|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:20 pm
Private RP between Faolan & Ziazan (Jynk) and Ellandra & Rhian (Redbud-Tree).
Location: Around Farstep Carnival.
Time: Early afternoon.
Weather: Slightly overcast and humid.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:59 pm
Faolan was once again on the roof, working away at finishing the installation of the new queenie stove he'd bought for their little home. He hoped Ellandra would enjoy the idea of being able to cook some meals now instead of always relying on the community meals. He sat back on his haunches, wiping the sweat from his brow, and looked over the camps and grounds toward his father's vardo, wondering how his wife's visit with him was going this time.
He leaned on the edge and looked over. "Zia? Can you hand me up a beer, hinny?"
Below, Ziazan had been sitting on the steps, watching people mill past. At Foal's voice, it got up and retrieved a bottle of beer, stretching to hand it upwards. "There you are, Da."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:11 pm
Ellandra made her way to Keagan's vardo, hoping he wasn't... busy at the moment, and knocked carefully on the door. She held Rhian in one arm like a plush toy, just in case she needed her comfort during some time in the upcoming conversation. She wouldn't have bothered Keagan, but there were still so many questions she had without answers, and shwas tired of that.
~*~
Meanwhile, an elegantly-dressed, if rather dull and stuffy looking, young man was picking his way carefully through the carnival grounds, wrinkling his nose with distate at all the filth he found everywhere. Was the girl he was meant to marry reallhy living here, in this squalor? The poor thing, from what he knew of hre she was a delicate sort, she probably wasn't handling this well; best to get her out as soon as possible, then.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:06 pm
Keagan opened the door and looked at his daughter-in-law. He leaned out and checked around, but didn't see Fao. "The a** not wi' you today, lass?"
Faolan peeled off his sweat-soaked t-shirt and tossed it down to Ziazan to throw inside the vardo. He sat down, legs dangling over the side of the roof, and took a long drink of beer, then looked out over the camp, watching the other didikai go about their business. Someone didn't belong, though, and he watched the elegant stranger filter through the crowd. Outwardly, he remained relaxed, but inside he was tense and cautious, wondering if his father had finally sent someone to get him.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:12 pm
Ellandra shook her head. "Faolan's working n the vardo," she said simply. "I was hoping. . . you could - would be willing to . . . tell me more about my mother. . . I - I still don't remember her very well, you see, and even then, I was so young when she died, I'm not sure I could have known what she was like . . . outside of being my Mama, if - if that makes sense," she ventured hesitantly, a blush rising to her features as she regarded her father-in-law.
~*~
William Telemacchus Jr. was not a happy man. His supposed bride-to-be had been kidnapped and was being held in this dungheap, and was even having - horrors - magic worked on her to make her think it was nice here! As if it could ever be nice in such a refuse-ridden place - and was that a baboon wandering around freely? The poor, dear girl. He wandered around for a while, carefully edging his way through the crowd until he reached the residential area.
He'd come to save his intended, and save her he would. As long as he didn't get too dirty.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:37 pm
The old man nodded and moved aside. "Come on in, lass. Ah'll put some tea on fae us." He shut the door behind them after Elle was in. "I thought you might have come to ask more about you and Fao as children."
Faolan stayed calm, watching the man all the while. It was easy to keep track of someone sticking out so much as he was. He leaned over the side, dropping the empty bottle down, and accepted another from Zia before the Essentic went back to sit on the steps to also watch the man approaching.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:43 pm
Ellandra nodded and smiled at Keagan, stepping inside and holding Rhian, who stayed still despite being brought indoors. "Well, I would like to know more on that as well, but I thought I'd save some of the questions for when Faolan can come, too."
~*~
The young, fairly wealthy man stopped at one of the peculiar little wagons these filthy people lived in - one that seemed to be undergoing some renovation, as if that would make it into an acceptable living-space for a dog. He looked at the child sitting on the steps, and then up to the man on the roof, and gulped slightly. Well, he'd have to talk to them sometime, he supposed.
"I'm looking for a woman by the name of Ellandra; I received a letter from her aunt about how you're keeping her prisoner here and i've come to take her home."
