Istvan and Meira

Blayne Reade [5:35 PM]

Istvan had just arrived within the human capitol city with his high priestess. She explained a bit more about their world to the best of her ability. He found he wanted to learn everything about this world if he going to be staying here and play a great role in saving it from a great evil. He was now entering the library. One because one might learn a great deal about a place from their written works and two he was told Meira enjoyed spending time here. He looked around until he spotted a blond haired woman. Was that Meira? He moved towards her. "Hello?"

Apria Aspen [5:47 PM]

She hadn't expected anyone else to be here though it might be said she should have. The shy nature of the girl as well as the fact she was still feeling a bit overwhelmed caused her to dart behind a bookshelf when the strange man poke to her. Some queen of dragons she made. She peered out her blue eyes studying him. "Umm..hi..did you need a book?"

Blayne Reade [6:03 PM]

He hadn't meant to startle the woman. He rose his hands in front of him in what he hoped was a non-threatening gesture. "No, I mean I did come here for a little reading but by chance are you Meira?"

Apria Aspen [7:08 PM]

It wasn't hard to startle her. She tended to be sort of timid with those she didn't know. Her eyes drifted up trying to figure out how he knew her name as she nodded. "I am." Perhaps he was curious about the rumors of her or something it would not be the first time.

Blayne Reade [7:24 PM]

He didn't know how easily startled she was. He didn't know much about her aside from what he had been told by his high priestess, and that wasn't a lot. "I'm. Istvan high priest to the white dragon" Hopefully, that would be enough to let her know why he came to seek her out.

Apria Aspen [7:38 PM]

Her head would tilt to the side at his words. "Ohh." She suddenly felt even shier. Even if that was silly.But y default he was like well...if it worked like her he was sort of the white dragon and thus sort of her husband. If she got it right. Though Mahari was suppose to be her husband because he was her priest. It was complicated. She twirled strands of her blonde hair watching him. "hi." Brilliant. Meir. Brilliant.

Blayne Reade [7:52 PM]

He didn't know how it all worked. He only knew what he had been told. He had no desire to force her into something that made her uncomfortable or she simply didn't want. Sure, the stories or what not said they are meant to be together, but he had no desire being with her simply because it was written. He would see where their relationship went on its own accord. "Hello." he smiled at her words "What's your favorite book?"

Apria Aspen [8:15 PM]

She looked at him for a moment not sure what to say when he asked his question. "You mean pick one? That is like picking your favorite child." She told him a look of horror forming upon her face.

Blayne Reade [9:04 PM]

"Are you saying you don't have a favorite?" He inquired, teasingly. Through, he did understand why someone whom loved the library might find it hard pressed to pick a favorite. Yet, there might be books she returned to more often than others---ones that kept pulling her in no matter how many times she read them. She might not have a favorite, but she might have favorites.

Apria Aspen [9:23 PM]

"Yes." She told him biting down on her lower lip. Still peering out from behind the book shelf. "What is your name?" It occurred to her that he knew hers but she did not know his and she probably should. Carefully stepping out a petite girl with light blonde hair and blue eyes she stood there staring at him waiting for him to answer.

Blayne Reade [9:46 PM]

"You love them all equally?" This might be wrong, but he found the way she peered around the book shelf all shy like to be rather adorable. "I'm Istvan Giese-Lavoie" A name that would have no meaning to her he was sure, He was a stranger to this world as much as he was to her.

Apria Aspen [10:13 PM]

She nodded.It might not be exactly true but at this moment it felt that way. She didn't know what to think of being adorable. "Ah. Nice to meet you. Which kingdom you from?" Was he from a lost place as well. Did he have dragon blood in him? He must if theories were to be believed. Her tail wiped around her. Tail? Damn it when she got nervous sometimes changes would just happen as she made it vanish. "Sorry...that happens sometimes."

Blayne Reade [10:27 PM]

"I hail from a kingdom not of this world." He did. He smiled at the sight of her tail. "Nervous? I used to do the same thing when I was nervous as a child." It was never more than a tail or a clawed hand or something of that sort. He could never take the form of a full dragon---not like his brother.

Apria Aspen [10:40 PM]

"Another world?" Was that even suppose to happen? Well she had come from a lost place and had been lost once so she supposed anything could happen. She nodded. "Yes. Though sometimes it happens in my sleep." She could take a full for, but these partials just sort of happened.

Blayne Reade [11:03 PM]

"Yes." He had learned a long time ago that there was truly no such thing as impossible. He had spent what felt like an eternity within the between. Truth be told, he had thought he was going to be lost there--absorbed into the nothing like so many others whom have lost any hope of breaking free. However, he did break free...only to return to that place and become its master "That must be alarming." More so if you didn't realize what was happening.

Apria Aspen [11:53 PM]

She had spent sometime being lost herself so she could relate. "It is. I mean it is all very confusing." She wondered how badly he wished he was back home with his people instead of here. He must have loved ones he had left behind.

Blayne Reade [12:10 AM]

"I can imagine." He did have loved ones he had left behind, but his home was no longer there. It had been brought to ruins many years ago. More years than he could count. Sure, Sloane had told him that he could make a new home there, but he felt... out of place and like he was still on the outside looking in. He had made plans to leave it to join the goddess side, but now that plan was no more, at least for the moment. Whom knows it might return once he was done with his purpose here.

Apria Aspen [1:29 PM]

She was sure he would get to see them again or so she hoped. Who knew. She hoped he found a place to belong for as long as he might live. If that somewhere was here so be it. "Do you know a lot?"

