Loneliness (Vorel)

[Catio]

Loud music, brightly coloured lights, and many happy people, well, all happy, but one. Five years ago Catio would have been up and dancing with all the cheerful people. But today, he was sitting on the sidelines in a booth, a solitary figure cloaked in red with long golden hair splayed out randomly around him, the table covered with empty mugs that were once home to various alcoholic beverages. There were people on the dance floor that consisted of a mixture of all the races of Vaenon, but only one person here mattered to Catio, the waitress.

"Another drink here please ma'am, make it the strongest you've got." Catio requested, slightly peeved that after all the drinks he's had he has yet to even feel a buzz. "Geez, I should've stayed back in that gloomy place, the drinks there were stronger." Catio audibly sighed realizing how lonely he was, "Five years sure is a long time to be alone after having such a great friend."

The waitress returned with a mug full of a clear liquid. "This is your strongest drink? Looks pretty wimpy." Catio laughed before the waitress responded in a very serious tone, "Sir, this is ninety-nine percent alcohol per volume." A hush swept over the room as Catio picked up the glass and smelled it, all eyes on him, before downing the contents of the mug in one fell swoop. The crowd cheered before resuming their activities. "Hmm, pretty strong tasting, but that much of it should've had almost immediate effects on my perception. Oh well, I'll call you over if I need anything else." He then sat there looking at the table and all the empty mugs. Loneliness once again setting upon him. "God I miss her..." He mumbled under his breath hoping none could hear.

[vorel]

Vorel walked into the dance hall. She was wearing a black tanktop, black pants and boots. Her long black hair was down and flowing behind her as she walked. She looks around with her Dark blue eyes and sees many different people on the dance floor. She shakes her head some still walking more into the hall and over to the bar. Her wolf ears moved some listing to everything that was going on around her.

She weaved through the people on the floor and also making sure that no one stepped on her tail as she moved over to the bar. She sits down on a stool at the bar and orders a drink, she leans her elbow on the bar top and watches as the waitress moves to get her drink. She lets out a soft sigh and when hears someone behind her say that he missed someone.

She turns some and looks behind her to see a young man sitting there with a lot of empty mugs on his table and she could see that it was not doing him any good. She pays for her drink and then gets back to her feet. She walks over to where he is and looks down at him with her Dark blue eyes and in a gentle voice she asks " Are you alright. You seem a little down tonight. " She watches him some and then sips her drink.

[Catio]

Catio looked up quickly as he heard an unfamiliar voice above the drone of the music and murmur of the dancing group to see a woman standing in front of him. Upon seeing the long black hair and black clothes he immediately thought and stated aloud and he stood quickly giving the stranger a hug, "Nyte?!" But upon noticing the ears and tail of a wolf he quickly backed off her and sat back down embarrassed, "Sorry about that ma'am...you just look so much like her and I acted without thinking. My apologies." He looked into his latest drink as he sloshed it around in his cup, this one green in colour and, according to the waitress, very strong as well, he downed this one in one quick gulp with no ill effects before realizing he hadn't answered her question, "How rude of me, my name is Altercatio Aevum, and yes, I am quite alright, even though I might seem down, this is normal."

He motioned for her to sit down opposite him at the table before saying, "Again, I apologize for my earlier reaction, I guess this alcohol is finally getting to me. But moving on, what could possibly have possessed you into walking over here and talking to me, no one ever does."

[vorel]

Vorel watched him stand and move close to her and then giving her a hug. She backed away some as for she did not know why this stranger was just up and hugging her. She then heard him said a name she had never knew. She then watches him back away from her and apologize to her for how he reacted to her coming over to him. She then watches him sit back down and and swish around the drink that was in his hand.

She sits down across from him and says " No harm done I am sure that it happens to other people for some look like others that we knew or know. " She puts her drink down on the table and leans back some in her chair and says " Well I happen to look around the room and seen that you were the only person not on the dance floor having a good time. I thought I would come over and keep you some company. I mean you seem very lonely and I have no friends to be with tonight. "

She let out a soft sigh and then takes a downs half of her drink. She looks back to him and says " Its a pleasure to meet you Altercatio Aevum. Im Vorel Arytiss. You have nothing to be sorry for. I am understand that after a few drinks it would start to make you do strange things that you would not really do. " She softly smiles at him and then asks " If you do not mind me asking. You called me Nyte. Who would this Nyte person be that I seem to look a lot like her? "

[Catio]

Catio smirked as he stated, "Company is nice, been far too long since I've had good company, especially with someone of a different race." He then turned to the waitress and asked her to bring him a few more drinks. He then turned back to Vorel, "The pleasure is all mine Vorel, and as for Nyte...she is...well..." He stumbled over the words in his head trying to find a way to avoid the question but failing, "Nyte is, lets just put it as, 'A woman from my past with whom I have lost contact with'."

