Stranger Danger (Agatha, Open)

[Merry Noelle Lovelace]

Mari rose from bed and stretched, Dameon was asleep and she knew he wouldn't rise at this stage in his sleep cycle. Slipping into the luxurious bathroom she hopped into the shower and make quick work of getting ready in the morning. Her hair was always the hardest part. Usually she just held it back with two braids and let it flow long, loose and curly down her back.

The rest was simple, a set of silk pants and a top that was reminiscent of an oriental design. It was modest but pretty and she could move about easily. It was ironic that only after Katia was born was she allowed to be awake during the day. Prior to that, Dameon had to trust his spells would hold her fast or that his sleep droughts would keep her down till he woke. He still occasionally gave them to her if he needed her awake for the full night or had other plans but today she was free to do as she wished. At least that was how he worded it. Again, the irony was not lost on her.

Padding into their room she slipped into a set of gold colored slippers and surveyed her image in the mirror. Finding it met with her approval she sensed someone that was not her daughter was in the suite and she closed the doors to the Master bedroom to explore the sitting room. Her dark eyes looked about and she remained silent, trying to find the strange presence that was in the room. She had to be quite. If Katia heard her she would rush in and who knows what they were facing.

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While roaming through the woods when she had nothing to do together with Moon her wolf companion with her, she had caught onto the sounds of battle in the distance. After that she had easily climbed her way up one of the highest tree and from there let her eyes wander over the battle in the distance, quickly spotting the vampires in battle with the werewolves there. She knew that she couldn't interfere, she had kept to those rules for quite some time and wouldn't stop now, even though it was hard to see so many werewolves being killed, even with one Hell of a fight they put up, but they didn't seem to stand too much chance when they were flanked by a third party joining in and when she had seen Jonothan, her eyes had narrowed and her grip on the tree and increased to the point that her nails dug into the tree bark for a moment.

'What did you see?' She heard Moon ask when she had jumped out of the tree when she'd seen enough when they had entered the village to see the corpse there of the girl they had come for obviously, she was good at putting those puzzle pieces together when she wanted to mots of the time. 'Honestly? Something perculiar.' Agatha answered as she shortly padded some of the dust from the tree off her clothing and then looked at the sky for a moment. 'Someone that doesn't belong... Not there, not with them, not with him...' She added before she looked back at Moon and sighed. 'You can go to the Brigade already, or stay here, but where I'm going I can't take you.' She told her wolf companion as she shortly petted her head and stood up again fully before putting up her hood of her robe. 'Aren't I always?' She had asked softly when she had recognized the look that Moon gave her if she was going to be careful. Yet as she left, Moon still had a worried look in her different colored eyes as she looked her off.

It had been a quick journey to the castle and from there, it was just a manner of taking a good look at the guard patrols and shifts and looking at the exterior of it to find a perfect route to climb up and into the castle. In the corridors it was a little harder, but she still managed to silently sneak past all the guards and toward the private chamber of the queen. She'd never actually been here, in the castle, but she'd seen some maps, and from the outside, had a pretty good idea of the layout. She'd managed to slip into the private chamber and it didn't take long it seemed for Marina to take notice o someone being there, as she soon entered the sitting room that Agatha was hiding in one of the dark corners of, adapted nicely to the darkness in her black robes. Still after a few seconds, Agatha stepped forward, standing sideways behind the queen in front of her as she kept her hood up for now. 'Your Majesty, I had the feeling it wouldn't take long for you to catch onto my presence.' She said calmly and after putting a calm step forward more into the only bits of light that were in the room, revealing herself a bit more at least, even with the hood still over her head. 'I think we should have a talk.' Agatha stated calmly, partially naming the reason for why she was here.

[Merry Noelle Lovelace]

It took everything Mari had to remain calm and to breathe, her heart raced, "What do we need to speak about, Miss? I'd offer you food drink and a place to sleep but they would be able to smell your presence. This is...not the safest place to be, Miss." she said gently. She knew if she wanted to kill her she would already be dead and so would Dameon. The best she could hope for was to distract her from her goals if that was the case.

