Thread:Johnathon Strider/@comment-24217012-20180202221639/@comment-24852191-20180221020330


 * Soon, Saithis finds Vlad in the armory training. He watches him hack away several different dummies. Some of them he goes so far as to impale them with a great pike. Siathis speaks when he finishes.

Saithis: So, Vladimir.


 * Vlad turns and looks at him. He sighs as he walks back to where his shirt and his robe lay.

Vlad: What is it, Saithis? Shouldn’t you be looking after the love of your life?


 * Saithis sighs.

Saithis: I just came to say how sorry I am.

Vlad: For what?

Saithis: I know that after Cathrine’s death, Valeria was the only other one you had rivaling feelings for. I should have never made a move on her.

Vlad: You talk as though woman are currency for men to toy with and use when needed.

Saithis: That was not my in.......

Vlad: You are still sounding like a slave of the sheets after all these years.


 * Saithis looks down slightly, not sure what to say. Vlad sighs and puts his shirt back on along with his coat. He walks to his friend and places a caring hand on his shoulder.

Vlad: You fell in love and made clear to her your intentions of love before Cathrine died. No, Saithis, I will not take her from you. You ave already taken her to the sheets and brought her to ecstasy. You know the feeling of her body, both within and outside,


 * He places a hand in his friend’s chin and makes Saithis’s blue eyes look into his eyes of silver.

Vlad: If I took her now, I would feel the reality of the situation you think you are experiencing now.


 * Saithis pauses and takes the ring off of his hand, the ring Catherine gave him at their wedding. He deposits it in Saithis’s hand.

Vlad: Go now. Do what I could not, and give her a long and pleasant life of love and happiness. You have my blessing.


 * With that, Vlad leans in and kisses Saithis’s forehead. He withdraws and walks down the hallway to his chambers. Saithis, uncertain what to do, simply walks slowly through the halls as he thinks to himself.