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Post by Vex on Jun 18, 2016 1:04:09 GMT
Dacey has taken advantage of the vast castle and occupied a modest room in the Widow's Tower, not wanting to be huddled up with her entire family now that there's an alternative.
The room is completely void of any decorations save for Olaf the Devourer's hide that lies in front of the small fireplace. There's a bed, a chest for clothes and a cupboard with a plain water basin on it.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 19:23:33 GMT
23rd day, 2nd moon
Violet knocked hopefully on Dacey's door. She was dressed simply and carried a wineskin with her.
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Post by Vex on Jun 21, 2016 19:40:20 GMT
After a brief moment, Violet could hear the door being unlatched. Dacey opened it and looked outside. "Violet," she greeted with half a smile, stepping out of the doorway in case her sister wanted to enter the room.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 19:46:52 GMT
"May I come in?" Violet stepped over the threshold. "I hoped we might be able to talk. Fate may take us apart soon enough, but I don't want to lose the chance I have to know my own sister better before that happens."
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Post by Vex on Jun 21, 2016 20:18:45 GMT
"Of course," said Dacey, closing the door after them. "Please, have a..." she looked around the room and realized there were no chairs. "I haven't had any visitors yet," she explained, offering her sister a seat on the bed while she herself leaned on the cupboard opposite it. Her swordbelts and her bow rested on top of the cupboard, and it didn't look like she'd been on the verge of leaving the room prior to the visit. It was, in fact, quite curious as to what she'd been doing here, as it didn't seem like there was anything to do in a room that bare.
"I oughta get some chairs," she said after a while. "I hear you're going hunting."
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 20:24:11 GMT
Violet smiled and took her seat on the bed. "Yes. I'm no good at your kind of hunting, but perhaps I'll have some success at this kind." She glanced around the room. "Why haven't you found any furniture? There are so many rooms here, there must be plenty to spare."
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Post by Vex on Jun 21, 2016 20:32:55 GMT
"I've no doubt about it," Dacey replied in what must've been her amiable tone. She crossed her arms, thinking about it for a moment. "I'm not sure. I only come here to sleep and change clothes. Haven't felt the need of anything else until now."
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 20:44:09 GMT
"Oh. I quite liking having my own space. I've never had my own room before. It's pleasant to have a place I can sit and think in peace. But I'm not nearly as active as you are."
She smiled. "You could make this room nice if you wanted to. It would be even better to sleep in, then."
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Post by Vex on Jun 21, 2016 20:59:40 GMT
"I go to the woods for that," she replied, even though the woods had been the opposite of a quiet place for her lately.
"I like it as it is," she said, not sure what Violet meant by making the room 'nice'. "It is far better than the one I had at Blackgate," she assured her, seeing as her old room back at Lord Harroway's Town had been the size of a broom closet.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 21:07:50 GMT
"As you wish. Never mind that, the room should be as you wish. I wanted your thoughts on my position. I'm going to be meeting possible husbands. But...with mother gone, I wish I had another woman to talk to. Can I talk to you about it?"
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Post by Vex on Jun 21, 2016 21:19:40 GMT
Dacey willed herself from glancing at Violet's flask of wine for moral help.
"Of course," she replied with a small smile. "Just don't expect too much." She didn't elaborate whether she was talking about her input or marriage in general.
"Where is Belric sending you?" she asked.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 21:25:57 GMT
"I'm not entirely sure yet, but he mentioned visiting Lord Roote, and there's talk of the Pipers too. Uncle Jon is to accompany me but I can't really talk to him about these things, can I?"
She sighed and cradled the wineskin in her lap. "Do you know much of men outside the battlefield, Dacey?"
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Post by Vex on Jun 21, 2016 21:45:52 GMT
At that point, Dacey realized she'd made a horrible mistake agreeing to discuss marriage with her little sister.
"I know... some things," she said, but wasn't about to dwell on who she had and hadn't fucked in the army camp. "Not much about courtly relationships, though. Uncle Jon actually seems far more acquainted to those. Is there something bothering you?" she inquired.
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Post by Tim of Raventree on Jun 21, 2016 21:52:51 GMT
She opened the wineskin and took a drink.
"Um, yes. I'm worried that Belric expects so much of me when this is all new. Until a year ago, I was going to be a septa. I try to be a lady - I try really hard - but I'm not born to it. What high lord will choose me for a wife when he can have a woman born to an ancient family? And worse, what if...Dacey, what if some lord thinks to steal my virtue instead of taking me to wife? How do I deal with that?"
She shuddered..
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Post by Vex on Jun 22, 2016 0:55:04 GMT
Dacey listened with a stony expression that only started to falter once she realized the last things Violet had said had sounded suspiciously like questions of the non-rhetorical variety. She blinked. Then, she opened her mouth to reply, but closed it upon realizing that the amount of time one generally required to form a response had passed. Now it was just awkward silence.
"So... Do you know how to wield a knife?" she finally asked, frowning. "Because if some lout tries to force himself on you, well..."
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