Til Death Do We...|Sensatia

[Kender Bard]

A faint light filtered into the basement. The stairs clicked as Luna descended, slowly, her pearly white dress radiating in the darkness like a small moon from the little light that managed to catch it. She had a haggard, half-dead look to her borne from sleepless nights and days filled with worry and sorrow.

"Xavier?" she called out in a whispery, tremulous voice.

[Devon]

Xavier looked up from where he had been tied up and softly responded,"Luna?" He had managed to get out once to quiet his thrist, but he had a hard time of getting the ropes back the way they were so that Timble wouldn't worry. He would have preferred to look more presentable, but that wasn't something he could help. His hair was messy, his pants dirty, and his shirt was loosely undone.

"Luna..I'm here," he beckoned for her to come towards him.

[Kender Bard]

"Xavier," she murmurs again, coming closer. She held no fear that Xavier may hurt her. No matter what he became, he always would be her husband. If she did not have that, then what care did she have left? She came close to him, watched him a moment, then hugged him tightly. She reached around him and undid the ropes before clinging to him with all the strength in her arms. "Oh Xavier..."

[Devon]

Rubbing his sore wrists Xavier was unsure at first, but slowly he wrapped his arms around her and began to smile. All the doubt that had been swimming in his head faded at the moment. "Luna, I've missed you so much. I'm so sorry I left you."

[Kender Bard]

"I thought you were dead," Luna cried softly into his chest. "I thought I'd lost you. Oh Xavier, you can't know what it's like to have your soul torn twice like that." Her grip began to ease up as she tried to drawn him closer to the light. It was not daylight, merely a lantern light. She deemed it safe enough. "Let me look at you..." She stroked his face, gazed into his eyes, tried to touch a fang. "Does it.. hurt? How do you feel?"

[Devon]

Xavier held a faint smile on his face. "I think I may understand what it's like having your soul torn. I thought I was dead, I really did and I was going somewhere when I snatched back here." He winced from fear of the light at first, but found that it had no affect on him.

Reaching his hand forward he stroked his wife's hair, but drew back his face when she tried to touch a fang. "It doesn't hurt, not anymore, but it..I..I feel strange I have all these urges that I have to suppress."

[Kender Bard]

Luna's heart fluttered fearfully in her chest, but she dutifully ignored it. "Urges? Like what my love?" She had an inkling.. but better to be sure.

[Devon]

"Hunger," Xavier replied simply. "Ah, but don't worry I fed the other day. I've been measuring it all, if I get a full meal I can go weeks without needing to do it again." He tried to keep the conversation light as not to worry her anymore than he had already done. "How have things been up there? Has anyone come by asking about me? I told Timble to tell anyone concerned I was away."

[Kender Bard]

A tremor sweeps through Luna. Feeding... Had it been an animal? Was Xavier capable of... ?

She didn't want to know, not yet. "Things are settling back down," she said quietly. "Xavier.. All of the other advisors are dead. Thelon thinks that you are away on the account of the scare the family got, but I can tell he is very anxious to speak with you."

[Devon]

Xavier nods to Luna and peers at her for a few moments. "Do you think we can trust Thelon with this? If all of Sensatia were to find out it would mean trouble for you and the twins, but I'd like to say I think of Thelon as a friend as well as my master."

[Kender Bard]

"I don't know," she whispered, shutting her eyes. "I just don't know the man well enough. You do, I suppose. Perhaps you should go talk to him." She looked back up at him, longed to kiss him, to be held, but some part of her was still so numb and frightened that she could not give in to it yet. "It's night. You can go speak with him if you want."

[Devon]

Xavier stood up and held his hand out to Luna so he could help her stand as well. "Before I call him I'd better get cleaned up. Could you get me a fresh change of clothes from upstairs?" He thought about it, about pulling her towards him to embrace her. To hold her, to kiss her again like he used to. If he could only be with his wife right now, Thelon could wait after all.

[Kender Bard]

Luna's resistance was token. She pulled back just slightly, a fearful shiver rippling through her, but she swallowed her fear and smiled shakily at him. "Of course dear. None of your things have been touched. You don't want to come to the bedroom?"

[Devon]

Xavier keeps hold of her hand, but his grip is soft and light. He could see how uncomfortable she was and he didn't want to disturb her any further. "I..I don't know. Would you let me go there? Do you want me to come to the bedroom?"

[Kender Bard]

"It's your bedroom too," she mumbled. "You're no danger to the family. Go on and change." She steeled herself and held his hand firmer, gently tugging as she started to ascend the stairs.