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Ignis Scientia ([personal profile] chef_chocobro) wrote2019-03-29 06:49 am
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Voicemail.

"You have reached the voicemail of Ingis Scientia. I am unavailable to take your call at this moment, but if you would please leave a message, I will assuredly get back to you as soon as possible."

**BEEEEEEP**

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deathsmajesty: Art: Liliana by Dave Greco (Action - Trekking Through Swamps)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-27 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, now he was going to have to wait to hear those precise notes and tones because the first thing Liliana was going to do was laugh, almost a surprised giggle and saved from that indignity only by Liliana's naturally low voice.

She was going to be mad about this later. Not because of what he said but because he had the audacity to be funny. Wit and cleverness had ever been a weakness of hers and she had already proven weak to several of his charms. The gentlemanly thing to do would be to minimize those charms, Ignis, not lean into them.

"Only near?" she asked afterwards. "You'll have to teach me so I can improve. I promise I'm quite good at taking instruction when I am properly motivated. You might remember...?" Another low chuckle, this one trending more dirty than amused. "But anyway, I'll have you know I've been up for hours by now. Possibly as many as three. Waking up any earlier than this is wasted anyway. Everybody knows the world is lovelier silvered by moonlight than glared at by the garish sun. For one thing, there are fewer people about."

Ignis could pick up noises in the background, and from the sounds he heard as she moved about, he could guess that Liliana had chosen to call from from the depths of her vaunted bathtub. "I had a...frustratingly entertaining day? Entertainingly frustrating? Hmm." She debating the proper wording in her head a moment before giving up. "I have frequently read novels that were frustrating because they were bad. Some even entertainingly so. Today at the shop, I ended up reading on that managed to be frustrating because it was so good."
deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath as Morgana from BBC's Merlin (Sultry - Corset)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-27 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Steven recommended it to me," Liliana said, leaning back against the side of her tub with a soft sigh of pleasure. "I was explaining to him the different types of necromancy there are, which unfortunately and by the barest of technicalities, involves explaining Stitchers as well." She made a small moue of distaste. "He explained to me that there was a book about something similar, a so-called scientist that assembled a bunch of dead parts into a creation and then ran off and cried about it because it was ugly, leaving the poor darling to fend for itself. So I got a copy of it for myself and now I'm fairly certain that this woman, Mary Shelley, was a Planeswalker from Innistrad, because this is possibly the most accurate depiction I've seen of Stitchers and their ilk outside of Nephalia. So it was the frustration of seeing a portrayal of something you hold in deep contempt accurately depicting all the reasons you have for your contempt."

It wasn't like Liliana didn't dabble with the occasional bits of blue mana via lethemancy, but honestly, there were limits. Blue didn't belong in necromancy!
deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath as Morgana from BBC's Merlin (Thinking - Dramatic)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-27 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'd offer to read it to you, but then you'd have to deal with my interruptions," Liliana said, voice warmer than her bathwater. "I've already annotated my copy and I've had it for barely a day. There's no way I'd be able to read it aloud without pausing to offer frustrated commentary."

And the occasional frustrated flinging of it across the room. Which had maybe happened several times during the course of her reading.

"So, now that you know I spent my day being mad at a book I was choosing of my own volition to read, I simply must know how yours was."
deathsmajesty: Art: Liliana Vess Rework by Tonjii Arts (Smirk: You Want Me)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-27 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, if you decide you need a novel with the side of lectures about the necromantic arts, do let me know."

Liliana was just going to take it as more flattery that was her due. Because otherwise she'd have to start poking at things, like why her stomach fluttered when he said it (or when she heard his voice on the other side of the phone or why she'd decided to call tonight and how hard it had been to wait even that long...)

Yes, much better to ignore all of that completely, focus on the compliment, and listen to the rest of his reply. "Thank you for your courtesy. Hearing the actual hour might send me into a faint and that could be dangerous while in the bathtub. You'd have to trek all the way out here to save me from such an ignominious fate. And, darling, you must have something better than books about boring old battle tactics to help you sleep. You must."
deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath as Morgana from BBC's Merlin (Looking - Gentle)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-27 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"What?" Liliana asked, voice far softer than she'd meant. Or even realized. "Tell me?"
deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath (Lounging - Bed)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-27 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
He heard the water slosh as she sat up, almost as if in attention, and then again as she settled back in. "If we were," she agreed, and he could tell she was smiling. "Of dreams that influenced by activities more pleasant than warfare, too, perhaps?"
deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath as Morgana from BBC's Merlin (Smirk - Knowing)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-28 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
But targets could only be hit when struck. A sheathed knife did no good; to get what you wanted, there was the requirement to reach for it.

"I am a very good thing regardless," Liliana declared with questionable veracity. "I would never leave you to the mercies of dull prose." Drip drip drip. The sound of water droplets hitting not more water, nor floor, but flesh. "If there is a way that I can further assist..." He could practically hear the slow smile that curved her lips. "It would be my most sincere pleasure do so."
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[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-28 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
"If you were to come all the way out here," she said, and he could hear her rising up out of the water, "for whatever reason, I would simply have to insist you stay. It's dreadfully late for you, after all."

A pause, while she wrapped herself in a thick and comfortable towel. "You'll forgive me if I continue my rude and uncouth behavior, I hope. Because I'm not exactly dressed." A pause. "For company, I mean."

Or, you know. At all.
deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath as Morgana from BBC's Merlin (Lounging - Sexy)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-28 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Be that as it may, I can say with absolute certainty that it'll be a pleasure to have you," she purred, the same tone of voice as when she'd been offering the chair or the table. "...Again."

At least she was still just letting tone and teasing carry her meaning. As opposed to skipping right over to using words.

Very.

Explicit.

Words.

deathsmajesty: Katie McGrath (Sultry - Bedroom Eyes)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-28 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
"An appetite," she said, because the joke was right there and worked on a number of levels.

Otherwise...

"Just you."
deathsmajesty: Art: Liliana by Pauline Dala Senta (Sultry - Tree Pose)

[personal profile] deathsmajesty 2023-09-28 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Then I'll be waiting," she said, followed by a sharp gasp and a low shiver. "Warming up. I've heard that's important before...physical exertion."

Another gasp. "Feel free to come right up when you arrive."

She said, though by the time he did make it to her place, she'd be waiting by the door.