forum The Fates of Crecia

Started October 02, 2020 by Deleted user

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(Finally had time to finish this!!!)

(Okay, I'm gonna get this started.)

"Water please," Kye said to the tavern worker as he sat at a table near the back. There were just a few too many people here for his liking, but he couldn't exactly do anything about them.
He wasn't sure why he was there. It was just a feeling he'd gotten. That he had to come into the building and wait. For what he had no clue. Whatever the case, he was patient and he had nowhere to be, so he could wait.
Or, you could leave. Right now. While no one has taken any notice of you.
No. Why would I make that nice Tavern girl to get me a water and then leave before he brought it to me?
I don't know. Why'd you ask for a drink in the first place?
Because I wanted a drink.
I still don't think you should stick around here. I've got a bad feeling about it.
You always have a bad feeling.

Ski scanned the street outside the tavern, crouching in an alleyway. There didn’t seemed to be anyone she should be worried about or suspicious of, but she was still worried she’d look out of place, especially with Ti, Do, and Re at her side. She turned, scanning the alley next for a hiding spot. Spotting some wooden barrels, she looked inside. A few small white grains greeted her. Perfect.
She motioned the cubs over. “Stay here. I’ll be back with food.” she whispered in Yeshe.
Re’s pupil’s seemed to dilate. “I’m hungry…” she murmured, reaching up to the barrel.
Ti hugged Ski’s leg, while Do embraced her torso. “Don’t leave,” Ti whimpered.
She ruffled their fluffy heads. “I promise I won’t be gone long. Just stay there until I come back, okay?”
”Okay…” Do frowned, but he let go of her torso. Ski helped him and Re get into the barrel, then turned to Ti, still clinging to her leg.
“Hey Ti,” she tried. “I have an extra special mission for you, okay?”
Ti looked up, her face red like she was about to cry.
”I need you to make sure you and your siblings stay super quiet in that barrel, okay? Can you do that for me?”
Her eyes widened in determination, and she nodded. She let go of Ski’s leg.
”Good.” she helped Ti get in with the other cubs. ”I’ll be back, I promise. Love you.”
She found the lid to the barrel and slid it over their heads. Then she pulled her navy hood over her head, readjusted the bag on her shoulder, and went into the tavern.
It was slightly crowded, which she personally wasn’t really keen on, but she knew it would help her to not be noticed. Taking a seat, she felt around a pocket on her bag, then pulling out a couple of silver coins. This may only be enough for some cheese and bread….

"And 3, 2 1, over the lips and pass the gums!" Aiden exclaimed as he drank his fifth shot, years ago he found out alcohol made social sotuations more berable, and judging by how crowded the tavern looked, he would need all of those drinks.

"Another one please," he said as he counted his coins, "Should be enough for a couple more…" he muttered, as he drank more and more until he started to felt tipsy enough to ignore all the loud noises and people pushing each other, "Thank you, bud."

And wiith a confused look from the bartender he made his way towares whatever spot seemed the most private, sitting down on a poorly lit corner.

He scrambled among papers and various objects until he pulled out a book from his coat, "From Healing to Resurrecting… Hopefully everyone is too drunk to notice…" he thought as he submerged into whatever the book had to offer, hoping the flame on his hand was well hidden behind the paper.

Kalex got off his horse, leading him over to his special spot in the stables.
And by special spot I just mean the spot he paid for.
He pulled his hat more securely onto his head, glancing from one side to the other, looking around for the people in area.
He made his way over to the tavern sensing a downpour about to happen, sure you couldn't be sure it would be. Still, you shouldn't take nay chances and he didn't want to be soaking wet.
He managed his way inside and immediately one figure caught his eyes, specifically the glow that the figure gave off emersed in a book.
He noticed as they tried to hide themselves, hide the glow in the darkly light corner but shouldn't if he they wanted to hide the glow, go in an area that would hide the glow in plain sight? He debated whether or not to approach them and simply sat a booth near them and stared at them for a while, before glancing over, seeing a what he assumed was lady, he liked at her arm movements once again assuming that she was probably looking for her coin purse.
He looked back the figure making the glow before waving down and bar tender and asking them to buy them a non alcoholic drink if they could for that lady in the cloak.

