First night in a new room. - Why would anyone care?
Sitting on the couch infront of the television, Rhadamanthus stared at the blank screen. He was now in the possession of Duke, a tall man he had met many times before... but why him? Why did Duke have to get him? The young saytr scowled, well at least the couch was comfy, maybe Duke would let him sleep here since the room was small and there were no beds... but then he started to wonder where his little sister would sleep? What a horrible person this Duke fellow turned out to be. Hmph.
Duke smiled as he went through the linen closet, pulling out new sheets for the beds. "Hey Rhad, can you give me a hand.. your sister's finishing her bath in her room...And I need a little help setting up her bed and yours."
"Her... room?" The sayter blinked, turning to stare at Duke as though he had some sort of obscene deformity on his face. "What do you mean 'her room'?" This was absurd! He was so used to sleeping in one large room with all the rest of the kids... the concept of having his own private place illuded him.
Duke blinked and laughed a bit as he pulled out the rest of the sheets from the closet. "Well you two have your own rooms, ya'know." He grinned as he open the two bedrooms, showing off the beds inside. "See?"
The saytr blinked once more as he climbed over the couch to inspect the new room. "This is .. mine?"
"Yep. And the one next to you is Leo's. " Duke struggled for a moment as he pulled out two new pillows and then made his way into Rhad's room, turning the light on with his nose. "This is your bed."
"It's... mine?" Yes, the concept still confused him. Why, why was this man being so nice to him and his sister?
Duke merely laughed a bit. "Yes it's yours," He placed the pillows on the bed as he went back out in to the hallway to pull out sheets and pillow cases for the bed.
Rhad watched as duke assembled him bed, which now had white sheets, and red pillow cases. He gingerly stepped in to the room, hoping no trap was going to spring around him. After a few moments of silence and Duke walking in and out of the room, adding more bed things to his room. He relaxed a bit, at least enough to still look like he was on gaurd.
Which made Duke laugh again. "It ain't gonna bite-cha." He smiled a bit, as he added the finished touches of the two blankets, one red and one white."You also got your own bathroom." The old brunnette gestured towards. "So you can yer buisness without bother." He grinned. "I also got you some clothes too, cause it's gonna get cold soon."
Rhadamanthus could se Duke's ploy now, he was trying to win over the grumpy saytr with kindness, which wasn't going to work! Crossing his arms he frowned an looked at Duke, but didn't say a word. Everytime they argued it was stupid, at least in Rhad's opinion.
"Yer room's done, and you didn't help. Now go take a bath, you smell like s**t." Duke walked out of the bedroom, and then tossed a white towel at Rhad.
Who stared at him, this Duke guy was so weird. He was a soft as a pillow sometimes, but then he was a hard and brash a sa saytr. Though this didn't gain an ounce of respect from him, it just made him wonder more. sighing he waited until Duke had gone over to Leo's room and then shut the door to his new room.
The saytr waited a few more moments until he raised his arm to sample his own aroma and quickly recoiled. Ugh, the b*****d was right. He grumbled as he trotted over to tthe bathroom and began his shower.
He was taught by the staff and cregivers how to use indoor plumbing, because for all of his life until he came to Salem's Home al his needs were taken care of by the troop. If they needed to bathe, they'd stop by a river and bathed. If they were hunger, they would hunt as a family.
Though the pain of knowing he wasn't old enough to learn how to hunt yet didn't sit well with him, that lack of skill was what caused him to go to Salem's Home. If it wasn't for that, they'd be still out in the forests by themselves.
What would've taken a short while to bathe, took Rhad almost an hour due to his lack of per say hygenic skills. He had to figure out what was what by texture and smell... since he didn't know how to read. He knew what the bar of soap was it was shaped like a river stone and was as slipperly as a slug. Shampoo was like hand soap, but always smells sweeter like flowers. And conditioner? Well he didn't want to go into what that looked like.
After the hour of trial and error, a much nicer smelling Rhadamanthus was found sitting nude on his bedroom floor trying to dry himself... And figure out what he was going to do about clothes. Since his old clothes smelt as rank as he did.
Then a knock came upon the door. "You done? I thought yer were tryin' ta drown yerself."
Rhadamanthus scowled. "No, and if I did you wouldn't have stopped me." He stuck out his tongue as he wrapped himself up in the now moist towels.
"I dunno, maybe... the world would be a damn quieter place." He laughed." I'm kidding... Can I come in? I got you some jammies and I need your dirty clothes."
"Feh, fine. What are jammies and what are you going to do with my clothes? Burn them?" He scowled, scooting around so he back was turned to Duke as he entered.
Duke came in carrying a basket of what looked to be clean clothes, opening up the dresser he put away under wear and things that didn't have a place in the closet.
Rhad watched him, shivering a bit. He then watched him place some clothing onto the bed. He frowned as he peered to veiw what was there, a set of boxers , a set of red sleep pants, and white large shirt. Ugh, that was too much. It wasn't winter yet! "That's too much clothing."
"You don't have to wear it all. I know saytr's only wear so much, but I can't go ta a store an' only ask fer tha pants." Duke shrugged as he went into the bathroom and took the empty basket with him. He picked up what little clothing Rhad had before and put it inside the basket.
Rhad took the advantage Duke wasn't looking and only put on the boxers. Now sitting on his bed, he peered and craned his neck to see what Duke was doing.
Duke emerged from the bathroom, after cleaning up a bit, and picking up a few of the towels from the floor of Rhad's room. In silence Duke paced in and out of Rhad's room clearing out the clutter that was left behind and picking up all the dirty clothes in the house.
Rhad stayed put, watching until Duke went into Leo's room. After a moment, he heard Duke singing softly. It sounded as though it was in the other room. He blinked listening to the faint sound, still using the lone towel he had left to dry out his hair, he knew better than to go to bed with it wet. It was so hard to pick out the words, shaking his head he shrugged. Tossing the towel to the ground, he decided to slip on the large over shirt. It was what he was used to in the little time he had living in the nursery, since he was only there for a few days and the fact he had very little didn't bother him much.
Pushing the pants of the bed, he laid down looking up at the light that was still on. Hmph, he wasn't sleepy at all... not one bit.
Duke knocked on the door. "Nighty night Rhad." He smiled as he walked in, picking up the sleep pant from the floor and placing them onto of the dresser. "Do... you do anything special? Yannoo, for before going to bed?"
Stories by the fire, camp songs... and his moher's warm kiss on his forehead. "No." He said coldly.
Duke with a smiled shrugged, he took the red blanket and threw it over Rhad. "Well, then I'll do something special." He smiled as he watched the astonished look on Rhad's face. "Now, I'll just do something simple, and then if you want something else.. then I'll give it to you. "
Rhad stared at him for a while, and then got the jist of it. He laid down on got comfortable. though his eyes stung, he wouldn't let on that he was sleepy. He... just wasn't in the mood to argue right now.
Duke brought up the covers more, tucking in the grumpy saytr. Kissing the top of his forehead, Duke muttered a few words in prayer.
Rhad listened, as duke spoke a calming feeling filled him, he relaxed and felt sleepier than he had did moments ago.
"Sweet dreams Rhad." Duke Smiled as he walked out of the room and turned off the lights.
...And sweet dreams he had.
Reply
