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 Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:35 pm
Standing beside the booth, Aedan looked at the list again--he didn't know much of anyone, admittedly, but wasn't even sure how he was supposed to recognize this...Eldrid, when they showed up. Well, at least it'll be another face I can connect with a name afterwards, though.
This was a good idea, he reassured himself. Unless they both ended up with no conversation at all, paired with awkward glances at the time, counting down the minutes when they could declare it a mutual failure...
Aedan gave himself a mental shake, straightening slightly. He was determined to meet more students this year, and this was a good way to start. He glanced from side to side, wondering yet again how he and the..partner he'd been assigned were supposed to pick each other out of the crowd of students milling around the booth.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:14 pm
Peering down at the little sheet of paper that was given to him by the pink-clad woman when all was said and done with the . . . whatever it was that she did when it came to match making, dark ears perked up a little slowly, looking at the name and table that he was told to go to.
Not a fan of water? That made two of them - so when he went to sit at the table he was told to go to, he caught sigh of the student already standing there, dark eyebrows perking upwards.
"So, you are my speed date, of a sort?" he asked openly, no reason to be shy - it was fifteen minutes or bust, right? "Pleasure to meet you, I'm Eldrid - are you a fire elemental?" He quipped, hoping that Desu had been kind enough to patch two fire critters together. No water needed.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:47 pm
Aedan started slightly, then caught himself. He turned to look at his "speed date". Maybe this wouldn't be awkward, after all. He smiled slightly, relaxing at Eldrid's willingness to take the conversational initiative.
"I'm Aedan, yeah." He said, shifting slightly. "It's nice to meet you, too--and hellhorse, actually. Similar aversion to water, though." This last was said with a wry expression, and a slight shrug.
"Are you a first-year student here, as well?" Having introduced himself, that was the next most obvious question, to Aedan.
"Is this your first time trying speed dating, as well?" Aedan asked curiously, tilting his head ever-so-slightly to the side.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:59 pm
"Indeed, I figured it would help me meet new people." Eldrid answered immediately, sweeping his hand lightly over the chair in front of Aedan, offering him a chance to sit - they couldn't be just standing the whole time. "I came here before - for a couple events and whatnot, I figured it seemed like a good place to be for my education. I take it you're a first year then?" He offered up, lightly placing his hands on the table.
At least no one had tried to stick their hand in his vent yet. This was going places at least. Aedan was a good conversationalist.
"A Hellhorse?" He perked up a little, "I had heard of them before, but this is my first introduction to one, a pleasure. I am a Furnace Dog. Pretty much explained in the name is it not?" He quipped, before opening his mouth a little, the lava seeping a little between his tongue and teeth. "We are traders at heart, hmhm."
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:10 pm
Taking a seat, Aedan leaned forward slightly, his elbows resting lightly on the table. "I had the same thoughts--and yes, I'm a first year, technically." He hesitated a moment.
"I was enrolled in a prior term, but family circumstances meant that I didn't complete it...so I'm still a first year, now that I'm starting back up."
Forging on, he looked up to meet Eldrid's gaze. "A Furnace Dog? I have to confess, you're the first I've met, as well--and a trader? What do you trade in?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:35 pm
Listening to the hellhorse, his eyebrows kept pretty pinned upwards, rather intregued in the person he was stuck with, tail idly flicking back and forth. "I think I've heard of a couple members doing that." He answered softly, giving a pensive look, tilting his head.
"My family is not entirely aware that I'm even here - I decided on my own when I made enough money for myself." He admitted, shrugging. "Moment you turn 16 you're allowed to do what you want. Kind of lonely at times." He figured.
At what he traded, he gave a little shrug, lifting a hand to show off the rows of jangling bracelets on it. "Usually things that can be broken down and created anew. Metals, jewels. We'll take anything though as long as it's useful to us at the time, you know?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:47 pm
Aedan simply nodded--he was pretty sure he wasn't the only student to have his time as a student...interrupted, and thus to remain a year one longer than would be considered typical.
"That...sounds like a difficult choice to make--but also a pretty big accomplishment, when you consider how early in life you've been able to manage it." Respect colored his words--truth be told, he envied that...he couldn't think of anything he'd done thus far that was on a similar level.
"I can see how that would be somewhat lonely too, though." This said with a sympathetic grimace--he was fairly close to his family, and much as they sometimes infuriated him, he couldn't imagine being entirely on his own, either.
"So typically jewelry and such?" He asked, impressed. "I'd imagine that makes for some interesting goods passing through your hands, both before and after you break them down and make something new..."
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:44 pm
Scratching his neck lightly, he leaned back and gave Aedan a soft look, a half-smile showing on the monster's face. "It was kind of hard, but we're raised this way - you learn from a youth that one day you strike it out on your own." A soft shrug. "I guess if it was any other way, it would have been harder, like, if my family was more of a family, than a clan. I miss em, but it's life."
Looking down at the charms on his arm, he nodded softly, shaking them a bit. "We make jewelry often - being natural smelters. Usually pretty good pricing, but if I can trade for it, I'm happy too. Most of the stuff I wear is jewelry from my first trades or when I was younger. Personal stuff, you know?" He offered.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:49 pm
Looking thoughtful, Aedan nodded slowly. That made sense, and he did know that not everyone's family dynamic was at all the same, it was just that this particular one was very different from his, and so was more difficult than some to wrap his head around. "Do you still see them at all, or is it a case of...once you leave, you're completely cut off?" Aedan asked, after another moment of thought.
He nodded again, his gaze flicking down to look at the charms as they jingled lightly. "That's...pretty neat. And makes sense--things like that are more personal when they have long-standing meaning behind them, I'd imagine." He didn't wear much in the way of jewelry himself, so this was purely speculation on his part.
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