you could rattle the stars.
you could do anything,
if only you dared

She wasn't drunk enough for this conversation, not that she didn't miss Samantha or wanted to see her... there was just so many things that had happened since her friend had left. Vhalla was hardly inclined to explain anything, the woman having protected the Faerie Queen from the brunt of her... job. Luckily, Samantha was the one person she managed to keep out of Ivan's reach, as far as she knew anyways. If Ivan had known she had made a friend he would make her life a living hell and most likely drag Sam into a mess of her life. Still, it doesn't take long for the alcohol to begin to clear, several emotions raging forth in her body, threatening to spill over as she grunts at the coffee mug in her hand. Yet, she doesn't complain as she takes a sip, the hot coffee scorching its way down her throat. Wrapping her calloused fingers around the mug, she lets the warmth soak into her hands, refusing to draw forth that internal flame to warm her before she speaks again.

When the faerie woman speaks, she seems almost hesitant at first, Vhal's glacier eyes narrowing in on her as she watches the woman. The assassin wasn't entirely sure if she were angry or hurt or simply numb at Sam's reappearance, Vhalla had even gone looking for her once upon a time when Ivan sent her overseas to work. As good as Vhal was at tracking... Sam seemed to be better at hiding. The moment she realize the faerie woman didn't want to be found, or at least that's what Vhalla had taken away from it, she gave up. She accepted the fact that Sam wasn't coming back. The name's Samantha gives her doesn't really register, Vhalla looking back into the swirl of the dark coffee. It was as if her very question had released a tidal wave, Sam now explaining why she had left, the assassin trying desperately hard to focus on her words but all she could selfishly think that now that Samantha had returned... it was going to be even harder to protect her from Ivan.

Still, she looks up as Samantha strolls to her jacket, the woman retrieving the hunter dagger she had given the faerie all those years ago. "I'm glad," she said, the seemingly blood thirsty woman rather pleased that Sam had used it. At least it wasn't only coated in blood of all the kills she made. "Did you at least find your makers?" She asks casually, blue eyes flicking up to her as she takes another sip off coffee, her head beginning to clear more than she really wanted it to. Her plan for tonight would have been to get as drunk as she could to actually sleep through the night. "You should keep that close to you, the city isn't the same since you've left. It's more dangerous," she shrugs a little, looking away. "You shouldn't have come back, you will experience more pain and loss with your return here," she says, an almost dead note entering her voice. Vhalla hardly was trying to convince her to leave, the assassin was merely in a rather precarious place. Already the woman had tried to find ways around Ivan's blood bond, trying to off herself. It was incredibly frustrating... who knew trying to kill yourself would be so hard?

Yet, even in her words, there is no heat there, just an unending range of exhaustion. "Have you at least seen Dorian?" She asks finally, changing the topic hardly want to dive into her own adventures over the last two years. "He got married and... well, I sort of like Sebastian. He's become a drinking buddy of mine," she shrugs again, thinking back to the last time she had gotten drunk with him and had fallen asleep sprawled out. Even a rare smile curves at the corner of her lips at the thought of the fireball she had thrown in their mansion sending the man into an almost fit. Yet, it dies away quickly, replaced by that dead look that had become her norm over the past several months. "Why did you come back, Sam?" She finally asks, those exhausted blue eyes traveling to her friend once more, as she absently rubs at the bite mark scars on her neck from Ivan.

Vhalla Solarn

To the stars who listen- and the dreams that are answered