{"id":5286,"date":"2015-05-23T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2015-05-23T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T19:44:39","slug":"the-tribunal-of-marius-de-romanus-pt-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/the-tribunal-of-marius-de-romanus-pt-26\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tribunal of Marius de Romanus, Pt. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pandora-listening-to-verdict\"<\/a>The High Council came in and sat at their respective chairs.\u00a0 Chancellor Gray shook her head once at our David and I knew.\u00a0 I just knew.\u00a0 I stood up and placed my hands flat onto the bulletproof glass that separated me from the forum; from him.\u00a0 He looked up to me and smiled his usual smile, one that always made me feel like we could face anything. \u00a0My eyes started to rim with tears that I fought so hard to blink away.\u00a0 They asked all parties to stand, and Chancellor Grimm read the verdict and sentence.<\/p>\n

The collective gasp of my family behind me was deafening.\u00a0 Va\u2019lis got up and ran to me.\u00a0 But I pushed him away as I made a mad dash for the forum doors,\u00a0 I knew they would not let me in.\u00a0 The guards came to take Marius away and I heard him speak through our bond,\u00a0 \u201cLydia, no\u2026 don\u2019t do this. Do not break down, be strong. You can be strong without me. You have to be, for the sake of all our family.\u00a0 No\u2026 do not cry.\u201d\u00a0 I screamed at his torment and fell to my knees.\u00a0 I yelled for him, \u201cMarius! Marius!!!!\u201d I tried to push the guards out of my way, with all my preternatural force. But they were ancients, much much older than me. They held me back. \u201cMarius!!! Noooo\u2026 please I must see him. Please!\u00a0 Marius!!!!\u201d\u00a0 The tears flowed out of my eyes like rivers. \u201cMariuussss!!!\u201d\u00a0 Va\u2019lis was pacing behind me, his own eyes threatening to flow.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t know what to do for me. My son,\u00a0 our son.\u00a0 He loved us both and we loved him. I heard him yell back, \u201cLydia my love, it will all be alright. I promise you. I will be with you soon! Please do not cry.\u00a0 I love you eternally.\u201d Seconds that seemed like hours passed and the last thing we heard Marius yell out was, \u201cVal\u2026 Les\u2026 take care of her.\u201d I screamed again, the pain too unbearable for consciousness.\u00a0 The whole room shook.\u00a0 And then\u2026 \u00a0the doors opened and Lestat appeared, I barely had the strength to look at him, his eyes did not hide the tears that fell from them.\u00a0 He dropped to his knees beside me, and I tried to look through the doors\u2026 all I could see was Armand, sitting at his seat completely stunned, immovable.\u00a0 My Marius was gone\u2026 \u00a0I passed out.\u00a0 Last thing I remember was Va\u2019lis scooping me up from behind, \u201cMother,\u201d was the last thing I heard Va\u2019lis say.<\/p>\n

When I woke, \u00a0we were back in Sosaria.\u00a0 Had I been sleeping that long?\u00a0 I knew they had not yet put my beloved in his tomb, I still felt him.\u00a0 It was actually odd to be able to still feel the bond through so many light-years. Earth was two galaxies away from Sosaria. Usually, even the most ancients cannot establish that bond.\u00a0 But ours wasn\u2019t a bond that had anything to do with our vampirism.\u00a0 Ours was a mortal bond of two souls that were\u2026 meant to be. Bianca was asleep next to me. Who had told Mary?!? That was my first thought. Where was she? How was she? Bianca stirred awake. She told me that she had told Flavius, and it was Flavius that broke it to Mary. \u00a0My second thought was Louis, \u00a0I couldn\u2019t keep our bond. Not in my current state.\u00a0 He instantly knew I had woken and told Lestat he needed to go.\u00a0 He showed up within 10 minutes.\u00a0 Louis knew what I was thinking.\u00a0 He begged me, utterly begged me, to not break the bond.\u00a0 That having me as his sire is what had made things so much better.\u00a0 That this too would enlighten him and help him. To feel my emotions would help him understand love and loss. But what could I offer him really? Bianca said, \u201cIt will not hurt him to keep him bonded. He\u2019s right, this might help him further.\u201d\u00a0 I agreed to keeping the bond. \u00a0I told Bianca, \u201cSeek out Piper before this evening, she\u2019ll need the comfort.\u201d\u00a0 She nodded.<\/p>\n

Just then Flavius walked in almost carrying poor Mary by her waist.\u00a0 Her eyes told me everything.\u00a0 She ran to me, hugged me. Cried. Then I cried.\u00a0 Then Bianca did something that shocked me.\u00a0 She hugged us both and cried too. \u00a0Louis turned to Flavius and whispered,\u00a0 \u201cMary will need you more than ever.\u201d Flavius nodded, \u201cI need her just the same.\u00a0 But I need my sire as well.\u201d\u00a0 Louis sighed, \u201cI am not sure Pandora will be strong enough for this.\u00a0 When that separation comes, it will be so tough for her.\u201d\u00a0 Flavius looked to him, \u201cWhen are they doing it?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTonight,\u201d Louis answered.\u00a0 They would entomb Marius in a coffin made of hecatolite and reinforced titanium. They would then lower that box into a container, filling it with liquid concrete.\u00a0 They would then place it upright in their dungeon walls, encasing him further with brick and mortar. Complete isolation; solitary confinement. All bonds would break instantly and there would be nothing but silence and emptiness. They would rig him up with monitors and install a peripherally inserted central catheter into his heart, and only minimally feed him. *sighs<\/strong>*<\/em>\u00a0 Marius, I will avenge you for all you did was protect our son, his beloved newborn daughter. But right now, for now, I must sleep.\u00a0 I must learn to live without you, without our bond, live with the silence, the emptiness.\u00a0 That will take some time to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The High Council came in and sat at their respective chairs.\u00a0 Chancellor Gray shook her head once at our David and I knew.\u00a0 I just knew.\u00a0 I stood up and placed my hands flat onto the bulletproof glass that separated me from the forum; from him.\u00a0 He looked up to me and smiled his usual … Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,35,42],"tags":[133,142,145,161,164],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-journals","category-storylines","category-pandora","category-draconians","tag-marius-de-romanus","tag-order-of-the-talamasca","tag-pandora-de-romanus","tag-the-draconians","tag-the-tribunal-of-marius-de-romanus","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}