the falling tower;

Alysra Kilham: Nain Rouge, Olivia Wilde fc

Amalia Appleman: Human, Melissa Benoist fc

Aymeric Xandros: Valravn, Tyler Blackburn fc

Daina Hargrove: Vampire, Casey Deidrick fc

Deacon Stills: Sin of Greed/Demon, William Moseley fc

Kasha Einarsdottir: Valkyrie, Olivia Munn fc

Lorenzo Vinci: Lich, Luke Pasqualino fc

Morrigan Hollis: Werewolf, Odette Annable fc

Guilt took control of her features for a moment, but she held onto her apology. Usually she wasn’t one to judge with a first encounter, but due to a slightly brainwashed flaw instilled in her against his kind - it was a habit to take caution. “Noted.” The brunette spoke, her voice contrite. There was a blamed curiosity for her following his suit right beside him. “The weight of everyone else; emotions, thoughts, energies - sometimes are in battling matches of who could be best perceived. It gets tiring on one’s mind.” She resonated, understanding the need to cleanse after being tainted from interactions. “Are you sure my presence won’t add to the sensory overload? This oasis of yours will no longer be a secret to you, if I then know about it, as well.” Persephone voiced, the concern falling more on her presence maybe not being the best for him at the moment.

      “ as taxing as angels can be, i think i can handle you. ” the knowing grin on his face crooked sideways as he glanced at his company, continuing down the path. it was almost like an installed sense: demons knew of angels, he was sure she knew what he was in turn. and while there was a natural opposition, deacon was never one to leap down the throat of his natural counterpart. “ it’s more ... i enjoy being in the center of an affair. call it a hobby. but as with any hobby, you get a little stressed and need a break. so i have some hideaways for those moments. one individual isn’t going to send me running. ” and after a pause he continued, “ ah, but i’m a little hoarder. this is just one of my little coves. there are more. i’ve been a thorough boy. ”

“it was very accidentally. we were going to my room since he wanted me to read him a poem and my laptop with all my poetry was up there and well my apartment was also his so it wasn’t that hard to figure it out.” she chuckled softly. hope wasn’t upset that she met her soulmate since the two instantly clicked and it made being here by herself less lonely. “but i mean, when i met him, i felt an instant connection and draw to him. like for m there was some force that made it so i wanted to be around him. it’s like i feel a high when i’m around him.” she admitted to lorenzo. “i am very much so. i know my dad would be upset if he learned y soulmate was a demon, but i don’t care, he makes me extremely happy.”

      he was admittedly doubtful that he’d discover his pair in any fashion other than simply sitting in his room and waiting. but enzo wasn’t one to sit on his hands --- no, they needed to be busy else he would go mad. the lich nodded, offering the girl a soft smile. “ that sounds nice, though, that you two have a good connection. i’m wondering if all of the soul mates are intended on being romantic or ... perhaps a good friend? ” he had no expectations either way, but it was simply a musing. with a soft sigh, enzo continued, “ it’s nice to see such a mash of people here. i think i’ve met more actual supernatural beings than humans. it’s refreshing. ”

“back then?” she asked him curiously. “wow, so you have really seen a lot of the world. i mean other than coming here i’ve never even left monaco ever.” she admitted to aymeric. her parents were always protective of her especially since she was the only heir to monaco’s throne and if something bad happened to her, then the crown would go out of the family for the first time in centuries. she always dreamed about seeing the world before her father stepped down, her parents stressed it wasn’t something she needed to really worry about since monaco was too tiny to get into conflicts with any country and the economy of the country was perfect, but she still wanted to.

      he hummed in response to her question, eyes narrowing with the smile that claimed his features. his kind were mischievous, but in the moment he didn’t want to overwhelm the girl. she seemed sweet, perhaps a little green behind the ears --- perhaps she was human? though trained eyes suggested perhaps otherwise, aymeric wasn’t going to assume. “ i’ve traveled around a lot, yes. it’s nice to be in one place, but admittedly i get a bit restless. ” he was sure he had been to whatever monaco was before it was monaco, and admittedly he racked his memory to place it. “ if you could travel anywhere in the world, aside from here, where would you go? ”

“well i mean that does make sense. but at the same time, you could’ve just stayed where you were before this island. i’ve never been in tropical weather before, so this is all new and i love it.” she stated. while neither of her parents raised her, her demon parent wanted to be even ruder to her and gave her up for adoption in a very cold climate. “and i’m happy that i don’t need to wear anything to keep me from going out in any type of weather.”

