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Years had passed since the events at Silas University. Since the mansion and the unforgeable encounter with Elle and the bunch of restless spirits. Thankfully, since the destruction of the left over eggs from the Angler Fish God life had finally become normal. Well, normal in the world of Carmilla and Laura wasn’t your usual definition. Carmilla was a vampire and finally had her PHD in philosophy. LaF and Perry’s business had exploded and grown to chains all across the world. They even bought an apartment near Laura and Carm’s for when they were in town and could visit. Carm swore Laura pretty much spoke to them every day anyway. Her and her friends were inseparable at times. At first Carm found that annoying but over the years she’d come to respect how there for one another they were. Sometimes it even reminded Carm of a time her and Mattie were so close.
She got back to the apartment before Laura. This time carrying another box of colourful fan mail, thankfully smaller than the one from yesterday. Laura’s reporting had finally paid off and after her blog and videos exploded over the internet a lot of people stepped forward with strange or supernatural occurrences around the world. It meant the two of them got to travel, help people which Laura loved to do and her reporting was as popular than ever. Even Carm got fan mail which weirded her out from time to time. At least in all this between them, LaF and Perry none of the small success had gone to their heads.
After placing the box on the kitchen counter Carm poured herself a glass of synthetic blood. LaF and Perry supplied them free of charge which was another thing Carm could never complain about. She took a sip standing in front of the five year plan board which was now mounted on the living room wall. The laptop was still out from some recording Laura had done in the morning. Carm pulled her long now straight hair back and into a high ponytail collapsed on the couch. The clock read 23:06. By vampire time this was way too early to be up.
There was a groan followed by a blanket being pulled down over her. Her hand only escaped to turn on the TV to the horror channel. Obviously Carm’s favorite.
She got back to the apartment before Laura. This time carrying another box of colourful fan mail, thankfully smaller than the one from yesterday. Laura’s reporting had finally paid off and after her blog and videos exploded over the internet a lot of people stepped forward with strange or supernatural occurrences around the world. It meant the two of them got to travel, help people which Laura loved to do and her reporting was as popular than ever. Even Carm got fan mail which weirded her out from time to time. At least in all this between them, LaF and Perry none of the small success had gone to their heads.
After placing the box on the kitchen counter Carm poured herself a glass of synthetic blood. LaF and Perry supplied them free of charge which was another thing Carm could never complain about. She took a sip standing in front of the five year plan board which was now mounted on the living room wall. The laptop was still out from some recording Laura had done in the morning. Carm pulled her long now straight hair back and into a high ponytail collapsed on the couch. The clock read 23:06. By vampire time this was way too early to be up.
There was a groan followed by a blanket being pulled down over her. Her hand only escaped to turn on the TV to the horror channel. Obviously Carm’s favorite.
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Date: 2018-02-01 09:11 am (UTC)From:“Alright, I’ll bite.” She walked slowly over to the TV. That smug grin on her face as she thought this was Laura’s way of saying she wanted to play. “I take it you’re not ready to show yourself? You know I could get you hear if I wanted to.” Mircalla thought of throwing in a few nightmares but the paper appeared in her hand and threw her off. “What the...”
The dots, each with a different version of herself confused Mircalla for the most part and added to that anger. When she read the second section she started to laugh. “Vampires don’t need permission from humans? Good thing for me you aren’t human anymore.” But she knows she still should have asked permission.
“Come on cupcake, it’s just you and me in here. Show yourself. I won’t bite. Well maybe a little nip.” When nothing happened Mircalla created a quill out of thin air and circled the entire section of question one and the third dot about being curious in second two.
“There. Happy now?”
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Date: 2018-02-01 05:46 pm (UTC)From:As Mircalla watched the ink she'd circled all the answers with would move on the paper, turning in to a write-up in choice under other with Mircalla's (or technically Carmilla's) handwriting. "I'm a jerk vampire who wants to mess with Laura".
