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 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:32 pm
She looked down somewhat ashamed of the book but then sighed and said. "I don't care. Someday when I'm old and dying, it'll make me smile to remember what I did as a child." She tucked the book away in her leather bag and stood up, walking over to the desk.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:40 pm
He saw that she was somewhat hurt. "I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, but I just wouldn't expect others to read it. I'm sorry." He got up and went to the door to the bathroom "Do you need to get in her, cuz If not i'm going to take a bath."
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:45 pm
"Go ahead." She said, thinking to herself, facing away from him and staring down at the desk. I suppose he doesn't realize that most people aren't avid travelers these days...even when I went back and forth between Daeti and Mael with my father, it was a big deal.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:05 pm
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you or anything." He sounded sincere as he went into the bathroom shutting the door and starting the water.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:09 pm
She was confused, thinking he was upset now too. She shrugged, and put on some armor. She wrote him a note incase she took too long but decided to leave to go to the market to get some real breakfast.
Eric--
Went to get some hot breakfast.
--Nika
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:17 pm
He finished filling the tub, removed his bandage, and then climbed into the hot water sinking down with a sigh "Aaaahhhh now THIS is a bath." He soaked in the water for quite some time, washed up and cleaned his wounds then soaked until his fingers turned pruney and then climbed out wrapping the towel around himself and pulling the plug. He felt like a new man as he looked in the mirror, his skin looked more human, it'd had a layer of grime on it that made it look sickly, now he had just pale skin with the freckles on his cheeks and a few dotted his nose. He brushed the knots out of his hair then shook his head to make it look less prim. He brushed his teeth, put some medicine on his shoulder, wrapped it and then went back out. "Bathroom's...free.." He looked around not seeing then saw the note. He went over and read it. "Hmm ok"
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:27 pm
Nika had gone to the market and purchased some hot food at a wagon near the entrance. She ate it all up and sighed, feeling much better. She bought some fruit juice from another vendor and chugged it. She looked around the bazaar again, browsing the wares. Some older women tried to sell her jewelery.
"Come on, girl, it will look good on your wrist or around your neck." The lady cajoled her.
"No thanks, ma'am." She looked down at the necklace. It was made of pearls and had a ruby on the end surrounded by tinier pearls. She walked back to the inn.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:10 pm
He'd wrung the bell and a servant came, he placed an order with the man for room service. Then he'd gone in the bathroom, still wearing just the towel and dumped his soiled clothes into the tub. He got most of them washed before his mel was delivered. He looked at it sighed, it wasnt very goo dlooking, but it beat having to get dressed. He set teh plate aside, paid the servant then finished his clothes hanging them up around the bathroom and some on the baclony to dry.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:41 pm
Nika came back and went into the room.
"Hello Eric...how've you been...I guess you read my note, I was out for a while to get breakfast." She sat down at her desk to relax.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:19 pm
He sat on the couch eating his meager breakfast "I'm ok thank you. You aren't mad at me are you?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:35 pm
"Nope..." She sat down, going through her things.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:42 pm
"You're sure? What I said earlier wasnt nice, I realize that and I am sorry fr being such a jerk after you've helped me..." He finished his plate and sat looking down at the last few bits, pushing them around his plate boredly.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:02 pm
"Don't sweat it. You're not the first to think my ideas of recording the journey are outlandish..." She looked around the room, also in a bored fashion. "I've always talked to my mother about it when she was still alive, when I was very young, and she laughed at me too. She said no one would care to read it when there are already great stories on library shelves." She said. "So I decided to take it upon myself to read them all to get ideas for my stories, if I ever wrote any. I noticed a lot of good ones were partially true or inspired by true stories....so I guessed I could venture out into the world and explore and write about it." She paused. "Do you ever have notions like that?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:12 pm
"Not about writing, I hate writing. I enjoy reading, but I prefer to do that only after I've made the most of the day and had my own adventures. I never thought to write becuse, well I could nevr really afford a nice journal and I never wanted to put my story down on paper. I think it'd be better for people to live their own, rather than live through meand my story on paper." He set the plate on teh ground and slid it to the door.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:18 pm
"Ah I suppose everyone has their own perspective on it." Nika yawned, still waking up. "So did you have anything in mind for today? I guess you're still healing...did you want to discuss the note or investigate more on the matter? Who do you suppose wrote it? Anyone you know? I can't think of ANY one who spells that poorly ((I lied, actually blaugh )) but if they referred to me as one of their 'ladees'--and by that, he means a princess--right?" She sighed. "I just don't know. Maybe it's one of the nobles from the castle in charge of the marriage. Nobles are too rich to learn how to spell properly anyhow, and as for the harsh delivery, t'was probably one of their hitmen paid to do that." She said.
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