Raven's IC contact (Adstringendum)

[feel_nevermore]

Hi. This is Raven.

If you've really got something important to say, just drop your message here.

If not... please avoid wasting both your time and mine. Beep!

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[whatwas]

Fish. Fileted, and cooked with a few dried herbs I scared up from one of our neighbors.

[A blessedly light meal; now that he knows why she's so stressed, he thinks his first choice of meal--steak--would have been too heavy for her.]

[feel_nevermore]

[As long as it's not 'fake meat', aka tofu, Raven would not have protested.]

And here I though you could only cook pancakes... Looks like you're a fine cook, after all.

[Which is just as well given Raven's own cooking skills. She's improved a lot over the past two years, thanks to Alice, Hinata and Hermione. And she's become good at making cookies and pizzas but she's still far from being a chef.]

[whatwas]

I am! But if you're missing the pancakes I can always convert the fish into them. I hear sailors used to do that...or am I thinking of crab?

[feel_nevermore]

I wouldn't know. I don't remember when is the last time I set foot on a boat. [If she ever did.]

But no, fish is fine. Though if I can choose the menu of our next date, pizzas would be great.

[whatwas]

I don't know how to make that, I'm afraid. Not without a pre-made sauce and pre-pounded dough.

[feel_nevermore]

I could teach you. I made some a while ago with someone who's gone now [Souji.]. Granted he was Japanese, so he didn't really have any point of comparison... But he said they were pretty good.

[whatwas]

Well, as a German (or as a Brit, whichever you prefer) I think I'm qualified to critique pizza properly.

[feel_nevermore]

Who said I allowed anyone to critique my cooking? [Now she's just as nervous at the prospect of making him pizzas as she was when she made toffee apples for him.]

[whatwas]

I drink blood, liebchen, when I say 'critique' what I mean is 'rejoice at eating something that doesn't taste like copper'.

[feel_nevermore]

I thought vampires liked the taste of blood. Don't you?

[whatwas]

It's a necessity, more than an indulgence. I enjoyed it the first few months after I got out, but...well how would you feel if you were forced to eat nothing but apples the rest of your life? No variation on it, either. Just raw apples. Forever.

[feel_nevermore]

[Raven nods.] Sounds like quite a long time indeed, to eat only apples. [She spends some time watching him and gives a little dreamy sad smile.] I tend to forget you're an immortal sometimes. It's true that in this place it doesn't make much of a difference. None of us can age or die here. But if we ever manage to leave this place...

[whatwas]

Then I'll go with you, and you'll save the world, and when you're retired we'll consider our options.

[feel_nevermore]

Not sure leaving to my world would be the best choice. It's safer without me.

I admit I've never planned that much ahead. [Since she's supposed to die and all that. She smirks slightly.] 'Considering our options' doesn't make it sound all that reassuring.

[whatwas]

Safer than certain death in my world?

[feel_nevermore]

I wasn't suggesting we'd go back to your world. What about a world that'd be new to us both?

[whatwas]

That sounds like heaven.

[Though he worries about her friends. He knows why she doesn't want to go back, but after what he saw in her dream it would be a crime to lose friends like that.]

Sorry wrong account ^^;

[feel_nevermore]

[Raven chuckles softly.] Hopefully it'll be better than that... Ask Castiel. Heaven's way overrated.

[But she goes serious again, caressing Horst's face.] But wouldn't you miss your brother if we never went back to your world?

[whatwas]

I might. But...I'm not sure that me being there will help anything. He gets worse every day, he resents me more now that our parents are dead, the only thing he claims to think about is her and yet....

I think if I stay with him, it's going to destroy me. And him.

[feel_nevermore]

[Her expression saddens a bit at what he says but she nods.] I understand. I just.. wanted to make sure that's how you felt.

I wish you to be happy. [She looks away as she says that.] Wherever we are.

[whatwas]

I really think I could be.

[And what a relief, a miracle, it is to say that. Not a year ago in his mind he was doomed to eternity in a crypt.]

I think I'm even happy here.

[feel_nevermore]

Only an optimist like you could be.

...But I'm glad. That way you can be for us both.