      “ yes, vampires aren’t allowed an equal opportunity at meeting imagined soul mates just because they can’t go out into the sunlight. ” the sarcasm oozed from his lips, one brow raising at the nonsense on his phone screen as if that was the source of the conversation. it was obvious that daina didn’t exactly take stock in the reason they were here, but a break from the city was just as nice ... and really, there were opportunities for inspiration here that the city lacked. “ that’s very nice, isn’t it? ”

His smile drew long to one side as he met her eyes. “Aren’t you lucky then, you’ve just achieved what you set out to do…” Marcus said with a nod. “Some go after this all consuming soul-mate thing. I like a woman with a more practical approach to her day.” The drinks were delivered and he lifted his beer, tapping it lightly to her drink and took a sip. “I’m honestly still wondering when all the fighting will break out. You can’t have such… opposites occupying the same space without some good old fashioned brawls happening.”

      “ very lucky, it seems. ” she swallowed a large mouthful of her stout, setting the glass down in her lap and wrapping her fingers around it to keep it in place. “ i like the idea of people coming together for any reason ... usually leads to a good time. we’ll see if there’s any stock in having a soul mate. ” kasha nodded her head, allowing a short chuckle to escape her tiers. she’d live a long time without the evidence of someone meant for her, it seemed more unlikely now than before. “ i think i’d like to see someone throw a punch. once upon a time i thrived off of that shit. ”

“You were a challenge. You had that youth about you, so young, yet so eager.” His eyes grew distant and the wolf had a faint smile on his face recalling some of their more enthusiastic encounters when Morrigan was coming up, wanting to learn and he took her under his wing. She’d been a quick study and while things hadn’t worked out for the longer term between them, he felt empathy for whatever man attempted to tame such a spirit. Woe to them. Perhaps this soulmate thing meant they didn’t have to strive and overcome that quite as hard. 

The man’s face grew thoughtful as she spoke kindly of his former mate. “She was special, no doubt about that. I’m sure if things were different, we’d still be together today, no matter what. But…” He shrugged. Moses should probably feel guilty for his newfound… mate? Lover? Beloved? Everything? But he didn’t. “I’ll always have a special place in my heart for Holly. But I also feel like she’d want me to be happy. I’ve been on my own since that night, and… it’s lonely. Here… I found Lia. That’s her name, Lia. She’s quite the opposite of an Amazonian, though you’d think Diana Prince would be a good match for me?” he smiled. “No, she’s tiny and human and perfect. I… I can’t argue with the logic here. They put me together with pretty much the perfect woman. We’re still getting to know one another, mind you, so there are a few things yet to work out. But so far, so good.” 

      “ i had to prove that i could run with my brothers. it’s a personality trait that never disappeared. ” despite the painful loss of her blood morrigan liked to believe that she did a decent enough job living her life as though she were still messing around with her brothers. they’d taught her how to be a mechanic, after all, and that was the career path she happily chose once she broke away from the mess of their former lives. she was head-strong, willing to break bones when necessary to learn or teach a lesson. she took a swallow of her drink and nodded her head at moses’ words. “ but if you’d never lost holly you might not have been so keen on coming here and meeting your new lady friend. supposedly everything happens for a reason, right? ”

      of course she was somewhat protective over the idea of moses shifting himself over to someone else --- she’d like to think it was their bond that instilled it, but moses didn’t need someone rushing to his defense. not when he was who he was. still, it didn’t mean that morrigan was willing to let it skirt by. “ i think you’d snap diana prince in half accidentally and then use her a tooth pick. ” she snorted, shaking her head at the image. “ moses burgess, tamed by a small human. i need to see this. ” but really? she was happy for him. he couldn’t keep the glee from his tone of voice and it made a part of morrigan feel warm. she clapped a hand to his shoulder and squeezed, “ you deserve this. ”

It wasn’t really a surprise that she’d never done anything like that before. His first read on her had been one of sweet innocence, like the spring awakening of the flowers before the harsh summer suns set in - but they bloomed strong and beautiful. As did she, he’d noticed. Moses had from the moment he saw her, wanted more. Now, finally being with her, he understood why. There were such depths to her unexplored, he wanted to be in her life so badly. She was his soulmate - he was destined to be with her. As she snuggled close to him, looking precious and beautiful and soft, all he ever wanted to do was be with her. Leaning closer, his lips pressed lightly to her temple. “I am so grateful you took that chance,” he said quietly. “…and am more than a little impressed with you.” Her ‘brave’ statement made him smile. “You have all this courage in you, you’re the one who brought it out and stepped forward when the time came. You could have just waited and I know things would have been… fine,” he promised with a nod. “But you were amazing.” Somewhere in his heart, he knew that no matter what, they were going to be together. He was just exceptionally happy that she had come into the shower and things had happened. It allowed him to bathe her in his love completely, and treat her the way he thought she deserved.

