Asha&#x27;s darker blog

"Now that's a bit unfair, and to think people say we elves can hold our alcohol quite well..." Arina huffed after a groan, blinking her eye a bit to get used to the bright light.

Once she could see relatively clearly, she leaned in to brush her lips against the right eyelid Cara still had to keep closed since the incident, before claiming the werevamp's lips as well with a proper kiss and snuggled closer.

"Mmm, at least the marks look good on you." Arina added, running her fingers over the numerous bruises and bite marks on Cara's body with a featherlight touch.

"Can we stay in bed a bit longer? I still feel quite exhausted... likely due to the blood loss."

@liukka-of-kouvola

💗 to lean against my muse (From Cara)

Arina sighed as she hobbled into the room, her arm in a sling after her hand was patched up. At least her chest didn't hurt at every movement, altough taking deep breaths was still painful. When she looked up, her eye went wide at the sight of Cara sitting on the bed.

The elf didn't expect her lover to be here so soon. Exhaling slowly, Arina finally eased herself down next to her, leaning her head on her shoulder even as she felt Cara's gaze. "You know I'm sorry, right? I didn't mean to..."

@cara-of-kouvola

"Shhhhh dear, we have both made sincere attempts do protect someone we love only to have it be ..." Cara choked up and found it hard to continue for a moment "...catastrophic, no one died or suffered injuries that won't heal."

Cara embraced Arina tightly.

"You know you are loved, no-one faults you for what you couldn't control, right?" She forced something close to a smile, it betrayed something was wrong "The teams we sent out should be back anytime now, are you up for helping them check in, there was a serious fight there's some... injured."

She didn't want to say that some had not made it back alive, her expression probably betrayed what she was thinking, she had never tried to hide who she was or what she was feeling around Arina.

@ashabloody

Arina, sniffed, burying herself into the embrace as the first tears rolled down her cheeks. "Still... I didn't mean to hurt you like that." She whispered once her sobs subsided, reaching up with her good hand to gently trail a finger over the slightly swollen, closed lids of Cara's right eye.

"It wasn't supposed to happen at all... the spell should have been interrupted the moment I was out." The elf muttered, wincing slightly as she tried to use the wrong hand to wipe away her tears.

Her eye went wideas Cara shared the results of the mission. "Damn those bastards...!" Arina cursed at the group that not only drugged Cara earlier but even took more people from them. "I... I'm honestly not sure how much of a help I can be with only one hand." She added with a frown and a glance at the casted limb in its sling.

"But I will do what I can if that helps." Arina continued, leaning in for a quick peck on the werevamP's lips.

@cara-of-kouvola

"She walked in, took a hit." Arina explained even as she put a hand on Cara's shoulder to keep her seated.

Cara found the hand on her shoulder comforting despite that in her current condition she couldn't comprehend who it was or why, she was still kind of agitated and confused. Some part of her felt compelled to explain.

"I bit them and the world melted" she whimpered for about the fourth time, she wasn't responding to verbal instruction or visual direction and was barely able to talk coherently

Anxious about what exactly was happening, Cynthn leaned in close and smelled Caras breath.

"Yeah, so, by taking a hit you mean she drank someones blood, is that when she started behaving all fucked up? smells like whoever she bit had taken something weird, I don't recognize it. Is whoever she bit still around?"

Cynthn took a blood test from Cara and a saliva sample,

"As long as she doesn't collapse or pass out she should be fine, keep her drinking a regular amount of water, I'll run some tests on this and find out what she effectively took a hit of. I'd like to get the person she bit."

"Yeah, that's the gist of it. Place was full with a bunch of bastards. I didn't see the need to try to stop her, and now here we are." Arina huffed, removing her hand briefly to shuffle out of her coat and placed it over Cara's shoulders.

"I wish I knew, things went wild after that. They had weapons too, and with Cara like this after a taste, my focus was getting her out of there." The elf sighed, ears dropping slightly.

"My bet's on the bastards leaving the place, but I can show the way, in a sense, if you want." She added, and the wood-like design unwrapped itself from her leg -leaving Arina to grab the back of Cara's chair to keep her balance with her brace gone- and morphed into a wolflike shape.

The beast needed no words, being Arina's soul-weapon meant she could control it at will. "You'd better go if you want a chance at cathing them."

@cara-of-kouvola

Cynthn contemplated for only a couple of seconds as the advanced implant that had replaced her left eye scanned the chemicals in the blood sample, uploaded the data to her computer which analyzed it massively. While the elements in the sample came from Earth, the molecules were nothing she'd seen before.

"So Cara is tripping balls after biting someone, that doesn't fucking happen to our kind, especially someone born as one of us, I hate doing this but under charter, constitution, whatever, part 2b I am taking authoritative control of the pack. Justification is this is a biological threat against us werewolf vampire hybrids specifically. Kass, Sarah, Ivy, you follow the beast, don't engage without authorization from Rain. Rain, pick up to a third of the entire pack to follow at a distance for backup/rescue at your digression. Someone call Siirtaa and have her lock down our soft business subsidiaries."

