#c:erasmusrowe

[gabriel-enchanted-blog]

@erasmusrowe

This was a bad idea. Nothing good was going to come out of putting himself quite literally in the coven’s crosshairs, but he had found Avery was particularly difficult to say no to. After all, the agreement was protection and how could Gabe be of any protective value all the way over at the Forts if Avery was at the party and vice versa? It was hard to argue and so reluctantly, Gabriel’d allowed the manic fae who never seemed to stray long from Avery’s side to dress him for said festivities, in festive silks complete with actual holly woven into his hair. 

He looked ridiculous.

But he left well enough alone and trailed after the fae, deciding it was best to remain as much out of sight as he could and find a post to just oversee the party. In searching for the perfect hidden spot, this time it was him who found someone had already taken it and had to shoot the man a playfully annoyed huff. “Alright, fair enough, this time you beat me to the best place for solitude. May I join you?”

It was tucked away and perfect. Nobody’d Gabe was maybe kind of avoiding would find him here and he could make a quick break to Avery’s side if needed. Win-win. He was actually kind of pleased to find Erasmus there because he’d decided the other was one of the rare few who made an acceptable exception when seeking out solitude and hadn’t expected to run into him here of all places. 

[kainanxrowe]

@erasmusrowe

Kainan was Concentrating. Flowers were bastards and he was absolutely not going to feel guilty about stepping on a single one ever again. The stupid things did whatever they wanted and Kai had no idea what changed that suddenly they’d decided he was what they wanted but his wants certainly didn’t matter. If they were going to be around, they should at least make themselves useful and like…be a prickly pointy dangerous army or something. So he was concentrating on developing a row of rose bushes that could act as an uncomfortable temporary barrier but roses made new baby vamps look tame and cooperative.

Cursing them in soft German, he plopped back into the soft grass and considered the row of barely there bushes. “Bitte.” he said finally after much internal grumbling, fully expecting the leaves to grow and branches to thicken but after much staring, he was pretty certain it’d gotten smaller. “Bastards.”

Kai knew nothing about plants other than somewhere called flowers and some were weeds and he didn’t know the difference. Maybe they wanted to be called weeds. “Grow weeds.” he tried, with another much sighed upon “Please.” tacked on. Rolling his eyes, he settled his gaze back towards the cabin and startled to find someone much closer than he’d expect. Apparently, his hearing was going along with his sight, fucking magick. And then he just stopped and stared because apparently he was just completely losing his goddamn mind because that sure looked like Erasmus but…he looked different. And not just because of the mask. “Brother?” he questioned quietly as he stood up and felt a surprising wave of dizziness that went along with stomach rumblings. “Are you also having a very strange night? I’m being followed by flowers. What sort of magick nonsense is this?” Waving his hand caused bushes of lilacs to bloom right where he’d planned the roses to be causing him to throw both hands up in frustration and then hurry to bury them in his pockets as tulips joined the foot of the lilac bushes. “I must make it stop.”

[kainanxrowe]

@erasmusrowe

Kainan couldn’t believe his eyes when he’d walked past the piano. He’d promptly backed up to double-check and then look around to see if there was someone it clearly belonged to. He didn’t remember seeing it before but he was often in mission-mode as he was teased about and saw nothing but what he was there to accomplish. It’s entirely possible it’d sat here the whole time. Briefly, he considered going to one of the humans for permission but they wouldn’t have it out here in the open if it was forbidden, right?

Words from a brief intense friendship in his life echoed in his head, that smartass smirk and swagger in the hips quipping “Lighten up, K-man. It’s always better to ask forgiveness than permission.” That very attitude was likely what lead to his sudden disappearance from the streets but Kai had to admit something about being trapped in the forest was wakening a long-dead sense of rebellion.

So, he quickly backtracked to the forest and checked the usual places for Erasmus to be lurking before finally happening upon him. “C’mon.” he said urgently. “I found something and I think you’ll enjoy it.” Grinning in a rare unrestrained fashion, he took off again, certain curiosity alone would ensure his brother following and carefully led them back into the GRF and the small room he’d found.

He’d guess by the strange way the walls were that it was likely soundproofed and that nobody would bother them by sound alone. “Look!” he pointed, feeling all the glee of an overexcited child. “I found a piano!”