Forge post

[ostro_goth]

Teja is in the forge, working furiously.

The midwinter holidays are not far off; also, it has been his while since he's seen Charlie, and that brings up feelings in the Goth that are best dealt with by intense sparring, or vigorous hammering.

The cats, not minding the noise, lounge by the fire.

Despite the cold outside, the door is open, and all comers, be they friend or stranger, customer or merely curious, are welcome.-



[[OOC: Forge post -- open until it scrolls!]]

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[ostro_goth]

"I do not mean to be overwhelming," Teja says. "Tell me!"

[hark-at-her.livejournal.com]

Mina smiles, laughs softly. "There is nothing to tell," she demurrs, shaking her head. "I am a widow, I have lived in England all my life, London for most of that."

[ostro_goth]

"I have heard of these places," Teja says. "Do you not find this one exceedingly strange?"

She seems, from her words, to be the most ordinary person he met in this place -- barring the baker woman, but she had been married to a wolfman...

[hark-at-her.livejournal.com]

"At first, perhaps," she inclines her head in agreement. "But I have lived long enough to know of stranger places." Places where blue fire marks the spot where the dead have buried treasure, where the mist can hold pure evil...

"In any case," she adds hurriedly, "I am a scientist, and it is in my nature to find answers for such things." She has yet to discover the bar's secrets, but she is determined...

[ostro_goth]

"You will not find them here," Teja says. "This place is beyond science."

[hark-at-her.livejournal.com]

"Really, there is nothing beyond science."

[ostro_goth]

"I would have thought so, calling science 'natural philosophy', when I was alive; but this place taught me otherwise," Teja says. "I have met dragons, shape-shifter, magicians, blood-drinkers and gods, here."

[hark-at-her.livejournal.com]

"Blood-drinkers?" She asks, curious. "I have met only one, Nikola Tesla." And hadn't that been a surprise - not only to meet the Nikola Tesla, but to find out that he was like her, a vampire.

[ostro_goth]

"Indeed, I have met him as well," Teja says. "But there are many more, of many different kinds: - some more like hunters, some more like lovers."

[hark-at-her.livejournal.com]

"And some a little of both, no doubt..." She, certainly, has never found it easy to distinguish between the hunger to feed on blood, or to feed on flesh.

[ostro_goth]

"That they are both is what will give them their power," Teja says.

[hark-at-her.livejournal.com]

"Indeed," she muses, smiling wryly. "And thus is the fascination with them born." She has read enough about the modern idea of vampires - courtesy of Bar - to be thoroughly disgusted with the idolising of her kind.

[ostro_goth]

"Some that I met were fascinating," Teja admits.