Catio looked down before taking a drink from one of the drinks the waitress had just brought him. "Okay, so that not entirely truth, Nyte was the only friend I'd had since I was exiled. I decided to let her rest one day while I went into town for supplies but when I came back out, she was gone." He rambled on having no clue why he was divulging some pretty personal stories to a complete stranger. "After that my life slowly went downhill to where I am now, a Dragoon with no friends, no family, and no life, just barely making it by day to day as I slowly go insane." He then leaned back with his arms behind his head before finishing with, "I'm sorry for wasting your time with my incessant rambling about how much my life sucks." By now the alcohol had set in more and he was not even paying attention to what he was saying.

[vorel]

Vorel watched and listened to him as he spoke to her about having good company. She then says " I know what it is like not have have any friends at all. " She watches him order more drinks and then stumble on telling her who Nyte was and then watched him down one of the drinks. She downs the rest of hers and listens to him tell her the story of Nyte and how his life has been after she had disappeared.

She puts her elbows on the table and folds her hands on the table top. She looks at him and says " You know you can not keep blaming yourself for what happens in life. There are things in life that happens for a reason. Maybe Nyte had a very good reason for just upping and leaving with she did and did not want you to get hurt. " She then looks down at the table and says " I on the other hand know what it is like to be alone for more then five years. I have been alone since I was very young. My parents were killed and I had no one to take care of me and I did not have any friends. I was always an outcast to my kin since hunters came to my home and took the only people I knew. "

She looks up at him and says " When I found my parents dead in the forest I grew strong knowing that they wound want to see me get on with my life and know that I am doing something with my life. " She then thinks " Maybe Nyte would want you to do the same. " She then thinks a moment and says " You know if you would like seens how we have a lot in common I will be your friend if that would be alright with you? " She watches him with her Dark blue eyes and not really paying any mind to anyone that would be staring at them.

[Catio]

Catio listened to what Vorel said then downed yet another alcoholic beverage, then he sat there contemplating what she said, "You know what, you're absolutely right, I shouldn't blame myself for what life throws at me when there was nothing I could've done to prevent it. And after she left, I did train to become stronger, and I am substantially stronger than I was then."

He drank his next two drinks in quick succession before responding to her final statement, "Why Vorel, I gladly accept your invitation to friendship." Catio smiled at Vorel before saying, "Ya know, today is probably the only day in the last 5 years I've been happy, I think it might be a combination of the alcohol, and making a friend, but I'm happy." His silver eyes gazed into her dark blue ones, "I'm glad to have a new friend, I've never had an anthromorph as a friend before."

[vorel]

Vorel sat there and watched him down another drink that was in front of him. She then softly smiles at him when he told her that he was not going to be down anymore for something that he could not control what happened to him in his past and it was true for she too could not control the death of her parents but she did not let that get her down. It only made her stronger.

She then watches him down that next two drinks and she knew that the alcoholic was now starting to take effect on him. She smiles at him again when he accepts her friendship, she was glad to have a friend once again in her life. She leans froward in her seat looking deep into his silver eyes and says " I am glad to hear that you are happy Altercatio. I too am happy to have a friend among the Dragoon kin. The alcoholic would make you feel happy for it numbs your body and nerves, also making a new friend would do it too. "

She reaches out with a hand and puts it on his hand gently and says " If you need anything please let me know. I never let my friends down when they are in need. " She was about to say something else when a human walked past her, he trips making his drink go all over her. She looks down at the human that was on the floor. She looked at him closely and could see some features of one of the hunters that killed her parents. Her Dark blue eyes change to black, she gets up from her seat and picks up the human from the ground and makes it to where he could not touch the ground with his feet. She looks deep into his eyes with her Black eyes and says " Your fathers before you killed my parents and for that I will make you and anyone related to the hunter pay with your life. " On her wrist that was holding up the human a bracelet appeared with a jade gem in the middle of it. The gem started to glow, she really wanted to harm this human for what his fore fathers did to her.