She was having to calculate strategy for once.

"I need to figure out something that will counteract whatever this stuff is, if someone can get in contact with Lauhren that'd be great."

When people looked at her wondering why she was invoking that particular priviledge she snapped.

"humans are being infected with something that produces a chemical that evidently is some kind of neurotoxin for us, I don't know how it's transmitted yet, with exceptions on Rains directive were vamps are in lockdown, go to your seperate rooms, everyone else do what I tell you...NOW."

Cynthn stalked off to her lab muttering and wondering why she hadn't calculated how chemicals like this could exist

On pure instinctive reaction alone, as her eye was pierceda blade formed in Caras hand and she slashed away the vines faster than the eye could see, if they were to review the security camera footage at slow speed they'd see it was little more than her lashing out with the back of her hand until it met the vine and then the hand with the blade cut the vine three times with disturbing speed and accuracy.

"Why you make pain and my sight red and dark again?"

Despite the anger in her voice she was at Arinas side only fractions of a second after hearing her unconcious body falling to the floor, completely indifferent to the wounds inflicted upon her.

"You be safe, you be with me."

Throwing the blade at an electrical outlet caused a brief moment of darkness in which Cara took Alina to the medical section through the shadows leaving the others to mitigate the vines as best they could.

It was only after Arina regained conciousness that Cara could be persuaded to back off from being feral level protective and let herself be treated for her latest injuries. The flesh wounds had almost entirely disappeared within that short time, her eye would take longer.

"Glad you are back with us, can you calm your vines spell?"

@ashabloody

"She walked in, took a hit." Arina explained even as she put a hand on Cara's shoulder to keep her seated.

Cara found the hand on her shoulder comforting despite that in her current condition she couldn't comprehend who it was or why, she was still kind of agitated and confused. Some part of her felt compelled to explain.

"I bit them and the world melted" she whimpered for about the fourth time, she wasn't responding to verbal instruction or visual direction and was barely able to talk coherently

Anxious about what exactly was happening, Cynthn leaned in close and smelled Caras breath.

"Yeah, so, by taking a hit you mean she drank someones blood, is that when she started behaving all fucked up? smells like whoever she bit had taken something weird, I don't recognize it. Is whoever she bit still around?"

Cynthn took a blood test from Cara and a saliva sample,

"As long as she doesn't collapse or pass out she should be fine, keep her drinking a regular amount of water, I'll run some tests on this and find out what she effectively took a hit of. I'd like to get the person she bit."

"Yeah, that's the gist of it. Place was full with a bunch of bastards. I didn't see the need to try to stop her, and now here we are." Arina huffed, removing her hand briefly to shuffle out of her coat and placed it over Cara's shoulders.

"I wish I knew, things went wild after that. They had weapons too, and with Cara like this after a taste, my focus was getting her out of there." The elf sighed, ears dropping slightly.

"My bet's on the bastards leaving the place, but I can show the way, in a sense, if you want." She added, and the wood-like design unwrapped itself from her leg -leaving Arina to grab the back of Cara's chair to keep her balance with her brace gone- and morphed into a wolflike shape.

The beast needed no words, being Arina's soul-weapon meant she could control it at will. "You'd better go if you want a chance at cathing them."

@cara-of-kouvola

Cynthn contemplated for only a couple of seconds as the advanced implant that had replaced her left eye scanned the chemicals in the blood sample, uploaded the data to her computer which analyzed it massively. While the elements in the sample came from Earth, the molecules were nothing she'd seen before.

"So Cara is tripping balls after biting someone, that doesn't fucking happen to our kind, especially someone born as one of us, I hate doing this but under charter, constitution, whatever, part 2b I am taking authoritative control of the pack. Justification is this is a biological threat against us werewolf vampire hybrids specifically. Kass, Sarah, Ivy, you follow the beast, don't engage without authorization from Rain. Rain, pick up to a third of the entire pack to follow at a distance for backup/rescue at your digression. Someone call Siirtaa and have her lock down our soft business subsidiaries."

She was having to calculate strategy for once.

"I need to figure out something that will counteract whatever this stuff is, if someone can get in contact with Lauhren that'd be great."

When people looked at her wondering why she was invoking that particular priviledge she snapped.

"humans are being infected with something that produces a chemical that evidently is some kind of neurotoxin for us, I don't know how it's transmitted yet, with exceptions on Rains directive were vamps are in lockdown, go to your seperate rooms, everyone else do what I tell you...NOW."

Cynthn stalked off to her lab muttering and wondering why she hadn't calculated how chemicals like this could exist

"She walked in, took a hit." Arina explained even as she put a hand on Cara's shoulder to keep her seated.

Cara found the hand on her shoulder comforting despite that in her current condition she couldn't comprehend who it was or why, she was still kind of agitated and confused. Some part of her felt compelled to explain.

