good. He tried to disern her age, her species and her living arrangements by the smell of her. It was easier than waking up fully.
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"Your welcome er... well um you were very injured when you were found and well ..." Sarane thought for a momnent how did you explain to someone that they were in a lab and were going to be experimented on "okay Sarane just come out and say it" she thought " You were found by my master and are in lab to be studied" the words scame out a hurried rush " okay now my turn my first question is who are you and why were you injured like that , my name is Sarane by the way" the girl said.
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Vulcan's marigold and red eyes opened sharply for a split second, locking his intense gaze on her before vanishing behind the lids once more, leaving a person wondering if it had happened at all. He'd been studied before. He didn't enjoy it in the least. Of course that 'studying', had been much closer to torture than science. Technically, that is two questions, but, I will answer them anyway. I am Vulcan, and I ran across a couple rather nasty creatures. Tell me, Sarane....do I have both hands? Being chained as he was, he couldn't see his limbs, but he remembered seeing the monster chewing on his hand, and spitting the mangled thing out after Vulcan suggested he was poisonous. However, he wouldn't have been surprised to learn he had halusinated the entire experience. At least...that's what I recall happening. I've been wrong before. I feel as if I've been poisoned, or possibly envenomated, so, in all honesty, anything is possible. His stomach clenched again, involuntarily, his body jerked against the chains. He pulled the cloth deeper into his mouth, trying to gain more water out of it, but not finding enough to satisfy his dehydration. If nothing else, he was good at drawing fluid out of things. He trembled as little, though he didn't seem to be afraid. It was the trembling of a man under tremendous physical strain, in his case, the strain of pain in old injuries and not allowing that to cause him to loose control of anything.
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"Nice to meet you Vulcan " the gir lsaid and looked down at his hands she really hadn't noticed before "Oh wow how did that happen" she exclaimed gently lifting the arm of a wrist up "No wonder you burning up this is infected" She said turning around and using her physic powers again to get a bottle of alchol "Now this is really really going to burn I'm sorry" Sarane apolgized and poured the clear liquid onto the stub.
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One of the creatures bit it off Vulcan said with a slight grimace Infection doesn't surprise me. It reeked of that foul ocean and polution He paused as she brought out the alcohol. Check the chains first...I'm not sure what my body might do in reaction to that... He tried to warn before it was poured on, but wasn't quite quick enough. He bit clean through his lip, as he muffled any cry of pain, but he was straining the restraints as his body faught to get away from the pain.
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Raichou had been watching the exchange between the vampire and the girl, who she suspected might be a similar creature to the vampire. It seemed he had been in some sort of fight with some monsters and they had left him in such a state. Raichou was disappointed; she thought vampires were stronger than that.
When the vampire acted like such a baby and thrashed about in pain when the girl ‘Sarane’ put the alcohol on his stump, Raichou, though a midge and in theory should have good grip, was thrown clean off him. In her surprise she nearly lost hold of her form. It would not be good if she accidentally reverted back to her normal, human shape. She landed on the floor of the cage, obviously unnoticed in the small midge form.
It didn’t surprise Raichou that her current location was a research laboratory. Though TRIM was the main place for scientific research, they had tried to catch Raichou many times as Shape-shifters were rare, other places did perform research. She never expected the Space Station Cancer would harbour something like that though. Most scientists wouldn’t ‘lower themselves’ to work there.
However such a place did exist and Raichou was there and in danger if she was caught. One voice in her head told her to leave in case someone had noticed her in midge form. However the more ‘sensible’ voice or at least in her eyes, told her to stay and see what happened, she didn’t have anything better to do and there were plenty of scientists willing to pay for information on what their rivals were doing.
Ever the one to look for danger and thrill, Raichou decided to change her form to something a little bit bigger, easier to notice and harder to hide in. If she was any kind of shape-shifter she should be able to escape even if she was noticed. And she wanted to be noticed.
She slipped behind the thrashing vampire and changed into a mouse again. Then she quickly scurried up the vampire and into one of his pockets. If he hadn’t noticed that then he just as weak a vampire and she thought.
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Sarane winced as the vamp' body fought to escape the pain "I'm sorry" she said again. "Well well looks like its awake" a voice from behind said and it shivers down her spine. As a man in his mid-thirties entered the cage "well what is this?" he asked picking up the stub "It looks like his hand got chewed off well just an excuse for an experiment I suppose" the man said and grinned insanely. "M-m-master Muraki" the girl stuttered "Yes what is it my dear" "He is not well yet mayb.." she didn't get to finish as she was backhanded and sent flying into the metal door of the cage, "DON"T TELL ME HOW TO DO MY JOB GIRL!" the scientist shouted.
