#starter;thalia

[helenaaspencer]

for: @thalia-stone

location: erzsebet's

Each booth might be big enough to hold five vampires, but Helena often preferred to dine alone at Erzsebet's regardless. She valued the peace. But despite that, one of the things she was learning to appreciate most about Opulence was the existence of places like this, places where she didn't have to hide her identity or species from anyone. And meet others like herself. There were a few she could recognise, but she didn't feel like talking to them and so stayed clear, instead wandering toward the bar, taking a space next to a woman she didn't think she'd met before.

[helenaaspencer]

for: @thalia-stone

location: erzsebet’s

Helena had been inconvenienced by the changes brought about by the strange occurrences at Founder’s Day, but she wouldn’t consider herself uncomfortable by appearing more as a vampire than a human. Perhaps she was just more fortunate in that being so old and thus so detached from her human existence, it bothered her less to see herself as she truly was - black eyes, pale skin, fangs clearly visible pressing against her full lower lip even when she closed her mouth. Needing to sleep again, perhaps, was a little more problematic. But most annoying of all was the thirst, the constant hunger that seemed to follow her and yet no matter how many blood donors she burned through, she couldn’t quite satiate it. She’d have spent the week alone at home, if it weren’t for Thalia, drinking and drinking again. But dinner company, even when dinner was going to have to be a long affair, was always appreciated. And spending time with other vampires felt preferable to seeing other creatures freak out. “Are you,” she asked hesitantly, despite the fact that the booth was empty other than them and their blood of choice, “ridiculously hungry, or is it just me? I feel the Founder’s Day mist must have done something to us….”