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]

"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."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

She shrugs, "It gets tiring hiding all the time, though doesn't it?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"No. It doesn't. Not for the Ventrue anyways."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Huh."

She's silent for a moment, thinking. "Are you able to build many relationships outside your kind at home?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"We can. If we didn't then we couldn't own a lot of the major businesses in my city."

Yes, he did just call the city his.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"You don't find it taxing to build relationships on lies?" Because she does. It doesn't stop her from doing it, of course, but that doesn't mean she's happy about it.

Her eyebrow quirks, "'Your city'? All of San Fransisco?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Just because one doesn't say what they are doesn't mean its a lie."

Then he nods. "I am the primogen, the leader of the Ventrue. The prince of the city. So, yes, all of San Francisco. Vampire wise."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Do the vampires pull strings behind the scenes? Do you run the city for non-vampires too? Even if they don't know it?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"I pull the strings. There are rules against the turning of humans among my kind. We don't pull the strings so to speak. Not unless we have to."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"So it is 'your town' in the sense that you rule the vampires there?"

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"Yes."

Or as the vampires of the city put it... no, as he puts it... He is the judge, jury and executioner of his kind.

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Are you a beloved or a feared ruler? Or possibly both?" She wants to know what kind of person he is.

[prince-luna.livejournal.com]

"I'm a bit of both."

Though Lillie swears that people respect him because they fear him.