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the Project	By : theLureln Category: +M through R > Magic: The Gathering Views: 11901 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Magic the Gathering characters or settings, anything else is mine. This story is not being written for profit.

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A month later Lorissa was making her way to New Prahv to visit her mother, a high ranking advisor to Isperia. Salinda deCar had joined the Azorius Senate when she was just a teenager and had made her way up through the ranks over the years due to her shrewd judgments and calm deliberations under pressure. She was now one of only a handful of people who had the ear of the sphinx directly and wielded tremendous influence in her own right, but she had irreproachable scruples when it came to playing by the rules. She also tended to work well past normal hours, which was probably where Lorissa got her own work ethic from. Tonight Salinda had missed dinner yet again and Lorissa's father Nostav asked her to go and fetch her mother so they could have a family meal. He assumed, rightly, that feelings of motherly guilt would be more persuasive than wifely guilt.
            As Lorissa turned a corner leading to the entrance of New Prahv, she was stunned to find herself nearly face to face with the man she had been alternately fantasizing and being furious about. Jace was leaving the building accompanied by two ladies. One of them she recognized as an associate of her mother's by the name of Lavinia. She was a tall, beautiful, serious woman known as a fierce arrester in Azorius. The other woman was an elf, ethereally lovely with long golden hair. Lorissa couldn't hold a candle to either of them and she felt a pang in her chest when she realized how comfortable Jace looked walking between the two women. He was dressed in his outlandish blue clothing with its unusual flashing insignia and he looked too handsome to be real.
            He was engaged in deep conversation with the elf and hadn't noticed her, but Lavinia spotted her and called out a greeting, drawing his attention in Lorissa's direction. An almost comical expression of disbelief flashed over his face and he stopped speaking in midsentence. The elf glanced at him in surprise before turning to see what he was staring at. A bemused smile crossed her countenance and then she made a small remark to Jace that drew his gaze back to her, his features now carefully blank.
            Given the choice, Lorissa would have turned and run but to do so would have been terribly rude after Lavinia had greeted her. She was not about to slight a compatriot of her mother. So she fought down the urge to flee and pasted on a smile.
            "Lorissa what are you doing over here? I thought you spent all of your time poring over tomes for that mad dragon you call liege," the arrester teased her, drawing startled looks from her companions, who were only used to seeing the more serious side of the woman.
            "Funny milady," Lorissa retorted. "I'm here to collect my mother. Father is pining away for her while she slaves over plans for your own illustrious taskmaster lord."
            Lavinia smiled broadly at her, waving her companions to go ahead of her. Jace and the elf moved a polite distance away to wait, the woman clearly fascinated by their exchange but Jace deliberately looking in another direction. "So he sent you rather than trying to oust Salinda himself? A wise man."
            Lorissa shrugged. "You know he prefers strategizing on a battlefield to trading wits. And too he said it would be harder for mother to tell me no. I haven't had dinner with them in weeks."
            Lavinia laughed and nodded. "That would do it. Tell Salinda I will see her in the morning. Give my regards to your father."
            "I will," Lorissa replied as Lavinia rejoined her companions. The three of them continued on their way, Jace not bothering to look back or acknowledge he knew her.
            For a moment blind rage roared through her. How dare he act like such a cad? But then she reminded herself they were strangers who had nothing more between them than a one night stand. She'd given up on ever seeing him again weeks ago. He knew where she was employed but she had no way of finding him. Clearly he hadn't wanted to see her since he'd never bothered visiting. Her life was back to its normal peaceful self and that was the way she needed it for now. If she ever wanted to move up in the Izzet League she had to devote herself completely to her work.
            She had joined the League because she wished to make a name for herself by her own merit. Science and magic had always fascinated her and the Izzet combined both. Although they were certainly known to the Magewrights, neither of her parents had any influence in the guild, which had been the deciding factor for Lorissa's wish to join. She had put in time and dedication with a vengeance and she had already gained the notice of a few high rankings wizards as well as the Dracogenius himself on occasion. She still had no idea why the dragon sought her out to make small talk late at night, other than it amused him to listen to mortal woes as a way of distracting himself from his own issues. She loved working in the library but suspected assisting with projects in any of the labs in Nivix would be equally enjoyable.
            She had no time for men in her life.

