Nightshade

[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

The Nhai mountains held a few things no one knew about. THe corpse city was considered the only thing built within but there was older structures. Places that had been around since before the ten thousand clans as Sawa had learned. The lithe servants, in flowing kimono's with their hair oiled. Often place dhere because of their beauty... the maiden's citadel was a force order unlike many others. It trained its force users to be living pieces of art. From music to dancing, to swordplay, the force, historical knowledge, classical literature. They trained them to be able to hold conversations, to provide aid and comfort where needed and populate a royal court if need be. Sawa had learned about them with [member="Nine Lives"] when they traveled through the mountains

Now she had felt something else here... someone else who reminded her and she owed them a few things... mostly well she had reconnected with Kurenai and Sukai and Tana. her blood and descendants. So when she had sensed Elise on the planet she had made sure it was know she was looking for her. That she wanted to meet her here in the mountains near a small outcropping below the fortress of the dawn. Her stronghold but the Onna were not around. This village wasn't hers to control it was actually outside where she cared and had little in the way of people but their businesses could be stronger. A steady hand could make quick work and possibly organize them to give financial security for what she wanted to do here.

She was leaving room for Elise to be comfortable, sitting there in a seat as it was cushioned, her servant there kneeling at her feet. Head in her lap as the twi'lek curled and stroked with her lekku. A purring sound coming from her throat with Sawa looking out at the others. K1 was by her side, other servants around doing their thing to get the second seat all ready for her if she showed up. Drinks of tea and some meals that could act as a sort of truce between them. She loved her family as much as he could, she didn't want to kill them or fight them but someties they had to understand their place. It was for their benefit that Sawa sometimes had to kick them into the dirt if they challenged her and she stroked the twi'leks lekku with a grin on her face.

 

[Elise Ike]

It had been many years, almost a century since she had last set foot on this planet, much had changed in the time, several events like no other occurring in the galaxy.What is more the First Order had set their sights on the Ike home world, in a sense once more putting a damper to her plans and any real way to confront her grandmother about the whole 'challenge' thing. It was getting to the point were she wondered if it was worth going after this goal anymore, after all Elise had made a nice little base on the current planet she was staying at, was it really worth another go at Sawa place?

Probably not, but that was not why she was here today, recently she had found her daughter had been rising quite a bit in the CIS and was quite the competent fighter now, what is more she could feel Sawa's pull in the force, almost asking her to come back to Atrisia. So here she was standing at the entrance tot he fortress she had tried to take over those years ago, it's walls and defenses seeming to have increased greatly in that time periods, the cloaking field was a nice tough too. "I wonder if my room is still here? or would grandmother have sold it off to a servant of Abigail"?

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[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

She was here... Sawa could fel her and there was a grin on her face as the one guard was comign to her. "I know, let her in." She waved a hand and continued to stroke the twi'leks face... her chin and her lekku with a look over at what they had now. "Hmmm this is going to be more fun then I expected." Sawa said it while looking down from her seat towards the one that had been set up for Elise to come and look with her. "Come Elise... it has been so long since I have seen you. I almost didn't recognize you sweetie." The dark Ike tapped a finger as she leaned back letting her servant with her head in her lap nuzzle a little closer and wihtout saying it just holding out a hand she offered the girls wrist. "Coe sweetie, drink and welcome home."

 

[Elise Ike]

Elise kept her arms cross as the massive doors to the fortress were opened, stepping into the dark but still brightly lit building, as usual Sawa sat atop her lofty throne like chair, the array of blood sluts around her like little puppies. Her expression of indifference did not waver as she came closer, looking up at her grandmother like normal, even with all the years of contempt and other emotions on the side. "Old h- I mean grandmother... I would not know how you could not recognize me, it is not like we change much over a mere 800 years, or is it because I am not fancied up in dark brooding combat armor and trying to kill you, because we can fix that if you would like". Sort of a joke but was more then happy to oblige if Sawa raelly wanted to throw down again, but she doubted such would happen tonight. "Hmmm a drink, well I guess so, I am rather parched" she replied, walking forwards and taking the servants hand into mouth.

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[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

Sawa was looking at her and listened as she moved once Elise was close to them... taking a drink and the energy vampire moved in close to stand at her back. Face next to her ear, lips centimeters away as she was speaking lower then a whisper it would be almost impossible to hear by anyone there... except Elise. "Oh we can fight if you want my dear, you can avenge yourself upon me again and perhaps this time not end up in disgrace but I doubt it. I do not begrudge you sweetling... I only brought you back here because I have a gift for you." She said it and looked at her servant who was there and Sawa moved gracing with one hand to wrap it around. "Now be gentle.... just the tips of your fangs to pierce the flesh. Let her feel enjoyment from your bite... let her know she is safe and content with you. Then feed and stop when you feel her heart about to give way."

