Raze had been gone on a mission to scout out more warriors for their cause which had taken five years- but to an immortal it was a blink of the eye. He was happy to be home. He immediately sought out Lucian but found something else. He heard intense animalistic growling and sounds of a scuffle. He raced toward the sound and saw two lycan men but not completely in hot pursuit of someone on the other side of the room. It was a woman. Raze wondered how a human woman had gotten into their castle. He had to save her, but before he could react she ran and flipped over the head of the Lycans. As she landed on her feet behind them, the two lycans crashed into the wall before them. The woman laughed as the lycans rubbed their heads angerly. "Better luck next time," she said turning to a form standing against the wall watching.
"Very well done," Lucian replied clapping his hands. Lucian then catches Raze's scent and turns happily to welcome his friend. Raze smiles warmly at Lucian, but cannot stop staring confused at the woman. "Welcome home my friend, I trust that everything went well in your travels," he says embracing his friend.
"Yes, we found where Viktor has rebased and began massing more troops in that area," Raze eyes kept flickering to watch the girl embracing the two lycans she was fighting.
Lucian follows his eyes and says gesturing to the woman,"You remember Amelia don't you?"
"Amelia?!" Raze says in disbelief. She had changed so much. He had last seen her when she was fifteen. She was awkward and just coming into her body. Now she was a full blown woman from her head to her toes.
"Raze!" she says smiling and quickly walking across the room,"I've missed you, it has been so long!"
"It seems like yesterday you were just a tiny duckling," Raze says examinging her face,"Have you gotten taller?"
"I certainly have," she says smiling.
"Amelia, change for dinner, we must welcome back our friend properly," Lucian says smiling.
"Yes father," she replies with a respectful bow and exits. As she walks away Raze catches her scent and inhales deeply. She was a full blossumed woman. The awkward girl had shaped into a woman in the short time he had been gone. It felt like he was meeting a completely new woman. He followed her long brown hair to the curve of her hips that swayed as she walked away.
"I hate to say this, but it seems like only yesterday that I found her in the woods," Lucian says lost in thought with Raze. But Raze was thinking of her growing in a different way.
"She has certainly changed," he comments still looking in the direction she had headed. "How have the men taken to this...change?" he asks smiling.
Lucian rolls his eyes,"She can take care of herself, but I have given many lectures and had to nearly beat in the ways of manners around woman. Some had never seen a woman except for the vampire women and except for myself had little interest in those women," he sighed,"she never met Sonja but she reminds me of her so..."
Raze places a reassuring hand on Lucian's shoulder. Lucian offers a weak smile then pushes his sad thoughts to the back of his mind. "Come, we have much to talk about...."