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Vulcan had noticed the smell of another creature in the room, but hadn't been able to find it as the midge...not to mention the fact that this was a whole new place, and for all he knew, it always smelled like that, but when the thing crawled across his chest and into his pocket, his mind followed it. What are you? Friend or Foe? He mentally asked the mouse. He was only half vampire, and being driven to the verge of hallusinations by fever. Given the circumstances, a bad reaction to a dose of alcohol on a severed limb was not so bad. As the girl was thrown across the room, he spliced his mental voice and asked her Are you alright young one? She had been kind to him, and attempted to help, despite that she technically worked for the person responsible for his situation-- at least the being chained in a lab part. He couldn't very well get up and go to her at this point, and he suspected this Muraki wouldn't appriciate the fact that she had 'befriended' him in a way.
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Raichou would have smiled if it were not for her mouse body, this vampire wasn’t so unobservant after all. However being a mouse meant she couldn’t reply, not unless she turned back into a human.
However when the scientist snapped at his little pet, changing into her human form looked appealing, just to see what reaction she would get from the them. But a human shape was far too recognisable, her own anyway. She could turn into the scientist, that would freak him out, or the girl…or even the vampire…
She squeaked a little evil mouse chuckle as she had a more amusing idea. She scurried down the vampire to the floor in plain view of all three of them then changed into another form. This form was an animal that had mostly died out when the earth began to and as a result few had seen them. However they were rather menacing looking. This creature had four legs and sharp claws not unlike the cat, however it was much bigger, had sharp teeth and silver and black stripes along its body. It was called a tiger and could do more than enough damage.
Raichou fixed her gaze on the scientist and gave a spine chilling growl.
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"oh please you think that scares I've dealt with more gruesome beasts than you" the scientist sneered and called for the retrival team the men in jumpsuits returned and restrained the large cat and shoved it out the door of the lab. "Activate the electric shock waves on the vents and doors I don't want to be interrupted again" "Yes sir Dr.Muraki" the men said and one of them flipped a switch and the vents suddenly had light blue electricity at the entrance. "As for you vampire I have plans for you" he grinned evilly and ordered the men to bring the vampire onto an examanation table where his limbs were restrained. "Now don't bother trying to break free these restraints as well as those chains are made with a substance that creatures like you cannot break now let's see what fun I can have with that mangled hand of yours' ah yes I always wanted to try fitting a mechanical body part" the insane man chuckled to himself as he went to a closet and brought out a mechanical hand. "Now I'm going to attach each of your nerves to this automail of course I could give you anesthetic but what fun would that be" Yenzen said as he began to cut open the stump with a knife.
Sarane moaned as she opened her eyes she then saw what the insane man she was forced to call "master" was doing she shut her eyes and covered her ears "I'm so sorry Vulcan" she whispered.
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Vulcan's eyes slid closed as what little color he had left drained. The room grew warmer and the tremmors rumbled through the building. "I wouldn't recommend doing that" Vulcan breathed. There was no threat in his tone, but he was well aware he was quite capable of leveling the building if he lost control of his powers-- or lashed out in blind pain. Either way, things could be troubled. Sarane, if you are able to, I recomend finding a secure place, away from the outer walls and sharp objects. Find a safe room, no gas lines, no glass. A suit might be good to have nearby. He warned, being careful to let his mental voice go only to the young girl.
His limb was infected, and surprisngly badly for as recently as the wound had been made. The inflamed red was spreading up his ghostly white arm while the stump itself had taken to oozing pus with the blood, particularly under the doctor's knife.
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"Oh you wouldn' t would you well maybe I should cause you so much pain you pass out how about that Vampire!" the scientist sneered as he began to attach each nerve to the piece of machinary more roughly than he should while pouring alchohol on it laughing insanely.
Sarane ran out of the cage and into a room in outside the building " I hope you don't die Vulcan" she said to herself.
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Vulcan's keen ear, or perhaps his mental ability picked up Sarane's thought. He found it amusing. He had died many times, and while he wasn't technically dead as true vampires were, he wasn't exactly alive either. "Wouldn't recommend that either" Vulcan seemed to communicate though it wasn't clear if he had spoken or how he had informed the doctor of this. He really hoped the little girl found shelter. If he passed out, he would have no control, and for all he knew, every volcano in the galaxy could go off, magnetic fields go crazy and knock the station right out of the sky....or, he could just melt the walls and send them all sprawling into space. None of those senarios he wanted, but any were possible if his power went awry at full strength. His breathing was severely strained, sweat breaking out over his entire body, soaking into his hair, his shirt, his pants, socks, shoes, the table. If he hadn't been dehydrated to start with, he surely would be soon. His fever continued to spike, the temperature in the room continued right along with it. Run my friends, run Vulcan's mind whispered, truely afraid of what he might do. Images of friends past flickered before his eyes, but he resisted the urge to speak with them. He didn't want the doctor to know they were there. Wait, but they aren't there, not really. Vulcan tried to shake himself from the hallusinations. Not real. It's just the fever. THey're dead. They can't be here. He kept telling himself over and over, but as the pain and the fever seemed to have no end, keeping his mind in reality grew more difficult. The room was beginning to shimmer with heat like the air above a summer sidewalk, and Vulcan's eyes glazed in his sweat soaked face.
