[ Vanessa has not ventured back to Haven since the war began to crescendo, too concerned by the possibility that any one of them could be put at risk or that the location of the safehouse could be jeopardized were the wrong people to follow her without her knowledge. Still, there are those who remain aware of where it is in the Down, perhaps the most unlikely place that anyone would think to seek her out.
She's seated in bed even if she isn't sleeping, listening to the sounds of movement within the house itself and momentarily contented by the fact that both Ethan and Dorian are nearby even if neither of them is in here with her. Dorian had inexplicably vanished for three days before returning with a certain insatiability, and she currently bears the marks to show for it, fading love bites on the sides of her neck and along the dark line that bisects her throat. Eventually, he'd exhausted himself enough to sleep, although she'd reached that threshold long before he had, and now, after so much rest beyond her normal routine, she finds herself wide awake at a late hour.
She isn't startled so much as briefly surprised, eyes widening before she recovers to offer an acknowledging nod. ]
Of course. Please, sit.
[ There aren't many options save the bed itself, but she rises from it to gesture for Mary to join her. ]
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She's seated in bed even if she isn't sleeping, listening to the sounds of movement within the house itself and momentarily contented by the fact that both Ethan and Dorian are nearby even if neither of them is in here with her. Dorian had inexplicably vanished for three days before returning with a certain insatiability, and she currently bears the marks to show for it, fading love bites on the sides of her neck and along the dark line that bisects her throat. Eventually, he'd exhausted himself enough to sleep, although she'd reached that threshold long before he had, and now, after so much rest beyond her normal routine, she finds herself wide awake at a late hour.
She isn't startled so much as briefly surprised, eyes widening before she recovers to offer an acknowledging nod. ]
Of course. Please, sit.
[ There aren't many options save the bed itself, but she rises from it to gesture for Mary to join her. ]
Is there something the matter?