<font color='#000080'>Sieben looked back over his shoulder at the high pendragon as she continued to flow him. Looked back ahead as he approached the last few steps up to the top of the tower. Comes to a stop and looks into the hall that leads over to another tower. Sighs softly and places his hands into the pockets of his pants and strolls down the hall slowly. Looks about as he goes then stops turning to a skeleton of a dragon on the floor. "I came back to remember...all that has happened in my past life. To see if there was a way to correct what was done." He mumbled as he walked over to the wall across from the skeleton and stares at it.</font>
<font color='#000000'>Okkie lapsed into silence as she followed stealthily behind Sieben. It wasn't long before the pair of pendragons reached the top of the stairs, and the female was inwardly relieved. She inhaled one last toke off her joint, and then tossed it into the rubble and dust that littered the floor. She then fluffed her wings and followed the vampire down the hallway, to the adjacent tower with the bleached bones lying on the floor. “Hm, well, I don’t mean to be blunt,” Okkie piped up coolly, “But I think you’re a little too late to save that one.” The female glanced at Sieben, wondering if her latest barb would prick him where it hurt. But her vision suddenly blurred, and her shoulderblades began to twitch, so she turned away and sank into a squatting position. Okkie let the case of jolting and shivering pass like rain over her, as she trailed a chocolate digit over the grime-slathered floor.</font>
<font color='#000080'>Sieben continued to stare at the bones of the anicent 'dragon. Lowers his eyes away from it and looks to the dusted floor that lied beneath his feet. Shakes his head a bit and looks over at Okkie as she spoke the few words that barely scratched the surface then watched her as she fell into the lapse. Glares slightly at her then the words softly roll off his tongue to her. "Are you alright...?" Draws his hand out of his pant pocket and reaches it down to touch her at all to see if she was still with him.</font>
<font color='#000000'>“I’m fine. It happens every time, I’m used to it,” The banded pendragon snapped as Sieben touched her. She abandoned the random design she was scrawling on the filthy floor, and peered up at him. She saw concern in his bottomless eyes, but she was too far gone to really comprehend. Once more, she pointed her muzzle at the floor, and she sank even further down, into a curled laying position, whispering a muted, “Mmm. But that doesn’t make it any more fun...”</font>
<font color='#000080'>Draws his hand back from her slowly and places it back into his pocket. Licks his lips a bit and looks back up at the bones. Walks over to where they laid then kneeled down beside them and takes up the skull in hand. Stands back to his feet slowly then holds the skull up slowly. Looks into the eye holes and glared a bit. Smirking then he crushes the skull in his hand and a red jewel comes from the dust. Looks back over at Okkie and waves the jewel. "Found it...", he said as he placed the jem into his coat pocket then walked back over to where she was crawling. Shakes his head a bit then kneels down beside her and grabs Okkie up by her arm to her feet. "Can you stand on your own, or would you want me to help you along?" Smirks as he stands there holding her arm gently, watching to see if she would regain her footing.</font>
<font color='#000000'>The world spun a little as Sieben tried to hoist Okkie to her feet, and she had no time or energy to protest. She merely allowed herself to be heaved to her feet, and she even leaned some of her weight against the male. Then a few moments passed, the twitching faded out, and 'Kie regained focus. It wasn't long after everything cleared that she yanked her arm out of Sieben's grip, glaring half-heartedly in the dank shadows of the decrepit tower. “Hands off, bub. I’m fine. I don’t need your help. Just keep doing what you’re doing and don’t pay attention to me...” The coyote-like female grimaced and peered at the floor, feeling her down crashing towards her. Soon, she'd be wallowing in a pit of despair, and she didn't want Sieben sneering in her face when that happened. For both their sakes - who knew if she'd try to crack that smirk right off his face?</font>
<font color='#000080'>Sieben shook his head and turned away from Okkie, as he continues out of the first tower and goes to the next one over. Looks back over his shoulder to the dazed Okkie as she sways back and forth from the drugs that she was using. Shrugs it off and walks over to the opposite tower. Slowly looks up from the floor to the very large door infront of himself. Slowly he looks over the mammoth door and reaches a hand out, brushing away at the dirt that collected over it after all the thoses years. Brushes away the dirt that covered two rounds spheres and a hole that looked as if something when there. Reaches back into his coat pocket and draws the jem that he found from before and looks it over slowly. Lifts his eyes from the jem to the hole then extends his hand placing it into the hole. Suddenly the two larger sphere about the hole glow and begin to chim like bells. The large door begins to rumble and dirt from the years fall from it. Sieben takes a step back and holds his arm up infront of his nose as a dust cloud consumes him. After a few short moments the cloud settles and Sieben raises his eyes up to view the now clean door, that shined silver. Suddenly the door parts and opens into the other tower.</font>