"I bit them and the world melted" she whimpered for about the fourth time, she wasn't responding to verbal instruction or visual direction and was barely able to talk coherently

Anxious about what exactly was happening, Cynthn leaned in close and smelled Caras breath.

"Yeah, so, by taking a hit you mean she drank someones blood, is that when she started behaving all fucked up? smells like whoever she bit had taken something weird, I don't recognize it. Is whoever she bit still around?"

Cynthn took a blood test from Cara and a saliva sample,

"As long as she doesn't collapse or pass out she should be fine, keep her drinking a regular amount of water, I'll run some tests on this and find out what she effectively took a hit of. I'd like to get the person she bit."

"Yeah, that's the gist of it. Place was full with a bunch of bastards. I didn't see the need to try to stop her, and now here we are." Arina huffed, removing her hand briefly to shuffle out of her coat and placed it over Cara's shoulders.

"I wish I knew, things went wild after that. They had weapons too, and with Cara like this after a taste, my focus was getting her out of there." The elf sighed, ears dropping slightly.

"My bet's on the bastards leaving the place, but I can show the way, in a sense, if you want." She added, and the wood-like design unwrapped itself from her leg -leaving Arina to grab the back of Cara's chair to keep her balance with her brace gone- and morphed into a wolflike shape.

The beast needed no words, being Arina's soul-weapon meant she could control it at will. "You'd better go if you want a chance at cathing them."

@cara-of-kouvola

how many fingers am i holding up? - Arina

Cara groaned in pain and confusion

"I think I lost the fight"

She didnt answer the question and made no effort to stamd up, just continued leaning against whatever it was she was slumped up against.

"No shit." Arina muttered with a frown. She pressed the makeshift cold compress to Cara's swollen shut eye, tying it in place with her scarf.

"I only left for two hours, seriously..." Concern and exasperation was mixed in her voice even as she continued to clean up the rest of Cara's face with a handkerchief.

"Your jacket is also gone, y'know."

@cara-of-kouvola

inexplicably Cara began to laugh, only saying "If you dont already have the message on your phone I will tell you later, can't talk here, can you help me up n call Cynthn to pick me up?" Cara seemed heavier to lift

It was only when they were in the back of Cynthns truck that the subterfuge was revealed, what was believed to be Cara was Kass as she changed to an intact version of Kassinnis preferred appearance.

"Cara would of died fighting or killed them all before letting them take her jacket, so... we have had a lot of trouble tracking them back to their hq and had an opportunity to get inside access, when you left, Cara and I swapped places, part of me is now watching everything they do, message about this should be on your phone, unless Cynthns computer is acting up again."

Arina huffed as she carried Cara to the truck. Damn, she woudl have to start exercise more, usually she could lift her partner without issues.

"Damn it all, Kass... I could strangle you right now, making me worry like that." The elf growled once Kassinni changed appearances. "I left my phone at our place, noone said anything in advance about any plans for today." She hissed out, arms crossed voer her chest. "Just tell me one thing. Is Cara injured? Like how you looked like when I found you? Or was that all on you?"

@cara-of-kouvola

how many fingers am i holding up? - Arina

Cara groaned in pain and confusion

"I think I lost the fight"

She didnt answer the question and made no effort to stamd up, just continued leaning against whatever it was she was slumped up against.

"No shit." Arina muttered with a frown. She pressed the makeshift cold compress to Cara's swollen shut eye, tying it in place with her scarf.

"I only left for two hours, seriously..." Concern and exasperation was mixed in her voice even as she continued to clean up the rest of Cara's face with a handkerchief.

"Your jacket is also gone, y'know."

@cara-of-kouvola

20

20. Fears?

"Of being left behind, all alone. Again." Arina eventually muttered without turning to face Cara. "But you know that already, don't you?"

Thanks @cara-of-kouvola

"She knows very well" Lucifer answered before Cara could speak, limping into the room from empty air.

"Last time was entirely my fault, I am paying for it. " his last beating evident in his voice"

Cara just turned and punched Lucifer off his feet, growling out.

"Two thousand years you put me out there, it would of better for us all if you'd just let me die, I'd be back sooner than two years for my people, you have no idea what you did to me, none."

She turned back to Alina.

"I chose wrong, I can only hope to eventually recover your trust for the time ive been away. I tried to get back to you as soon as i believed it safe, and for his mistake, i was trapped, i hadno way to return. "

@asharinhun

Arina just sighed with a sad smile. "As much as I missed you, the others made me aware that it wasn't your fault that we were separated. I don't blame you for this time, though I admit it was hard. If not for the rest of the pack..." She shook her head, unwilling to finish that thought, she was better now, out of that pit of emotional darkness... wasn't she?

"No, I meant the time about... you know. The letter and all that." The elf sighed again. "It's just, it was still hard, but the others made sure I was never alone."

@cara-of-kouvola

Cara looked down at the ground for a moment as she contemplated what words to use, then looked back up.

