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The bartender was not long gone before another came to sit nearby to Alexander, specifically right next to him.  In most cases, he might not have noticed, considering the fact that in taverns people happened to like to sit when they drink.  A few things caused him to turn his head a few moments after the bartender went to go fill up the ale mugs.  Firstly, the person next to him had red hair, something not entirely common in Raduga to begin with.  Though not as uncommon as silver hair such as Alexander's, it might still have been worth a glance by itself.  It would not however, have been worth Alexander's reaction of frowning as a feeling of deja vu scratched at his brain when the person sitting next to him ordered his ale.  This feeling was the secondary cause of him turning about slightly to look at the person sitting next to him, curious as to whether he knew them from somewhere or somewhen.  

When Alexander had seen Aurora awake for the first time in centuries, he had given her a bear hug that had popped something in the area of her spinal cord in the same manner that someone popped the little bones present in the fingers.  When he saw Lucille, he simply sat in his chair with his jaw dropped open slightly while his mind took its sweet time reloading.  Could he possibly be so lucky as to find the Silver King and his brother Clansman not only within similar periods of time, but without even looking for them?  Shifting his head slightly to get a better look, Alexander confirmed that this was in fact Lucille sitting next to him.  The last time he had seen the man, he had been quite unconscious, very much similarly to Rayne herself.  In which case, to see him up and about merited a very similar response to having seen the Silver King up and about.  

With that in mind, Alexander tapped Lucille on the shoulder and cleared his throat simultaneously, which was the only warning his fellow Clansman would receive before the Silver Knight picked him up out of his chair and gripped him like a human vice.  "Lucille!"  Alexander said with enthusiasm as he started to feel the spinal column pops that often came with his back-breaking bear hugs.  "Andjustwherehaveyoubeenyouredhairedbastard?!"  Were there going to be stares from this little event?  Of course.  Did Alexander particularly care at the moment?  Of course not.

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In hindsight, perhaps it was not Alexander's wisest move to immediately wrap both arms around Aurora and almost crack her spine cleanly in half.  He could even feel the bones popping in her back, something that he personally found to be comfortable whenever it was done to him in the same way that others popped the bones in their hands and feet.  Now, perhaps Aurora's plea to release her might have had an effect, but Alexander was not paying enough attention to truly hear the King's command.  Instead he was busying himself by simply gripping harder and repeating her name in much the same manner as he had said it the first time.  

Though he did catch some of the amused glances that he was receiving from other men in the audience, and simply laughed and grinned back at them though he did not casually wink as some had done.  Had Aurora not hit him, Alexander might well have released her within the next thirty seconds or so as the initial excitement left his system to be replaced by his usual calmness.  Instead he dropped her slightly earlier than expected as the elbow impacted with his jawline, releasing the King onto her feet with a grin that was swiftly morphing from excited and happy to amused and feigning injury.  "Damn, the Lady packs a punch in that tiny body."  

Alexander said as he rubbed the spot where Aurora had hit him, speaking loudly enough that some in the audience nearby had a good laugh.  In the midst of the laughter, Alex said in a quieter tone of voice that the audience could not hear: "It's good to see you again, Aurora.  Though what are you doing here, and where are the rest of the Clan?  Surely they're somewhere nearby?"  Alexander was of the impression that certain members of the Silver Clan would probably stick to the King like white stuck to rice, similarly to how Arthur was always surrounded by at least half of the Silver Clan at all times simply because everyone enjoyed being nearby to their King.  Of course, it was possible that the Clan had yet to be united again, but at least he had managed to find Aurora in that case. 

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 Alexander's smile only widened at the golden-eyed courtesan's reaction to being called deadly, his assumption being that he had been understood slightly wrong.  In the mind of the Black Blade, everyone within the area of Heaven's Embrace carried some form of danger either within themselves or somewhere on their person.  Some people were deadly due to the information that they carried, some were rather capable with knives and other bladed weapons, some were skilled with poisons, and still others simply knew how to manipulate people...which was probably the most deadly skill of them all in his opinion.  He had apparently struck onto some form of truth however, even if by accident and so simply decided to accept that piece of information and roll with whatever happened to come of it.  Perhaps it would have been kinder to inform his new friendly acquaintance of his line of thought, but it was much more entertaining to watch his reaction.