She wondered if Katia would attack her or not. It was hard to know for sure what might set her daughter off these days. She felt a tremble in her stomach. She had to protect her, although it was hard when everyone was stronger or more powerful than she was. It helped that she was able to be with her during the day. At least Mari hoped she did. Mari made a point of letting her know she was loved and that she held no expectations the girl could not meet. It was with these thoughts that she looked to Agatha, "It is strange to have a werewolf in my home." she said softly.

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Agatha pulled up her eyebrows, even if it wasn't visible yet due to her hood still covering her face and head. 'You don't? Maybe this'll clear it up a little.' Agatha continued before she let a blade fall to the ground in between them smudged with blood. 'I think that was of one of your warriors on the battlefield? But it could also always be of your ally...' Agatha hinted to Jon as she kept standing there calmly. 'I've never been safe a day in my life, not that I can actually recollect, and if I were you Your Majesty, I would be more worried about if this is the safest place for you to be.' Agatha said intentionally a little defensively in the offense.

A small calm chuckle came from under the dark hood when Agatha thought back to what Mari said about a place to sleep and everything, and then shook her head slightly. 'Believe me, if I don't have a place to rest, I can easily find one.' She reassured her before putting a few steps sideways and walking a small circle around Mari until she was back in front of her again and turned to face her. 'And it is strange for me to be in your actual castle, there's a first time for everything they say.' She said calmly as a small smile played around her lips again and she calmly brought her hands up to the sides of her hood, but not yet pulling it off. 'You were very picky with who you attacked on the battlefield...' She started, before pulling down the hood and revealing her face to her. 'Do you know who I am now?' She asked curiously, mostly because there had been a brief moment that Agatha had been face to face with the queen before, but that was as her innocent self, that no one would expect in that role to be deadly as a freshly sharpened blade.

[Merry Noelle Lovelace]

"You have, Duke Radcliff's sword. He's a nobleman to be sure but I'm not generally permitted to fraternize with men so I can't claim him as an ally." she admitted to her with a slight raise of an eyebrow. "I did not choose to come here and I am prevented from leaving because I have a duty to my husband and daughter. I was bride raided before you were born. I know this is not my place, I just do my best to live here and do what I can to make it a better more honorable place."

Being circled by a predator unnerved her. She couldn't help it. She turned to keep the woman in site at all times. She longed to fly and be away from her but she feared sudden movement might alert the guards. "This isn't MY castle it is my husband's." she corrected the other woman gently.

"You're Agatha but you're also the Black Butterfly." she murmured softly as she saw her face, "I chose my targets based on their sins. The truely evil ones I killed. I spared the good ones when I could. I moved away from them and changed positions to not harm them. It is not my duty to send the good to meet their maker before their time." she said quietly to the other woman as she tried not to bristle at her and kept her tone polite.

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Agatha's eyebrows went up again when she heard her answer about the sword and then how she called Jon, which made her laugh sarcastically for a moment and shake her head before looking back at Mari. 'So you're telling me that's actually Jon's sword?' She asked in a clearly amused tone as she pointed to the sword. Then Agatha clearly looked at her in disbelief before rolling her eyes for a moment. 'Nobleman? Ha, hardly, with all due respect your Majesty, for someone that is probably much more in actuality than a vampire, you have a very, very, poor choice in the people you chose to socialize with.' Agatha said calmly but with, perhaps a bit unsettling at first at least, friendly smile on her face anyway. 'And do you think you are succeeding?' Agatha asked, while she couldn't stop it from circling around her again, this time a bit quicker so Marina couldn't turn with her that much. There was no danger involved, just curiosity. 'There's always a way, you just have to be willing to surrender yourself to it.' She said then with a very determined tone in her voice, mostly because of how she thought about her own decisions that had gotten her here.

