Inside, it was quiet. Their happiness was evident for the fact that Sorin survived. But it was still quiet. Damian goes into Sorin's room to check upon him, he finds him sitting. Again. "Settle down now before I call the doctor in again." He says mockingly. To which Sorin replies, "Trying to threaten me now, princey boy." Damian reaches towards him and lays him down, "I guess I am.-" He takes a chair and sits next to Sorin. "-so how are you feeling now?"
"Better, but the burns are still... well burning" Sorin says a bit confusingly. "But other than that, and feeling a bit nauseated, I am fine."
"Great." Said Damian, holding Sorin's hands in his. "You should rest now Sorin." Damian says while standing up and kissing Sorin's forehead. Heading out he closes the room's door behind him. Leon was sitting on the couch, or rather taking a nap, but Damian didn't blame him, it was indeed a pretty tiring day, and he's been on this for the whole day, before Damian even came home. Because both of his friends are resting so Damian thoughts to call someone, another one of his friends Calixte, but she prefers to be called Cal, so he does. She stays busy, but picks up the call in no more than 4 rings.
"Hey Ian, long time no see or even call." there was clear annoyance in her loud voice, and emphasis on 'call'. And it was true, Damian hadn't been in touch with Cal for a whole year now, which was according to her, 'rude and selfish'. Which Damian could agree he was, but that was not the reason he had stopped talking to Cal.
"Hey Cal, missed you too, and it wasn't that I didn't want to, but rather I didn't have the time to, been busy this year. Sorry." Damian says, actually feeling a bit sad about not talking to Cal all this time, but he wasn't lying, he had been busy, and after what had just happened with Sorin, he was pretty sure, this busyness was not going anywhere, rather just increasing.
"Great thing, as if you're the only one with a busy schedule." Cal says with the same level of annoyance as before.
"Hey listen, I need you here, something happened, Avy attacked Sorin." Says Damian, with urgency and seriousness in his voice. Something falls over and breaks on the other side of the call at Cal's place.
"What! Is Sorin ok, is he alive, what happened?" She is out of her breath alright, as all of the people who knew Avyanna, knew she was dangerous, and didn't care much about what people said or thought, and that she was a very calm person in nature, until and unless someone really messed up her head. Damian, Avyanna, and Estelle were the best of friends, until one night, Avyanna murdered Estelle and tried to murder Damian (as he saw her kill Estelle), everyone assumed it must be because Avyanna was jealous of Estelle's powers and wanted to steal them by killing her. But only a few knew that she didn't crave for power, she had the power of mind control, which people craved from her. Even though that's what everyone believes, but because Damian doesn't remember exactly what happened that night, he doesn't believe it, so he's trying to find her, while she furiously repels him and anyone who tries to find her. From that night, no one has ever even heard from her, let alone meet her, but because of today's attack, Damian still had faith in finding her, and asking her what happened.
"He's alright, resting now, as I said, she's back, I want you here, need you here, I finally have hope in finding her, please Cal. Come here. Help me." Says Damian with need, and pain in his voice. Which Cal understands perfectly, and says that she will be there in about 2 hours, and orders him not to do anything till she's reached, and is there. Which Damian agrees to, as Cal was dominating, and disagreeing to her was difficult, impossible even, then she simply hangs up, without the bye or something, but then it was normal for him, his friends never did do bye and all. But he knew that wasn't all true, Leon and Sorin always did the byes and hellos. But she was a friend of the past, of the old times, of the old cultures, so it was also ok. Damian was pretty drained from all of the work he had to do, so he takes up the other couch, just next to Leon, to take some sleep. But sleep didn't come as easily to Damian as he had first thought it would. But that was fine, now he had all the time to overthink now, he had always been an overthinker; or so he was told by both Avyanna and Estelle, the thought of both the girls hurt his heart deeply, as one of them was dead, and the other is lost, denying to be found; because of course, Damian didn't believe that Avyanna could actually kill Estelle, or anyone for that fact, ever, even though everyone believes this, he never could, and he never will, until she is in front of her, telling him herself that it was her who killed Estelle. Then an image flashed in Damian's head, it was the three of them, in the gardens of his mother, just laying on the grass, no one was saying anything, no laughing, or crying, there was just the silence all three of them loved, they did do weird things though, but not always, and definitely not when they were in this garden, which they named, calmy, it meant calm alright, but they just added a little curve to the word, making it sound like a very cute and goofy name, whenever they were in this garden, for the very first five minutes, they would just lay quietly, forgetting about all their troubles and problems, and would just enjoy the silence, the calm, and the soft feel of grass on their backs, they wouldn't even say hello, and would simply lay down. Only then was anyone allowed to say a word, this was done by of course Estelle, she was the one who loved peace, silence, who found comfort in the nature, and in beautiful mornings, whereas Damian and Avyanna loved danger, who found comfort in the noises of the world, in darkness, and in gorgeous nights. Estelle was born different, she was this little princess, who loved castles, and knights, who loved to be caressed, and to be protected, she was the odd one out in their group of three, but she wasn't, Damian, and Avyanna loved her a lot, and so did she, it was the kind of friendship where everyone loved everyone, and no one hated no one. Thoughts about his childhood friendship kept storming his head, but after some time, he was able to get some sleep.