"The life I've lead has been very different than most peoples lives, I had my reasons for why I did what I did, I know it to be the wrong choice, now.

It's good to know that the rest of the pack have been here for you, it means a great deal to me."

Cara's phone buzzed, she ignored it the first time, and the second time, the third time she checked it.

"It's my speech therapy appointment, i need to go to it, would you come?"

"It's... 'fine' isn't the right word, but it doesn't matter as long as you don't leave me behind like that again. I mean, accidents like this time, when it's not your fualt are fine, because you couldn't have done anything. At least you're back in one piece this time."

Arina paused at that with a slight frown. "You are in one piece - uninjured- right? Don't get me wrong, I loved the time we got to spend together while you were recovering from shattering your ankle, but you really missed running around... so, are you okay, physically at least?" "If you want me to, then yes. i wouldn't miss it."

@cara-of-kouvola

#Arina #Cara

20

20. Fears?

"Of being left behind, all alone. Again." Arina eventually muttered without turning to face Cara. "But you know that already, don't you?"

Thanks @cara-of-kouvola

"She knows very well" Lucifer answered before Cara could speak, limping into the room from empty air.

"Last time was entirely my fault, I am paying for it. " his last beating evident in his voice"

Cara just turned and punched Lucifer off his feet, growling out.

"Two thousand years you put me out there, it would of better for us all if you'd just let me die, I'd be back sooner than two years for my people, you have no idea what you did to me, none."

She turned back to Alina.

"I chose wrong, I can only hope to eventually recover your trust for the time ive been away. I tried to get back to you as soon as i believed it safe, and for his mistake, i was trapped, i hadno way to return. "

@asharinhun

Arina just sighed with a sad smile. "As much as I missed you, the others made me aware that it wasn't your fault that we were separated. I don't blame you for this time, though I admit it was hard. If not for the rest of the pack..." She shook her head, unwilling to finish that thought, she was better now, out of that pit of emotional darkness... wasn't she?

"No, I meant the time about... you know. The letter and all that." The elf sighed again. "It's just, it was still hard, but the others made sure I was never alone."

@cara-of-kouvola

#Arina #Cara

❛ i think our orders may have gotten mixed up. ❜ - Arina to Cara

"No, we have our orders right, we are actually to shoot all these people, everyone has very specifically assigned targets, each of us is to only shoot the people assigned and no one else. Guns are loaded with different ammunition, it looks like we're killing everyone in a very cold and hostile manner but those who are not the hostage takers are just getting knocked off their feet "

Cara didn't want anything going wrong with this extraction...

"You are aware I have no idea how to use... guns and the like, right?" The elf asked, even her grip on the weapon was wrong. "I'm afraid I'll shoot one of you by accident instead of someone I'd need to." She muttered with a sigh and put the firearm down.

"I'm sorry, we forget, guns are just an everyday item in our lives, just like our bikes, we forget that not everyone likes them, we should learn from you on this."

"It's not your fault, and I didn't mean it like that. Just, uhh don't expect me to use one. Not sure if I could even if I'd know how to fire one properly, not after being on the receiving end." Arina indicated at her shoulder, where one of the scars from those gunshot wounds was visible.

❛ i think our orders may have gotten mixed up. ❜ - Arina to Cara

"No, we have our orders right, we are actually to shoot all these people, everyone has very specifically assigned targets, each of us is to only shoot the people assigned and no one else. Guns are loaded with different ammunition, it looks like we're killing everyone in a very cold and hostile manner but those who are not the hostage takers are just getting knocked off their feet "

Cara didn't want anything going wrong with this extraction...

"You are aware I have no idea how to use... guns and the like, right?" The elf asked, even her grip on the weapon was wrong. "I'm afraid I'll shoot one of you by accident instead of someone I'd need to." She muttered with a sigh and put the firearm down.

"Hey, I got something for you." Arina said after kissing Cara's cheek. She took one of the werevamps's hands and guided it to the item in question: a new pair of sunglasses. The elf waited patiently for her lover to feel around the shape before asking "What do you think? It was the closest in appearance to your old one I could find."

"Wherever did you find a pair like these? I had my old set custom made. " For the first time in weeks Cara smiled, a genuine happy smile.

"Thank you my love."

Cara gently gave Arina a warm hug.

"I may or may not have placed an order for this one. I kept of what remained of the old one and sent it along with the order." Arina replied sheepishly.

"Got the tip from the other pack members on who to order from, so here we are. This is why I had to sneak out a few times to finalize things and you didn't find me next to you. Sorry about that, but wanted this to be a surprise."

@cara-of-kouvola

Cara was becoming more in tune with her other senses, she paid attention closely, hearing, the feel of the sun on her skin, scent, and had begun to take walks in a somewhat wooded area, however it was noticeable to anyone paying attention that she couldn't see.

"Arina?" she whispered quietly, "we're being followed, smells male, slight scent of old leather, probably a leather trenchcoat. Don't look behind us, i can just about hear his heart beat, walks really quiet, keep walking, hes probably just lost and hoping we'll lead him back to the road."

