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Post by Saith on Jun 16, 2009 21:08:37 GMT -5
"Tru Williams huh?" Saith said muttering to himself, loud enough for Tru to hear. "I like it." Saith smirked as he snapped the reins and the wagon built up a little more speed.
"It just so happens that I do know quite a fast way to Soleil" Saith said, "But...It won't work until morning. The sisters sleep at night, and the others don't take riders kindly. Until then, since I am getting paid for this job and your not, let me offer you a place to stay. I have arrangements made at an inn just inside the gates of Toria, we will be there in maybe 10 minutes. I think I can get them to add a second room to my bill."
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Post by Kat on Jun 16, 2009 21:14:04 GMT -5
Tru smiled slightly, she hadn't had anyone tell her that they liked her name. It was an odd, but nice feeling. She looked up at the city as they started to draw closer, thinking over Saiths offer seriously. She could use a nice place to sleep that wasn't under a tree for once, and the prospect of being able to actually sleep in a bed sounded more than wonderful. "I think I'll take you up on that offer," She said with a smile. She didn't want to hinder Saith, but if she couldn't catch a ride to Soleil, then she would never make it on time to stop the man from killing the merchant. She didn't know how, exactly, she would keep him from sending another assassin out when she refused, but she would figure something out. "I appreciate the hospitality, even after I tried to trick you," She said, breaking free of her thoughts. "It is rare that anyone offers me such things."
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Post by Saith on Jun 16, 2009 21:27:23 GMT -5
"Well how often have you spent time with anyone that you are trying to kill?" Saith asked. "Then again, how often do you spend time with anyone in your line of work?"
Saith looked over his shoulder at Tru. This was actually a rather interesting question. He was pretty sure that had she been in any other profession she would have been offered the same offer countless times by others. She was a very beautiful woman, though that was his opinion and since he himself was part Paratharien, he had a thing for the ears. Something about them were just so...distinguished.
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Post by Kat on Jun 16, 2009 21:38:36 GMT -5
Tru looked a bit startled at Saith's question, although she couldn't find the words she wanted, the ones she told everyone. That she didn't care about people and she would prefer not to spend time with them. Only then did she realize just how much she missed having contact with others. She frowned, looking thoughtful. "I don't think I've ever spent any time with someone that wasn't about business," She said finally, frowning. She stared off into the distance, her eyes unfocused as she thought. The tip of her tail flicked back and forth from time to time, and her ears laid back on her head, the only thing showing the sadness she felt from her family's murder. "The last time I had any real contact with a person was when I was fifteen," She said finally. "I guess I just hadn't noticed until now how long that was." Or just how lonely I am, She thought with an inward sigh.
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Post by Saith on Jun 17, 2009 20:02:13 GMT -5
The smirk on Saith's face vanished nearly instantly when he heard the change of tone in Tru's voice. He had not meant to make her said, not knowing that his question could stir such feelings in the woman next to him. Though he could understand her position in the matter, his parents were lost to him when he was young. Even though he grew up with many around him he never mad much contact besides with his master when he was in training. But when that ended he spent 3 years almost entirely alone, taken jobs here and there, earning money whenever and however he could based on what he was willing to do for it. He says 'mostly alone' because he did spend a few coins on...should we say...activities. He was after all a man, and he wasn't perfect.
"Hey now," Saith said loudly. "There is no feeling sorry for one's self on this wagon." Saith smirked once again. "Think of it this way, you were alone and you mostly didn't enjoy it. Well for the next 8 to 12 hours or so, especially within the next 20 minutes, you have someone to have a lovely conversation with. I will not take sob stories on this wagon, so I want to hear a story. You, in your profession, must have some pretty riveting tales of danger and excitement. So... here's the deal, you tell me a story and I will tell you a story. That way you don't feel lonely, neither do I, we don't get bored, and I can get my mind of my bum which I can no longer feel from siting on this damned wooden seat for god knows how long."
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Post by Kat on Jun 17, 2009 20:16:58 GMT -5
Tru couldn't help but laugh at Saith's words, and her ears flicked forward again as she listened to the faint sounds she could just barely make out coming from the city. "A story, huh?" She said, tapping a finger to her bottom lip as she leaned back against the wagon, thinking of one of her better jobs. "Let's see..."