The TV was displaying the opening to the crop scene, rotating between Mircallas, each with subtle variations, when the lights to the room flickered slightly as did the TV.
A few seconds later Laura appeared, heartbeat strong and steady. "You wanted me to show myself?"
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Date: 2018-02-01 09:18 pm (UTC)From:Mircalla’s attention was then quickly brought to the screen where she watched once again the different versions of herself. Although still angry at what she was seeing there was a part of her that was trying to decipher why Laura was dreaming this and what those versions of her meant. Jealousy set in that Carmilla was so clear but she was blurry, almost as If she was a shadow of Carm that Laura didn’t think was clear.
The sound of a heat beat filled her ears but Mircalla didn’t turn around. She stood with her arms crossed and continued to watch the screen. “Finally had the guts to show yourself? You know you shouldn’t hide in your own dreams right? It’s rude to keep a girl waiting.” A brief look over the shoulder at Laura pulling one of her darker smirks. The smirk that had the eyes of predator. Beautiful but deadly.
“What in Hell is this Laura? If you’re going to force me to watch memories of me you can’t hold together I have a few nightmares I would be glad to throw back at you.” Mircalla was snappy. Only because of these unclear versions of herself and because Carmilla was so clear.
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Date: 2018-02-01 10:08 pm (UTC)From:Ell's smirk was wicked. "And if you think sex with you should be compared with a nightmare then you said it. Not me."
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Date: 2018-02-01 10:33 pm (UTC)From:Just when she had enough she caught Laura’s comment and the screen switched off as she turned around. As if by magic. Eye brow raised at the comment just made, Mircalla’s temper was sitting on the edge of a knife. “Well there’s a comment I didn’t think you had in you. You weren’t complaining when you came multiple times.”
Slowly, she started to walk towards her. “I get that you need to convince yourself you didn’t enjoy it. Don’t worry your secrets safe with me.”
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Date: 2018-02-01 11:12 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2018-02-02 09:41 am (UTC)From:Some of the anger partially lifted when Laura said she enjoyed it. Not a lot but enough to take the snap out of Mircalla’s words.
Her heartbeat still filling her ears, Mircalla smiled thinking back to how she used to love making Ell’s race. “Well you’ve had your body exhausted, there’s always time for your brain.” With that she flashed one of her darker smiles and tried to shift the room. Her intention was to rip away the walls and replace the scenery to a creation from her own memory but nothing changed. The fire behind still burned like a reflection of her emotion.
Mircalla found herself suddenly more aware of her surroundings.
She walked over to Laura, her innocence just adding to the attraction. “What have you done?” Her eyes narrowed. “I should be able to change your dreams and I’m locked in here? That’s impossible.” It might have been Mircalla was too mad too focus but the fact remained it would take a lot of power to be able to stop her. “You might not be human but you aren’t that powerful…Yet.”
She tried again, concentrating harder to materialise an object into the room. Nothing. A brief pause and Mircalla looked at Laura. “I enter your dreams, finally get you alone and you trap me here?” The only conclusion Mircalla could come to was that Laura brought Carmilla into this. Two of them would have been able to block her. It would also explain why Laura’s memories on the screen. Mircalla loved to play with Carm’s jealous at times.
“Oh..silly me for thinking you couldn’t be here without her following. Come out come out wherever you are Carmilla?”
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Date: 2018-02-02 07:14 pm (UTC)From:Ell shrugged, hair naturally over her ears and the ear with the earbud away from Mircalla anyway. Of course she and Laura could communicate without, but they wanted to make it fair on Mircalla. And Laura's 'Leverage' earbuds beat her 80s models. "Besides. Dream control is about control. Yoga, breathing, and flexibility really help."
"And I promise Carmilla's not here."
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Date: 2018-02-02 08:51 pm (UTC)From:She moved closer, every step mentally trying to change something in the room. A colour, maybe crack in the wall but still nothing happened. “It’s about time it was just the two of us.” Mircalla’s closed any gap between them. Even with her temper still bubbling she somehow managed to keep it in control.
