The Lotus of +5 Water Drifting

At that point he couldn't help himself. He turned to her snuggled up to him and kissed her. "I probably..." 'Should be burned alive for this' he thought to himself. "I guess it... May not be so presumptuous after all. Though I think we should get desert transferred to that room... So I can show you another way to eat it..."

(OOC: Oh I think he should get at least one more for a reaction. Then fade. :P)

Hinderance's Residence

The next morning Dulcina woke up to feel she was still with Hindreance. She smiled, still with her eyes closed. "You know you didn't need to stay all night..." She said with a delightful laugh.

Hinderance's Residence

Hinderance chuckled a bit, "I know, but I didn't want you waking up alone, besides its not like there was all that much work for me to do as Cassandra seemed to be taking care of all the paperwork sorting that has come my way. So how are you feeling this morning?" Hinderance gave her a playful hug before getting up.

((and I have to end it early tonight I gotta escort my mum to the dentist early tomorrow morning))

Hinderance's Residence

Dulcina smiled sadly to herself, thankful she was facing away from Hinderance. "You get used to waking up alone..." She mumbled to herself. She giggled as she got hugged, turning around and sitting up on the bed. Her robes were all creased from where she had slept and some of her hair was flattened with a little more sticking up. "Good, thanks to you." She said, smiling towards him. She wished she had been stronger to do without asking him to stay but she needed him to feel safe when she was about to sleep. "Thanks for staying with me. ... Hmm, I feel like I should do something to show my thanks... Is there something I could do?" She asked, looking at him with her elbows on her knees and her chin in her hands, looking towards Hinderance. But knowing Hinderance he would probably just say he was glad to help and didn't want anything.

Hinderance's Residence

"It's fine Dulcina. I just want you, to be you. That is all I really want or need." Although his statement had strength Dulcina could still feel an undercurrent of worry in Hinderance's voice. Still looking away from Dulcina Hinderance toke a deep breath before continuing. "Dulcina.....for the longest time I thought I'd die in some random battlefield alone grasping for something impossible or here in the institute toiling away for something that I was beginning to doubt. I have nothing left to return to after my fall in Ionia."

Hinderance sighed a bit before continuing. "After....the incident with Equiste......I....to be honest thought this state was possibly the worst fate to have befallen me up till then. To be immortal, to be something that can not find relief in death. To watch everything crumble and disappear while I am forced to watch for all eternity. Even if my mind were to be broken, or my body destroyed, I would eventually reform regardless. Without my reformation gem it would take much longer, perhaps a hundred years or even a century, and yet I know I will inevitably return as long as water flowed through this realm."

Hinderance began to retake his Leviathan form. "Dulcina.....for the first time since I had become a water elemental, I could forget about those things even for a little while. Being with you was enough for me to disregard how terrible my fate is for the time being because you are here. Your very existence to me is everything at this moment. For however long we have.......for however long I can retain my humanity........" Hinderance couldn't finish what he wished to say, he and Dulcina wasn't even that far in the relationship, hell they were just starting out and yet he was spouting all this.

Hinderance finishing his morph back to his default form looked back to Dulcina. His expression was hard to the read, but something in his eyes reflected a great sadness. "Yesterday....when I watched what had been done to you.....I actually felt my humanity inching away.....I actually did not know.....what would happen....I'm sorry this must be terribly sudden, but after yesterday......" Sighing Hinderance stopped talking for a moment while staying a good step or two away from the bed Dulcina was on. "I just wanted you to know....I am not strong by any means, but whatever happens I want to be there for you Dulcina." Hinderance now looked towards the floor just waiting for Dulcina's reply, not sure how she would take his confession if you could even call it that.

