A chill winter's morning (GF'ed)

[Kashik]

Kashik's face pinched as she heard the news of Eldon's father. He had never really approved of their friendship, but had been hopeful it would turn to something more - as she knew, now with the blessing of hindsight, that Eldon had. She felt the cold hand of guilt touch her spine, and shivered in the warm sunlight.

"I don't know how well I'll be received... but I will visit him. Of course I will," she said, more firmly this time as the decision was made. She would do what she could for her friend, whether he would or no.

Then she visibly shook herself, and gave Sam a wan smile. "Sorry, didn't mean to bring us down. Here, let me buy you a cup of tea for your troubles," she said, looping her arm through his and hauling him over towards the cart with new determination. "Now, if you need any advice or help on getting around a watchful father, I am your girl. Not that my father was terribly strict," she said with a wink, warming up again as quickly as she'd spiraled down, "but we all have to keep up airs, yes? Besides, getting her good and knocked up is a sure way to earn his pavilion a bit of honor. Shows he's produced a good, healthy daughter, yes? Though it may make her more biddable to other suitors should he so choose. It's a delicate line. I say you try a whole lot and let the gods decide," she giggled, waving to the vendor for two mugs of tea and releasing his arm to dig out her moneypouch.

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

"Oh," he began, but she interrupted his knee jerk reaction to deny the need for her to buy him any tea, "well, all right... Anyway, he just needs reminders of why it's important to be alive, I think. Pretty women visiting his pavilion can't hurt, right?" As they walked up to the tea seller, he mused on her plots, wondering how things would work out if he just ... stole Dymphna out from under her father's nose. Never mind his recommendation getting Sama'el through to meet the Sayaph of the Watch. Never mind Daed teaching him to Web. Never mind... well, perhaps the old Ankal wanted such boldness in a son-in-law. "I will definitely consider my options. If I don't do something soon, I'm sure someone else will snatch her up." He wanted to ask more about her relationship with Eldon as his cousin had been closemouthed regarding whatever relationship they might have had. "Perhaps if I knock her up, I can threaten to name the child after Eldon...?"

[Kashik]

Kashik laughed heartily at that, stopping a moment to stoop down and pick up the mug she'd thrown at her brother. She wiped the grass from it before handing it and five silver mizas over to the seller. "A refill on this, and a new one for my friend," she said, smiling and taking it in stride as the woman running the cart patted her swollen belly as if in blessing before going about her business fixing their drinks.

"I say you get her good and pregnant," she said with a wicked smile to Sam, "and then just tell her father that you wanted him to know you were serious about marrying his daughter. That you aren't simply dawdling with her - you mean to start a family with her, to be an upstanding member of the watch and to start a Pavilion of your own someday, and that he should count his family much honored by your seed and the promises made along with it." Her voice had taken on an imperial tone, somehow both strong and soft as only a woman of influence could. She herself was training to be a great politician at her husband's side, and was not without a few tricks. "And if he gives you any shyke, just do what Vanator and I did. Elope," she giggled, winking at him.

[Sama'el Sunsinger]

Sama'el bellylaughed at her audacious plan, and the series of mental pictures continued the ripples of hilarity through him. The reactions of Dymphna, Daed, Eldon, Denen -- everyone -- they kept his laughter going until he had to wipe away tears and drink some tea to calm himself. Shaking his head, he grinned at Kashik, trying to stifle any further eruptions, which would probably only lead to more. "Alas, your balls hang lower than mine, Kashik," he said with mock rue. In fact, he might have truly considered kidnapping her and making her his wife in the eyes of the gods, but he didn't want to trigger terrible memories of being kidnapped and tortured by the Zith raiders that had killed her mother. He sighed. If only things could be easy. "You should be in the Watch," he mused.

[Lariat]

Kashik

Experience:

Politics: 1 xp
Rhetoric: 1 xp

Lores:

Whitefeather's budding connection to the Watchman

Sama'el

Experience:

Politics: 1 xp
Rhetoric: 1 xp

Lores:

A Bold method to curry Dymphana's father's favor

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