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]

"Silfa," he echoes. Does his name have a meaning? He'd never actually thought to ask, and now he's long gone from where he came from so it's likely he'll never know. Oh well. It's not like it had ever mattered to him before.

"I could start giving my cats dignified names, but then they might get airs and you don't want cats thinking more of themselves than they already do." The baby sticks out her tongue and he sticks his our right back at her, because he is a fully grown adult and it is absolutely what fully grown adults do. "Lady Moose, for instance. She might become the bully instead, and that wouldn't do."

[kadia]

This is what she wanted. A community, rather than a commune, where people aren’t waiting to catch her in a mistake. The kitten purrs loudly, eyes sliding closed.

“Have you lived here all your life?” she asks him.

[stableman]

"I haven't," he says. Tentatively, Detlef tries rocking the baby and she doesn't seem to mind. He doesn't know if she likes it, which is really what he'd been hoping to figure out, but she seems unbothered at least.

"I moved here about four years ago and apprenticed to the former stablemaster. I'd some experience beforehand, and it meant that when he wanted to retire he had a replacement." He gives her a smile. "Do you have anywhere you call home?"

[kadia]

“Right here.” A smile blooms over her face. “This is my home now. Here, and the woods out there. I’ve never known people could be so kind as they are here. The very first person I met gave me all of Silfa’s clothes and clouts, and the second gave me his own meal at the inn. Where else would I go?”

[stableman]

"That's a, it's a good introduction," he says a little slowly. "Our village is nice, but it's not all like that, just so you're warned." There are many who would give here, and there are some who can't, or won't. And then there's the visits from the Shepherds. He likes this village.

But it's not perfect.

"Some days might be a little more difficult than others."

[kadia]

Kadi’s eyes roll at him.

“I know not everyone is like that. But where I’m from, no one is like that. Strangers aren’t welcome there.”