Aiden noticed the person entering the tavern, noticing how their gaze slightly shifted towards him for a second, to which he responded with hidding even further back, "Don't act suspicious, don't act suspicious, don't act suspicious" he kept repeating inside his head.

"Better not be a guard…" he muttered as he focused on each sentence on the book, going through pages and pages as fast as he could, glancing left and right every second, going further back into the corner and getting both the book and flame near his face.

"There it is!" He said, jumping slightly, blushing as he made sure to go back to his corner, trying not to be seen, putting his feet on top of the table to hold the book, proceeding to pull out a small notebook and a makeshift charcoal pen, starting to fastly scribbling something with arguably illegible handwritting.

(sigh)
Ski looked up as a cup of tea was set at her table. She’d been contemplating whether resorting to stealing from the tavern’s back rooms would be worth it, and she nearly thought that the bartender who was now at her table had somehow heard her thoughts.
She quickly switched to Crecian. “Um, I didn’t order anything.” An old fear of being noticed for her accent crept up again, and she tried to keep it in line.
The bartender didn’t seemed to notice anything, which made sense with the buzz of chatter around them. He pointed to a man a few tables away, saying, “No, he did. You know him?”
“No…” she raised her head slightly, studying the man. Then she lowered it, afraid of being seen or recognized.
The bartender shrugged and said, “Well, you might as well thank him. Or let me know if you need anything else.”
He left. Ski stared at the cup of tea. She really didn’t feel like thanking him at the moment. They were strangers. Why had he ordered something for her?
With nothing better to do, she took a sip of the tea. Her lip curled. It was more bitter than sweet.
But maybe the liquid was magic, because a thought came to her. Maybe the man knew what she was, and wanted to help her. Of course, it was only speculation, and she couldn’t act as though is was true, but going over to him to see what kind of person he was was better than thinking about thievery.
She slowly got up, leaving the tea on the table and walked over to the man.
“Um, I was told you bought a drink for me? I just wanted to say thank you…” she began, chuckling internally at her own hypocrisy.

Aiden kept scribbling and scribbling, trying to ignore everything and everyone, clumsily dropping his pen and almost burning the book in the process of retrieving it.

"They seem quite busy…" he though while glancing at the lady appriaching the gentleman who he saw a while ago. He made sure not to drop anything this time and arter a while of frantically trying not to look suspicious and failing at doing so, Aiden abruptly closes both the book and notebook, hid the pen among his hair, stood up and made his way towards the door.

However, thanks to his luck, whatever he had been drinking finally started to kick in, making him feel dizzy and stumbling upon his feet, falling over and dropping all that he was hidding.

He noticed as she drank the tea and then glanced in his direction to which he looked away at the man he had been glancing at earlier noticing the drop of the pen and the glow that got rather close to his book, he would have kept staring had the lady not spoke to him.
He turned back towards her and looked up at her, "Yeah I did. your welcome, in all honestly I just wanted to get your attention but I didn't want to send the wrong message." He put a Hand to his neck as he glanced to the side a bit and noticed the male missing, he turned to look a little more and noticed he leaving, then stumbling and dropping all of his stuff.
He put a Hand up, "Excuse me for a moment if you would."
He quickly got up and went over the male and tried to stop him fr falling, but if he was too late for that then he would help him pick up his stuff.

Ski did a double take as she watched the man go over to the stumbling one. She stood, frozen in place, her mind still stuck on the few words the man had spoken to her.
He wanted to get my attention? Why?
As much as she didn’t want to assume, she couldn’t help but curl her lip in distaste.
This better not be what I think it is.
But the stumbling man caught her attention as all his things fell out into the open. How had she not noticed him?
She thought she should help him up, but anxiety and reluctance kept her in place. She just wanted to get some food and get back to the cubs.

"Oh! H-Hiiii, thank you," Aiden rushed into grabbing all of his belongins as fast as he could, face completely read and awkwardly smiling, "No need to do that, just my drunk self being clumsy!"

The first thing he managed to hide was the book, Aiden stood up while moving the hair from his face, "Let me just… compensate you, for your kindness," he said in a frantic tone, reaching for some spare coins hidden on his cloak, "Here! Or I could buy you a drink if you want to!"

He took a deep breath and did his best to talk on a calm tone, "I'm Aiden, by the way." He extended one hand and wiped out the dirt from his clothes with the other.