[M] So Cold
#1
[html]
WARNING This thread contains: strong language, drug usage, strong violence, or strong sexual content. Reader discretion is advised.

341 words. Set in the D'Neville Mansion, main house, at some point between 12-3AM this morning (Jan.24.2011)

It was dark, but she enjoyed it. No bright lights, no loud noises. Not that it mattered this night; she was stone cold sober, a fact that shocked even the de le Poer woman. Indeed, as she took hesitant steps from her room, glancing around the central hall of the D'Neville mansion, there was no liquor on her mind. Her eyes focused, saw without the chemical additive, studied easily without the excess of booze. Her head was clear. The night was even better without the alcohol.

Except for the shadows.

Her crimson eyes filed over the shadows one by one, and in each she saw the golden eyes of her most horrid nightmares. She choked back her silent screams of displeasure, making her way down the hall, behind her room; she wanted to be outside, but in her subtle hysteria, she had fallen into disorientation. Which way was out? Which way would take her from the dark hallways to the moonlit snow-covered land outside of the mansion?

The shadows closed in on her as she tried, so valiantly, to find an escape. In them, the heavy form of the black-furred uncle she hated so much; but he had died, and she had seen it. What if he hadn't? Perhaps he lacked a soul to the extent of an inability to die. Maybe he was back, as he promised. And if he was, there was no hope for Talitha Lykoi. No father to save her now, no mother to comfort her. In the darkness, it was just Talitha.

Her scream echoed along the walls, seeping into the wood like water.

During her attempted escape, she had found the western staircase, and in her hysteria, she had tumbled down each step. She landed at the foot of them in a jumbled pile of cinnamon fur and mahogany locks, topped with torn cotton. It hurt to move, but she rolled onto her back. The shadows had gone, no Andrezej was there. Just her, staring at the ceiling with dull crimson eyes.

"What an idiot."

mall-caps;">Table coding by Sie!


For tu. Because Cotl + Tali = awesome...kinda? Weird awesome. But awsome.

<style>
.tali-o11 .ooc {font-style:italic; }
.tali-o11 p {padding:2px 20px; margin:0px; text-indent:35px;}
.tali-o11 b {color:#FFFFFF; letter-spacing:-.2px; }
.tali-o11 {background-color:#467C94; background-image:url(http://sleepyglow.net/souls/gifts/2010d ... table2.png); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:2px solid #000000; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size:12px; color:#122A34; letter-spacing:.4px; word-spacing:.3px; line-height:16px; width:450px; text-align:justify; padding:270px 0px 10px 0px; }
.tali-o11-border {width:454px; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; margin:0 auto;}
span.copyrightedtali a {font-size:10px;font-family:Georgia;color:black;text-decoration:none;}
</style>[/html]
#2
[html]
OOC: yeah, I'm gonna rape this thread, and there's nothing you can do about it because a cotl and tali thread is NEEDED and REQUIRED. Tongue SSWM: 523

Insanity was a bitch, though at some points it was fun, just because you were able to do crazy ass shit and get away with it. Cotl pretty much was insane most of the time anyways, nothing ever being normal in his world metal. Sleep was not necessary in the world of the insane, for insomnia was quick to come with paranoia. Cotl hardly slept, barely ate, most of the time he just was high, or just being fucking insane in his head. The mixture of pot and cocaine had him doing weird shit all the time, it had him sleepy but awake all at the same time, and half brain dead most of the time. Tonight, he'd dipped himself into all of his drugs. Kokain, Alkohol, und Marihuana. Cotl Always started off with the drinking. He had a few chugs of a bottle of jack daniels he had from awhile back when he had hit up a store and found a whole bunch. He'd been lucky that he locked away a bunch away from Marik, the fucking alcoholic. Cotl was a hypocrite because he was bad enough to actually hide some away for later. He wanted to make sure that he had alcohol at all times, no matter what. Cotl giggled lightly as he ran his nose across a line of cocaine that was o a book cover on his lap as he laid there in bed for the moment. He giggled lightly as shivers ran up his spine and he wiggled in the bed. He cleared his throat rather loudly before the closing of a door had caught his attention. He had listened for a little bit, but would lose interest until there was a scream. Cotl jumped up onto his feet faster than he would have normally jumped up and he was quick to run out of his room.

Once he was out of his room door, he had ran towards where there was that scream. The cokehead had looked down towards the stairs where there was a body laying at the bottom of the stairs. He cocked his head as he had tried to make out who the form was. His bi-colored eyes had caught a glimpse of the tattoo of the chaos star he had done on someone named "Talitha" but she had not been seen in many, many moons. Cotl wondered what had happened to the other Imaginifer. Cotl took a few steps down the stairs, a loud NYEH escaping his maw as he descended the stairs to go to the woman. Once he was down there, he knelt down to her, his large ears twitched on his head and then he opened his pierced maw to speak. "Talitha? Ich nicht dhink das du komm backs. Du okays? Vas happenes?" the thick German accent was quick to infect his speech because of his intoxicated state. "vheres been? -FUCKINGBITCHFACEDICKSUCKCUNT-" the man continued to speak to the woman, cocking his head as he head out a hand to help her up. She was a friend, wasn't she? He did need to help them at least sometimes.






"speech"

[/html]
#3
[html]

405 words.


The passage of time was warped as she lay there on the floor, staring at the ceiling. Feeling sorry for herself? No. Feeling disgusted, really. And how many minutes, how many hours, did she sit there in her self-loathing? In truth, not many. Almost as soon as her fearful scream resounded in the halls, a familiar ginger shape appeared on the stairs, following a similarly familiar sound. The Imaginifer knelt, opening his black-dipped and pierced muzzle to speak.

It was the spine-tingling German accent that really gave away who the familiar stranger was. A blast from the past, artist and interesting soul alike. Cotl Ulrich, as he had so easily introduced himself all those months ago; had it really been half a year since she lived within the walls of her beautiful coymutt kingdom? Apparently so. Her crimson eyes moved from the bland ceiling to the male who was a wonderful sight as far as pack members went. It could have been worse. It could have been Halo.

He offered her his hand and she grabbed it firmly with her own as a means to haul her skinny coymutt body from the floor. It hurt. She'd done something in the fall. She stood, though, and pushed the displeasure to the back of her small, canine skull. As quickly as she had grabbed it, she released his white-furred hand, using her own to adjust and tug her time-worn clothing back into proper place.

She hadn't really listened while she was on her back, but she had a simple answer to everything. "I was gone, and now I'm back." Vague, but it served her purposes for the time being. A moment's pause, and she opened her mouth again: "Did you miss me, handsome?" Self-confidence was an image she tried to push forward onto others, even if it wasn't what she felt on the inside.

To show she was fine, a coy smile passed her lips.

The de le Poer daughter shifted her weight from one foot to the other. That was when she caught scent of her favorite beverage in the region. Liquor. With a subtle gesture of rubbing her back, she leaned toward her German friend and sniffed at the air around him. Sure enough, he was the source of the smell; Cotl was sloshed. A trilling laugh emanated from her as soon as the fact reached her brain, though she offered no clarification to it.


mall-caps;">Table coding by Sie!

