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Post by StarlightEnigma on Jul 31, 2018 21:58:27 GMT -6
"Nice to meet you Satsuki, if you'll both follow me I'll get you something to wear while we dry your clothes." She ushered the two girls back the way she had come from.
"You're welcome to wear something of mine until your clothes dry Paisley, follow me." Slipping off his shoes Luka lead the way in the other direction. Up a flight of stairs and down a corridor to a spacious room of neutral colors and simple decor. Sheet music sat on a table at the far end of the room and more was spread out on the deep windowsill that had cushions to sit on. Luka opened his dresser and passed Paisley clean clothes. "If you want to change in here I'll change in the bathroom." He pulled some clothes out for himself and headed down the hall closing the door behind him.
Eleesa,followed Lyra to her room where she was present with clean clothes, a warm sweater and lounge wear pants. "Thanks, can't wait to get out of this itchy mess."
"Satsuki if you want to change in the guest room that would be lovely. It's just across the hall." Lyra passed some lounge wear to Satsuki too. "I'll go make something warm for you all to drink."
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Post by VarielArts on Aug 5, 2018 17:17:27 GMT -6
Satsuki nodded slightly, following Eleesa and Lyra towards a room where she was handed some lounge clothes, they looked quite comfy, not too tight, not too loose but similar to leggings and partially sweats, colored baby blue. She was also given a nice black zip up sweater.
Paisley had followed Luka to his room, admiring his room, being quite simple but welcoming as well. He thanked Luka for the clothes and finished changing into them. Opening the bedroom door, and walking towards the stairs, contemplating if he should wait for Luka or head downstairs. Making up his mind, he walked down the stairs, heading to the kitchen, waiting for the others to eventually show up.
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Aug 5, 2018 19:14:40 GMT -6
Lyra looked up from her task and smiled at Paisley. "You changed fast, i forgot to ask your name earlier, apologies for my rudeness." she stirred the pot of hot chocolate on the stove. "Its good to see Luka's made some friends on the first day of school already, he's not always the type to approach people. Though Eleesa seems to pull him along often enough that he at least has friends."
Eleesa also changed into the clothing Lyra had given her, sweats and a baggy sweater. Taking her hair out of pigtails to dry he let it fall to just above her shoulders. She then caught up to Satsuki and lead the way back to the kitchen were Paisley was waiting for the group. "you must be a clothing ninja Paisley, you changed super fast."
Luka changed into dry clothes and rubbed his hair on a towel so it wasn't dripping wet at least. heading down the stairs he was the last one to arrive in the kitchen. "mmm, smells like hot chocolate." suddenly remembering the package for Onyx he went to the doorway and unzipped his backpack. "here mom, this was from Onyx."
"Ah, thanks. just set it on the counter." Lyra waved her hand towards an opened space on the counter top.
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Post by VarielArts on Aug 12, 2018 15:29:31 GMT -6
"I didn't think it was that fast, I guess I'm just used to getting up early, changing fast, and going out to do chores, yeah they both seem really nice."
Satsuki had followed Eleesa, feeling more comfortable with someone she somewhat knew around her, since her hair was wet, she had braided it in a new fashion, her hair was braided all the way around her head, kept up neatly with a bobby pin or two.
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Aug 23, 2018 12:25:34 GMT -6
"your hair looks really cute like that Satsuki, i've had my hair short for most of my life so i'm no exactly adept at hair styles other than pony tails." Eleesa commented on Satsuki's hair as she sat at the kitchen counter.
Lyra scooped out the hot chocolate into large cups and topped them with marshmallows. "here you go" she passed one out to each of the kids. "if you want a snack feel free to raid the cupboard. she took the package from Onyx and tucked it under her arm. "i'll be upstairs if you need me."
Luka sipped his hot chocolate. "mmmm, hits the spot." he licked the marshmallow foam from off his lips.
Onyx looked at the clock, 5pm, it was time to close up the cafe and head back to his apothecary shop. Showing his necklace to the watchman at the door he walked through the entrance to the Vampire Square. he stopped to talk to a couple of friends before entering the rustic shop. the smell of herbs and medicines filled his nose as Onyx walked through the door. A few orders had been dropped through the letter slot in his door so he picked them up on his way though. The shop was of modest size, a few long wooden tables sat on the floor. bottles and viles of medicine sat on them, among other trinkets that Onyx had picked up. Bunches of dried herbs hung from the ceiling and wooden draws full of assorted herbs lined the walls behind the front counter.
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Post by VarielArts on Sept 3, 2018 21:55:30 GMT -6
"Thank you Eleesa, I could teach you sometime if you wanted?" Satsuki thanked Lyra for the hot chocolate as she took a big a sip of the delicious drink, cautious as to not burn her lips. "I agree with you there Luka, it tastes really good."
Paisley had already started chugging down his hot chocolate, "This is really good! We only have berry hot chocolate at home, so I like it when I can get the original flavor once in a while." He smiled at his newly found friends.
