· TO EVERYONE ·

[carmesi]

Several moons ago when we first headed into Nocwich, there was a fortune teller named Lady Elin. I'm sure many of us went to her tent to have our fortunes read. Perhaps you've forgotten what it was she said. I know divination is met with a lot of skepticism.

Would you be willing to share your fortune with me, if you remember it? I'd like to know if it relates to anything in your life, whether it be from your time before Abraxas or since being summoned.

[and because you cannot expect something without putting yourself on the line...]

She would say "I see" and "you hold a tie to". For me, it was 'many lost souls under the night sky' and 'old lands that find new roots'. It makes me think of my home country. Many hundreds of thousands died because of the war waged in it. The country no longer exists.

I don't want to bore you with more details, but that is my basic interpretation of it.

Even if it could be pretty personal, thank you for reading this. I'm just being curious. If you want to talk privately, my name is Wanda.

Comments

[carmesi]

I wasn't familiar with how your mind sounds.
I can put a name to it now.

[blackeyedprince]

I don't think we spoke before.

[Or whatever that is that they're doing...]

I don't think I used this ... type of communication much before. I only really started during the ... recently.

[Another thing he'd rather not talk about.]

[carmesi]

[wanda personally would rather avoid using this form of general communication, even if it's nice for one-on-one conversations.]

Makes sense.
You'd be in Thorne, right?

[blackeyedprince]

[Kell prefers talking to people in person. It's better when he doesn't have to guess the reactions to his words.]

Yes, Thorne. And you are?

[Clearly not Thorne. That he knows. With an occasional exception, they're pretty tight knit group.]

[carmesi]

In Solvunn.

Were you one of the ones captured?

[blackeyedprince]

Yes, pretty early on

[carmesi]

I haven't talked to anyone from Thorne about their experience being taken.
Would you be up for it, with some tea? Either in Nocwich or in the Horizon.

If you feel comfortable with the idea.

[blackeyedprince]

I can understand why most people wouldn't want to talk about it, but I don't mind.

Either is fine for me. I know a place in Nocwich if you're looking for good tea.

[Of course he does. It might started as just something to occupy his time, but Kell never does anything half-way. He treats his tea very seriously.]

[carmesi]

[oh, could it be? someone else who recognizes that tea is best?]

You wouldn't be referring to the small shop under a set of stairs, would you?

[blackeyedprince]

The very same! Unless there are two of those, which I doubt.

[She can't hear Kell laugh, but he's genuinely surprised he might just have found someone who'd, like him, rather go to drink tea in small, hidden spot than lounge with a glass of wine in hot springs.]

[carmesi]

[oh, hey!]

I also doubt it.
I do enjoy their lavender and honey tea best.

[kell, you've met a fellow tea nerd.]

We should definitely meet up there. Maybe we've already run into each other without realizing.

[blackeyedprince]

[Finally! Someone who understands him!]

I know this one! It's really good.

I had to admit to shamelessly copying their recipe for the teashop I work in. But I offered one of my own as apology so we're fine now.

[He did ask before, but it sounds a lot less dramatic this way.]

[carmesi]

I simply bought bags of the mix to take back to Solvunn with me, truth be told.
You work at a teashop?

This is definitely not what I intended for this communication at large, but... I would like to join you for tea some time. Most everyone here seems to prefer coffee.

let's wrap here so we can have them actually meet for tea :)

[blackeyedprince]

That ... makes more sense.

[He'd the same then... if he had money, but he'd just blown it all on booze, hot springs and jewellery. Not even for himself.]

I do. In Thorne. It's called The Winking Cauldron, and most likely unknown outside of the city.

[Not that the name of the place is very relevant to anyone outside of Thorne. It never stops being funny to him that he ended there by pure coincidence.]

I'm in Nocwich every single it's open for us. We can meet there.