Lake Party Water Post Day Two

[the-woodpecker.livejournal.com]

Sunshine Dust, the golden squid, frolics closer to shore today. There were so many people to play with in the lake yesterday! And squids need love and attention too!

There's a soft breeze coaxing the water into gentle waves, playing around the Black Pearl's sails.

If you didn't get a chance to swim yesterday, there is only today.

Tomorrow, it will be February again.

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[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Where is home?" He asks with a raised brow. "And, yes, this place is rather peaceful."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Gotham City. Grew up there, decided to stick around. How about you, Mr...?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Luna. Julian Luna. But you can just call me Julian." He says giving her a smile. "I live in San Francisco. But I grew up in New Orleans."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

She holds out her hand, "Barbara Gordon." Then grins at him, "You don't have much of an accent."

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Barbara." He says giving the hand a firm shake but not too firm. "That might be because of the year I was born or the year that I came from New Orleans to San Francisco. It more than likely got rid of most of my accent."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Babs blinks, "There's a magical year that erases accents if you move during it?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"No. But if you live in a place for far too long you can lose your accent." He shakes his head a bit. "How old do I look to you?"

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"I'm bad with ages, but no older than forty."

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"I'm far older than that." Julian states. "I was born in 1830, in New Orleans."

At least here there's no chance of breaking the Masquerade. But he goes quiet letting what he just told her sink in.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

She looks him over again, "And you've got to be from at least the late twentieth century." She frowns, "Some sort of live extension?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

Brown eyes watch her for a moment. "You could say that. I'm not exactly human."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Her eyes flicker as she runs down the list, "Extraterrestrial, meta-human, cyborg, magic, demonic power?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Vampire." Though he knows in some worlds vampires can't be out in the sun.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

And sure enough, she glances up at the sun, then back. "Hmm... Extended lifespan, but no UV reaction. What is true of you then?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"That isn't true, actually. The sunlight does cause us problems. But only if we've not fed beforehand. Anything you know about vampires is probably a lie where I'm from. We walk among the humans. The vampires in San Francisco are made up of five different clans."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Stakes, decapitation? Immunity to other methods of killing?" Barbara's desire to know things drives her past the oddness of the whole situation.

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Stakes only slow us down, they don't kill us." Julian states giving a grin. "You like questions don't you?" He's not going to tell a stranger what other immunities or not immunities they have concerning death. That'd be giving too much away.

"We do, however, turn into wolves."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

She laughs, "I suppose I do, don't I. It's sort of my job, I guess. To know things. To know everything. Sorry if I'm being intrusive."

Her eyebrows rise, "Wolves? Interesting. Does it hurt?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Well, you can ask anything that doesn't involve me giving away methods of how we kill ourselves or how we can be killed."

"No, it doesn't hurt at all. I quite enjoy the form, actually."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Do you keep yourselves hidden?" That's probably mostly safe.

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"No, we don't. We walk among the people. Even own quite a few of the businesses in the city."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Barbara frowns, "Why are vampires always so secretive? I mean, why hide who and what you are?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Because people kill what they don't understand."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Educate them?" Barbara is a firm believer in education. Of course she's got her own secrets, but she also has enemies who already want her dead.

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"There are laws among my kind, Barbara." He states. "The main rule is to never break the Masquerade. So educating them wouldn't work. My city has been just fine with how its run. Resputable clubs... buisnesses that are booming. We don't mind living like that of the people around us. It keeps us safe."