The sigh was quiet, or..well, she tried to keep it that way. She looks up from her book, that sadness still there in her bright blue eyes, the surrounding blackness making them stand out all the more. She felt an ache as always when she's alone but she pushed it down and fought to be patient. Was it sadness or just depression? Was this the way that She was going to get back at her? She kept coming back to his words, Her always bad mouthing about her to him. Again she sighs and shoves her hand up into her hair, eyes lidding as she tries to just wipe everything from thought and features again, not giving them the satisfaction of seeing what is going on with her. Turning back to her studies, Neri lightly taps her pen against the notebooks she'd been writing in and scowls. "Osoth..why did ya have to leave this last lesson open and then take off..damn it." She mutters under her breath then Neri shakes her head and turns to lean over the other large tome, fingers playing over the book cover lazily. The last thing he'd left her before he'd left Toxian City. Her own grimoire to put her things in and so far she's filled nearly half of it, albeit chaotically. Glancing around, she digs into one of the large pockets of her camo shorts and pulls out a large dark purple crystal. Looking at it. Turning it over as she lifts it into the light as if to see inside it. There's a small pulse deep within it, her magick flares up a little in response so that a pale blue white glow surrounds it and all she can do is sigh. The soul crystal still held one within it and she can't remember who it was last she'd used it on. Or when it'd been used. All she remembers is she was still part of the Shadows..and refused to rid herself of it. It'll come in handy some day in the future she expected. She lays this carefully before her on the table and next comes out another crystal from another pocket. This was small, the color of blood. She had several but it was one of the smaller one's she'd had on her person. She finds herself wondering if this isn't something like the kindred have been searching for. She's had them for a long time. Its what her own sire taught her long ago about blood magick. Propping her head on her hand once she's rested her elbow on the table, she lays it on the open page of her note book and jots down some things beside it, sketching the stone itself for some odd reason. Most of this information was written in english but she had made it possible that no one but she would be able to read what it all said or meant.
Nerissa finally slips away to go back to the shoppe, hiding herself away in the back with her tome. The crystal now lightly pulses as if it has its own heart beat and she's lost in thought from the far away look in her eyes even as she seems absorbed in her studies. But she's turning over the odd discussion she'd had earlier with one of the cybers. Confused why this furry being would want to talk to her even. Tapping her pen on the page idly, she looks up from it with a small frown touching her lips, more then a little confused. She shakes her head and whatever it is that is bothering her she puts out of her mind to finish her work.