Queegle turned his head to try and avoid being kissed but to no avail. Ewwww! Ick! When Valen set him down he immediately stood on his back feet and began rubbing forcefully at his head. I... was just kissed... by a man. Queegle thought irritably. He continued to rub his head long after Valen had gone into the kitchen.

Anna was puttering around the kitchen slowly, looking for something to eat, when out of the corner of her eye she saw Valen come into the room. She smiled at him, not shyly at all now that they were alone, and continued her search. "Gah. I might as well give up and wait. I can't find anything on my own." She laughed. She didn't particularly know how to cook much of anything, she preferred to stay in inns where food was prepared for her.

She came back to where Valen was standing and hugged him around the waist, as if she did this everyday. As she tilted her head back to look up at him, she smiled. "Where's Quee?"

When she came to him as he entered the kitchen he held his arms open to her. Hugging her tightly but gently as she hugged him. "Perhaps I'll make something good for you in a bit." He kissed the top of her head softly.

When she asked about Queegle he shook his head slightly. "I told him he shouldn't disturb us for awhile...I don't think he was at all happy about it though." He leaned down and kissed her cheek softly. His hands slipping down her body to grasp both her butt cheeks and squeeze them a bit.

Pulling away only enough to look at him, Anna gave Valen a strange look. "You cook?" Without waiting for an answer she chuckled softly and laid her head back on his chest; that was as far up as her head reached.

She was about to say something else when he squeezed her butt. "Hey you! Be good!" She said scoldingly as she pulled away. She sounded completely serious but the look on her face and the light in her eyes showed that she was being completely facetious.

Alice watched as the two people that went upstairs to do god knows what came though the door and started to grope each other she faked cough "um i can see you two can you go be stupid somewhere else." she knew just by looking at them that they were not the same and well that made things worse. She walked out of the room looking back at the man who she was talking to before "um can you get me when it done i kinda want to sit down." she walked to the door and opened it when she got a glimpse of the man that walked into the tavern she fell to the ground and just pointed at him she got a good look at him when she hid he was the one mother and father told to hide from.

He grinned at her when she pulled away and mockingly scolded him. "Oh..I can be VERY good." He pulled her back to him, hugging her tight, his lips meeting hers in yet another kiss. His hands once again traveling down to squeeze her buttocks gently as he pressed himself tight and..hard..against her body. His tongue gently flicked along her lips, seeking entrance.

His eyes half lidded and full of lust as he kissed and squeezed her.

Valen was pulling her hard against his body but Anna didn't mind; it was the first time he'd not acted as if she were fragile and breakable. She wrapped her arms around his back and pulled herself closer to him. Her lips parted slightly as she smiled against his lips. Then she heard Alice.

Anna was fine, open and happy, when she and Valen were alone, but having an audience embarassed her. She sprang away from him as if he had caught on fire. One hand covered her mouth and the other clung to the counter behind her. Her face was on fire and she couldn't look at either Alice or Valen.

He had growled when Anna jumped away from him. His eyes flashing dangerously for a moment as he glared at Alice. Didn't she know anything at all? She should have just quietly left the room. His glare promised a slow painful death, but she wouldn't see it. Her back was already to them and she was leaving the room.

His expression quickly changed once Alice was gone. He really didn't like that rude girl, probably because she had wanted to poke him with a stick earlier. He smiled at Anna, her face was red. Very red. A few quick steps brought him to her, his arms going around her waist and pulling her tight and hard against his own body once again. "Please.." He whispered the word softly as he leaned down to kiss her again, eyes filled so completely with lust.

One hand moved gently up and down her spine, fingers teasing her back bone a bit while the other hand moved to rest at her hip for a moment before those fingers began to trail around her waist and up her torso.

Anna had watched and seen the look that had come into Valen's eyes as he'd looked toward Alice. It was nearly forgotten as he kissed her again, but not entirely. In that moment Valen had looked just like him. She shook her head, breaking the kiss and looking down. Looking up just long enough to put her hand on his cheek (the one that had been over her mouth, her other was still gripping the counter tightly) she then bowed her head slightly and instead stared at his stomach. "I... I can't. Not right now." She blinked away the tears that had sprung to her eyes unwanted then looked back up.

