[Sodium_noir] The Songs of Someone Tempted

[Dneterp at cs.com]

OOC: this is the last from this thread I saw so just sending it out there but 
hopefully the archives are back as well.

Malone, Ariñe, Sachiko
Troll, Pooka, Eshu
Bottom of the stairs
Raindog's

> << "I .... He .... You ..." He stopped and appeared to be literally 
> counting 
> to ten. Not quite needing to use his fingers but he came close. Eventually 
> he 
> was able to string a coherent sentence together. "All set?"
>   >>
> Ariñe may not have known what he needed from her but she did know when to  
> listen and wait. She smiled with her lips softly together and nodded her 
> head  
> once.
> 
> "Yep."
> 
> She didn't take her eyes from his and perhaps he  would be the only one to  
> notice but she seemed to ask him what he 
> needed.
> 
> The Troll looked down at her, his hand rose to touch her  arm. A flicker of 
> a smile, just for her. His eyes locked with hers for a moment  of thanks.>>
> 
> 
> 
> Her lips formed the slightest of soft smiles and the light in her eyes 
> seemed 
> to say there was no need to thank her. She cared for him and as she thought 
> earlier a man like him didn't get worked up over nothing.   
> 
> 
> 
> <<Sachiko kept her mouth tactfully shut during  the exchange, until Arine 
> spoke.  
> 
> "I'm ready too, but, forgive me  for being curious, but what is wrong?  If I 
> go without finding out, it will be pestering me until I ask.">>
> 
> Ariñe turned her head ever so slightly as the girl spoke but she was still 
> very much focused on Malone. 
>  
> <<He sighed. Like wind come down from the mountains. They both senses a 
> wealth of pent up frustrasion and strongly controlled emotions in that 
> simple 
> sound.
>  
> "Sometimes it takes new eyes to see a problem for what it is little one!" he 
> replied. "An uncomfortable conversation with that Knocker brought up 
> something I've been trying to ignore recently. Mostly because it is a 
> problem too vast 
> to take on, even for a Troll. It would be easier to undo the Shattering than 
> to make amends .... it matters little. The quest for  today concerns the two 
> of you. Where will you go first? The Funfair?">>>
> 
> As he spoke the words "too vast..." Ariñe cocked her head slightly in that 
> ever present animal way she had about her like a dog asking her person why 
> the 
> hell she threw the ball if she wanted it so badly to begin with. 
> 
> <<"That is our first goal," The eshu said with a nod. "But we are heading to 
> the whisperers to ask to access their trod.  I remember one in the park, but 
> the city has changed." >>
> 
> 
> Ariñe didn't like the way he had dismissed his emotions and whatever inner 
> termoile this was even though she did the exact same. make amends... could 
> he be 
> talking about his oath or what some would say oath breaking? After all he 
> had 
> been speaking to another one of them, another fea and she knew that it was a 
> sensitive subject from the way he had sort of tried to downplay the 
> emotional 
> consequences before. People did a lot of things to escape, good and bad. 
> She'd 
> like nothing more than the timing to be right to be alone with him, maybe in 
> his room, talking of this, letting him release something. It wouldn't make 
> everything better but she knew what it was to be the rock, to be the solid 
> one, 
> to be the one everyone turned to to take care of them and sometimes the one 
> thing you needed more than anything else in life was to have someone that 
> would 
> listen, so that you could be the volnurable one, the one that needed 
> protecting. Despite his strong and impressive facade she knew he needed that 
> as well. 
> They were acctually a lot a like. The radiating warmth of who she ultimately 
> was 
> had already opened that door for him but now was not the time. They both new 
> that. But for now there was buisness to be done and stories to be gathered. 
> 
> Ariñe sighed softly releasing her own iner turmoil and dismissing her own 
> emotions so that she could continue with the task at hand. Suddenly another 
> thought slipped into her mind. Was this man really willing to accept her? 
> She was 
> suddenly excited again. He had touched her when most others would have 
> pulled 
> away or smothered her. He had simply touched her; that's all and absolutely 
> apropriate. More than that though, it was right. Mustn't let the mind run 
> away 
> with itself, don't read too much into anything, sometimes gestures mean 
> nothing 
> but she found that hard to believe this time because before these thoughts 
> wouldn't have even existed. What the hell was -- the task at hand, yes, back 
> to 
> that.
> 
> She smiled a short smile in response. Her mind had stolen her away for a 
> moment and so she waited.  
> 
> ...tag...
> 


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