Obstinant Ignorance

There was something amiss with everything in this little cave. Jack had been working over the past few days with moving most of his stuff from the lower realm to the upper one. He had to retrain his blood magic and what seemed to make the most sense was moving it into this place. Whilst he would keep the secondary lab in the underground of barathru regnum Jack found that it was going to be much easier to learn what skills he had forgotten upstairs where they had all been first designed. That and he had most of his research materials there. Thankfully it seemed that Iskra’s people nearby hadn’t opened the letter concerning Jack’s imminent demise. Using his mirrored eyes technique he wappeared to them as he had previously and confiscated the letter but was left feeling quite worried about the idea of Iskra having gone missing. And this would be the thought that plagued him. The last time he had been there Iskra had left to go to this place. The name of it escaped him but it was some kind of journey Iskra was making to find herself. A journey that seemingly she had never returned from.

Just where was his student? He couldn’t imagine her dying yet at the same time he couldn’t imagine her just up and abandoning the...clan..t.he family that she had worked so hard to build. It just didn’t suit her. Honestly it was more the kind of thing that he himself would pull. But she was different from him. No matter how similar they were in certain ways.

EXP:296
PWC:266

The arch demon’s worry over this little matter began to leak into his work. He was trying to read over old notes, particularly the ones concerning spirits that were attuned to blood ( the vampire possession spirit) and yet he couldn’t quite put it out of his mind. He sighed looking over at the cold stone table that had been so long without a victim tied to it. He wasn’t going to be able to continue if he didn’t find her. He was going to have to find a way. Had to make sure that she was still safe. Had to make sure that he hadn’t been so consumed in himself, to be blinded to the problems of his student.

Was that possible? Had she some problems that he hadn’t seen back then? He thought back. He had been obsessed with killing her after she had taken his arm, perhaps that had blinded him. She had been hurt by his maiming. Apparently unable to comprehend the humanness of just what that had meant to Jack. Iskra had always been an animal and in that she lived in emotion and instinct and very rarely understood the things that Jack was so deeply ingrained in. But she had been learning.

She had hugged him. In that snake form. A female form that she had wished to mate with him i-.

Jack stopped for a moment and began to comprise just what he knew about Iskra with this new information. It began to paint a picture that he really didn’t want to look at.

“...Shit”.

EXP:280
PWC:264

Well at least it connected in just fine. Jack needed to do some more of his research to recover his specialisation in magic. And he also needed to care of this little niggling worry about his student. So the only way he was going to take care of both was to fully develop a technique that he had been in the...planning stages of. Right before he had lost the plot. Blood tracking. Ever since Sera ran away, Jack had been considering making a technique that would track those that he wished based upon the element of his blood within theirs. Now Jack had only ever really shared his blood properly with two people. Iskra as a bond of their union and. Sera, experimentally. Sera had become a bit of an issue when she had gone and lost herself and had required Jack to hunt her down over the course of several days and had only really stumbled across her through a matter of luck.

So naturally being able to track down the people who had his blood in them was going to be a technique that could help him in the future. And well. Now. Jack moved over to one of the chests by the table and opened it up. It was going to be a bit more difficult now that his blood had changed ever so slightly but the main basis o the spell would likely remain the same. He just had to tweak his senses slightly to engage in it. Removing the vials o blood fromt eh chest he rested them on the table and began to get into his work once again.

EXP:288
PWC:275

People normally didn’t really suspect the kind of power that lay in blood. Jack was hoping to be doing some sort of elemental experimentation with blood magic like he had planned down in the pits but unfortunately with this dark cloud looming over head this seemed to be at the moment the more practical use of his time and power. He popped open the first vial and got to work, all the while the thoughts of just why Iskra would try to mate with him in female form . She had always before maintained that she would never mate in the true female form for fear of becoming well, pregnant. She had an inborn fear of it by the looks of things. But yet she was risking that in a female form with him. What could such a thing mean. Did she love him? Well. More than the normal case.

Jack looked down at the blood spilled out before him. He sought answers. But they gave him none. Iskra had been his constant companion before, and now with her gone he felt strangly deprived of things. He had been busy up till now just as she had been and hadn’t really taken much notice fo her lack of visits. The lack of her face. But now. It was becoming plainly obvious. He made a mild breakthrough as he began to sense something from the blood below him, it was kind of like his tainted senses but more specific. It felt as if there was some kind of ringing from the blood, like a kind of ping on a radar. A resonanance between the blood in his veins and the blood on his table. Interesting. Now to make it longer range.

EXP:305
PWC:292