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Sept 6, 2018 15:50:32 GMT -6
"would you? i'd love to learn if you think my hair is long enough for it. My mom was a big tomboy when she was growing up so she never learned much as far as hair styling goes." Eleesa smiled at Satsuki, happy to be learning something new. sipping the mug of hot chocolate she savored the rich sweetness as it filled her mouth.
Luka laughed "glad you guys like it." He turned to Paisley, "berry hot chocolate sounds good too, probably good for a rainy day." Once the crew finished their hot chocolate Luka invited them on a tour of the house. It was two stories in all, with a basement as well. Luka wasn't super familiar with the history of it, but he knew it once belonged to a founding family of Maple Ridge. "My dad's a big history buff, this place was his dream house." He stopped and knocked on a closed door. a shuffling could be heard for the room before the door creaked opened.
A tall teal furred cat with electric green eyes, and shaggy blue-green black tipped hair. He adjusted thick framed black glasses and tried to tame his hair for a second when he saw the guest. "Ah, Luka how was school?" he patted Luka on the shoulder. "ah, and you must be the guests Lyra told me about. I'm Luka's dad Lex, nice to meet you all, and nice to see you again Eleesa."
Eleesa smiled. "nice to see you too Mr. Hawthorne. I hope we haven't disturbed you too much."
Lex shook his head. "no,no i needed a break anyway. Feel free to make yourselves at home." He waved before closing the door to his study and heading down the stairs to the kitchen.
Onyx slid onto the leather covered stool that lay behind the front counter. opening the drawer he fished around for his bone letter opener. upon finding it he began ripping opened the letters and orders, organizing them by date needed. Taking orders from the previous day he began grinding herbs and brewing them to make the medicines. A jingle at the door drew him from his work and he greeted the customer who just walked in. "Good evening, please let me know if i can be of any help." The rabbit girl smiled and nodded. "thanks, i'll let you know if i have any questions."
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Post by VarielArts on Sept 6, 2018 16:38:52 GMT -6
"Yes, I mean we won't be able to do everything that I do, but we can still do some stuff with your beautiful hair." Satsuki smiled gracefully, beginning to follow Luka after they had all finished their hot chocolate. "Yes, Berry hot chocolate could be good on a rainy day, I never thought of it before." He pondered, raising an idea, "I don't know if I've told you guys but my dream is to open a bakery half cafe that would be for all to come to! I could make berry hot chocolate a rainy day special, so if you came on rainy days you could get berry hot chocolate on discount." He stopped, listening to Luka's information on the history of his house, and of his father. WHen they arrived at Lex's office, Paisley stammered before getting out the words he desired to speak. "It's nice to meet you too." Satsuki also greeted Luka's father. Looking around she asked a question, "Where else would you like to show us?" As she spoke loud thunder roared across the sky, alerting anyone who was listening that a harsh storm was going to be coming that night. Rain patted on the roof, and banged against the windows.
Dax ran through the rain, arriving at the gate for the vampires, he showed them his necklace, it glowed an ember red, a deep flaming red. Being allowed access through he rushed towards the store labelled on his paper, although the writing on the paper was beginning to run off, as it was done in ink. Even through the smeared letters he could tell it read something about Apothecary. He came across one of the shops, and it looked like what he was needing, or rather what his parents were needing.
Swinging the door open, he stepped in, dripping with water. "Ah, um. Sorry about the water. I would do something about it if I could." He paused, "My mother requested for me to get some items that she believed a store manager would be able to figure out what was needed based on her description." He realized that he had intruded on a female rabbit who had possibly been talking when he interrupted. "Oh, um... Sorry about that. I happen to have issues with these things. Please do forgive me for my lack of manners." Dax decided to walk up to the counter, sliding the smeared paper over to Onyx. The list wrote: "Poisonous Herbs with traits that cause injury or any form of pain, herbs for healing, herbs for strength, herbs for memory loss, herbs for pain relief, herbs to cause passing out."
Dax spoke again after passing over the list, "She doesn't know what the names of these herbs would be or if you have them, but if you have them she would love to purchase some, one of each, as she and my father are experimenting with his blacksmith work."
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Sept 6, 2018 17:13:01 GMT -6
"Eleesa clapped Luka on the shoulder. "lets show them the creepy room in the basement!"
Luka twisted his mouth sideways in a sign of unease. he finally let out a sigh. "well, if you guys are interested we can take a look at the room downstairs, it gave me the creeps as a kid. Theres no record of the room on the blueprint, we actually found it by accident when Eleesa broke the dumb waiter and it broke through the wall a bit."
Eleesa grinned sheepishly. "yeah, that was an oops, but at least the room was cool."
Onyx, smiled at the other newcomer and took the paper from his hands. raising an eyebrow at the list he read it quickly. "for the record i don't endorse the selling of harmful herbs, you'll have to look elsewhere for those. However i can help you with some of the items on your list." he got a few bags and filled them with assorted herbs.Weighing each bag he wrote down the price on a piece of paper. Then proceeded to write the names and what each herb could be used for before packaging all the bags up into one large paper bag. "I have herbs for healing, and pain relief in these bags. instructions on use are on the cards with the pouches." adding the prices up together he came up with the total. "$30 in total for everything."
