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"Fancy pubs are stupid." Andronikos replied, and lumbered off in the direction of the Merhcant's district, once again not waiting for Jo to walk beside him.
His mind raced as he walked, Jo, just behind him. Had he made a friend already? He turned towards her, and opened his mouth as if to speak, but emitted only silence...
Post by Jovena Barbados on Aug 1, 2015 3:46:53 GMT
They paused as he turned toward her, mouth at the ready, but no sounds came out. She tilted her head a little to the side, her curls bunching up on her shoulder as she did so. "Cat got your tongue?" she teased lightly after a moment of silence. "It's ok to change your mind if you want, we could always go to a fancy pub if you'd rather."
Stones fell to the bottom of his stomach as the words "Cat got your tongue?" graced his ears. With a clench of his teeth he turned on his heel and began walking again, this with anger-fuled steam powering his gait.
Post by Jovena Barbados on Aug 3, 2015 18:11:07 GMT
Whoa that was unexpected. Jovena tried to keep up but after a few minutes she slapped her hands to her sides and gave up.
"Ok, I get it, you don't want me tagging along. That's fine, but you could have just said so, instead of trying to shake me off the passive aggressive way." She crossed her arms in front of her chest and waited to see if he'd say anything, or if he'd just continue the silent brooding march and leave her to guess what she did to offend him.
Andronikos stood stalk still for only a moment, then turned around in one swift second and grabbed Jovena's arm gently, and began walking towards the Theater District. "I'll pay."
Post by Jovena Barbados on Aug 6, 2015 1:06:30 GMT
"Oh!" she exclaimed as he seized her arm and urged her forward. They changed directions, instead of a comely pub in the merc district, they were now headed toward the theater district and its fancier establishments. And he was offering to pay. "ok, um thanks!" she said hesitantly.
She could have pulled her arm out of his hand but she didn't, she was still deciding how she felt about how he felt, holding onto her if that made any sense. It probably didn't. She finally shook her arm and her thought free of him. Still they kept walking. "I wonder if they'll have any drinks from the island, some Lemonsio perhaps," she mused out loud for the sake of conversation.
"Island...?" He murmured quietly, as he let her slip out of his grasp, fearing for an instant that he might have hurt her in his haste. Walking along side of her was enjoyable - more enjoyable than doing so with most other people he had encountered in his lifetime. There was some sort of radiant warmness to her, something that he could not place a finger on...
Post by Jovena Barbados on Aug 6, 2015 20:12:52 GMT
"Of course, I'm from the West Indies, the Island province of the city-states of Lodan. I wish I could show it to you. Sunshine every day, warm sand, the blue ocean, and palm trees. It was a paradise, until the soldiers came.... You know my great grand was our tribes leader - and then they came and she was a slave. We all were. Making sugar for the crown, and we didn't even know what it was. I came here... to discover for myself... and I joined the army..." She looked down at herself and her eyebrows knit together. What had she done? She thought she was taking back the benefits they stole from her people... but she'd just become one of the thieves. Her people were still indentured, laboring for the crown, and what she'd learned about the army was that they were the policing force. They were the enforcers, not the benefactors.
Andronikos walked in silence for a moment, but with a whisper, said "My father lives there." He found himself tongue tied as he jumped to try and fix his mistake, to clarify. "Er-works there. Not from there."
Post by Jovena Barbados on Aug 10, 2015 2:56:30 GMT
That caught her by surprise. She didn't know what to do with the information though. "How long has he been there?" The real question, though she was masking it behind this one, was how long since he'd seen his own father. The reality of what it meant to be at the army's beck and call sunk in and she realized how much of a servitude it was in and of itself. Only a step up from shucking sugar cane. At least in the cane fields she still saw her family every day. No... no she wouldn't feel sorry for them. Ultimately they volunteered for this, her tribe never had.
"Few years. He's-." Andronikos stopped himself. This had to be a sensitive subject - and even if he didn't like his father much, Jo didn't know that, and he especially didn't want her to know that his father was a slave trader. Or, at least, under the ruse of a "Royal Ambassador"... But he job was not as the title would suggest. He was a slave trader, and knowing that the slaves he hounded and hurt were Jo's family set his anger boiling again...
Post by Jovena Barbados on Aug 12, 2015 19:25:10 GMT
They were in the theater district now, and it was only a question of which establishment to enter. Judging by the tone of his voice with just those three words, he sounded like he could use a drink. They both could.
"... How about here?" Jovena asked, as they neared a place. the "Steam Dream Casino" ... "Or maybe the next one," the thought of being surrounded by loud rowdy gamblers was less appealing than staying back on base and sharing a meal with the angry chef.
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