Cast: Kiera (TC) & Suleiman (Clay)
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December 3, 2017
TLDR:
Support Points Earned: 1
[7:17 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: === Start RP ===
Kiera found the alcohol that she had consumed following her conversation with Daniel rather pleasing. Perhaps a little too pleasing, but the Fighter smiled dumbly at being "buzzed" from the tasty ales she found in the team's supply. While sitting in her tent, she reached for her locket... only to find it wasn't around her neck.
"Whe-WHERE?!"
Kiera frantically searched her tent and eventually poked her head out of said tent to see that she had left it on a table. Wide open.
Uh... oh...
[7:35 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman was trying to enjoy a peaceful nap, when somebody started making an annoying racket in the neighboring tent. My God, I should've never left Neraida!
He rose from his cot, muttering curses to himself. Slowly, he picked up his staff, and poked his head outdoors. Outside, he saw the culprit, Kiera, doing the same thing. He rubs his eye, and lets out a frustrated sigh.
"Now, what excuse do you have for causing that racket?"
[7:37 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Uh... nothin', nothin', I was just lookin' for a thing of mine. Heh," she said, mostly fixated on her necklace.
[7:50 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman responds with a glare. "Well would you stop making that racket while you search? I have important things to do, and those tasks need foc-." His speech is cut off by an uncontrollable yawn. "Ahem, focus"
[7:52 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Righty, in fact, I thinks I found what I was lookin' for!"
Kiera scurries over to grab her locket. Upon reuniting with it, she looked at it the whole way back.
[8:03 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "You made all that noise for that tiny thing?" Suleiman said, walking over to Kiera. "You could've at least not knocked over the- Oh."
Suleiman stopped once he got a good look at the object, and how Kiera looked at it. "Is that a sentimental object of yours?"
[8:04 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "W-what, this? S-sure is."
[8:10 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: The moth walked to Kiera's side, trying to get a good look at the locket. Unfortunately, his 5'2" frame made getting high enough to see the locket a difficult task.
"Is it a family crest, an initials of a lover? A gem, maybe?" Suleiman shook his head. "No, not a family crest; you are but a commoner, right? They don't get those."(edited)
[8:13 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "It ain't nothin', just somethin' I've had for a while now and reminds me o' home, 'sall," she said trying not to make eye contact.
[8:27 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Seems awfully important to you for them to be 'Nothing.'" Realizing that he won't get sort of look at the locket from the ground, Suleiman unfolds his wings, and flutters up a couple inches. There, he could clearly see the content of the locket. Unfortunately, he was only confused by them.
"Sorry to ask, but what is in there, exactly?"
[8:29 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "It ain't important to ya, okay?!" she defends and turns away, annoyed by his prying in her affairs. Even Kiera was confused as to why it mattered to him. Regardless, given how he seemed to act when finding out she was illiterate, the Fighter wasn't looking forward to the scorn from Suleiman. At least, she imagined he would be quite reproachful of her circumstances.(edited)
[8:42 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: The Jera puts back his wings, plopping to the ground. He stumbles a bit on the landing, using his staff to steady himself. "Fine, fine! I won't pry any longer!"
Using the staff as a walking stick, he starts to walk back to his tent. "I would reccomend hiding that curio, if you so ashamed of it."(edited)
[8:45 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Er... I don't wanna hide it though. It, it uh, is important to me," she said in some shame, either from her (again) circumstance or her outburst.
[8:51 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman stops, and looks over his shoulder. "So the curio is important enough for you to display it on your chest to others, but it isn't important enough to tell others the meaning of it? Make up your mind, girl."
[8:54 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Urh, okay, it's real important to me 'cause it reminds me of my family life, okay?"
[9:07 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "That is better than nothing, I suppose. Sorry for intruding on your matters." Suleiman's words are cold. "Please stay quiet for the rest of the night, Kiera."(edited)
[9:09 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: Should I be hiding this?
"Say, uh, Suleiman? Did you, did you want to know what's innit?"
[9:15 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman turns back around, his face still cold. "Yes, I actually do. Please, go on about the locket."
[9:17 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "In here's a pi- a pic-"
She pauses for a moment and breathes out.
Ain't this the drinks talkin'? Or not? Er... ah, whatever.
"-picture of me and my son. A village scribe made it for me."
[9:25 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "You're what!?" Surprise came over Suleiman's face. He was expecting her to be a criminal of sorts, not a mother! My God, where is her son, then? Has she abandoned them? Are they dead?
"You hav-" Suleiman shakes his head, and puts on a more professional expression. "Alright, I now see why you wanted to hide the curio. But, by Kyria, you are hardly an adult yourself! How do you have a kid? And where is it, if not here?"
[9:29 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Well, I've got child 'cause when two people want to be with- ah, you prob'ly know that much. My son- whose name is CASEY, not 'it'- is back home with my parents..."
This was the sort of thing she was exactly afraid of. Seed seemed open about it (though disconcertingly more attached to fixing Kiera's illiteracy than her infant child), but such questioning made her somewhat angry.
[9:39 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Apologies about calling him 'it'. But, I-" Suleiman cuts himself off, sighing. This girl is a bad situation, isn't she? My God, don't let her die.
"I assume you are on this job to pay for your parents raising Casey, right?"
"I assume you are on this job to pay for your parents raising Casey, right?"
