Eric's room - Sinric

[onceaviking]

Eric's room is dominated by the bed.
The huge bed.

There is also a desk, a low table off to the side with two, equally low chairs. They're wooden and ornately carved, but they and a couple of the more decorative objects (a painting or two, a small model of a Viking ship) are the only concessions to his past.
The door to the bathroom is ajar.

The bedside lamps are lit.

Eric toes off his boots (Pam hates when he does that) and drops his keys on the desk.

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[onceaviking]

Eric slowly opens his eyes.
"Don't," he murmurs.

He doesn't move away though.

Perhaps it's meant more as a warning.

[thewidewideworld]

"I'm sorry." Sin says softly. "You looked so peaceful."

[onceaviking]

" I miss hearing it," Eric murmurs. "Sometimes. "

[thewidewideworld]

"I afraid outside the Hávamál and other parts of the Poetic Edda, my Icelandic is only conversational."

[onceaviking]

Eric looks up at Sin.
" Go ahead. Conversational is good," he says. His Icelandic sounds a little old fashioned. And very authentic.

[thewidewideworld]

Sin chuckles stretches out a little. "I don't know that my conversation is that good either. My time in Iceland wasn't exactly pleasant." he stumbles, swapping to English for a word, "Enlightening. But not all together pleasant."

[onceaviking]

" You're doing okay," Eric murmurs.

[thewidewideworld]

"So, where are you from? Iceland or one of the other northern counties?"

[onceaviking]

"Sweden. From before it was Sweden " Eric replies.

[thewidewideworld]

"Oh. Oh wow." The idea shocks him back into English. "I never thought about how old you might be. Wow."

[onceaviking]

"I was a Viking. I've been a vampire for a thousand years. "

[thewidewideworld]

Sin's jaw can't it the floor. But it tries. "Wow."

[onceaviking]

Eric - might smile a little at that reaction.


"It was strong blood, you tasted."

[thewidewideworld]

"Oh, I got that." Sin nods emphatically. "Not that I have anything else to compare it to but I felt the power there."

[onceaviking]

He nods.
"My Maker was an extremely powerful vampire."

[thewidewideworld]

"Was he a Viking like you?" Sin asks with open curiosity.

[onceaviking]

"No. He was much older. He'd been a Roman slave."

[thewidewideworld]

"Oh wow. No wonder you're so-" he makes a helpless gestures encompassing the magnificence that is Eric.

[onceaviking]

"You're right," Eric says, smiling a little.

Smugness, thy name is vampire.

[thewidewideworld]

"Then I think I should be honoured you picked me up tonight. But you seemed to enjoy yourself too." It's almost a question.

[onceaviking]

"Oh, I did," Eric purrs.
"Your blood reflects your circumstances. I don't get across people who taste like that often anymore."

[thewidewideworld]

"Like what?" He asks curiously, rolling onto his stomach.

[onceaviking]

"I don't know what does it exactly. It's less testosterone, but that's not all."

He sounds a little like someone dissecting a glass of wine. Without the floral similes.
"It's a little sweeter. "

[thewidewideworld]

"Makes sense, I guess. That alone affect so much." He gestures at his small but prominent breasts.

[onceaviking]

Eric hums a little.
"It does bring memories back."