Alayne Lombard
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Jul 24, 2011 19:38:49 GMT -5
I laughed, shrugged the possibility off – me, a relative of someone who could afford Mont-Nuit? Of course not. “Oh, no, that adept didn't visit – we met in the square – he was doing a show, what not.” I shrugged, and grinned. “If he thought I was the girl, I bet he was hoping for an assignation, too. Wasn't half ugly – I'd have taken him in.”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Jul 24, 2011 23:47:05 GMT -5
"An Eglantine adept?" I couldn't think of any other houses that would have its adepts perform publicly. "I saw one not too long ago too. Maybe it was the same show?"
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Jul 25, 2011 12:28:27 GMT -5
“Maybe if he had carrot hair,” I replied, laughing. “Bayard was a solo act.”
And pausing, I tilted my head at her. “I didn't know Yeshuites bothered with adepts, isn't that a sin, or forbidden, or something, for you?”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Jul 26, 2011 5:37:40 GMT -5
"It is if it's in that way," I said with a slight blush. "And the elders often disapprove of associating with them, though usually with the younger ones because they're still impressionable. But, my mother was a seamstress and we lived on the cusp of Mont Nuit and Night's Doorstep, so it was inevitable. It's not like you can exactly avoid them, especially the Eglantine ones that perform in the square and I so dearly love to watch them." With a smile, I added: "There's always more to a person than just the job they tell you they do."
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Alayne Lombard
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Jul 26, 2011 10:39:15 GMT -5
“ 'should hope so,” I replied, grinning a bit wider. “You know, I get really miffed when people look at me and go oh, poor little whore, let me fix her, she must be so miserable, because you know, who needs pity? And why would I be unhappy? I'm still d'Angeline, I take johns if I want to, and if I don't want them, I don't take them. And no-one's trying to rescue adepts, and they've got it worse than I do, by many ways.”
I shrugged. “Sorry. Guess you're easy to talk to.”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Jul 27, 2011 6:57:25 GMT -5
"It's all right. I think it's important to be able to say what you feel, and that people should listen."
As we walked I nodded to a pamphlet pinned to a pub door. The La Voix which always seemed to cause a stir. "Whoever's behind that certainly isn't afraid to speak their mind."
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Alayne Lombard
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Jul 27, 2011 11:20:55 GMT -5
I'd sneered at the pamphlet when we'd passed by it, and looked at Raisa, blinking. “You think? I'd think if that prissy fuck weren't so afraid, he'd give out his name and answer questions.”
I wished I could at least call him something other than prissy fuck. But ha, he'd made sure that was all I had.
“Too bad. I like his ideas.” Shrug shrug shrug. There was no resentment there, of course not.
Only by the bucket.
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Post by Raisa Valois on Jul 28, 2011 23:13:26 GMT -5
"Hmm. Well I understand his anonymity. Perhaps he is protecting someone else besides himself." I had a strange suspicion he was someone who had access to the peerage, otherwise how else would he know such details of a royal fete?
I warmed to the idea of a conspiracy theory. "For all we know it could be several people, a large network of people voicing their discontent."
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Jul 29, 2011 0:37:00 GMT -5
“Hmmm maybe,” I replied, and I gave her a mysterious smile, full of amusement. “That, or it's some prissy fuck who went to Tiberium for just a season, failed his classes, and came back full of himself. And he's just making up all this stuff. The names are odd. And well.”
I shrugged.
“I don't know, I don't like the idea of naming names and not signing. Otherwise, I like his ideas, is the worst of it. But it's fishy.”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Jul 30, 2011 22:45:29 GMT -5
I liked the blunt honesty of her manner; though her language was somewhat shocking.
"I suppose so. I reckon though with a bit of prodding it wouldn't be that hard to find out who's behind it all." Maybe after we'd found out what happened to Cascata this could be a whole project on its own.
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 2, 2011 0:11:26 GMT -5
I wasn't sure why, but I wasn't particularly inclined to tell this girl – though she seemed more than alright, and in fact I kind of liked her, how odd – that I'd met the prissy fuck. Maybe later.
“You're a right private eye, aren't you?” I teased. “Though I reckon, this one fellow's probably good at hiding it all. Imagine if the aristos found out. Might not like it that much. Think they would? I don't think so. Not with the way he spoke of the king hisself in that thing. No life is worth another man's pride. That's a strong accusation, that, calling the king a proud arse who doesn't give a damn about his soldiers.”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 2, 2011 18:41:58 GMT -5
They were dangerous words to be speaking out aloud, even though she was just repeating what was in the issue. It was probably best to let the discussion lie but I couldn't help it. "Indeed, but isn't it the Queen who is in charge?"