“Yoga? Flexibility? Now that is something you’ve got to show me. As for control I think you already know I don’t like not having it so if you could let me take charge of this dream, I promise you won’t forget it.” That could either be a good thing or a bad thing. Mircalla brought her hand up and tucked Laura’s hair behind her ear. Something her and Carmilla both loved to do as it exposed her neck. How could they ever resist? She was then about to look at Laura’s eyes when Mircalla caught the glimpse of the bud in her ear.
She pulled back to look in Laura’s eyes, anger flashing in her own. “What the hell is this?”
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Date: 2018-02-02 11:23 pm (UTC)From:"And so she asked me to see if I could pretend to be her, love." Ell smiled. "And really? Freeze? And getting a crop pulled out of your hand." She shook her head, her smirk saying that Ell wasn't going to hear the last of either incident for years before her voice continued meditatively. "Having a heartbeat even for my dream self is weird."
Ell then smirked. "But toying with your double is going to be more fun, love. See you." And with that she vanished - along with Laura's clothes giving Laura only time to gasp.
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Date: 2018-02-03 11:20 pm (UTC)From:“Reminds me of when we first met.” Mircalla placed her hand over Ell’s chest knowing full the sound was fake. There wasn’t a beat under the palm of her hand which was exactly how Mircalla liked it. Ell was a full vampire, her vampire. “Although I miss making it race just to tease you, I prefer you as you are now.”
If Laura had caught it, there was a moment when Mircalla was completely different around Ell. She was unguarded and exposed. A moment that so brief as Mircalla had to remind herself Laura was in the room. She briefly had a second to talk to Ell when she vanished so fast. The last thing she must have saw was Mircalla rolling her eyes at the thought of Ell with Carmilla. In her eyes Ell was far more than her double could handle.
“Finally.” She said, eyebrow raised at the sight of Laura naked like a parting gift from her love. A sight both Carm and Mircalla could agree, would never become boring. “Now I have you all to myself.” The smile couldn’t be wiped from her face as she felt the rush of finally being able to edit Laura’s dreams.
She walked over to Laura eyes hungry like she was about to toy with her. Only when the gap was closed between them Mircalla slipped a hand to Laura’s waist and the other pulled her into a dance. Not a usual move for her to make but as she took the lead and turned Laura around the room shifted and changed into a grand hall. Nameless people filled the room all around them dancing in perfect synchronisation. Laura now wearing a black ball gown with a corset that fitted in all the right places, this was Mircalla’s mind after all.
Of course it was a masquerade ball, the faces of people around them were all hidden with intricate and elaborate masks. Mircalla and Laura included. The only couple dressed in black and gold. Trapeze artists flipped and twirled above their heads as if they were flying. Fire breathers and illusionists stood on podiums as entertainment. It was beautiful. The kind of room that could only come from imagination as the details were clear and strong.
Mircalla let go of Laura’s waist just to twirl her back into her arms. “Now this is more like it.” She laughed. Her black lips and eyes were the only things visible from under the mask, exactly the same as Laura whose make up was matching in dark tones. “This is a memory I don’t want you to forget.”
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Date: 2018-02-04 01:55 am (UTC)From:She relaxed into Mircalla's dancing with a soft smile, having learned from Carmilla. It felt almost effortless, and that wasn't part of the dream so much as a connection and the similarities between the way Mircalla moved and the way Carmilla did.
She looked round, eyes wide at the ballroom. "It's beautiful. You've been here? Or this is your imagination?"
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Date: 2018-02-04 10:50 am (UTC)From:If Laura hadn’t have guessed already, just like Carmilla, Mircalla loved to dance. Not quite to the style or ability of Ell but the old fashioned dances that meant hidden intent behind the moves. She guided Laura effortlessly as the crowds continued to mirror like puppets pinned on strings. When she slipped her hand to the base of Laura’s back and arched her over there was a brief second when Mircalla wondered if Laura would trust her. Some moves required a trust you could only test in the heat of the moment. A true reflection based on instinct. But Mircalla left enough room for Laura to put her arms around her neck if she felt the need to.
