genessia | What is a woman?

Who: Lisa Tepes and Remilia Scarlet
What: Determining if Lisa is really herself or a creation
When: Sometime after the blood rain started but before this all goes down.
Where:Lisa's rooms at Castlevania
Why: To determine if Lisa really is the Lady of the Castle.
Warnings: Possible language, all the feels, and memories of a time long ago.

Lisa sighed as she closed the book she had been brought from the Library. She disliked being unable to move around as she wished, but knew that she would still need more time for her body to heal. Whatever Sakuya and Patchouli had done to her was great, but it would still take time for her to get her strength back.

She also wanted to find her husband, but she knew better than to try and leave her rooms at the moment. Even when they were back home, it was dangerous for her to go to certain parts of the Castle without Vlad and she would probably get lost trying to find him right now. At least she knew that her son was alive and she would learn more about Soma at a later time. It was all too much for her right now.

Hearing her doors open, she set the book aside on a small table and stood up slowly. She still needed a cane to move around and hated it as well, but she knew her limits and wasn't about to push herself too much.

"Greetings," she said with a smile. She may be injured, but she wasn't going to be rude.

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Remilia's been scoring Everglade for any signs of suspicious alchemy involving working with homunculi... Nothing, so far.

After a day of this, she decided to retreat to Castlevania... and come to think of it, she's not met Lisa herself. As fate would have it, she finds her way into Lisa's rooms...

"...Ah?" There was a moment of surprise. "Greetings. You would be Lisa, correct?"

While it would protect her from the monsters that roamed, the castle would allow those who wanted to find Lisa to find her rooms.

"I am indeed Lisa Tepes," she said with a slight bow of her head. "Please, sit. I can have one of the maids bring tea if you'd like."

She may not be at full strength, but she wasn't going to be rude.

She sniffs the air, curious... and notes that she seems pretty human to her so far.

"Hmm, I wouldn't mind some tea," the short vampire replies with a curtsy, before sitting down. Lisa is higher nobility as far as the little vampire is concerned. "I have been meaning to talk to you about Lord Tepes..."

The request for tea made the air shimmer slightly, a certain maid appearing with a small wave of chilling power. Remilia knew Sakuya had been doing her best to nurse the woman back to health, though she may not have been aware that Sakuya was actively monitoring Lisa's room for any calls for aid.

"Lady Remilia. Lady Tepes." It was a greeting only, the maid remaining quiet so as not to interrupt the conversation at hand.

She set down a cup for each as well as a small plate of tarts to compliment. Each woman got a measured pour, the maid drawing a knife. She picked the heel of her hand, adding several drops of blood to Remilia's tea.

"Thank you, Sakuya," Lisa said with a smile to the maid. She had gotten a little bit of information from the maid, but it was mostly just general things about the place they were in. She was slowly understanding what was going on, but she still didn't understand everything.

"I have not seen my husband since I found myself here," she said as she picked up the teacup but didn't drink. She looked sadly into the tea for a moment before taking a drink. "He was traveling when the Church took me and burned the home we shared to the ground."

She set the tea aside and shook her head a bit. "They didn't understand what I was doing and had labeled it as witchcraft. The Church labeled a lot of things witchcraft, when it was actually science that would help better people had the research been allowed to continue."

"My thanks, Sakuya." She heard most of that from Patchouli, and of course Dracula throwing a bit of a fit.

"The church, as always, is nothing more than a blight, and humanity easily led sheep. Yes, I know all about the things they did," she replies, taking a sip of her own tea. She may have told him in turn about what happened to her own Flandre.

"Humans are easily led to believe just about anything as long as someone of rank and power tells them," she said with a sigh. She looked back at Remilia. "You said you wanted to speak to me about my husband. Please, ask what questions you have. I apologize that I started rambling about what happened to me."

"He does not believe you are real, but a homunculus someone made in your form. Everglade would be overrun with demons by now had I not been able to convince him to give me a month's time to find the 'culprit.'" In short Dracula is being very silly indeed. Not to mention being a jerk.

Lisa sat silently. She knew that Vlad had certain powers within the castle and even though she had met a few of the monsters in the halls, she still really didn't believe in 'magic' or in truth the thought of Heaven or Hell.

"I only know of the life that I have memories of. If they are created or faked in some way, I know not who did it. I don't know of anyone who would dare cross my husband in any fashion. Many feared him," She said quietly. She had never thought of the idea of being faked, yet it could be a possibility.

"The last I knew, the flames of the Church were going to claim my body. I don't believe in Alchemy, but there were many who thought themselves as alchemists."

"I would rather not see Everglade destroyed, but he is as stubborn as Patchy when she is in a 'must research everything!' mood." Yep, she is quite fond of Patchy, even if she exasperates her by being a bookworm. A woman who, incidentally, mixes magic with science.

"Curious you would say that, in a castle with three vampire residents."

"I don't believe in a lot of things. What people might call magic or alchemy just needs to be studied so that it can be explained to those without the knowledge," she said with a small smile. "That is why I sought out Vlad in the first place. So that I could learn and study to help the people of my village. I knew that he was different, but I did not care."

She took another drink of her tea. "There were many stories of the monster in the wandering castle around the land, but I didn't believe them. I sought knowledge and nothing would stop me."

Well. She seems rather convinced about that. Remilia doesn't believe in gods either, but not because she thinks they don't exist, but because she sees them as being more trouble than they're worth. "And yet Patchy could still heal you."

She smiles a little, though. "You are far braver that most humans are, I must say..."

"Either that or I am a bigger fool than others. I fell in love with a man that everyone knew as a monster. I still love him, even though I was to be burned at the stake for both being his wife and helping the people of my village," she said sadly.

"I still love him, even if he thinks I am not myself."

"I hope I am able to make him come to his senses... As one of the deputy guardians of Everglade, protecting it is my job."

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