Nocturne bends down and picks up the crying woman. He's not sure why she's crying but even in the last few minutes he seen the aftermath of enough to send even vampires over the edge that a human, even this one, went over isn't surprising, but he thinks there is more than the obvious. He's finding that to be true with Mori.

He takes Mori outside then returns to the interior of the cabin and uses some of his magic to clean it all. Her crying seemed to start not at the sight of the cabin but at the sight of the slightly worn quilt he'd pulled off the bed. So he uses his magic to clean the quilt free of the blood that is currently soaking it and the bed. After folding and making sure the quilt is safe from further blood damage he cleans out the blood from the bed. But soon decides that it would be better to just obtain a new mattress and so he calls one from one of his homes to replace the one on the bed before him. This mattress is far more comfortable anyway.

Then he cleans all the remaining blood in the cabin and makes the bed making sure to put the quilt back on. This is little enough to do for Mori. Once all traces of blood have been cleaned he goes back out to find Mori near to being unconscious. That's when it hits him what her vomiting means. She'll have to eat again. He hopes Terence returns with that list of names before he leaves.

Nocturne picks up the woman and takes her to the bed and sets her down gently. Her being in his arms reminds him of how it felt when he saw her falling and frantically flew down to catch her before she landed on the jagged rocks below. He'd never flown while holding someone before and found that he didn't mind holding her while flying. Her response had been genuine, perhaps the first unguarded emotion he'd ever felt from her other than anger.

Mori moans and then sits up. She looks around trying to figure out where she was. She's confused because it looks like her cabin, well Nocturne's cabin now, but this isn't her bed.

"Mori? How are you feeling?" Nocturne's voice is more controlled than it had been earlier and it actually makes Mori more wary of him than before.

"I'm starving actually and my headaches like it does when I've gone too long without food and water." Mori says honestly, it won't do her any good to not tell the truth and could actually do her harm she realizes.

"Do you think you could handle human food? You need both to survive and you haven't eaten any human food yet." He didn't mention that she lost the blood that she drank earlier which Mori is just as happy that he skipped.

"Yes, but I don't think I'm up to cooking anything right now." The idea actually turns her stomach. The idea of food doesn't though she notes curious.

Nocturne makes his way to the bed and like a gentleman offers his arm to her. "I'll take you to town, surely they have some place to buy ready made food."

Mori takes his arm and uses it to steady herself as she stands up. "Yes, there's a diner but I'm not sure if I'll be able to walk there." A walk that normally she'd be able to do in her sleep without stumbling a step. Damn this weakness, she's never been sick before and so is unused to how helpless she feels now.

Nocturne chuckles, "I'll carry you." His mouth was next to her neck when he utters those words and it makes the hair tickle her. Mori shivers. "They should know that you are mine now Mori. I haven't forgotten what they or at least one of them did to you. They need to know that things have changed now and this is the perfect way."

Mori steps away from the unsettling vampire and doesn't like the look she sees. She drops her eyes and misses the frown he gives her when she does so. "Why do you look down from me Mori?"

"After your child is born Sire, what will happen to me?" Mori is curious there are conflicting rumors about what happens to the breeders.

Nocturne continues frowning, "What do you mean? We are linked Mori. You will be staying with me for the rest of your life."

Mori looks back down. "We will be living in several places. I have homes all over the world and responsibilities that will take me all over."

"And while we're traveling all your subjects, the vampires at least will treat me like any other human. Most vampires are not known to treat humans well and almost none with respect. As you very well know Sire. You've had to enact laws just to give us some protection. I will be completely vulnerable when you aren't with me." And when you are, but Mori doesn't say that.

Nocturne allows his surprise to show. "Mori, vampires don't marry for obvious reasons. Humans die too quickly. But, we have what is considered a marriage. You are just a half step below me, which makes you even higher ranking than my not so beloved brother. Any slight to you is more than a slight to me it's also treason against the crown. But it will also make you a target to the rebels and most especially to my brother."

Mori doesn't know how to take this. She was the vampire equivalent of being married to a right vicious bastard. And she hadn't even been asked. She knows the rumors about the king but she still has trouble reconciling them with how he'd been treating her. She decides the only way she's going to get answers is by asking him.

"Would you allow me to ask questions?" She asks softly not sure how much she dares with this stranger.

Nocturne studies the down turned head of the woman next to him. He doesn't blame her for anything she must be feeling. But what she's sure to ask he'd normally never answer especially not to some human, therefore he's shocked to hear himself say, "You can ask me anything. But, if I think you won't deal well with the answer I may not reply."

