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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:27 pm
"Ora? She's just an acquaintance. I was once good friends with her mother, and it has been a while since I've seen her. She simply wanted to know what I've been up to." He sat back, hoping she'd buy his half true explanation. "So where do you know Sarli from? Home town? Summer Camp? College roommates?"
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:39 pm
Corellia could tell (from long experience reading people) that he was hiding something about that relationship, but she wasn't one to pry, so she took it at face value.
"Nah, Sarli'n? This be her homeplace, near'n as I can see. I know her whenback in the time she was a little'un and fell into my garden out back. I used to live here'bouts, when I was a bit older, an'the child oft got herself neck-deep of trouble with the locals highfolk. 'Twas near as oft my work to extract the urchin, a'though she did a mite fine job all alone for it. Had Talent, she did," Corellia informed him proudly, as if A.C. had been her pupil.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:50 pm
"Must be proud of her then. Managing to find a nice safe job at a restaurant instead of out fighting in the war."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:58 pm
"Hm? Oh, of course, there's a war..." Corellia repeated absently. "No, then. If'n I know the girl t'rights--that is, that I remember rightly--she's more like to be in the thick of it than out. Smart enough to scatter far from any fight she'll have no part of, but 'tis a none-too-probable situation. I'd bet you a fiftypence she's a spy or such for someone.
"Not that there be any safe job during wartime that I ever knew," she added, giving him a sideways look.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:01 pm
"Oh there's plenty of safe jobs. You just need to know where to find them, or when to give up." He sat back in the booth, wriggling a little to get comfortable. "The entertainment business for one. How many singers do you hear about getting shot? How many actors taken prisoner? If the people like you, and you remain neutral on the political front, you won't be touched."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:12 pm
Corellia shook her head. "Obvious you never hear the tactic, but 'demoralizing'? You take the high-file big name crowdfolk, an' the homefront crumbles. Meantime, got yourselves free entertainment.
"An' Swi'zerland'only gets away with neutrality 'cause nobody wants their army after 'em. U.S.A. used to work that way, too... But they're busybodies these days. Anyhow, ye canna be a single person and stand there with no bother, as'n the other folks tend'n get suspicious on you an' take you out for not knowing what side you've picked." She sighed. "Many a time I've tried such, Lightning, an' 't'as yet to work proper. Only safe job is a gone job."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:38 pm
"Hmm, odd. Always worked for me. Only time I've ever been shot at is when I put myself in that position."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:57 pm
Corellia looked surprised. "Why'd ye want te go'n do some such thing as that?"
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:32 pm
"I do it to test myself. As long as Im quicker on my feet then Minerva is with her gun, I'm satisfied... Other times I just get bored." He shrugged, finding nothing wrong with his reasoning.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:36 pm
Corellia thought about that for a moment, then shrugged and nodded. "'Kin see such. did that some myself, some time past," she admitted. "Got'n be some honest an'say I've no thought for swift as feet, though. More of a darefolk, I. 'Think you can get out?' 'n'some like. 'Ken'n to be climbin' the theiver's window? Grab the grab bag'n prove the worth.' Mighty fun times, those." She grinned.
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:13 pm
Blitz smiled and nodded. "So what do you plan to do after this?"
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:29 pm
She shrugged again, her only answer. "I tend'n wander, Blitz. Someday soon, methinks, I shall head up a tavern, but short thentime? Who knows. You?"
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:46 pm
"I plan on heading over to Krovh. It's the one major city I haven't been to yet."
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 11:50 pm
((And try to get shot at again by Min?))
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Rugged Sauce Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:40 am
Eulalia Danae ((And try to get shot at again by Min?)) ((Yep. Maybe she'll even hit him this time.))
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