'Castle's are materialistic things your Majesty, it doesn't really matter in my opinion of the actual owner, what I do care about, is that you seem to be able to hide what you are, yet when someone is observing a battlefield, things are more clear, even if one doesn't actually get the feeling and experience of battle, it doesn't increase your eventual survivability either.' She continued before shrugging her shoulders and looking around for a moment too, then looking around as she was sure she a sign in the distance that Moon had stubbornly stayed as close as she could to Agatha. 'Stubborn girl.' She mumbled softly to herself before looking back to Marina again after making a disapproving sound, about what she just thought she noticed, with her nose.

Agatha nodded when Marina answered her question if she knew who she was and that the answer was how she somewhat anticipated would be. 'Impressive your Majesty, you figured it out, yet you remain where you are, taking no attempt to warn the guards, or anyone else, knowing that you're face to face with an assassin, that no one even knows how I look but the ones that I want to know, and yet, you are still scared as I can sense.' She noticed as she looked at her but then cocked her head to the side again. 'Honestly, you can't tell me you knew it back then, you seemed to like me, yet feel bad for me.' Agatha said to Mari with again a friendly smile on her face with her head to the side still. 'You're actually one of the first, humanoid, that actually realizes it with how I look, and stays alive, that is, if I am right with my instinct that I can trust you with this secret.' She said calmly and slightly shrugging her shoulders, but being honest, she did have the instinct that she could, but she wasn't going to take anything for granted or uncertainty. 'With knowing who I am, you must realize that I have done, and most likely more so do in the future, killing of my own, so tell me your Majesty, just out of curiosity's sake, if given the choice on a battlefield, would you judge me worthy of striking down because of my prior sins?' She asked calmly, but seriously wanting to know nonetheless.

[Vlad Drăculea]

Everything was calm, the sounds of the castle washed over her as she slept, lulling her into a deep sleep. Being born an Empath like her mother, Katia was sensitive to the emotions of those around her, thus she had a spell cast on her room to keep the feelings and thoughts of others from penetrating her sanctuary. However there was one bond that could never be turned off, the bond between a mother and her daughter. Due to the both of them being empath's the bond was much stronger and right now it was going to prove that once again.

Mid dream, Katia woke in a cold sweat, feeling a massive wave of anxiety wash over her. It was like a full blown panic attack, the need to defend herself from something that she could not even see. Throwing the blankets off of her bed, she looked around her room, nothing but a broken corpse with puncture wounds, and her things littered the room. Moving from her bed, she unlocked the door, peaking out around the corner timidly as if expecting to lose her head the moment she did so. When she was met with no response, Katia moved out into the hall, padding silently towards her mother.

It was like an instinct driving her, there was no concious thought that told her to go there, she just knew that it was where she needed to be. This bond was compelling her, right into what could have been a trap, her mother could have been in the cold grip of the void.. but if that were true she would have felt it. Rounding the corner and making her way down the stone hallways, Katia came to a stop just outside of her mothers door.

"Mother..?" she whispered softly at first, before remembering that her mother didn't seem to possess the super hearing that the others did. She always wondered why that was, why her mother seemed so turned off from the idea of feeding on humans. She never questioned it aloud, her father would never allow for that to happen, but deep down she knew there was something that no one was telling her. Pushing on the door to the room, she found that she was met by it being barred from the other side.

This did not come as a surprise to her, they could never be too careful being royalty. They had their fair share of enemies, everyone knew it, and even as a child she was not ignorant to this. She felt the sting of one such enemy just earlier, the bite of the wolf stung even if it had healed fully. "Mother.. can I come in..?" she asked once more, raising her voice in the hopes that she would hear her. In her head however the panic was working it's self up, almost into a frenzy. She would soon be throwing herself at the door, full strength if she did not respond which would most likely wake her father.

Somethings wrong. What if they are hurt? What if they are dead? What if the wolves followed us back, infiltrated the castle?!

