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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Strider_Koln" data-source="post: 4610866" data-attributes="member: 78265">Koln slowly turns the nob in the shower, listening to the water start to dribble out, then start a hot rain over his body. Although his flesh is strangely unscathed, every part of him aches. He holds his face in his hand, feeling terrible for what just happened, Clover didn't mean any harm and he knew it. He wants to protect them so badly, but in the end he knows he's going to let Ruby and Clover down like he did to his family. Clover needs him as a spiritual guide, but with his memories of basic scripture deteriorating he feels himself becoming dumber. He cannot be what she needs much longer. Ruby needs him as a teacher in how to subdue what's base and animal-like for the rational and spiritual good. Again, with his rotting reason he cannot help her with that much longer.  The water's flow starts to slowly weaken, and mysteriously dies. Koln grumbles, tapping the faucet. "Grr, damned dorm plumbing..." He presses his ear up to the wall, and hears the water returning to the faucet. He smiles, feeling warm fluid return on his hair, which he touches and presses into his scalp. His hands move down his eyes and he almost lets out a scream, noticing his hands are red. He looks up at the faucet, getting a face-full of blood. His entire body, the white tiles, the bathroom, now all streaked and messy with blood! Koln just shudders at this cruel joke and sits in the middle of the stall, letting the blood rain on him. He feels something inside him, a tendril of perverse joy that bends and contorts around his heart, impaling it and causing a shiver of giddy anger up his spine, resulting in a quiet laugh. Just as he feels he's about to surrender to it his ears pick up a squeak. Koln blinks, Socrates is standing on the soap dish in the shower, staring at him. Here Koln's shocked for two reasons, firstly that all the blood has disappeared, it's now just water, and secondly that Socrates is watching him bathe. Koln growls angrily, covering himself! "Socrates! I'm trying to bathe! Get out you little pervert!" No doubt the girls with their heightened senses, especially Ruby, should have heard that. Socratess tilts his head at Koln, and Koln apologizes "I know buddy, you just came to help, you heard my thoughts, knew I was getting weaker. You helped me remember my reason, thanks."He gently places Socrates on his shoulder and opens the curtain after turning the water off and smiles, noticing a pile of clothes in the corner. Whether some student left them there, God gave them to him, Socrates put them there, or Clover ordered them earlier he doesn't know, but he's happy to see them. Not only are they clean, but they are not imbued with his own blessings of protection unlike his priestly garments which have been gently burning him since he was turned. After neatly combing his hair and brushing his teeth, and fangs, he changes. His new clothes look much the same as his old: black pants, strangely they're BDU style just like his old ones, a snug fitting black t-shirt with a green cross pictured on the front, and a perfectly fitting trench coat, black of course. The only thing that he keeps is his hat, it does not hurt him.  The refreshed Koln returns to the dorm and lets out a gasp, noticing a very upset Ruby. He runs over to her, kneeling down and softly stroking her back. "What's the matter Ruby? I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I mean it is more than likely true that God indeed hates you, Clover and I, but what do I know? I'm a fool, so do not mind me. I am not right all the time... I once believed vampires to be among the most wretched of vermin, but I could not be happier that I've met you. As long as we love you, who cares about what God thinks?" That last phrase not sounding like him, although he absolutely meant it. His new concern is to serve his friends above all else, but his tongue still stung at the blasphemy.</blockquote>

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