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)

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[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]

[outstandingbalance]

If we do, I really hope it's someone else's problem. We did have a robot army bent on human genocide, though. And before that an alien army invading through a portal in the sky, opened by a quote-unquote "god."

[So there's that.]

[noprophecies]

. . . goodness. You have an army problem, it seems.

[everything she's learned about robots and aliens is always bad stuff what the heck]

[outstandingbalance]

When you put it that way... I wouldn't say you're wrong.

[noprophecies]

Mmm. [a small hum of amusement] It seems we both have our adventuring stories.

[outstandingbalance]

If adventure is what you want to call it.

[noprophecies]

It is one word for it? I do not know what else they could be called.

[outstandingbalance]

It is. Just seems like the kind of thing that sounds more glamorous than it is.

[noprophecies]

Quite true. There is nothing glamorous about it.

[outstandingbalance]

No, not glamorous at all. A lot more aches and pains/

[noprophecies]

Now that is an understatement.

[outstandingbalance]

Been there, done that?

[noprophecies]

Mmm. I was a mercenary; aches and pains and scars come with the job, sadly.