[Merry Noelle Lovelace]

Inhaling her breath a moment Mari did her best to remain calm although it was hard given that she felt that Agatha was being a cocky bitch in more ways than one, "I don't socialize with Duke Radcliff. I barely socialize with anyone. My husband forbids it. If you did more than just watch one battle from a distance child you would know that." she said as she placed her hands akimbo.

"Probably not but that does not mean I plan on giving up." she said quietly, this woman was really seriously starting to piss her off but she didn't get to be where she was by losing it. The way she clinched her hands and the way she gritted her teeth was ample proof that all was not right with this conversation, "For someone who doesn't know a damn thing about my situation or who I am you're awfully free with the criticisms. Last time I checked abandoning my daughter to leave the kingdom was a bit selfish and dragging her along is kind of unfair to her." Her eyes narrowed, "Are you really so bored with your life that you have to break into my quarters and circle me like a damned vulture? You have to know that acting this way is rude and inconsiderate and doesn't exactly make me want to tell you anything. Threatening people and making them uncomfortable is just sadistic. And I wasn't aware you'd started taking lessons in sadism."

"What I am is none of your business. And if you're so bloody smart why don't you tell me what you think I am and I'll circle you, act pompous and arrogant, and tell you how much of a screw up I think you are. Sound like fun? Oh wait, no maybe for shits and giggles I'll go break into your bedroom and stalk you prior to giving you the third degree while everyone you love is asleep. How would you like that? Does it sound fun to you?"

"Well of course I'm scared. The only ones who aren't scared are morons." She was really wanting to kick Agatha's teeth down her face and if she thought she could get away with it she'd have given the girl an extreme spanking.

"Well I liked you before you got all stuck up and cocky and broke into my home. If you'd acted like this when I first met you I'd have turned you over my knee. Something I still might do if you don't stop being so condescending to me. I've done nothing to you and if you spout some bullshit about killing your people I'll call you a bloody liar."

Taking a breath she exhaled slowly, "No.You are good for all that you murder people for a living. You do it to make the world a better place. Being arrogant doesn't mean you aren't a good person it just means your annoying as hell. And last time I checked that wasn't a damnable offense."

She heard Katia's knock at the door, "I suggest you let me open that or she'll call every guard, nobleman and woman and my husband down on you." she said as she made her way to the door fed up with Agatha's judgements, "You can come in Katia but please don't wake your father. We have a visitor."

'Don't worry, Katia. We have company. She's arrogant but then so is ninety percent of this castle.' she sent to her daughter as calmly as she could.

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Agatha just kept her eyes locked on the queen in front of her as she took in the words for that if she had done more than just watch a battle from a distance that she would know that, and how she called her a child. 'I haven't been a child in years, not since they abandoned her, helpless.' Agatha told her as she shook her head and then stood still after a few last steps until she was right in front of her again. 'And I am judging on more than watching just that battle, and I was more pointing to Jon than anything else, I have come across him often enough time to know what kind of a man he really is.' She told her simply and honestly before shrugging her shoulders.

'I never actually for the giving up type anyway your Majesty, but all of this? Vampires? For someone that seems to have such a pure heart as one can keep amongst here, I don't understand, I know everything of sacrifice, but family?' She shook her head and looked away for a moment before biting her lip and looking back slowly. 'You hear tales, of how important it is supposed to be, she thought that that was true once, but I learned my lesson, it is overrated that you should simply be totally loyal to your family, that nothing comes between you and them, and I don't understand what has made these people deserve to be one with you.' She said seriously, but also even partially in herself before after a few seconds, stopping to bite her lip.