<style>
.tali-o11 .ooc {font-style:italic; }
.tali-o11 p {padding:2px 20px; margin:0px; text-indent:35px;}
.tali-o11 b {color:#FFFFFF; letter-spacing:-.2px; }
.tali-o11 {background-color:#467C94; background-image:url(http://sleepyglow.net/souls/gifts/2010d ... table2.png); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:2px solid #000000; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size:12px; color:#122A34; letter-spacing:.4px; word-spacing:.3px; line-height:16px; width:450px; text-align:justify; padding:270px 0px 10px 0px; }
.tali-o11-border {width:454px; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; margin:0 auto;}
span.copyrightedtali a {font-size:10px;font-family:Georgia;color:black;text-decoration:none;}
</style>[/html]
#4
[html]

WC: 566


The woman was quick to grab his outreached hand, and he braced himself to help pick herself up. He'd notice that the woman hadn't been as heavy as she once was, him possibly weighing more than she by now. He'd begin to wonder where she had been, what she had been doing. Cotl cocked his rust-furred head and pushed some of the coal hair away from his bi-colored eyes. He looked upon her form, she dressed different from the last time she was around. She'd changed, subtly, but it was there still, and an artist's eyes were so trained to notice detail that he could tell right off the bat. She'd spoken to him about how she had left and then came back. That much he could notice. Cotl looked up at one of her tall ears. There was a piercing that had not been there before. He cocked his coked up head of his. A joker's smile was on his face as he looked at the ruby-eyed beauty. He'd noticed that A lot of the Lykoi women were beautiful. Halo and Talitha being the top two that he's met. Kaena too was beautiful, even for how old she was. Cotl opened his mouth to speak, but before he could form words, his throat cleared and his ear twitched. Vhere go? he asked, wondering where she had been this whole time. Und vas -FICKNICHTBITCHSHIT-happens? the man added on rather hurriedly, his hand going to his neck and scratching there for a moment like a crackhead. His eyes went to her eyes for a moment before they were back up on the ear with the spiral gauge in it. His face held a devious grin when she had gone on and asked him if he had missed her. Cotl wouldn't realize it, not until she had come back, and was here in front of him yet again, that yeah, he did miss her in a way. The two had spent a little bit of time together and they both had the same interests, so why the hell not?

Cotl let a chuckle pass his lips when she had sniffed him, smelling whatever drugs he had been dealing with, probably mostly the deep stench of whiskey that Cotl had been chugging in his room. She had not known what part in Cotl's life she had entered back in on, but things would more than likely be slightly different. The metalhead was getting to the point of insanity, and he was bound to break at any moment. She was a friend though, so she could only hope that she didn't become enemy and he snap at her. He'd yet to do so to a clanmember, but simply because he had normally been locked away in his room, getting fucked up and then maybe sneaking out and watering his marijuana plants in the greenhouse, or to take care of Maschine. Even then it had been rare that he would leave his room. He looked at the woman and was torn from his thoughts. Vas du dhink? the man purred to the woman, a pleasant sound coming from those thick German lips. The man cleared his throat again before he had moved closer to the woman, hands reaching out again, but this time to touch the woman and her soft fur. That was if she would let him.

<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#5
[html]
VIVAT INFERNI

Walk . Talk . Think
OOC. 610wc. Sorry for the length and rambling...I dunno where that came from.

It was better to be on her feet, even if a portion of her spine throbbed as if something was jammed into it. She was less exposed, less endangered; Talitha didn't enjoy vulnerability. Not in others, and certainly not in herself. She pushed back a wave of mahogany locks as she gave her answers. Blunt, simple. To the point. Not divulging any information of her activities apart from her coming and going. After all, what if Cotl was disappointed in her disappearing act? The fear of failure extended far past Gabriel de le Poer. The Lykoi woman lacked the confidence to realize nothing was really wrong.

Cotl's insistence to know where she was distracted the de le Poer. She appreciated it, though she perceived his second score of questions as prying. Her crimson eyes flickered to his arm as he reached back to scratch his neck; they didn't stay there long. With an agonizingly slow speed, the irises passed from his hand to his forearm, from forearm to bicep. Silently she wondered when she last slept with someone, anyone. Had it been Cotl? Half a year? Her fingers drummed against her cream-hued stomach as she mulled the dates over in her mind.

"I just went. Found a place to stay, stayed there for a while. And here I am. Fur 'n blood." It was hardly much better than her last explanation, but the words held more emotion. She was dancing around facts because she didn't want to let them out. She was hiding memories in the back of her mind, and not necessarily from others, but from herself.

Anyways, it would have to come out eventually; why let bad past ruin perfectly pleasant present? There was time, later. There would always be time.

With a subtle touch of her feminine wiles, she guided the conversation into a different direction. "Did you miss me?" The grin that spread across the German's muzzle gave an answer before he spoke, and his own laughter mirrored her trill of amusement at the clearly intoxicated air around the ginger-furred man. He'd been having one hell of a personal party; internally, she was jealous. It'd been some time since she'd let herself go, with anything outside of the booze range.

The accented purr brought a shiver along her spine and she locked her eyes from his body to his face as he cleared his throat once more. She didn't realize the movement that brought him closer to her, or the action that placed his hands on her body. It wasn't until she felt the subtle pressure of a living force against her that she noticed he'd moved at all. In truth, she didn't mind. Maybe it was the lack of alcohol that caused her to pull herself from the touch. All at once, with rapid-fire speed, her mind tore open with past memories, rewinding in her mind. The borders, blood, sex. Cotl, Andrezej.

She grimaced, a subtle twitch of her lips as she moved out of his range. "I think you did, but maybe you didn't notice I was gone," she spoke with a sultry drawl as her feet brought her to the Imaginifer's side. He was shorter than she was, by quite a few inches, but she didn't evalute him on his height. No, he was attractive for other reasons, ones she tucked away in her closet of qualifications. Her mind wheeled back to her mental timeline; was that the first touch she'd had since she left? It brought a frown to her expression, one that was quickly washed away by a new thought.

"You're still living here, hm. Any interesting decorations for your room?"


<style>
.vivatinferni-ft01-main {background-color:black;padding:3px;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:11px;color:#adadad;letter-spacing:.2px;word-spacing:.75px;line-height:13px;width:480px;text-align:left;background-image:url(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8146 ... header.png);background-position:top center;background-repeat:no-repeat;padding-top:224px;border:0px inset black;margin:0px auto;border-radius:10px;-moz-border-radius:10px;-webkit-border-radius:10px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-vivat {float:right;font-size:40px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Georgia;text-transform:uppercase;font-variantConfusedmall-caps;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center;padding-right:3px;line-height:20px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-walktalk {text-align:center;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;font-color:#adadad;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main p {padding:5px;margin:0px;text-indent:15px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main b {color:#ac5a10;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-copyright {font-size:9px;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:8px;}
</style>[/html]
#6
[html]

WC: 537

The man twitched his neck as he listened to the woman, her eyes were stuck on him, watching him doing what he did with his arms and body. His tail wagged lightly behind him, showing that he was at least somewhat happy to be in the presence of the woman, you know, if his joker's smile was not the only thing the woman needed to know that he was actually excited, or relieved that she was still around. Her returning didn't make him feel better about the death that had caused him to be paranoid that he was next to be killed off. If anything, it made him more insecure because now he would have to worry about Talitha being killed off, since she had been his friend. It made him nervous, though his face did not show this, for this was not on the front of his mind right now. His highness had pushed it away, and her vague answer was not satisfying to him. He gave her a look, curiosity sitting there in his eyes as the joker's smile sat on his lips still. He did not pry simply because he felt as if she was going to just give him the same goddamn vague answers, only to just confuse him. He did want to know what was up though, and curiosity in this man normally only grew deeper, never diminishing.