When Damian was taking his quality sleep, Leon awoke, as a knock on the door could be heard. Not wanting to wake anyone he silently sits up and then starts to walk towards the door and the knock. When reached there, he peeked through the little lens on their door, surprise was evident on his face, it was their very old friend Calixte. He opens the door hastily, and rather than calling her in, he calls himself out, he grabs her arms and hugs her, the surprise was evident in Cal's eyes now. She tried to shake him off, but when he didn't budge, she remembered that he is the darned detective, or that is what Cal used to call him when they were younger,
"Oh c'mon you teddy bear, at least let me breathe!" She says while harshly hitting Leon on his back. To which he let's her go like a gentleman that he very much is. He then plays with his hair shyly and apologizes, "I am sorry Cal, it's just that we haven't met in so long, I couldn't resist." Cal first takes a long breathe and then takes in what he is doing and what he just said, she looks as if she has just seen a bear apologize. "Goodness you have changed you DD, (Darned Detective), like a lot, now where is everyone else at?" Leon's cheeks turn tomato red at the wore DD, that's what she used to call him back in the days; Leon has always had a crush on this woman, she just a style which he appreciated a lot. Avyanna was like this too, but then she wasn't, she was chaos and calm in the same soul and body, whereas Cal was just different, she was total chaos and destruction, which he admired in her pretty much from day one, but he didn't know when, or even how, this admiration, turned into a crush. But he also knows she's a difficult shot, she was someone high up, where he wasn't. That didn't make him stop liking her though. She snaps in front of his face to bring him back from whatever dimension he had just slipped into. His face flushes. But she doesn't see it and throws at him her purse and says "Bring the baggage in you detective" and walks straight inside, honestly she has expected to see something, anything, but there was just the sound of snoring, bouncing in the house. Cal could see Damian on the couch which she had gifted him, when he bought this house, snoring on it so loudly that she was pretty sure that in a moment or so, there would be angry neighbors angrily waking him up from his quality sleep. She was a little upset that no one is up to welcome her inside, but she's not that upset that she would ruin someone's sleep, especially if that someone's been busy this whole morning and deserves some rest. So she pulls Leon's collar down, as he is like two times her height, and whispers in his ears, "Where is Sorin?" Leon blushes at the act, but then understands why she did so, and points his finger at the room in which Sorin was. Cal stops in her tracks and just stares at the mess, must be Avyanna's doing, everything was out of its place, there was a lamp that she gifted Damian, broken now, all the things were on the floor, a famous painting that Damian bought at an occasion or something, and what not, but then it wasn't something that couldn't be fixed, she was here now, she'll fix it, that was true. Even though the condition of the house wasn't the best at the moment, she could still see the beauty of it, the walls painted so elegantly green, they were emerald green, she was very proud of it, as she was the one who picked the colour, the entrance door was a mixture of black and white with hanging plants covering the sides of it, then a huge carpet covering every bit of the floor they had in the hall. This apartment was huge, but then it also wasn't, compared to the castles, this whole apartment could just barely fit into the size of a room there. But then in the world of normal people, this was huge, but it only had three bedrooms, one kitchen, one hall, three bathrooms, a terrace, a balcony, and nothing else, but everyone was very happy for Damian when he bought it with his very own, human money which he earned single handedly. So everyone was pretty proud of him, as everyone of them were now in this human world, and earned human money, so knew how difficult it was to earn it. She hates it when someone she loved is hurt, because of course, Cal and Sorin have had their moments back in the past. She then smiles to herself and walks towards Sorin's room.