I'll be good

The first rays of the sun started to show themselves on the lands of Fallen Skies again, indicating a new day had started. Light that wrapped itself around the rocks, making them almost glow up in the warm red and orange tones as that was always the case with the morning light. Meaning party time for Thriumph was officially over. An irritated sigh left his lips, another terribly long day would go on, in which he could only hide into the shadows and lure for new victims, before he would thrive again. A different schedule he worked on than before he was turned. It had been a fairly smooth transition, as the man had always been more a night person, so tying up the activities he was doing during the day, hadn’t been that difficult. And now he lost his throne, he left the day completely for what it was worth, trading it in for being so much more productive during the night.

And so this had been one. Ever since he went to Vanaheim to have a sweet little meet-up with Lexa, he had stopped draining complete villages. It was just too obvious and that wasn’t the thing he was going for. No, instead of just giving in to his hunger like he was doing before, Thri fell back into very old habits. Playing games, with himself as quizmaster and player at the same time. A golden combination if you’d ask him, because he happened to always win. It had been almost a distraction in the process of grief -that was in a way a thing that happened since he lost his throne- making him feel that much more powerful without him losing his head in the process of it. He got to be the quiet one now, the one no one really saw but just whispered about. Anyone who did have that chance of seeing him, mostly held a certain death wish, if they’d know it or not.
This night had been a success, a win for him. Especially now the Plague roamed around, Thri was picky in who he choose to be victims. But as he picked, the preparations began. It was all about him having his patience to let the blood taste even sweeter when he could finally sank down his teeth into the flesh. Stretching out the wait longer and longer, this time it had been days and the reward was so much better.

The day on the other hand, had nothing good in it. No one had been interesting enough, to the greater annoyance of the man, who just travelled further in the shadows. Making no sounds, letting no single soul know he was there. Useless hours it end up being, which raised the question if he should just go out there for one more night of just creating a true bloodbath, or if he really found his patience back to wait for a next one. Either way, Thri had to decide now this utterly boring day was coming towards its end. The place he was now was as silent as it could, no person around to entertain. But just as Thri was starting to decide, his vampire senses picked up someone. Not completely alone, although it didn’t seem like the companion was human either. Figuring this was much better than nothing, he decided to take a look, only getting surprised he had the new Grand Duchess right in front of him, all alone. A horse standing close by indicated the companion and that the man was indeed right about that little fact. He stared at the stallion, watching how it became uncomfortable before he heard the whisper. Closing in, he leaned against one of the rocks. ’Done with ruling already?’ Thri asked, letting his voice cut through the air while he waited for the reaction of her to come.

It seemed like this day did brought him something after all. On the edge of it, so to speak. The warm rays of light were getting too familiar, the man had watched them appear and disappear again and again, bordering his activity. Even now, when the light was so much weaker than it was during the hottest hours, it still weakened the vampire. Softly, Thri pressed his jaws together. At some point he needed to get used to how he felt under the sun, but after the crown was wiped from his head, he didn’t care less for it. Somewhere deep down he knew there would come a time he needed it, and now he was getting angry at himself he hadn’t done it earlier.
The girl in front of him wasn’t his usual something the day could bring to him, no source for blood, sadly. At least not directly now, the future brought weird things. For tonight, however, he needed to have his control back to its finest again. Getting annoyed with the sunlight, wouldn’t help him with that.

The man moved himself to a more comfortable position, as he awaited for the lady to answer. Folding his arms he pushed one of his feet against the rock he was leaning at, letting his bored look move over to the horse again. The poor creature didn’t got the chance to settle down again, as the ice blue eyes stared at it. Not having anything better to do, Thri watched how it finally moved backwards a few steps, pulling the very slightest satisfaction out of it. In contrary to how the brunette let him wait, mostly unimpressed, which annoyed him maybe more than the irritating warm light. Asking himself if she was just as annoyed by him interrupting her little alone time, he judged from the little whisper, which was something that helped that control being just as neat.

When she finally reacted, his gaze trailed back so slowly, listening to her sigh that brought up a little smile in his cold expression. Maybe that was the thing he should do the whole night, just annoy the shit out of her. As his eyes rested on her while she pushed herself deeper into the water. Letting his response await just as well. The words tucked up the corners of his mouth a little more, flashing his gaze back to the horse to ensure it would stay as unnerved as it already was. ’Done with something else then?’ The question sounded almost innocent, if it wouldn’t come from the mans lips. ’I was almost disappointed you’d stop so soon.’ Thri went on, switching his legs to have his other foot rested against the rock. Taking another scanning look before he let his voice cool down the atmosphere again. ’You remind me of someone. Just as stubborn.’