After wandering around the place, Nerissa finally came upon a wood door, which she guessed was the entrance to the room she had been offered. She inhaled slowly before reached forward, wrapping her slender fingers around the brass doorknob, turning it until she was able to open the door with a light shove of her shoulder against the wood. She was relieved to find that she hadn’t in fact entered some room that a group of vampires were occupying, but instead, had entered a small bedroom- or, at least it looked a little like a bedroom; there was a white, bare mattress on a rusty frame that was low to the creaky floorboards and the walls were ‘decorated’ in a peeling beige wallpaper with small wrinkled shapes scattered about the paper that she supposed were supposed to be diamonds.
She could tell as she examined the room that it had once been a very elegant place to sleep, but simply hadn’t been taken care of; there was a large brown mirror hanging on the wall nearest to the door, just above a new-looking sofa that had probably been stuffed in the room in order to look as if someone actually cared for appearances.
Nerissa walked forward quietly. She was just happy to see that there were pillows for her to rest her head on- oh, and that she would not have to share her bed with a family of rodents or any other like creatures. The female stopped in front of the only lamp in the room and flicked it on only to find that it was very dim and was hardly enough light to even reach the bed. Shadows morphed into menacing shapes on the wall, smirking at Nerissa as if telling her “You don’t belong here. You know it wont be long before someone murders you, little girl”. She shivered and decided to take a shower.
There was a another door on the farther side of the room that looked identical to the one that Nerissa had passed through in order to enter the bedroom. She pushed it open and shut it behind her. She leaned against the door and pulled her shoes off, and then her socks. She started the shower, relieved to find that there was, in fact, hot water. There was a shower curtain, but it was ripped up, making it rather useless. Nerissa breathed in the steam that was taking over the air in the room, allowing it to warm her lungs before shrugging out of her shirt and stepping out of her shorts.
The water was soothing against her skin, but she was rather aggravated to find that she now had scars where Ne’Os had ran his bloodied blade along the flesh of both of her arms. She scrubbed herself raw, feeling extremely filthy with that unpleasant sent of blood lingering about her.
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Nerissa laid her bloodstained clothes outside her door as she had been told, before lying down on the tattered mattress she had been provided with, closing her eyes almost immediately after she rested her head against her pillow.
by Ne'Os Emof Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:37 pm
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