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Post by Deceit on Jul 1, 2009 15:11:37 GMT -8
Deceiver nodded, then tilted her head in thought. She smiled slightly, she walked over to a corner and pulled out a cloak. It was beige in color and quiet a deal big. "My disguise, there is no longer a need," she said as she felt through the ground. There was no one near by. She slowly took off the wig. Shaking her head, her normal hair was tied up in a military style braid. She took the ribbon off and placed a finger n her eye lids, she flipped her eyes around to the normal gold.
She kept her eyes closed as she put the cloak over herself and tucked the wig underneath it in a way it would not fall. Shaking her head once more she opened her eyes. Blinking several times she readjusted herself to the lighting and actual sight. Took in the area she was in first, musty dusty and grimy. "There," she said with a smile as she turned her golden eyes towards Gluttony.
She took the girls looks in. Her hair seemed silver in this lighting, she was smallish in build and not at all appeared threatening, or a likely candidate to of killed the men. She laughed to herself. She switched back to her normal self. "Ill have to ask you to call me either Deceit or Sileas now. Cant have anyone figuring who I am," she said in her usual voice though it sounded like it lacked quiet a few emotions.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 1, 2009 19:30:31 GMT -8
Gluttony blinked at the woman who had now asked to either call her Sileas or Deceit now. She could honestly say that she wasn't to fond of the name deceit, so Sileas would do just fine. The wardrobe change had her a tad confused though. The hair was easy to figure out, wig, but the eyes? She blinked again.
"Your eyes, they changed," she said, a bit interested in the transformation. How much information could she get from this woman? She had no idea, but she did know that this woman was becoming very interesting very quick. Gluttony may even want to report her to mother for studies. Either way, she watched Sileas.
Then, Gluttony had a thought. She looked to Sileas's eyes, then realized that it may have been possible for Sileas to see. Gods, and she thought this would be easy well, it just got harder. She gave an annoyed mental sigh as she looked Sileas over. She no longer seemed as threatening, in fact, thanks to her eyes she seemed much more inviting than she had. Either way, Gluttony wasn't about to doubt Deceits abilities. If she was known for taking people to the police, then she was certainly more dangerous than she seemed. Gluttony would have to be careful. Either way, Finding out if Sileas could see or not was a vital detail.
"I notice your eyes are different, c- can you see me," she asked sweetly wearing a confused look on her face.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 1, 2009 19:38:28 GMT -8
Sileas smiled at the question. "Yes I can see you, as for those books I have, feel free to read or take some. Ill be transferred to Central soon and I cant take them all," she said slightly neutrally. She was being honest, she held herself respectfully. She figured she may of caused some confusion with the change of eyes but what was she supposed to do, the easiest way to hide was to blend in.
"As to how they changed I ll have to keep that a secret," she said, she turned her head to the right. "Shall we head to my place," she said as she walked a bit in the direction of her house, turning her head back to look at Gluttony. She held the the cloak tightly against herself, but not to tightly that the wig or her clothes would show.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 2, 2009 0:08:09 GMT -8
"Yes I can see you, as for those books I have, feel free to read or take some. Ill be transferred to Central soon and I cant take them all,"
Gluttony blinked twice surprised. She hadn't expected this, well this was one human she liked! She smiled, forgetting a good number of a lot of things, her tension disappeared. Man, with how this person was going she wouldn't mind if she read all night! Although, Gluttony wouldn't dream of doing that again. She not only missed an entire day of training, but mother was also upset with her.
But that was the past, this was now, and now Gluttony suddenly had books! And not only that, but someone other than dante cared about her! Her eyes widened at the thought, and she blinked, multiple times. Slowly, she craned her head to look at the ground. She closed her eyes for a second. What was she thinking? This person had no idea that she was what she was, and if she did find out it was likely that Sileas would try and kill her.
She looked back to Deceit with a smile, banishing those heretic-like thoughts from her mind. Wait, she looked around, where was Deceit? She spotted her looking over her shoulder at Gluttony and smiled. She followed the woman and had a thought.
What if the woman was doing what Gluttony was planning on doing only moments before? She blinked, something inside told her that tonight may not turn out to great, but something else told her that tonight would be fine.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 2, 2009 5:21:28 GMT -8
Sileas continued to walk, her steps her quiet and light. She had not planned to have anyone over and her house was a mess. She liked paperwork but cleaning it, not so much. She passed some people but they took no notice of her. She was just another girl, nothing special. Soon they arrived at a little house surrounded by a picketed fence.
