(1101) Eternal Court X

[Matt]

Tiny Martha nods meekly as the list of nations is offered, a smile too. "Goodness! Well...they are all fine nations! I consider you to be well travelled. I hope you are settling into the city, miss!" she enthuses. Fussing briefly with the hem of her blazer as she watches Katrina's eyes and hands with care.

"I certainly am, its mostly moving in at the moment. You know how it is, you mean to unpack but something more fun comes up so you leave it."

She watches as Jillian approaches. Shit, she had meant to call her... Meh Gangrel don't do social too well. She was also supposed to call the Bishop as well. Need to do that soon, he might get annoyed.

"I am fine thanks Jillian." Her eyes wonder from Jillians hair down to her feet and back up again. "Sorry, I was supposed to call you. You know what its like with moving into a new place." Humm, best not to start pushing her just yet. Well not here.

[Martha Villiers]

Martha nods happily, as if in complete agreement with Kat...all wide eyed as Kat talks to Jillian. Martha falls quiet, leans on her cane, smiling...watching them closely with happy, gentle, interest.

[Ajax]

Ajax

By now the steps of Avalon were becoming rather familiar to the big Gangrel, who had apparently made a bit of an effort to dress to impress for the evening's festivities. Well for him anyways, it was unusual for Big Evil to get dressed up but with his clan making a serious attempt to improve it's image in the city, showing that you weren't going to vomit the blood of a drunk into the potted plants at Court was a good first step. Besides the road ahead was a war and wars are fought on more than one front. So here he was again to assist in the Gangrel Clan's social campaign in the fight towards relevance.

He sees Jillian standing and talking with the Keeper Martha, and there was another Beast. But that term didn't fit this new arrival. His own beast struggled against the feeling of a new predator but it was quickly beaten, curb stomped even, into submission. Ajax looked at the three different ideals of female beauty and wondered if he'd finally gotten to Heaven ... or Elysium Fields ... or Where the heck all the hotties were when you died. It had certainly taken him long enough to get there.

Making his way over to the group he winks at Jillian and remembers that he'd seen the new girl before, last time he was here. Damn she looked even better up close. "Evening." Well at least he had the body, not everyone could be a cunning linguist like James Bond.

Big Evil = Big Sexy

[Katrina Scherbotsky]

Katrina looks at Ajax "Evening" she said with a smile. She looks back to Jillian and then to Martha. The keeper had gone rather quiet. Too quiet.

[Martha Villiers]

Martha was indeed quiet...she'd been listening to, and watching, Kat and Jillian talk...and, upon hearing the footfalls, watched Ajax as he made a definite bee-line for Katrina.

Leaning on her cane, she gripped it tight...fiddled with the hem of her blazer with her free hand and pouted a moment...he just winked at Miss Malloy, winked like a...strong, rougish, tinker at a fairground!...Martha scowled a brief moment...then flatly and apparently ignored by Ajax as he made immediate contact with the new girl...Katrina...did she Mesmerise him? No...no secret or sinister Mesmerism was required...

Gripping the handle of her cane even tighter, she stared at Katrina's legs and shoes...and...1, 2, 3, 4, 5....scowl...6...smile...7...smile...grrr...dignity...what a rascal! and fashions a small smile to herself...not yet noticing Kat's glance her way...but she steadily looks, wide eyed, to see what Ajax is up to next!

"Good evening, sir!" she tries to inject a sense of respect and levity in her words to Ajax, friendly and sincere enough, but a bit croaky as she regroups her mood. "How are you this evening?" she asks the Rascal.

[Ajax]

Ajax

"I'm good Keeper, thanks for asking. How about you? How have your nights been going?" Martha, Ajax knew, was really nice. A polite vampire who made an effort to improve the evenings of every Kindred she interacted with, a very nice break from the usual social bloodsuckers who were always looking for some angle or some way to screw you over. However the woman always seemed a little off around him, like she was worried that the Big Savage was about to snap or something.

[Martha Villiers]

For a moment Martha fell into silence as she listened, wide eyed, to Ajax talk...she rubbed her cane hard against her lame leg and bit at her bottom lip, nodding meekly. "I...I have been well enough, thank you kindly for asking, sir. My work and studies have kept me occupied...most occupied indeed! Have your own labours kept you likewise busy...or have you found time for leisure too...and if so, might I please inquire what those leisure activities might be?" she asks, seemingly genuinely interested in his reply, still rubbing her cane hard against her leg.

[Martha Villiers]

Martha smiled back to Jillian...wide eyed, she seemed to be held captive by the Gangrel's eyes a moment, nodding cheerfully to Katrina and Ajax.

Her good mood is almost instantly dispelled as her Beast suddenly wriggles and writhes at the encroach of a new predator...gripping hard at her cane, the tiny lady struggles to watch and stay alert for the new threat. Wide eyed, she spots the new comer...tall and obviously powerful, he was certainly a possible danger.

Tiny Martha gathers herself, sucking in air she need not require, she nods to Ajax, Jillian and Katrina as she quietly excuses herself. "Do excuse me, please...I must attend this gentleman..." the tiny lady, dressed in some vintage style school uniform, hobbles over to greet Obadiah...her leg stiff and dragging slightly. Martha tries a sincere, if slightly wary, smile.

"Good evening, sir! My name is Martha Villiers...Keeper Villiers of this Elysium. Can I help you? I trust you have come in peace and are unarmed, sir!" she adds sincerely, but is trying to remain calm at his Beast and his disturbing presence. Her accent English, she grips her cane tight and close to her chest, watching Obadiah carefully, very carefully.