Mircalla supported her weight as if she was lighter than air and as they leant over the heightened heart beat filled her ears. She felt her fangs slide down but refused to give in to them. Instead as Laura was brought nearly horizontal to the floor Mircalla leant down and smiled against her lips. Not enough not touch but enough to tempt. “You’re beautiful Laura.” She looked into the eyes of her masquerade mask for a brief moment and without warning glided her up to her feet to carry on the dance.
“I wanted to get you alone to show you me. Not the versions you seem to have split me in to with your thoughts.” And Mircalla wasn’t good at opening herself up to anyone but Ell. This was a slight crack in the wall Mircalla took a chance on with her. “If you like I can show you my favourite place but it comes with one condition?”
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Carmilla had been staring into the darkness for at least half an hour. Looking across the bed she saw Mircalla spooned behind Laura, her hand resting now across her waist. Both were fast asleep to the point Carm didn’t want to disturb so she slid out the bed with catlike grace she often did at home and headed for the door.
The house was bigger than Carm had initially thought. There were rooms that made the Sheridan’s or her mother’s house look small in comparison. Carm’s curiosity, just like Mircalla’s got the best of her and instead of heading for the kitchen where she originally planned she headed for the subtle noise coming from down one of the corridors. It was quite a way from the hidden room she had left Laura in to the point she had to look back to remember the way she came. Mircalla and Ell definitely had upgraded from the large apartment Laura and her lived in.
A small light came from a single door on the right hand side. There was movement but no heartbeat Carm could hear. She pushed open the door enough to pop her head round and saw Ell. Suddenly aware of how naked she was Carm closed the red and black silk robe she had stolen from Mircalla’s wardobe and tied it around her waist. “How long have you been home?” The question had a hidden one behind it. What Carm was really asking was why didn’t she come join them? She was still curious on this universes version of Laura and how one huge event made them so similar in some ways but different in the others.
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Date: 2018-02-04 01:59 pm (UTC)From:"There's only one Mircalla." Laura shrugged. "But I don't know who she is. All the versions of Mircalla in my head are trying to work out who you are. All of them are ones that do everything I've seen from you, but I haven't seen everything even while, for example, you were behind me." And she smiled. "I'd love to see - but what's the condition?"
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Ell looked up to see Carmilla and smiled, gaze roaming over the double of her wife even as she compared the scars the two of them had. "About an hour. But there's always more paperwork and checking contracts to be done. And you all left the door locked, so I assumed you didn't want to be disturbed." She shrugged. "I'm surprised, but I assume that there had to have been a reason to unlock that door and relock it?"
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Date: 2018-02-04 06:01 pm (UTC)From:She waited for Laura to decided.
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Carmilla entered the room and sat on the edge of Ell’s desk. “Laura found and entered the room first. Mircalla and I close behind. I don’t remember the door ever being locked or unlocked.” She said honestly then reached out and stopped Ell’s hand from writing any more contracts.
“I’m sure you and Mircalla would have had a field day with us.” It was strange their skin being the same temperature. Carm smiled and looked down at her feet. “I don’t think Laura is going to be able to walk tomorrow.”
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Date: 2018-02-04 11:13 pm (UTC)From:And she looked at Mircalla. "Was being made to freeze a little like that really that bad? That you felt the need to punish me by breaking my body and brain on that Sybian?"
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Elle's eyes widened. "Laura found it? And opened the door? There are fifty seers on the planet who could have found my playroom. And twenty archmages who could have opened the door without being burned out. And you're talking as if Laura wandered in there?" She shook her head, still clearly stunned. More pleasurable pursuits could wait.
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Date: 2018-02-05 09:46 am (UTC)From:“I don’t like not being in control.” Mircalla struggled the words out. Being honest to someone that wasn’t Ell was hard when it involved emotion. “But I loved what you did. It was wicked and I if you remember my scream I wasn’t complaining.
