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The first section is basically my take on Exalted. Right now I'm just copying up my notes so everything's very raw while I put down my ideas. I'll work on editing everything and making it more coherent later. As a result things will contradict the in game canon and even be self contradictory especially since not all my notes are copied in chronological order. They've been typed up without editing to remain as close as possible to my original vision.

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Infernal Love

    Froth was foaming from her mouth as she gasped out of time with her rhythmic pounding, spraying foaming spit into the air and onto his face. No matter how hard he tried her body never started to convulse with lust. She never felt the feeling of being lost inside herself while someone else lost themselves inside her.
   Soon he was foaming too. Feeling the final most powerful thrusts as he came into her she couldn't control it anymore. She grabbed his neck with her teeth. At first he was half overcome with surprise for a short instant before her teeth started tearing through his skin. She ground her jaws together as he reacted, teeth clenched trying with his weak arms to prise her teeth from his neck. Her teeth tore into his flesh like a predatory beast, driving forwards as he tried to pull away from her dragging her with him, her jaws locked around his throat like a fanged creature of the depths tearing it's prey to pieces.
   The thick white foam washed down her neck nearly choking her, before it was replaced by the hot, watery blood he sucked from his torn arteries. The grip on her slowly started to weaken and soon his arm fell limp, dropping onto the blood-spotted white sheets, followed by his body, falling backwards, resting on an expanding pool of it' own gore. Hellebron licked the blood from the top of the right side of her mouth and looked down at her recumberent former lover. For a moment she felt tears welling up around her eyes. Everything she tried had failed. The only time she'd enjoyed an act of love was with her sister. The knowledge she tried to fight against ever since then but was closing around her heart like a hand of iron was she was incapable of caring about anyone but her sister. She would never forget how liberating the feeling of awakening was when she'd first tried to kill her; and so nearly succeeded. She'd achieved something that was exceptionally rare among witches and unheard of in a novice. She's brought someone back from the dead. Not merely moving their body like the vulgar acts of a necromancer but restoring her heart so it beat again bringing her back to real, breathing life. She'd been more attached to her ever since. They were both more attached after that.
    Cecelyne had been driven into a rage that her attempt to take here sister by force had failed and that she'd resist her so much she'd rather kill her than be overcome. Compounded by the fact that her standing among the society had drastically increased after that. She'd been taken in by the highest Hag Queen for special training. They'd realised a special talent lay in herand it was all because she's been defeated by her greater older sister. It was as if she's been brought back after her total defeat for it to be recognised by the highest authority in their order that was their entire lives now, that they'd traded everything in the outside city to enter. The order was their world now and Hellebron had been acknowledged by the highest of it's members as a uniquely talented witch because Cecelyne had been defeated and then brought back by her.
   Hellebron splashed two handfuls of water from the bowl into her face to wash away they blood around her mouth, then soaked a rag and rinsed her neck, the translucent drops of half diluted blood dripped irritatingly down her body. She sighed as she dropped the rag onto the dresser and looked despondently into the mirror. She's tried sleeping with some of the males who she'd taken to but it was always the same. They could never break through that level of her consciousness that didn't seem to exist when her sister was around. She's killed every last one of them performing every manner of violent act she could think would excite her but. No matter what she did, however bestial her acts of murder she committed, no matter how savage the slaughter, it just made her feel empty. Her sister couldn't stand the sight of her and that was tearing her heart apart.
   By the time she's finished staring at her despondent reflection she saw that his blood had stopped flowing. So much waste. If it was my sister's I'd lap up every last drop and howl that I couldn't drink it again. But her love for her sister was the very thing that had driven her to hate her. She couldn't stand being shunned like this. Maybe that's why I really killed them? She quickly dismissed this thought. She knew why she killed them, killed every one of them like she was no more than an animal. She wanted her sister. She looked for the feeling she gave her in other elves but it was nowhere to be found. The only one who could give her the thing that justified her life despised her for that very fact. Despised her for the very fact she was still alive to despise her. Her heart was torn apart by hate for someone who loved her. It was love. She loves me too. Maybe that's what torments her all the more. She's never forgotten the soft feeling of her sister's flesh in her arms after she'd foiled one of her early attempts to rape her. She remembered holding her submissive body locked in her arms and legs after wrestling with her and how aroused she felt. Was that when she started to hate me? That I enjoyed triumphing over her so much?
    This was enough. The night air was chilling her bare skin. She dipped a finger into the slowly coagulating blood that had soaked into the bed and licked it. It was cold and tasteless. So unlike my sister. Such passion. Such a craving to dominate me. Such heat.
    At that moment she felt an urgent longing in her maidenhood. She took the bloody towel and wiped herself clean, careful not to use the part that was stained with his blood. She quickly put on her night cloak before pacing from the room without looking at the body and the blood she eft behind.
   Trying not to be noticed as she worked her way out of the house she winded past other rooms where she heard laughter and sounds of revelry of their own. She'd never made love in a carefree way that other elves enjoyed. She cared too much, that was her problem. So she walked onto the deserted street and made her way through the rain to the only one she cared about.

   Three loud knocks rumbled on the iron bound convent door. Clipped steps echoed from the hall within.
   "Who is it?"
   "Hellebron" she answered sternly.
   The eye hole slid open. No eye or feature was visible to her in the dark shadows. After a few seconds that tested Hellebron's growing impatience the eye hole closed and simultaneously the door pulled open with a loud knock as the lock was released.
   Hellebron was breathing deeply, her breath making clouds of fog in the air. Partly she was exhausted by her journey but more she felt a need, a compulsion to see her sister. She had no idea what to do when she got there but had to confront her. To tell her everything and see how she'd react. If she would even look at her. She was doubtful if she would listen to her words.
   She bowed he cowled head to the witch at the door and walked past, breaking into a fast stride as soon as she passed her. He feet hammered down the corridors, twisting through each turn on her way to the lower rooms where the newest initiated lived. She knew which room her sister slept in and knocked sharply on the door, trying to wake her without any of the others. After waiting impatiently she sighed with exasperation and knocked again. Inside she heard some shuffling and the her sister's face appeared at the barred hole in the door, her nose and mouth invisible under the bottom of the viewing hole.
    They just stared at eachother for a few moments, Hellebron breathing audibly as she looked into her sister's eyes, unable to see the expression on her face.
   "Are you going to let me in?"
   He sister's eyes widened slightly. A sign of passion. But what kind?
   "What do you want?"
   "Open the door and I'll tell you."
   Those perfect blue eyes, the colour of shallow water on a bright day, stared back at her, their expression unreadable without the look on Cecelyne's face. They stared unblinkingly back in a hypnotic trance before abruptly breaking contact as the lock was pulled open and the door revealed Hellebron's slightly shorted sister holding a serrated dagger in her hand. Her face was just as inscutiable as when she'd been hidden by the door. Hellebron couldn't tell if she was angry, exasperated or feeling some other emotion.
   Cecelyne took in the image of her sister, her long brown locks obscured by shadow and her cowl in the dark corridor. Even then her eyes were drawn to spots of darkness that weren't as black as the shadow that surrounded her face. Then she recognised the look in her sister's eyes, that empty, almost pleading look that made her expression seem so glazed.
   "I've done it again."