              Jace was supposed to be telling Emmara about his opinion of the latest Selesnyan conservation effort in conjunction with the Gruul, but his train of thought had been completely derailed by the unexpected appearance of Lorissa. It had taken a concerted effort on his part to put the woman from his mind over the past month, even with the seemingly endless string of issues he had to deal with concerning the guilds. He hadn't been completely successful as she still managed to appear in his dreams with alarming frequency.
            He hadn't counted upon ever seeing her again, so he wasn't even remotely capable of hiding his reaction when he looked up and saw her outside of New Prahv. He would never have expected to run across her in such a place, considering she was a member of the Izzet League. However her conversation with Lavinia let him know her mother was a very influential member of the Azorius Senate since the arrester called her by name and in light of that news it wasn't so surprising to see her there. That still didn't make it any easier for him.
            All his endeavors to banish her from his thoughts were ruined in a heartbeat. That one look at her had made several things obvious. First, compared to Emmara she was merely pretty with her dark hair and eyes and delicate curves. Second, that clearly didn't matter because he got aroused the very instant he laid eyes on her. Third, he wasn't going to be able to get her out of his head for the rest of the evening and because of that he was fairly certain he'd make bad judgments. He was going to have to reschedule his meetings for the following day.
            It didn't make matters any better that he'd seen her again while he was with Emmara. He'd had deep feelings for the elf in the past and while she'd loved another and Jace had even wiped her mind at her request, some of those emotions remained. His initial shock upon seeing Lorissa had been tinged with panic, he didn't want the two women meeting for reasons he didn't care to examine too closely. Unfortunately the elf had taken note of his reaction to the girl and teasingly told him, "So you are aware of the opposite sex. It's been so long since I've seen you react to a woman, I'd begun to wonder."
            He'd immediately schooled his face into a neutral expression and told Emmara that he knew the brunette through Niv-Mizzet so he was startled to see her at New Prahv. The blonde had given him a look that said she didn't really believe him, so he was compelled to ignore Lorissa's presence to allay suspicion. It had been quite difficult not to look at her again, his body was humming with awareness at her proximity. He could smell her from where he was standing and it was excruciating trying to fight off an erection. In the end he only half succeeded, so he was forced to draw his cloak forward over his shoulders to hide the evidence of his desire. That was twice now she'd made such an action necessary, one for each meeting. His inability to control himself only served as a reminder of why he'd decided to avoid her in the first place.
            Once Lavinia rejoined them, Jace escorted the ladies off the Senate grounds, every step he took in the opposite direction of Lorissa had his body shrieking at him to turn around and go get her. He ruthlessly ignored the compulsion. Lavinia took her leave of them and he accompanied Emmara back to Vitu-Ghazi. The entire time he wondered where Lorissa was at. Where did her parents live? Obviously her father wasn't a member of the Azorius Senate, the way Lorissa described him it sounded as if he might be part of the Boros Legion. How had her parents maintained a relationship being from different guilds and even allowed their daughter to join yet a third one?
            Emmara made polite small talk but when they parted ways she placed a hand on his arm to draw his attention and said, "You should really go look her up."
            Before he could protest, she was gone. He stood there for a moment, astonished she'd been able to read him so well when he'd been doing his best to be nonchalant. They had known one another a long time but he thought he'd been clever enough to disguise his preoccupied state. She was wrong of course, he shouldn't go after Lorissa. His life was complicated under normal circumstances, more so now that he was a sort of leader for the collective guilds. He had minimal spare time and even setting aside his busy schedule, the truth was he was a man who liked his freedom. He planeswalked at a moment's notice and too he had a legion of enemies that were a danger to everyone around him. He wasn't going to even think about his terrible luck with the ladies in general.
            He had no time for women in his life.



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