12-19-2019, 12:29 PM
Eurwen
the secret of walking on water
is knowing where the rocks lie
is knowing where the rocks lie
Eurwen looks from one to the other. Lots of exchanges take place, but she mostly notices Brine staying out of all of it. Subtle and not-so-subtle expressions appear on the roan mare, and it becomes apparent to the softer-minded Eurwen that Brine was not used to being joked to - and not used to being around others much at all, perhaps.
Perhaps that’s why she made this rash decision, the rose-gleaming mare wonders - studying Brine whenever she doesn’t look. It’s a little impolite, but the roan mare is quite a mystery to the knabstrup hybrid, and Lilliana had certainly been preoccupied as well, so she doesn’t think it was noticed by either. Or if the chestnut had, then she was too polite to react to it. Just like Eurwen is too polite to try and talk to a Brine who doesn’t seem like she wants to talk to anyone at all.
But Lilli knows how to break a silence, it seems, starting several conversations after one another. The spotted mare has a little trouble keeping up with all of it, nodding a promise where she can, but she does notice the little things. Brine lost to them in the moment, Neverwhere appearing as if naming her had meant poking her awake with a sharp stick. Although there is a softening in her gaze when she meets with the Taigan red, and a politeness extended to Eurwen, it was still hidden immediately by a cynical joke.
Eurwen smiles a little, but Lilli beats her to an answer, and so she just adds in another nod and just a few words. ”We need to best Ischia on theirs, after all.” she tilts her head at Neverwhere, though her always-clouded eyes don’t seem to look at her now. Sighing internally - she liked Neverwhere, but they had a ways to go when it came to interaction - she rather turns to Brine. ”I could show you around, if you like? I used to play with the waves and rocks not too far from here.” What she offers is an escape from the suddenly busy meeting, of course - and perhaps a ways to find a story to tell Ruthless later. Nerine has many beautiful spots. Certainly Brine would love to show them to her daughter when she would visit, Eurwen thinks. And maybe Brine wasn’t as skilled a diplomat yet to notice what’s behind the offer, having shown no restrictions in her facial features just before, but Never and Lilli would know. This meeting was to Brine what the meeting in the Field had been to Eurwen, and she really rather not mess up the mare’s first meeting with the kingdom.
It’s probably better, she thinks, to talk to Never and Lilli later, and let them catch up in the moment.
Perhaps that’s why she made this rash decision, the rose-gleaming mare wonders - studying Brine whenever she doesn’t look. It’s a little impolite, but the roan mare is quite a mystery to the knabstrup hybrid, and Lilliana had certainly been preoccupied as well, so she doesn’t think it was noticed by either. Or if the chestnut had, then she was too polite to react to it. Just like Eurwen is too polite to try and talk to a Brine who doesn’t seem like she wants to talk to anyone at all.
But Lilli knows how to break a silence, it seems, starting several conversations after one another. The spotted mare has a little trouble keeping up with all of it, nodding a promise where she can, but she does notice the little things. Brine lost to them in the moment, Neverwhere appearing as if naming her had meant poking her awake with a sharp stick. Although there is a softening in her gaze when she meets with the Taigan red, and a politeness extended to Eurwen, it was still hidden immediately by a cynical joke.
Eurwen smiles a little, but Lilli beats her to an answer, and so she just adds in another nod and just a few words. ”We need to best Ischia on theirs, after all.” she tilts her head at Neverwhere, though her always-clouded eyes don’t seem to look at her now. Sighing internally - she liked Neverwhere, but they had a ways to go when it came to interaction - she rather turns to Brine. ”I could show you around, if you like? I used to play with the waves and rocks not too far from here.” What she offers is an escape from the suddenly busy meeting, of course - and perhaps a ways to find a story to tell Ruthless later. Nerine has many beautiful spots. Certainly Brine would love to show them to her daughter when she would visit, Eurwen thinks. And maybe Brine wasn’t as skilled a diplomat yet to notice what’s behind the offer, having shown no restrictions in her facial features just before, but Never and Lilli would know. This meeting was to Brine what the meeting in the Field had been to Eurwen, and she really rather not mess up the mare’s first meeting with the kingdom.
It’s probably better, she thinks, to talk to Never and Lilli later, and let them catch up in the moment.
@[Brine] @[Neverwhere] @[lilliana]