The doped man had looked at the woman. Du shoulds tell mich auf adventures vhen times komm. -NYEH- Ist nices dat yous kommt backs. the man played the game of him pretending not to care for now, but maybe when he was higher, he would forget and ask again. Once his hands had touched the woman's side, they lingered there only for a moment before the woman would twist away from his grip and he would be forced to pretty much catch himself from stumbling over. He leaned back and then forward again til he was balanced. Cotl then took a step back and grabbed onto the staircase's arm for support. He hiccuped once. Auf courses Ich sees das du lefts. Du scents faded. the man quickly defended himself. The Artist knew what went on around here, and he normally kept some sort of tabs on his friends, figuring out at least if they were around or not. He noticed when Heidi's scent had faded from the packlands. He never smelt her around anymore when he walked around the lands with nothing to do.

The woman changed subject yet again and she had changed it to what he had in his room. Cotl looked back up the staircase for a moment and thought about what he had. Ich gots a coydog skull -DICKFACE- Heand pelt. Still habe mein flag. Painted die valls somes...uhmm... he had to think about the way to say it in English. The word wasn't coming to him. fuck.. the man spoke, trying to think of the word but it still didn't come to him. He was feeling stupid right now. Jus' kommt und sees yourselfs. the man had spoken to the woman, grabbing out at her hand to pull her up the stairs and to his room, if she let him.

<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#7
[html]
VIVAT INFERNI

Walk . Talk . Think
OOC. 397wc.

That was what she wanted to hear, some sense that the Luperci didn't want to know about her exploits. Even if it was a lie. Even if Cotl would ask her later. At least her mind could be eased away from it for the time being. Subconsciously, she stored the circumstances that resulted due to her disappearance away in the back of her cerebrum, behind the never-forgotten memories of her uncle and the Dahlian war. It was a defense mechanism that made her turn the subject around, to whether Cotl had missed her, or even noticed she was gone.

He had. Or he claimed he had, she couldn't be sure. Maybe she wanted to believe him. Either way, she approached his words with a subtle distrust, just as she would have anyone; the ginger-furred Imaginifer was not an exception to her rule.

He knew she had left because her scent had faded. Curiosity passed over the coymutt's face, her crimson eyes turning from Cotl's body to the walls, up the stairs, through the expansive room. She didn't know her own scent, obviously. She couldn't tell if it lingered in the D'Neville manor, on the lands. In the minds of others. "Did it really..." The words were whispered, not meant to be directed at anyone present. She wasn't even really speaking to herself, some imaginary thing. Had she managed to make her mark on the Inferni lands once again? In such a short window of time?

Talitha was sure that, were she to ask, Cotl would say yes.

So she pushed the conversation in a new direction, secretly pulling strings to get what ending she was looking for. His bedroom. The destination for the rest of the dark morning; what better place? Andrezej couldn't get her there, not under the German's bi-colored watch. Her crimson gaze focused silently on his ashen muzzle, watching as he spat out words in the voice she found so comforting in the moment. Coydog skull, pelt, flag, why was he still talking? They could have been up the stairs.

But finally, finally, he reached for her hand, and she let him take it. She let him lead her, following the stairs while keeping her eyes on her friend. "I don't have anything for my room yet, except what was there." Back to a lush murmur, sultry overtones overwhelming the innocence of the sentence.


<style>
.vivatinferni-ft01-main {background-color:black;padding:3px;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:11px;color:#adadad;letter-spacing:.2px;word-spacing:.75px;line-height:13px;width:480px;text-align:left;background-image:url(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8146 ... header.png);background-position:top center;background-repeat:no-repeat;padding-top:224px;border:0px inset black;margin:0px auto;border-radius:10px;-moz-border-radius:10px;-webkit-border-radius:10px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-vivat {float:right;font-size:40px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Georgia;text-transform:uppercase;font-variantConfusedmall-caps;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center;padding-right:3px;line-height:20px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-walktalk {text-align:center;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;font-color:#adadad;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main p {padding:5px;margin:0px;text-indent:15px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main b {color:#ac5a10;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-copyright {font-size:9px;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:8px;}
</style>[/html]
#8
[html]

WC: 713

The rust man was able to take the Infernian Princess' hand, where tan hand touched his pure ivory one. He held onto her with a strong hand, though it was as gentle as it could be, since she was a woman. The man looked up to where he was going, his other arm hanging onto the rail so his drunk ass didn't fall over. He tried hard to not hug the wall for too long, but on some of the steps you could tell he was almost too drunk to continue. He would chuckle at himself when he would get stuck, before he would take a few more steps and finally make it up to the top with his friend. Bi-colored eyes had moved to Talitha for a moment, a smile still stuck on his lips. Tali, Ich needs to draws du somedays. Models für mich, ja? the man asked of her, wanting her be able to draw her at some point in time. He'd drawn Halo before, and Kaena had been on the list of people to tag down to draw. He also had drawn his son, Sascha and his brother Marik. He didn't get to draw Izaak while he was alive, but Cotl had a good enough memory of the man to remember what he looked like in detail. It was always better when the live person was there though, so he'd want to draw Talitha. Maybe later he would draw other clans members, but for now, it more than likely be ones that he found to be unique and beautiful in their own ways. It was also random that Cotl had asked the woman this, but since she was back, he wanted to seize the opportunity, just in case she decided to disappear again. He definitely wouldn't like if that happened, but the woman was her own, and she did what she would do and he really had no say in it. He was more than likely just nothing but a clanmate to her. He didn't know who Talitha really was. He want to know though, which is why he was excited that she was home.

She told him that she had nothing in her room except for what was there when she had left it. She hadn't been around too long when she was here before so he didn't expect her to have much there. It had, however been very very noticeable when she had left because a fresh scent would be gone all of a sudden. Either way, she was back and Cotl had still held onto her hand as he lead her through the corridors to the west wing of the mansion. He then lead her to the end of the long corridor where there were doors to the left of them. He found the last door, blackened with spray paint and tagged with the word "Ende" on it. He took the knob in his hand and turned it and then looked back at Tali for a moment, just looking at her for a moment, admiring her, I guess. He opened the door and lead her into his room. He let go of her hand and then closed the door behind her, locking it before he moved away from the door. Cotl looked to the bed, where there was Izaak's pelt, his mushroom bong, and a jar of weed, as well as his german flag that was used as a blanket on his bed. She should have remembered that flag. That flag had been their friend at some point in time. Cotl then looked to his drugs that was spread all over his room. On his counter there had already been lines of cocaine put out, and then there was also an open bottle of whiskey that sat next to Izaak's skull. NYEH You vants any drugs? the man offered, pointing at the bong, then the lines, and then the alcohol. He then grabbed his bong and sat on his bed, taking the lighter that was on the bed and lighting the end of the bong and taking a hit from his bong. How many days habe du beens back in Inferni? Cotl randomly asked before he twitched his shoulder and cleared his throat.