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Raichou was not happy. The stupid scientist hadn’t been scared of her, well not that she expected him to be, she just wanted to show him what a much more interesting prize she was. But he hadn’t been interested.
She slid down the wall she was leant against into sitting position, in human form now. She had long silver hair, her bangs pulled back with a clip to stop them getting in the way and her eyes were a misty blue colour. Though dressed in a quite a long blue dress she could still fight quite well in it but then again she did most of her fighting in the form of another creature.
“Maybe the dragon might have sparked his interest….� Raichou muttered to herself.
Any animal Raichou had seen she could turn into. However if she had seen a picture of them she could adjust the DNA map she had of another creature, that’s how she could turn into a tiger, a cat was very similar to one.
“Hmm. Guess there’s nothing I can do now…� she sighed still sat on the floor.
Suddenly she heard the door hiss and the girl Sarane ran out. Had the scientist kicked his pet out too? Maybe he felt she had been helping the vampire too much. One thing Raichou did know, it was none of her business
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Yenzen finished attaching the mechanics and then felt the temperature in the room "What the hell so you have some powers after all creature" the scientist said smirking when a younger who looked 7 came in "We must go master" the girl said "yes I suppose I'm a little dissapointed I didn't get to do more studies but oh well" the unstable man said and followed the girl into one of the districts escape pods. People were running screaming for their lives especially the ones who worked in the lab, Sarane quickly jumped to her feet and ran inside the building. When she saw the vampire and what stae he was in she knew she had to do something or else they were all doomed. She grabbed a cold cloth and some water , coming back to the table she pushed the button that unlocked the vamp's limbs and began to gently wiped away the sweat and hopefully bring down his spiking temperature. She began to slowly pour water into Vulcan's mouth careful not to pour too much.
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Vulcan's mechanical hand flexed, and as the restraints were removed, his first instinct was to attempt to attack, but as he caught her scent, he realized who it was Sarane his mind whispered fondly as he accepted the water almost greedily, his eyes growing less glazed. He wanted to snatch the water from her and down the whole thing all at once, but knew very well that would make him exceedingly ill very quickly. Why are you still here dear one? He closed his eyes and started reeling in his wayward powers, lowering the temperature of the room, though he couldn't control his fever in the same manner. The cooling with the water did seem to be helping. Do they still have antibiotics in this era? The alcohol had been the first step, but as the infection was spreading up his arm, he was going to need something more....especially now that there was a mechanical arm preventing any drainage of the wound. Not that an infection could kill him like it could a person, but it would certainly make his life rather misurable.
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She smiled "Well I couldn't just leave you here now could I" she then heard his his other request antibiotics oh yeah she ran to the cupard using a mit so she wouldn't burn her hand on the scalding metal handle she grabbed two bottles of amber colored liquid and a syringe. " This is going to take care of that infection and also clear that drainage away" the girl said and filled the syringe with the antibiotic "I have to eject this into yor arm it might sting a little though" she warned as the needle pennatrated his skin and the liquid was injected.
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For someone who had just had metal attatched to his nerves, he took the injection very well Thank you He said, slowly opening and focusing his eyes on her. He cleared his throat, and though he was a little hoarse and still somewhat parched, he spoke. His voice was gentle, but subtle on the intonations. In general, his voice tended to lack inflection. "Are you not going to flee with your master? Or has he....fled and left you behind?" He tried to word it delicately, not knowing if she liked her situation or not, but he was trying to descern if she had been left, or if she would be reunited with her master at some point. He was fond of her, and owed her a debt for her kindness to him.
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Raichou couldn’t help but notice the temperature increase. She didn’t know how but she knew that the vampire was involved, why would the scientist be interested in him if he was just a normal vampire?
She wasn’t going to stick around and check though. She stood up and noticed that Sarane seemed to have noticed the change in temperature too and had raced back into the room. She hadn’t seemed to notice Raichou at all. Well if Sarane wanted to risk her life so be it. Raichou certainly wasn’t going to. She changed into a tiger again and raced down the corridor to make her escape.
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"I guess he did but I'm sorta glad I didn't stay with him willingly you know" the girl replied " I was created here and was forced to call him "master" the only reason I wasn't kept in a cage and experimented on is because of my special powers" she said not knowing why she was telling the vampire her past.
