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The Angel Balthazar ([personal profile] tryingitall) wrote in [community profile] kore_logs2013-09-04 10:05 pm

a tisket, a tasket, an angel with a basket?

Who: Balthazar, Mina and open!
Where: the library and the outskirts of town
When: Day 109, around nightfall
Summary: Balthazar's promised to try and teach Mina about angelic healing powers, because that can't possibly go wrong. He can also be found inspecting various edible weeds growing around the town and forest eaves.


On the one hand, Balthazar is as content in Kore as he has been in thousands of years. No wars, no bewildering orders from on high, no siblings murdering one another, and on top of that he has both mortal friends and archangels being relatively sociable. If it weren't for the looming fear of things taking a turn for the lethal, he'd be downright ecstatic to be here.

But the food situation is worrisome, and the monster situation is worse. He finds himself racking his brain to think of ways to keep the status as quo as possible. It's not his job, of course. He never signed on to play shepherd to a motley crew of humans and others, and most of them probably wouldn't thank him for worrying about them anyway. Maybe if there was enough alcohol available to actually keep him drunk, he wouldn't bother. Maybe he's trying to keep himself from fretting over how quickly and easily the people he cares about can be taken away.

Times like this, he misses Anna.

And so, he finds himself, circling the outskirts of the town and plucking what plants he can find out of the shadows of buildings as the sun sets behind him.

When it's finally fully dark, he crosses back over to the library, leaving his basket just outside the door. If anyone helps themselves to the plants, that's fine with him. He's not going to eat them, anyway.

He doesn't bother with a light once inside, sitting on a desk to wait for Mina. He can see well enough in the blackness, and presumably so can she.
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-11 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, darling," Mina said with a bit of a smile, "you have no idea." In all fairness, fun had never been a high priority. She'd become a pirate to survive. Bloody survive.

Of course...some fun had, admittedly, been had.

But she dismissed nostalgia for the time being, nodding her assent to Balthazar. She was hardly squeamish, after all. And her scientific curiosity was peaked.
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-14 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Mina watched, unflinching. Actually, she was a bit disappointed. There was something terribly mundane about it all, accelerated though it seemed. And while she was blessed with an exceptional mind, she didn't have exceptional eyes. Not in the way that Jacqueline did, able to see everything.

Well, she as Mina didn't.

But the Queen felt something. Something old. Not quite as ancient as herself. But powerful.

Dangerous.

A low sparkle ran along Mina's skin as she observed. It was unconscious, the Fae part of her nature unwillingly escaping for a moment. "That's your Grace, then?"
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-15 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
"My kingdom for a microscope," Mina mumbled. She was from the 1930s, so she didn't have as high of expectations for technology as some of the others. But it was still frustrating, sometimes, how little she had at her disposal.

Sighing softly, she leaned back in her seat. "Go on. We're making nice, aren't we?"
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-16 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Mina couldn't help but let out a quick, explosive little laugh. It was a good question. But certainly not a simple one. And back home, she supposed, she would have done everything in her power to get around it, either by wiping his memory or just shooting him in the face.

Obviously, her methods had changed somewhat in Kore.

"A complicated question," she told him, resting her temple on her fingertips. "There's me, of course. Nothing but an old soldier, really. And there's what we Kindred refer to as 'the Beast.' It's the source of every vampire's abilities and bad temper."

Those two parts of her had been married for so long, though, that she'd come to think of them as very much the same thing: Mina. It was the last little bit that was the parasite.

"And," she said slowly, "I don't know how familiar you are with the True Fae, but for the last few months, I've also played host to a Fae title. The Queen, to be precise. I imagine that's the part that's beyond you. I do think she may be older than time itself."
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-24 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
"The True Fae are funny about the idea of 'voluntary,'" she said dully. It was still a sore spot with her, not that that was Balthazar's fault. "Let's just say, from their point of view, it was voluntary. But that wouldn't really hold up in a court of law."

Not even a Kindred court.

And the supernova metaphor was adequate. She never knew when the damn thing was going to go off.
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-24 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
"I would say that sounds simple enough," she replied, content to let the subject of the Queen drop, "but I suppose that wouldn't be entirely honest."

But she would make it simple. Mina was nothing if not determined.

"What sort of physio-mental process goes into that?" she asked. "On the part of the healer?"
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-24 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
The full level of anatomical detail was easy. But what Mina didn't understand was how willing something to happen made it so. It was different with her abilities. She understood how to find another being's willpower in their eyes. But this was a power of the body, not the mind.

She stared down at the cut in his arm, picturing in intricate detail the spider's web of veins and arteries inside of flesh. She concentrated on the biggest of them, the ulnar artery, willing it to seal itself.
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-24 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Mina pressed her palms on the table, leaning forward a little bit on them. She knew, of course, that proximity probably didn't make any kind of a difference, but she couldn't fight the instinct completely.

She found herself, once again, thinking about the night that Doctor M peeled her skin off in court. Mina tried to mimic the doctor's facial ticks, wondering if that would help her to better channel some kind of flesh-crafting ability.

If nothing else, Mina was determined.
primogen_vampirate: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-25 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
She didn't want to rest, but the unnatural colour of his hand put a stop to the experiment. Mina blinked and broke whatever sort of connection she felt. Even if she knew that he was an angel and could heal himself, her medical instincts were still there.

"Damn," she hissed, leaning back in her seat.
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-25 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that was an interesting question. Ever the consummate learner, Mina was naturally frustrated that she hadn't aced it on her first go. But all the same, she'd accomplished more, she supposed, than she expected.

She nodded slightly. "I feel...intrigued," she finally decided.
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-25 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Her lips twisted slightly at the mention of Raphael. He had been somewhat...uncooperative. Not outright offensive or rejecting of the notion. But stubborn about it.

Her sea-storm eyes raised with interest a little at the mention of a sorceress however. "No," she said. "I don't believe I've had the pleasure."
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[personal profile] primogen_vampirate 2013-09-26 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
To some, it would seem old-fashioned. But Mina was still well behind the times. As much as she was ahead of her own time. Apparently. It was all rather confusing and she had far more pressing matters to set her mind to than that.

She dipped her head courteously. "Yes, I do think so."

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