“The thing is… we have our whole lives to let you be like this,” he promised, fingers tracing along the lines of her back and side, following the soft tanned skin. “I’ll be holding you this way forever,” Moses said quietly, nose brushing through the still wet tangled of her dirty blonde hair, little kisses anointing her cheeks and hair. She really did have all of him - the uber-aggressive Alpha animal side, and the tender, gentle man who only wanted to love her and make her happy. 

      “ me too, ” and she was really quite grateful for it. her lips curved into a soft smile against him, her post against his chest more than comfortable. he’d worn her out, but he’d never hear opposition about it. instead amalia took the opportunity to press herself against him and absorb his heat. the trailing of his fingers along her skin was enough to put her out, even if they occasionally caused the finer hairs of her flesh to stand on end. the blonde peered up at him, believing his proclamations without opposition, before pressing a soft kiss to the line of his jaw. “ tell me more about yourself. ” he’d said before that the past didn’t matter, and perhaps he was right, but there were still questions about who he was from that. things that shaped him into being a gentle giant (though she knew he could have a vicious streak, somehow). “ your favorite color ... where have you traveled? what season you like the best ... things like that. ”

      and once more she wondered if he’d come to new york with her, or if she’d close up her flower shop and kiss her mother goodbye to shift to wherever he had been before here. she was fine with either option, and the realization that she was so comfortable with settling down somewhere else sent a soft shiver through her. mindlessly she traced circles on the flesh of his chest, though her attention was wholly on his handsome features. fate was a curious thing, to bring someone like him into her life. and really, she just wanted to hear him speak more --- something entirely enrapturing about the way he spoke, or perhaps just the tone of his voice, the way it rumbled in his chest where she lay. lia felt helpless to him, encapsulated in their tangled forms.

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isabella had on a cover up that she put on before heading into the apartment building. the blonde sat down on a couch next to a person. “why does night exist?” she asked the other person. “i’ve seriously have just loved spending every second of sunlight tanning on a beach. i’ve never been to a place with this nice of weather and i really want to take full advantage of it.” she said with a soft chuckle.

      “ probably so people like me don’t burst into flames without hideous magic rings on. ” thumb swiped up at his cell phone, eyes browsing the front page of some website daina barely had any interest in. it was nice to be handed the gaudy piece of jewelry, but it sat on his thumb like an ugly class ring with an emerald that seemed like the size of his fist. whatever witch made this had poor taste --- but he couldn’t complain, he supposed. still, daina stayed indoors when the sun was out: habit from the past eight years of avoiding being burned alive. 

He gave her an easy smile as their drinks were delivered - her charms working as smoothly as ever - and he lifted his to tap against hers gently. Moses gazed into her eyes as he took a sip of the beer, then sat it on the polished countertop of the bar, his elbow following beside it as he angled towards his former packmate. “Keeping up with you has always been a challenge,” admitted the man with a nod. “Though there was one time that I found an Alpha’s stamina came in handy with such a… spirited girl…” he grinned with a tilt of his head. There were some good memories there, too, and right now he treasured being able to think of them again as something joyful. Better than a sad reminder of all he’d lost. Morrigan’s presence was soothing to the old wolf.

He waved a hand in the air. “Ahh, you know I had my doubts about it, if I’m honest,” he replied, which he always was with those he was closest to. “But then I met her. And it was like every weight that I had on my shoulders was lifted. I know I should be hesitant and thinking about Holly…” He grew quiet for a moment - it had been a year or more since he last said his deceased mate’s name out loud. “…but now I’m not sad. Meeting Lia and having this… instant connection might be unnatural or something, but… I can’t deny it. It’s real.” 

      “ just because i have a lot of enthusiasm doesn’t mean that people have to be lazy. ” she was teasing --- her own stamina came with hard work, and a little bit of what she was. moses had her trumped with his status, even without a pack behind him to claim it: he was the alpha, always hers, and perhaps that was why she could never bare her neck for another pack. morrigan’s lips pursed in an attempt to keep her smile from growing any larger than it already did. he was a charmer, it was refreshing to be in his presence again. she was more grateful than she’d ever be able to properly express. morrigan bumped his arm playfully, offering him a wink, “ you’re the only one who succeeded in keeping up, hm? ”

      if anyone else had given a testimonial about soul mates like his, morrigan would have doubted them. but she’d learned in her youth that moses was no bullshit, and about something she was so skeptical about ... when he mentioned holly, morrigan allowed her goofy demeanor to sober a bit. it was a name she hadn’t thought of, never mind heard, since that night. she imagined moses had said it less. “ for something to have such a strong pull on you ... either she’s some amazon goddess whose got your tail between your legs whipped or she’s your missing piece. ” and she paused, her tone softening, “ holly was a lovely woman, she was. and i loved her as much as a pack member could love their alpha lady, but she had different edges than you. it was like trying to mash puzzle pieces together that don’t quite fit, but almost do. ”