Nepenthe • Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.
Never feeling like they belonged was a feeling that Lissa Dragomir lived with, even with her family and life long best friend, although they aided in that feeling not being so strong...
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"What was that?" Mason inquired, nudging Kate's side. Lissa was also undeniably curious as to what was the reaction of her best friend.
"Kirova banned me from any physical labor for two days, I may be above ignoring direct orders from her for the sake of being more than ready to graduate but they are her subjects, so to speak." Kate replied, once the Guardians were far away enough and wouldn't reprimand her for her words.
Lissa rose her brows at her best friend and with the feeling of the usage of the bond still present in her mind, she willed it forward and tried to questioned through it, although the sentence she wanted to say reached Kate in fragments
"Your reaction- Belikov's face? "
Kate merely sighed deeply and rolled her shoulders in order to relax, attempting to ignore Lissa's not so subtle mental insinuations. Lissa's green eyes widened as Kate kept her face and by proxy her eyes away from her, naturally avoiding her.
"Well, I know, for absolutely once, that I'm going to die!" Mason chuckled, shrugging his shoulders, although his face allowed the other three to see that he was actually dreading the training session.
The mere thought of having a one-on-one training session with Dimitri made his body shake with nerves and his mind race with the many ways that he might die, the biggest one if from combustion from being in the same area as Guardian Belikov for too long.
"No, you won't." Lissa laughed, patting his shoulder in a semi-comforting way, annoyed that Kate was ignoring her, but not wanting Mason to belief he was to die at dawn.
She hadn't been as close to Mason as Rose had, but she had spent time with him every once in a while when Rose dragged her to parties. Kate hooked her arm through Mason's and allowed him to place his head on her shoulder, allowing him to mentally plan his funeral as they made their way to the Dhampir Quarters.
"You can't keep ignoring me forever Kate." Lissa whispered to her as thy walked to the Dhampir commons.
It was a last moment decision and it was one that was derived from the fact that they knew that no one would be able to fall asleep or want to be alone after what just happened and no one really wanted to be in the Moroi Quarters as the students who had seen the incident had all been Moroi.
"I can, at least until dawn." Kate replied, finally turning her head to her best friend and flashing her a pearly and kind smile, one that held love and kindness for her, but one that Lissa knew that Kate also used to hide things from her.
It was the smile that she used to reassure her that everything was okay, it was the Kate Alastair equivalent smile of Rose Hathaway's 'don't worry, I got this smile' and it was one that Lissa needed to stop falling for. It was one that Lissa was learning to stop falling for.