It didn't take long before her assessment was proven wrong. He drew a knife quickly, probably intending to wound one of them and steal whatever he could. That didn't happen, Cara turned abbruptly, stepped inside the attack and punched him hard. The knife fell offto the side, and so did her glasses.

"Fuck."

She kicked him.

"Thats for the attempt, and thats for the glasses. Arina, can you see my glasses?"

@asharinhun

"What do you...?" Arina started to ask, but thought better of it and just nodded instead. She didn't think Cara had the right idea. If the elf learned anything from her stay near the city was that a lot of people were worse than scum.

Before she could do anything, the werevamp had already took care of the would be attacker.

"Uhm..." She didn't want to be the ebarer of bad news, but the glasses were junk at this point. Still, she leaned down and picked it up.

"I'm afraid it's useless now. He managed scratch it and the lenses broke when it landed. I'm sorry love." Arina knew Cara loved this pair of sunglasses.

@cara-of-kouvola

“Come and sit with me.” -Cara.

Arina sighed and allowed to be helped by her temporary blind lover, wincing ever so slightly at every second step while Cara was supporting her weight. "We're almost at the bed, maybe then more steps or so." The elf added to be of some use still. "Seriously, which cleaner forgets to put out the slippery floor sign?"

@cara-of-kouvola

Gently easing Arina down to the bed Cara reassured her.

"Someone who isn't going to make it in the pack, we make the prospective members prove their abilities to the good of the pack for awhile, in a number of ways, some could call it hazing or whatever, but if they can't follow simple fucking protocols they're going to get people killed. Please, lay down and rest for a bit, one moment, I just have to make a quick call."

She dialed River on her phone

"Hey River, you still have that asshole with you?"

"Yes Ma'am"

River had heard that tone of voice from Cara before, and from Maria, she was anxious

"Hand your phone over to him..."

"Y..y..yes..ma'am" came the scared voice of the scewup

"Don't move until i say...I am going to physically rip off some parts of you, and bite off some parts, bite your throat out, your life expectancy is from now until I find you, now hand back the phone and start running."

There was a fumble sound of a phone being handed over very quikly and the fading sound of someone running away as fas as they could,

"Ma'am, what did you say to him"

"I told him he was not working out here and he wasn't going to last very long, words to that effect. Thank you River. Please continue as you would."

River hung up, entirely un-envious of the wrath that can be incurred from screwing up badly with someone important during the prospective membership period, although the rewards of becoming a full member were worth the risk of extreme and permanent injury or being violently dismembered and murdered,

Cara lay down with Arina, gently stroking the bruised areas, a faint green glow came from Caras hands, her healing magic was nowhere near the strength of the packs main healer, but it would help a little.

The founder of the pack was annoyed, it wasn't easy getting prospective members while they still appeared weak, and apparently the ones they were getting were unable to follow clear instructions, how hard was it to mark out the area, bring the supplies to clean an area AND dry it before removing the markings... asshole had washed the floors okay but left it to dry, no signs.

@asharinhun

The elf grunted slightly as her bruised side made contact with the bed, and was quick to lay on her other side to feel less pain.

"You got quite handy with that phone even without your sight."

She complimented, feeling warmth in her chest at Cara's literally blind fury at the imbecile who caused their mishap. The bruises and bumps were a shade of deep blue or black thanks to her lilac skin.

"Mmm, since when were you capable of healing magic?" Arina asked with a raised eyebrow. but soon sighed with relief as the contusions started to fade a little, easing her pain.

"Remind me not to drag you down with me the next time I fall with you on top of me, will you? You're heavier than you look." While Cara couldn't see the tongue the elf stuck out at her, she could hear the teasing tone perfectly so she'd know not to take the comment seriously. "Just... careful with the leg, please. that got the biggest hit... that and my ass."

Arina was was acting as the werevamp's eyes and was guiding her hand in hand when the accident with the wet flooor happened, the elf instinctively pulling Cara on top of her to shield her from the landing at the expense of makign her own worse.

@cara-of-kouvola

my-messed-up-writings

"Yeah, practice, can't read the screen, but I know where the buttons are...I feel so bad that I fell on you." She smiled at the compliment over her new skills.

"Ever since my parents got to come back for a couple of hours, there was some stuff I did and now I can use my kinds natural magic, I've been studying a range of things, Nicki has been a great teacher."

She frowned at the comment about her weight

"My kind...we have a much denser bone structure and our muscles are... well the same, yeah we're heavier, next time, you fall on me, huh?"

Cara continued with the healing magic and quietly enjoyed the thought of Arina smiling.

@ashabloody

"You've adjusted well, my love." Arina praised her further, removing the werevamp's sunglasses to place a kiss on cara's closed eyelids. "And don't lose hope, I still believe it is temporary. You WILL see me again, I'm sure of it." She caressed Cara's cheek after.