"Well, a few years ago, when I was first starting out I got this really hard job. I was suppose to kill a Fallen Alchemist. As I'm sure you're aware, they are very dangerous." She smiled at the memory. "I nearly got my head blown off more than once during that fight," She said. "If it wasn't for my claws and the fact that we were in a forest, I might not be here right now." She couldn't help but chuckle slightly as she pictured herself climbing trees, and diving from one to another to keep out of his way. "Despite my training, I was terrified. But I wouldn't give up either, I'm not one to do that." She smiled as she held out her left arm. A scar, barely visible in the light from the lap, marred her otherwise flawless skin. "I got this fighting him. If I hadn't gotten back into town, I would have lost my arm." She smiled as she stroked the scar, she was rather proud of it. "Anyway, I managed to sneak up behind the man using a trick my father taught me with water. As he attacked the shadow he saw from the water I had formed to look like a silhouette of me, I snuck up behind him and stabbed him threw the heart." She looked up at Saith, her sapphire eyes reflecting the light from the lantern, giving them an odd appearance.
"I've told my story," Tru said with a faint smile. "What's yours?"
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Post by Saith on Jun 18, 2009 0:31:03 GMT -5
Saith was silent a moment as he gathered his thoughts. He had had many odd adventures traveling around these last few years, he could easily tell a story from his travels. But they would all reveal to much about him in his opinion. Tru still didn't know what he was capable of and he kind of preferred it that way for right now. Saith began to focus on a story he had from several years ago. He had to change a few areas of it, but maybe he could retell it well enough for her to understand its meaning without him having to explain it.
"This is a ghost story, and it's a love story. It's about a man who loved a woman. A man who thought the flame of their love could never diminish. But it did. What had once been a dance had become a battle. They fought,and they fought. In the dead of the night, after angry words were spoken, he left their bed and saddled his horse. She said to him: 'If you don't come back in 3 days, then you can never come back. Mark my words. I'll be gone.'...Still angry, the man rode away, and he enjoyed the solitude. The noise of their argument was replaced by the soothing sound of the forest.....But after just 2 days in the forest, he was filled with regret. He wanted to return to the woman he loved. And he wanted to return to he life he missed. So he found a shortcut through the woods and he took it. He was desperate, desperate to get back to the woman he loves before it was too late. Her threat surrounding his head...Would she wait for him or would she be true to her words? Would she be gone? He could feel his horse losing speed as if it wouldn't make it through the night."
Saith paused for a moment thinking back on his story and how much of it was true. Maybe he would tell this story in its entirety to someone later in his life, but for right now...
"The man came to the edge of a dark and unknown swamp. He had to make a decision.....Should he go into the swamp or go around?"
Saith had to pause again for different reasons then the first time.
"Does he go through the swamp or does he go around? We all ask ourselves that question, don't we? It's a very scary question to answer all alone......"
Saith paused once more, gathering his thoughts once again.
"Next to the swamp was a boy....The man asks the boy: 'Tell me...does the swamp have an hard bottom?' And the boy tells the man: 'It does'. So the man guides his horse into the swamp. And as he begins to sink, deeper and deeper into the swamp, he says to the boy: 'I thought you said it had a hard bottom!' And the boy says: 'It does... You're just not there yet.'"
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Post by Kat on Jun 19, 2009 16:50:22 GMT -5
Tru listened silently, her ears twitching every once and awhile, listening to Saith intently. While it wasn't the type of story she had expected, she was still riveted by the story. She smiled a little, at the end of the story. "The poor man," She said when Saith finished. "Do you know what happened to the woman? Did she ever find out her love died in the swamp, or did she just assume he didn't care enough about her to go back?"
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Post by Saith on Jun 20, 2009 0:45:09 GMT -5
"That's..." Saith said, drifting off for a second before snapping back. "That's a story for another time."
The truth was just a little harder to explain. It happened just a few years ago but he remembered it clear as day and it burned a hole in his heart, even now. Somethings are just to painful to talk about, but he promised her a story so he told one. His life had really only started 3 years ago. And though many things did happen to him in those 3 years, a lot of things he did not want to talk about as it was either to painful or he did not want her knowing more about him then he wanted her to...at least not yet. She seemed like a person who he would like to get to know, and it might be good for her to know someone outside her line of work. As in a strictly nonprofessional sense.
"I told you my story, it's your turn." Saith said, his smirk back on his lips.
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Post by Kat on Jun 21, 2009 21:11:19 GMT -5
"Oh..." Tru said, frowning. She looked over at him and smiled apologetically for asking such a brainless question. She sat back again, tapping a finger against her bottom lip as she thought about the next story she would tell.
"Hmm... One time, long ago," She began slowly, her eyes unfocused as she lost herself in the memory. "I ran away from home because I got angry with my parents. There was a forest, not far from my house. I went there, running until I couldn't even move I had been so tired." She smiled faintly. "I was out there for over a week, evading my father every time he got close to finding me. When he finally caught me, I had been looking the wrong way. You see, he set up a trap in a tree not far from where I was hiding, using some water to make a silhouette of himself to trick me into looking over there while he snuck up behind me and tackled me from the tree." She laughed faintly. "He had known where I was the whole time, but he wanted to see how I could fare in the forest by myself. He had been impressed, and even more impressed when I showed him the way back home without getting lost. He thought the only reason I had been out there for so long was because I was lost. But I wasn't, I was playing a game with him. It was a lot of fun."
