“Name is Eteri.” she huffed, she had mentioned her name several times, the least this Vixen woman could do was use it. The word cat felt condescending. Eteri turned on her heel with an agitated flick of her tail. She headed to the pile of clothes in the corner of the room and fished out an off-white shirt. She wrapped it around her arm and using her teeth, tightened it. The material quickly began to stain from her bleeding as red leaked into white. The halfbreed flexed her arm and felt satisfied that the tourniquet had lessened the bleeding. “This will do.” Eteri turned to look at the woman. “Is you well now? No more dying? Should get vial for rest of blood or you still…” Eteri paused as she tried to find the right word for ‘insisting’ she knew it in Akashiman, but not in tradespeak. She used a similar word to compensate. “Persist. The persist of not having what fixes you?”


The woman blinked a little rapidly before cupping her hands together and looking very proper. She glanced down at them, before she shook her head. “No I think my body has what it needs for now. But I would still like to know if there is the option of creating a potion that would give me what I need, without the need to harm others. Even if they were willing to bleed for me.” She sounded quiet, calmer than she had been before the fainting.

“Eteri told you. Nevin can but not here.” Eteri turned to face the woman fully. Curious as to how a single tiny drop on her lips was enough to sustain her. Eteri bit back the question, having a feeling that it wouldn’t be answered. Instead she padded back other to the bed her wide yellow eyes curious.

“So what do now? You go find place rest?”

Her eyes looked back up to her. She breathed in slowly, then nodded a little. “Yes, though I want to know more of this Stare. Whatever you can tell me, I will be grateful.”

Eteri didn’t like the idea of giving out information. Especially about someone who was as reserved as Stare. Normally she’d have no qualms in sharing but she felt uneasy. She shuffled from one foot to the other. “Not sure if should. Stare may get mad.”

The woman smiled, “I mean no harm to her. She will not get mad, when she understands who I am to her. When we finally meet.” Her fingers tangled into a stray end of her hair and began to fidget with it.

Eteri wrinkled her nose. So.. This Vixen… was going off the assumption that sharing personal information would be all hunky dory once Stare knew who Vixen was. Thing is… Eteri didn't even know who Vixen was. She was some stubborn vegetarian vampire or whatever.

“Is you Stare friend? How know she not get mad if you not know her?” Eteri asked as she narrowed her eyes. “Not comforting sharing information about Stare. “

The woman looked at Eteri for a short pause, the smile fading slightly before she answered. “That … is between her and I. I am not Stare's friend yet, but I am sister to the one who … what do you say, has her. That is good enough.” She blinked then, and frowned as a hand fluttered to her head. Her face contorted into a painful grimace before she adjusted herself. “I have little time. It would be good to get answers.”

“little time because you not eat good.” Eteri crossed her arms over her chest. This woman was insistent. She still wanted to know more about Stare. Eteri promptly shook her head. “Not good enough. You want know more about Stare. You need ask Stare not Eteri. Not have the right to share pers..puru...personal information.”

“Then tell me where to find Stare,” the woman breathed slow, her hand dropping from her hair to form a light fist on her lap. “Then I can talk to her myself.”

Eteri was quite uncomfortable with the women's insistence. She didn’t seem like she could do harm, but Stare was… Stare was Stare. Stare seemed to withdraw and close herself off from others often. Stare didn’t seem like she had many friends, or people she communicated with outside of that mean god of hers.

“Can tell you where Stare might be.” Eteri said, ignoring the look Vixen gave her. “Stare sometime visit her friend…” Eteri shifted over to the overstuffed dresser against the far wall. Ontop it were various notes from Nevin. Late night thoughts and scribbles. Eteri wasn’t much of a writer, but she figured she could draw a half decent map. Especially when she knew where Raevin was.

Eteri picked up a small charcoal pencil and turned over a piece of paper which had some ingredients scrawled on it. She drew a map from the shop to where she recalled Raevin was. “Not far from here. Maybe ten minutes… not too many turns…” She mumbled as she finished and turned to hand the map to Vixen. “This best Eteri will do.”

The pink eyes widened a little and settled on the map. She nodded slowly as she curled her fingers around it, the paper crumpling with small scrunchy noises. Her eyes settled on Eteri and she paused for a moment before nodding. “Thank you,” she said quietly.

Then she smiled a little before it faded as quickly as it had come. “Thank you. I should get going now though.”

“Is ok.” Eteri said as she stepped to the side, allowing Vixen to stand. Eteri turned and gestured for the strange pink eyed woman to follow, leading her out into the small corridor, past the kitchen and into the storefront again.
Eteri was silent for a moment as the two stood opposite each other and an awkward silence filled the room. The nekojin wasn’t sure what was going through the other woman's mind, her own was trying to translate the next sentence.

“Is that...all I can help you with today?” She asked as her head tilted to the side, ears swivelled forward.