 

[Elise Ike]

Elise let out a small 'tch' as Sawa comment on avenging her disgrace, every mention of it and not living up to expectations was just another one of the constant jabs that Sawa had to stick into her. Though she was right, here and now with no army, no weapons, she was pretty much at the mercy of her Grandmother, no matter how much it made her cringe to do so. "A gift, hmmm, well I will not turn down such a nice treat, I am not often able to get a decent meal were I live anyways", in such a sparsely populate planet people going missing was often something to worry about. Stepping forwards she gently like took hold of the slaves hand, delicacy placing her fangs over her skins before lightly pricking the skin of the blood slut, slowly like a small trickle sucking the blood from their body, bit by bit.

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[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

Sawa was looking at her and she had a grin on her face now as she watched. The smile curling her lips as she wrapped her arms around and waited until Elise had drank and she tapped at her chin. "Ah ah ah enough my sweet." Sawa moved the servant away from them and she tilted towards her head to kiss and taste the blood with a look on her face. SIlver eyes watching her before she pulled back and was moving for the two of them. TO position and let Elise sit on her lap, held close and stroking her face. "Shh shhh shhh my dear, you have been away so long, the past is important yes but we have thousands of years ahead of us. Enjoy your time now and return to your family my sweet. This small property I had constructed for you before everything and it has grown better and better. Filled with happy meals for you and you can have your own home."

 

[Elise Ike]

Ture in a sense she was still young in vampire years, but the way Sawa babied her seemed very embarrassing and slightly insulting, she was not baby. Perhaps it was just a grandmother thing though, she had recorded the effects that human elderly parents have with their own family, constantly treating them like children. "I would say this feels strange but I get the vibe you do such with other family members all the time, also, I must say you certainly have done a lot with the place, not only have you fixed damaged I did but not it is cloaked". Were Sawa had obtained the crystals for the cloaking field she was unsure, one did not simply come across these things, you either needed to buy or steal them, neither events you could hide with ease.

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[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

"Yes it has taken some time but well your daughter was more then happy to help me with it. It was only afterwards when she gave me a taste out of respect that I realized who she was." Sawa moved ehr hand and traced witha finger the young vampires jawline. "SHe is so strong and beautiful my sweet Elise. Oh how I have enjoyed her skills." A smile remaining when her servants came in and were speaking. Mostly reports that they had been working on it and... "So my sweet Elise it would seem there is more coming with you. We have so much more now. Some workers uncovered a few tombs in the mountains and Nightshade the tavern I built for you. THe village well it needs someone to guide it firmly and make a profit."

 

[Elise Ike]

"Daughter? wait what"? In that moment Elise became quite serious, but more akin to a mother upon finding something about their long lost child, she had not eve known if the young girl had survived her first century let along almost 800 years. "Where is Abigail now? when did you last see her, what has she been doing in the last 800 or so years"? This was quite the new revelation, if Abigale had not died on her own accord she was certain that Sawa would have hunted the young girl down, or had she evaded interest for so long that any I'll will had since died away. "Well it is nice to know she is still alive, though what were you talking about a tomb or something"?

[member="Sawa Ike"]

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

Sawa looked at her. "Abigail.... hmmm she called herself Kurenai with her children Sukai and Tana." Sawa said it and there was amusement in her eyes, she had something known only to her and now she could hold it over.. she could tease it... taste the delicious fruits of it all. Looking at Elise though as she cooed crooking her finger to trace her jaw with the look. "My sweetling Elise... so serious you are going to get lines on your brow or be weighed down with it. Let her come to you in time, you are here, she lives and visits the planet from time to time. Her husband is here, her servants and food is here." THen she moved wrapping one arm around the girls waist. "Besides you can't just move to her and go 'Hey I am your mother and I am back.' She can be rather serious and dangerous like you."

 

[Elise Ike]

"A new name and with children? gosh I have missed a lot" why she went with a different name though did not make a whole lot of sense, unless she was not accepting of the whole vampire thing. Elise's face remaining with a cold glare as Sawa kept talking, she could sense that the woman was enjoying every second of this interaction, another stab into her pride. She kept a poised position through the entire interaction, even when Sawa drew her in close, a little more then she would like, "A dangerous fighter, considering what happened to her world of birth and other events I would no be surprised, though I wonder, should I pay her husband a visits? It would be nice to see the man who turned Abigail into a mother".

[member="Sawa Ike"]

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

Sawa looked at her and rose up moving them both to the window. "You could my dear, you could go and see him but will she know who you are I wonder." She said it while standing there and drawing her closer, closer... enough to guide her eyes and head out the window. "So much has happened my Elise... do you really want to try and re-enter her life now.... better to learn what you can.. better to be secured and safe yes." Sawa moved around though and she smiled. "Come, sleep and in the morning my sweet Elise we'll head out to your new home.. a place for you to oversee and if you do well, if you make plenty of credits for our family I don't see why we can't make you your own palace."