<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#9
[html]
VIVAT INFERNI

Walk . Talk . Think
OOC. 541wc.

The ascension to the second floor of the manor was a quick one, usually, but the stupor that Cotl had left himself in made it more trouble than it was worth. He brushed it off with laughter, clutching the railing, hugging the wall in brief moments. The de le Poer simply watched, a smirk of amusement crossing her black muzzle as they finally reached the landing. Clearly, her handsome tour guide needed to sit down.

She was caught off-guard at his request; model? For a drawing? Silently, she mulled it over. If it had been someone else, the answer would have surely been no, but this was Cotl. Brief lover, steadfast friend, and deserving of more than just a rushed no. Still, she felt she was undeserving of the opportunity to have her likeness put down on some other material. Never would she truely admit beauty in herself, regardless of her outward facade.

"Yes, of course. Whenever you have time."

It was a hesitant statement, but not one she regretted; perhaps the incedent would boost her self-confidence, something that had slipped so far from what it had been.

Each step made her realize more that his grasp on her hand was surprisingly gentle; she had expected a rougher grip. Her eyes focused on their fingers, studying his fur against her own. It was a familiar and almost disgusting sight, but for reasons that weren't the fault of the van Ulrich. Still, her stomach rolled once before her gaze ripped itself away. He led her from the staircase and to the western wing, all the way to the end. Past door after door. Black paint marked his chosen home, "Ende" plastered across the surface.

Cotl opened the door and she willingly stepped into the enclosure; her ears twitched as the click of the lock broke the silence between them. Was he planning on keeping her there? Or perhaps keeping someone out. Either way, it was a good decision. After all, Talitha had tugged the strings of fate this far.

The ginger male moved to sit on the bed, grabbing up some form of drug paraphinilia to get high. Well, he was already high. Higher. Left to her own devices, offered the drugs he had lying out, the Lykoi took her own steps to the bed and sat beside the Imaginifer. A pelt was stretched out atop the bed, with the flag that served as Cotl's blanket. It didn't take long to realize who it belonged to. The fluttering of wings arose in the pit of her stomach, but she didn't acknowledge the disturbed thought that crossed her mind. Where was Izaak, if there was this pelt, so similar?

"How many days have you been back in Inferni?" Her eyes turned away from the furred decoration, focusing on the rusted mass of muscle sitting close by. Silently, she held up two fingers, letting her eyes wander once again. Two days. Two days. It seemed longer, but it was truly just two days.

"What does 'ende' mean." Her curiosity resurfaced as her red irises fell on the back of the door. It was a simple word, but she was sure she had destroyed the pronunciation; all the more reason to ask Cotl for clarification.


<style>
.vivatinferni-ft01-main {background-color:black;padding:3px;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:11px;color:#adadad;letter-spacing:.2px;word-spacing:.75px;line-height:13px;width:480px;text-align:left;background-image:url(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8146 ... header.png);background-position:top center;background-repeat:no-repeat;padding-top:224px;border:0px inset black;margin:0px auto;border-radius:10px;-moz-border-radius:10px;-webkit-border-radius:10px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-vivat {float:right;font-size:40px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Georgia;text-transform:uppercase;font-variantConfusedmall-caps;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center;padding-right:3px;line-height:20px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-walktalk {text-align:center;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;font-color:#adadad;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main p {padding:5px;margin:0px;text-indent:15px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main b {color:#ac5a10;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-copyright {font-size:9px;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:8px;}
</style>[/html]
#10
[html]

WC: 586

Cotl was glad that the woman hadn't told him no to the whole modeling thing. He liked when they would just pose for him, and let him just sit there and watch them, talk to them, but just watch their movements, and find a pose that he liked and then sketched it before he would look at their fur in extreme detail and copy it down as well as he could. The picture often times would take anywhere from ten minutes to an hour depending on how long it took for him to find a perfect position for one to be in when he was drawing, or at least for him to take a snapshot of that position with his mind if the person was all antsy and couldn't stay still, or if the position was too hard to freeze. Cotl had the eye of an artist, this was for sure. Babe, ist vhenever du habe die times. -MYRRRHH- Ich bin here most times auf days. If nicht, dann just sits in mein room til Ich gets back, ja? the man responded, a devious smile still playing on his devilish lips. There was no such thing as an innocent smile on Cotl Ulrich's face. This was a fact.

As the two had entered the Death Room, and Cotl had gotten comfortable, the woman too had found herself getting on the bed with him. Cotl's hand went to the pelt for a moment, feeling the soft fur under his pads. He offered the woman the bong if she had wanted it, and if she didn't he would take another hit from it, if she did, then he would give it to her when she wanted, light the bowl for her and let her take a hit before taking it back and taking another hit and then he would put the bong on the floor next to his bed. She had held up two fingers to tell him how many days she had been back. Two days wasn't too long, so he wasn't too late with her arrival. The man gave a stoned giggle and looked at the pelt that sat on his bed. Fingers still touched it and played with the soft fur. Hey, Tali, remember das stupids arschloch, -BITCHTITSFACE-Izaak? Du knows, Mine nephews? the man asked twitching his neck and flicking his left ear back for a second. He looked at the pelt, and then he looked at the skull, but he didn't say any more because the woman would ask him what "ende" meant. Cotl had spent some time trying to figure out what word to put on his door and Ende ended up being it simply because Death was the end, as was his room the end of the hallway. Ende means "Death" in German. Seemed appropriates für dis room. the German clarified to the woman, a devious smile falling on his lips. Cotl sat there and looked up at the ceiling for a moment, him just being as fucked up as he was at the moment. He breathed in and out a few times before his eyes would finally be able to look back at the ruby-eyed princess.

Two days isn't das long. Habe anydhing das you needs to gets? the man asked Tali, those dilated bi-colored eyes sat on the woman, wondering if she was in need of anything that he might have extra of. It was still winter and hard to find things at this time without it being frozen or damaged.


<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#11
[html]
VIVAT INFERNI

Walk . Talk . Think
OOC. 382wc.

'Babe' was an unfamiliar word, oddly enough, to the charcoal tipped ears of the coymutt Lykoi. They twitched atop her head, brushing back stray locks of waved chestnut hair from; Cotl's way of speaking was an interesting one, and it kept her busy as she listened. The accent, heavier now as a presumable result of his binging on narcotics and alcohol, laquered each syllable in a unique casing. He didn't even miss a beat when his sentences were interrupted by the miscellany. Subconsciously, she marveled at his level of control over the involuntary.

“So long as you don't lock the door, I'll stay here as long as you want.” It was suggestive, and punctuated with a short laugh, cut off by the turn of topic. Izaak. A young man she had met only briefly. Izaak was the owner of the albino reindeer, Blitzen; one she helped capture. Strange enough that a sense of forboding fell over the Lykoi. Something bad had happened in her absence, to the pack. To her home. To her family.