She didn't move away from him, didn't try to move his hands from her body, but she no longer moved toward him either. She gave him a small apologetic smile, using her talents to hide her true feelings once again. "I don't even know what kind of demon I'd be with."

Right now, what she really wanted to do was go out. Not on a date, but outside. Being outside would clear her mind, and she would be able to change. Her appetite was gone now anyway and her mind was filled with thoughts of which animal she could be. For the second time that night, her eyes became unfocused as she became lost in thought. Her body went pliable and she relaxed.

His jaw clenched. His entire body tensed and his chest tightened a bit. He moved back from her, letting his hands fall away from her body. His eyes had been clouded over with lust..and that was the only time the constant pain left his body and mind completely...but she was rejecting him. He closed his eyes and sighed deeply. Trying to force all thoughts of seduction from his mind.

When he opened his eyes again, for a brief moment there was pain in them, but it was quickly gone. His arms going around his torso as he gripped his ribs hard for a moment. Pushing the pain back into a corner of his mind. Another sigh and he lowered his arms. "I did something wrong?" A soft question..a question filled with uncertainty.

There was no way that she could tell him that he'd scared her, so for a moment she just stood there. She tried to think of what to say. In the end all she could think to do was lie; she was very good. It sounded just like the truth. "No. Of course not. You're... very very good at what you were doing..." She closed her eyes for a moment and pulled her bottom lip between her teeth. A look of nothing but pleasure passed over her face. When she reopened them, the look faded, but only slightly; Anna was extremely good at what she did. "But I'm not ready. I was serious when I said that I don't even know what type of demon you are. You said yourself that there are many different kinds." She took a step closer and was about to wrap her arms around him again. She decided against it though; he was very easily excited.

After this, a look of excitement crossed her face. Her eyes lit up with a thought that she'd been thinking about for a while now but only just showed. "I know you have another form. You aren't always human." She began, hoping she didn't offend him. "I... really want to go outside and run. The animal in me is screaming to get out and I've been ignoring it for too long. I'm restless." She stepped closer to him once more, nearly pressing herself against him again as she pried his hands away from his ribs. She laced her fingers through his to prevent him from being able to dig them into his ribs again.

He smiled. She had said he was very good, with emphasis on the very. He let her take his hands into her own when she stepped closer to him. However, his smile faltered and he had flinched slightly. She knew he had another form...and the animal in herself wanted to be let out. He pulled away from her.

Valen turned, showing her his back, and his arms went around his torso. "I can't change."

"Why Val?" Anna asked, coming up behind him and slipping her arms around his waist. "Is there some reason that you can't change?" She layed her cheek on his back and nuzzled him like a cat. Her voice was curious yet somewhat sad at the same time. In her mind, every lie had to be based off of even just a sliver of truth to be believable. He had believed her which was why she was sad, though if asked she would claim it was because she wanted to be outside, that she felt like a caged dog. Ooooo bad metaphor... She thought, thinking of the collar again. "I really feel... penned up. When I'm inside to long. I want to go outside but I'd like you to go with me."

She had wrapped her arms around him from behind. She was touching. He shivered, a pleasant shiver and was silent for a long moment. He had to fight off the sudden wave of lust that washed over him at her touch. His eyes were closed tightly and he shook his head slightly. She wanted to know why, he wasn't surprised. She wanted to know alot about him. He shook his head again and pulled away from her. He had to pull away from her, he had to break the physical contact. For now at least. Until he could get himself under control or, rather, that small semblance of control he had.

He turned to look at her. Studying her face, or rather, her expression. His eyes almost seemed as if they were searching for something. "I can't change. There are no reasons for it, other than the fact that I simply lack that ability." He frowned slightly, it was a lie of sorts and probably obvious after the way he had flinched when she mentioned him having another form.

