Anansi paused. "Why would you seek to befriend one such as myself? A slayer, an enemy?" Anansi turned her head,.
"I do not understand?" Anansi huffed before turning to him, at least he was curious. Maybe he could be swayed. "Because, you needn't be an enemy." She told him, shifting her weight to a leg. "Do you think we want to fight your kind? No one wants bloodshed, which was why we kept to our lands, but your kind insisted on invading, killing ours, Were it truly up to us, you would have never known of our existence. Ir was over time that your kind grew less and less afraid, and then sub-sequentially more." She told him. "We never wanted to be your enemy. Most of us, the ones who have yet to encounter your kind, wishes only to share the realm, not even the land itself. But your kind...you press, you don't bond with nature like we do, you conquer it, destroy it, cut down trees to build your homes instead of building within the trees, for your homes, as we do. Most of us now, just want to be left alone...Then suddenly, Your kind deemed demons...There are demons, but it's not us, we fear them as you do." She said. "You never gave us a chance, and we never gave you one, This is what I do now, I want to give you the chance to learn, grow, and see the we are much like you, but we are one with the world....Our blood may silver, but...well, you know better most, we do bleed."
It was then she felt a surge without her, something reaching out to her mind, like a gentle touch on the shoulder.
Roland, he was opening her mind to her, resting. He wasn't asleep, but he would be, and she had to meet him.
"I'll take my leave now, Rest...The Morrow will be long." She said, and with that she turned and exited the room.
Her instincts warned her about him, but she was sure she could convince him, change his mind. She hurried to her room only to be met with Night Queen.
"Aunt..." She said. "So how was it...?"
"He say you're up to something..."
"Mortals lie."
"You tell half truths."
The Night Queen laughed. "Fair enough...what do you think of him?"'
"I trust him as much as I trust you." She said boldly and the Night Queen looked at her. "Well then....I'll be sure to leave him to you." She said and with that the Night Queen disappeared within her shadows. Anansi had not a clue what that meant but it didn't matter now, as she stepped through the door, shut it behind her and sighed. The Night Queen was as cold as her namesake, the same twist in her gut she felt with her, she felt with him.
She shook it off and lay down on her bed, closed her eyes. It wouldn't take long, she was of the Day sleeping in the night was not an uneasy feat. If Roland slept first she would met him in his dream.
"Roland?" She called out, waiting for the world around her to shift into whatever dreamscape Roland's mind would conjure.