Blayne Reade [1:43 PM]

Whom knew. It would be nice to see them again, and there was some part of him that looked forward to the idea. Well, when they came to join the goddess side. That what everyone hoped wasn't it, and perhaps he could find a place to belong here. He had no exception of this world. He was new here. He didn't feel out of place or at of time. He felt out of place, but it was a different type of out of place. He wasn't certain if before it was because he hadn't merged with the dragon yet. Perhaps, it was because he knew he was suppose to come here and it was his mind trying to push him to this place. "About what is going on here?"

Apria Aspen [2:14 PM]

He might see them sooner than that. He just might. "The wraith are trying to corrupt the world. The last time they had a presence here was when I was found as a child in the lost  city. A young woman gave up her life to try and destroy them and it seemed they were but they have returned. It seems from what I know to be a pattern or ay least that is what I get from the black dragon."

Blayne Reade [2:48 PM]

He might. One never knew what the future had in store for them. "Do you know why they wish to corrupt the world? How long ago was that? Is there any written account of their previous...invasions?" He didn't expect her to have all the answers. Through, someone whom loved books might know where to source to find them

Apria Aspen [3:03 PM]

"I think they just kind of hate everything. I could be wrong. Maybe they aren't real fond of free will." She wasn't sure she got it. "They are just kind of the opposite of the dragons I guess." She sighed. "I don't think so. Mahari seems the best source being pretty old. There was another he knew of. I was lost for a time in the dark or their realm that strange half space for awhile when we banished them that time. I still have nightmares from it."

Blayne Reade [3:24 PM]

"Perhaps both." He recalled what his high priestess had told him about the wraith coming from the between. Hating everything including free will sound like something the between would do. "The dragon is life and the wraith is the absence of life?" He nodded his head. It seemed he might need to speak to Mahari. "The between?" Wait, she might not know it by that name even if it was the same "What was this place like?"

Apria Aspen [4:11 PM]

"Something like that." He would indeed. She considered. "I guess. It was dark and there was nothing but whispers and it was cold and painful. It felt like I was being torn apart." She shivered slightly wanting to hide behind the bookshelf again. "Sometimes I think the shadows are going to swallow me whole."

Blayne Reade [4:42 PM]

"Sounds like the between." He felt her repulsion of the place as much as he saw it. "Sometimes you don't know if that would be a welcome thing or one you want to run from, at least that was how it was for me. It might be different for you."

Apria Aspen [5:14 PM]

She wrapped her arms around herself watching him. "I am just glad to not be lost anymore."

Blayne Reade [5:25 PM]

He moved towards her and pulled her into a hug. He didn't know how she might respond to this action, but he just knew he felt it needed to be done. "No, you are not and even if you become lost again there are people whom will not stop searching for you until you are found again."

Apria Aspen [5:42 PM]

She didn't know how to take the hug. She had always been strange with touch and more so with strangers though one might argue he wasn't. So, she just stayed there sort of blinking but not pulling away. "I know." She whispered as a few dragonlings decided to chatter around her.

Blayne Reade [5:49 PM]

She could take the hug however she wished. He wouldn't be offended if she pushed him away. He didn't want to do anything that made her feel uncomfortable. Yet, he wanted to comfort her. He turned his eyes towards the dragonlings that were chattering around her. "What are these things? Baby dragons?"

Apria Aspen [6:06 PM]

She rubbed her eyes just a little looking up at him. "Sort of. They are dragonlings. They are considered special on our world revered if you will. It is believed that they talk to the great dragons and the priestess talk to them. Not I though. The black is different the roles are reversed with us because of being connected to the queen. So, Mahari not I talks to them and I am the warrior. With the four great dragons priestess a dragonling is born at the same time that is hers that lives as long as she does."

Blayne Reade [6:16 PM]

"Dragonlings?" He repeated the word softly before reaching out to touch one. It murred at his touch before chattering away more excitedly. "What about the white or black dragons priestess and priest? Is a dragonling born at the same time as they are?"

Apria Aspen [1:36 PM]

She nodded. "They are allowed to go where they wish. Sometimes one adopts a person and that is considered an honor." She shook her head. "No. They are different. The white as the stories go took a piece of himself so that when his priestess who he loved could join him when she died in spirit. The black the girl is the warrior like the queen. And well we are always the same priest and priestess or our souls are as it were so that is how we are different. And we don't have dragonlings we are dragons."

Blayne Reade [1:49 PM]

"No one think of them as a nuisance?" Looking at them he couldn't imagine why anyone would. They were rather adorable little thing. Two were fighting over....a cockroach that was until a third smaller one slipped between them and swallowed the bug whole. "Ah, that makes sense. If we are dragons can we speak to the dragonlings?'

Apria Aspen [2:12 PM]

"Why would they?" She asked as if the very idea was ridiculous. She blinked. "I guess we should be able to. I never could but we should be able to. I could more umm...like read them then understand."

Blayne Reade [2:20 PM]

"Whom knows" If someone did they would have to ask them. "Maybe we can. but we need to learn how or maybe we are just meant to read them."

Apria Aspen [2:36 PM]

"Like learning full dragon form was something I had to learn." She said as she thought about it. It was so much to think about and it would all take time. She only hoped they figured it out before it was too late.

Blayne Reade [3:02 PM]

"Exactly." He was sure they would figure it out before it's too late, or at the very least figure out how to send the wraith back whence they came.

Apria Aspen [3:35 PM]

She simply nodded. They would indeed find out many things for now they would just have to wait and see.

Blayne Reade [3:41 PM]

That they would.