'Why do you seem to act like I am suggesting anything like that? And I know all too well about what is unfair and not your Majesty, maybe you should take a calming breath for a second.' Agatha asked and then said calmly with a smile and nod before she kept quiet for a moment as if she gave her the chance to. Still with all her friendliness and still somewhat politeness here and there, came it's limits too and she had to narrow her eyes for a moment when the question came if she was really so bored with her own life, She listened to the rest and rolled her eyes then while laughing softly before looking at her again in disbelief. 'I am not here to threaten you, and I am circling you because last time I didn't really get the chance to with all the guards, I'm an assassin and a werewolf, how much of a predator do you think that makes me? And how curious do you think that makes me? I might not understand everything about your situation, but your status is still clear to me, and especially with what you are and the good that is obviously in you, so don't take my curiously circling you as a sign of hostility, if I mean you harm you will know soon enough.' Agatha said calmly but clearly not liking the assumptions and choices of words against her.

'No one can actually sneak up on me like that your Majesty.' Agatha said calmly with a small smile first when she had stayed quiet, listening to the entire rant of example of how Marina could be treating her and if that sounded like fun to her. 'Pompous and arrogant? I am just sticking to the facts,, if those come off as offensive against you, that is not my intention, but this isn't my ideal choice of having this conversation, but like you said, you don't have much freedom, something I already gathered, why do you think I took the risk? I do not think you are a screw up, you are taking words out of my mouth that aren't there, if I sneaked in here undetected, don't you assume that if I wanted to harm you, I could have done it without you noticing and be out of here already? This is just how the wild finished raising me your Majesty.' Agatha continued, maybe she thought she was being a smart ass again or pompous, or arrogant, but she didn't care, everything she had said was just her being honest, her being in her natural element too right now, so being how she came to be in that way too.

Agatha simply shrugged when Marina told her that of course she was scared and that the only ones that weren't were morons, which in Agatha's experience was actually completely right on the spot. 'That wasn't in my element, that wasn't in hiding, that wasn't as an assassin, that was more remaining pieces of her hiding what I truly became. Like I told you before, I came here because I noticed you stayed away as much from killing my people as you could, just like you told me, but in the circumstances with your living "arrangement" I had to know why, I had to know what force would make this sacrifice yet still stay like this, but I can honestly say that I don't know, because anything I can think of that might be capable of that, I never saw with my own eyes so I do not believe in them.'

Agatha knew perfectly well that it might be confusing, her change of saying "me" and "I" to referring to "her" as she had tried and worked on keeping herself as distant as possible from the scared little girl she was then and the feeling she had after she couldn't find her parents. She kept silent again after that, listening to the other answer she had been waiting for, how good she thought she was and thus only getting the remark against her that she was annoying as hell apparently. 'I was forced to become like this far before the Brigade made me one of them, before they made me become the Commander, you know how much else you lose of yourself? Having to kill one of the only mentors you've ever had? I keep believing you know, in a better outcome, but sometimes... Sometimes I doubt, if I haven't destroyed my chance of that a long time ago, when in the grand picture of my species, my life has even barely begun.' She told her honestly, her tone and facial expression changing for just a moment, before she heard the sounds at the door right before she heard the knock and the voice. 'Go ahead, I'm not stopping you.' She said calmly but honest, as she put a step backward, a bit more back in the shadows, and putting her hood back on. Waiting for Katia to come in, but not taking any chances on her idenity because she didn't know how safe it would be with her.

[Vlad Drăculea]

As the door opened Katia took a moment to look around, unsure of what was going on here. She could hear her mothers voice in her head telling her that this was a guest, this hooded figure, but part of her knew better than to trust that entirely. No one was usually allowed beyond a certain point of the castle and most definitely were they always denied access to a royal suite unless they had news of the utmost importance. Perhaps this was simply a messenger then, sent to inform them of the noble families gratitude for their attempt at recovering their lost child.

Watching the woman closely for a moment, she could tell that something was off. She hid beneath the cowl of hers, but the one thing she could not hide from Katia was her pulse. No one in this kingdom had one aside from her mother and herself though hers was incredibly slow. Tilting her head to the side, she remained suspicious no matter what her mother would say to her once she felt that. That was perhaps what she found the most frustrating, her mother always seemed to know how everyone felt before they did, it was enough to drive a person mad sometimes, especially a teenage girl.