She only gave a subtle nod, choosing not to acknowledge the subject. There were simply things she didn't want to know. Following the nod came a raise of her hand, gesturing to the rust-hued male that she didn't want a hit from anything; she was clear headed for once, and didn't want to change that. Maybe Andrezej couldn't get her in the sober reality that she had entered. Did it really matter if she was happy? Certainly not.

Ende. Death. Her ruby eyes cast a solemn gaze over the interior of the room as she locked the word into her mind. Did the word suit the setting? Death was cold. Death was lonely. Death was harsh. As she sat with the Imaginifer, she didn't feel anything but comfortable. His devilish grin helped sooth her nerves, even bringing a subtle smile to her own lips; the smile grew as he expressed interest in what she needed. Her mind clicked over necessities, wondering if she had things. A blanket, some sheets, a wornout mattress. Liquor.

“A bedmate would be nice. Don't suppose you have one lying around.&rdquo The female chortled, amused by her own words, and let herself fall back against the flag on the bed.


<style>
.vivatinferni-ft01-main {background-color:black;padding:3px;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:11px;color:#adadad;letter-spacing:.2px;word-spacing:.75px;line-height:13px;width:480px;text-align:left;background-image:url(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8146 ... header.png);background-position:top center;background-repeat:no-repeat;padding-top:224px;border:0px inset black;margin:0px auto;border-radius:10px;-moz-border-radius:10px;-webkit-border-radius:10px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-vivat {float:right;font-size:40px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Georgia;text-transform:uppercase;font-variantConfusedmall-caps;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center;padding-right:3px;line-height:20px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-walktalk {text-align:center;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;font-color:#adadad;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main p {padding:5px;margin:0px;text-indent:15px;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-main b {color:#ac5a10;}
.vivatinferni-ft01-copyright {font-size:9px;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:8px;}
</style>[/html]
#12
[html]

WC: 666

The woman told him that she would stay as long as he didn't lock the door on her. He normally did lock the door when he was in his room, so if she came to his door and it was locked, then she would automatically know that he was home. The reason why he locked his door was because he was scared that someone would barge into his room and kill him in his sleep. He was ultra paranoid about that, and here the woman was, trying to get him to not lock his door. It made him slightly nervous. It sucked that he didn't have a key to give to her for the door either. The man pulled his ivory hand to his head and he pulled his fingers through his straight hair, making sure that it had no knots in it. Those ivory fingers pulled through his own hair before he had finally nodded. He'd try to break his habit of locking the door, locking himself into the room away from all of the world. If ninjas came in and killed him, then it was Talitha's fault. She was the one who told him to not lock her out. Sly grin was on his maw before he had opened his maw to speak. There was a twitch of his ear and his shoulder before he was able to speak. Das means-FICK- dat Ich kann locks you in, ja? the man said, seductively, that devious grin still playing on his plastered face.

Within the moments that he had spoken to her, she had simply nodded about knowing Izaak, but Cotl's mind had already forgotten what she had been nodding about, so he didn't even bother to remember to try and tell her. It wasn't important that Izaak was dead he guessed for now. He pretty much was wrapped up in the fact that Talitha was back. He could only hope that she was back for good. He had looked at Izaak's pelt again briefly before his hand would finally remove itself from it and he would let those fucked up bi-colored eyes land on the woman and her deep ruby ones. They were like Halo's but so different. They had a totally different feel of them. It was weird that he would notice it even in this state of mind, but he did notice it none the less. Maybe it was because he was like this most of the time now. He could still notice things even like this. Now it what the thing was, it would be if he wold remember tomorrow. If he got lucky he would notice it again if he didn't remember a drunk thought.

The woman seemed to take a little bit to think about the things she would need, and her answer was more than favorable to the Imaginifer. He liked to sleep with other people, which had been why Marik had been able to sleep in his bed for some time before Cotl flipped his shit and kicked Marik the fuck out. He didn't mind replacing Marik with a woman, so he would actually be able to be with someone that wasn't related to him. It definitely was weird sleeping in the same bed as your brother sometimes. Especially when things happen. She fell back onto the bed and was laying there. Cotl turned to her and then he put his arms on each side of her, hovering his chest over her. He looked into her eyes from underneath him, and he held that devious grin. Ich denken das -NYEH-Ich kann arranges someding. the man spoke to the woman, taking his scarred hand and pushing a piece of her mahogany hair out of the way. Depends on vas kinds of bedmates du vants.. the man growled seductively as he had ran his hand down her side, claws dragging through her dense fur. He let his eyes linger on her own before he gave the woman a brief kiss.


<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#13
[html]

428wc.


His movements drew her eyes back to him each time, settling on his hand but not staying for long. There was much more to look at, more to study, more to appraise. Something had changed, but she couldn't tell what exactly it was. Suppose she didn't want to know. Maybe it was unpleasant. Why ruin the image of the ginger-furred man with disturbing information?

"That means that I can lock you in, yeah?"

The laugh that resulted was soft, really barely able to be called a laugh. "I don't know if my father would like me locked away in your bedroom, Cotl," she explained, her own voice meandering a line between teasing and a seriousness that didn't show in her expression; her smile pushed anything that could be considered solemn to the back seat of thought. For now, she was set on enjoying her moments.

His eyes were strange. As he caught her crimson ones in his gaze, she took a moment to study his, something undone before. Had they always been two colours? Blue and red were a strange combonation, not one that she had seen outside of the Ulrich. Despite the oddity, she found them intriguing, a unique feature; they simply added to the rest of him, and if they did that, they couldn't be unpleasant.

Her back hit the flag gently as she lay back, one hand reaching for the worn fabric; instead, they found the pelt, and she quickly pulled her fingers back. The item left her uneasy. She could only hope that her suspicions weren't realized. For now, they were pushed aside. Cotl brought his arms to each side of her, leaning himself over to hover above her. The faint smile that had been playing on her blackened lips turned into a subtle grin, eyes darting to his hand as he pushed her waved hair from her face.

It was the kiss, brief as it was, that shattered her semblance of cheer. Her smile faded, a hand raising to cover her eyes. In a fluid motion, she retracted, curling up into herself and moving onto her side. Disgusted with herself. Her tail wrapped around the back of her thighs, her head tucking down against her chest. She'd get nowhere like this.

Talitha was silent for only a brief moment, remaining in her cocoon of self-loathing until she decided that there were things left unsaid. Things that should have been opened at the base of the stairs. Her conscience had returned.

"Cotl, I think I should tell you what happened while I was gone."


mall-caps;">Table coding by Sie!