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"What are your special powers little one?" Vulcan asked as he slowly tried to sit up, but decided that wasn't such a good idea when the room started spinning. Eyes closed, he motioned for more water. He'd lasted so far, he intended to get through this entire ordeal without the torture of vomit.
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She poured more water in his mouth "I'm a physic and there is something else but I'm afraid to tell you it I don't want you to hate me" the silver haired girl answered she had made friends many times before but once they learned what she was then they all became afraid of her or hated her.
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Vulcan waited to make sure the water was staying down before he spoke "Sweetheart, I'm a vampire, I drink blood, I cause volcanos to errupt, I've wiped out entire islands and villages, I was friends with a plant monster, mind linked with a warlock, I've known a couple of werewolves, you've given me no reason to hate you. I don't care what you are, I only care about who you are."
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"Okay well I was born human but I died in birth so Murakai took my body and fused my human DNA with a vampire DNA to create a copy of a Dhampir" she said and waited for his reply.
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"I see no reason why that should cause me distress." Vulcan replied easily. He didn't agree with creatures being fabricated in the lab, but that was hardly her fault, and there was no reason to hold it against her. "I think though, that we might ought to see what supplies are left, and find a way out of here."
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"You mean you'd still take me with you?" Sarane asked no one had accepted her so quickly before she had been told all her life that other people would hate and despise her for what she was. "right supplies" she ran out of the room and came back with a duffle bag which was filled with food , water and money "There's an escape pod down the hall we can use that can you walk?" the silver haired girl asked the vampire had sustained many painful looking injuries along with the added mechanics.
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"Like I can honestly fault you for being something other than human-- the same creature as myself no less" He commented, his marigold and crimson eyes casting her a glance. She was vampire, he was vampire. Neither were full blooded. It was more a perfect match than it was something to be repulsed by. When she asked if he could walk he stated, "I'll manage" having not thought about his injuries. They weren't so painful when he didn't move, but He was exceedingly glad they weren't being persued. "You may have to help me up though..." Potentually, he could have picked himself up with his wings if the room had been bigger. "Do you have vampire strength, child?" If so, it would come in very useful. If she had the strength of a mortal child, she wasn't going to be much help in getting him on his feet and keeping him there, but it wouldn't be the first time he'd had to leave a place while feeling nearly dead.
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"Yes but I've never really tried it though" the girl said taking one of the older vamp's arms and putting it around her shoulders after a few moments struggle she finally managed to get him to his feet. "Okay the pod is around the corner and down the hallway" Sarane said picking up the bag with the supplies "Follow me" she said and led the way out of the lab and down the hallway until they reached a room that said EXPERIMENT FOOD STORAGE ROOM "I found this a few months ago I thought it was suspicious that they would want to feed creatures they would want dead or tortured" the silver haired half-vamp explained.
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Vulcan's walk down the hall was more of a stagger, but he kept up easily enough, his seemingly exceedingly heavy mechanical arm clutched to his chest so the weight of it wouldn't pull his new hand free of his biological arm. "Aye, that is a suspicious one." He agreed "Good job." He let her lead the way in. "Do you happen to know how to work one of these things?" He'd never really kept up with technology, though he was actually pretty good at figuring things out when he sat down and worked at it.
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"I read a manual for it once when one of them was being repaired the green button is for Go and the blue button is for stop and I think you know what the handles are for right" Sarane explained opening the hatch and sitting down in a seat.
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Vulcan half collapsed into a seat as he looked at the handles, and then at his new hand, watching the fingers flex with a metalic clatter. Well, that put a damper on stealth. A frown crossed his face for a moment before he set aside the frustration and simply gripped the handles. "Are we ready then?" He asked, eyeing his surroundings and going through mental checklists to ensure they had gathered what they needed.
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She nodded "Do you know where we're going?" Saranae asked she had lived her entire life cooped up in the labortory she had never even saw pictures of other places the scientists thought it would only provoke rebellion and attempted escape but all the scientists were gone now scared away by the rising temperature. Or so she thought her ruby eyes widened as a man cloaked in a white lab coat stumbled into the room his eyes crazed the man was obviously insane he lifted the gun he had and fired repeatadly, Sarane screamed in terror.
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Vulcan was more than willing to take the bullets for his little friend. Getting shot was unfortunately nothing new to him. He'd live. He had so far, even after he'd died. Springing up with vampire speed, he imposed himself between the shooter and Sarane and lunged straight for the shooter. Normally, he refrained from drinking human blood unless perhaps a friend agreed to sacrifice a pint for his health. He rarely took it from an unwilling victim, and even more rarely took enough to be lethal, but if he got his fangs into this scientist, he was having a meal. He would need to it to start the healing process. Hopefully he'd caught all the bullets in some part of his body and prevented them from hitting Sarane, or damaging the shuttle.
