Sinister (girlxgirl)

Vunerable

The institute flurried with champions. Conversations and laughs rang about left and right while Katarina shut her door and trekked her way down the hall. She tugged on her jacket and belt adjusting her carelessness from waking up and throwing on her clothes. Everyday it went on like this, following the same routine of showering, getting dressed and heading down to eat breakfast with her family. Not that she was excited enough to see them.

Quickening her pace and dodging the people walking slowly in front of her, Katarina righted herself as she approached the grand doors to the large Dining Hall. She always found herself looking at the heavy oak doors fastened with large metal hinges. She sighed and took the cold steel handle into her hands. The Noxian heaved the door open to reveal the morning light shine bright against her eyes which was something she never liked. She shielded them and continued her way past the long straight rows of tables and benches.

She sat quietly down at the Noxian table which was towards the back of the room and in a dark corner where the light from the upper window's shone above. Katarina brought her collar higher and ducked her head just a bit while she observed the vigilante eyes of the proud Demacians looking about from the opposite side of the dining hall. Garen, the Might of Demacia as some call him and a nuisance to some others, erupted into laughter and drew his hands to his hips. His witty little sister Lux exploded into laughter and the Demacian table was banged multiple times which drew attention from the more quieter tables.

The assassin grunted and rolled her eyes. Seeing her sister Cassiopeia and her brother Talon arrive with plates of food, Katarina forgot the repulsive Demacians and focused on the plate that was set down in front of her.

"Three eggs, two pieces of bacon and a piece of toast with honey. Need anything else, princess?" Cassiopeia teased with a hiss. She coiled up beside Katarina at the foot of the table while Talon took to facing the assassin.

"Don't call me that." Katarina grunted. Her sister only smirked and fanned her clawed hand.

"I'll take that as a no." Cassiopeia said beginning to take her food into her mouth. She had the same thing as her sister, although she did have a few pieces of raw rat flesh on her plate. It was carved perfectly by Cass's claws, thought Katarina, taking in the precision of the cut flesh now entering into her fanged mouth. She lowered her arm to see her sister gawking at her with a serious face.

"What, do you want some too?" she taunted.

The assassin snapped back and shook her head slightly meeting her sister's equally venomous stare. Cass's eyes dilated thinner till all her pupil became a thin line and her grin stretching wide. Katarina felt herself shrinking into her seat but righted herself and answered her in a growl. "I'd rather drink Demacia's sewerwater than eat a rat you found off the streets."

Cassiopeia's thin eyebrows creased and she clenched her jaw, unable to say anything or keep still. Talon instantly stopped her with an arm when she stood up higher and gave her a look. Cass's took a moment and looked at Talon but he nodded and she sunk down into her coiled body. Katarina eyed Talon's response and gave him an almost thankful gesture but he nodded it off and continued eating.

Silence over took the trio for a short time till the head of Noxus's military showed up with his allies. Talon raised his cup to their arrival and brought it to himself again. His eyes shifted towards Katarina's who begun to take her plate and rose.

"Ah, Miss Du Couteau, leaving so soon?" called General Swain being ever so sly. He took the silverware into his hands and skillfully twirled the knife and stopped it short with the menacing point at her. "Won't you rather dine with your General?"

The words slipped from her tongue with ease. "I have much better things to do."

With that, she left and felt his anger boil in his blood.