Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Sulannus's Spot]*The young woman appears, young, probably 130ish...well, is she was a Tel'Quess anyway. It is so hard to remember how that converts for the humans, though. She has long golden hair of a distinct vibrant hue that Sulannus hasn't really seen before among the humans, at least not exactly, and her eyes are clear azure. The simple practical cloak she wears does seem out of place for a princess--certainly the nobility among the Tel'Quess would not wear such a thing, but perhaps this is how human nobility dress?*[/SBLOCK]

 

[Boddynock]

Kel stands, open-mouthed, a look of stunned amazement on his face. He watches as the Princess and her guards pass through the crowds, moving forward to the entrance of the alleyway to keep her in sight as long as he can.

Eventually, he regains control of his jaw.

Then, surprisingly, he begins to laugh. He laughs until he is bent double and tears stream from his eyes. He laughs until those around him turn to frown wonderingly in his direction. And at that he laughs some more.

And really, there isn't that much of an edge of hysteria to his laughter!

[sblock=RA]You bastard! That was fantastic! [/sblock]

 

[Legildur]

Blunt pauses to watch the strange entourage move past. He is unable to make sense of the seeming contradiction, so simply shrugs his shoulders and waits for the others. Then spying Kel, his brow creases in thought and then he shakes his head in disbelief at the young man's laughter.

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Kel]

You bastard! That was fantastic!

Guilty as charged

And just for fun--

'Elenia': E - L - E - N - I - A
'Aileen': A - I - L - E - E - N


[/SBLOCK]

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

Titus gapes a moment at the sight, and wonders if the girl is feigning her modesty or genuinely wishes no attention. He shrugs: between being a woman and being royalty, she's beyond his ken, really.

Spotting Kel, he turns to try to catch the little man's attention surruptitiously. Of course, when Kel bursts into laughter, Titus finds himself shrugging again; apparently commoner men are beyond his ken, too. Probably why he just prefers fighting, the ranger thinks.

"Well, looks like we've killed two birds, at least," Titus whispers. "There's our boy," he points to Kel, "And there's the one Night's Embrace is after," here he indicates the woman being introduced as a princess.

"I don't suppose we could just walk up to her and tell her a demon cult's planning slaughter and mayhem on her coronation day?"

 

[Legildur]

"Well, looks like we've killed two birds, at least," Titus whispers. "There's our boy," he points to Kel, "And there's the one Night's Embrace is after," here he indicates the woman being introduced as a princess.

Blunt bites his lower lip in constenation. "You may be right about the princess," agrees Blunt. "But are you sure about Kel? That doesn't seem like him. He hasn't been struck by that hiddeous laughing spell has he? Will he be okay?"

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

Blunt bites his lower lip in constenation. "You may be right about the princess," agrees Blunt. "But are you sure about Kel? That doesn't seem like him. He hasn't been struck by that hiddeous laughing spell has he? Will he be okay?"

"They have spells that make you laugh?" Titus says, baffled. "Sounds like a waste; all that studying you have to do to make magic, and you use it to imitate a feather?"

Titus shrugs and starts crossing to Kel. "Well, magicked or not, we should probably grab the runt 'fore those guards think he's making fun of them."

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus sniffs derisively. "Maybe he's laughing at how she's dressed. I know I don't know much of human customs, but honestly...she's hardly better clothed than a common merchant. Are you sure this is the one the cult is after? Maybe she has an older sister?"

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

Sulannus sniffs derisively. "Maybe he's laughing at how she's dressed. I know I don't know much of human customs, but honestly...she's hardly better clothed than a common merchant. Are you sure this is the one the cult is after? Maybe she has an older sister?"

"You'll have to school her in the high fashion of clothes washed in a streambed and leather armor accessories, will you?" Titus says with a smirk on his way over to retrieve Kel.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: You guys aren't waiting for me, right?)