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<blockquote data-quote="Tellerian Hawke" data-source="post: 7279629" data-attributes="member: 6790669"><p><strong>Questioning Dame Clare, Part Two</strong></p><p></p><p>[gm]</p><p>Posted on behalf of Respen, as per our email discussion.</p><p>[/gm]</p><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">~ I wonder if a vampire sleeps, and what she dreams. ~</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></p><p>Sometime during his confinement, as Nel sleeps, Respen picks up her books on constructs and the sisterhood and walks to Dame Clare’s lab. He cringes, still feeling the neuropathy of the savage torture she doled out. </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">~ Sometimes there is pain. ~</span></strong> Something his friend Telvin had said back in the Enllaves. Respen decided to suspend his contempt for Dame Clare’s “punishment”. Suffering this bully would serve his purpose, and he would move on as he always had.</p><p></p><p><strong>He walks to Dame Clare’s lab and speaks to the construct,</strong> <span style="color: #0000ff">“I would speak with your master.”</span></p><p></p><p>Upon entry, after the obligatory “why are you here” introductions, Respen begins his questions.</p><p></p><p><strong>To Dame Clare:</strong> <span style="color: #0000ff">“I came looking for you for a reason. And my questions are still unanswered. To wit, I have more questions than when I began. I know that this is not an equal relationship. However, I think there is no harm in asking questions, if the answer ‘no’ is the worst response I can expect? </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span><span style="color: #000000"><strong>Respen grimaces, thinking of the scars on his back. He rubs the scar over his left shoulder.</strong></span><span style="color: #0000ff"> “Or are you as capricious as common lore suggests?” </span><span style="color: #000000"><strong>He says, implying that the question is rhetorical.</strong></span><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><strong>Without pausing, he continues, </strong><span style="color: #0000ff">“No, I don’t think so. You are unusual in this regard, aren’t you? You clearly care about your family, though frankly I question your wisdom of putting Nel, your sister, with the likes of me. ”</span> <strong>Respen tries his hardest to be humorous and self-deprecating. Humor suits him. The reminder of the beating does not.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">“Dame Clare, if I may so bold, and I realize that I am way out of bounds here, but you can do anything that you want. Explore anything you want. Again, a bold presumption on my part, but why on earth with all this experience, skill, and yes, I suppose, power, you find yourself surrounded by two living creatures and the rest constructs? Your Grace, why on earth tie yourself to this…giant coffin underground? You are a vampire; you have no master. You have strikingly few limitations. Perhaps I am become too much the explorer, but we are elves. We live many lives anyway. Why do you still think in terms of the terrestrial? And that question illuminates the questions I wanted to ask you in the first place.”</span></p><p></p><p><strong>He pauses for a moment,</strong> “<span style="color: #0000ff">Who are these True Vampires and where are they? What are you relative to them? Why do you loathe each other? And I suppose this is an opinion question: why, with all of this time, are you all not explorers? It makes little sense to me. It’s what humans would call a waste of time. Perhaps it’s because they have so little of it. But I see their point. ” </span> </p><p></p><p><strong>As she undoubtedly will become frustrated with his approach, he then asks the punch line,</strong> <span style="color: #0000ff">“How did you get here? Do you not dream good dreams anymore?”</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tellerian Hawke, post: 7279629, member: 6790669"] [b]Questioning Dame Clare, Part Two[/b] [gm] Posted on behalf of Respen, as per our email discussion. [/gm] [B][COLOR=#ff0000]~ I wonder if a vampire sleeps, and what she dreams. ~ [/COLOR][/B] Sometime during his confinement, as Nel sleeps, Respen picks up her books on constructs and the sisterhood and walks to Dame Clare’s lab. He cringes, still feeling the neuropathy of the savage torture she doled out. [B][COLOR=#ff0000]~ Sometimes there is pain. ~[/COLOR][/B] Something his friend Telvin had said back in the Enllaves. Respen decided to suspend his contempt for Dame Clare’s “punishment”. Suffering this bully would serve his purpose, and he would move on as he always had. [B]He walks to Dame Clare’s lab and speaks to the construct,[/B] [COLOR=#0000ff]“I would speak with your master.”[/COLOR] Upon entry, after the obligatory “why are you here” introductions, Respen begins his questions. [B]To Dame Clare:[/B] [COLOR=#0000ff]“I came looking for you for a reason. And my questions are still unanswered. To wit, I have more questions than when I began. I know that this is not an equal relationship. However, I think there is no harm in asking questions, if the answer ‘no’ is the worst response I can expect? [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][B]Respen grimaces, thinking of the scars on his back. He rubs the scar over his left shoulder.[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff] “Or are you as capricious as common lore suggests?” [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][B]He says, implying that the question is rhetorical.[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR] [B]Without pausing, he continues, [/B][COLOR=#0000ff]“No, I don’t think so. You are unusual in this regard, aren’t you? You clearly care about your family, though frankly I question your wisdom of putting Nel, your sister, with the likes of me. ”[/COLOR] [B]Respen tries his hardest to be humorous and self-deprecating. Humor suits him. The reminder of the beating does not.[/B] [COLOR=#0000ff]“Dame Clare, if I may so bold, and I realize that I am way out of bounds here, but you can do anything that you want. Explore anything you want. Again, a bold presumption on my part, but why on earth with all this experience, skill, and yes, I suppose, power, you find yourself surrounded by two living creatures and the rest constructs? Your Grace, why on earth tie yourself to this…giant coffin underground? You are a vampire; you have no master. You have strikingly few limitations. Perhaps I am become too much the explorer, but we are elves. We live many lives anyway. Why do you still think in terms of the terrestrial? And that question illuminates the questions I wanted to ask you in the first place.”[/COLOR] [B]He pauses for a moment,[/B] “[COLOR=#0000ff]Who are these True Vampires and where are they? What are you relative to them? Why do you loathe each other? And I suppose this is an opinion question: why, with all of this time, are you all not explorers? It makes little sense to me. It’s what humans would call a waste of time. Perhaps it’s because they have so little of it. But I see their point. ” [/COLOR] [B]As she undoubtedly will become frustrated with his approach, he then asks the punch line,[/B] [COLOR=#0000ff]“How did you get here? Do you not dream good dreams anymore?”[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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