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8. "No need to be snippy, dear. Especially since I come bearing treats. You never get a second chance to make a first impression."
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Juni raised her hands peacefully, to ward against the expression on Evanna’s face, and smirked “Sorry, did I come at a bad time?”
“I thought I told Loss to stay away fro me” the other woman snarled, stalking in a circle around Juni and giving her a filthy look “and that includes any of his little pets.”
The only response to that little outburst, however, was a step up in the level of smirking “I thought you knew him, he denied it of course but then again he denies everything about his past, one would almost think that he was embarrassed.”
“So he should be” Evanna grumbled, coming back to a halt and concentrating the glare “talk quickly, I have no qualms with ripping out your throat.”
Juni raised her hands again, this time with a faint touch of worry “you’re a bit snappy to a perfect stranger aren’t you? Alright, alright, I’ll talk… My lord sent me with a warning for you, only you so it called for some class.”
“You?” Evanna sneered.
Juni’s smirk went icy “Of course, I’m the classiest woman he knows” she let her eyes take in the ragged ropes deliberately and chuckled under her breath as Evanna bristled.
“Tell me this warning then, if it is so important to warrant such a servant.”
“The end days are coming, flee to your father Evanna for I cannot protect you” Juni recited, ignoring the veiled insult.
…The expression on Evanna’s face was worth passing over that opportunity after all.
“What?” She finally spat, eyes wide.
“That’s what he told me, a great force is coming to this land and nothing can stop it, anything that stands in its way will be killed horribly” Juni paused a moment and then smirked wickedly “The Demonata shall triumph at last.”
Evanna simply stared until Juni started to shift under her scrutiny and then spoke softly “You look human.”
“…Meaning?” And there was that horrible feeling again, the one that shifted in her deep at night and whispered doubts... She pushed it down, tried to look bored, there was nothing to be done about the feeling, she had chosen her path.
Evanna just kept staring for a few moments, a flash of unexpected compassion in her eyes… And then she suddenly reached forward, touched Juni’s cheek with a surprisingly soft hand and muttered something strange, something incredibly old that she couldn’t quite place.
But she didn’t want to, because suddenly she saw everything, all of her life condensed into one glorious moment… But there were bits she hadn’t seen either, the flash of quickly stifled compassion in her mother’s eyes at her birth, the expression on Beranabus’s face when she was knocked out in a fight, Loss watching with a smile as the demons chased her…
She yanked away, half tumbling to the ground and then regaining herself, looking to Evanna in mute horror.
The witch looked somehow frail as their gazes locked for a few seconds and then she turned away, stood up straight and strode back to her cave “go away Juni Swan, choose the sensible option for once in your life.”
Juni hesitated for a second… And then turned and fled, scrambling through the forest as Evanna’s words played through her head over and over again, as Loss’s smile flashed, as Beranabus’s panic and her mother’s love grated against everything that she had ever known.
Talk about first impressions.
| Boston Legal
Juni raised her hands peacefully, to ward against the expression on Evanna’s face, and smirked “Sorry, did I come at a bad time?”
“I thought I told Loss to stay away fro me” the other woman snarled, stalking in a circle around Juni and giving her a filthy look “and that includes any of his little pets.”
The only response to that little outburst, however, was a step up in the level of smirking “I thought you knew him, he denied it of course but then again he denies everything about his past, one would almost think that he was embarrassed.”
“So he should be” Evanna grumbled, coming back to a halt and concentrating the glare “talk quickly, I have no qualms with ripping out your throat.”
Juni raised her hands again, this time with a faint touch of worry “you’re a bit snappy to a perfect stranger aren’t you? Alright, alright, I’ll talk… My lord sent me with a warning for you, only you so it called for some class.”
“You?” Evanna sneered.
Juni’s smirk went icy “Of course, I’m the classiest woman he knows” she let her eyes take in the ragged ropes deliberately and chuckled under her breath as Evanna bristled.
“Tell me this warning then, if it is so important to warrant such a servant.”
“The end days are coming, flee to your father Evanna for I cannot protect you” Juni recited, ignoring the veiled insult.
…The expression on Evanna’s face was worth passing over that opportunity after all.
“What?” She finally spat, eyes wide.
“That’s what he told me, a great force is coming to this land and nothing can stop it, anything that stands in its way will be killed horribly” Juni paused a moment and then smirked wickedly “The Demonata shall triumph at last.”
Evanna simply stared until Juni started to shift under her scrutiny and then spoke softly “You look human.”
“…Meaning?” And there was that horrible feeling again, the one that shifted in her deep at night and whispered doubts... She pushed it down, tried to look bored, there was nothing to be done about the feeling, she had chosen her path.
Evanna just kept staring for a few moments, a flash of unexpected compassion in her eyes… And then she suddenly reached forward, touched Juni’s cheek with a surprisingly soft hand and muttered something strange, something incredibly old that she couldn’t quite place.
But she didn’t want to, because suddenly she saw everything, all of her life condensed into one glorious moment… But there were bits she hadn’t seen either, the flash of quickly stifled compassion in her mother’s eyes at her birth, the expression on Beranabus’s face when she was knocked out in a fight, Loss watching with a smile as the demons chased her…
She yanked away, half tumbling to the ground and then regaining herself, looking to Evanna in mute horror.
The witch looked somehow frail as their gazes locked for a few seconds and then she turned away, stood up straight and strode back to her cave “go away Juni Swan, choose the sensible option for once in your life.”
Juni hesitated for a second… And then turned and fled, scrambling through the forest as Evanna’s words played through her head over and over again, as Loss’s smile flashed, as Beranabus’s panic and her mother’s love grated against everything that she had ever known.
Talk about first impressions.