<style>
.tali-o11 .ooc {font-style:italic; }
.tali-o11 p {padding:2px 20px; margin:0px; text-indent:35px;}
.tali-o11 b {color:#FFFFFF; letter-spacing:-.2px; }
.tali-o11 {background-color:#467C94; background-image:url(http://sleepyglow.net/souls/gifts/2010d ... table2.png); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:2px solid #000000; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size:12px; color:#122A34; letter-spacing:.4px; word-spacing:.3px; line-height:16px; width:450px; text-align:justify; padding:270px 0px 10px 0px; }
.tali-o11-border {width:454px; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; margin:0 auto;}
span.copyrightedtali a {font-size:10px;font-family:Georgia;color:black;text-decoration:none;}
</style>[/html]
#14
[html]

WC: 528

She told him that she didn't think that her dad would appreciate her being locked away in his room all the time. Cotl chuckled lightly, the wicked grin still on his maw. Since vhens do ve do was papa saids? the man asked, his tone suggestive, secretive almost. He hovered there over her, looking into her eyes, almost like lovers would do, even though their relationship was purely just this, a physical relationship, where they both found the other attractive sexually, and the only thing that brought them to jump the fence the first time would be the service of Cotl tattooing the woman with her coveted Lykoi branding, the Chaos star. He'd looked at her hip, at the edges of the tattoo, now partially covered by her skirt. He wondered why she covered most of it, only letting a little bit of it be seen. He didn't voice this before he had given the woman that sweet poison that was a kiss from him. It was hard to think that Cotl was able to become as sweet as he could enough to give a kiss, but he definitely did give her one.

Her reaction to the kiss was not favorable, for she had withdrawn into her shell completely, even going as far as to roll onto her side, to look away from him and cover her eyes with her tan hands. He looked at her, confused with his bi-colored eyes, and when she had turned on the bed, curling into a ball, the man had moved from hovering over her, and he had laid down next to her, looking at her as she sat there. He was as silent as he could be, a throat clearing coming on and a few twitches of his body before she had spoken to him again. She told him that she should tell him what happened while she was gone. Cotl cocked his head, not really expecting the woman to actually bring up her adventures by herself, much less just waiting until the change of scenery to tell the man. Cotl looked at her still and nodded his head lightly. Dann tells mich. -CUNTBITCH- I'm listenings. the man had spoken to the woman, his ears twitching for a moment before they were turned towards the woman, the metalhead looking rather understanding, or at least as much as the man's frown that had stolen his face had let him look.

Cotl let his hands play on his own stomach, playing with the skull tattoo that had been on his stomach. The skull that had been created by none other than her own grandmother. He already knew the lines by heart since he had it for so long now. His black claw traced his solid stomach, tough from use because of the physical activity of the man. He never let his eyes leave the woman though, waiting patiently for her to speak to him about what was up because obviously, if she was acting like so, there was something up. Even a coked up Cotl could realize this. He became slightly anxious, and started to tap his leg against the bed lightly.


<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#15
[html]

640wc.

"Since when do we do what papa says?"

She cackled, amused by the suggestive tone that backed his words. "Oh, I hope you would always do what my father says, Cotl," she returned, reaching a hand out to touch his cheek before adding: "It'd be a shame to see you left on the borders with no home." Perhaps he didn't know. Perhaps it wasn't as widespread. Maybe the Lykoi warded off her true blood. Any way it was put, she wouldn't tell him, not just yet, that her father was the magnificent male who took up the rank of Aquila. Her crazed father, beautiful and strong, held in the highest regard by his elder daughter. Somehow, she felt speaking his name would craft a void in the room, leaving an absent region in the brief and vague relationship that was shared between the Imaginifer and the Tirones.

It was better to forget it, that she was de le Poer blood, at least in the company of the Inferni who didn't know. De le Poer, like her father. Wolf. She knew it coursed through her veins as it did in the veins of her brother and the mass known as Gabriel. Even if it was faint, they were wolves. The monstrosities of the earth.

The kiss received from the ginger-furred German left her in a darker pit of disgust. What was she? As she raised her hands to her eyes, turning onto her side, she wallowed in the pit of filth that revolved around her blood. Her lupus blood. Wolf blood. Maybe that was the problem. After all, wolves were vile monsters, and the filthy blood brought filth into their lives. Andrezej was prime example material for the fact.

He was listening to her, waiting for her to tell him what was wrong. She hadn't seen him move, but she had felt the weight shift away from her as he took his place back on the bed, next to her but not above her. She took the chance to stand, needing air, needing to stretch her limbs. The Shepherd-pelted woman paced across the floor. It wasn't a subject she had expected to speak of, certainly not to Cotl himself. Where was she supposed to start? At the beginning?

She felt vaguely ill, but cleared her throat, turning away from him to face the counter, resting her elbows on either side of the cocaine left on the surface. It was a slow start. She was stalling. She was hesitating. But now she had to tell him. Silent, she tapped a finger against the surface of the counter, turning her ruby eyes to the wall.

"I left and -- what I mean to tell you is -- I," She halted more than once, trying to find the words necessary to express exactly what was on her mind. In the end, it was the direct method that spilled out. "When I left, I was...," Again, she faltered. She couldn't find the words, but she tried to continue anyways. "I lost them," she whispered, speaking to no one but herself as she attempted to seek out just the right way to tell Cotl of the dead mess that had started out as pups.

"When I left, I was pregnant. They...didn't live."

Her face was somber, tone blunt and cold as she finally let it out. Relief washed over her, yet she still felt a wave of disgust in the pit of her stomach; after all, it had been her fault. She shouldn't have left. She wouldn't have gone through it by herself were she to stay. But the fact was that she had gone, and that any semblance of de le Poer grandchildren had long since faded into the ground, left behind by the scared and hysteric Lykoi woman over over two months ago.


mall-caps;">Table coding by Sie!

<style>
.tali-o12 .ooc {font-style:italic; }
.tali-o12 p {padding:2px 20px; margin:0px; text-indent:35px;}
.tali-o12 b {color:#211903; letter-spacing:-.2px; }
.tali-o12 {background-color:#BA9E4F; background-image:url(http://sleepyglow.net/souls/gifts/2010d ... table3.png); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:2px solid #000000; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size:12px; color:#443711; letter-spacing:.4px; word-spacing:.3px; line-height:16px; width:450px; text-align:justify; padding:250px 0px 10px 0px; }
.tali-o12-border {width:454px; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; margin:0 auto;}
span.copyrightedtali a {font-size:10px;font-family:Georgia;color:black;text-decoration:none;}
</style>
[/html]
#16
[html]

WC: 934

The woman would purr about how she would hope that he would listen to her father. Then it dawned upon him again that he was not sure of the woman's sire, nor dam. All he knew was that she was a Lykoi, Kaena being her grandmother. Cotl cocked his coked head, the dark hair drifting to the man's face before he would flip the long dark locks away from his face. His coal muzzle was pointed towards the woman as her hand had found it's way on his cheek. She told him it would be a shame to see him homeless. It wouldn't be the first time he was without home, since he had left a home he had in Germany. He didn't even want to think of the dirty German city he had run away from. He didn't want to think of all the bad memories of the place. He didn't want to think about the reason he hated the world and it's residents. Talitha had been one of those one who he didn't hate as much. He only hated her because he liked her. He was interested in her, and he hated when he was interested in other people because then he would seem like he was someone he was not, simply because he wanted to find things out. Cotl looked at the woman and cocked his head, letting her hand fall down from his cheek. Do Ich even knows du vater? the man asked, actually avoiding asking exactly who her father was, simply because he had his suspicions already and he wouldn't be surprised, nor would he act too much different than he did already around her. He cleared his throat before he would lay next to her. She would curl into her ball thing before she had taken the chance to get up when she had it.