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Sarane had her arms covering her head her small shoulders shaking from fear she kept trying to look u pto see what was happening but her body was frozen her mind was blank all she could see was the shuttle floor beneath her. She could hear the gasps of the scientist , the gun dropping to the floor but they sounded distant and far away. It reminded her of that horrible day when she first witnessed a life taken.
A 2yr old girl with silver hair walked down the aisle of the labortory she heard sounds coming from one of the rooms she opened it and found a small puppy with goat like horns on it's head and a tail like a cat in a cage "Hi puppy" she said and opened the door as the furry creature bounded out and she began to giggle as it licked her face she then heard footsteps "Oh there you are Sarane why don't you put the puppy down for a moment" Dr.Yenzen Muraki said as the little toddler came to him "I wouldn't want my most succesful creation getting hurt" he said as he pulled out a gun and fired. Ruby eyes widened , crimson blood splattered her white dress the puppy lay dead in a pool of blood with a bullet hole through it's heart. The small child began to sob
"Don't cry my dear it was just a failed experiment" the scientist said taking the girl out of the room and shutting it.
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Vulcan couldn't bring himself to do it in front of her. He'd taken many lives, most of them without meaning to through various disasters he'd caused by losing control of his tectonic powers while on earth. Pulling away from the scientist, he pushed him out the door and secured it, making sure they were on the inside and everyone else was on the outside. "Sarane?" He gasped, bleeding heavily as he barely made it into the chair next to her, knowing if he ended up on the floor, he'd never manage to get all the way back up again. "Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" He reached up to pull her hands from her face, prepared to examine every inch of her if she couldn't answer him.
His mouth was surpisingly clean considering he'd just fed off a man. The inside was stained red, but his lips and outward were fairly untouched. It wasn't like a movie vampire, first of all, that was wasteful, and second of all, he didn't like to be a slob. Her mind was at work, he could tell that much, but didn't want to invade it. "He'll live...or at least he won't die by my hand." He was after all, in the space station where they experimented on people and creatures. Vulcan couldn't actually say what his fate would be, but it would not be death by him that day.
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She looked up at him she could see that he was bleeding heavily and in pain "no" she breathed out the scent of blood was making her head hurt "Can we go now please?" she asked wanting to leave before anyone else came.
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Vulcan nodded, though his shirt was seeping with blood. "If I pass out, you need to take the controls okay? I'll set the course so you shouldn't have to do much." His hands were smeared with his own blood now, and once the course was entered, so were the buttons in places. He'd lost a lot of blood due to losing his hand. He hadn't had time to regenerate it before the bullet wounds. He was pale, his hands were shaking, but the shuttle lifted into the air. "Don't worry, even if I die, it won't last long." He assured, trying not to choke on his own blood as he grimaced. "When we land, just take the bullets out." He requested, his hand shaking on the controls. He could regenerate, but sealing piece of metal into his body was not his idea of a good itme.
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"Okay, do you know where we are going?" she asked her crimson orbs trying but failing not to look at the wounds and his trembling form "Does it hurt alot Vulcan? I'm sorry he was aiming for me instead you got hurt I'm sorry" Sarane apoligized. The vampire was her first real friend that could actually speak with her all her other "friends" were usually just animals with extra limbs or add ons and were usyally killed when failed which happened often.
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"We're going to Mars, it's busy enough that we should be able to blend in." He paused to catch his breath a bit "Plus, with all the volcanos, I have quite the advantage." He glanced down at the wounds as he considered trying to put pressure on the wounds and slow the bleeding, but then decided that would probably be futile. "It is painful" He coughed, bringing up blood "but it is nothing I have not experienced before. It will pass." He was growing light headed and suspected he would pass out before they could land. "It's not your fault. I made my choice, but we'll talk about that later if you really feel the need." He winced, his heart was beating faster "Now listen. I set us to land on a fairly deserted span. Generally people shouldn't bother us out there. When we land, just shut down the pod. Don't open the doors, don't go out. Just shut down the engines and get the bullets out of me. We'll figure out what to do next once I can actually stand upright." He covered the wound nearest his heart which had started bleeding more rapidly as his heart beat increased. He hadn't been fed on by another vampire in a very long time, and he wasn't sure what Sarane fed on, or how strong her resolve was, but he knew that the strong smell of even his own blood was stirring his need to feed.
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"Ok" the girl replied fumbling with the strap of the duffelbag she didn't have anything that would numb the vamp and removing bullets without antethic would be very agonizing but she knew from the medical books she had read that a person could die from lead poisoning even a vampire like Vulcan would be subject to that though not really dieing it still wouldn't be very pleasent.