"Hey, don't take it seriously, I made that comment to poke fun at you. In truth you're far from heavy. You remember when I carried you up to the top floor when you successfully destroyed your ankle by jumping off the roof and the elevator was out of order?" Arina countered with a chuckle of her own.

"Mmm, don't stop now, this healing magic is actually pleasant, but don't tire yourself out. I'll be okay, just a few bruises. Just... well, we can't be that rough in bed is all."

@cara-of-kouvola / @my-messed-up-writings

“Come and sit with me.” -Cara.

Arina sighed and allowed to be helped by her temporary blind lover, wincing ever so slightly at every second step while Cara was supporting her weight. "We're almost at the bed, maybe then more steps or so." The elf added to be of some use still. "Seriously, which cleaner forgets to put out the slippery floor sign?"

@cara-of-kouvola

Gently easing Arina down to the bed Cara reassured her.

"Someone who isn't going to make it in the pack, we make the prospective members prove their abilities to the good of the pack for awhile, in a number of ways, some could call it hazing or whatever, but if they can't follow simple fucking protocols they're going to get people killed. Please, lay down and rest for a bit, one moment, I just have to make a quick call."

She dialed River on her phone

"Hey River, you still have that asshole with you?"

"Yes Ma'am"

River had heard that tone of voice from Cara before, and from Maria, she was anxious

"Hand your phone over to him..."

"Y..y..yes..ma'am" came the scared voice of the scewup

"Don't move until i say...I am going to physically rip off some parts of you, and bite off some parts, bite your throat out, your life expectancy is from now until I find you, now hand back the phone and start running."

There was a fumble sound of a phone being handed over very quikly and the fading sound of someone running away as fas as they could,

"Ma'am, what did you say to him"

"I told him he was not working out here and he wasn't going to last very long, words to that effect. Thank you River. Please continue as you would."

River hung up, entirely un-envious of the wrath that can be incurred from screwing up badly with someone important during the prospective membership period, although the rewards of becoming a full member were worth the risk of extreme and permanent injury or being violently dismembered and murdered,

Cara lay down with Arina, gently stroking the bruised areas, a faint green glow came from Caras hands, her healing magic was nowhere near the strength of the packs main healer, but it would help a little.

The founder of the pack was annoyed, it wasn't easy getting prospective members while they still appeared weak, and apparently the ones they were getting were unable to follow clear instructions, how hard was it to mark out the area, bring the supplies to clean an area AND dry it before removing the markings... asshole had washed the floors okay but left it to dry, no signs.

@asharinhun

The elf grunted slightly as her bruised side made contact with the bed, and was quick to lay on her other side to feel less pain.

"You got quite handy with that phone even without your sight."

She complimented, feeling warmth in her chest at Cara's literally blind fury at the imbecile who caused their mishap. The bruises and bumps were a shade of deep blue or black thanks to her lilac skin.

"Mmm, since when were you capable of healing magic?" Arina asked with a raised eyebrow. but soon sighed with relief as the contusions started to fade a little, easing her pain.

"Remind me not to drag you down with me the next time I fall with you on top of me, will you? You're heavier than you look." While Cara couldn't see the tongue the elf stuck out at her, she could hear the teasing tone perfectly so she'd know not to take the comment seriously. "Just... careful with the leg, please. that got the biggest hit... that and my ass."

Arina was was acting as the werevamp's eyes and was guiding her hand in hand when the accident with the wet flooor happened, the elf instinctively pulling Cara on top of her to shield her from the landing at the expense of makign her own worse.

@cara-of-kouvola

After some much needed hugs with Arina, Cara seeming noticably affectionate, she asked.

"Are you interested in what we have to go through to change our appearance? Sarah is likely getting close to it happening and she's okay with you seeing. She wants someone to witness itt who's not a hybrid like us."

She hoped Arina would appreciate the decision of trust from someone more clear headed than Cara herself.

"She thinks it important you get a choice in seeing in case it explains anything."

@asharinhun

"That's... Arina wasn't sure if she should accept the invitation at first. It wasn't anything against Sarah, but that whole process and the way Cara went about it were the reasons one of her worst insecurities got triggered. "Haaahhh. I understand the trust." She started after a long exhale. "I accept the offer, but please warn her I have no idea what state I'll be in. The topic itself is a bit still..." The druid didn't know how to finish, hoping Cara understood.

"And stop messing with the blindfold. It should stay on to distract you enough to believe it as a reason for your temporary loss of sight."

@cara-of-kouvola

Lights out - Cara

Cara muttered and grumbled in het sleep tben woke up angry.

"Fucking headache, fuck me." she opened her eyes, it was absolute darkness, her heat sense showed nothing either goving more confusion, putting her hand in front of her face, nothing.

"Arina?"

then she screamed at full volume

"A R I N A ! ! !"

"Help me,some one please fucking help me, i can't fucking see"

Cara immediately freaked out sobbing, muttering "please, have i not suffered enough?""