Bi-colored eyes watched as the graceful woman had paced back and forth. Cotl couldn't help but wonder what the hell was on her mind that had her so goddamn distraught like this. Cotl cocked his head to the right for a moment, large Coyote ears pointed in her direction the whole time as he watched the woman go back and forth and back and forth. he'd turn away from him, and he would wait for her to speak again to him. She obviously had something on her mind and she needed to let it off of her chest. Cotl didn't know what she was going to say, but he waited for it, wondering what it could be. He watched the beautiful-pelted woman as she had put her elbows on his counter and then she had tapped on the counter and looked at the wall. Cotl watched her silently this whole time, waiting for her to say what she needed to say. She obviously was having a hard time telling Cotl whatever she needed to tell him. Cotl remained as still as he could be as he let his bi-colored eye rest on the tri-colored woman. She tried to speak, faltering and cutting herself off, not being able to finish the sentence. Cotl cocked his head and listened to the woman. She would try again before she would whisper something under her breath that Cotl didn't quite understand. He let the statement drop in the air as the woman continued to struggle with whatever she wanted to tell him. He almost wanted to tell her to spit it out, but didn't want to be completely heartless, even though others would already probably consider him heartless because of what he had done mercilessly to Izaak's dead body after he had found it. He'd yet to really go into too much detail to tell the other's how Izaak's body was found dead there. Cotl wasn't worried about petty details, unless they were asked for he guessed.

When the woman had finally come out with it, she sounded like she was disgusted with herself, and she had a look on her face that mirrored her tone. Cotl was too coked up to really care that he had jut received news of his own seed being killed. Any other time, he would feel something, but now, he felt nothing. He, however was curious as to one thing that he would voice. How manys? Cotl asked, twitching his neck as he had looked at the ruby-eyed woman. He wanted her to look back at him, something about having her eyes on him made the man feel like he was more important than whatever he was thinking about. -FICKDICKNICHTFISH-Und ist okays. Dey nicht supposed to bes alives denn. Cotl spoke to the woman, offering words that had the potential to help the woman not feel so bad about it. If du finds yourselfs in situation likes dat, dann Ich vill helps... the man offered, just like he had with Halo. The man then patted the bed. Du said du vants bedmate, ja? the man asked, a devious grin sitting on his lips as he looked at the ruby eyed woman. Maybe snuggling would help her feel better or something. He didn't know. He just wanted to make her feel better about losing their children. Maybe later, when he remembered this, he would be more broken up about it, but for now, he was strong for himself and her by showing not enough emotion to not care completely, but only a minimal amount of pain that would cross his face for only a moment or so before being replaced by a devious grin that could not stay off of his face.


<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#17
[html]

517 words.


She felt ill. The topic of her lineage was left alone as she spat out the words she had been hiding for so long; it was harder to say than she had first believed. The words simply didn't want to escape her charcoal lips. They would rather stick in her throat. But she had gotten them out, and the news was passed on. A failure to Inferni in the eyes of the de le Poer princess. She could have done better. She should have done better. She had known, but she didn't care. She shouldn't have left.

His first response was a simple question. How many had there been? She tried to think, to remember the malformed mess that had been her children. The blood was all she really recalled, but the vague shapes of the individuals, covered in what seemed to be sparse orange fur. "I don't know, four? I didn't really want to look at them, Cotl. It was a mess," she explained, turning back to face him, her crimson eyes unwilling to raise into the sight of his bi-colored set. She was more distressed than she should have been, especially for a fling, for payment.

It was still a hard blow to the heart of the woman; her children, beautiful because they had found a way out of the mess that was the de le Poer blood. Out of the wolves. Away from the filth bestowed on her by Gabriel. Dead. And it was unsurprising. As she silently evaluated herself and the male that was before her, she realized she had expected it.

But it didn't mean it was less important.

Cotl was understanding, odd as it was, and asked no other specifics apart from quantity. Instead, he tried to comfort her, in his own way. It helped. Somewhat, in some minuscule way, it helped to hear that it was okay. That it wasn't a problem. She hadn't failed in her role as a female of the Lykois. And he would be there, were she to need him; that was what surprised her most. Talitha wasn't out for the bond that came with mateship, and she didn't expect the Ulrich male to be either, but it was nice to know he would step up as a father were she to need him.

A tender smile played on her lips, the memories of the autumn fading into the background as he beckoned her to him with his voice. A simple turn on the pads of her feet, a few graceful steps across the floor and she was before him again, kneeling on the old mattress to lean above him as he had done with her. "A bedmate, yes. And a nice looking one, at that," she crooned, moving to press her masked face against his ginger fur. Her fingers curled in the black locks of his hair, twisting strands about them to keep herself busy. Though it was a gentle moment, her heart still raced with history, her mind whirling with memories. And of course, she planned to use Cotl to make them go away.


mall-caps;">Table coding by Sie!

<style>
.tali-o11 .ooc {font-style:italic; }
.tali-o11 p {padding:2px 20px; margin:0px; text-indent:35px;}
.tali-o11 b {color:#FFFFFF; letter-spacing:-.2px; }
.tali-o11 {background-color:#467C94; background-image:url(http://sleepyglow.net/souls/gifts/2010d ... table2.png); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:2px solid #000000; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size:12px; color:#122A34; letter-spacing:.4px; word-spacing:.3px; line-height:16px; width:450px; text-align:justify; padding:270px 0px 10px 0px; }
.tali-o11-border {width:454px; border:1px solid #FFFFFF; margin:0 auto;}
span.copyrightedtali a {font-size:10px;font-family:Georgia;color:black;text-decoration:none;}
</style>[/html]
#18
[html]

WC: 884

The woman answered him with an unclear answer, though she thought there were four, there could have been more or less, but she did not want to look at them apparently. Death didn't normally effect Cotl on the level to where you could immediately tell the sorrow, or anger on his face right away. You would be able to see it at the most vulnerable of times for the Imaginifer, when he was blasted out of his mind and alone to think about all the things he could before he either 1.) Pass the fuck out or 2.) someone decided to interrupt his party time with their presence. Talitha would be preventing the man from sitting there and thinking about how she had miscarried his pups, or how Izaak had been mercilessly assassinated by some wolf that Cotl didn't even know. This was good for Cotl, because she was a distraction from all of that. This is what Cotl needed these day to keep what little sanity he had left. Cotl watched the woman though, his bi-colored eyes never leaving her simply because he wanted to make sure he heard the woman, and was paying as close attention as he could with the circumstances of him being high and drunk as shit at the moment. The man had forgotten about asking who her father might be, so he obviously did not pick that conversation back up. Her ruby eyes came back to look at him but not match his gaze. He did enjoy the fact that she had turned her gaze to him though and he rolled on his back, leaving one hand on his stomach, covering his belly button and skull that sat there. His other tattoo, the one on the inside of his leg had now been visible, the one he had done himself. Then there was the other one Kaena did, the szeglia that hugged his shoulder. This was always visible. The metalhead had twitched his shoulder as he had pulled his right arm behind his head, and he rested his head on his ivory hand.

