The Meeting
It's a usual Saturday night in New Orleans. The city lit up like the Fourth of July and the clubs hopping and people out on the streets having a good time.
Down on the corner of Ursulines and Chartres, the sign above shining with the word Sanctuary with a moon lit hill with a wolf howling at it.
A young woman with long wavy brown hair and gray eyes, dressed in Goth clothing and a bag slung over her shoulder, walks into the bar.
She sat down at one of the tables in one of the dark corners across from the bar.
She had barely sat down before Aimee came by and asked her what she wanted to drink.
"I'll have the usual," she says with her Cajun accent.
"Okay be back with it a bit," says Aimee.
She sits there for a few minutes before Sweet Home Alabama come on and Aimee returning with her drink.
She takes a sip of her drink and then pulls out her small sketchbook from her bag. She hears a woman talking to a man and one word she says sticks out to her; akri.
She powers kicked in automatically when hearing that word. She knew what it meant, it meant lord or master but the way she said it was more like saying father but that was a different word all together. She looks twenty, twenty-one.
She looked over at the woman who said it she was about six-foot-three, six-four but with her shoes, they added to her height making her about six-seven. She had black hair to make her companion and in Goth clothes too.
The man was six-eight with black hair, biker boots; leather pants a Godsmack t-shirt and looked to be twenty-one. What caught her attention about the man was not the aura of danger and sex appeal but his swirling silver eyes that said he knew all.
He finally noticed her staring at them and listening to their conversation.
He walks over and asks "Can I help you?"
She looks up at him and says "I thought Atlantean was a completely dead language that no one used since it sank. Not unless you are a linguist but by your attire it says you are not. So that begs the question why do you know it so well?" she asked with an attitude that you could take a knife to it.
"How about introducing yourself first since you seem to know the language yourself?"
"Adrastea, how about introducing yourself?" Adrastea asks raising an eyebrow.
"Acheron Parthenopaeus, may I sit down?"
"Yes, you may and who is your companion?" asks Adrastea as she starts to outline a figure in anime.
Acheron sits down and the young woman sits next to him.
"Her name is Simi," says Acheron.
Aimee walks over and says "Ash I didn't know you knew Tea. Well anyway here is your drink."
Aimee puts down the beer and walks away.
"Ash is easy to remember that why you use it and most of the DHs aren't eleven thousand years old like you so it makes it easier on them," said Adrastea starting to add in features and clothes.
Ash has a surprised look on his face then goes back to static then says "How do you know that? You are not part of us and I know-"
"I read your mind you have cracks in your shields around your mind, just so you know. Also I have two powers," says Adrastea putting the finishing touches on the picture.
I am omnilingual and you know the other because I am using it. Adrastea sending her thoughts to Ash.
"Just so you know that was the only things that I was able to pick up out of your mind. Everything else is locked you are locked tighter then the British Royal Bank."
"Of course I keep my past to myself. It is no one's business. Also you are just the same and you nice drawing you're a good artist," said Ash taking a swig of his beer.
"Thanks," says Adrastea finishing up a new outline for the next person.
"By the way how old are since you know roughly how old I am?"
"Seventeen," says Adrastea not taking her eyes off the paper.
Ash raises an eyebrow then says "Why are you in a place like this at this hour aren't your parents concerned?"
"Nope, they don't care about me," says Adrastea looking up at him then going back to the drawing.
"That can't be right. It probably seems that way to you but they are probably worried about you. You should head home now."
"Akri I really want to go see Tabitha, and I am hungry," says Simi in a demanding tone.
Aimee walks over to put down another beer for Ash.
Ash says "Aimee will you get some food for Simi, she is hungry, I really don't want her eating anyone."
"Sure, no problem," says Aimee then walks towards the kitchen.
Adrastea finishes the drawing then takes it out of her sketch book and hands it over to Ash.
Ash takes the paper to look down to see him in a fighting position in an ally way.
"Don't fold it or I will smack you upside the head. I don't what you do to me afterwards but I will do it if you fold that," says Adrastea putting away her sketch book.
Adrastea heads for the door then stops and throws something to Ash and says "Ash, catch! See you around."
Ash catches the item and look at it. It is a crab charm on a little chain.
Ash looks at the door that Adrastea left through with a confused look.