[log] yikes all around [closed]

[bloodbiter]

Characters: Adelina and Cassel
Location: House 126
Date: 195
Summary: Post labyrinth shenanigans!
Warnings: Possible description/discussion of injury, but there shouldn't be anything more!

[When she wakes up from that awful scene, it's with a gasp despite herself. It was... Was it an illusion, a memory of someone else? Either way, calm down, calm down. She has other things to attend to, so she doesn't let herself focus on whatever it was she just saw quite yet.

Instead, she's automatically pushing herself off the mattress, looking around to see where she is now - it's where she remembers. She pushes her hair out of her face, giving herself a quick once over to make sure everything is in order, before she stands to look around for her companion.]

Cassel?

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[bloodbiter]

[A small laugh.]

You don't have to call me that.

[And then, she looks down at the cloth in her hands.]

I imagine the wine will be more useful than this, besides. It's not as if it's very thick, and I doubt it would be...

[Large enough to fit over both of us, she starts to say, but then she pauses.]

[theurgy]

[Up go his eyebrows!]

Would be what?

[bloodbiter]

Maybe we could make it fit somehow if we slept close to each other.

[theurgy]

Adelina. People would question my virtue.

[bloodbiter]

[There's no response, or at least not a vocal one. There is only this expression.]

[theurgy]

[He just smiles, utterly innocent.]

Look, I'm just saying.

[bloodbiter]

I hope you are not implying that it would be anything less than virtuous.

[theurgy]

[Cassel bursts out laughing.]

I'm not. It's fine, we can huddle up.

[bloodbiter]

Why are you laughing?

[theurgy]

Sometimes you're so serious.

[bloodbiter]

Of course I'm going to treat it seriously if you say something like that!

[theurgy]

[He's trying so hard not to laugh. What a jerk.]

Look, I don't hit on married girls, okay?

[bloodbiter]

Hit...?

[Almost instinctively, she starts to ask what it means, but the context clues her in before she can finish the question. So, instead, she just makes a face again.]

I am glad you won't, at least.

[theurgy]

Seriously, I was just teasing you. I don't want to freeze to death.

[bloodbiter]

I wish you wouldn't, not about something like that.

[Sorry your traveling companion is ridiculously uptight, Cassel.]

[theurgy]

[Cassel flops back on the floor dramatically.]

Okay, princess, what should I joke about?

[bloodbiter]

My name is Adelina.

[Failed step one.]

Anything that's not improper, I suppose.

[theurgy]

Is there a list? I've never met royalty before.

[bloodbiter]

Oh.

[She pauses for a moment. She hadn't thought about that, somehow.]

Would you like a brief description of court etiquette?

[theurgy]

[He's grinning again as he props himself up on his elbows.]

Let me start you off. No cursing.

[bloodbiter]

Certainly not. At least not when you're in the company of a lady.

[A small smile.]

But it's not as though there aren't etiquette rules I've broken, either.

[theurgy]

Yeah, like what? Poking someone's eye out?

[bloodbiter]

That was in the middle of the battle, court etiquette hardly applies there.

[Casually mentions that it's an actual thing that actually happened??]

[theurgy]

[Adelina!!!]

Wait, you seriously did that?

[bloodbiter]

[A soft sigh.]

Not to a person.