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Vulcan caught pieces of her mind "Don't worry about hurting me, just get them out" He looked her in the eye "You..might want to strap me down or something first incase I wake up sooner than expected" Vulcan murmured, closing his eyes and making sure he was strapped in so he wouldn't flop out of his chair due to passing out and landing.
Lead he could deal with-- not well of course, but better than silver. "Thank you Sarane...we should land soon" He fell into a coughing fit, one of the chest wounds having let blood into his lungs. The contraction of his diaphram with so many bullet wounds was excruciating, and even the vampire in his weakened state couldn't abide by it for long. Leaking crimson around the mouth, he went limp in his chair some time before entering Mars's atmosphere. He was still breathing, though not well. His shirt was soaked through, and any human would have been long dead from bloodloss alone.
The pod settled onto the martian surface, swirling dust past the windows and obscuring all visibility for a time. Vulcan's breath was little more than a gurgle, but he didn't truely need oxygen to live. Strictly speaking, he could wander without air-- but it was a very unpleasant experience considering he still felt like he was suffocating.
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Sarane heard him cough as the pod landed on the planet's surface if it had been different circumstances she would have marveled at how big the planet was but she had more important things to do. Grabbing a bottle of iodine and twezzers she gently lifted the crimson stained shirt and dipped the tips of the metal tweezers in the amber colored medicant to sterilize them and began to take each of the lead rounds out of the vamp's body but not before tieing his arms down with medical tape to the seat like Vulcan had instructed. The last bullet was in really deep so she had to dig to get it out. She then took a damp cloth and wiped away some of the on his mouth and torso.
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Vulcan's torso was marred with many scars. Most of them fairly deep. When he was 20 or so, before he knew what he was, he'd been shot in the crossfire of a gangwar. Everyone was amazed he survived, but it had left him scarred and weak stomached.
While normal people don't enjoy vomitting, Vulcan held a particular adversion to it as it was physically very painful due to all his various scar tissues. His vampire and/or Kalicrate healing powers were not able to eleminate the scars of every wound. If it was just a minor flesh wound, it would heal and Vulcan likely wouldn't be able to notice a mark later, but with torso wounds, there were a lot of organs to patch back together and a scar on the skin was the least of his worries.
There were however, no burn marks anywhere. THe only downside Vulcan had found to being fireproof, was that he couldn't cauterize his wounds to stay the bloodloss. For a downside, that wasn't so bad.
Vulcan woke up while she was getting the last bullet out, but he didn't make a sound to alert her of this fact. It was quite a while later when he finally spoke, his body having a chance to at least seal the deepest part of the wounds, though the holes would be there for awhile, possibly still slowly bleeding. "You can untape me now" He whispered, eyes still closed.
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She was startled when she heard him whisper , she didn't know he was awake "How do you feel Vulcan ?" she asked while untaping his arms and discarding them. She then reached into the bag next to her and fished out a roll of white cloth bandages which she wrapped around his chest. "This is going to taste bad but it will take some of the pain away" Sarane said pouring something that resembled thick red syrup into his mouth.
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Vulcan nearly choked on the syrup and then groaned as he had allowed his body to tense in response to the choking. He managed to swollow it down and sink in the chair. "I'm alive, but I think we're going to be here awhile. Look in one of the compartments and see if you can make yourself a bed of some kind." He shifted to try to get up out of the chair, but couldn't muster the strength and resolve to lift his body. The chair was uncomfortable to him at the moment and he wanted to lay flat on the floor. "Do you know anything beyond the lab?" He asked as he considered a few things. "And do you drink blood?" He was going to need another meal before long after such serious wounds.
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Sarane shook her head "No there weren't even books on other places the scientists there didn't want the experiments to get ideas of escape and I do but I never tried it I was given human food all my life" she replied going to the backseat and pulling down a bed "Never know how long you going to be using this" she explained sensing his discomfort gently eased him up and laid the seat back so he could lay on his back "better?" she asked.
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"So you don't need the blood to survive then?" He asked, holding his silence as she helped move him. After the stabbing pain subsided, he was more comfortable. "Yes, thank you" He said with a gentle sigh. He was pale, even for a vampire, but seemed to be doing a little better now. "Well, you shall see outside things then. They are very different than the lab, dangerous at times, so we must be careful. You stay with me and you should be alright though-- you might even keep me out of trouble."
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"Really, Vulcan can I ask you something?" Sarane asked from the bed she hoped the older vampire wouldn't laugh at her question but she always wanted to know and everything time she asked at the lab she was ignored or hit. "What is a family like?" she had never had a family her biological parents thought she was dead and all growing up she had no one she could call her family. "If you don't want to answer it's okay" she said quickly afterwards.
