To Dance for Life [open]

[inara]

Inara felt bad for lying but brushed the emotion aside quickly. It was for his own good. She stood up. "I'm going to get something for you to drink. Stay still and don't try to follow me." she said with a kind smile and flittered off back to the club.

She made herself invisible as she slipped through the door and grabbed a bottle of rum, slipping out quickly. The rum was now invisible with her. She returned to Eric and held out the rum, forgetting to go visible again. "Here. Drink this. Only a cap full."

Inara crouched down beside Eric and waited for him to take the rum. She fingered the garnet necklace she had on, wondering if the gems in the pendant had anything to do with the kiss she had given the half-demon. But I haven't let any of my magic into them, unless the power from the two portals collapsing was sufficient to activate the gem's powers. That's something I will have to investigate. sounds fun!

[Eryle Darlusk]

He sighed, nodding to her and relaxing against the wall as the shadows naturally began growing deeper and thicker around him as he waited for her. The scene played through his mind several times. He was sure she'd kissed him. Fae are odd...

The voice of her returning caused him to blink, not seeing her at first. He frowns, blinking heavily as his eye glowed once more, and the shadows moved to outline her form and send back the visual response to him, "You're still cloaked", he says with a chuckle.

Still, he reached out, taking the rum with a sigh, causing it to fade back into sight, "Fine...", he says, just taking a tiny swig of it and making an odd face.

He looks back to her, noticing her playing with the pendant and raised an eyebrow, "Penny for your thoughts? I assume at this point it'd be rude to just read your mind", he comments with an eyebrow raised

[inara]

Inara colored slightly when she realised she was still glamoured and let it slide off. She watched him drink the alcohol and laughed a little at his face. "Anyone would think you hated rum!" she took the bottle back once he had taken some and put the bottle on the ground next to her.

She looked at Eric when he asked about her thoughts. "Well... I was thinking about the gems power. Garnet is for passion. It's my favourite stone." she yawned slightly, covering her mouth with her hand. "It suits my powers, which is more focussed on seduction than healing or warspells." She gave a small shrug. "that's all I was really thinking about, nothing interesting."

[Eryle Darlusk]

HE blinks a bit, "I'm not a fan of any alcohol, really, like I said", he explains with a sigh, glancing to the bottle with disdain as it's placed nearby.

As she explains about the gems and her magic, he looks a bit curious, "Ah. So how come you haven't tried utilizing that on me, then?", he asks with a devilish smirk, "And regardless, that's interesting...will have to look into some of your magic if I get a chance", he says, taking a couple of deep breaths as he worked to get to his feet again

[inara]

She shrugged slightly. "Alcohol is alcohol, I suppose you either like it or not." She colored slightly at Eric's comment about looking into her magic and fiddled with the neck of the rum bottle.

She pushed down on Eric's shoulder to stop him getting to his feet. "Not yet." she said. "Just wait a little bit longer or you will end up causing more damage than good." She smiled at the half-demon but had to turn away when the urge to kiss him snuck up on her again. She studied the ground under her feet, seeing each grain of dirt and seeing a few little weeds growing up between the pavement

[Eryle Darlusk]

"Yeah, well I have my reasons for not liking it, and not drinking it", he says, nodding slowly and tilting his head a bit at her coloring, smirking a little bit but otherwise not commenting further on it.

He frowns a bit as she keeps him from standing up, glancing to her and crossing his arms, "I'll be fine, I'm not a simple human, I am far more resilient", he explains to her, sighing a bit.

Since he was conscious this time, he recognized the bit of an urge that time in a slight telepathic flash, and he smirked again, looking to her with a charismatic glance, "You did kiss me, didn't you? And you're thinking about doing it again", he states, raising a brow and grinning arrogantly as he awaits her reaction to that.

[inara]

Inara sighed slightly. "Yes I kissed you." she said, not looking at Eric. "What are you going to do about it?" she asked, her eyes locking onto Eric's challengingly. she fiddled with her necklace, her tongue flicking over her lips as she waited for Eric to make a move. She was sure she could get her dagger out and touched Eric's skin before he could touch her.