"What is all this about?" she demanded, standing there in a lovely night gown that was decorated befitting of her status. The way she spoke at times and carried herself made her seem like a young Empress rather than a Princess. She was naturally inclined towards weilding authority, her father was drilling this sort of superior attitude right into her. That statement was towards both of them as well, she was starting to become so high and mighty in her mind that she even demanded things of the Queen at times, though it often got her in trouble.

"No one is suppose to be beyond the Audience Chamber. This does not seem like one of our subjects, she shrouds her face from our grace, and is not on bent knee." she said, almost hissing the last part. She was too smart for her age, being trained to be the ruler of Sylthanus from a very young age. "Something tells me father would not like this, not at all.." she said slowly, a statement with a threatening undertone.

[Merry Noelle Lovelace]

"I barely know Duke Radcliff. He's not someone my husband likes." she said honestly, "I'm sure he's a piece of work better scraped off the bottom of someone shoe but claiming I'm chummy with him is stretching it a bit. He's a vampire, vampires kill humans. Its that whole apex predator thing." she said with a bit of a weary sigh. She was tired and getting grumpy.

"I made the best of a situation that was unexpected. And I stick by my word. I have a child and a duty and being irresponsible does not fit in with that." she added as she tried to figure out what this child was getting on about with her changes in word usage. "I grew to love my husband. I'll admit that at first the situation terrified me but we grew to understand each other. I do what I can to help. I advise him when he asks and support him when I can without overstepping my bounds." she said gently as she looked at the other woman and smiled softly as she thought of the past.

"I'm not used to people being so close to me." she admitted as she stood there unnerved, "I'm not permitted to socialize overly much. Its like waving a steak in a human's face and not expecting them to eat it."

"I realize that being raised to have to defend yourself makes you rather plain speaking but don't you think I get talked down to enough? I get judged for the least littlest thing and then you come in here making me feel like some kind of freak even moreso than I already do. Yes you may be being honest but you are also being cruel."

"You don't have to believe in me for me to exist. That is what faith is for. Something that few people have. Just because you were given hardships didn't mean no one was watching. They just didn't rush to help you out because you had a destiny." she said gently, "You are meant to do great things, Agatha and just because you do things that are distasteful does not mean you are not doing something for the greater good."

"You only lose yourself if you give up. You have a purpose child you just have to realize its not the traditional one. Stop harping for a traditional upbringing. Believe me its a myth there is no normal way for species to raise each other. Its just they want you to believe there is a set way to do things but really there is none." she said this as gently as she could and sighed, "And refering to yourself with improper pronouns really isn't helping you cope with the issue. You thrived and survived. You made a life for yourself be proud of that. No ones life is perfect but be happy and joyful for the blessings you have. You control your life no one else does."

"We have a guest, Katia. A young woman I ran into during one of my excursions. She was curious about the battle that took place yesterday and came to speak with me about it and sought my council for some questions she had regarding her life." It might be odd to Katia that anyone looked to her mother but Mari seemed to take it in stride.

"That's because she is a werewolf dear and not from any pack that has attacked us as far as I know. She's an envoy of the Brigade near as I can tell." she said gently, "Be at peace, she means us no harm. She can't be expected to know our ways." Mari walked over to where her daughter was and lightly touched her shoulder, "Your father may not be pleased but I have done no wrong for him to be displeased about." she said softly as she regarded the assassin that looked at them from the shadow. "She wanted to know why you and I are the only ones with a pulse in the castle."

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At first, Dameon wasn't aware that there was anything wrong. After all, he wasn't aware of much when he was asleep which was why he sometimes relied on Katia and Marina to keep an eye on things during the day, which was why he hadn't been casting the sleep spell on Marina as often. It wouldn't do for them to be vulnerable, especially his wife and daughter. But presently, he became aware of different presences in his home and he awoke with a mutter. Who the heck would disturb us? he wondered to himself. Rolling over, he discovered that Marina wasn't in the bed and surmised that she had probably woken up before him. He then climbed out of bed, got dressed, and went off in search for his wife.