((Sorry for the no update I am so terribly busy these days x...X))

Hinderance's Residence

Dulcina sat there without a word, smiling sadly towards him as he seemed to pour his heart out to her. Without a word she stood up and took a step towards him, putting her hands on his 'shoulders'.
"Hinderance, you are a much stronger person than you think you are. A lesser person would of succumbed and simply stayed on the plane of water. BUt you have come back with your humanity. The leviathan wouldn't of let itself go if it didn't think you were strong. But enough about that..." Gently he felt his head been lifted up and to look at her face, even though she hadn't moved her hands. She was smiling a warm smile.
"I have been in the Institute for a while, and there are things done to me and what I've done that I don't like, but I forged on for the good of Valoran. A little more than my skill has been used to get me to where I am, but so far you have cared nothing for my past, but only what I am now. You are the first person since my fiance back when I was 17 that I've wanted to be close to. No... Needed to be close to. I'm not even able to carry on a legacy since I... can't have children."
She looked down and away from him, closing her eyes as tears came to them. She forced them away before looking back at Hinderance. "I am happy that I can make you feel so alive. Its not something everyone can say about someone else. Before I met you I wasn't too concerened about myself. My research was all I had left. But now I feel there is something more... Something worth holding onto... You are the one who makes me feel that Hinderance." With that she pressed her lips against his form and gave him a kiss. To Hinderance it felt like a proper kiss. When she pulled back though she looked like she was about to regret the next thing she was going to say, but seemed to go on. "And Hinderance... It... is possible for a water elemental... to truly die." She said, sounding hesitant as she said so.

(OOC: Wow that is long...)

((Step right up if you want your very being to be obliterated.))

Hinderance's Residence

Hinderance wasn't too sure about that one, but still knew that there was always a possibility as everything had to end and start at one point. Or perhaps it was a constant cycle of deconstruction and delayed reconstruction. "I would think there would be a possibility. However, for that I think the only one I could possibly talk to would be FilFire. Or in extreme cases I would just reform in the elemental plane of water without any of my memories, becoming another cog in the what keeps the realm going. Still I am not eager to find out."

Hinderance hugged Dulcina, "In just a few more days, what I planned should be ready. There....I....no nevermind I will tell then, for now...I am just glad to have even met you, Dulcina." Hinderance seemed to add another comment as an after thought, "Urmmmm just between you an me, can we not tell Equiste what I told you? He has been beating himself up about turning me into a water elemental for all this time. Knowing him we don't need to give him any more reasons to do that to himself."

Hinderance's Residence

She smiled at Hinderance. There was still so much he didn't know. "If you are ever in the elemental plane of water, ask for Irandriel. He owes me a favor. Ask him about Zalendriel. That might be... interesting to hear. Just not to anyone else and not without mentioning my favor first. No one talks about Zalendriel." She said. It was obvious she knew something but wasn't telling him right now.

Dulcina smiled back at Hinderance, hugging him as well. "No rush. I can wait. Well, part of me can't but I will anyway." She said with a giggle. She chuckled more at the next thing Hinderance said. "Hinderance, the kid has far more empathy than you think and his condition when at stage two focuses his mind and at stage one his emotions. He would of guessed all this already. But I won't tell him if that makes you feel better. Any secret you want to keep is safe with me." She said with a smile.

(OOC: Ack, between all the other posts I was doing I forgot to monitor this one... Sorry Hinderance... You're likely asleep by the time I get to this so... Sorry! Oh, and underlined names are in Aquan)

"I'll go to the elemental plane of water after some preparations. I still have issues when I traverse that realm." Hinderance gave Dulcina a kiss on her forehead, before looking back to her. "Thank you Dulcina. I think I should visit Cheng then. I need to check with him anyways." Hinderance now began to feel that the house was empty asides from Dulcina and himself. "huh....the house is empty asides from us...I wonder where Equiste and Cassandra went. Ah well they probably left to give us more privacy I suppose."

Hinderance's Residence

Dulcina said nothing. With Equiste disappearing to the netherworld every once in a while it had been impossible to keep up with his progress. However she had a fair idea what was going on with Equiste and Cassandra and was somewhat worried might happen, but it was happening and there was not much she could do. "Yeah. And it will do Cassandra some good to go out into the world with Equiste. She seems to rely on him heavily for support. Poor dear can't seem to go anywhere with me..." She said with a laugh. She looks towards Hinderance. "Seems I have some spare time before my meeting. Wonder what I should do..." She wondered aloud.

The Drifting Lotus, Private Room

Equiste stood near the window looking out at the Ionian sea with only his summoner robe on. He wondered how things were going to happen with this Cassandra and Kiara thing. Why did life have to be so complicated? He was worried how she would react, but... Well, he would have to tell her sometime. Was she strong enough to accept it? Accept him that way? Who knows.