02-01-2020, 09:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2020, 09:38 PM by Neverwhere.)
"I do not have a problem with her, Eurwen." Her voice is rough in spite of the cool water she has been drinking. Pale eyes flicker over the tall stallion and then fall to Eurwen as they introduce him as protector. He smells of Taiga. "Our territory's protector," she muses, "Hmm. Quite a lot of trouble over a bit of trees and fog."
Aside from their need to access the common lands, she is almost inclined to let Loess have the place, if only to end the drama that picks at her every hour like an oxpecker nipping holes into her hide. Another such bird lands on her back and her shoulder twitches when the imaginary claws sting her skin like needles. He has come to hear the state of things? There are so many little pieces to keep together, bits of sand and stone and salt she grasps in her teeth until she chokes and Aten has come for a state of the union address. Well, the state of things is poor, and he must know it. Things are...
Up in the air, she thinks, vaguely. So many balls aloft, and Heartfire threw them all at once so Neverwhere is left to catch them or let them fall.
She snorts sharply at him when he says Eurwen has spoken well of her, "I am sure she has done no such thing. If she has, she's lying," and nothing about her suggests she is being anything other than serious, standing there peering upwards at him, her tone dry and no hint of a smile to her lips or eyes. Let him take it as he will, she continues, "Yes, Heartfire has gone, but nothing she started went with her, unfortunately. I wonder, Aten, do you think you would like to be a Loessian?"
A smirk has grown in the corner of her lips as she asks the question of him. He may well have little choice in the matter one way or the other.
"You may have a fight ahead of you if not. You and your family." She glances again at Eurwen, remembering the history imparted to her on their first meeting. Taiga asked to be left alone, and so, it was, "Would you fight to stay a part of a kingdom that has given you nothing?"
Aside from their need to access the common lands, she is almost inclined to let Loess have the place, if only to end the drama that picks at her every hour like an oxpecker nipping holes into her hide. Another such bird lands on her back and her shoulder twitches when the imaginary claws sting her skin like needles. He has come to hear the state of things? There are so many little pieces to keep together, bits of sand and stone and salt she grasps in her teeth until she chokes and Aten has come for a state of the union address. Well, the state of things is poor, and he must know it. Things are...
Up in the air, she thinks, vaguely. So many balls aloft, and Heartfire threw them all at once so Neverwhere is left to catch them or let them fall.
She snorts sharply at him when he says Eurwen has spoken well of her, "I am sure she has done no such thing. If she has, she's lying," and nothing about her suggests she is being anything other than serious, standing there peering upwards at him, her tone dry and no hint of a smile to her lips or eyes. Let him take it as he will, she continues, "Yes, Heartfire has gone, but nothing she started went with her, unfortunately. I wonder, Aten, do you think you would like to be a Loessian?"
A smirk has grown in the corner of her lips as she asks the question of him. He may well have little choice in the matter one way or the other.
"You may have a fight ahead of you if not. You and your family." She glances again at Eurwen, remembering the history imparted to her on their first meeting. Taiga asked to be left alone, and so, it was, "Would you fight to stay a part of a kingdom that has given you nothing?"
Neverwhere
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@[Aten] @[Eurwen]
