I Resist the Muses

( What is a microwave oven? )

Warnings: None.

What moment do you wish you could re-live?

I honestly have no answer for this. I have had a long and full life, and there are so many memories. It is terribly difficult to pick out just one that I wish I could relive again. My first kiss, perhaps; if only that was the first and last time in my life that I was innocent. Actually, that is a lie, as I was the one who cast the spell to get my kiss. But... That would be a lovely moment to have again.

On the other hand, there are many moments that leap to mind that I most certainly would not ever desire to re-live. Such as the time I had to tell Ambrogino that I did not get the artefacts he wanted. I would have much preferred a stake through my heart than what he did to me. I couldn't bear to move for nights, until my hunger was too great to ignore.

For that matter, I don't think that I'd prefer to re-live the conversation I had with Kay this evening. It is a good thing the girl is my blood. No, I take that back. It is a good thing the she is my niece, anyone else in the family and I would have make good my threat to stake them.

Oh yes, they are the top low-lights of what I never wish to experience ever again.

~*~

warnings: links lead to adult themed posts in character journal. NSFW.

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( Mistaken? No, Isabel, I don't think that I am.  )

after Gehenna // warnings: TV-14 for language // 1361 words

( You should follow your dreams. )

after Gehenna // warnings: none

Am I superstitious? Do I look like I was born yesterday? Even when I was a mortal, I wasn't superstitious. It is a family trait, I suppose, trucking as we do with the Underworld and spiriti. None of us have been superstitious since the family's founding days in 31 BC.

The nightly rituals that I conduct might appear to be actions born of superstition, but that is only because they wouldn't work for anyone who is not a Giovanni.


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( Just what is it that you are doing in my home? )

Rating: PG-13 (mild violence)

My greatest loss?

Certainly not my heartbeat.

What concern of this is yours? Shall I deliver my weaknesses to you? No, I thought not.

( Private )

Rating: TV-14; mature themes

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What do I want?

Such a question should be met with laughter. Before the end of the world, it would have been met with laughter. Now...

Now, I am not sure.

( Private thoughts )

Kay and Lyla are near inseparable as they wander the garden at will. The garden responds to them almost as well as it responds to Lilith. Slowly, I am learning more of her magic, and it may be that it is this which is guiding the answer to this question.

A few nights past, an arch appeared here and turned into a doorway. It was followed by an envelope addressed to me. An envelop which contained a key. Perhaps it is time that I want to see where this door leads.

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I'm undead. I do not have a life to ease.

( That said, my unlife would be easier without the interference of other clans meddling in Giovanni plans. )

Rating: PG (mild swearing)

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What makes me laugh? That's easy. I laugh at how naive the kine are, and how permanent they think their grand schemes and world building will be. They are fools. Nothing built by mortal hands lasts - indeed nothing build by immortal hands last, either, without supervision and maintenance. The kine always forget that vital piece of planning in their schemes and so they all too often crumble into dust eventually following the path taken by the architects of the plan.

There is nothing quite as amusing as the follies of man.

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( As we are acquainted, I shall tell you my greatest fear. )

Comments/RP welcome

The Serpent's Kiss

OOC: This links back to a past prompt response and I consider it an 'unofficial' answer. Comments/RP, however, are more than welcome at the post.

What are my thoughts on love? It has been said that the Kindred cannot, by our very natures, love. I do not fully agree with this assessment. I have all of eternity to debate this. Do you?

( For love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. )

OOC: NC-17 mature themes revolving around taboo sibling relationships

* The Song of Solomon 8:4-7

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To the Giovanni, the family is everything. Full stop.

The family is life, success, hearth, home, and benefactor. We know this and we honour this. Everyone attends a family Christmas party and no one declines an invitation to the other parties held on 04 April. No one.

We look after each other. We succeed. We win.

( Private & Personal thoughts. )

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I am Isabel, of the family and Clan Giovanni. Yet that is not all that you wish to know, no?

( Very well, I shall tell you who I am beyond simply being Isabel. )

Cross-posted to Isabel's journal. Comments welcome.