When he finally found her, he was surprised to see that all hell had broken loose. He stared at the situation, trying to determine what was going on, but was unable to due to the fact that he had just awoken and hadn't even fed yet.
"Does someone want to tell me what exactly is going on?" he snapped, coming to stand by Marina protectively. If someone didn't clue him in real soon, heads were going to roll.

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'Let's just say that I've killed enough of his men to last a lifetime already, luckily he doesn't know exactly who I am, but the Duke is very invested in killing off the Black Butterfly.' Agatha stated as she took a look at a random spot before looking back at Mari again. Agatha quickly shook her head when she heard how Mari described what she thought Agatha was insinuating of her being chummy with Jon. 'That was not my intention to make you think I meant that, I am just warning you your Majesty, because I have the feeling you'll be dealing with him more often than you realize now.' Agatha said thoughtfully before slowly her gaze went from Mari to around the room again, already having the feeling that they weren't going to be alone like this for too much longer.

Agatha listened without interrupting her when Mari started telling her that she made the best of her situation and that she learned to love her husband, even giving her a few nods of understanding and even some of respect now in her eyes. 'Honestly you do have my respect for those choices and making the best of it, if someone knows how that goes, it's me, but I can't stop but have my own opinion that this shouldn't have to be your life, especially not for an eternity, especially not with what you are... It's not balanced.' She said before biting her lip and looking away again with a sigh and outside the window now for a few seconds, not really sure if that was the right wording, but not sure how else to put it right now.

'Everybody needs someone to talk to your Majesty, I had Moon after a while and her pack to talk to, can you imagine how confusing it was to learn I had become one with nature so much that I could actually talk and understand animals? Agatha told and asked before she laughed slightly and shook her head, still looking outside for a moment. 'I'm not making you feel like a freak!' Agatha defended herself as she turned back to Marina and stepped closer while pointing at her before biting her lip and looking down for a second. 'At least I don't mean to, in fact, the point of me being here, was just to talk to you, to know for sure if I was right about you, and what you are.' She explained that, her voice a little softer again before slowly looking back up at her. 'I apologize for any cruelty, I've been in charge of an assassin's creed and used to completely honest wolves that I have lost sight of where the line is drawn, when being myself at least.' She explained, smiling softly and then making a slight bow, hoping those two things and the explanation would help put the Queen some more on ease around her again.

Agatha eyes narrowed, not in a mad way, not in a paranoid or suspicious way, but more of a realization as she listened to Marina who started about that she didn't have to believe in her for her to exist, but especially what came after that kind of hit a soft and vulnerable spot inside Agatha as she bit her lip and kept quiet. 'You are... An Angel?' Agatha asked softly and pretty obviously in disbelief about it for now, while pointing slightly at her again with her finger. 'I want to believe you....' She then started as she looked randomly away to the side. 'I just wish someone like you would have come to me sooner... Instead of making me become almost two completely opposite person.' Agatha admitted as her eyes stayed away from Marina at a random spot. 'Then why does a part of me remember that they loved me?' Agatha asked as she looked Marina straight in the eyes again for a moment, talking about her parents with that. 'For now my life belongs to the Brigade.' She said then as she kept looking at her, but that was how it felt now, something she couldn't really turn away from, in a way, they had saved her, in a way, them recruiting her, maybe for the exact same thing she'd been doing, but it had still saved her, saved her from giving up, maybe just enough to get her to this point, hear someone actually say that they thought she had a greater purpose, a destiny, even maybe a good destiny.

Agatha's eyes quickly went to the door and the hallway outside there because of the presence of Mari's daughter coming closer and quickly looked back at Mari with her hood back over her head and the cape wrapped more around her, but at the same time sticking something out in her hand that looked like a small throwing star, just a bit personalized. 'Before I lose all privacy with you, take this, whatever you may think of me, where ever my loyalty may lie, in the small chance that you might ever want to talk to me, or especially need my help, all you'll have to do is throw or just stick that to the first tree you can find, and I'll come.' Agatha told her quietly but with a very serious look in her eyes because she meant it and she had specially made this one and took it with her for this situation. 'Everybody needs someone to talk to...' She added softly and with a small smile and nod.