<font color='#000000'>Two blue eyes snapped upwards and two caramel ears pricked to attention as chimse began to peal. Okkie blinked and gazed towards Sieben, wondering what the hell he was up to now. Then a faint roar was accompanied by a thick cloud of dust, and the male was swallowed up into a cloud of filth. The stone laid floor rumbled beneath the female's paws, then... silence. The dust eventually settled, and Okkie peered blankly at the gap that now greeted her eyes. “Hot damn. You’re good at this Indiana Jones crap.” Completely forgetting her incoming depression, Okkie padded forwards, until she stood next to Sieben. The sterling gilting of the doors was shiny despite its age, and the corridor to the next tower was dark. Ah, yes, this looked like an adventure waiting to happen!</font>
<font color='#000080'>Sieben smirked at the remark and nodded slowly as he walks into the tower. Places his hands into his coat pockets and looks about slowly at the walls, covered in pictures of anicent times. Walks over towards the wall that has a picture of two pendragons fighting with one another. Shakes his head slowly and smirks as he runs his fingers along the fine wall. Looks back over his shoulder at the female whom was still at the enterances. "Do you want to know the sad thing about all this?" Asked her as he continued to look over the wall, but doesn't wait for her to answer. "The fact that this place has been cursed. But really it doesn't bother me at all, I mean if it was a curse of death or something...", shrugs. "I really don't have anything to worry about."</font>
<font color='#000000'>She followed him into the tower, completely unafraid, the drugs giving her a false sense of invincibility. Or perhaps, despite all that she denied, being with Sieben made her feel safe? But the reason didn’t matter; the whys and wherefores were trivial. All that mattered now, was the adventure, the fact that there was “nothing to fear”… even the curse didn’t strike awe in Okkie’s heart. “A curse? Interesting. I’m a living curse, so it doesn’t really bother me, either. And I’m not dead,” She said quietly, pausing to peer at a decrepit painting on the wall. A mother suckling her child, but it wasn’t with milk. With blood that seeped from her teat. “But I have been.”</font>
<font color='#000080'>Sieben listened to her as she spoke and nodded. Draws his hand back from the wall slowly and looks back over at her. "Are you telling me that you have been beyond and back before?" Places his hand into his coat pocket and turns to her as he awaits an answer to the question.</font>
<font color='#000000'>Okkie moved to the next painting, her blue eyes falling gracefully on its oily canvas. Three pendragons, armed to the teeth, heading into battle. Their eyes reflected the ferocity in her own, and the female’s tail twitched as she studied their muscles, their frozen movements, the sweat cropped up on their brows… “I’ve been way past beyond, Sieben. My throat has been torn open before, shiny carnage, my pink flesh yawning open to the world. My life blood spilled out to paint the earth, and my eyes glazed over like the skim on boiled milk. I was gone, I was… Well, you would never understand. Even I don’t understand all of it.” Snow colored wings ruffled as the teenager turned away from the painting of the warrior trio. Her lucid gaze fell on the vampiric male, wondering if he felt special, or unique, because of what he was. You shouldn’t, Okkie thought cynically to herself. There’s many like you out there. But there’s just the one of me.</font>
<font color='#000F22'>Sieben nods to her response to the question the lowers his eyes away from hers. Feeling that he shouldn't go and speak anymore, Sieben walked over to a set of stairs that spiraled down into darkness. Shook his head slowly then began to decend down into it. His white glowing eyes, changing to a faded red arua as he was consumed by the darkness, making it easy for him to see where he was going. Stops about 12 steps into the darkness then looks back up to Okkie's figure, incased in the light reflecting off the silver door behind her. Glares slightly and awaits to see if she would follow.</font>
<font color='#000000'>Oily blue eyes followed Sieben as he turned and whisked towards a downwards spiral of steps. He didn’t pause or hesitate in any way, and his masculine body was disappearing into the darkness as Okkie watched him silently. He was almost completely shrouded when he finally froze, turned around, glared at the female, beckoning her without words. Once more, she flexed her milky appendages, and then Okkie followed suit behind the male pendragon, her tail frisking and her plaid shirt rustling as the pair descended stealthily into the shifting, waxing, waning darkness.</font>
<font color='#000F22'>Flexing out his bone like structures on his back, Sieben turns back into the shadows and fixed his rd gaze upon the steps that was ahead of him. Licks his lips a bit then places a hand against the wall of the tower as he descended completely into the dark. Reaches his other hand up about his neck then breaks off a small jewel on a thin chain. Holds his hand out behind himself to Okkie as he continued to descend then the jewel begins to glow a bright blue arua. "Take this...it will act as light for you if you so need it." Releases the jewel from his hand and it floats there in the air awaiting to be taken into hand by another. Sieben drawed his hand back and placed it into his coat pocket then drops his wings back against his shoulders as he continues down.</font>
