Summer 10, 512 AV Raven colored hair cascaded down a length of exposed skin, a paling white to contrast the bold reds born. Strands filtered in and out of the folds; caught behind black ribbons pulled tight to cinch a waist. Aislin could feel a slight tug each time she shifted, cast her gaze to the subtle sweep of the purple curtain that led upstairs, into the brothel's service rooms. A place she would much rather be. But instead, her eyes were forced to dance over each potential patron with general disinterest. A hint of disdain. Many were eyeing her too. She supposed the lacy strips of fabric which danced up her legs and circled about her middle like an angry serpent were enough to entice them. Perhaps make a few men rise; but still, none seemed to take enough interest to approach her. Offering themselves for the night. She wondered if too much had been lain bear, and the mark was pressing high. Rhysol's blood stain rippling like the waves of the sea just above the upper cut. Three unruly blackened rays strangled by fabric and hair; fighting to do more than simply peek. To burst with an eclipse's darkened light. Her eyes glimmered with the thought, as though catching what had been lost. Keeping it captive in the dark coals buried beneath two alluring seas. Aislin's right pointer circled the lower rim. The bottom of a wine glass left long behind. It had been resting before her for ages now; atop the bar, the remnants it still held never draining. A part of her supposed she should have been the one to nurse it. Ease it of its burden- a few drops of a glimmering golden liquid, which smelled faintly of citrus and alcohol. But she knew she deserved not a single drop. Even so, her fingers lazily circled the stem, lifting the glass at times and swirling the contents, allowing invisible vapors to rise. Tendrils of the soft scent which seemed intimately divine. It served to calm her nerves, in that her inability to attract filled her with unease. But still the night was young enough, despite the moon having long risen; for a brothel. Having put down the glass again, Aislin returned to her finger's circling. Her eyes grazing over the night's crop; the herd of cattle her kind had brought in. It seemed small, but still she knew she would not go to bed empty handed. Her man or woman would come, if only she lay in wait. Her feet, laden with high heeled sandals with a simple black strap strewn across her toes, and around her ankles to keep it in place, clicked against the marble floor as she tapped away her impatience. Knowing how to bide her time never being one of her many virtues. Her lips parted into a delicate pout, exposing two pearly white teeth. The two that hung from the top of her mouth. "Keep, would you take this?" she asked the man behind the counter. "It will not warm anyone's belly this night," she added as he came over and rid it of her fingertips, which seemed to cling in a soft brush to the underbelly of the stamen. A rose being offered to a far more worthy lover. After the petals had been dyed another color; and the leaves torn away. The thorns filed into sizeable claws. When Aislin had watched him pass, she let out a delicate sigh before pressing her lips more tightly together. But not so much as to seem stiff. Someone will come, she told herself as her left hand settled on her lap for but a heartbeat before it began circling. Building up a slight heat on the surface of her skin, while the other rested casually against the edge of the bar. You just have to wait your turn... |