Mori nods her understanding. "Before I start or before we go into town I need to use the bathroom." She is very mortified that she is even saying this but, she's become so weak that she's not sure she can even make it across the small cabin to the bathroom.

Nocturne is confused by her saying this as well until understanding dawns and he gathers her in his arms and carries her to the bathroom and sets her down within easy reach of the toilet and sink. Mori gives him a muffled thanks as she turns the water in the sink on and washes her face. Once Nocturne leaves she brushes her teeth. She's happy enough to get rid of the taste of blood out of her mouth. She is fascinated by the red color of the water as it washes down the drain.

She gives herself a small shake and finishes up with everything she needs to do in the bathroom. She no more than opens the door and finds herself whisked into Nocturne's arms. "You need to eat before we do the question and answer session."

In no time Mori finds herself in the downtown area of her small town. She tells Nocturne where he'll find the diner. 

Nocturne carefully sets her down outside of the diner when she makes it clear that she can walk now. He figures that it will cause less talk if she walks on her own and she'll be far happier about that. He doesn't even pause to think why he wants to make her happy. 

The diner is in between breakfast and lunch crowds and so it is mostly empty. Mori had only set foot in the diner a half dozen times in her life but it doesn't seem to have changed much from the last time she was there almost a decade earlier.

Mori looks over the selection on the menu before her and is unsure what she should order. "Protein, red meat is best, the rarer the better. Although anything with strong natural flavors should also do well with your new state." Nocturne says in a voice so low that Mori can just hear it over the sound of the music playing and the background noise of the diner.

"What would you suggest then?" Mori almost said Sire, but remembered that he didn't want to be known as such here.

"If I were you I'd order a steak rare. Maybe the fruit bowl and hope the fruit is ripe, anything that is likely to have strong flavors. I don't know, I don't eat much in the way of human food." His answer doesn't bother Mori, but his unspoken words makes her antsy for some reason.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? A cutie that's a stranger to this town. Hey, doll, why don't you drop this guy here and come with a real man?" The man that stops at her table says. At first Mori doesn't realize that the man is talking with her. 

When Mori does realize it she frowns up at the man, "What would your wife say to that? Or your children or even grandchildren Tom?" 

Tom looks over at Mori in shock, how could this stranger know about his wife, kids and grand kids. As for Mori, she's just thankful that she wasn't the one that ended up with Tom. A womanizing bastard, at least her father hadn't become a bastard until after her mother died.

Nocturne watches the man torn between amusement and uncontrollable anger. Amusement that this poor excuse of a human male thought himself better than he, the king of the vampires. The anger comes from how he treated Mori. He had seen her memories as they replayed in her mind, Tom had gotten older like humans do so quickly but he could still tell it was him. He decided to let Mori deal with it for now.

Mori dismisses Tom in perhaps the most insulting way possible by turning her complete attention to Nocturne. When Tom doesn't take the hint Nocturne decides to take action. It's about time people realized that they are no longer free of the vampire, a lord has come to claim them.

"Mori told you to back off human." Nocturne says and allows his teeth to show. Nocturne is pleased with the result of Tom's reaction, he backs up and knocks the bus boy in his retreat causing the bus boy to drop the bucket of dishes he's carrying.

For his part Tom doesn't know what shocks him more the fact that the beautiful lady sitting down is Mori the woman he dated more than thirty years earlier or that he was threatened by one of the Lords.

All those in the diner when they hear Tom say he's a Lord drop to their knees giving him the proper response. But it isn't enough to calm his ire at how Mori had been treated, he hadn't been treated any worse than he had expected the waitress had even flirted with him. They hadn't known who he was, what he was. Perhaps they hadn't recognized Mori since she's so much younger and according to her even more pretty than she had been when she was that age.

Mori touches his arm, "Please Nocturne, it is enough. What Tom did to me happened a long time ago. These people have never even met a Lord before will you please forgive them?"

Nocturne looks at Mori who is imploring him, "That man, Mori,-" Mori  casts her eyes down and removes her hand. 

"My apologies Lord Nocturne, I am out of place." Mori fights hard to keep her emotions at bay as she pulls her arms back to herself and sets her hands on her lap. She keeps her head down refusing to look at Nocturne for fear of making the situation even worse.

Nocturne takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. "Very well Mori since you ask for clemency on their behalf I will allow it this time." There is a general sigh of relief more felt than heard as they are all trying to keep from bringing Nocturnes attention to them. "But I want it made known, that any further actions against you will be dealt with accordingly. But whoever tried to kill you earlier will be dealt with and Mori and not even your intervention will stop the punishment."