Of course, all good things had to come to an end, and the surprise of the moment faded in the presence of the fire that was within the glass.  In its place, the courtesan regained a fine control and made a show of tracing a line along Alexander's body.  While he did so, Alexander simply stood still and allowed the man to trace his musculature to his heart's desire.  While not obnoxious concerning his body, the Black Blade was understandably prideful when it came to his toned physique.  After all, he could tell even without turning around that there were plenty of patrons who were not quite as...disciplined as he was.  Within short order, his new friend reappeared with a new smile and a question that brought a new bit of heat to Alexander's body that had little to do with alcohol.  

Whereas he might normally have hidden his expression behind a faint layer of amusement coupled perhaps with disinterest, to do so in this place and at such a time as this would simply be pretending to an asinine degree.  There was no need to play the hero in Lilla, which was why Alexander appreciated the city more than most.  Whereas the Silver Knight and Alexander Di Mandulis could be virtuous almost to the degree of being holier than thou, the Black Blade cared little for opinions other than his own and often did not bother with masks.  Thus even though the amusement was still present, there was also an unmistakable hint of lust.  

"The game is simple, moarte frumoasă."  Alexander said rising from his seat such that he and Hessat were almost face to face.  It had been some time since he had spoken the language that now rolled from his tongue, but he did not particularly require linguistic mastery for his current purposes.  "Dacă eu sunt calul întuneric...călări."  As he had spoken, Alexander had steadily gotten closer to Hessat such that he had leaned in to whisper the last word.  Perhaps it was the business of the tavern's staff to play the role of the whisperers, but Alexander had always felt that it was somewhat lazy to leave the wordplay solely to the courtesans.

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At first, the bartender merely nodded and moved to fulfill Alexander's request, a reflexive action considering the amount of times that she must have acquiesced to similar requests each and every day.  With nothing of particular interest to keep his attention, Alexander's mind would have simply drifted into the void until his drink arrived.  Instead, he found himself looking at the server with a slightly bemused expression, as her expression shifted from the mask-like face that servers commonly wore well into their working days into a much more organic expression; it was the expression most commonly worn by those who were caught between the proverbial rock and hard place.  

Had she managed that state for a few more seconds, Alexander might have sighed and simply pointed at another drink instead to expedite the process of receiving a drink.  As it was however, the bartender was spared her apparently agonizing decision by another: the very same man who had been drinking the drink that Alexander had originally pointed at.  The man's question elicited a shrug, a simply movement of the shoulders that was accompanied by the slightest of smiles.  Alexander had sampled so many different types of alcohol in the past couple of centuries that he had essentially lost caring for specifics when it came to what he imbibed.

 Though perhaps not the wisest course of action, it did most certainly provide a certain random element to what would otherwise become routine.  It also apparently attracted entertaining bouts of luck and challenge to slither towards him.  Not that he minded, a fact that he demonstrated clearly by pressing a finger to the bottom of the cup and lifting it gently.  Alexander drank down the contents of the glass as though it had been water that was presented to him, even as he felt the fire expand within his torso in that magical way that he enjoyed so much.  His storm cloud grey eyes never left the golden eyes of the man that had brought him the glass.  

When the cup was emptied and the glass lowered, Alexander smirked enough to match Hessat easily.  "Perhaps it might have been dangerous had I not seen you drink first, exitialis pulchritudinis."  With a nonchalant expression, Alexander turned the bottle about for a moment and made an 'ah' sound as he recognized the drink.  "As is, I don't think there was anything more deadly in that cup than what's sitting in front of me right now."  With that, Alexander poured out more of the amber fluid into the cup with an apparently practiced hand and held it out for his new friend to drink.  "Care to play a little game?"  He said without dropping a certain expression of amusement at the current happenings.  

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