It had been a long few nights and Seb had spent most of them away from his own home, which didn’t matter too much, but he’d wanted to head home from the White Rabbit where he had been spending time with Lisa-Joe, to make sure everything was running smoothly.
He hadn’t really been home properly since Lazarus had been arrested. He was thoroughly enjoying bonding with Lisa-Joe, but everyone was slightly on edge there. And Jake seemed to find the best way to deal with that was to hold parties which seemed to make the whole building vibrate (to those with more sensitive hearing).
On his way home Seb had realised he was near Venture and decided to pop in to feed. He wasn’t dressed up, wearing simple dark blue jeans, boots and a black shirt, open at the throat, but he hadn’t intended coming to impress anyone this evening. It had taken next to no time to find an eager mortal and Seb had led him to a back room. It quickly turned out that the mortal was looking for a little more than Seb had intended, so he had calmed the human with a mental urging, so the human would hardly know the difference in his change of mood.
Seb’s marble-like features were tinged slightly pink as he re-joined the crowd, intending to just head straight home, but a flicker of red against white caught his eye and he turned to see the source more clearly. If he breathed, she would have taken his breath away.
The last time he’d met her, he’d been taken unaware – it had been the first time he’d met a fallen angel and the whole idea had disgusted him. He, the martyr who took his beliefs so strongly that he’d been killed for them. Seb hadn’t approached her again since then, but he was aware than she had been at a few of the same events as he had been. She was a leader in the city as well, and as far as Seb knew, in her district things seemed to be running smoothly, he had begun to think perhaps he had judged too quickly and too harshly at their first meeting.
Seb waited for a moment before approaching the fallen angel, straightening his shirt and running a hand through his dark hair as he came close.
“My lady, may I join you for a moment?” Seb asked, bowing his head to the blonde beauty who was sat alone.