She sighed, a sad sound, and crossed her arms over her chest in the same way that he did so often, but she wasn't digging her fingers into her ribs. She licked her lips, being unintentionally seductive with the motion, and studied him the same way he was studying her. "Do you not think that you can control your other form? Or is it that you can't control the change itself... it happens because of some sort of stimulus?" She now sounded quite unlike her bard self. She sounded like a scientist studying a new subject.

She wanted to go out so badly, wanted to change form so much, that she decided to go ahead and do it. She decided to mix and match (she loved doing it). A tail began to form behind her just above the hem of her skirt (which rested low on her hips), long and thin, almost rat like, but on the end was a tuft of fur about a foot long. It was snow white like her hair and the tail itself matched the color of her skin. She wrapped this around herself twice, the rest of it hanging limply beside her except for the tip which twitched in a very cat like manner; it was so long that it was a few inches longer than she was tall. Under her skirt, her feet changed, they stretched as the began to change and soon she was standing on two paws and her legs had begun to change to. Within seconds her legs, up to the knee, looked like what a werewolfs would. Every scrap of fur on her when she changed was always snow white.

OoC:

No time to really actually rp, but I will be posting apoint of discussion in the OoC thread if you guys wouldn't mind taking a look and giving me your opinion. <3

She wanted to know why and he didn't want to tell her. His hands clenched a bit, his eyes not leaving her as she asked her questions. He was silent, not answering her but just watching. Anna had begun to change and when she did a look of pain crossed his face and he turned his back to her once again. It wasn't fair. Those words echoed through his mind, childish thoughts, he knew that. She wasn't being mean to him......not on purpose anyway.

"I am trapped." His words were so soft, barely even a whisper.

"Trapped...? You mean... part of your punishment... part of your slavery is you can't show your true form?" She came forward. Her hands had changed to. Her fingers were slimmer with small, curling claws rather than fingernails. She was close but not exceedingly so as she placed one of her hands on his back.

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He shrugged slightly. "It's...complicated." He shivered when she touched him and he moved away from her, turning to look at her he shrugged again. "It doesn't matter, really." He held his arm out for her to take. "Still want to go out?" He was smiling at her, smiling as if nothing troubled him at all. "I need some fresh air too. It's good for the lungs." He winked at her.

With a small smile, Anna placed her hand daintily on Valens arm. "Very gentleman like." She said with a wink of her own. "And yes, I still want to go out. I'll make a fool of myself acting the way I do out there, but I need the break." She leaned her head forward, her bangs covering her face. "Also, this will be weird, but I'll need you to hold my clothes. They don't change with me and they'll be soaked if I leave them on the snow." She turned her head to smile at him and her cheeks were a pretty, light pink color.

As she allowed herself to be led toward the door outside, Anna looked around the main room of the tavern. There was another new man in the room. He was brandishing something around; it appeared to be a photograph or a well drawn picture. Something about the figure in the picture seemed familiar but she shrugged it off. She turned her attention back to Valen, her expression somewhat sad. "Smiling doesn't mean you are happy. It also doesn't make me believe that you aren't hurting because of what has happened to you." She said boldly, but quietly, so that only he would hear.

He took her through the tavern, towards the door that led to the outside. Ignoring the others that may be in the Tavern, as they really were of no concern to him. Someone was waggling a picture about, looking for someone. His eyes were sharp and all it took was a quick glance. A picture of that girl..the rude one. Such an unruly and obnoxious child.

Valen shrugged and pushed the door open for Anna, not saying anything as they had moved through the Tavern. He waited until she had crossed the threshold and followed behind her. Pulling the door closed behind him. His smile faltered and fell from his lips. "I smile because I have nothing to smile about."

Anna turned and gave him an odd look. She shifted her weight from bare pawed foot to bare pawed foot waiting for them to adjust to the cold ground. After a few seconds of this they became accustomed. "That makes no sense.... Sometimes Val, you make no sense." She shook her head then cocked it to the side, giving him little time to reply as she tried to finally decide on what animal to become. She settled on the wolf, her favorite animal for wintertime.