@asharinhun

The druid was in a deep sleep after an exhausting day, so the first call of her name barely roused her to wakefulness. The scream, however, jolted her fully awake like a scare, and Arina fell down to the ground, disoriented.

"I'm here, I'm here." The elf quickly climbed back up on the bed after her mind cleared up. "You can hear my breathing, take deep breaths with me. That's it. You're doing good." Arina held the werevamp securely in her arms.

"Just keep doing that for me, okay?" She whispered quietly, gently rubbing soothing circles on Cara's back. Once her partner was a touch more collected, Ash'Arina lifted the werevamp's chin to have a look at her eyes, but everthing seemed normal, but there was truly zero reaction.

"I'm calling Maria, so I'll have to step away to get the device... or do you want to come with me for those few steps into the next room and hold my hand?"

@cara-of-kouvola

Cara her breathing calmed with the soothing words and almost had a complete panic attack at being left alone. Barely able to contain her terror she whimpered, desperation soaked her soft and quiet plea

"Please, take me with you, I can't be alone, I know I have little right to ask you this after what I did, I just need you to keep talking or put on some music, i need some sensory input, I'm sorry, I'm freaking out right now, I... just don't leave me alone."

She was struggling to suppress the memory of a horrific situation which had forcibly separated her body mind and soul, but the memory was looming at her.

She somehow found Arinas hand and put full uninhibited, unreserved trust in her allowing her lover to lead her wherever she needed to take her.

@ashabloody

"Shh, shh, this and that are completely different. I'm not leaving you alone." She caressed Cara's cheek with her free hand, as the other was holding the werevamps own tightly.

"We really need to call Maria though... can you hold onto my shoulder with your other hand, that way I have a hand free and handle the devices." Arina waiting for the confirmation before planning their next move.

"Ok, let's get off the bed. The sooner Maria gets here, hopefully the sooner this issue can be resolved." The elf did her best to be strong and confident in place of her lover too, but it broke her heart to see Cara this distressed. Regardless of their current 'distance' between them as a couple, this was something noone should deal with alone.

"Good, that's it. Just leave the shoes, fel knows the last thing we need is a leg injury thanks to high heels..." The pair slowly made it to the music player first, using something called CD, as Cara explained oin the past. Arina just picked up the one with the most tracks on it before putting the disk in and setting it to play. "Is this a little better?"

Once Arina finally had the phone, with Cara's arms wrapped around her waist so she could use both hands, she quickly searched for the medic's nubmer for emergency contracted and pressed the call button.

"Maria? This is Arina. get to our locatio nas soon as possible, please. It's Cara, her sight is gone, even the heat sense. Hurry, please!" Her mask of calm slipped at the last please, showing how desperate the elf was for help for her lover.

@cara-of-kouvola

"Well that's kind of fucked up, I'll get a couple of things together and be there as soon as possible."

Traveling through the shadow network was restricted right now but urgent medical care was a clause that her position allowed her to do anything she damn felt necessary.

She wasn't able to travel directly into the house but a small looking building that looked like a utilities maintenance type had blacked out windows was suitable. From there, even in the dark she was able to draw some symbols on the ground.

"Hear me from across the chasm of distance, I call on you by your summoning name, hear my call and come to me Sarah Raicheskal."

A thud of suddenly displaced air...

"You really need to get your name and your summoning name changed...as well as your face."

"I've been busy Maria, I'll sort that out when we've finished with the ceremonies." (possible slight retcon, I can't remember if I had Sarah change her name and face yet)

From there it was usage of a car that she'd recently bought for a few hundred bucks. She walked in through the portal.

"Arina? Cara?" she asked, Sarah walking in behind, her commanding voice laced with deep concern as she put down the large red duffel bag and took out some devices. "Explain to me what's going on, current symptoms, what proceeded knowing this was going on, any head injuries, what did you eat, et cetera." She put a tight fitting hair net on Cara and clipped on several nodes connecting them to a hand held device with thin cables, the handheld device charted Caras brain activity, temperatures, physical consistency and integrity.

"Brainwise everything that should be going on, is going on." She disconnected the cables while attaching something else to the handheld device and aimed it at both eyes in turn and then at where Caras heat sensing organs had been explained to be.

"Everything looks like it should be working, there's absolutely no damage anywhere here there's no medical reason for this, Sarah can you detect anything out of the ordinary..."

"Nothing out of the ordinary or rather...expected, nothing that should effect Cara in the slightest, we should probably leave this safe house soon, it's kind of aging at an accelerated rate."

"How the hell is it that you know everything that's going on about everything, all the fucking time?"

"Oh I'm not telling you that, I'm not about to give that away, but how about we listen to Cara and Arina, maybe on the journey to somewhere else? Arina could you collect up the things you want to take from here. While you tell me what you know from your point of view, Cara will talk with Maria."

