Paradise Lost - A Semi-Advanced Roleplay discussion

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Callisto walked on the bank of the river. the urge to kill was becoming stronger. she had ran here to resist the urge to sing. but the soft gurgle of the laughing brook drew her in. she traced patterns in the water and sang softly.



As river flows so peacefully
I sit here just content to be
As Ravens fly so high above
This morning, it was made for love
It enters deep into my soul
It’s sweetness making me so whole
This softest morning mystery
Oh, how it reaches out to me

The trees, they dance so gracefully
They wave, and flow upon the breeze
Bird song drifts from happy branches
Oh lord, how this my heart enhances
Silence rules above all this
A kind of stillness filled with bliss
Captivates my very core
Oh, I’d not wish for any more.

The river peaceful, calm and still
So wonderful it makes me feel
As it reflects those dancing trees
I watch and let the morning breeze
Caress my skin so tenderly
Then all is gone, there’s only me
The emptiness of all that is
I’m sailing on the waves of bliss.

Lila had been walking with the path of the river for a while now. She always liked to be near water, even when she was human. But now she had a better respect for it, the nature fluid element that it was. As she slowly walked along, she could hear the soothing sound of a sirens call. It was quiet, which meant she was not trying to lure anyone at this time. Not like it would effect Lila anyway. "You should be more careful, your not that far from town, and there have been hunter attacks recently."

Callisto jumped and looked over her shoulder " thanks for the advice." she hated not being able to sing without enchanting people but this women looked like she wasn't entranced. her eyes didn't have that scary dazed look. " so, what kind of "monster" are you? i hate that they call us monsters."

Lila let a little giggle escape her lips. "Yes those miserable humans always come up with names for things the just don't understand." Lila sighed, and sat down at the edge of the river near the siren. "I'm what they call a witch, and what I simply call Lila." She smiled kindly before bowed her head down to let her fingers glide through the water, "and who are you?" She asked keeping her head down.

Callisto settled back she liked this Lila. " i am Callisto, though i have been called many other hateful names just because sometimes i can't control what i do. isn't the water lovely?" she said taking off her shoes and dipping her feet in the water.

Lila gave her a small smile before she turned back to the water with a dream like gaze. "It is. I've always liked the water. Even when before I... You know I was just thinking, don't you love it when a human dies and there blood just flows down the stream? So simple, so elegant. Like life is just in the palm of your hand before you crush it." Lila hoped her paused wasn't very noticed. She didn't like thinking or talking about the past.

Callisto could understand that. she remembered the first time she had seen flowing blood. when her father had crushed her best friends neck/wind pipe in his hand. she understood not wanting to talk about your past " yes, the blood flows like a current itself. i like murders with blood. it makes you feeel as if you got a gift from the murder. hangings are so boring. they just sit there growing purple and gross."

Lila snapped her head to look at the siren, "I know! I mean I like a hanging just as the next guy but with their blood on your hands. No other color is like that. So think and red. It makes the perfect perfect potions. " she couldn't believe another person like blood as much as her, well she could if they were a vampire. The war the stuff to survive anyway.

Callisto was glad that some one like blood this much as well. " Exactly! it flows down so soft yet thick. people scream or faint at the sight of it. blood is the difference between sleeping and dead." she slid her fingernail down her arm and a thin trickle of blood slid into the river.

Lila leaned forward to get a better look at the blood flowing into the water. She scoffed and smiled. "Beautiful." She paused and turned back to look at Callisto. "Would you mind if I had some of your blood? It's hard to come by these days, what with the war and all, and it really does come in hand every now and then." she didn't care about being to forward, no time for subtlety.

Callisto remembered her saying it was good for potions " of course." she said. it was nice her straight forwardness. sirens were usually secretive and coy. no one she had met in a long while had trusted her to be so forth right.

Lila hoped up, standing so she could reach into her side bag to search for a vile that she had packed just for reasons liked these. When she found it, she reached her opposite had out for her's. "I won't need much just a little." She said reassuringly.

Callisto took a deep breath. she had talked about how much she enjoyed killing now she was giving blood for a potion. " will, this be used for good? if so you can take as much as you want." she had murdered in cold blood and it sickened her now. she needed to do some good.

Lila gave a warm lovey smile, and tilted her head to the side, "it will be used for a good cause. I'll be sure to see to that myself." Her fingers made motion, somehow saying give Lila her hand. Lila did not lie, the blood would be used for a good cause. But then again who's definition of good was she talking about?

Callisto narrowed her eyes then nodded. she held out her hand to her. who knew if she could trust her. at least by some one's definition her blood would be used for good. before she would have demanded it be used for pure good. but now. she shaked that thought off.

Lila graves her wrist and turned it so she was faced with her blue veins. She waved a hand over her wrist, she was using her magic to slit her wrist but she was not making it very deep. She put the vile next to the stream of the red liquid. "Only a few minutes." She muttered.

Callisto opened her mouth and sang softly. a song about peace, and pain forgotten. her heart lifted and she looked at her wrist. she found magic fascinating. she felt hope stream into her heart. hope that she would remain good.

You have given me hope for a better tomorrow
like an angel guiding me out of my sorrow.

My fears I want to let go
but can my past I forgo?

I ask you this as you have my heart
will you always be there so we may never part?

I don't have much to give
but I will give you my everyday to live.

I love life and what it has to give
because through the depths of sorrow I have learnt to live.

Lila put a cork on in the vile to keep it sealed. She waved her hand per her wrist to stop the bleeding. "You sing a lot don't you? Not just for food I presume?" Lila was good at pegging people. She slipped the vile back securely into her bag.

" yeah, i love to sing. it calms me." she sighed in relief when the bleeding stopped. " thank you." she would never beg for food when she could just ask for some and sh'd get it.

In lila's head the wheels were turning. "You know, we could be partners in crime. The war is almost upon us and I need some blood sacrifices. Would you mind helping me out?" Siren's could be great assets, and finding one was even more rare than finding gold.

Callisto had to think about that. it was obvious that preparations were almost done but she didn't want to be evil, fully evil. bu having a witch as as a partner in crime would be useful. Lila could help protect her mother. " i wouldn't at all, the humans are getting antsier ever day. and preparations are almost done. on one condition i need you to help me protect my mother." this would be good to have allies.

Lila thought about it, her fingers lightly strumming against her leather strap of her bag. "Save your mother? That's rare, most Siren's don't have their mother's for very long, well I guess that all ready explains the urgency then." She paused once more looking out to the river and the back to the seductive singing creature, "I will help, to my abilities. If it involves something I can not do, don't whine. Deal?" Lila raised her hand out, while the other was put behind her back just incase the girl got a little feisty, she had a fire ball forming.

Callisto nodded she knew it was rare. she nodded again "deal." she said as she shakes Lila's hand suspicious of what the other one was doing she prepared to sing. she knew it was more likely to protect Lila from her but you could never be too careful. if her dad were here Lila would already be dead or under his power. but he wasn't this was her and she never whined and if her mother did die she wouldn't kill Lila just everyone that had ever spoken to the person that kills her. wait no, her mother would be so disappointed. but on the other hand wouldn't it be nice to see their blood flow.