It can't Rain all the Time

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First day on campus from the farm after months of traveling with her aunts. Crowley tapped her fingers against her leg, and stared at the ground absently. Her brown hair fell against her shoulders, and she seemed to be shifting her shadow to make it smaller and bigger as she stood on the lawn, thinking of what to do.

She could smell the grass, and hear the other students around her. She was surprised no one pointed, or gasped, or whispered about her. Perhaps her aunts were right, this place really was where strange people could exist together. Her aunts had left, and she was now alone. Crowley was sure that she stuck out like a sore thumb. Not because of her blindfold, pointed ears, and thick fingernails, no, but because of her uncomfortable look to her.

Why was she here again? Oh, right, to hide from her ever tormenting father. She really hated that demon. She didn't even consider him a man. Though sometimesshe wondered if he was even worth hating. Maybe she should just completely forget about him! She really missed the farm... And her animals... She wondered if she smelled like farm. Oh well.

Growing bored of just standing there, Crowley slowly walked forward, hand outstretched slightly as to keep from running into anything. She then touched a skinny tree, and sat down under it. The shade felt nice on her skin, and she bent her knees, continuing to stare at the ground. She wasn't sure if she liked the school yet. It had a nice feeling to it, as far as she could tell so far, and though it wasn't home, Crowley figured she'd get used to it.
 

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Rayana had been out on a stroll, her ominous looking persona standing out as she mingled with the students that were out for the time being. She wore, surpringly enough, colored clothes. She had a tight fitting blood red long sleeve thin shirt over black pants and a pair of brown army issued boots look alike. She had a brown leather belt across her chest that hold a sword on her back. She had a black blindfold tied around her head and over her eyes.
She was walking purposily towards the school, avoiding any and all students in her path as if she had her eyes open at the moment. Her ears and other senses were good enough not to make her lack of eyesight an issue. It was quite useful. She was just wandering, but she had donned the facade of the business woman on a war path, sort of. The vampire elder finally wandered over to a line of trees, she could hear the ruffle of the leaves by a small wind and she was glad it was not raining.

She made a none obvious beeline for a relatively small tree where she sat on the side facing away from the school, in the sunlight. She had liked sunlight before her becoming a full vampire and she had missed it during the years where she hadn't been able to go in it. But now, her skin would litterally take years of constant sun light to burn to the degree young vampires' skin did. Still, it did happen that she got sunburns sometimes, but it was not because of any vampire weaknesses, dropping asleep under the hot summer sun for a few hours would do that for everyone.

She reached up and rubbed the bridge of her nose through the cloth covering it and sighed softly in contentment. She leaned against the small tree slightly, but not too much. A soft sound reached her trained ears and she found it to be footsteps. From the scent drifting towards her, she guesse it was a young woman, but there was something not entirely human itn it. It didn't bothered too much because she wasn't human herself so it didn't scare her or anything.

The swishing of fabric became clearer and Rayana realised the young one was coming her way. She immediately tensed, ready to bolt and defend herself, yeah, multiple assassination attempts could make some peopel paranoid. But the girl seemed to just drop to the ground and stay there, probably sitting of something. She slowly turned, making sure not to shift her weight or it would make sounds. She pulled her mask up a bit and peeked under it to look at the girl, one black eye showing.

She rapidly replaced it over her eye before the light could hurt it. She wondered how long it would take the other to notice her.
 

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Crowley listened to the low murmur of other students, and heard their footsteps go past. She sighed, and wondered what it must be like to have friends here. She'd never had a friend before, only aunts hovering over her every move trying to protect her from a demonic paternal figure. Lot of good that did though. She'd lost her mother and her eyes to such an action. What was the use? Would she lose friends to such a thing too?

She twiddled her thumbs, and tried to think of something to do. What to do when you couldn't see where you were going, or what was around. She wondered if they had anything braille around here. She figured not, and figured that most of the kids who were blind around here probably had some power that helped them see. Go figure.

She was probably the only kid who's father had gouged out her eyes. What a nice greeting. 'Hi, I'm Crowley, my father made me blind.' Yeah, great conversation starter.

The tree moved slightly, and Crowley raised an eyebrow. "Yes...?" She said aloud, hoping someone was there, for if there wasn't someone would probably laugh at the blind girl thinking there was someone around. When there wasn't at all. She wasn't quite sure if the tree had moved, or if it had just been her, but hey, what the hell, might as well ask.
 

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The black haired woman purposily leaned forward, away from the tree. Of course, the tree moved, but that had been her intention all along because it alerted the girl that something was amiss. Oh how she enjoyed playing with others. She moved without a sound a picked a small branch from the ground around her and broke it between her fingers, hearing a satisfying snap. She turned towards the other girl, careful of where she put her feet not to make a single sound.

It helped that she had pulled her blindfold off enough to see where she was placing her feet. But it still shaded her eyes from the merciless sun. Quietly, she rose to her feet and smirked. The elder wondered how long it would take her to notice. But then another idea crossed her mind and her smirk went from generally amused to that of a machiavelic nature. She leaned over the younger woman and smirked again. She was in front of her and she let a small breath in the air, like a very small wind, directed to the other's form.

It carried no heat nor scent, but it still moved the air.

''What is a half-blood like you doing here?'' She whispered in a rough sounding voice.

She had uttered that sentence in the tongue of her forefathers, the tongue used by the vampires of the north. Okay, it had to be admitted, she was just playing with the younger woman. Toying with mortals was more fun than most imagined.
 

