>Sword's dance.<[Danny] Open

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

Surprised by Isabella's alertness towards him, he faulted with her. He scolded himself once more and forced that ever-so-charming, make-your-heart-melt smile to reassure her.
'Oh, well thats dissappointing, because I do' He joked lightly.
He watched her darting eyes curiously, as she focused then re-focused her gaze on his sword. Uneasy by this attention and eager to distract her, he quickly changed the subject. 'How close are we? I have been travelling for days and I'm starting to tire....'
Flicking his hair from his eyes, he concentrated on keeping his smile light and happy, and to a lesser extent, the crunch of dry brush under his heavy boots.

[Isabella Black]

Isabella watched him, nice try, but if you wanna play i can play.... Isabella let it pass, whatever it was. Isabella smirked, he could bite, but could he really bite like her? Isabella already knew he wasn't a vampire. She would of sensed it, he was something else. She could smell it, but she wasn't going to pry into it. After all she held many secrets, it was hardly fare.

Turning her violet gaze toward the sky, Isabella studied it then looked in the direction they were going. A magnificent castle was just slightly off in the distance. Accoring to the sky Isabella could make it with in seconds...running. But as she was with Frank, they would make it in a couple of minutes.

"It's not too far, like 10 minutes. Maybe less." Isabella said, reassuring him. A thoughtfull expression spread across her face.
"Why Hogwarts? Why now?" Isabella asked him. Keeping her eyes on the road ahead. She was wondering if he had been kicked out of his old one.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

Concentrating now on the castle in the distance, Isabella once again suprised him with her sudden prying and curiousity.
'Is that Hogwarts?' he said before answering her question 'It's amazing......' His pause before responding allowed him to think, his forest-green eyes narrowing towards the path ahead. After a moments deep thought he finally replied to her. 'I felt it was time for a change. Since i've always been on my own there was nothing holding me back from coming out here...'
Danny found it was easier weave aspects of the truth through his coverups, it made it easier to remember, and the lies seemed less hollow. He didn't worry about this strange girl figuring out the falsities immeadiately, as he had been taught to the brink of perfection in the art of celo dissimulo, or 'keeping secrets'. But at least a part of him wished that he could tell some one, or that he never had to live this way in the beginning. Though that part was minute and he liked to keep it so, suppressing such thoughts that would threaten to overturn everything he had made for himself.
However, despite his determination his mind rang with a clear and unfiltered thought....'incognitus nunc.... incongnitius se astringo successio'

.......maybe this time.....maybe i will succeed....

[Isabella Black]

Isabella's jaw clenched at his answer. All alone, just like her She was trying not to make similarity's since that would make it all the more real. Isabella looked at him, not in pity but in knowing. Then looking back at the castle, Isabella nodded.

"Yeah that's Hogwarts. I warn you though, it maybe amazing but it's...." Isabella paused trying to find the right word, when she couldn't she just left it at, "Dangerous." As if it were a bewitched word, Isabella felt her blood boil. A flash of pain greeted her face before she covered it up. On instinct her body tensed, alarmed. Wanting to fight the danger, but as it were you couldn't fight whats happening inside of you. Fighting back the urge to cry out in pain, Isabella held strong. Reminding her once again, that she had to deal with this.

Just a little further Isabella thought. Her eyes locked onto the castle.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

'Dangerous?' Danny asked with a sudden curiosity. He wondered what danger could possibly lay here that would pose any threat to him.
He pondered this casually but quickly dropped the thought as noticed the look on Isabellas face.
'Isabella?' He said her name, his voice full of fear and a certain apprehension. He had seen others in pain before, and certainly in pain worse than this, but never before had he seen such pain swoop out of nowhere to claim someone as it had this girl.
'What is it?' His voice was full of unnatural concern

[Isabella Black]

Uneasy with how he could notice, Isabella wondered about just who she was with. He would have to be experienced to have noticed any difference in her facial expression. The concern he showed was rarely showed towards Isabella. She was fine. She didn't need it. Though deep inside a slight joy speard through, happy that someone was concerned enough to ask. That didn't mean she was going to give him the answer.

"It will pass, it's just a little nuisance." Isabella replied softly. It was an understatement, the pain she could deal with, but it left her vulnerable if she were attacked. Looking down at her bare feet Isabella bit her bottom lip, suddenly wishing she had wore her light armor. Or at least something else instead of the light pink dress she did have on. There were hunters, and others out. Normally she wouldn't care, but normally her changes of getting caught were non-existent. Now it was fair game.

"All I can do is warn you. Just watch out on full moons and where you spill your blood." Isabella told him, wanting to change the subject. She could tell him that much. He was smart, Isabella knew he could figure it out. She practically did give it away. They weren't the only dangers, but they were one of the more dangerous. Still walking, Isabella continued slightly with more pace. Numbing herself from the pain.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

The nearness of the castle provided no comfort to Danny with Isabella being in such obvious discomfort. Well, obvious to him anyway.
'What is It anyway?' he questioned her as she glanced at her feet. 'What? Sore feet now?' He asked lightly, just noticing that Isabella's feet, were in fact, bare. Without thinking, his tongue betrayed him and he offered her a hand
'I....I could help you back....'
No! Danny thought urgently to himself No, she will never accept the help
Although only just having met the girl, Danny had already figured out that she had an independant personality and she liked it that way. He got the feeling that despite his offer Isabella would refuse any help even if she desperately needed it.
Furious with himself, but not quite enough so to be embarassed, he quickened his pace until Isabella said something that almost made him stop all together. Luckily though his extreme self discipline allowed him to show no trace of his surprise.
'Vampires....' he said melodically 'and.......lycanthropes?'
Danny looked at Isabella curiously 'They allow that here? In a school? That would have been difficult to get through. Doesn't your ministry have protection laws about such creatures and the general wizarding population?' Then he added with an incredulous expression on his face 'Is it even........ legal?'