The house was two stories but not very big, faded green walls and a beige roof. She opened the fence and waited. The lawn was freshly mowed and she had a few living flowers in the flower boxes. Inside was the living room, that lead to the kitchen. In the kitchen was a stairway that lead up to the two rooms in the house. One was her room the other a makeshift office. Although it was not much it was home.
Of course the coffee table had some old text books on it, also most likely the little food she had eaten in the last day. She mentally checked what she had to drink so she knew what she could offer. As well as any snacks. She remembered she had left her uniform on the back of the front door. She hoped no problems would be caused.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 2, 2009 18:55:31 GMT -8
Gluttony followed behind Sileas keeping a steady eye on the people that passed by watching for those that may attack. Finally, the two reached Deceits house. Gluttony looked at the picket fence, and the actual house. Two stories, quaint. Not the color scheme she would choose though. After all her preferred colors where dark blue and black. She looked down to her own clothes as if proof of that fact.
Gluttony looked back up to Sileas and smiled.
"Well, my names Claudia," she said using the fake name that mother had given her a long time ago for a special mission. She succeeded that mission of course, and made mother very happy. She smiled at the memory before looking back at Sileas. She didn't want to come off as a rude person, since that wouldn't match the real her or the image she was attempting to keep up so she'd wait till Sileas invited her to spend the night. Or she may not even spend the night, the only reason Gluttony really cared was because if she were to spend the night, she could spend the majority of the night reading, and thus finding information for mother,
"Thank you," she smiled as she walked through the gate smiling to Sileas as she walked. Gluttony walked onto the middle of the front yard and stopped turning to Deceit still wearing her smile. She, once again, didn't want to seem rude so she'd wait for Sileas to open her door, or get up on the porch or whatever.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 2, 2009 19:13:03 GMT -8
Sileas approached the house, keeping her posture. "A pleasure Claudia, what I said before is truth. I don't normally let people know the true me. Though as all truth it is hidden," she said. Her voice almost monotone. It always took some time to change back and forth. She opened the door, putting the cloak on the cat rack. She looked backwards at her uniform. Central, soon it would be her home.
She walked into the living room, picking up papers and righting the thing to make it look more neat. The walls had bookcases filed with books, as well as a few on the table. Most of the books where old text books and references books, a few scattered among where fairy tails. "Make yourself at home I guess, if you'd like anything to drink or eat just ask, Im going to head upstairs and change real quick,"she said as she walked into the kitchen up to trough the stairs.
She came back down in her normal, cloths. Pink shirt that hung over her shoulder, brown pants with a red belt, her normal boot, brown and weathered slightly. She quickly fixed up some hot chocolate, making two so she could share if need be. She lifted the wooden tray she had placed them on and walked into the living room, placing the tray on the table in an empty spot.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 2, 2009 20:06:26 GMT -8
Gluttony walked into the house after Sileas and noticed the blue shade of the military uniform out of the corner of her eye. She looked to it calmly enough, but once she saw it for what it truly was, a military uniform, her eyes widened and she swallowed looking back to Sileas. Gluttony would by all possible possibilities have to maintain her image of a normal girl or risk being attacked by this woman, having to kill her, then having the military out searching for homunculi, and after that, mother. She gulped and looked up to Sileas who was straightening things up.
"Make yourself at home I guess, if you'd like anything to drink or eat just ask, Im going to head upstairs and change real quick,"
Gluttony nodded as Deceit departed and looked at the bookshelves lining the walls. She smiled widely as she walked over to them. She smiled as she bent over a bit, placing her hands on her knees and scanned the shelves. Her eyes scanned the names of the books with a smile on her face until she found one she found particularly pleasing. A copy of a book that she was in the process of reading the night mothers mansion was destroyed. She grabbed it with a smile. A fictional book about a young boy who was known as something called a, "lightholder," and was the only hope the world had.
It was a good read, and the author was good too. She stroked the leather bound book before taking in a deep breath and looking up a bit closing her eyes remembering her time in that mansion. Training with Envy, that one exercise with the pillars when she learned that she could transfer the decay affect over to what she chose, her private sessions with Pride, her private moments with Pride. She slowly opened her eyes at the remembrance of his name. Pride, where was he now? She looked down to the leather bound book. The golden letters displayed on the front spelt out the title.
