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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:54 pm
As she spoke, his eyes slowly narrowed further, but rather than his previous glare, his brow was furrowed in thought. This wasn't quite what he'd been expecting. Homeless or poor children stealing food wasn't uncommon, or so he'd been told, but everything came back to this mystery woman, and what she had or hadn't done. To be letting people out of prison to search for her, even petty child-thieves, meant the militia must have some stake in this. The militia whom he had been told, in no uncertain terms, to avoid at all costs- magic was outlawed after all, and if anyone had looks that screamed 'magic creature!', it was him. "This woman," he murmured, almost to himself, "what could she possibly have done to provoke such a search...?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:46 pm
Tevadi pipped up to his question, even though it was not directed at her and was more of an after thought than anything, "I heard them say...That she is responsible for us being here. She's the one who sold us to our guardians...If you have one anyway..."
Tevadi proceeded to take off the coat she had been wearing, in attempts to ring it out. It was heavy from the water and in the cool air was making her most uncomfortable, though it didn't matter much as her clothes underneath were equally as wet.
"If I am a cove, why do I get wet?" She muttered to herself while she assumed Jiang was in thought. It was extremely uncommon for the girl to be so vocal, but these were uncommon times, and uncommon circumstances and in her search for this mystery woman she had taken to having to approach people.
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:25 pm
Well, that jerked him out of his thoughts quickly enough. "What? Do you mean the oil shop?" He blinked at her, slightly wide-eyed. "I have been there. Mother brought me when she wished to ask about my 'birth', so to speak." His brow furrowed once again- if they were after someone at the shop, how long before they started chasing the people who originated there? Before they started chasing him? He sank slightly lower in the water, and glanced quickly down the street. His next words were a mere whisper, as though fearing the men from before would reappear at the slightest noise. "Are the only after the shop? Are we next?"
Fortunately or not, her next statement was just absurd enough to distract him slightly from his paranoia, and he raised his head again to give her an incredulous look. "How could you possibly be a cove, when you are clearly a person? Even if you were- a cove is always wet, is it not?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:10 pm
"I was told I was a cove, a midnight cove," Tevadi answered, his previous comments escaping her frame of thought until she was satisfied with the amount of thought she put into this concept in her mind. "Maybe because I am a cove I invite the wetness..."
Tevadi made a face at this, before getting quiet once more. Jiang's previous comments had finally sunk into her mind and she quietly puttered around trying to remember things. She had been so focused on this woman from the oil shop that she couldn't remember exactly if they were after people like.... like them. She made another face and looked away.
"... I don't remember," She said quietly, "But they took some of us off the streets. Those of us who don't have homes."
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:50 pm
That got her another odd look, and several blinks of confusion, before it suddenly occurred to him. "Oh, do you mean what you smell like- your oil?" He wasn't particularly fond of identifying himself that way, even to other scents , but he couldn't think of anything else she could be talking about. "Mine is dragon’s tears." He said, looking slightly sour- dragon's tears just didn't sound all that impressive, no matter how you looked at it. "I am Jiang-Chen." It wasn’t necessarily the wisest idea to introduce yourself to someone pursued by god-only-knows-who, but at this point it probably mattered little. If she'd fled prison and hidden out in the streets to warn someone she'd never met, he didn't think she’d give him up if she were caught.
He waited quietly while she seemed to wrack her memory, though the fact that the answer wasn't an immediate 'no' made him assume the worst. "…I see." He was fortunate in more ways than one to live as he did, it seemed. "It would attract far less attention, taking only those without homes. Nonetheless, this fails to make me feel safer." It wasn't that big a step up, in his mind, to go from taking odd kids off the street to taking odd kids out of homes.
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:15 pm
"Tevadi," She said, pointing to herself briefly before commenting on Jiang's horns, "They're what make you a dragon, right?"
She shot out a hand to touch them curiously, but re-thought mid-grab and pulled her hand back quickly. He may not like that, and he already seemed upset with what she had said so there was no reason to make him any madder.
"Maybe... maybe," Tevadi started before trailing off into something else. "I should go. I need to find the lady in the oil shop. I need to go tell her about what they said. If I don't bad things are going to happen to her."
Tevadi got up and stretched a short bit, ringing out her coat once more, though her clothes still dripped heavily from the water that drenched them through and through. She did not want to be here if they came back. And she certainly did not want to get Jiang in trouble for being around her if they found her.
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:52 pm
He acknowledged her introduction with a bow of his head. "It is a pleasure to meet you Tevadi, despite the circumstances." As he lifted his head, he couldn't quite manage to stop himself from twitching away from her outstretched hand, so it was just as well that she also withdrew. It seemed that she wasn't going to mention the near-breach of personal space however, so he decided to leave it be and answer her question. "Having these things-" he paused to make a vague gesture encompassing horns and scales and fins- "Does not make me a dragon. I have them because I am a dragon." If she could talk in circles about being a cove, then he felt entitled to vague statements about his own nature. If she didn't quite get it, then at least they'd both been confused at least once over the course of the evening.
The mention of the oil shop brought his own anxiety back to the front of his mind, and he subconsciously sank just a tiny bit lower into the water. "I do not know if it will help, but the shop is called Solace Scents. I have only visited once, and we traveled there by vehicle, I do not know the way." He frowned, trying to recall any landmarks along the way, but coming up short. That had been before he started becoming familiar with the city, and for most of the ride he'd been making faces at the maid rather than looking out the windows. He was almost regretting that choice now. "I recall it was on a small street, but little else I am afraid."
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:21 pm
"... I like your horns," She said quietly, before facing away from him as he indicated that though he had been to the shop in question, he couldn't recall the way.
The small amount of information Jiang did provide Tevadi was extremely useful, whether he knew it or not. The small roads were down in the poor district, where traveling by foot was most common and the only way towards the markets were by the public transit trolleys. It meant she would start he search down there and look for the shop called 'Solace Scents'. It was definitely a start for her.
"Thank you for your help, Jiang-chen." Tevadi looked back to him, her pale blue-ish tinted skin showing a small pink twinge from her appreciation of Jiang's help. "I need to go now... I... Yes. I need to go. It was very nice meeting a dragon."
Without another word, Tevadi turned away from him once more and made off quickly. She had spotted another flash of light rounding a corner uphill from them, and she was in panic mode now. Almost out of sight down an alleyway she tripped, her still damp coat falling to the ground with a slush. Scrambling up, she went to grab for it but thought better of it and merely left it behind as she ran.
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