The sybian was a gift, not a punishment.” Mircalla took a step down so she was still one above Laura. She brought both hands up to carefully remove Laura’s mask from her face, then hers from her own. “If you want to wake up. Now is the time to say.”
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She could see the surprise in Ell’s face. It was enough that Carmilla’s previous worries started to surface again although she didn’t show the panic in her body language her expression did change. “When Mircalla let us inside Laura went upstairs. We stayed downstairs to talk but Laura wandered into there as if it was a normal room.”
Carmilla frowned. “Thinking about it the only time I have ever entered the room is when Laura has already been in it.”
She hopped off the edge of the table. Her mind processing everything she had learnt so far. Some of it even coming out loud. “It changed the second she had her heart put back. I should have waited but…” She headed towards the door, stopping only to look back at Ell. “If that room was hidden and she found it that easy there’s no telling what other abilities she might have.
Have you seen anything like this before?”
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Date: 2018-02-05 07:25 pm (UTC)From:And cutting through the darkness were words, almost as if they were coming from under water even if the voice was Mircalla's. “Not nearly enough payback for making us freeze.” The floor stopped shaking but the rest came as if it was moving away, making it even less comprehensible even if the language was English. “If I had my way I’d keep her up till morning.”
As the lights turned back on Laura raised one eyebrow to Mircalla. "I don't want to wake up." But from her tone Mircalla had some explaining to do.
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"So Laura opened the door?" Ell frowned. "Unwatched. There are about ten supernatural creatures that could open a door like that. And I know that Laura isn't an archangel, a duchess of hell, a crossroads ghost, a demigod of doorways, or a grim reaper."
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Date: 2018-02-05 08:31 pm (UTC)From:She listened to her words repeated back at her and laughed. “You think I meant any of that in a threatening way?” She took another step down, this time to the step as Laura to make them nearly eye level. “If payback means making you scream and pass out with pleasure are you telling me you didn’t enjoy it?” Her tone was the closest thing crossed between humour and serious. “If letting me have my way and keeping you writhing between my legs till morning is a bad thing then so be cupcake. I won’t take back what I said and I definitely don’t take back what I did.”
Instead of closing the gap between them Mircalla made her point and walked back up the few steps, as she did her and Laura’s clothes changed from the fancy attire of this manipulation to their normal every day clothes. “Anything else I’ve said that you want me to clarify?”
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Instead of walking through the door and back to the bedroom Carm closed it actually feeling a little angry. Unforunately Ell was the closest thing to Laura who was going to get the brunt of it. “Archangel, ghost, reaper, I have no idea what the frilly hell is going on. You think I planned for this? On the day she proposed?” Her temper was rising to the point in true Carmilla fashion she started to pace the other side of room.
“The library brought us here for a reason and we aren’t any closer to figuring that out. The second we do we learn something else. Next she’ll probably be able to create portals in her sleep!” Carm’s anger was snowballing. She hadn’t been this mad since Danny killed Mattie.
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Date: 2018-02-05 09:01 pm (UTC)From:Her eyes were wide and guileless. "I'm just not sure what you want me to be for you. Whether it's a human who you can stalk but is tough enough to cope. Whether it's mostly my heartbeat you like because it makes you feel younger. Or which part of me you want? And whether you're involved in a pissing contest with Carm."
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"No I don't think you planned it." Ell shrugged. "And Laura isn't any of those. Which is possibly why you were sent here. Whatever Laura is is incredibly rare. And that means incredibly valuable. As rare as she must be you could probably buy a country rendering her down for ingredients."
Ell shrugged. "Fortunately I'm more interested in an ally. And I know intimately what sort of mess either you or she could make if I became an enemy, and how useful my reputation is. This was the only place that it might have considered safe. And if there are ten types of entity that could open a door like that and I've just eliminated five, isn't that getting closer?"
