Jaladhi’s eyes dropped down to the gun in the other vampire’s hands when the safety was removed. The action only caused her smile to deepen and she shook her head as if to say that the weapon would be of no use to her. She had lived long enough to run into Hunters. Actually, given her intense (someone would say savage) nature, she had experienced more than her fair share. She knew of silver bullets and other weapons the weaker races used as a defense against those like her, like the woman standing before her. Jaladhi didn’t know her, but she could smell the stench of inexperience on her. Her vampire body was still new to her and that would prove to be a disadvantage, gun or no. She made a tsking sound as she stilled her stare. “You ask a lot of questions for someone who has no business doing so.” Rationally, the vampire had every reason in the world to want to know what had happened to Jadyn if she cared about her, but the voices raging in her head had pushed away all reason centuries ago. Not only that, but Jaladhi had never loved another individual enough to understand what it must feel like to be horrified at the idea of losing them. Even if she had, she still wouldn’t have cared about what Missy was going through. “I told you once before, you’d be better off forgetting her completely, Missy” She was delighted that the whispers had pushed forth the name that she otherwise would have disregarded days ago.
With little care or respect, Jaladhi allowed the items in her arms to fall to the ground. She took a step toward the other vampire, intentionally grinding her feet on the blanket as she passed over it. It would have been easy to leave now -- run fast and far away so that Missy couldn’t find her -- but Jaladhi was in the mood for games. “It’s amusing to me that you think you hold any sway against the will of Water. Even if I answered all your questions, what could you possibly do?” She didn’t stop until she was well within arm’s length of Missy. ‘So weak.’‘Powerless.’‘No power, not like yours.’ The voices weren’t always on her side, but when they were, Jaladhi found them to be incredibly empowering. “I’ll play your game, but you’re not going to like it.” To answer her first question, she opened her palm and called upon the water from the pond nearby. It collected there as it always did, in an orb. The water floated there for a moment before breaking into three orbs that began to rotate around one another. Jaladhi’s attention had been momentarily distracted by having her element in her hand, but it soon returned back to Missy. The balls hardened into ice and, in that same second, she sent them flying toward the other vampire. They weren’t large enough, or moving fast enough, to seriously injure her, but it certainly wouldn’t feel pleasant when they made contact. “What were your other questions?” Jaladhi asked because she had genuinely not cared enough to remember.