[Spoken like a person who's had more than a few dealings with Green People™ of late. But then deep fur and a velvety nose slip away into mist, only just briefly before turning solid again, and before she quite realizes it she's the one who's been gathered up in a set of arms distinctly larger than she remembers, and presented with a face more handsome and fine than that of the young friend in her memories.
Of course he'd grown up; she has, too, after all. Aunt Lisa had so often said how the two of them looked like twins themselves, with their matching blond hair like hers. How funny to think that she had been a twin all along, albeit with someone who looks quite less like her from a distance than Adrian does.]
...A lady vampire? Not the same one Sir Olrox mentioned, surely?
[Ah, but the necessity of further explanation quickly catches up, and she hastens to clarify: ]
I happened upon him when I first crossed over into France. He...seemed a proper sort of vampire, so I introduced myself as your father's ward and asked if he knew where I might find you. Oh — that is, in the old way of his court, like he taught us. I wasn't careless, I promise.
[IT WAS A LITTLE CARELESS but she can hardly be faulted for not knowing it's been literal centuries, surely.]
He did make me promise not to tell anyone but you that I'd spoken with him. That's quite all right, I hope?
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[Spoken like a person who's had more than a few dealings with Green People™ of late. But then deep fur and a velvety nose slip away into mist, only just briefly before turning solid again, and before she quite realizes it she's the one who's been gathered up in a set of arms distinctly larger than she remembers, and presented with a face more handsome and fine than that of the young friend in her memories.
Of course he'd grown up; she has, too, after all. Aunt Lisa had so often said how the two of them looked like twins themselves, with their matching blond hair like hers. How funny to think that she had been a twin all along, albeit with someone who looks quite less like her from a distance than Adrian does.]
...A lady vampire? Not the same one Sir Olrox mentioned, surely?
[Ah, but the necessity of further explanation quickly catches up, and she hastens to clarify: ]
I happened upon him when I first crossed over into France. He...seemed a proper sort of vampire, so I introduced myself as your father's ward and asked if he knew where I might find you. Oh — that is, in the old way of his court, like he taught us. I wasn't careless, I promise.
[IT WAS A LITTLE CARELESS but she can hardly be faulted for not knowing it's been literal centuries, surely.]
He did make me promise not to tell anyone but you that I'd spoken with him. That's quite all right, I hope?