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Eleusis, Greece 350 BCE
As she cries and screams in agony as she watches the body of her beloved Laertes burn, she vows revenge. She will not rest before she has killed Enipeus and everyone who would ally themselves with him, human, nymp, or satyr. She curses the nymps that killed her beloved. She vows to find them and return the favor.
She finds them surprisingly easily. Laertes's kin helps her figure out which nymps betrayed them and soon she finds their scents. She kills them all with a kiss and revenge tastes sweet.
It takes 8 of Enipeus's top satyrs take her down as she calmly promises she will take down the rest of them. She has practically forever. She will get her revenge, sooner or later.
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Somewhere secret; Helsinki, Finland 2013 CE
Mitchell Brannegan dangles freedom in front of her. She just has to kill some newbie nymph, red haired Desiree Volante Tasson. She will decide later what she'll do to the little nymph with a knot tattoo. If she's really Erik Mann's, Epineus' current name, little nymph, she and her company will die with Erik. It's been so long, but you know what they say, 'revenge is best served cold'. She's so close to achieving hers, she can taste it.
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She can't help her nature, and her travels leave behind many death men. Some she kills for sustenance, some for strength, some for being in the wrong place. She has little allegiance to anyone left on this Earth. If she finds descendants of her dear Laertes, that's a different thing. But she doesn't know if any of them ended up this far north, this little plot of land people during her time never even know about. 'Finland', 'Helsinki', 'Suomi', none of these words mean anything to her. But this is where her prey is, she she's arrived here.
It's not hard for her to catch Erik's scent. She can find the new girl's, too, but she is much for interested in finishing her millennia old feud than stopping her fellow nymphs from possibly rebelling against the satyrs over some legend. Aurelia knows that she has become the stuff of legends during her captivity. Well, 'legend' is maybe a bit too positive, for how the satyrs must have twisted her story to fit their needs to keep the nymphs in check. She knows she can't count on anyone else. Not that she needs anyone else's help.
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It becomes easier to track Didi, to let everyone think that she's after her, let Erik get lulled into semi-security. She knows she will find them both anyway. She kills Erik's nymphs with kisses, such a quick and painless death. She doesn't want to hurt them, not really. They are her sisters, in way. But she has been removed from that sisterhood for so long, and who knows if anyone on Erik's flock can really be persuaded into abandoning their master. She doesn't see the use of trying.
She supposes she ends up killing more people, men especially, than is necessarily, like the hapless cafe owner, or eventually some of the Oaks, Laertes' kin, but she won't let anything deter her plans.
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She was surprised when she found the man Samuel, Didi's imprinted mate, so similar to her beloved Laertes. The is something different about him. She sees the way Didi cares about him, protects him. So, on the night of the eclipse, she wants to give the two of them what was robbed from her all those centuries, millenia ago. She hopes they can find happiness together, and a part of her heals. People, nymphs, still love in this day and age.
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She has heard of Kati, as she calls herself here, and lets her finish her survival fuck with Erik. Aurelia doesn't quite know yet what to do with her new found freedom (except possibly finish of the rest of the satyrs) but she's thinking she might want to be a nymph again. So, she lets Kati survive before attacking.
Erik Mann is too good for her kiss of death. She does not want to give him the satisfaction of feeling her lips against his, die peacefully, quickly, relatively painlessly. No, she rips his life force right out of him, choking him at the same time. It's how the satyrs have been murdering nymphs, her sisters, from time immemorial, snuffing out their lives painfully and often without reason. Aurelia wants Erik Mann, Enipeus, and who ever else he was over the centuries, to die the way he has carelessly killed so many over the years. Kati doesn't stop her. She could. She could very easily shoot Aurelia with the crossbow she's holding. But Kati clearly hates Erik too. They are kindreds in their hatred. When Erik is dead, Katie lets her go.
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Aurelia doesn't know where she will end up next. She might change her name once again, her beloved avenged and a new freedom looming in front of her. She thinks she might visit her beloved again, in Greece. Say goodbye and hope he can finally rest in peace now.