Then something clicked inside Agatha once she had receded into the darkness and shadows, her face and body covered and camouflaged by her cape and the shadows covering her, as she looked at Katia who came in, bowing immediately and being placed back into acting mode by this turn of events. 'I am to unworthy to not shroud my face in your presence.' She stated softly, making her voice sound like a nervous and stammering one. Damn it! Him too? These vampires are more observant than I had anticipated, but I can't regret the discovery I made, I just have to keep the peace here, and get the Hell out.[/i] Agatha thought to herself at the moment she noticed Dameon coming and when he came in, she made a bow again, while making sure her identity was completely masked. 'It was not my intention to wake you, I just had a simple but urgent task to deliver and a question for the Queen.' She said in her most servant-like way again, then looked for a moment at Jon's sword still on the floor. 'The Brigade also assumed that Duke Radcliff would want this sword back as soon as possible, and rather from you, than from us.' She finished in her respectful tone, and keeping her head bowed for more shadows covering her, and also out of pretended respect, because she actually had to work pretty hard to push away her hostility from the moment Dameon especially had entered the room. She also knew that whatever went through her head, she had to keep her feeling as that of a minor person amongst greatness, or something like it, because like her mother, she was sure that she shouldn't underestimate the ittle one for even a little bit, she had to get out clean, only Marina should be the one to get out of this conversation with knowing who Agatha really was.

[Ghost]

Dameon glanced at Marina even as one of the intruders ducked into the shadows and stated that she was unworthy for him to see her.
"Are you all right?" he asked softly, keeping an eye on the intruder. He wasn't really impressed with her. He just wanted to make sure Marina was okay. He let out a curt nod at the woman who stated that she hadn't meant to wake him and that she had an urgent message to deliver as well as question for the queen. Really? She thought I would allow her to be surrounded by intruders? he thought to himself. Was this woman crazy?
"Anything you have to say to her, you can say in front of me," he said tightly and then his eyes flickered at the mention of a sword. "Yes, I am sure he would like that," he responded, recalling the Duke's love for the sword. It was a bit unhealthy the way the man was going on and on about the loss of his sword, but no one had mentioned it. Not that it had stopped him from saying so to the man, but still..."Is there anything else?" he asked.

[Vlad Drăculea]

Narrowing her eyes, Katia became suspicious at the mention of her being curious about the battle. On top of that, since when did her mother ever have time to meet people? Nothing was adding up here but she remained silent on that matter for now. "How nice. Thank you for your concerns, but it was hardly anything to bat an eye lash at." she said, her voice kept cool. She was like her father in that regard, playing things off as no big deal to keep herself from seeming like she wasn't in control of something, especially her own emotions. However the next time Marina opened her mouth, Katia would lose it, terrified.

The moment she heard the word Werewolf, her eyes shifted to their feral state, and she was clinging to the wall above the door frame. There was an odd half hiss, half screech that followed her movements as if she was terrified. Feeling where she had been bitten, she rubbed the spot softly, remembering what the fangs felt like and the burning in her veins she had experianced. While she loved watching them, she was now terrified of them, and this would not come without backlash. She hated being afraid, feeling like she wasn't in control.

This is exactly what her father would see when he arrived, Marina talked to some strange cloaked woman, and his daughter clinging to the wall. Her only thought at the moment was to stay as high as she could away from that woman, she wanted her gone, even more than that; dead. Her kind had killed one of Katia's playmates. While she knew that not everyone was the same in a species, she didn't differentiate like she should at this age. One of them hurt her, they were all monsters, and she wanted them all dead.

"Why is that thing here?!" she hissed, though it sounded more like she was going to burst into tears.