 

[Elise Ike]

Elise looked down with a heavy head, for once she had to agree with Sawa, even if she knew the woman was playing her emotions, she was good at that after all. One did not reach Sawa's age without learning a whole heap of tricks and deceptive talk, heck that was probably were she learnt to be so tricky and lying herself, guess it was a family thing. "Fine fine, I will listen to you for now ol- grand mother, so, what has my daughter been up to recently? what of her family and children"? If she remembered correctly there was a knight in the Silver Jedi with the last name Yumi, was that one of Kurenai's children? wait was she herself a Jedi? that seemed rather odd, thing did certainly happen when time passed.

[member="Sawa Ike"]

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

Sawa looked at her touching her shoulders and hair. "Oh she has been up to plenty, her children are skilled and learning to be jedi." Sawa moved though while motioning and she was walking with her hands going through her own hair. Leading back into the private chambers as the stairs ascended into the larger room. Water lapping at the marble in the dark where Sawa was standing and slipped out of the regal looking kimono into a shimmering thin outfit as she slipped into the steaming waters around the central island with her large bed on it. A bridge to just walk over to it but she wanted to relax just sitting there. "And Kurenai.. Abigail has been working as a mercenary."

 

[Elise Ike]

"Well it seems that Kurenai does not take after the family tradition if her children would up Jedi and he herself is not some massive Sith lord", such itself was just interesting, what sort of life did she live for the last 800 years. Tagging closely behind Elise was impressed by how much this places changed, more luxury looking then militaristic then she had remembered, with the whole cloaking field perhaps Sawa was going for a more hidden palace then impregnable fortress. "Hmmm a mercenary, that seems like a logical choice for someone with her potential skills, though I have a feeling that she is in a different position now with her family and such".

[member="Sawa Ike"]

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

"We all are my sweet Elise." Sawa said it and watched her as she laid there in the comfort of the both waters. Letting the steam cover her but more she moved around until she was sitting in a small alcove of marble with aurodium and gems being used to make an image. The entire tub itself was many man panels depicting their family history with the fortress and Sawa's specifically there was even under the water an image of her holding her granddaughter Elise as a baby followed by Elise rising up and being struck down. New panels showed her with Kurenai as they shared a slave, Sukai when they were working together on Alderaan. "Even you have changed from the angry little girl... hopefully you ren't to changed though to relax and enjoy yourself."

 

[Elise Ike]

The warm water steaming below her feet was an old sigh that had eluded her sight for quite some time, hot springs were not a feature you found on every single planet. Here eyes scanning the walls looking to the history of Abigail and what she assumed to be one of her spawn, the younger one looking a lot like her mother, just needed to be a little taller and developed those breasts a little more. Her fathers genes sure were generous, not something she could say about Sawa. A small scoff coming from her mouth at Sawa's mention of her former bratty nature, she was not over 3000, in the mid of her life as a vampire as some would call it, what was it, a 100 years of a vampire = 1 year of a human life? If that was the case Abigail was like only 9, she was in her 30s and Sawa was in her 50s... no that sounded right. "I can relax granny, though I can never be to certain", herself following the ageless being into the steaming water.

[member="Sawa Ike"]

 

[Sawa Ike]

[member="Elise Ike"]

Looking at her as Sawa watched the woman getting into the water the energy vampire grinned to herself. Leaning back and letting her hair float around her. She moved over though swimming around a little and she stroked Elise's hair. "OH how I am going to enjoy my sweetling Elise seeing you around again." She moved her slowly into one of the little alcoves with a look on her face as she sat there stroking her hair and running it between her fingers. She cooed a little and looked up to one of the windows that opened to reveal the stars above them. "I would tell you what I told your mother... something that you rebelled against. Little girls should be obedient to their elders." She had a tight lipped grin though touching the water. "I am glad you resisted just being, saved yu from an unfortunate fate and allowed you to experience more of the galaxy. So tell me Elise... what did you learn about the galaxy in your time."

 

[Elise Ike]

Elise grumbled a bit as she felt Sawa mess with her, "you are having way to much fun with this grandmother" it was a little unnerving, or was this her way of getting even, family stuff was always a little hard to understand. Wading through the water Elise sat across from Sawa, starring up at the stray night sky, staying that way even when Sawa talked about mother, "of course she would say that... were is mother anyways, still around here or off on some adventure"? "Oh, the galaxy, well I went to a planet, and stayed there for the new 800 years recovering, building a home, buying stuff, researching, over all I have not been to many other planets unless they hold some historical value".

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