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Post by VarielArts on Sept 11, 2018 18:46:49 GMT -6
"Creepy room?" Satsuki shivered, although she wasn't afraid of the dark, she was afraid of moths and spiders. Paisley looked up in excitement, "That sounds like an interesting place to go to!"
"I see, do you know of any place that would sell harmful herbs?" He paused, "It's for a customer, my father is a blacksmith and he's experimenting with swords, and seeing if he imbues herbal elements, if that sword is used on someone, if the effect of the herb will transfer through to the victim, more than once, and be part of the sword's property from there on." Dax pulled out his wallet, pulling out a 20 and 10 dollar bill.
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Sept 11, 2018 19:09:57 GMT -6
"okay, the basement it is then." Luka lead the group down the main flight of stairs then down a hallway which lead to a little door that opened to another stair case. "the original owners of this place had servants so this would have been the stairs they used. the servants would have lived down here as well." the stairs on the other side of the door were stone, they lead down to a long hallways that lead to many rooms. "this house was used as a hotel for a bit as well before my parents bought it, the rooms are mainly used for storage now, but some are empty as well." the group walked to the end of the hall which opened into what at one point looked to have been a kitchen. "the room is over in the corner." A newer wooden door stared at them from across the room. its lack of scratches and age made it look as if it had been apart from time itself.
Eleesa walked across the room and opened the door with a creak. the room smelled of dust and stale air. taking a flashlight off the table outside the door she shone it into the room. It was deeper than one would think, boxes were stacked upon each other and books were scattered about the floor. isn't this like something you'd find is a mystery show?"
Onyx took the money and shook his head. "i'm sorry, i don't know. Not to tell someone how to do their job, but make sure you're father is careful. enchantments are risky."
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Post by VarielArts on Sept 11, 2018 19:15:43 GMT -6
"Oh my goodness, this is crazy, totally like out of a mystery show! How much is there in here? Are these boxes yours, or are they what was found in here when you found the room? If so, should we look inside them?" Paisley was full of questions, whereas Satsuki stood, slightly shivering, not because she was cold, but because she had sworn she saw a moth, and moth's and her do not go hand in hand.
Dax sighed, "I suppose I will have to find another way to get those herbs then, if you don't mind me asking, why don't you endorse these herbs?" He paused, "I'll be sure to remind my father to make sure he knows what he is doing. Thank you."
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Sept 11, 2018 19:37:59 GMT -6
"the boxes were here when we found it, lots of old paper work, some letters addressed to the owners. though those are in a museum now though. The stuff in here now is just the leftovers that no one wanted." Luka passed Paisley a dusty piece of paper that noted the costs of the household in the month of january. "mostly accounting stuff like this."
Eleesa picked up an old book. "these books are so cool though, i wonder how many people read this before it got sealed up in this room."
Luka looked over to Satsuki. "you okay Satsuki? if you don't like being in here you don't have to stay."
Onyx shrugged, "it might be old fashioned, but someone once told me that herbs were better suited to help than hurt.: he paused for a moment. "and well, it just stuck with me."
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Post by VarielArts on Sept 11, 2018 19:45:58 GMT -6
"Well that's a bummer, I was hoping to find something really neat or interesting here, other than accounting." Paisley laughed a bit, wiping his finger across one of the dusty boxes, looking at his fur, now colored a dark grey that smelled old and musty.
"Books?" Satsuki lightened up a bit, she turned to Luka, "No, that's okay, I'll stay." She walked over to Eleesa, "What types of books are there here?"
Dax nodded his head in slight agreement. "I see, I see." He paused, "Well you know whatever floats your boat."
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Post by StarlightEnigma on Sept 11, 2018 20:31:43 GMT -6
"who knows, there could still be something interesting left in here." Luka took the flash light from Eleesa and set it on a bookshelf. "i'll go see if i can find a lamp so we'll have more light. be right back."
Eleesa passed Satsuki the book. "looks like a mix of novels and poetry." The book Eleesa had handed to Satsuki was green in colour with the words 'an anthology of poetry' stamped into the worn cover. "careful the pages are probably worn."
"Either way i'm not familiar with the other herb stores around the city. its kind of a dying art, it seems vampires take the greatest interest in them." the door jingled and a grey cheetah with silvery blue hair and a deep scar across the right side of his face walked in. The eye marred by the scar was clouded, making it apparent that he was unable to see out of it. His right eye however was a pretty violet colour. "Ah Onyx, its been too long, i hope you're doing well." He nodded to Dax.
Onyx smiled "Tempest, its good to see you. Did Jade send you to pick something up?"
Tempest nodded. "she's been sick more often then not these last few week. Said you'd know just the thing for morning sickness."
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