<font color='#000000'>Okkie adjusted her beltline as she ducked further under the hood of darkness, completely oblivious to the shadows that lapped at her feet and suckled at her legs, nibbling in hopes that she would explore further. The shades wanted desperately to glean their prize, swallow her hole. Then she’d be forever lost in the great tongue of darkness, in a perpetually lightless tomb. Thankfully, she was fully unaware of the lurking, serpentine shadows. That was, until Sieben’s floating gem caused them to draw back in sharp relief against the icy stone walls, and then she could see their hopping, shapeless figures prancing on the greasy stones. In fact, they were more captivating than the jewel itself… Okkie’s eyes followed them instead of the enchanted source of light. Ensnared. But then she snapped back into focus, and glared snidely at the glowing sapphire. It rotated slightly in the hungry darkness, its facets sighing out rays of diluted light. Okkie forgot the shadows, and reached out to grasp the thin chain. Not because Sieben had told her to, but because she had finally become aware of the dangerous dark. And there was no way she was gonna let it eat her.</font>
<font color='#000F22'>Sieben continued to descend as he took each step slowly, unsure if the step before him will give way. Turning his head back to look to Okkie as she took hold of the light that he offered her then holding to herself as she walked. Sieben nodded as he watched her then continued on. Just as he was takes another step down, it gives away from his under his foot causing Sieben to roar as he fell from where he was at on the stairs to the bottom of the tower below. Extends his bone out wings Sieben attempts to stop himself but material from the stairs comes down onto him, causing him to go down like a stone. Crashes against the ground at the bottom and gets covered by the stair steps and pieces of the wall.</font>
<font color='#000000'>Now, saucy blue eyes were peeled, wary of the seething shadows, keenly aware of the pitching, rolling, swelling darkness in the belly of the tower. Okkie was incredibly keyed up, prickled tail swerving behind her, alabaster wings folded tightly against her spine. Her floppy ears were cocked and erect, prepared to pick up the sound of fleeting gloom. But they heard nothing except the breathing of two pendragons, and the dripping of some water somewhere in the cold wall. This went on for a few moments — Okkie, acutely, intensely attuned, her fist still clamped around the chilly chain, Sieben leading quietly, like a flare of black shadow. They circled downwards, their feet slapping quietly against the ancient stone steps. Though the magical gem seemed to keep most of the starved shadows at bay, both ’dragons could feel the pitch black darkness snapping at their heels, growling and crying out with hunger, preparing to strike should they fall into the pits… And that’s exactly what Sieben did. Okkie was focused on a rather slick arc of onyx substance creeping up the wall — a nightmare alive, a cackling shadow — when an earsplitting roar echoed off the bouncing darkness and around the circular stone tower. The female grimaced and her vision immediately fluttered to the vampire. But he was already tumbling, his thin wings outstretched. Her hand trembled as his bugle richocheted off the slathered walls, and the gem bobbed in her grip. Its light flared, but it wasn’t strong enough… It didn’t stretch to the bottom of the staircase, where Okkie heard Sieben land with a booming thud, accompanied by the sound of falling debris. “Erp. Sieben? I hope you’re okay. Because, like, I’m vokcing stoned out of my mind, and I don’t have any healing skills.” With that, she fell silent, the glowing jewel still in her clutch, swinging on its skinny chain.</font>
<font color='#000F22'>After a few moments of silences, a heavy breathing sound errupts from the belly of the tower as down at the bottom a green arua emitted from beneath the rubble. A sudden growl then the stones covering Sieben explode and throw up against the walls of the tower, causing loud echoes to occur. A green glowing pendragon rises from the dust and growls deeply as he stands to his feet. The arua died down after a short few and Sieben looked over himself with eyes of anger. Notices that his suit is ruined and that he destoryed one of his skeleton wing in the fall. Shakes his head slowly then removes the coat from his body then reaches back a hand and tearing the rest of his shattered wing from his back. Turns his red eyes up towards the glowing light that came from the jewel in Okkie's hand and smirks. "Take more then a fatal fall to put a stop to me." He spoke to her from the ground below. Takes the fu*ked up coat and searches the pockets for his shades. Finds them and they are ruined. Shakes his head slowly then throw them both aside and looks back to Okkie. "Are you okay my dear...?" He asked looking up at her.</font>
<font color='#000000'>They were odd, the feelings that steeped in Okkie’s veins at the present moment. She felt frightened, scared of the dark and of the fall. Her drumming heart was panicky, and she couldn’t steady her shuddering hand. But more than the fear, there was concern — somewhere in the stomach of the deepest shadows, Sieben was crawling, probably hurt. This thought scared her, just as much as the fact that she found herself caring for the male at all. Presently, some of her petrification was dispelled when Sieben’s voice rose against the darkness, along with a flash of light, and the sound of scrabbling stones. Okkie strained to see down the wrecked stairwell, stretching the gem out in front of her in hopes that it would cast more light on the male. Unfortunately, it didn’t, and so the female was stuck on the precipice that used to be stairs (before Sieben had crumbled them), her blue eyes trained hopefully on the aura below. “Me? I’m just fine and dandy. I’m the one up here, after all. It’s you that’s vokced over, my friend,” Okkie replied to the male’s feathery words from beneath. “The stairs are ruined. I can’t come down and help you. I could fly, but that’s a dangerous feat, even with light. The stairs are narrow. Can you try to fly up?” Her voice was somewhat strained, and she didn’t even know the worst of it — didn’t know about Sieben’s severed wing.</font>