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 3, 2011 2:59:24 GMT -5
“Aye, but even so,” I replied, “would you like it better if your brother died in the Queen's name, rather than the King's? I don't think it makes a really big difference, really.” I shrugged, glanced at her.
“You afraid?”
She had a point, though. One less cookie for the Prissy Fuck.
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 3, 2011 6:36:25 GMT -5
"Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn't," I agreed. "Either way it's a horrible, horrible business, but I think that the Queen would be less inclined to act on the natural instinct men have for war. But then again, what do I know of such things?"
I nodded. "I'm afraid, more cowardly than the prissy fuck, as you call him."
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Alayne Lombard
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 3, 2011 15:43:01 GMT -5
“I don't know, at least you're engaging in conversation,” I replied, and then, --- damn. I'd just given it away, hadn't I?
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 5, 2011 3:30:53 GMT -5
"Huh?" I tilted my head to one side. What was that supposed to mean? "Met a prissy fuck who was less than forthcoming?"
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 5, 2011 11:35:12 GMT -5
For some reason, I wasn't inclined to say more – though I could hardly have described the Prissy Fuck if I'd tried.
“--- he – er, aren't all prissy fucks less'n forthcoming?”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 6, 2011 6:09:51 GMT -5
I giggled, a little embarrassingly. "Are they? I wouldn't know. I've never had the misfortune of meeting one. Or my idea of one could just be different to yours."
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 6, 2011 10:15:19 GMT -5
I giggled too. “I've met a few. Most think they're too good for you, so of course they'll dismiss what you have to say, even when you agree with them. Either that, or, well, they just want you to do what they're paying you to do, nothing more.”
A pause.
“Ah, and they have terrible departing lines.”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 7, 2011 0:37:20 GMT -5
"Oh no, really?" I grinned. "What's the worst one you've heard?"
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 7, 2011 10:42:27 GMT -5
I grinned a little bit wider, and with my poshest accent, I delivered ... “Enjoy the cheese.” And pretended to swoosh away liberally.
If the Prissy Fuck had had a cape, that night, I reckoned, he would have wrapped himself into it.
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 8, 2011 8:12:12 GMT -5
It took me a while to stop laughing enough at her impersonation to be articulate. "Seriously? How on earth do you even come to delivering that line in context!"
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 9, 2011 1:16:06 GMT -5
Raisa was laughing, and so was I, grinning wide at her. “Well, I s'pose if there's cheese on the table, it could be literal...”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 9, 2011 7:28:18 GMT -5
"Oh..." at that I blinked, a little confused. What other sort of cheese was there? Probably not the sort you need to know or worry about, I told myself.
"Must stretch your patience a lot, those sort of people?"
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 10, 2011 19:38:50 GMT -5
“Only a little,” I quipped. “Then again, people who flounce don't demand much patience, they keep on removing themselves from the situation.”
I shrugged. “But it's annoying.”
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 10, 2011 21:36:46 GMT -5
I nodded. "But you don't have to deal with them if you don't want to?" Adepts had a choice, so I heard, for all that they were bound to their houses. It was like to be the same for other Servants of Naamah, wasn't it? I glanced up at Alayne. Then again, if it was your livelihood you'd probably have to put up with the inconvenience if you wanted to put food on the table.
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Post by Alayne Lombard on Aug 10, 2011 23:04:26 GMT -5
I chuckled lightly. “It'd be true at the bathhouse, 'course,” I said. “But wankers crawl out of thewalls, so they're hard to avoid. Should get wanker repellant, or somethn'.”
I grinned, and added, “'sides, wankers, them bad for business they are. No work for the girls, y'know?”
I only realized after I'd spoken that I'd been lewd at a respectable Yeshuite girl. Hm.
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Post by Raisa Valois on Aug 10, 2011 23:19:13 GMT -5
I could feel myself blushing, yet again, at the thought. "I suppose so. I mean, that they'd be bad for business."
I looked down again. Mother wouldn't wholeheartedly disapprove, were she still around would she? I think she would have liked Alayne and her raw honesty. Maybe not so much the language but still.
More likely than not she'd tell me that I was due for a visit to the temple soon.
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