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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 0:03:01 GMT -5
The look on her face was priceless. He chuckled a little and pointed to her chin. She still had a little bit of foam there.
He looked to Emeric, smiling a little. "Clever. With vegetables too?" He gave Rauni a wink.
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 0:06:48 GMT -5
She pawed at her chin to wipe it clean, licking her lips.
"Oh, especially with vegetables. She can even make those fresh again though we don't broadcast that fact." Emeric chuckled.
Rauni looked between them with an almost childlike expression of shy wariness. She didn't know what they wanted from her.
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 0:12:31 GMT -5
His brow raised, impressed. No less from a fey, he supposed. "Don't let word get out," he agreed with a grin. "Or else farmers everywhere will want a piece of her."
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 0:14:19 GMT -5
"Exactly. The Master had the same problem with a creature that actually had healing powers in his collection years ago. People flocked to it."
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 0:19:09 GMT -5
He frowned a little at that. Something about the word collection bothered him. He had heard that of Emeric's master before, but now that he was warming up to Rauni... which wasn't wise... he didn't like the fact that there were more like her... that is, the bound and abused. "What happened to it?"
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 0:25:25 GMT -5
Emeric frowned a bit. "You know, I don't know, now that I think about it. I believe it was killed in a fire in the menagerie."
Rauni drank quietly because the brief fire of the ale was a small comfort, even if it burned out of her system almost immediately...it took very potent liquor and vast amounts of it to get a fey drunk. The fire hadn't killed the creature Emeric was talking about. The Master had let a select few who'd offered him good gifts use it's healing abilities. Eventually it had drained the poor thing so much it died.
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 0:29:43 GMT -5
He winced. That was no way to die for any creature. They all had known that fear only days ago from the incident in the grove. "Poor thing."
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 0:34:03 GMT -5
Emeric winced. "Yes, that was careless of the Master, he let his enemies get in somehow. We managed to save a lot of them but." He shrugged unhappily. "Luckily only animals were in there."
"Or animals as far as you know."
Where the woman had come from it was impossible to say. She was suddenly just there on the other side of Rauni, a normal, even plain looking woman. She cut her eyes to the wood wife and glared at her. "As far as you're concerned they're all animals. I suppose you're all quite proud of yourself with the Master's latest acquisition, eh?"
Rauni went very still and Emeric stiffened as she turned her head slightly and the light flashed off her pupils, making them seem to glow oddly for a moment.
Fey. And pissed off at them.
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 0:40:06 GMT -5
Vladik wasn't startled. He was never startled. But he gave the intruding fey a dark look. "I believe we did not invite your company, miss. Take care the way you speak to strangers."
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 0:44:08 GMT -5
"Oh, I know you, ranger, make no mistake about it." She looked at him coldly. She focused her eyes on Rauni and said something in another language. Rauni shrank away, dropping her gaze, signing something and pausing because she knew the fey woman wouldn't be able to understand it. She glowered at her.
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 0:48:46 GMT -5
He narrowed his eyes at the woman. "If you know me, you'll know not to get on my bad side. And you're getting there, woman. Make no mistake about that.
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 0:56:57 GMT -5
Emeric laid a hand on his arm as a silent warning. This woman wasn't a forest spirit like Rauni, she was gentry, one of the higher fey where their kings and gods came from. She needed to be watched carefully. She turned her cold gaze on Emeric. "You won't get away with it. Tell you master that, pig." There was a sneering contempt in her gaze as she looked at them all. "I don't know who he thinks he is, how he dared to cross such a line, but he's got the eyes of the true fey on him now, and he'll be sorry for it." The 'true' part was a verbal lance aimed at Rauni, who couldn't help but wince. She was considered a 'lesser' fey. A mere forest spirit, nothing close to importance as a true gentry or the sidhe in the eyes of someone like her.
Her threat delivered, the woman disappeared. Rauni stared at the spot she'd vanished from, a cold feeling of dread twisting the pit of her stomach. The Master was greedy and arrogant, it was only a matter of time before he got something...or someone?...that he would suffer for. She wondered what he'd done.
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 1:57:49 GMT -5
He clenched his jaw and quieted his anger as Emeric laid a hand on his arm, but he wasn't happy about it. He let out a long sigh when the fey left and drained the last of his mug. That certainly put a damper on the night. It bothered him that the woman had referred to Emeric as a pig, she had him pegged wrong. He was one of the most honorable man Vladik knew, even if he had made a poor choice for an association with a man of power. He turned his head to the side as he absentmindedly glanced in Emeric's direction. He would do well to disassociate himself from the master for a time after Rauni was delivered.
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Post by KD on Dec 15, 2010 2:02:13 GMT -5
"What's he done now, I wonder?" Emeric frowned, troubled.
Rauni looked a lot more like she had when Vladik had first met her, her face blank, though her eyes were glittering with what looked suspiciously like tears.
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Post by Jenny on Dec 15, 2010 2:07:58 GMT -5
Vladik shook his head a little. Perhaps it was best to stay out of this business completly. He didn't want to be trapped in the crossfire. He didn't want that for Emeric as well.
He felt bad for Rauni. She didn't even have a place with her own kind. He didn't know how to comfort her, and he dare not touch her. Hell, he couldn't think of anything to say that would cheer her up.
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