Her fingers curled around her necklace tightly, concentrating on hiding her thoughts from Eric. she didn't want him to see what she would do if he did try to kiss her. The urge ran through her again and she started to wonder if she really would make him fall asleep and run...

[Eryle Darlusk]

He moves to stand again, but doesn't approach her, "Nothing, because the fact that you hid it means there's more to it...", he says a bit suspiciously, frowning at her and looking suspicious, distrusting even. The fact that he could feel her mind closing off made this even more defined, and he eyed her almost angrily.

"You're up to something...tell me what. Now, he says in a demanding tone, "You are utterly confusing, and with fae that is never a good thing..."
, he says, looking as if he might attack her if she did something else to provoke his suspicion.

[inara]

Inara made her finger uncurl from the necklace. "I think maybe the garnet's power was activated by the energy from the two portals. And I think it sort of made me kiss you..." She rubbed her arms slightly, feeling nervous. "I'm sorry." she whispered, looking at the ground, the image of scared innocence.

"And technically I'm not a fae because I was raised as a human so its not a bad thing with me!" she said then bit her lip, worried she had overstepped some line and may have incited his fury.

[Eryle Darlusk]

He tilts his head a bit, "I see...so you think the power is something causing an innate desire for someone or something similar? And that you activated it on yourself?", he asks her curiously but still eying her a little suspiciously nut fully sure if he buys that that's the extent of her story.


THere's a further frown at her next comment, "Still innate to you...regardless, don't lie to me again", he warns her, then taking a couple of steps towards her, looking to her and watching her hands and eyes closely, ready to react in case she went to stop him or try anything.

[inara]

Inara shrugged. "I never activated it. I think it activated itself. Magic is like that. It doesn't always do what you want it to."

Inara shrunk back against the wall, fear flashing across her face. "No, please, I'm sorry." she whispered, her eyes wide, "Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything!" Her mouth snapped shut tightly and the looked at the floor again, hoping Eric wouldn't take her up on the offer.

[Eryle Darlusk]

He sighs, rubbing his temples, "Magic is only like that when you aren't careful", he mutters in an annoyed tone, shaking his head in exasperation.

The fear flashing across her seemed to be leaking into him like a virus, and he took a few more steps towards her, placing a hand by her head and leaning forward, shadowed eyes glaring forward to her. "You know how foolish it is to say that to even a partial demon, girl? You're lucky in this case...I'm not quite as sadistic as many", he says pointedly.

For whatever reason, he decided to test out how much of her earlier kiss was simply because of the jewel, so he pinned both of her arms to the wall so she wouldn't try anything, and then leaned forward, kissing her once himself, gauging her specific reaction to it.

[inara]

Inara tensed up when Eric leaned close and stared into his eyes. His words made her wish the world would crack and swallow her whole. The he kissed her and Inara felt herself melting. She kissed back as much as she could with her arms pinned to the wall.

"Eric..." she sighed softly, a slight glowing in the crystal around her neck. "Garnets working on you too..." she wriggled and got her arms free, wrapping them around his neck and pressing close.

[Eryle Darlusk]

Whether it was the garnet reactivating or because she truly did wish to be kissing him, he could definitely tell she was returning his kiss eagerly, grinning a bit into it and slowly lossening his grip on her before she'd pulled her arms out.

"Perhaps it is...it shouldn't though...our magic is mincing in odd ways...definitely something I wish to look into more", he says, still grinning at her and changing his pinning stance to a more gentle one as his arms find her waist when her own draped around his neck.

"Really, it's a bit odd...my mood is changing very quickly...", he adds in a slight contemplative mutter.

[inara]

Inara nuzzled Eric's neck gently. "Maybe its trying to tell us something." she murmured against his skin. She yawned slightly. "Maybe not." she said with a slight laugh, her eyes closing slowly. "So tired... You won't let me fall will you? Don't leave me here alone..." Her eyes struggled open and she looked up at Eric before falling into a deep sleep.

Her hair hung over her face, hiding it from Eric. Her knees started to give way and she leaned heavily on Eric, the garnet brushing against his chest gently. Her head shifted to a more comfortable position, her breath fanning across Eric's neck like the gentle caress of a feather.