@ashabloody

"Yeah, I can gather my stuff, just... please, hold onto Cara until I'm back. It helps in steadying her." Arina replied, rubbing soothign circles into her lover's back before placing a kiss on Cara's cheek. "I'll be back as fast as i can, but maria is right here with you, you are not alone." The elf waited until the medic was holding Cara's hand securely before leading Sarah out of the room.

"I honestly have no idea what happened. We were cuddling when i fell asleep in Cara's arms, and the next thing I know I'm on the ground next to the bed, I stumbled down when her panicked scream woke me." The druid explained as best as she could while rummaging through the chests to gather her belongings.

"Do you have any idea what might have caused this sudden blindness? I mean, Cara had incidents before when she lost her sight in one ro both eyes due to injury, but it never affected her heat sense, and her eyes look perfectly fine. I called Maria rightaway, I really hope she can find something..."

@cara-of-kouvola

Sarah contemplated for a moment before answering

"There's been a few causes, one time she tried to look into another realm but got the spells mis-cast so that wrecked her eyesight, another couple of times she got silver embedded into her optic nerves and that was really bad and hard to resolve...."

She continued on, giving Arina all the details she had on this situation

"...there's no silver in her at all right now, her bloodwork is aparently well within healthy ranges, there's nothing neurological, there's nothing Maria or I can find, the air in here is absolutely controlled, Maria could detonate any number of toxins and airborne biohazards in here and they'd literally be erased before they could hurt anyone, no one else has reported eyesight issues so I can't suggest it was anything from the attacks on the bunkers. There's nothing magical here, no energy waves. We're stumped on this one."

She sniffed at the air

"There's nothing here to cause this, there's nothing to target this place, it both does and does not actually exist, only a small number of people can even enter the portal through to here, they go to a similarly structured place in normal realm, with a little luck it's temporary, but I can't be sure.

@ashabloody

"I remember her mentioning that looking between realm-thing and that she had to rely on her heat vision for a while. As for the silver, yeah... That was bad. Maria even had to resort to the mechanical eye in the end. I really hope it won't come to that this time. Cara made fun of the thing, but I noticed she was still troubled by it, especially when it needed to be upgraded." Arina sighed as she hefted a backpack across her shoulders while grabbing another full bag.

"I'm sure Cara won't say no to even having two of those mech eyes as long as it means her sight is back... but that is likely the last resort. And, selfish as that sounds, I like the way her eyes brighten when she looks at me. that's just not the same with the artifical eye." She tried to lift the third and final bag but it wouldn't fit next to the other two. "Could you carry this one, please?"

"That's all, let's go back to Cara and Maria, maybe they figured something out." Arina made her way back to the room where the other two were waiting for them. @cara-of-kouvola

Sarah picked up the bag without effort and walked back to Cara and Maria.

"I've run every damn test I've brought with me, we've got some parts of the bunker back online, I can run a few more tests from there, yeah, we're safe there for now."

It was at this moment that Kassinni and Lilith stepped in through the portal.

"Times good, everyone look lively the streets are clear, Arina, Cara please put on these armored vests. We don't want to take any chances, as soon as your in the car, strap on the belt and hold on, we like to drive fast."

Arina couldn't help a frown as she caught the tail-end of Maria and Cara's discussion, and even if she didn't, her lover's expression told more than enough. Damn it. She stepped closer, slipping her hand into Cara's to give her some comfort.

"Alright, just a moment." The elf quickly strapped on her own vest, not quite a notice at wearing one since hanging out with the pack, before moving on to help Cara with hers, especially to make sure everythign was fastanaed properly.

"Cara, like we did before, just hold onto my shoulder and I'll lead you." She just nodded at the others signaling that they were ready, and got to the vehicles at a decent pace. "Head down, love." Arina whispered, guiding the werevamp to the backseat and buckling her belf before taking her place on Cara's left. Her own belt secure, she held her lover's hands in one of her own while gently stroking the werevamp's hair to offer more physical contact and reassurance.

"How long until we arrive?" @cara-of-kouvola

"From here, it's going to be about thirty minutes, we're going to have a little help."

If Arina was anxious about the way they drove she didn't appear to show it as they drove through the streets at an excessive speed.

"Alina, here's some papers and a government ud badge, you're a high ranking official sent to check the seals on a biology lab, kinda true as we'd like to utilize your skills in plant life to test exactly that. You outrank every soldier there, be assertive."

They turned hard and got on tbe highway right behind four police cruisers driving at high speeds, falling in behind them they all accellerated to a speed most would describe as problematically dangerous.

The cruisers turned off the highway, the unmarked cars took yhe next exit and then a few turns later they were driving down a rough road and stopped at what appeared to be a military checkpoint.

Several armed guards stood next to the vehicle.

"Papers check out, we just need to do a sweep of the car."

It was uneventful as all weapons and such had been registered before they arrived.

"Sorry for the delay, we're under strict orfers to keep this area secure. "

Driving into the underground garage they went into the main bunker and down a fresh6dug out stairwell.

"Okay, we're back 'home'...lets get Cara checked out."

"papers please