Open | Some used your name for glory

[kadia]

WHO: Colin, Kadi, and you.
WHAT: Catch-all/open
WHEN: July and August
WHERE: Various places in Northcliff Pass
NOTES: Starters inside. cw: mentions of a cult and the abuses of it.

Comments

[stableman]

Detlef holds out a hand.

"Agreed. We keep sight of what we're doing this for, and what's right and good." He has a stopgap now, if he goes wrong. But that doesn't mean Colin needs to be the only person Detlef speaks with. He should see what Lance thinks, too. He's old enough to know some stuff.

[keenly]

Colin shakes the offered hand. He doesn't believe in the gods, but he believes in a great many other things he knows nothing about, and even he can't rule out the gods' existence. His disbelief comes from disillusionment and bitterness more than logic. Maybe he has it all wrong. That's why this alliance is important.

"So...where do we meet?"

[stableman]

It's a good question. He looks past Colin for a few oments as he thinks about it, before focusing back on the guy.

"The breadshop? After hours. You teach me a little bit about baking at the same time and we have a legitimate reason to be spending time alone together that won't rouse suspicion."

[keenly]

Colin almost argues that he's not going to train a competitor until he remembers, first, they're not actually going to be baking, and second, he can always say he's training Detlef for the inevitable days when he is sick and can't bake. He nods.

"Bakery, tonight. I'll try to think how to set things up."

[stableman]

He nods in return, a little nervous but feeling at least slightly better about this. Detlef heads out, and several hours later he's knocking on the bakery door, dressed in loose clothing as if that would somehow help. It certainly won't hide his identity, but it's the best idea he'd had.

[keenly]

Colin opens the door and ushers him in. A fire is going in the hearth. A basin of water is on the floor before it, as well as a potted plant and an unpolished stone. The windows are tightly shut.

He looks at Detlef, growing somewhat nervous himself when he senses it in the other man. “We don’t have to do this,” he says quietly.

[stableman]

It's nice to have an out, but he gives the other man a shake of his head and a half-smile.

"Have to? No. We don't. But I think we've both chosen to at this point, because it might be nice to know what all we can do. Even though I've no idea how to really measure that." He plops down on the ground next to the basin of water, looking at it with some curiosity before it hits him why that's probably there. All right. Moving on.

"What's the stone for?"