Awkward Heals
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The walls kept creeping closer. The spread-out clusters had begun to pull in tighter. Another came to the room she was observing. Her face changed a comical number of times. Her confusion and fascination only continued to grow. Beings with such frail appearances and such fine clothes. Yes, they were gathering here for whatever common goal. Yes, they appeared to have some issue with which room belonged to who, apparently. Or something like that. Iulia hadn't really paid enough attention to their ramblings to understand precisely why the two before her were fighting. It was personal to them and uninteresting to her. There was chaos indeed. Yet buried beneath that was some kind of order. Some unifying force or commanding figurehead.
Bright eyes danced to where Iulia's original target lie. A portion of wall obscured a physical view, though her reiatsu was plain enough to sense. She lurked where Iulia could only assume the pool of water was. A nervous sensation pressed into her back. She rolled her shoulders to wave it away.
At first, Iulia had thought the new arrival had only personal matters once more. It was a good opportunity to make her escape. Others were close. Perhaps they would wander her way and perhaps not. But the walls are creeping closer I need out I need OUT Yet she was frozen in place. The man's words were robbing her of her reason. It was simply too interesting.
"--let loose from his prison. This normally wouldn’t be any issue of mindless killing, although---" It struck Iulia that these beings kept anything such as a prison. What an odd notion. "--carry on until he ends all existence in Karakura. That is--" The balance was an important thing. At least, that was what Iulia had always heard. She'd never cared enough nor caused enough damage in one outing to need to. "---have to wait, we are being summoned by the God-King for discussion of war. I am also---" For whatever reason, Iulia had always considered the concept of a "God King" as something of a myth. An endless chase for those who would never be satisfied with how much power they gained. She had sensed one with a power beyond what she had ever experienced before. She supposed he would be the one.
Soon enough the man was gone. A fight broke out elsewhere. Not long after the fight before her ended. The meal sprawled out before her was alluring. Discarded so simply by the one who struck him down. She had also left in equally marvelous clothing as before the battle. It delighted her at what a simple thing this was for them. Yet the look upon the woman's face when presented with a fresh pair of clothes mirrored how Iulia imagined her own to appear. She was marveling at them. Her heart felt numbed. Coldly drumming to the beat of her envies. Beautiful clothes. A free meal.
Unlike the woman from before, this one did not change into clothes that matched the previous set. Truly able to see her now, she realized this. Her clothes were in worse shape than Iulia's. That which was presented to her so quickly was new and exquisite. Perhaps, Iulia had to wonder, perhaps her arrival here had been her first. The same woman who had fed her had also cut down a man she knew without any hesitation. All because she took his room. Or whatever.
The thought of this woman before her becoming a meal faded further into the corners of Iulia's mind. Instead, she hungered for her knowledge. Food was simple enough. Discovering the events between her arrival and Iulia's was not simple at all. At least, not to her.
” Hello, do you wish to feed on me? Is that what drew you to this room?”
The words from the woman that had ignored her for so long were unexpected. Yet Iulia had focused on the words themselves. Crawling across her lips, what appeared to be a true and genuine smile spread across her face. It almost seemed to say "Oh, I would never!" But in all honesty Iulia wanted nothing more than to laugh herself silly at how right the other had been. About how minutes ago she had wished for nothing else than to reach through the earth and pull her from her underwater tunnel. About what a truly trivial matter it had taken to entice Iulia to want more than the woman's flesh and strength. She gave only a simple shake of her head. Iulia had been ready for that moment. She could finally ask what she wished to know of this place.
Then the woman was running away. Aggravation rolled her stomach. Bad enough her only source of information was taking off. Worse, even, the woman almost seemed to wish for Iulia to follow her. As if Iulia would go blindly running toward such powerful pressures. She'd blindly run right into her own death. And so too would that woman. That detail wasn't important. What mattered was the information that would die with her. Iulia couldn't allow this. Not yet, at least. The woman had only just taken her first few steps forward when Iulia launched herself in the same direction.
Faster than the other, she hadn't made it far before Iulia had gone farther. Blocking the path, she stood fifteen feet beyond her. Though she would just as simply step aside if the other wouldn't stop. By her standards, she had worked very hard. And she was growing weary. If the woman wished to run head first into death, Iulia could not be bothered to put even more effort into stopping her. She did hope to otherwise capture her attention. What with her suddenly springing out after hiding for so long. And she would speak to her, even. Surely this would be enough to give the other pause and think that perhaps whatever was so important a moment ago couldn't possibly be any more important than this.
"I just wanted to ask you," So sweetly. So innocently. The real yet fake smile on her face once again. And perhaps for a moment, the woman would wonder if she were about to be faced with either danger or a very thought-provoking question. What with the way Iulia so dramatically pulled herself up, pausing on the cusp of her question. And now an arm propped up the other by the elbow. Her hand dangled limply yet one finger righted itself from its lazy kin to point at the other woman. "how you were able to get such fine clothes."