Cotl had to wonder how he would have done it if Talitha did have his children. Would the other Infernians find him even more disgusting because he would have a strange relationship with his children's mother when they were born. The two probably would never be mates, neither seemed like they would be stuck in such a predicament, even if Cotl could see himself in a steady relationship with someone, he didn't think that Talitha was the one. He knew that she was just her, and she was his friend and they used each other for what they wanted. The two didn't seem to care about using each other, in fact, it seemed more like they liked to use each other. Now if that wasn't fucked up, then I don't know what is. The two never let each other know that they were really just using each other, but they were, subconsciously perhaps. Cotl hadn't noticed that he was doing what he was doing, this was for sure. He just did was came naturally to him. She knelt onto the bed, where the man just watched her snake her way over him, her beautiful body over his before she had let her light body lay on top of him. She had to be around 30 pounds lighter than he was, which made him wonder how the hell she was so goddamn skinny. Did she not eat enough? She was skinny, so she more than likely did exercise and whatnot to keep herself that way. If she was that skinny back then, then there was no wonder that the puppies did not make it. She would have starved them if she was this skinny. Cotl twitched and let out a NYEH as the woman would sit there on top of him, letting her hands play with his dark locks.

Cotl then noticed the woman's own, long, curly hair. It was mahogany, a color that was not too common in her fur pattern, which had made Cotl wonder which one of her parents had that color hair for her to have it. His own mother was the one who had his long, straight, coal hair. Cotl barely took anything but his size and build from his father. He looked more like his mother though as far as pelt went. This was what parent that Cotl took his appearance from. He did have a few key differences between himself and his mother, such as the fact that Cotl had black on his muzzle and all four of his paws were white. His mother had been mostly that rust color with only the saddle of black on her spine like Cotl did. Cotl was also taller than his smaller mother. Sometimes he had to wonder how mom was able to carry him and his siblings since she was so goddamn small and dad was a good size for a coyote. Then Cotl had been stuck back into the real world, his hand taking to the woman's own hair. Ist nices fur-SHITFUCK- du to be backs, Tali. the man had spoken to the woman, letting his hand move from her hair to play with the fur on her neck a little bit.


<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]
#19
[html]WC: 439
OOC: Too lazy to get my table.
IC:

Though they were sporadic, she found the tics in Cotl's general being to be comforting. They were different, but they were so very like him, and as long as they were there, she knew he wouldn't simply disappear to be replaced with the haunt of her mind. The German coydog was so different from the ghost of Andrezej Lykoi, her ghost, that she wondered what truly drove her to his side. Not love, no. She felt no true intimacy with others, and love was a far reach for any, even her father. But it was something. Something different about him that eased her mind, eased her fears. Cotl was like a drug that inhibited the growth of such silly past memories, one she was sure she could find herself addicted to.

As she wheeled herself back to him, kneeling before laying atop his chest, her mind filtered through possibilities of future. Not future with him, no, but future in the clan. Within the Inferni lands. Home was different, but home was good, and she was glad to be there. Glad to be back where her father could protect her, where the haunts could not find her under his careful golden eyes.

"It's nice for you to be back, Tali."

She smiled, twisting the coal locks of hair about her delicate fingers in a continuous loop, winding it tightly before letting it go only to wind it again. At least someone agreed with her, that her presence on Inferni was a good thing. "I'm glad to be home. And perhaps Ezekiel will come back if I stay," her soft voice danced over her brother's name with longing; it'd been forever since they last met. Almost as though it was simply tacked onto the end, with no real purpose, she spoke again: "I think father would like him to return as well." The Aquila's oldest pair of surviving children, his only children who would stay within the borders of the hell-damned pack. But they hadn't been raised there. The Dahlian war had served that purpose.

But it was so easy to simply assume they were his only children, the wielders of the important part of his lineage. The Inferni de le Poers. While it wasn't truth, she pretended it was. After all, those outside were tainted just like the wolves. Most of them were wolves themselves. She couldn't bring herself to think of her father, her perfect father, with the wolves.

She turned her head, a subtle gesture, into Cotl's neck as his fingers played at her fur, and in the silence that surrounded her, she choked back a quiet sob.

[/html]
#20
[html]

WC: 591

Her fingers still played with his hair, and he let her just play with his hair, not minding her doing so in the least. It'd been awhile since anyone had given him any attention so any attention he could get he was glad to accept it without asking intentions. He breathed slowly though, his heart raced beneath his chest, not only because he was excited, but because the man had done the cocaine, smoked the marijuana and then drank himself into a fucking stupor. He had been at the climax of his high, the cocaine would be wearing off, though the marijuana and whiskey were more than likely to linger there longer. Cotl still had his hand playing with the back of her neck, claws scratching the skin under her fur in the most gentle ways, maybe trying to find a ticklish spot or just a spot that she liked to have scratched. He did it almost lazily though, simply because he was feeling like he was getting more and more fucked up as the time passed. He was intoxicated, and he almost felt bad that the woman was not on the same level as him. The man would mumble something under his breath, but it was just random intoxicated mumbling that made no sense. It made no sense more so than when he had his random tics. Du fur ist softs. the man randomly noticed, his fingers still playing there before the woman had spoken about how she was glad to be home. Cotl was too. He was getting pretty lonely without another artist around. She also spoke about someone named Ezekiel perhaps returning if she stayed long enough. Cotl figured that it could be a possibility, even though he knew not of who Ezekiel was. She also spoke of her father probably being happy that they came back as well. Cotl was thoroughly confused, simple as that. His fucked up mind couldn't even begin to comprehend. There were questions in his mind and they wanted answers. The ultimate question was if this woman would like to partake in answering them.

The man felt her turn more so into his neck, and she made a small sound with her mouth, almost a choke of some sort. Cotl blinked before he had pushed his eyes to look at her as well as he could over his muzzle. He could only see the edges of her bangs, and her tall ears, thin ears that had sat so proudly on her head. He looked at her ears, and noticed the piercing a second time now. The nosy man had wondered how long she had the piercing after she had left. It looked like a clean piercing, done by someone who knew what they were doing (Cotl had a trained eye, for he was a professional himself) and Cotl noticed this even though his eye was tainted with liquor and other narcotics. He had pierced plenty of times when he was fucked up so this mind frame did not affect the judgment of the professional in the man. Vhen did dis happen? Vho dids ist fur du? -NYEH- Das ring ist differents from was Ich usually sees... the man asked, wondering where the woman would have gotten such a unique ring in her ear. It had been a bone ring, and Cotl had never seen one that shape before, so he was curious as to where it was from. He was so fucked up that he was just being stupid with idle conversation right now.



<style type="text/css">
.cotl b {font-weight:bold; color:#ffde00; letter-spacing:1px; }
.cotl .ooc { font-style:italic; padding:0px; font-family:verdana, sans-serif; font-size:11px;}
.cotl p {text-indent:25px; padding:5px 10px; margin:0px;}
.cotl {margin:0px auto; width:400px; background-color:#6b0a02; background-image:url(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a329/ ... g/cotl.jpg); background-position:top center; background-repeat:no-repeat; border:3px solid #000000; padding: 290px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#000000; line-height:16px; letter-spacing:.5px; text-align:justify;}
</style>[/html]


Forum Jump: