Connecting with Charlotte

[Keara Aithne]

--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--

This RP takes place on Sunday 16th March.

Keara: Charlotte? If interrupting I am not...like I would for with you to speak. Need only you do for your reply to think. Hear it I shall.

Charlotte: Huh? What? Who's this?

Keara: Surprised I should not be that recognise my voice you do not. Long has it been since spoke last we did. Most sorry I am for that. Meant I did for with you earlier to speak. This Keara is. And talking we are via power that possess I do.

Charlotte: I have this power too.

Keara: And you the connection can sustain? Some messages into the mind of another can send. While others the connection can sustain, so that reply the other can. Enver into my mind can speak. For example. But unable he is for the conversation to sustain.

Charlotte: Yes, I can sustain it. I.... have... a few powers now. The computers and phones - they hurt my head.

Keara: Glad I am to hear that you new powers have. And that recognise that fact you do. Wanted I did to know how you are.

Charlotte: Why?

Keara: Strange question that is. Care I do for you. Hoped I did that well I would you find.

Charlotte: I'm fine.... but what... what makes you say you care?

Keara: Why would I that not say? That reason is for why speaking with you now I am. What other reason would I have for with you thusly to speak?

Charlotte: I.... don't know? It's why, well, why I was surprised. When you got in touch... I mean. Maybe.... cause... I don't know? I did something wrong?

Keara: What could you wrong have done? Find you will that quite accepting I am. Even if angry you make me. My childe you are. That never change shall.

Charlotte: Everything? Anything? I.... don't know. I couldn't think... why else you'd get in touch. But to berate me. *Sighs through the link*

Keara: Aw darkling. No intention have I for you this eve to chastise. Only wanted I did for to know that well you are. Myself of late I have not been, but hope I do home to the Asylum soon to return. Then perhaps see I can for myself that well you are.

Charlotte: Well..... ummmm..... can I ask, a question?

Keara: Oh course you may. Questions of me you may always ask.

Charlotte: Well, I just.... I didn't want to impose. But.... I was wondering.... what do you know about.... ghosts?

Keara: Ghosts? Your sister by such a thing perhaps haunted is. Though see it I do not. So assume I do that it a wraith is not. Nor can it a spirit be. Though guess I do that all quite similar are in ways. Why ask you this?

Charlotte: Something.... well.... it appeared. Last night. A red headed girl ghost..... Attacked me. Oh my goodness. I was so so scared, and it.... hurt me

Keara: Hmm...hurt you it did? That quite strange is. Most ghosts others do not harm and since recognise it you do not, likely it is that yours it is not. Wraith or spirit perhaps then it was. Did it anything to you say?

Charlotte: I.... heard a voice before. But, well, I thought I was hearing phonecalls again. But Jonah.... he said it was his kid, he..... threw me away. But yes... it clawed at me, and I felt.... weaker afterwards. It was horrible.

Keara: Oh. So it Jonah's is? Perhaps. Possible is. My sister my call did answer when summoned I did a wraith from that realm. Why would she you wish to harm? Little sense that makes. Deanna My Enver does loathe and yet attacked him as yet she has not.

Charlotte: What do you mean, it's his? And who's Deanna? An aunt?

Keara: Another power that is. For such a being from the other realm to summon. Deanna my sister was. Long ago. No such connection do we now have. Now she my wraith is. But consider her I do my sister to be. If any of that sense makes.

Charlotte: Oh. Ok

Keara: Check later I shall if that power is that Jonah possesses does. Else to someone else the creature belongs perhaps does. Felt you did that it from your energy did feed? That how I experience such attacks.

Charlotte: My.... energy?

Keara: Yes. Many names heard it called I have, none ever right do seem. Energy likely wrong too is. Essence perhaps better would be to say. The essence from which powers born are. Difficult to explain this is. But…hmm…well…gifts we have. Yes? Powers. Some powers energy require of us…or essence…or know I do not. Wraiths upon this essence do feed. Know not why. Require it they seem not too.

Charlotte: Oh. Ok. Yes. I did feel.... drained. It made me feel sick, like, I could feel it being sapped.... from.... from me.

Keara: Hope I do that took it did not much from use take. Capable they are not usually of too much of your essence in one attack to acquire. Did you say why attacked you it did? Most wraiths quite pleasant are. My Deanna quite lovely is…unless you Enver are. Argue they do like…cat and dog the expression is I believe.

Charlotte: I'm hiding, so it doesn't find me.

Keara: Possible it is for such thing from you to repel. That power have I do. Though likely is that bridged that far as yet you have not. See you wraiths even when wish they do not to be seen?

Charlotte: I.... wait.... how many are there? Is.... is there one here with me now? They.... oh god.... they can be INVISIBLE?!

Keara: Many. And yes. Enver Deanna cannot see unless wills it she does. But escape my eye she cannot. If attacked you again it has not. Then likely done for now it is. Perhaps only wished it did for you to know that upset it you had. Now know this you do. Though again. Makes me wonder this does, what done was for creature to upset or annoy. Not that I believe Enver anything did for Deanna’s hatred to earn. Dislikes him she does as he our Ven is not. Though that different story is.

Charlotte: Your Ven? And.... I didn't.... I didn't do anything! I didn't even know ghosts were real! No-one told me about them!

Keara: Told everything you cannot be. That impossible is. Some things learn we do when time it is. Wondering am if place you I should in Foundation. There a virtual library we have. Even if complete as yet it is not. Explain Ven I shall another night. Need now we need not of him speak. Where are you?

Charlotte: Hiding.

Keara: Where?

Charlotte: Why?

Keara: Send I can Deanna for to see if anyone with you there is.

Charlotte: No! You said she's a ghost! She'll want to hurt me too! I know she will.

Keara: Know that you cannot. Hurt you she shall not. Mine she is. Mine you are. Hurt she never would one of my blood. She here is for me to help.

Charlotte: ......

Keara: Charlotte. Trust me you should. Send I would not Deanna for you to harm. If harmed she has not My Enver and she him does detest. Hurt you she would not. As know you she does not.

Charlotte: In with the zombies, one floor up. Behind a plant.

Keara: In Corvidae? Many plants in that zone there are not. Wonder is that the army noticed have not that residence there thriving is.

Charlotte: Yes.... I think that's the name of it.

Keara: Send Deanna then I shall for you to find. Somehow knows my will she does. Worked out I have not why or how. But question it these days I need not.

Charlotte: O.....k....... Keara..... I'm scared.

Keara: Why? Scared you are of Deanna? Appear she shall and herself to you introduce…If finds you she does.

Charlotte: Yes, of her, of the others, of.... everything.

Keara: Need you do not for scared to be Charlotte. You the thing are that in the dark does lurk. You yourself by others feared might be. And yet believe I do not that you of any real threat to the frail creatures are.

Charlotte: But..... Jonah said, I'm hunted.

Keara: Why would you hunted be?

Charlotte: Because. I'm on that list thing. On the internet.

Keara: Leif on that list for many months has been and hunted her they did not. Only one mistake made she did. Like you. Believe I do not that hunted for that you shall be. By no second offense to have made, showing you are that learning you are. Why kill they would one that learnedtheir lesson has, beyond me is

Charlotte: I... don't know. I don't understand it all. I don't understand why you'd want to hurt someone else.

Keara: We all our reasons have. And while think I shall not before I the life of a frail creature would take. As then deserve it they would. No part would i have in the killing of one of our own.

Charlotte: Like you killed me?

Keara: Yes. Like killed you I did. Think on that I did not. Had you Hannah have been, deserved it you would have. While killed you I should not have. Happy I am with outcome. Now…Before…Not so much. Now think I do that meant you were for this path to walk.

Charlotte: Is that.... why you've avoided me? Abandoned me? Because you weren't happy.... with me.... being here?

Keara: Oh no. That the truth is not. Happy I was not with what done I had. My actions. Not yours. Nothing wrong have you done. Guilty felt I did for what done to you I had. Now think I do that that positive thing was. I…erm…abandoned you feel?

Charlotte: Yes, how else should I feel? Killed and then left to fend for myself with these new.... powers coming, and monsters and ghosts all around me. I knew no-one and nothing. I.... well..... I don't think I'd even recognise you in the street... if.... if I'm honest.

Keara: More time with you spent I should have. Help I cannot circumstances that me from you have kept. But if truthful I am. While here I am for all those of my blood if questions they have. Many me needed have not…Ever. Most turned are and despite best efforts. See them I do not from one month to the next. Like I do to think that most independent are. But so few survive that then altered that perception I did. Now think I do that some to this world suited are not. Many childer I have lost in years that passed have. More from my family than count I can. Of my childer few do I on regular basis see. Even if reach out to them I do. Many reply not. Perhaps apathetic in this become I have. Assume I do these days that superfluous I am…Once made I have a childer.

Charlotte: Well..... I needed you. Peter does - or did - too. I've not.... I've not seen him for a while.

Keara: Return soon I hope to. Then sit with you both I shall. Spoke I did with Peter recently. Guidance he needed. Confused him Enver and I did, through differing advice to give.

Charlotte: He.... scares me.

Keara: Who? Peter?

Charlotte: No. Enver.

Keara: Why? No reason is there for Enver to fear.

Charlotte: He just.... the way he types. It's so.... aggressive.

Keara: That his way is. Aggressive I would not say he is. Blunt he is. And sometimes little patience does he have,

Charlotte: Well..... it's scared me

Keara: No need have you for Enver to fear Charlotte.

Charlotte: I'll.... reserve judgement. Your... sister, she doesn't like him either. So, there must be a reason.

Keara: her reasons yours will not be. Ven our sire was. Married to him I was. Some two hundred years. Likes she does not that I with Enver am.

Charlotte: And she sees nothing... well.... good in him?

Keara: Matter it would not if perfect he was. He Ven is not. Therefore likes him she does not.

Charlotte: Well, I don't think.... we'll meet anytime... soon. So.... it's ok.

Keara: Meet him soon you likely shall. Never far from one another we are. PLans we have for our childer together to bring. In small groups.

Charlotte: I can be in the group he's not?

Keara: Enver always there shall be. As point will be for us our childer also to see. Planning we are for six of us in one room to get so that talk we can. Six good number did seem.

Charlotte: Oh....

Keara: Is that not good. Decided we did that more than six bad would be, as like we would for family with one another to speak. Enver and I, two of his childer. Two of mine.

Charlotte: I just.... well.... can Jonah come with me? ..... Please?

Keara: Planned I did for Jonah in this to include. So no problem have I with that. While directly my childe he is not, all those of my blood feel I do my childer are.

Charlotte: I would just.... I'd feel safer if he was there. I mean... I don't know you.... and Enver... well, as I said... he's scary

Keara: Well know you should that hurt you I would not. My blood gifted you I did. And Enver stop I could, if he tried he did for you to harm. Though harm he would not another without reason.

Charlotte: Yes, but, I don't know you. I don't know if that's true, or if.... if... you're lying. All I know..... you wanted to kill a girl. You killed me instead. You'll.... forgive me? If all I... well,.... know of you is violence and death?

Keara: If that your perception is. Perhaps wasting my time I am. Told you this several times I have. Speak with you I would not if care I did not. Lie I do not. If lied I did, Told you I would not that I Hannah wished to kill. If all I was, was violence and death. Fed you I would not that which most precious to me is.

Charlotte: I'm sorry....It's just, been a lot to take in tonight. I'm still shaken, and I just... I don't know. I'm not myself. Do.... you know how to , well, switch off the noises in my head? Not you! The other ones?

Keara: Block I can the noises in your mind...Though lasts long that power does not. And hour or two, depending on the skill of the one that the power possess does.

