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Dec. 26th, 2016 05:00 pm
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Ever since Toronto, he's been drifting.

It's not really a surprise to anyone who knows him. After all, he'd gotten so close, done so much, and yet, it had all fallen apart at the end. Heartbreaking, in so many senses. He really had wanted to end it that day, but instead he'd awoken somewhere else, an apartment he'd never been to that belonged to his once-sister, now-daughter and that... had not been an easy conversation either.

So recently, he's been drifting, unsure of his purpose, unsure of his path. He'd tasted mortality, after all. Felt it, lived it for a day or so. He'd seen that there was a way out. And yet, after talking to Janette, he wasn't sure if it wasn't just another quick fix he was looking for, another escape hatch from his actions. His quest for mortality had killed an innocent woman; could he really justify it any more than his quest for a just kill?

No, no, he couldn't.

Why he ended up here, in the Accursed's territory, was anyone's guess. Maybe it was a little suicidal. Wouldn't be the first time. Maybe it was just a desire to go where none of his own kind would go.

But the bar was dark and quiet, the wine was good enough to drink with his own special vintage, and hopefully, the night would find something for him soon enough. Some direction. He certainly wasn't finding one himself.

Date: 2016-12-26 10:15 pm (UTC)
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He's spent the best parts of his life adrift, in one sense or another. Seeking magic, seeking humanity, seeking excitement of one sort or another, and sometimes finding something like peace somewhere along the way. The parts with family have been wonderful or terrible in turn, but too often fraught, violent, and spent lashing out against or with them, embroiled in some war or another to count as any kind of peace.

He isn't actually with them, tonight. Tonight, he's in a bar. He doesn't need to ask to know the man he sits beside and ignores until he's gotten a drink in his hand is a vampire or that his wine is adulterated. Too much there to tell him, really.

So, he settles, he drinks and then he asks, "Enjoying the wine?"

Date: 2016-12-27 12:38 am (UTC)
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He arches his eyebrow and is very close to smirky when he says, "I'm not drinking your wine, so not particularly. The whisky isn't half bad." Or bloody, actually, but that's neither here nor there.

Date: 2016-12-27 01:02 am (UTC)
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Hey, at least they're not rolling their eyes outright. Kol is, however, getting definitely smirky and enjoying himself. "Ah, no worries. I prefer to keep my reds separate."

Date: 2016-12-27 01:44 am (UTC)
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Honesty, Nick, how were you planning on selling drinking blood with your wine, otherwise? Don't answer that.

"That's unfortunate. I'm really very fond of food. And -" He lifts his glass and finishes it. "Alcohol." Not that he doesn't also enjoy his blood but... monotonous.

Date: 2016-12-27 03:04 am (UTC)
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He quirks his eyebrows a little and gets very, very deeply and immediately curious. "Like me broadly or are you referencing my family in particular?"

He raises his hand and orders another drink, without missing a beat or looking away.

Date: 2017-01-06 02:06 am (UTC)
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"It isn't as clear a distinction as you might think." Since the ones really like him were his family, but that was neither here nor there. "Do you have a name?"

Date: 2017-01-06 02:15 am (UTC)
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"It's a pleasure, I'm sure." For one of them, and he's only being mildly snide. "I have a name, yes." That's more than mildly smart-assed, but it's at least playful smart-assery.

Sharp.

But playful.

Date: 2017-01-06 02:26 am (UTC)
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"Oh, now that's the sort of fun I wouldn't dream of missing. Yes. Guess." He's not leaning back, he's leaning slightly forward, into the bar and definitely - well, laughing with his eyes if not the rest of him.

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Nicholas B. Knight

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