mountains - eight
Zars seemed to consider something before standing up and walking over to Ashenai, sitting on the table directly in front of her. She'd left her blanket behind on the chair, but not her wine glass. There was about a fourth of a glass left of whatever she'd been drinking and she offered it to the neko. Ashenai just stared at it for a minute before shaking her head and declining the drink entirely.
"I don't drink," the neko said, knowing how ridiculous that sounded. Zars laughed quietly at the girl, taking another sip from the glass and getting closer to Ashenai. To the point to where she could smell her breath, which almost always smelled like spearmint. It smelled like blood now, and Ashenai backed up as far as the couch would let her- completely frightened. And it became obvious to Ashenai why Zars knew so much about blood- she drank it.
"I'mma vampire ya know," Zars said casually, her words slurring together, taking a sip from her glass and looking at Ashenai with tired eyes. "I think I may know a way to save'joo. Ge' outta Edris. There's a place called the surface above us." She pushed the glass toward Ashenai, her metal hand pointing up at the ceiling. The neko was staring at her, confused, and she just shook her head in disgust. The person trying to "help" her was insane and high. She was better off with her mother.
"You're fucking insane, Zars," Ashenai growled, pushing the glass out of Zars' hand and standing up, putting her jacket back on. "If you can't help me, then you should have just told me." The glass had unfortunately not landed on the couch, but on the floor. Ash still had enough of a brain to know Zars had gone off the deep end to believe in a world outside Edris, high or sober. She started to walk away, but Zars' malicious laughing stopped her in her tracks.
"How do ya think I can unders'stan' you, Ashenai?" Zars asked, standing up right on the broken glass and walking over to Ash, leaving a trail of tiny, bloody footprints behind her. "Beh'fore ya leave, at leas' take a shower." She felt the neko was absolutely impossible to reason with, and that was fine with her so long as she left the house clean. Ashenai laid her ears back on her head, clearly annoyed, but grudgingly agreed to a shower. Zars showed Ashenai to her bathroom, which happened to be just inside the door of her bedroom and decorated in vanilla ceramic tile everywhere.
"Towels under the sink," Zars said, motioning to the black sink set in its steel vanity next to the steel toilet. "I can wash your clotheses if ya wan'." Ashenai glared at Zars, but agreed that she smelled pretty bad. She reluctantly stripped down, evidently not thinking of asking Zars to look away, and handed her gross clothes to the little vampire. She grinned as she shut the door behind Ash and wandered back to the kitchen, where the laundry room happened to be, humming all the way.
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