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24 Ymiden 716

She stood in the doorway, a vision, cut with killer curves and dressed in too little fabric, sunshine trapped in the wavy tresses of her yellow hair, taking that same warmth with here wherever she went. Through a thin gap in the curtains where they had not been drawn properly for the evening, the peppered light of one of Treid's moons sliced the dimly lit room in two, making the figure in the doorway appear no more than a silhouette, the outline of her sharp nose, full lips, and long, ladylike fingers promising dangerous things.
Her movements were slow and predatory, she was a wolf treading unfamiliar terrain, watching and listening to the night. Malcolm sat up on the bed, transfixed, bewitched by the ghost. You shouldn't be here, he thought as she padded towards him and crawled up the length of the bed on hands and knees to draw cool fingers across the tops of his legs, avoiding the skin while through leg hair pricked like nerve ends her message rang clear, as too did her intentions. This wasn't business, just pleasure.
As silk rolled away from flesh under guide of practiced fingers, old lovers tied new bounds with feverish kisses and hungry hands, their wears discarded haphazardly on the bed and floor where hot flesh found willing home, and familiar scars did bend to an old foe.
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Vanessa folded her arms over the man's middle and stared up at him wearing nothing but her smile, the tip of her right index finger tracing the length of his scar, back and forth across his belly, causing the skin to swell in tiny bumps, as if reaching up to meet her touch. Long curls of yellow hair fell down over her bare back as she sat up and positioned herself across the man's hips again, drawing her fingers through the light smattering of Malcolm's chest hair.
"Does it hurt?" She asked softly, leaning in to steal another lazy kiss.
"No," the man smiled and even as he gave his reply thought, how odd it was not to feel pain where it had been so relentless over the last few days.
"Maybe I can help?"

She glanced at him, fingers tiptoeing towards the mark again where she pressed hard and saw her digits sink beneath the flesh as the wound was reopened. The baroness buried her fist inside the man's form and he felt his stomach tighten and twist as her arm was buried inside him, right up to the elbow, blood pumping from the wound. Malcolm gasped as he felt her fingers close around his heart and as the organ was ripped from his body he sat staring at her blood covered arm and the thumping muscle she held in her hand, wearing a wicked grin on her face as golden hair was traded for grey, and firm flesh was replaced with weathered winkles.

The Mortalborn awoke with a start, panting and covered in sweat. He fought back the covers, kicking them to the end of the bed and pulled up his shirt to check the scar, red and ugly, like boiled flesh, bubbling up from his otherwise smooth skin. Malcolm sat trying to catch his breath and got out of bed, taking his longsword up as he left the bedroom in favour of the open kitchen and living space.
The light of a single candle kept him company at the living room table and a mug of warm ale helped to calm his nerves, the hilt of his sword still tightly clutched in one hand, lay flat across the table. The man had always believed that dreams held some kind of message, this something his half sister, Jesine, had insisted he listen to. Your subconscious is trying to tell you something, don't block it out, she had once said. Vanessa wasn't done with him, that was all he could surmise.
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Malcolm closed his eyes and focused on the small hisses and cracks of a new flame, burning its way through a piece of dried pine. Concentrating on this alone allowed him to first shut out the world and then focus his energy into picturing Vanessa, something that might be successful if he were just able to trance long enough to form a connection. His ability to check in on loved ones was often random, visions coming to him in a half-sleep-like state, less subtle when they were in danger, and completely out of his control when love was their bond, just as it had once been for the woman he no longer felt for.
Blue wispy lines danced at the edge of his vision, taking him through storm-clouds and a puzzle of white shapes like the birds eye view of a city block. He pressed, channelling his focus until the shroud of darkness was lifted and he watched her now, with clarity. Vanessa sat in a familiar place, the salty grape, a tavern they had met in many years ago. So she had returned to Burhan and with hooded face ventured out into the open. Someone was bound to recognise her, he thought, waiting for her attention to shift to the man sat across from her so that he could know who it was she kept company with.
Malcolm hadn't waited long when his son Vaughn came into focus and his heart sank. Had Vaughn had anything to do with the poison, he wondered, a man who, as a boy had seemed like such a free spirit, bound by nothing and no one. Honour, nobility, and duty, these ideals had never tarnished his decision making process, stroked by another brush, with pride, heart, and utter defiance; Malcolm may not have always liked the choices Vaughn made for himself, but he respected how consistent the boy was. It seemed though, he was his mother's son, now and always.
Malcolm awoke from his trance and went to the bedroom where he found one of his writing journals and tore a sheet from the centre before putting ink to page.
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Vaughn,

Important business takes me west this season, and though I dare not share my intended destination, I find it unfitting to leave without a proper goodbye, for I am unsure how long I will be gone or if I shall ever return. On the thirtieth I will be wed to Lady Burhan, and as you know your mother's good health makes the marriage null and void, especially if she resurfaces after convincing the nation that I had something to do with her disappearance, or murder as I have been accused.

I have chosen not to inform your older brother Marcus about the wedding as I assume he was the brains behind the unsuccessful poisoning this season gone, and if you had anything to do with that, I bid you burn this letter now and go about your life without giving me another thought. History, however, tells me otherwise, and this is the reason I am extending an invertation to you to attend my upcoming wedding. I have something very important to tell you and hope that you can make it.
All my love,
Malcolm
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+3 Rhetoric
+3 Writing
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+1 Persausion
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Dreams Hold Messages
Location, Burhan: Salty Lake Tavern
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Venessa: Was in Burhan on Ymiden 24th
Vaughn: In cahoots with his mother.
Vaughn: Was a free spirited child.
Vaughn: His mother's son.

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Nil poi

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Sinister! Very lovely piece of writing, it does a good job in reflecting Malcolm's feelings toward his family that he left behind and mate, the drama from that note! Very nice touch, I liked the fact that the note was a stand alone. Loved it to bits. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me!
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