Kayanni System Mingle

[spacebro]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: It's been known to happen
Action: Kayanni System (or a ship. I'm not the boss of you)
When: July 21 – August 23



(OOC: System Info)

Comments

[noprophecies]

[she makes a long-suffering, annoyed face]

It is not as bad as it could be, but it is still . . . bad. Awkward and bad.

[outstandingbalance]

I won't pry, but I admit... I'm curious.

[noprophecies]

. . . I travel with a few people, one of which is an ex-lover I killed, my cousin, and my current lover.

It's. Awkward.

[outstandingbalance]

You're traveling with an ex-lover you killed? He came back to life, or still dead?

[Worth asking.]

[noprophecies]

He was, unfortunately, brought back. Not by my hand or choice.

[outstandingbalance]

That sounds about three kinds of awkward.

[noprophecies]

Mmm. Sadly I cannot kill him and be done with it, either.

[outstandingbalance]

Why'd you kill him the first time?

[noprophecies]

[that question will never not give her pause. But at least now it's easier to speak of]

He and his men destroyed my village. [...] I'm the only one who survived.

[outstandingbalance]

I didn't mean to pry. The way you talked about it, sounded like there was a story there.

[noprophecies]

[she shakes her head, smiling faintly]

I don't mind speaking about it. Besides, simply saying "he's a horrible man" is too weak a description.

[outstandingbalance]

You didn't know that when you were with him? Or have a change of heart?

[noprophecies]

[she shakes her head again]

He wasn't from my village. We only met because the hunters found him dying in the forest. I was training with our healer, so I was made responsible for his care. We became familiar and then . . . mm, very familiar with one another.

He's very good at making people believe he is a genuinely good person. What he did was unlike the man I thought I was falling in love with.

[outstandingbalance]

I'm sorry to hear that. People like him, people who do things like that, they can be very good at hiding who they really are.

At least up until they let it out.

[noprophecies]

Mmm, he is exactly that.

There is a saying about the length of a leash, yes? Those I travel with and I keep him on a very short one.

[outstandingbalance]

Understandably. [Is this really conversation for mass transit? Probably not, but here they are.] So why'd he get brought back from the dead at all?

[noprophecies]

[her expression turns to annoyed, almost painfully so]

To keep an annoyingly long story short . . . someone was tricked into bringing him back because his blood is necessary to break a spell.

[outstandingbalance]

Sounds more than a little complicated. And that's what you're all doing together? Off to break a spell?

[noprophecies]

No, we're trying to stop someone else from breaking it.

It sounds like some ridiculous story from a book, but . . . [a shrug]

[outstandingbalance]

It really does.

[A very particular kind of book.]

But I can't say I'm any position to judge.

[noprophecies]

[she raises both eyebrows]

Am I allowed to pry?

[outstandingbalance]

You're allowed to ask, if you want.

[Which isn't the same as agreeing to answer.]

[noprophecies]

All right. Why are you not in the position to judge? Have you a ridiculous adventure story as well?

[outstandingbalance]

Something like that. Things I would have considered ridiculous a few years ago, at least.

[noprophecies]

Do you have demons trying to unseal the door between two worlds too?

[delivered in a dry tone, of course]