06-30-2009, 06:24 PM
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More and more the boy felt he had somehow miscalculated. When gaze did shift across the Aquila's face he could see the tension in his muscles as thought he was utterly restraining some sort of emotion or impulse invoked by his mother's name. Jael fought the desire to back away, wary the male might suddenly turn on him or something equally bad. He was naturally distrustful and aware his links to Gabriel's family might not be enough to save him from everything. He knew nothing of his mother's bloodline--if she was honestly a good person or an evil soul that did deserve all the misery she received as his father had stated. And Gabriel's reaction to her title wasn't helping one bit. He began to speak, and Jael felt himself lowering his body to the ground like a beaten, sedate puppy, not wishing to associate himself with any of the sins of his mother's family any more than his father's if it could be avoided. He simply wished to be judged for his own actions, not his mother or his father, whom fate had chosen unwillingly for him. "So Colibri's family, and your family do not get along?" he asked, suddenly wondering if Vitium's initial choosing of the she-wolf had not been of random choice, but careful, masterful selection. He'd never heard the name Dahlia de Mai before, and so it meant nothing to the child, but he could already assume tension existed between them and Inferni, or at least, their leader with the name Soul and Gabriel himself. |