07-04-2021, 12:04 PM
Vastra is also checking out the places Svedka frequents, though with a different intent and she certainly would not admit that is what she’s doing if she were to be asked. She still keeps returning here to Tephra and it is with an unspoken agreement with her mind and heart that she does not think about it too much. She certainly does not have to, Svedka is back and their children are practically grown.
But this jungle has grown on her and so she keeps returning.
Her ears twitch with the sound of someone else approaching and she at least manages to stamp out most of her disappointment from displaying when it’s not who she was looking for. “Oh.” And then a little belatedly as she reminds herself to be polite, “Hello.” There is another pause as her storm-grey eyes take in this stranger that seems familiar, and then it clicks that while Vastra has not spoken to her before, she’s been told about this mare.
So she had not found Svedka but she had found his sister. That encourages her to not walk away immediately, at least, and to make some attempt at conversation. Vastra would be lying if she said she wasn’t curious about Svedka’s siblings.
That curiosity softens her normally gruff voice when she continues speaking. “You’re Wishbone, right? I’m Vastra.” She considers and then immediately dismisses the idea of trying to introduce herself as something like ‘Svedka’s friend’. He might be the reason she stays here but she doesn't enjoy the idea of defining herself exclusively by that relationship to anyone else.
But this jungle has grown on her and so she keeps returning.
Her ears twitch with the sound of someone else approaching and she at least manages to stamp out most of her disappointment from displaying when it’s not who she was looking for. “Oh.” And then a little belatedly as she reminds herself to be polite, “Hello.” There is another pause as her storm-grey eyes take in this stranger that seems familiar, and then it clicks that while Vastra has not spoken to her before, she’s been told about this mare.
So she had not found Svedka but she had found his sister. That encourages her to not walk away immediately, at least, and to make some attempt at conversation. Vastra would be lying if she said she wasn’t curious about Svedka’s siblings.
That curiosity softens her normally gruff voice when she continues speaking. “You’re Wishbone, right? I’m Vastra.” She considers and then immediately dismisses the idea of trying to introduce herself as something like ‘Svedka’s friend’. He might be the reason she stays here but she doesn't enjoy the idea of defining herself exclusively by that relationship to anyone else.
VASTRA
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