[Charlotte Ruse]

--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--

Charlotte: No, I mean... permanently. Like... so I can control them? Not block my powers, like I did to Jonah - so he's not a monster anymore.

Keara: If there such a power is. Have that ability I do not. Best that do I can is for a few hours rest to you to give. And what mean you about Jonah?

Charlotte: So... you don't have the power and know how to control it? *Audibly sighs* I guess I'll keep working on it. I don't.... even know what it does.... what use it is. And Jonah - you know? He.... well.... looked like a monster? I.... well... I kinda fixed him.

Keara: Oh…Come back to Jonah we shall…Mean you do that wish you do for your powers to control so that switch them off yourself you can. That practise does take. Know I do not if power switched off can be. That terminology perhaps wrong is. But control them you can so that no issue you have for to function. Connected I always am to the internet. But think on that mostly I do not.

Charlotte: Mmm Hmm. I think... I've mostly got the hang of the mind speak one. Then the blocking powers one and the one that seems to, hurt people. I keep peeking in minds, and seeing things by accident, but I'm getting there. And like... when the guards are trying to shoot me. Sometimes I can tell where they're going to aim, so I can avoid it. Like, a sixth sense. There's this new thing though - well, two new things. I can kinda, I don't know, see how good someone is at stuff? Like, I can see them doing it and how well. Then there's this.... I don't know. Like... I can hear people on the phone.... I can see the threads of information flying through the air and almost reach out and touch them, manipulate them. But it's a constant buzzing and chattering in my head.

Keara: Hmm…learn you will to control those also. Only perhaps more practice take they will. Many signals in this era there are. Technology everywhere is. Like I do the chatter. Comforting is. Hear it mostly I do not. Like if lived by the ocean you ever have. At first waves loud are. Then after a time. Hear them you do not.

Charlotte: Oh. Ok. So, just, get used to it?

Keara: Yes. Perhaps hard that is to hear but that normal is. Sure I am that adjust you shall. Most telepaths do. Unless mad they go. But then likely control that you could not. As know you would not that spiralled into madness you had. All that do you can is for your mind to try and adjust. For the situation to accept and therein overcome it you can. If that sense makes?

Charlotte: Wait..... I might go mad?!

Keara: Mhm....that possible is. Though think I do that many telepaths pretend a little in that. If people you mad do think, less attention to you they pay. Dismissed myself I have been for such things about me to be thought.

Charlotte: Oh. Well.... I see. Ok. So - you wanted to ask about Jonah?

Keara: Yes. Said you did that fixed him you did. Know I did not that he fixed needed to be. So I guess understand that statement I do not.

Charlotte: Well, he's not a monster anymore.

Keara: He a monster was?

Charlotte: Yes. He looked like something out of a Dracula film, not like a man. Seems he'd been like that for a while...... when was the last time you saw him? This member of your family?

Keara: Keep track of dates in general I do not. And know very well I do how looked he did. Though considered him a monster I did not. Came back different he did. Changed again he has you say?

Charlotte: Yes. I fixed him. He's a man again, and he can control his powers - mostly.

Keara: How did you him fix?

Charlotte: I mind blocked him. By accident! Honest it was! And he turned back into a man. I don't.... I don't think he realised it was a power, and he was casting it. I don't know though. Just.... his face. He was so hurt.

Keara: Poor Jonah. And he okay now is? Adjusting is?

Charlotte: I.... think so? I hope so, certainly. *There was a distinct lightness to her tone now, a happiness that had crept in8

Keara: Glad I am that alone you are not while away I am. Jonah a good man is. Even if family he was not, trust him I would.

Charlotte: No, not alone. We.... spend quite a lot of time together. He's.... well, we work together now too.

Keara: Oh that good is. Work you do in his store?

Charlotte: Mmm Hmm. I do. Books aren't frightening.

Keara: That untrue is. Some books terrifying are. Perhaps as objects fear them you need not. But the same said cannot be for the words...sometimes.