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Post by Saith on Jun 23, 2009 22:44:28 GMT -5
Saith laughed slightly and looked over at Tru.
"Quaint," Saith smirked, "Father and daughter bonding, but not like any I've ever seen." Saith gave the reins a little smack and the wagon sped up. They weren't far from the town now, Saith could already see the walls beginning to rise. "I don't really have any stories such as those. My family life has not, and had not, been very happy. When I was younger my family had to move around a lot in order to stay alive. The way people are to one another outside of Haiden is, in a way, like a demon to and angel. They feared what they did not understand. So naturally when they saw me they would force us to move on. A few places were accepting, for a short time, but even then we needed to move on after a while. We accepted it and went on with our lives, moving from here to there and being as happy as we could be. But eventually we came to a place that was nowhere near as forgiving as anywhere we had been previously. They did not like that my mother was an aelaestaelar, an elemental. Things got violent."
There was a rather big pause before Saith realized what he was saying. He wondered why he was telling this woman who he had just met all this. Basically everything that man him who he was he had just told a near perfect stranger. Oh well, whats done is done.
"I am sorry." Saith said. "All my stories are sad and grim, while yours are rather cheerful. Please forgive me, I will tell you less likely to bring some to tears next time. But right now it seems we have arrived."
Saith said as they arrived at the great stone gates of Toria. They were the last wagon they would allow in for the night. Everyone else would have to wait for morning. The gates slammed shut behind then as they rode on through into the city which was still bustling even at this our.
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Post by Kat on Jun 24, 2009 18:25:34 GMT -5
Tru smiled back at Saith. "Yes, it was odd. He acted angry with me after he got me back while he was around my mom, but he was secretly very proud of me. He was only acting angry with my mother because she was furious with the both of us." She laughed faintly, and smiled distantly as she was sucked into her memories of her and her father again. "Mother never forgave either one of us for that. We gave her such a fright."
Tru looked back to Saith and smiled faintly. "I know what you mean," She said, her voice soft, almost gentle, an oddity for the cold hearted front she put on for everyone to see. Her eyes grew distant as she looked at the rapidly approaching walls of the town. "My family was the same way," She said. "My brothers and sisters were always sad, and hated having to move from town to town because my father was a Water Elemental, and my mother a feline Paranth. Although we lived in Dez when this happened, but they still wouldn't accept us. We had so many hard times, but my father always tried to make it better for us by showing me and my siblings tricks he had learned with Water. I was the only one that was willing to watch and learn. Me and him were very close." She felt a pang of regret that she hadn't been able to tell her father that she loved him one last time, just before he died. She missed him so much...
Tru shook her head. "No, it's fine," She said with a soft smile. "I just try to forget my sad memories, and talking about them doesn't help much."
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Post by Saith on Jun 26, 2009 0:37:52 GMT -5
"One should never try and forget their sad memories." Saith said as he steered the wagon through the streets of Toria. For so late at night there were a lot of people around. "Without those memories we loose a huge part of what makes us who we are. It is the adventure that guides us, the tragedy that steels us, and the sorrow that shapes us. If we were to forget all that, then we would be but shells of who we truely were."
The wagon came to a slow stop in front of a rather large wooden building. It was 3 stories tall and had a rather darkish look to it. several arches casting several shadows around the inside of the building. Though it looked dark, it did seem very homey.
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Post by Kat on Jun 27, 2009 9:41:49 GMT -5
Tru smiled faintly. "Even if I try to forget them, it never works. I will never be rid of them." She looked down at the long scar on her arm, gently running a finger along the raised part of her skin. Tru looked back up when she felt the wagon grind to a halt, and eyed the building they had stopped outside of. "Interesting place," She said, smiling faintly. It was indeed interesting, the way the shadows stretched across the lawn in front of it, making it seem as if it were an ominous place instead of a homey one like she felt it was.
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Post by Saith on Jun 30, 2009 1:27:59 GMT -5
Saith looked up at the imposing Inn before him. He thought for a second before turning back to the road and shaking the reins once more. The wagon began moving again slowly and Saith turned the horse drawn vehicle into the stables besides the Inn. It took him a few minutes but he was able to quickly settle the horse into its new surroundings and they swiftly entered the 'lobby' of the ominous little lodge.
"Do you still want to take my offer?" Saith said to Tru as the walked up to the small counter near the stairs.
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