hidetzugu wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 2:09 pm
Beginner's Luck Falsehood: (Ob doubled to 8):
Let's see how that interrogation goes...
She licks her lips and says
"I can be soft and gentle..." - her voice cracking mid-sentence as her face turns red.
"Can you?" Finnithir's voice lilts in amusement,
"You shall have to show me again. I seem to have forgotten what part of you is soft and gentle."
His smile is teasing and mildly lascivious as he puts an arm around you and kisses the top of your head gently.
"You did well, Lilly, my dwarfess. That could have gone much worse."
As you try to convince
Herzebuh to move on, his eyes sharpen.
"You intend to leave tonight, don't you? With Urkazzar?" He looks over toward the tents, where
Urkazzar headed after the fight died down.
"He seems to like you two."
"He is an unusual, but kind, man," replies
Finnithir. His voice is kind, but some gravitas has come into it,
"What is he to you?"
Herzebuh turns back and studies the two of you shortly.
"My sister's son," he explains. His voice drops, nearly to a whisper,
"He killed my son. I and my brothers were chosen for the blood feud, and we were to kill him. I did not do it. I have violated akka, a sin that condemns me to never return."
There is a silence as he looks up toward the sky, wordlessly, before continuing in a stronger voice.
"I should tell you..." his voice trails off.
"No, I cannot." It is clear that there was something he intended to say, but has chosen not to. He turns again and peers at you, and, trying to cover the break in his thoughts,
"I cannot say he is safe to bring, dwarfess. But he knows the desert and the waters in it better than many of our elders, and he is unafraid of the demons that haunt the desert. They have never once bothered him. He is a protection to the camp here, which is why Akhom abides his presence."
He sets his hand gently on his knife, an unconscious emphasis of his words.
"If you take him, you must promise he will be safe. If you cannot promise it, you cannot take him with you. I have broken my family ties to protect him. I will not let someone else have him who will not keep him safe."
His eyes burn in the reflected firelight of the camp.
"Can you promise this?"
This conversation will likely end the interaction with the camp, unless Farouk is insistent on visiting Akhom before leaving.