There, simple enough, hand over the girl, she's much too fine for the likes of you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:05 pm
"Of course, lass," Keagan said, putting a kettle on the small stove in the vardo. "Gae 'head an' hae a sit-down there on th' bed. It's th' most comfortable spot. What sort of stories did you want of your dam?"
Faolan raised an eyebrow at the man's statement, then laughed outloud and took a sip of beer before replying. "Donnae think she'll be wantin' t'leave wi' you, lad. Her husband might hae some issue wi' you stealin' her off frae her home here."
Ziazan just grinned ferally at the man, keeping its wings tucked out of sight. It picked up one of the bottles of beer, opened it, and took a drink as well.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:14 pm
Ellandra sat, as told, and bit her lip thoughtfully for a moment. Finally she settled on one of the most basic questions she had. "How did . . . how did you two know each other?"
~*~
William shuddered at the grin the strange child gave him - and was that beer he was drinking?!? At that age? How - uncouth, this place was worse than he'd believed!
"Her aunt informed me that the marriage was quite unwilling, I'm to take her away from here and have the dreadful thing anulled, then wed her myself, as her father arranged many years ago."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:20 pm
"Your mother worked awhile with us, lass. She was didikai once," Keagan said, bringing a cup of tea over to Ellandra. "You take sugar or milk? Ah might hae a spot o' honey if'n you'd like tha'."
"Really now?" Faolan called down. "I think you might be wantin' to take this matter up wi' her husband. You agree, Zia?"
"Aye," was the only answer the strange child had, still sipping its beer.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:23 pm
"Just sugar, thank you Keagan," Ellandra said, hugging Rhian to her. "If she was, why didn't she tell me? What did she do? And how in the world did she wind up marrying a man like - like my father?"
~*~
The young man scoffed. "I would hardly call the man her husband, merely a kidnapper of innocent maidens!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:32 pm
Keagan put a cube of sugar in the girl's tea, went and got his own, and sat at the table. "Ah, there is a story in th' makin' there, lass. Your dam was a dancer and a musician amongst other things. Ah ain't real sure how she met your father, t'be honest, but it wis sometime after Ah wis married, Ah thinks." He gave her a knowing look. "And donnae be puttin' down her taste in outsiders. After all, ma boy married you."
Faolan lept down, landing cat-like on the ground before standing up slowly, gracefully to tower over the youth. He tilted his head to one side, regarding this upstart with golden eyes. "An' joost how d'you knows she wis taken against her will? Ah wis at th' handfastin', lad, an' she looked reet happy an' willin' enough t' be exchangin' vows wi' her husband."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:38 pm
Ellandra smiled softly. "I knew she was a musician, I found her flute when I was about eight . . . but how can I not dislike my father? It's not where he came from, Keagan - I - he. . . he's the one who killed her," she said, hugging Rhian to her - who gave a soothing hum in order to calm her a little.
~*~
"Of course she looked happy, she's been magicked into thinking this place is something nicer than the refuse heap that it is!" William was growing more offended by the way this annoying man was talking to him. Of course he'd want to keep poor Ellandra here, he was one of them! One of the denizens of this lower-than-a-pigsty carnival. Ugh, he wouldn't even be talking to this filthy creature if he didn't have to find his intended in this horrid place.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:50 pm
"No one could possibly know that would be the outcome, lass," Keagan told her gently, sipping his tea. "Love does strange things to people."
"Weren't no magic, boyo. Wis joost th' truth o' love," Faolan said, leaning casually back against the vardo, completely comfortable in nothing but his well-worn jeans, sweat, and navel ring. "Should be careful on the insults, lad. Didikai donnae take kindly t'bein' insulted in they're own hyem. Nowt sure Ah quite catched th'name tha', laddie."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:59 pm
Ellandra nodded softly, sipping at her own tea. "Yes, I suppose you're right. . . what was she like, Keagan, I - I mean, her personality?"
~*~
"Oh, of course you're going to say that, your kin always protects itself," the young suitor said, idly hoping there would be a way out of this without getting dirty. "And I don't feel the need to give my name to a filthy pikey like yourself."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