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Date: 2018-02-05 09:58 pm (UTC)From:She held out her hand again. “Come sit with me and I’ll answer any questions you have. Do we have a deal?”
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Watching Ell shrug like it wasn’t a big deal just got under Carmilla’s skin but she was grateful for the place to stay so tried to bite her tongue as she paced. “It’s closer. It hasn’t even been forty-eight hours and she is able to unlock an almost impossible door. In lifetimes I couldn’t do that.”
Carm stared at Ell, trying to notice the comparisons besides the obvious differences. Maybe this was how Laura felt when she looked at Mircalla and Carmilla together. “How long do we have here before you want us gone?”
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"And she'll almost certainly never be as strong or as fast as you. Why is that a worry?" Ell shrugged. "And you've got quite a lot of time. Long enough to work out what Laura is. Attacking Silas is a bad idea for anyone, especially as we're built right on top of a set of seals."
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Date: 2018-02-06 09:39 am (UTC)From:The staircase split into left and right. Both doors a deep set red with gold trim in patterns of vines that complimented the room. They took the took the route to the right and the door automatically opened, welcoming the two of them inside. Only when Laura and Mircalla went through it didn’t lead them to a typical room but another part of Mircalla’s mind. This one completely contrasting the last.
When the door shut behind them it vanished from sight and two were left standing on a rooftop as grand in design as the hall they had just been in. Spires and towers left behind them the only thing that more breath taking was the sky. It was as if they stood at the edge of space being created there were all colours, stars, planets everything an astrologist could ever hope to see. The most prominent colour of all was the dark purple that made the orange and greens bring out shooting stars.
It was a lot to observe but as clear as if it was real.
Mircalla glanced at Laura, curious on what her reaction would be as Ell was the only other person who had been here. “This is me.” Unlike her double who majored in philosophy anyone seeing this place would see that Mircalla was about astronomy.
Sitting on the rooftop there were no chairs but blankets and throws spread out across the floor. Fruit and wine off to one side as if taken from a medieval painting, Mircalla took Laura over to where the blankets were to sit down.
She motioned for Laura to sit in front of her between her legs. “I made a deal, at least indulge me while I answer. No promises I will behave.” She teased but hoped Laura would sit.
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“Being stronger or faster than me isn’t a worry. I would already argue her abilities are stronger than my own. I’ve never been power hungry.” She paused. “Mother hated that about it me. ‘You could do be; you could be more.’ She’d repeat and moan to Mattie who sat jealous over mother’s fondness for me.”
Carm had a better grasp of her emotions then the days before she met Laura. She reeled herself in refusing to think about any longer and shut herself off. In turn the pacing stopped and Carm shifted back towards the door. “No one has broken any of those seals?”
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Date: 2018-02-06 02:19 pm (UTC)From:She shrugged. "And I know enough about you to know you're unlikely to behave." But it didn't stop her sitting; she'd been making exactly the same comments. "But you still haven't answered the main question. What do you want with me and why do you like me." She paused. "And as you're even more keen on the stars than Carm, how do deep space probes change how you love them?"
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Ell blinked. "Why would anyone try to destroy seals after thousands of years? It's not as if there'd be anything waiting on the other side after that long. It's slightly toxic for them too And the 'blessings' from looking into them as they break are not worth the effort."
She paused. "Did someone seriously try to break the seals in your world?"
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Date: 2018-02-06 02:43 pm (UTC)From:She paused for a while, partly hating the fact she said she would be honest but also to try and get the words out. “Because you might be from a different universe but you are Ell.”
Mircalla was suddenly thankful that Laura couldn’t see her face when she was being honest. Like Carmilla she rested her head on the same spot of Laura’s shoulder and watched the stars shoot across the sky. “I like what deep space probes do and I understand the curiosity but I prefer not knowing what’s out there. I like the mystery and something being beautiful just because. There doesn’t always have to be an explanation for everything.”
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Carm paused. “Blessings from looking into them? What blessings?”
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