Of course Danny had met both Vampires and Lycanthropes in the past, and those that were something between the two. But where Danny came from there were hefty legal issues when it came to them mixing with the average wizard. Especially in such delicate situations.

[Isabella Black]

Isabella didn't take his help. Couldn't he see she was capable herself? After all one touch of her skin and he would know what she was, or have a suspicion.
When he kept talking Isabella glanced around, then all train of thought halted as he began talking about vampire's and werewolves. She couldn't help it, her face lost all colour, the little it did have. Then like a swift blade Isabella turned facing Frank. Her mind screaming out he did not just say that. Covering up the hurt expression with an indifferent one. Her eyes shone with intense fire.

"Of course they do! But they are hardly spoken of. Hardly any student knows they exist or they hide they do. I warned you not because they would harm you, but so you don't tempt them. " Isabella said her tone neutral, completely different from what her mind wanted to scream at him.

"Besides there is nothing wrong with them." Isabella added in. If it were legal or not it didn't matter, it was natural.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

'Woah, calm down...' Danny said quickly, taken aback 'Geez kid. I don't have any problems with them. Where I come from though......its different. The lamia and lycanthropes often have disagreements.' An odd look passed over his face as he added 'and those disagreements can be quite deadly.'
Danny flicked his hair from his eyes and focused on the castle as they steadily approached it.
Why would this human care so much anyway? he thought to himself. Unless she was somehow involved with them and that would mean that getting close to her would be much more dangerous than he ever anticipated.

[Isabella Black]

Isabella tighten her knuckles, but slowly they loosened. Her eyes studying him for the look most people gave Vampires. She was kicking herself mentally. With a defensive out burst like that, no wonder people would notice she's not all normal. She couldn't help it though, she loathed it when people talked about them as if the were unnatural, as if they didn't belong.
Stepping away from him, Isabella continued walking. The word lamia spurring up a memory of her mother's teachings.

"They are different here. Not the same. More controlled, though I can't say the same to those that don't attend the school." Isabella spoke almost with a urgency. Wanting him to understand. She had told him and now any of them could be in danger. She didn't care about what he said, anyone with a will of mind could change their minds. She didn't have much time to think of it though as she held her hand up to her heart, cringing. The little sharp stabs intensified as they neared that particular area. She didn't know why, there was pain everywhere but it hurt more so. Her steps never faulted, her face a flawless mask. She doubted Frank could see anything anyway, he was a little behind. Once again she told herself I can deal with this. After all it was for the safety of everyone around her. Compared to that, this was nothing.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

'I wonder,' Danny said curiously 'why you would care so much?'
Suspicions sprung to his mind. But he knew she wasn't vampire, or at least not fully vampire. Her eyes were the wrong colour.
Moving suddenly faster, to match her speed, he looked down at her. 'Are we almost there yet?' His question was almost a complaint, but his charming demeanor denied the words any chance to be so.
He decided quickly that she must be close to the lamia. It was the only logical reason for her to act in such a way.

[Isabella Black]

"So I'm Not allowed to care, is that it. I must somehow be connected to them, to care?. Maybe I just don't follow society's main hatred for them. Maybe I think how they treat them isn't right and I'm not only talking about Vampire's, I'm also talking about werewolves." Isabella answered. her tone had a hint of anger in it. She found it oddly strange to be talking about vampires as if she wasn't one, or half of one. Isabella was quickly getting annoyed by his child like behavior.

"You know you remind me of a child." Isabella pointed out, hoping to make him at least a little mad so he would just stay silent.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

'I never said that. What makes you think that? I just wonder why you would care so deeply. It's not very common from what i've heard.'
Danny chuckled openly at Isabella's last comment.
'Why so uptight, kiddo? I just want to make friends...' Danny chuckled again and flashed her a smile that he knew would make her loosen up.

For some reason he couldn't explain, he liked this girl. Despite how hostile she seemed, he sensed that she wasn't a bad person. Still smiling, though now as a subconcious act, Danny bent forward slightly to better see her face as they were walking. Sunlight flickered off his eyes, making them seem to glow.

[Isabella Black]

"Just certain people..." Isabella said weakly. Uptight? Isabella smiled at that, no one had ever said she was that before. Signing, Isabella glanced at him. Her violet eyes peering up at his forest-green ones.
"Friends.... That's manageable." Isabella said, her lip curled upwards. "I like your eyes, by the way...Frank." Isabella really did, they also screamed out power maybe that was why. Isabella knew they were already at Hogwarts, she could see the entrance. For some reason she felt a tiny bit saddened that she would be departing from her new friend.

['Frank' (Danny Weaver)]

'More than manageable, kiddo' Danny said, with a bounce in his step. He was brimming with excitement but contained it. For so many years he had been unwilling or unable to have a friend. However maybe this time would be different. No, not just maybe, definately.

'My eyes....? Why thankyou Isabella.' Danny said, taken aback. Well isn't this one just full of surprises? he thought to himself. 'Well, i must say I like yours too..... such an unnatural colour.'

Realising they were now much closer to the castle, Danny grinned. 'Where to now?'