Reality Chronicles[/i][/u]
Pride suggested the book to her. She sighed as she opened the book to the first page. She read the text the image of the young man setting on the beach was painted within her minds eye. She slowly walked over to the couch and sat pouring over her book when she smelled a familiar smell. She looked up to see Sileas in a pink sweater that didn't cover her shoulders, instead it began a tad lower but not revealing anything. She saw the two steaming cups and smiled. When she said make yourself at home, she wasn't kidding! She nodded to Sileas as she ringed her index finger around the handle of the left cup. A look of pure nostalgia in her eyes as she lifted the cup to her lips and took a sip and lowered the cup.
"I- I haven't had any of this stuff in a long time," she said looking down into the steaming chocolate brown liquid held back by the boundaries of the cup. She smiled as she looked up to Sileas, "thank you," she almost whispered and looked back down to her book and sat back in the couch comfortably reading.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 2, 2009 20:17:32 GMT -8
Sileas's semi cold demean fell slightly as she looked at the girl. Sileas wasn't old or wised but she knew that this girl was young. She smiled slightly taking a sip of her own coco. "your welcome, in truth I told you outside Id have to keep it a secret but I feel I can tell you in here. I lost my eyes a few years ago due to an explosion, these are glass that is why they have two sides. If you look closely in these ones you will see the sigils," she said honestly with a slight sigh.
She was confused, she felt at ease but all the same on guard. "I cant tell you anymore because not even the military know this," she said taking another sip. She picked up a random book, a novel about a truth seeker. She had no idea what it was about, then again she had not been reading as of late.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 2, 2009 22:59:28 GMT -8
Gluttony looked up to Sileas with a smile as she began to speak, sure the smile was pleasing on the outside, but deeper she was annoyed. Why did people seem to ENJOY interrupting her? Even mother had interrupted her once, but mother wasn't as annoying. When she told her that her eyes were glass however, Gluttony became interested. She blinked and her face gained a quizzical look.
People couldn't see out of glass. The eyes were made of many cells that picked up the light off objects and sent the information into the brain. It was a scientific impossibility to see out of glass. Unless she was being clever with the alchemy again. Gluttony listened to why Deceit couldn't tell her anymore and was tempted to get it. Her eyes darted to the military uniform and quickly back to Sileas and she gave a mental sigh.
Annoyed. Majorly annoyed was what Gluttony was right now, but with another mental sigh she nodded and watched the book that Deceit grabbed and looked at the title. Hmm, nothing special. She eased beck and continued reading her book. A city known as Orin being painted in her mind. A large tower known as the RTT or more formally known as the Ragnast Tower of Trade. She smiled as she read. Finally, ever since the mansion was destroyed, her comfort had been slowly dwindling with the more she read the two books in her pack. Now, she felt truly comfortable. She swallowed, feeling the library of home being recreated around her. She could almost feel the air changing to fit the currents of the library back home, the couch under her becoming hard like wood. the smell of the books drifting into her nose as she breathed.
Before she knew it, silent tears were running down her cheeks and her mind was no longer infused in the book instead all her moments in the library. Her and Pride setting side by side in the corner of the library, Gluttony giving Pride her favorite necklace, her defending Pride from Envy in the library. It seemed her entire life revolved around being inside the library she looked to the cup of hot chocolate in her finger and took another sip causing more tears to come. She furiously shook her head, causing her hair to fall down to her face, covering it. She wiped the tears quickly before Sileas saw.
Come on, be strong! What did you do spending all your time training huh!? Where did those countless sessions with Envy go, she mentally asked herself as she quickly placed the cup on the table and wiped the tears away and using both her tear stained hands pushed her long light brown hair back behind her ears. She took a shaky breath looking back down to the book. She bit her lip as she reached for her cocoa again and ringed her finger around the glass handle and lifted it to her lips before taking another long sip. The liquid burned her tongue, but she didn't care, she only sipped. It burned on the way down too, but she didn't care.
After a couple seconds, she lowered the cup and looked back down to the book and started her reading again from where her mind left off.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 3, 2009 10:28:47 GMT -8
Sileas had read up to the first chapter, intermediately taking sips of coco, before she began to feel the sleep weight her down. She had not gotten sleep the night before in an attempt to get rid of a drug lord. She could feel the weight get stronger. She should probably get sleep soon, she looked over the book at the girl. It was not like she had anything truly valuable. She had already told the girl that she could take some of the books.
