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Post by Thorn McKnight on Aug 30, 2009 19:55:32 GMT -5
Thorn McKnight drove along the dark road, heading for nowhere. She was new to Bon Temps and was stuck here for a good month until the airport in Boston, Massachusetts opened again. Once it did, she would be free to return to her hometown - Oakhaven. The trees around her swayed with the wind. The start of dusk was beginning to creep upon everyone. Turning the radio down, Thorn noticed a bright sign. "Finally," She muttered to herself and turned towards the light. "Merlotte's Bar and Grill" it read. She raised her dark eyebrows and pulled up into the parking lot.
Turning off her car, Thorn got out and immediately her nose filled with a scent. The scent of a shifter. Thorn was a shifter herself, her main form being a black coyote. However, she also liked to shift into a black wolf, which had taken a lot of months to accomplish perfectly. She had a picture of a coyote on her dashboard, just in case she were to shift at moment's notice. Wrinkling her nose, Thorn shut her car door and walked upstairs, the scent becoming heavier and heavier. It was coming from inside the doors. "They must spend a lot of time in here." She said to herself and pushed open the door.
The bar was crowded, many different scents floated up her nostrils. She saw a black cook behind the counter dancing while he cooked food and she also saw the bar tender, the source of the scent she had smelled just before walking in. So, that's where the scent's coming from. Thorn thought to herself but decided she'd approach him once she had something to eat. She'd been wandering around all day in her Coyote form, something that she enjoyed very much. Soon spotting an empty booth, Thorn walked over and slid into one of the benches, picked up a menu that was on the table and examined it.
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Post by Anoushka bint Amir on Aug 31, 2009 16:17:34 GMT -5
Whenever Anouk got sick of the hustle and bustle of Shreveport and spending her nights at Fangtasia got boring, she would head to Bon Temps, and the only place in Bon Temps to hang out was Merlottes. With a look of wistful joy on her face, she sipped on a Tru Blood mixed with some red wine, she doubted this little bar and grill held anything older than 2005. Being careful not to spill any on her white shirt she looked around the bar, eyes glazing over as her mind wandered off into dark recesses. She thought of things a vampire would think of, and what a human would to. Possibly shopping and blood? Coco Chanel and sangria? Only Anouk would know what crept around in that head of hers, and something new entered her heard. The doors swung open and a rather tasty and young human walked in. No, scratch that. This girl was two-natured from what Anouk's nose told her, but she could be wrong. She held the stem of her glass gracefully and took another sip, then motioned a waitress over to her table. "I'd like to buy a glass of red wine for the lady over there." She pointed gently in Thorn's direction and the young waitress nodded, shuffling off to fill the order. Hopefully this greeting was subtle yet strong enough to entice her over, or possibly invite Anouk to join Thorn. |
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Post by Thorn McKnight on Aug 31, 2009 16:42:31 GMT -5
Thorn was still glancing at the menu, her eyebrows furrowing in disgust, when a waitress approached her table with a tray in her hand. Thorn looked, slightly glad to look away from the menu. Before she looked up, she could automatically sense what the drink was, thanks to her sense of smell. "A very nice young lady would you like to have this." The waitress said, putting down the drink. "Er, thank you." Thorn said awkwardly. The waitress nodded, smiled and walked away. Thorn looked down at her drink for a moment and then looked around the bar, trying to see who had given this to her. Her eyes skimmed over Anouk but then they went back to her almost immediately. She knew this girl had given it to her, probably meaning well. Shooting the girl a smile, Thorn raised the glass to her lips and drank.
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Post by Anoushka bint Amir on Aug 31, 2009 17:05:00 GMT -5
If death could be romantic, Anouk was Barrett Browning, Byron and Keats all rolled into one, and red wine was pretty romantic to her. Not that she was trying to woo the shifter, but it was a little gesture to break the ice. When she saw that Thorn smiled at her, Anouk returned it and contemplated joining the young woman. Tapping her purple flats against the floor for a moment, Anouk stood up with her glass and did a 'power-walk' thing over to Thorn, trying to assert some dominance and allure, but probably failed. She pushed the excess hair out of her eyes behind her ears and piped up to Thorn.
"Mind if I join you?"
Anouk spoke with an elegant tone, trying to keep her composure around the little wolf. Or rabbit, or owl or any other animal if she wasn't a were and was a shifter. What if Thorn hated vampires, Anouj be in for a shock and blow, but if shifters and weres did have amazing noses, she'd notice Anouk's lack of a heartbeat.
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Post by Thorn McKnight on Aug 31, 2009 17:14:41 GMT -5
Thorn had shifted her eyes from Anouk to the other locals in the bar. Most of them were humans her nose and senses told her, save for the bar tender. She knew he was either a shifter or a were. Well, that's slightly relieving. She thought to herself finally noticin Anouk standing in front of her. "Oh, sorry. Sure." She said simply waving a hand in the direction of the bench that was across from her. Her nose tingled with Anouk's scent, telling Thorn that she wasn't human or a shifter. Vampire? Thorn mentally asked herself. Thorn wasn't one to discriminate against other supes, except for maenads and what not. So, whatever this girl was Thorn was fine with as long as she did not turn on her tonight or ever for that matter.
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Post by Anoushka bint Amir on Sept 3, 2009 16:40:36 GMT -5
Anouk smiled and took a seat, at normal human speed as to not scare Thorn and draw a crowd. She set her glass down and looked around the bar quickly before turning her attention back to Thorn.
"I'm Anouk, by the way."
She casually introduced herself before taking a sip of her drink and pushing more hair behind her ears, Anouk kept meaning to buy a big bunch of hairbands but never got around to it.
"I've never seen you around here, are you new in town?"
(Short and lame, sorry D: )
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Post by Thorn McKnight on Sept 3, 2009 17:33:27 GMT -5
"Thorn." She said shyly, nodding her head in a polite way. "Yeah, my flight got mixed up and I can't go back home for a good month." Her senses continued to tell her that Anouk was Vampire. Stuffing that thought in the corner of her mind, Thorn said simply, "So I'm stuck here." She wasn't a person to open up and give out full blown details for the world to hear.
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