The western part of the city is often home to the poorer residents. Here there is a grunginess that permeates the town from the graffiti on the once cleaned brick buildings to the broken and unmaintained architecture. Crime runs high within the western half of town, making it the home of supernatural gangs of illicit activities. Such activities are rarely reported, however, and most residents are distrustful of individual's of authorities, and often let the powerful supernatural beings sort things out amongst themselves. Be careful wandering the Western streets after the sun falls.
Black Market
Cull & Pistol
Noah's Ark
Syn
Just like any city - Sacrosanct is not without it's deep, dark underbelly. Hidden in the graffiti-ridden streets of the West, behind closed warehouse doors, lies the Black Market. Forever moving, it's nearly impossible to find without knowing someone who knows someone. Anything you desire can be brought for a hefty price within the Black Market - be it drugs, weapons, or lives.
Hidden within the dark alleyways of the Western Ward, Cull & Pistol is a dim, often smoky bar. With a small variety of bottled and craft beers, Cull & Pistol is a quaint little neighborhood joint. With its no-frills moto, the dingy bar offers little more than liquor, music from an old jukebox, and a few frequently occupied pool tables.
Bartender Raylin Chike
Resting upon the harbor, Noah's Ark (known simply as The Ark) is a sleek superyacht known both for its fight rings and recent...renovations, of sorts. Accessible from an entrance hidden in the shadows, The Ark is a veritable Were-playground that specializes in fighting tournaments for all creatures great and small. With both singles and doubles tournaments to compete in, the title of Ark Champion is hotly contested amongst the Were population. If anything illegal is going on in the city it's sure to be happening within the back rooms or behind the ring-side bar.
Note: This is a Were only establishment. All other species will be swiftly escorted out.
Home of: Nightshade
Owner Aiden Tetradore
Co-owner Tobias Cain
Bar Manager Mira Ramos
Bartender Henry Tudor
Waitress Carolina Bedford
Within the turbulent industrial district lies this club. The warehouse doesn't look like much on the outside but it provides a memorable experience from the state of the art lighting, offbeat Victorian-inspired artwork, comfortable black leather lounges, and the infamous 'black light' room. There is a wide variety of alcohol that lines the shelves of both of the magical and ordinary variety. It is a common stomping ground for the supernatural who want to let loose and dance the night away to the music that floods the establishment. Humans are most welcome if they dare.
Owner Risque Voth
Manager Darcy Blackjack
Cats Aiden Tetradore
Cats Harlequin Westward
The woman's assurance that she has not played such a game before is met with only further confusion, fathomless dark gaze narrowed in some attempt to understand as he continues to rest near atop her. His mentality is far removed from the norm, fractured mind attempting to piece together these things she says before her mention of his swimming sees his eyes narrow darkly once more.
"I can.....swim."
The he has, never before, mentioned any ability to swim let alone displayed it is surely a shocking thing, the point the woman is trying to make perhaps lost upon her, her fear of something he simply does not fear failing to compute, her attempts to liken it in a fashion he may better perceive resulting in nothing short of a truthful answer all the same as he regards her. That she might find such a game scary has never occurred to him, his experience with such a thing decidedly pleasant and as such he fails to make this connection, his ability to perceive emotion limited at best as he simply continues to stare towards her.
"Game is...not scary."
Of this he is sure, head nodded in further agreement of such a point before the woman attempts to explain the matter of first and second, his dark eyes watching her with ready wariness as if he somehow suspects her answer may well be suspicious in some form. Her example of first and second however, seems to delight the boy as her earlier one had failed to do so, a snicker of sorts rising within his chest as his lips pull into a ready grin.
"Everybody....likes kissing but....I am....very good at it."
That he is 'very good' at almost everything he does has surely become clear to the woman by now as he regards her still, assured that her need to wait can hardly be longer then tonight, her assurance that they must wait until 'one day' only seeing fit to confuse him all the more. Handsome features contort readily into a scowl once more, frustration pulling readily at his mind as one hand lifts to run fingers though the black locks of his hair, scratching at the back of his neck in a mimicked action stolen from Tetradore himself as he continues to look down on the woman.
"Which day?"
It is innocence alone that sees such questions asked, the boy decidedly specific, vagueness often lost upon him along with sarcasm and metaphor. His mind is direct, simple to some extent and as such he desires an exact answer, oblivious as to why one cannot be supplied despite his inability to understand time all the same. His attention however is readily distracted, focused instead once more upon the woman beneath him, an entirely new idea seeming to have formulated within his cunning mind as his lips trail smoothly across her skin, the soft acceptance of such a thing hardly missed as she offers it, only further assuring the young man he is doing entirely as he should. He pauses only to meet her gaze once more, teasing at the hem of her shirt, grinning readily towards her when she finally seems to release the breath she is holding and allow him to remove the shirt, slipping it up and easily over her head to toss it aside.
The scars that litter her form are seemingly invisible to him, his own mind incapable of truly acknowledging something that is so very normal to him after all, he sees scars every day, on everyone within the Ark and as such he offers them no true mind. He pauses only once more to reach for his own shirt, tossing it aside in much the same manner, offering the woman a view of his own toned figure. He is assured that this is how such things are done before his lips find her own again, chest brushing against her own, that sensation of skin on skin something far more engaging to him now. He moves to do as he did before, no longer hampered by her shirt, the skin beneath far more sensitive to his touch, seeming to intrigue the boy all the more as his lips brush lower and lower still- this time pausing at the hem of her jeans.
"See? It....is....good."
He nods, assured that it is all the same, making no effort to go further before suddenly and abruptly seeming to flip them, moving until Birdie herself is atop him now, snickering readily in delight at his game as lashings of dark hair fall into his gaze.
"Is your....turn now."
That this game surely involves turn taking is clear, though what he desires from her is perhaps less so, dark eyes simply looking towards her expectantly, far more willing to accept her touch then he is any other.
madness, as you know, is like gravity: all it takes is a little push