The Tears of an Angel
Looking up from my writing I see you enter, as a slight smirk comes across my face I ask you "what brings you here? You wish to know of my brokenheartedness?.....Then take a seat. Here my best bloodwyne to warm your soul as I tell you of the coldness in mine and how it came to be"
Paradox gets a faraway look in her eye mixed with a smile as she begins to spin her tale. "When I first came to these lands looking for my parents I was full of apprenhensions and fear. Many doubts filled my mind. Would I fit in? Would I understand my parents, their lives and why they did not raise me?" She waves her hand slightly laughing "I know you are wondering what this has to do with my shattered love life, but patience my friend all events lead to the others."
"I first wondered into the land of Cain and was in awe of the bustling pub and it's many occupants. Couples talking of their plans, singles flirting with others. I soon came to the conclusion that to find a mate and produce an heir seemed to be the norm which would secure your place in the lands. I was introduced to NIGHT-ANGEL queen of the vC and learned that she at one point was married to my father and still held him in high reguard. With her help I was soon reunited with my father, GrimAngel and began my journey to return with him to the land he had made home."
"My father at the time was married to Lillith queen of the cM. She was very kind and gracious and tried to help me settle in my new life as a princess." Paradox lifts her glass taking a sip to moisten her throat before continuing on. "I offered for her and my father to conduct a tournament in order to find a suitable mate, but many things within the realm keep my father from initiating this event." Paradox struggles to keep the memories in order as all this happened what seems several lifetimes ago. She laughs slightly as the next memory comes to her. "Then my mother heard of my being alive and she returned, you see she thought I had died as a babe"
Paradox senses your restlessness she smiles and waves towards the bottle of bloodwyne. "Refill your glass we are about to get to the parts of my life that brought you here." She thinks for a moment......"I believe his name was Remy....yes Remy. A wild one from Aphrodite's clan I believe. Aphrodite was also gracious and kind and I think pleased that one of her clan had caught my eye, but as I said my mother returned." Paradox laughs loudly thinking of her mother.
My mother PenanceAngel is very striking and able to manipulate many a man. So needless to say it was shortlived with Remy. He visited one eve and my mother and Cazimi of the cM were there as well...........but as I said it was shortlived.....enough of him...that night was the end of it he vanished."
She shrugs and laughs again....."that was my first taste of how men come and go." Composing herself she tries to look serious as she continues. "I spend the next few months shuffling back and forth between my mother and father and their endless quarreling. Loving them both because they gave birth to me made it hard to chose a side.
"During this time I left my father's clan and headed back to Cain where I met Arod. Arod will always hold a place within my heart, but hopeless romantic that he was he was more intent on the makings of children then the building of a future. Luckily we spend a great deal of time together before taking him to meet my parents." Laughing loudly as she speaks....."Not that meeting my parents was the downfall, but let us just say that no one meets up to my father's standards. Which is a good thing sometimes."
"Which now brings me to Meis.......he again was a hopeless romantic who was content to spend quiet time alone. Feeling smothered and unable to breath I thought to take him to meet my parents right away." Looks to you awaiting your reaction to that comment. "You see I was finding out about myself through all this.....that the tameness of hearth and home was not to suit me. When I took Meis to meet my family the only ones present were my mother and my sister Jezebel." Laughing feeling the effects of the bloodwyne start to dull the pain......"and the rest as we say is history.....Meis vanished as well." Thinking intently......."I think my mother and sister vanished around the same time........makes one wonder."
Raising her glass in a mock toast..."This was my coming of age time, as I like to call it. I spent several months clanless and wandering about the lands." She continues with a smirk..."and the pubs." "One day while in CainPub a group of especially roughneck children were afoot. I decided that day that children must wait for me. On the spot Zellphon Daggar cast a spell to keep me childless until I was ready for the blessed event. Not that any man stayed around long enough to father a child."
Paradox clears her throat....."Then came Dragula of the VoA. He was a memeber of my father's new clan that he formed with his wife at the time Kayla. I had reconsiled with my father and joined his clan as princess. Guarded against the advances of men wanting to marry because I was a princess, I was easily taken in by Dragula with quiet talks of our mutual love life woes. Dragula at the time was involved with a married queen of another clan, that should have been my first clue."
"I think I learned the most about men from Dragula. I had searched and found something I thought I wanted...a man like my father. Until my world was shattered I did not realize how much that was true. I learned the hard lessons of the lenghts men will go to on their quest for power. Unable to trust and having my heart torn to shreds after the events with Dragula that led to our broken engagement, I left the VoA and set out on my own. Spending many a night crying my eyes out, I soon realized that Dragula had given me the most precious gift of all .......he gave me myself.
Dragula caused me to see that I could not follow unjust rules and that I was more suited to a life of adventure and whimsy, rather than locked in the corner of someone else's world.