Charlotte: True. But they can only physically harm me if wielded by a person. And.... well.... Jonah would never do that. Not to me. He.... nothing.

Keara: What would you say? Tell me you may. And yes. Believe I do not that Jonah another would harm without reason.

Charlotte: He protects me, from everything, anyone. He.... I think he cares.

Keara: Jonah quite gentle is. Surprise me it would not for to hear that protective of a fledgling in our family was. Protect I think he would any that he thought innocent was.

Charlotte: Yes, but.... I mean.... more than that.

Keara: More than what? Understand I do not.

Charlotte: Do you think.... do you think that he.... do you think that someone, could like me?

Keara: Oh course they like you could. Why would you that doubt? Know I do that know you well I do not and that know you better I could but nothing bad in you have I yet seen. Quite likeable you seem.

Charlotte: But..... if only you knew..... could they like me like me? Like, how, Enver likes you?

Keara: Oh...Erm...Know I do not Jonah's heart. Knew I did not my own when I Enver met. One day tell you I shall our story. Dating we were before knew we did that dating we were. Fell comfortably together we did. Anything possible is. I love found and thought I did that that never happen shall.

Charlotte: Mmmm.... ok

Keara: Do you feelings for Jonah have?

Charlotte: I.....

Keara: Yes?

Charlotte: Yes

Keara: Oh...Well that good is...yes?

Charlotte: I don't.... know. I've never.... No-one has ever.... I'm scared.

Keara: Oh understand that I do. Perhaps for different reasons as my reasons no-one elses are. My circumstances strange were. Are. Older I am than seem I do. Remember I do not if told you that already I did.

Charlotte: No, and.... my reasons are strange too. And no-one else’s business.

Keara: Oh meant I did not that they no-ones business are. Spoken I have to a couple of my situation. Now it...well...I guess irrelevant now it seems. What feared I did came to pass.

Charlotte: But.... that's not good! For what you fear to come true!

Keara: Depends what fear you do and why. Feared I did what unknown was. When dead for seveal centuries been you have. Little is there in this world to fear.

Charlotte: I.... I.... I.... don't want what I fear to come true!

Keara: What have you to fear Charlotte? If tell me you do. Then perhaps ease I can your mind.

Charlotte: NO! No I can't. I won't!

Keara: Okay. Press you I shall not. Your decision is for to tell or not. Secrets I do not like but understand I do that some necessary are.

Charlotte: Thank you

Keara: But know you should that there nothing is that say you could that bear I could not. Very little is there in this world that me from mine will keep. So if ever wish to speak you do. Speak into my mind you may.

Charlotte: Thank you.... but.... I couldn't bear to lose you. I know I've not seen you, can't remember how you look.... but to be cast aside by you? I couldn't bear it.

Keara: Worry on that not Charlotte. Perfect creatures we are not. We all our faults have and our mistakes will make. Of my blood you are. Know I do not what say any of my blood could for me my back to them to turn.

Charlotte: I only wish that were true.

Keara: True it is. Else say it I could not. Or think it even. Too many untruths in my first life perhaps I did.

Charlotte: Well, I'd rather not put it to the test. Just in case.

Keara: One day tell me you shall. Perhaps when trust me you do. My experience is that what wish we do hidden to keep often to light is brought...eventually. But like I do not this topic of conversation. So perhaps change it we should. Or perhaps leave you be I should. Sometimes talk too much I do. This learn you shall.

Charlotte: I don't mind, it's nice. To have company. Even if it's just in the mind.

Keara: Conversation easier seems this way. Know why I do not. Perhaps as see the reaction of the one with whom you speak you do not.

Charlotte: You're scared of people too?

Keara: Not scared no. But sometimes easier is for that way to speak. Like I do too that always with Enver this way I can be. When forced apart we are. Always speak we do. Thusly or via email. Even when died he did. Keep me from him that did not.

Charlotte: I don't like that, thinking about dying. It doesn't sound pleasant, at all. There's so much, that's different. Yet so much the same. From what I'm used to.