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Vulcan was silent for a moment as memories flashed through his mind. It had been so long, but yet, he couldn't forget. "Well young one," Vulcan said softly "I may be the wrong person to ask about family. My biological family was...short lived to say the least. My mother made horribly bad choices, I didn't know my father and ..." He wasn't touching that part of the subject, so he cut it out. "But I hardly consider them family. My family, was made up of people who came together just for the purpose of surviving, and grew to trust and even love each other. That's what I think of when I remember 'family'." His voice had lost most of its tone and inflection as he spoke about family. It seemed almost flat, and without life, but if she caught a glimpse of his eyes, she could see that his voice had gone so empty because he cared about it so much. "It's nice to have family, but it's also very hard. You let people close, and they can hurt you deeper than anyone else can...but they can also help heal you when someone else has hurt you. It's comforting to have someone to trust, it doesn't feel so alone. If you don't quite take care of everything, there's someone there to help you out. Perhaps the hardest part of family for someone like me is that....they die." He sighed and winced "and I don't." He trusted Sarane far more quickly than he trusted most people. Very few people indeed would get an answer from him on such a subject.
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Sarane had heard the lifeless in his voice she instantly regreted asking him curse her curiosity. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you sad I was just wondering I win't ask anymore questions" she said laying down pulling the blankets over her ashened covered head. She layed on the pillow thinking about what had happened so far never in her wildest dreams had she ever thought she would escape that horrible lab with it's white walls , clinical smell and scremas of tortured experiments she was glad she had met Vulcan he was nice and protected herand wasn't disgusted by her as some people were. She smiled as she drifted off thinking "I always did want an older brother" .
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Without meaning to, Vulcan had heard the thought. He was exhausted, but even so, he spoke to her mind It's okay little one, don't be afraid to ask me questions. That is how we learn. At worst, I will decline to answer. He let his eyes drift close, but did not let his consciousness sleep entirely, still aware of what was around them for fear that someone might come to cause trouble, but even then, he couldn't hold out on it for the entire night and did eventually drift to sleep, waking after the sun was already far into the sky.[/i]
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Sarane woke up to the morning sun's rays she pulled the covers off and slipped out of the pull-out bed , her white dress was wrinkled she would proably need to get some new cloths or at least another dress when she washed this one. She looked at her older friend and could tell he was still asleep. She smiled and silently opened the emergency exit door near the main hatch she knew Vulcan said not to go outside and to stay near him but she was hungry and wanted to find something for breakfast. Stepping out of the pod her bare feet touched the ground and she realized that she might need to find someway to get shoes too. The surface of Mars wasn't like the polished smooth marble floors she was used too so the dirt and rocks felt strange on her feet but she ingnored it and began walking away from the pod. She was careful not to wander too far she knew that the vampire was weak and it wouldn't do his present condition any good if she got lost and he had to come find her. She peeked around a large rock formation and spotted a weasel-like thing grooming itself. She smiled and crept up to it but the weasel noticed her and took off. "Hey come back" Sarane yelled and an after it she finally caught up to it and picked it up by it's tail the squirming animal whipped around and bit her on the wrist "ow ow ow " the girl yelped and bit it back on the neck breaking the jugular . As breakfast went limp she looked at her wrist two little bleeding punture holes were there she grabbed the weasel by it's middle and started back to the pod. If Vulcan was awake she hoped he wouldn't be too mad she went out.
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Vulcan's body was vaguely aware at the change of atmosphere when the door opened to the outside, and then when Sarane's presence faded from his reach. His eyes were nearly entirely crimson when they opened, he struggled to sit up. Something was strange, but he couldn't tell what just at the moment, then he saw the bed. He eased himself to his feet as quickly as he could, putting a hole through his lip in the process as he looked around the pod. There was no smell of an intruder, no sign of a struggle. He had to grab the back of the chair to keep from going down, his breath shallow and rather strained with the pain of his movement. Ideally, he would be motionless, in a bed somewhere healing, not upright on his own two feet combing through an escape pod in search of a friend-- so the motion was quite a bit more than his current state of body was happy about.
When the door opened, his gaze, in full intensity snapped to it, waiting to see who was daring to enter the pod, and then he saw Sarane and between the pain and the relief, his knees nearly buckled out from underhim before he could get himself dropped into a chair. He could smell blood, her's and the limp, bitten creature in her hands. "Sarane" He said, but didn't continue the line of thought, instead resting his head against the console. His heart was beating rapidly, throbbing through every wound he had. He needed a good feeding to boost the healing abilities...and generally, that meant human blood.