Once the decision was made, Anna immediately began the change. She was going faster than she had in the kitchen because she had seen the way that Valen had flinched at her changing. She started with her feet legs, her feet were already that of the snowy wolf she would become and the change began to travel upward. Her tail shortened and furred over the whole thing. While this went it on she started on her arms. The bones shifted, changed, and realigned, the feeling pleasant to her human weary body. Less than 30 seconds later, where Anna had stood before, there now stood a medium-sized, pure snowy white wolf with Anna's eyes. It's throat was odd though. She had transmogrified her wolf's throat to have the voicebox of a human.

"Remember my clothes my sweet." She said, looking pointedly toward the pile of fabric at her feet. "It's so unpleasant to put them on if they're are soaked." She laughed and danced off into the snow acting like a puppy.

He had blinked a bit. "Well...it makes sense to me." His lip poked out in a slight pout when she told him that he didn't make sense sometimes. He shook his head slightly as she began to change. She changed quickly this time, it was still painful to watch, but not impossible to endure..until...A wolf. His heart fluttered, skipped a few beats and his breath stuck in his throat.

His eyes had widened slightly and for a few moments he couldn't bring himself to move. Of all things...she had chosen a wolf. A white wolf. He blinked a bit..she had spoken...said something to him...her clothing. There was pain in his eyes but he averted them quickly so she wouldn't see..and then she had flitted off to play in the snow. His body trembled as he gathered her clothing, folding each piece neatly and carefully and then setting them aside on a flat rock, after cleaning the snow from it and making sure her clothing wouldn't get wet.

He sank to his knees. Arms around his torso, fingers digging into his ribs, brusing, almost cracking them. She had chosen a wolf. He had never yearned for his true form the way he yearned for it now. He wanted to run with her. To frolic and play, like a carefree puppy.

He grunted lightly. The pain had returned with full force, it pulsated in his mind and throbbed throughout his entire body. The constant pain that never fully went away.

After playing for a few minute, nearly disappearing in the unending expanse of the white powder, Anna turned back to Valen. Her tongue was lolling out and her eyes were bright. The look faded when she saw him though. He was sitting, arms wrapped tightly around himself. She debated on whether to bring the voicebox back to talk to him, but decided against it.

Walking through the snow, her demeanor somber now, Anna stopped a few feet from him. She layed on her belly and crawled slowly forward. When she was still a bit away from him she stretched out her head and gently nudged his hand where it gripped his ribs so tightly. A low whine built in her throat as she crawled closer. She nuzzled his hand then licked the back of it gently. Her whine grew and she 'talked', but in wolf. She didn't know if he would understand or not. "What's wrong my sweetling?... Why are you hurting so?" And she knew he was hurting. The look on his face told her as much. She came still closer and rested her head on his knee.

She had come back to him and he frowned deeply, turning his head and not looking at her as she crawled to him. Nudging his hand, then licking it. Then she spoke. A language he knew well. The language of the wolf. His chest tightened and he grimaced.

"I'm fine.." He grunted slightly when she rested her head on his knee. "I was..." He looked down at her, reaching out with a trembling hand to place it on the top of her wolfen head. "I was..thinking...how beautiful you are.....You are, in this moment...painfully beautiful.."

Anna closed her eyes at the touch. When she peered reopened them she stared off into space for a moment. Then a light of understanding shown in her eyes. She realized that he had spoken to her in that moment in the wolfen tongue. He was a wolf. A wolf demon, but still a wolf. She turned her eyes back to him, the same light still shining there. "Y... you're a wolf demon aren't you?!" She sat up, the tip of her tail twitching.

She had come up with a plan. "I'm going to awaken the demon in you. I'm going to help you get back your... self." She smiled a wolfish, toothy grin at him. Standing up, she relocated. She moved so that she was sitting beside him. Her whole body leaned against his as she craned her neck to lick his ear. "I'm going to make you feel so much like your old self... that your bonds will be broken." She whispered seductively into his ear. He would be able to feel her breath against his skin there.

((Got to be up and on the road early tomorrow, g'night friend.))