Keara: Sure of that I am. Try waking you should in different era. Adjust easily to this life I did not. Still learning I am. With Enver's help. But at least now dying for our kind final is not. Return we can. If strength of mind we have. Not all who pass return.

Charlotte: I know, I heard. I think.... I think that would be me. If I were to die.

Keara: Why do you that believe? While scared you seem of the world that around you is, believe I do not that wish you would not to your form to return. Otherwise wraith become you shall. Like creature that attacked you did. Like My Deanna.

Charlotte: I'm not a strong person. Jonah.... he thinks I am, but I don't think so.

Keara: Sometimes see we do not our own strengths. If Jonah that thinks of you. Then likely true it is.

Charlotte: I don't know. I guess we'll see when the hunters get me!

Keara: Believe I do that if hunting you they were dead you likely already would be. While involve myself with those outside our walls I rarely do. Like I do to believe that some compassion they have for youngling like you.

Charlotte: They've shot me, a few times. But I've managed to get away

Keara: Oh. Confused now I am. Thinking I was that you of vampires spoke. Now believe I do that hunters of the human variety you mean. Have you in the sewers been?

Charlotte: Wait.... vampires hunt other vampires?!

Keara: Oh yes. Do that they do. Done that I have. But never shall I that again do. Wish I do not harm upon our kind. But still...answered me you did not.

Charlotte: No. I've not been in the sewers. Jonah told me not to.

Keara: So the hunters finding you are while sleep you do?

Charlotte: Mm Hm. It's like, the guys I called, before.... you happened.

Keara: Then perhaps know they do that turned you were. Or draw you do too much attention. Do you anything do for the attention of others to you to bring?

Charlotte: I try not to. Nothing I didn't do before anyways.

Keara: And what did you before do?

Charlotte: Worked, lived my life, stole things.

Keara: Likely is the stealing then. Perhaps caught you have been on camera. Beleive I cannot that your gifts seen would have been, as telepaths few gifts have that seen can be.

Charlotte: Yes, well, I'm not great at the whole robbing thing. But you know - bills need paid.

Keara: Understand that I do. Perhaps. Many their reasons have for such skills for to use. Only perhaps greater care in that you should take...So that seen you are not. Yes?

Charlotte: Mm Hm. I'm trying to be better. Always trying.

Keara: That good plan is. For better to try to be. Those that try for perfect to be often disappointed are. unrealistic goal that is. But for better to be. That more reachable goal is. Better ourselves we can in many ways.

Charlotte: Well, I don't want to disappoint Jonah.

Keara: Doubt I do that that possible is. Less concerned you should be with others to disappoint though. You your own reason should be for your talents to improve.

Charlotte: I don't.... I don't really care about me. I just don't want to let anyone down, to make them leave me. Not again. That's why I work so hard. To keep you, and Jonah.

Keara: Work you do not for me to keep. Promise you that I do. And care for yourself you should.

Charlotte: Why?

Keara: As your opinion the one that matters is. Long time have you for yourself to know. Learn you should for for yourself to care.

Charlotte: Maybe you could help teach me?

Keara: Best way to learn is for the positive things that other say of you to believe. Even if agree fully you do not. Try I must that myself to do. Know I do not how help you in that I can. But try I shall.

Charlotte: Thank you, that would be appreciated. And... I'm trying to believe. Jonah gets upset when I don't believe him. So I'm working on it.

Keara: Good. That good to hear is. That trying you are. No more than that can you do.

Charlotte: Well, I should probably leave you be now. I do have to go and tidy and clean Jonah's place - it's a bit of a mess you know!

Keara: Oh...you in the Asylum are?

Charlotte: I will be shortly, on my way there now.

Keara: Oh good. That good is. Then thank you I shall for with me to speak. Nice it was for your voice to hear. Be safe in the darkness Charlotte.

Charlotte: No. Thank you. It's nice to know you've not abandoned me to the night.

Keara: I have not. Until again we speak.

Charlotte: Indeed.