She stood from her seat and yawned. "I must not be a very good hostess, I have to head to bed, there is more coco in a container on the stove, just heat it off if you need or want more," she said a little sleepily. Her bones ached slightly, she figured she needed to find a day to purely relax. Today was not that day.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 3, 2009 12:25:54 GMT -8
Gluttony shook her head. The image she was attempting to keep up would attempt to make Sileas feel better, so despite she actually felt, she had to do this.
"You're not a bad host, you've got a debilitating job. Go, get your rest, I'll be fine," she said smiling. She nodded to the cocoa comment and sat back in the couch returning to her book. She read the text, the image of Orin recreating itself in her mind. The hero walking down it's streets, with the crowd. She smiled as her eyes scanned the text. Gluttony was reading again, and a book that had particularly pleased her.
Orin reformed itself in her minds eye. The tall buildings, the crowd, the skyway five hundred feet into the air. She smiled as she read on.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 3, 2009 12:35:41 GMT -8
Sileas's eyes fell slightly feeling heavy. "yeah, you probably find it funny that the one person the military is trying t find is already a part of it," she said quietly, just loud enough she could hear it but quiet enough that it would not disturb her much. Sileas yawned and turned to walk t the kitchen, she took herself up the stairs going into her room she dropped onto her bed with a soft thud. She closed her eyes for a moment and fell into a nice and fitful sleep.
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Post by gluttony on Jul 3, 2009 13:01:54 GMT -8
"Yeah, you probably find it funny that the one person the military is trying t find is already a part of it,"
Gluttony blinked as she looked up from her book to see Sileas already gone. Her lips parted to show her teeth and she winced slightly at her words. What did she mean? The military was after her? Or was it something a bit more? She swallowed and clicked her left pair of canines together a couple times as she thought on the subject for a bit. She finally only shrugged and left the question at that before looking down to the book.
Her eyes scanned over the text before she sat back into the couch and slipping her shoes off and pulling her feet up into the couch. Setting cross-legged on the couch she read on into the night.
(((<<<---TIME SKIP: 6 o'clock tomorrow morning--->>>)))
Many hours later, Gluttony still sat looking down to the text written on the books pages. She read through the book. A different book than with what she started, this one on alchemy, she read on and on. A pile of books sat in front of her. The previous night, she had read through half of Deceits library. Her eyes could use a break, but her mind was finally somewhat content with the knowledge it had gained. She looked down to the book ignoring the slight stinging in her eyes and the tearfulness as she looked down to the book. Her eyes were bloodshot and her mind felt at ease, her limbs felt heavy. She sighed.
"I said I wasn't gonna do this, she chuckled to herself a bit, and looked up from the book to the coffee table which had books piled a foot off of it and the table just covered in them except for a couple inches from her cup of cocoa which sat on a coaster. She blinked and yawned. Her throat was sore for some reason, but she didn't really care. The books needed to be put up before Deceit came down. She shut her book and stood walking over to the books. She grabbed two before walking over to the shelf and sticking them back where they belonged, she walked back to the table and grabbed four more, two in each hand before putting them back on the shelves that they belonged. She repeated the process hoping Sileas slept in.
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Post by Deceit on Jul 3, 2009 13:35:01 GMT -8
Sileas woke groggily, looking at her clock it said six. She closed her eyes and hugged her pillow before her eyes shot open, six, she usually rose at five. She jumped out of her bed tripping on something and falling with a loud thud. She quickly rose to her feet, she quickly ran downstairs, grabbed her uniform and ran back upstairs. She swiftly brushed her hair and then got dressed in her uniform, making sure everything was correct. She put pens in her pocket as well as her wallet.
She waked downstairs again and saw Claudia putting away the books. She started braiding her hair and then tucked it up into itself. Securing it with pins to make sure it did not fall. She straightened the rest of her cloths and grabbed her boots, she sat on the chair across from the couch and started to put them on. She tied them quickly and fixed her pants. "You didn't need to put them away, I could of done it later," she said as she looked at the time, fifteen minuets, not her best time. She stood and picked up some of the books, putting them away as well.
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