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The chrome haired girl looked up and frowned "I'm sorry Vulcan I didn't mean to worry you and make you get up I was just getting breakfast" she said holding the weasel up and then looked down at her wrist "The thing bit me though" she said putting the mammal down and getting a first kit out of one of the compartments. Taking out antiseptic spray and a small bandage. "I thought that maybe you'd feel better if you drank it's blood" Sarane confessed referring to the weasel.
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"Keep an eye on that wound, and let me know if you feel ill at all. Some animals carry diseases." He stated as he eyed the limp thing, noting the tooth marks "Have you already had your fill of him?" He eased himself up out of the chair to make his way back towards the other side of the cabin where he had started from.
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Sarane shook her head "No I just thought biting it would be easier than breaking it's neck I just thought you would want the blood to help you get better sorry I couldn't find anything bigger" she said and sat in the chair beside his and looked out of the vast landscape "Where are we going to go after you're ready?" came the curious question as she idly played with one of her silver locks.
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Vulcan sank back into 'his' chair, the one that was reclined to allow him to be semi-comfortable. "Well, I figured we'd see about finding us someplace to stay, so we'll probably have to head towards town. That's where the people are. Might see about getting us a decent meal too." He stated as he eyed the weasle. It had been awhile since he'd had to feed of such an odd creature. "Are you hungry?" He asked, unwilling to have a starving vampire child on his hands. "I don't believe you answered my question before. Do you need blood? Do you get the blood lust?"
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She didn't reply for a minute she never even had tasted blood before she had been raised on human food. She was a Dhampir that much she knew but as far as drinking blood and blood lust she had no idea. "Actually I don't know I've never even tasted blood before" Sarane admitted then looked over at him "Is that bad?" she asked.
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Vulcan shook his head "I doubt it. You look perfectly healthy, and if you don't know if you get bloodlust, then you don't. The first time I had bloodlust, I thought I was out of my mind. I didn't know what I was." He looked the weasle over "How about this, I drain the blood out of it, and you cook it up and eat the meat. Think that would do?" He asked, not wanting to leave her hungry, but knowing he was getting to a point that he was running out of resources to dip into to heal the wounds. "I'm not sure if it might come along later, but if it does, you let me know as soon as you know, and we'll get it taken care of."
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"Ok" The girl smiled and handed him the weasel and started to look for cooking utensils she found a metal grate to put over a fire and a iron skillet. "Hey Vulcan do you only drink blood or do you eat regular food too?" Sarane asked looking over her shoulder as she went outside and gathered some brush near the pod taking some matches that she got from one of the compartments she quickly had a fire.
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"I eat human food and drink water as well as blood." Vulcan stated "I am not pure blood. As near as I can explain it, both parts of me need their own foods." There had been several times when he had neglected one or the other and fallen ill because of it-- usually it was water he forgot to drink. He was not thirsty, he was drinking blood, but his body needed the water to function properly. "I typically do not crave human food as I do blood, and I have never lost control to human hunger" He'd gotten very ill, but he'd never attacked a vegetable crop or anything. He had however, on more than one occasion when he was younger, lost control of the vampire and bitten a friend and drank their blood. His friends had taken to donating their blood to him to keep him in check when other sources of blood were scarce. He sunk his fangs into the weasle and had it drained within minutes and then calmly handed it over to Sarane and picked a couple hairs from his mouth. "I would suggest skinning and gutting it before trying to cook it."
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"Right" Sarane said taking the animal taking knife she removed every inch of skin and fur and cutting it open removing it's organs normally girls her age would have thrown up or yelled "Eww" but she had grown up in place where the things that happened belonged in some small child's nightmare so she was unphased. After that was down she put the meat on the pan and hled it over a fire.
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Vulcan watched placidly. He liked observing her. He learned about her that way, and was rather glad to see she was not put off by blood or guts. If she indeed eventually suffered from blood lust, she wouldn't have the luxury of being squeamish. It was a horrible feeling to have one part of you needing something so bad, while the other half just wanted to vomit at the very concept of it. "I suppose later today we can head into town, stop by a blood bank and see if we can find you some proper food." He had a pretty good relationship with the manager of the blood bank. They had developed an understanding of sorts.
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When the weasel was done cooking she picked up a piece of meat and popped in her mouth she noticed Vulcan watching her and smiled "Why are are you staring at me Vulcan it probably my dress isn't it got pretty dirty huh" she said looking down at the hem of said clothing the snowy fabric was stained with dirt and blood. She then heard his last sentence "Really? what's it like? why is it called a town? Are there alot of store and..." the gir trailed off her bright eyes becoming sad as she looked down at her hands.
ooc: Um shouldn't we post in the Mars forum?
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(okay, replied to in the city of mars )