”Very good, yes, like that.” They said in a smoky voice as they sat with their lover on the ground, back against a tree, a few corpses around them, with one soon to be corpse close by. Bianca sat on the ground itself with their back to the tree while their lover, Illiana, sitting in their lap, cuddled together, Bianca’s right left arm around Illiana’s waist. Their right hand in the air showing Illiana how to manipulate the fresh blood that was around them, teaching hemomancy that Bianca was well versed in.

Their relationship was, to put simply, odd.

Bianca smiled burying her face into Illiana’s neck for a moment and kissed gently before looking back up again. ”They out up a good fight, I enjoyed the practice.” They chuckled darkly placing their chin on Illiana’s shoulder. ”I guess they knew what you were but assumed I was just a human, foolish. I haven’t encountered these, uh, ForestGarde before, what can you tell me of them?” Bianca asked, eyeing the near dead man a few feet from them while wiping some wet blood from Illiana’s arm and licking it from her fingers.

They had been ambushed as they had made their way through the edge of the forest. ForeGarde pack members, as Illiana had called them, seeing an enemy to kill in the FlameGarde pack member Illiana. They had attacked the couple but had assumed that the unknown figure in Bianca was a human lover. They were seriously wrong and found out the hard way when Bianca lashed out with blood and fire magic. Together the couple had killed three of the four attackers, the last that was yet to die was nearly there, just barely holding on. It was their blood that Bianca was using to help teach Illiana more blood magic, something that Bianca was doing for Illiana’s whole pack now. An odd but welcome development for the… being that was Bianca.

Illiana shuddered at Bianca's tone, a wicked smile upon her blood stained face, tongue running across her top lip before she bit her bottom one, resisting the urge to turn and ravage her lover for using such a tone around her. Her lover knew better than that, they knew how easy it was for them to arouse the Fire Mage's need for them… it was probably half of the reason Bianca spoke to her in such a fashion. Illiana forced herself to concentrate on the hemomancy that Bianca was trying to teach her, but it was difficult with her lover's arm about her waist. 

She let out a soft groan at the feeling of Bianca's lips upon her neck, reaching behind to entwine her fingers in her lover's hair, gripping it tightly and pulled them towards her, to kiss Bianca hungrily. She snorted, running her fingertips along Bianca's bare arm, leaning into her as her own gaze flickered to the fallen bodies of their enemies. "They're like the FlameGarde, but far weaker and with less ambition than ourselves. Once, we were part of the AllGarde, Mages able to use every element, but over the centuries, and following countless arguments, the AllGarde split and formed the individual Garde Packs split. The ForestGarde are Earth Mages, like the others they see what we are doing as an abomination, but as I say, they are weak and ambition-less fools holding onto the old ideals set out when we were all one. It doesn't work, not now, nor shall it again," she snarled in response, her disdain for the other Packs clear in her tone. 

She had no sympathy for these fallen fools, they had chosen to attack her, and she had proven to them that the FlameGarde were the strongest of the Garde Packs, let their corpses be found by the rest of their weak ilk, let word get round that one member of the FlameGarde, and their wonderfully unique Mate, had wiped them out without blinking an eyelid. "Let's continue the lesson, I grow tired of watching him breathe…" 

Bianca knew exactly what their actions would do to Illiana, it was why they were doing them. After this little lesson in blood magic Bianca had every intention of tearing Illiana’s clothing off and ravaging her, knowing that Illiana would want to do the same in return. ”Weaker indeed, and I will keep my eye open for them from now on. Once word gets around to the other Garde that I am with you they will probably try and target me as well, though I welcome them to try.” Bianca would be happy to kill more of their mate’s enemies.

Bianca smiled when Illiana requested a continuation of the lesson so they could finish off the last ForestGarde that was alive. ”Ok, draw the blood to you, open your palm and make a sphere in your hand, we’ll start there.” It was a basic thing that Bianca knew Illiana could do, but it was a stepping stone to the next phase. Once that sphere of blood was formed, something Bianca was copying in their own hand to show Illiana, Bianca continued. ”Now just focus on the sphere itself, weave your own magic into it, just a little, and feel for the power that is within the blood already. It might take you a few tries, but once you think you have your power and the power in the blood connected, draw them out together and use it all to set him on fire.” Bianca smiled, knowing that that was a good motivation for Illiana. ”With this, you’ll only use a tiny portion of your own power and draw the rest from the fresh blood. You can even do this to your own blood that has been shed.” Bianca explained. ”Soon we’ll get to the more advanced magic, until then, if you like, I can consume this blood now and read some of his memories. Maybe they’ll reveal where the rest of the Forest Garde pack is located?”