Thread: Wish Upon a Kithril

It was freezing, a very bitterly cold night with snow that fluttered onto the streets, coating the roads so fast that the many snowplows couldn't keep up. It was bitterly cold enough that the Lake in the park had frozen solid, and the children ha taken to skating on it when school was let out. The night itself was peaceful, because of the snow most of the people in the city where trapped, closed off from the world and for once the world was silent. Not all that silent though, along the streets, darting through the street lamps was a figure, a young girl, or she looked like a young girl anyway, a dirty young girl, and cold too it looked like. She was very clearly homeless, and very clearly looking for shelter, she needed shelter or she would freeze to death, even being an immortal creature with all of the worlds magic at her fingertips she really didn't want to spend the winter frozen under a snowdrift. So she was looking for someone to take her in. She was young, sixteen maybe, it depended on which age you wanted, the one she looked, or the one she really was... she looked sinfully young, though She told people she was fifteen, to get their sympathy, but really she was closer to six hundred, not that she could remember much of those times. She was bound to masters, one after another and that was all she knew, just her master, and what he wanted. She smiled fondly in memory of her last Master, he had died only weeks ago, a heart attack that she hadn't been able to stop, but that was the way of things, she was perfectly capable of defending people from an attack or performing CPR but she could not stop the flow of time or the course of nature. It had been his time, and she had done all she could to make his passing a comfortable one. Now she was master-less, and homeless. Cold, starving and in desperate need of a new master, someone who would use her the way she needed to be used. Her name was Chandra , and she was a pretty little thing, it amazed her how many people ignored her, she was beautiful and she knew it, she was supposed to be beautiful after all. She had long silver hair that fell to her thighs in long graceful tangles, she had been finger brushing her hair but it wasn't enough and she was loosing the battle. Her eyes where a bright green, a gorgeous green that sparkled in the light of the streetlights. Her skin was as pale as the moon, and she was slender but not thin, she was perfect in body, thin but not starving, not yet anyway, she'd had enough reserves of magic to keep herself fed, but now she was running out. She had just enough magic to prove she was magic, and she had to save that to prove to her new master of what she was. She coughed hard into her hand and shook her head, that was the last thing she needed, was to catch some silly human sickness. That could be just as debilitating as freezing, it wouldn't kill her, but the magic starvation could, it was a painful way to go, and she needed a new master, she couldn't afford to be picky anymore, as soon as she smelled someone she thought would need use of her... resources, she was certainly going to do everything in her power to catch his attention. Even if she had to cheat to do it. She paused suddenly and sighed, deciding to call it a night. her feet hurt, they where bare and it was too cold to walk around that late at night. she turned and headed back the way she had come, shivering in her slim white dress. it was long sleeved, but it was thin, and it was just as dirty as the rest of her was. she ducked close to a building, she knew it would be empty, she'd been sleeping there for three weeks. ever since her last master had passed. she checked to make sure that no one was around before she carefully slid open a window, it had a broken lock, not that anyone at the place knew it, or they would have fixed it by now. quick as a flash she was inside, and jut in time too, it had started to snow outside, the large fluffy flakes falling slowly, as if taunting her. she shivered again and moved into the dark, cursing as she stubbed her toe, someone had moved all the front desks around... she grimaced and rubbed her stinging, throbbing toes before moving deeper inside to where the two heaters where next to each other. she usually slept over the vents, they where the warmest, and she was never cold laying there. she moved over to the vents and moved to sit down before freezing. there was a light on in the back... someone was there... and from how loudly she'd cursed... they knew she was there...