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The tree rustled, and Crowley took a deep breath. Yeah, real cool, lets all pick on the blind kid. What kind of manners went on at this place? A snap of a tree branch made Crowley’s eyebrow rise, and she titled her head slightly, listening to the intentional movements of the other being. A quite one though, she couldn’t hear very much else from it. Only the sounds the other wanted her to hear. She figured this wasn’t a normal human being.

A breath of air was exerted over Crowley’s face and she moved it to the side slightly, her brows now furrowed. She took a deep breath, smelling another’s presence. She could feel its presence as well. Even before she spoke. A female’s voice, despite the roughness to it.

''What is a half-blood like you doing here?''

Crowley grinned, and looked up, despite her sightless abilities. Her blunt side seemed to shine through her thoughts of toning herself down for a first impression. Bah, who needed a first impression? If they were scared or offended, they wouldn’t have to deal with her afterwards, but if they found her intriguing they would find a better side to her, right? No matter, she didn’t care. “Hiding from a Demon Father who wishes my demise. What about yourself?”

Hey, she had better people skills sure, but who would want to waste them on such a person who toyed with blind kids? Blind kids for goodness sake! Besides, even if Crowley had her sight, this woman didn't seem like the mannering type.
 

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She observed the reaction of the young girl and smiled. It seems the girl was more aware of her surroundings than she had given her credit for. It must have been because of the strange blood flowing into the girl's veins. She had been scutinizing the other girl and could see the blindfold. Blind now was she? She had a smilar problem at the moment, but it was not real blindness, she could see well, too well in fact and her eyes were so sensitive that she could effectively becaome blind if she were to look at the sun or light of any kind without protection. The expressions on the other's face made her smile more.

"A fiesty one..." She murmured pleased. "A demon you say?"

A slow grin came onto her face even if Crowley couldn't see her. It was no use hiding it in such a case. She extended a cold hand towards her face and traced a line across where her eyes used to be. There was a blindfold and she could not feel eyelids underneath it. She grimaced, that must have hurt.

"Is he the one who stole your eyes?" She asked at a guess.

She knew demons were vindicative creature and usually were violent, so she had guessed. As a parent herself, she would never had done so gruesome a thing to her children, not even to a random person. Sure she killed, but she had never crippled someone for life.

"Iwas taking some rest until a young person came to disturb it." She said answering her earlier question.
 

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"A demon you say?"

Crowley nodded, unphased by having to talk about her father. She’d come to terms that he was a “good-for-nothing-you-can-figure-out-the-rest” kinda guy. She shrugged, and blew it off like this wasn’t the guy who’d taken advantage of her mother, caused her to live in fear, blinded her, and also murdered her mother. She regarded him as some weirdo figure in her life. It probably wasn’t the best defensive mechanism for her sorrow, but hey, whatever worked, right? “All red and horned. As far as I can remember.” She said flatly. In fact, his enraged face was the last thing she saw. It was an image she cared not to remember; though couldn’t forget.

"Is he the one who stole your eyes?"

She turned her face to the side as the woman touched her blindfold. The nerves had long died away from where her eyes had once been, but she still preferred people didn’t touch it. Especially people she didn’t know. “Yeah, gouged ‘em out with his claws when I was nine. Been blind as a bat ever since.” In a sense she was ‘blind as a bat’ being able to hear very well and what not… Though none of that ‘echolocation’ nonsense. She grimaced slightly at the thought of that horrifying day. But her voice was still flat without emotion. Hey, she asked. If she didn’t wanna know… Don’t ask then.

Crowley ignored the last of what the woman said, and sighed. Great way to start off her day by telling someone about her not so memorable past. Couldn’t she just… forget it or something? Talk to a psychic, and have them remove her memory? Eh, too much work. Might as well just live with it.
 

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She nodded, although she knew that there were other types of demons. Some were not out of the evil realm either, some people like Aage could be considered as being demons. Hell, some people even considered vampires as being demons.

''It doesn't surprise me that he would have been so cruel as to blind you.'' She said with an hearable shrug, sort of.

She herself was to be considered blind during the day, just for reasons that were very different from hers. She wasn't blind by circonstances, she was by choice, the choice to keep her eyesight that is. The black haired woman leaned back and pulled her own blindfold down over er eyes and she smiled.

''Lets hope he doesn't find you now don't we?'' She said.

She stood from where she had been sitting on her heels and just listened to the other's heartbeat. Her's could not be heard, not even in the faintest ways. She was as dead as they came. The vampires I mean. If she was to be killed, nothing would remain.

''You were headed for the chool?'' She asked.
 

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Crowley stood, and leaned against the small tree. The other woman's calmness to her tragedy didn't hurt her feelings, or make her angry. It was just part of having a demon for a father. It was as if she had a mother who had a mental illness, it just came with the package.

''Lets hope he doesn't find you now don't we?''

A grim smile creased Crowley's face and she gave a little nod. She didn't know why this woman would care, but yes, it was a mutual hope. "Well, that is the reason for being here. Plus, I wouldn't want my peers to experience such a thing as demon family values." She let out a slight bitter chuckle, and shrugged.

''You were headed for the school?''

Crowley looked around absently. Perhaps she just wanted to stretch her neck. She then stared back down at the ground as her hair came falling over her shoulders. "Actually... I don't know. Just got here." She didn't really want to go to school. Just needed a place to stay is all.
 

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Without making a sound, she approached the other until she was at arm's length, seemingly peering at the younger woman if it hadn't been for the fact that she herself was blindfolded. But the manner in which she acted was reminiscent of that.

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