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[Blade Master Model 42]

"Honestly, I'm really reconsidering my trade. It doesn't matter how skilled I get, eventually I'll wind up in a ditch doing it. I don't want to do that to Seyena." By now they'd reached the Road's End. "You're the master spy- Pick a table where we won't be disturbed. Do you want water?"

[Xanmyral]

@Olison

"Always fer ah friend, need somethin'?" Salvatore responded pleasantly, now back on Ormm and following the rest of them. The golden wyvern was tasting the air and looking about, watching people pass by in the streets.

[SeriousConcentrate]

"No, I'm not particularly thirsty or hungry right now. Over here."

Chris led Valor over to a corner table and leaned on the wall near it.

"So, what is it? Just want to talk, or need to get something off your chest and don't want to tell someone else?"

[Powder Miner]

:"Sooo Anja, what's that flute for?"

[Blade Master Model 42]

"Damn it man, but you are not making this easy. Hold on." Valor went to the bar, and returned with two cups of water. He pushed one toward Chris. "Okay, I know you said you aren't thirsty. But, for the purposes of this conversation, can we assume this is your drink?"

[SeriousConcentrate]

"Valor. You're not acting like yourself. You're being a little too jittery for my liking. Sure, we can assume that's mine, but this is going to a weird place."

Chris thought for a moment about what Valor could possibly want from him before he thought he figured it out.

"Look, if you're trying to work up the nerve to say you're curious about what it's like to lie with another man and want to do it and get it out of your system before you get hitched to Seyena, you're late on that front. If you'd asked me a month or two ago you wouldn't have had to go to this trouble, but now I have a fiance and I'm not going to do her wrong by sleeping around."

"I'm not saying I'm not tempted. You're a muscular fellow with a decent personality and an attractive face. But I'm trying to leave that life behind me, understand? But don't worry. I'll keep it between you and me if that's what this is about."

[Blade Master Model 42]

Valor gaped open mouthed at Chris for several seconds before shaking his head and waving his hands in front of his face. "No. No no no no. Nothing like that. At all. Wow, just, no. No. Goodness no. I just needed to make sure you had a drink so I could poison it." Valor reached into his pocket, pulled out the pearl like object Ernest had given him, and went to drop it into the glass that had been agreed upon to be Chris'- But he hesitated, and turned his hand to hold it up for Chris' inspection. "Actually, come to think of it, that Ernest character may have given me some weird explosive magic that activated in the presence of liquid. This is poison, right?"

[SeriousConcentrate]

Chris blinked.

"What? I don't... what?"

After a moment he started laughing in disbelief before rubbing his face and trying to calm down.

"I'm really sorry Val. You just seemed so nervous and insisting on drinking alone with me... and well, everyone knows I play for both teams and have taken money for it... and we're raiding Prixima's castle tomorrow... I honestly mean no offense when I say you seem like the kind of guy who might be experimental and this is the perfect situation to push someone like that into going for it."

Chris took the pearl and looked at it.

"Hmm. To be honest I don't recognize this right off hand, but poison is definitely Ernest's preferred method. I never liked it. I always thought it discourteous to kill someone without being around so they didn't have to die alone."

He returned his attention to Valor.

"Three things. First, you know I'm not giving this back, right? I'm going to destroy it. Likely by tossing it in a fire. Second, thank you for being honest with me about what's going on. I'd prefer not to think about what would have happened had you actually went through with it. Third, let me guess. Ernest said it was either the woman you love or me?"

[Blade Master Model 42]

"Don't destroy it, just put it in your drink. He said I had to get it into your drink, and once it started making you choke, that I couldn't let you throw it back up or be healed. He never said I had to get you to drink it, so I gave my word." Valor smiled toothily. "And it wasn't really an option to be honest. If Ernest wants to be rid of you, that makes you a threat to him- Especially if he didn't want to risk coming himself." Valor looked down at the table, his expression now more akin to frustration. "And yeah, he did threaten Seyena- But he only moved on me while I was alone, so I don't think he'll try anything right away, at least while she's with the others. I know you don't owe me anything, but, as a favor, can you watch her for me?"

[CrimsonEon]

Olison dismounted as they approached outside the Road's End and led his horse to a health patch of grass.
: "I'd just like to ask your opinion." He brushed some dirt off the side of the saddle before turning to Sal and his wyvern, "If a lord, a Berebian lord perhaps, were to lose their holdings and their heirs, it would be safe to assume that their lands would be thrown into a sort of chaos, correct?"

[SeriousConcentrate]

Chris nodded and flicked the poison into 'his' cup of water.

"You're sneakier than he gave you credit for, to leave a loophole like that. Good job."

"And yes. I'll watch over Seyena tonight. If Ernest wants her he'll have to get through me, and I would prefer it that way. Just... tell her that's what I'm going to be doing, and maybe why I'm going to be shadowing her around, first? I don't want her to have a conniption if she wakes up and sees me in her room."

[Blade Master Model 42]

Valor nodded. "Yeah, that was something I was going to ask you as well. I just hope it doesn't scare her too badly. That said, we can't be too safe." Valor grabbed Chris' cup and dumped it out under the table. "I don't want to drink that stuff on accident." Valor said as he had some of his own water. "He claimed that once the deed was done, I could take Seyena out of Menelea, and Prixima and her lackeys would never bother us again. Of course, that's not going to be an issue much longer in any case." Valor smiled to himself.

[Xanmyral]

@Olison

"Been ah whoile since Oi've thought o' Berebian Lords an' all tha'. If'in ah lord were ta lose 'eir lands, heirs, an' holdin's though Oi'd say 'here'd be ah fair bit o' ah scuffle fer the land by the other lords. All pol-it-ik-al though, much o'er mah head, honest. Places close ta the keep an' areas loike tha' moight be ah bit messed ta figure what ta do, but Oi'd imagine much the same as usual fer the outloiers." The man gave his opinion, pausing for a moment before adding something else.

"Suppose it would all matter on 'ow 'ey managed ta lose 'em. Moight go on same as usual, moight be ah roight brawl up 'here. Bet close lands would lend ah hand though, if'in thin's got ta bad."

[SeriousConcentrate]

"Damn straight. By evening tomorrow neither she nor her lackeys will be in a position to threaten anyone ever again."

Chris adjusted position against the wall, getting more comfortable.

"Regardless, you and I don't seem to talk much. Anything you want to ask or say, while we're off alone? I'd prefer it if we kept this Ernest business between ourselves and Seyena for the moment while I think about it, and we should probably stay over here for a few more minutes at least so we can have that 'private discussion.'" Ninja Xan and that pink hair caught me off guard XD

[Blade Master Model 42]

"Uh, no, that was pretty much all I had on my mind right now." Valor took another pull on his water. He set the drink down, looking a little more red than usual. "Uh... That is... Unless you have any advice on, you know. Relationship things."