[9:41 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Yeah, that. They said they'd raise him regardless, but I couldn't let 'em do it alone. They ain't got jobs now 'cause of the drought in my town, so no fields for 'em to harvest, y'know? They, an' a whole lotta other folk need gold from outside the town."
[9:51 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Good for you, then. It is hardly possible to raise a child on their own. But, please promise me to stay alive on this expedition. You have an entire family relying on your money for a livelyhood. I would hate for you to disappoint them."
[9:52 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Y-yeah, I will. I was awful sure to stay safe in the last battle and still close to you guys, my allies. 'Cause I hope you'll keep me safe. So I can go home to my son. And I try to fight defen- defensidly... that. I try to not prevent myself from gettin' hurt."(edited)
[10:04 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "I know you try not to die. But your fighting style worries me, it isn't very conductable to survival. At least from what I've seen. If you feel as if you are fighting an oppenent you can't win against, do not feel shame in fleeing."
Suleiman rubs his eyes. "Though, I am sure you already know that. You don't seem the type that feels too strongly about 'Glory and Honor'. That isn't a slight against you; I have no thoughts for those things as well. Not on the battlefield, at least."(edited)
[10:09 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "I don't fight to be 'pure' or 'holy' or whatever. I'm here for me and my kid and my parents, and that's it. And maybe my tribe as a whole, but... eh, I've got to train more. The last battle was my first, after all."
[10:20 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "You did good, for that first battle. But yes, you should train more in the future. I suspect you will need it."
The moth thinks for a second, before giving Kiera a careful look. "Say, you never mentioned the father of Casey. Would you care to elaborate about that man?"(edited)
[10:25 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "... well, since ya did ask. We were a thing when we were... ah, 14, 15, 'round then. And while my parents weren't super okay with it, they allowed it. But... one-thin'-lead-to-another an'... but afterwards, we broke up, since I thought he was a jerk and he thought I was a moron, but a little afterwards, I uh... found out. Was 15 then..."
[10:30 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman shakes his head. "Just a bad situation, then. I was hoping that I could come up with some advice, but I don't see much you can do. Has the scoundrel ever offered to help raise the kid, or is that a too much of a bother for him?"
[10:31 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Nope. Casey's family name's my family name. Brennan."(edited)
[10:38 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Well, I hope your parents keep him as far away from that man as possible. I don't have much else to say about the subject, though. Just... stay alive. I've seen what losing a mother can do to a child, and it isn't something that I would wish upon your child. Speaking of which, how old is Casey?"
[10:43 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "I'm eighteen, and he was born when I was... sixteen and a half or so... if my math ain't wrong, he's one or two. Right?"(edited)
[10:52 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Correct. I was worried that you would of had been absent in his more formative years, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I only see the job lasting a year before we have to jump ship; maybe sooner, so you'll be there for him in his more important years."(edited)
[10:56 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "But... but I, ain't be a year old important? For me to be there? Listen, bein' here was an awful hard choice, y'know. I just finishe- never mind. But yeah, I should be helpin' teach him to talk and stuff. He barely was talkin' and walkin' when I left."
[11:06 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Yes, a baby's first year is important but..." Suleiman pauses, and puts a hand on his chin. He seems to make a realization before talking.
"Sorry, you are right. I didn't know what I was saying. I don't blame you for making this trip; you can't raise a child without money. I would've done the same for my daughter. You are giving him a better life by doing this, even if it feels wrong to do so."
[11:10 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "T-thanks. Makes me feel better. I already regret showin' up here at all, sometimes."
She scratches the back of her head.
I also shouldn't mention I want to spend a lotta time off-duty partyin' and drinkin'. Can't do that at home...
[11:20 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "I do to; I have no idea how I am going to explain to my daughter that I've helped started a war on this investigation!" Suleiman laughs at his own remark; the sort of laugh that is used only to cope with a unfortunate situation.(edited)
[11:22 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Oh, you... you're a parent, too?"
[11:25 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Oh, of course; I wouldn't be talking to you about parenting if I had no experience with it. Her name is Laura; she looks much more Beorc-like than I."
[11:26 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Oh... how old are you and her, if ya don't mind me askin'?"
[11:31 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "I am 259, and she is about 45, if I remember correctly." Suleiman gives a dismissive wave of his hand.
"Jera live much longer lives than Beorc. Biologically, I have the body of a 60-year old Beorc, and she would be in her teen years."
[11:32 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Whoa," she said with her mouth agape.(edited)
[11:37 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: "Yeah, the difference is staggering." Suleiman says, unenthusiastically.
[11:49 PM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "I- I'm sorry! I oughtta try to talk more formally to you, since you're- you've been alive for so long! Like I would with the elders of Manx!"
[11:58 PM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman waves her proposition off. "Don't feel any pressure to talk to me with formality; I hold no authority over you, so there is no need to gain my respect. And besides, I've met a fair share of fools who were just as old"(edited)
[12:01 AM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Ah. Well, uh, I should let you go back to your restin', eh?"
[12:13 AM] Santa's Unpaid Intern: Suleiman smiles. "Well, that would certainly by nice. Good night, Kiera."
He turns towards the tent, and soon disappears behinds the folds of it's enterance. Kiera is left alone, under the moonlight.
[12:14 AM] TC12 [Hyped for Christmas!]: "Hm... more booze or no more booze?"
She pondered on this question before just plopping and bed and falling asleep.
=== End RP ===
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