Do you understand who I am? Who: Kate & Liev Where: By the park When: Sundown
They had raised the curfews. This was something Liev had mixed feelings about. He mourned the loss of a challenge that he had been so close to taking on. Close enough to have given the local authorities cause to extend said challenge had he acted upon his impulses. Really, having to coax his dinner outside, smoke it out of its hiding place... It was what made immortality bearable. Cutting them off from their security and leaving it so they really had to run -- though there was never really much point. It didn't matter how fast you could run in those stilettoes, he was still going to catch up at a stroll. Part of him felt he should be glad of the freedom of minors, the false sense of security. And it was false, because even if he had taken to catching live food well out of Ann Arbor, he doubted the same applied to everyone else. Maybe the unwilling fang fodder of the town would stop cowering beyond thresholds he could not cross now that the authorities -- they sounded almost omniscient, didn't they? -- had said it was safe.
But what was the fun in cutting the red tape when there still wasn't any room to play? There were people wandering round again, but how many vampires were fool enough to kill openly within the town and risk making themselves marked men and women? He would have stopped to consider that further, but he didn't care enough past the safety of himself and his... pack? No. Himself and Odette. The other two could look after themselves. For now, though, he was content to wander and observe.
The bottled blood was a new low. Even if he did like the hip-flask.