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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 28, 2022 23:08:05 GMT -5
From the shadows engulfing a narrow alley in a slightly more run down part of the city, a faint humming can be heard along with a putter patter of feet. Those who would hear it from nearby would merely will themselves to walk past faster, not daring to stop as curiosities in a town like this could lead to many unfortunate fates. The sounds however grew louder, a pinkish gaze emerging from the darkness first before a pale figure could be seen skipping around without a care, giving a little twirl as if they were at home as they wandered into the street without much of a care.
Eira’a gaze danced around the few passerbys as she continued humming her joyful tune only stopping as she entered the bar “oh red I’m back! Hope you have my drink ready for me this time?” She asked in a sing song voice. The barkeep had told her his actual name many times but she never seemed to listen. Instead he sighed and placed a drink in front of her which she began to sip with childish glee, her feet swinging a bit. “Ya know I like ya red. You get to the point and do go whining this or that. Makes it easy. The boss likes it too as well as the info you get ya know. Keep it coming kay? I don’t wanna have to find a new red. That would be a hassle” she rambled waving her free hand a bit as she spoke kicking her feet up on the stool by her as she glanced around to see any new faces.
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Post by Iryla on Nov 29, 2022 17:20:04 GMT -5
There was a new face in the bar that day, though she was not looking in anyone’s direction. A girl, clearly half-elven in descent, who seemed perhaps a touch too young to be in a place like this. She wasn’t drinking, instead, she had a simple meal in front of her, some kind of soup and likely not all that great bread that she was slowly eating.
Her demeanor alone made it clear that she was a local around here. She was not on edge sitting in this place, but clearly, she was wary of her surroundings, not making eye contact with anyone else in the bar. Being so young and alone, maybe she was a poor worker who had come into enough money for a hot meal outside of her home. She did not look to be a street urchin or a beggar, but it was hard to really place what walk of life she might claim as her own.
Next to the bowl on the table laid an open sketchbook where she doodled innocuous things, a bird in the sky, her bowl of soup, and rough sketches of passersby.
Really, all in all, it was hard to tell that she was a little spy, sitting here and lying in wait to hear any information she might bring back home to the Rookery.
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 29, 2022 17:40:19 GMT -5
From the bar, Eiras gaze stopped, her head tilting to the side in a childish manner as she looked at the unfamiliar face” who da ya think that is red? Have they come by here before?” She asked to herself not really waiting for the man to answer as she hopped down wandering towards the other with a curious gaze as she rounded the table a bit to be by the side of the other “well hi there. What ya doin?” She asked looking over the sketchbook and the soup as her head straightened after a moment. She soon flopped down in a chair by the other waiting for an answer as she kicked her feet up on the other side of the table from the young elf as if they knew each other and this was a casual conversation
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Post by Iryla on Nov 29, 2022 18:55:53 GMT -5
Iryla’s eyes slide up to the moon elf now sitting at her table. She had seen her coming of course, but was still a bit surprised at being approached so openly.
She pauses and sets her charcoal stick down next to the open pages. Then she looks at the other elf with a bit of a raised eyebrow. “I’m eating dinner.” It wasn’t a particularly good dinner, but Iryla had gone hungry enough times to never turn down a meal or be wasteful. “And sketching.” She tacks on after a moment.
She puts her elbow up on the table and props her cheek up on the palm of her hand while she looks at the other girl. The expression on her face is carefully bored, not letting on what she might really be feeling in this moment in the slightest.
“I’m not.. Bothering you, am I?”
She probably should have expected to be approached directly at some point, so she wasn't very bothered by the new development. It could be an opportunity after all. From the way she spoke to the bartender over there, this girl seemed to be some kind of regular. Maybe even an 'insider'. Speaking to her could glean some good information on the kind of business that went down in this establishment.
Information on competitors was always good information, even if it was small.
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 29, 2022 19:00:55 GMT -5
The girl nodded looking over the sketches on the table seeming curious though didn't care to move much for them at the moment seeming quite relaxed and calm "No not a bother at all. Just don't see a lot of new faces here. Usually I just chat with red ya know? but he isnt overly talkative it gets rather boring. So seeing someone sitting and sketching who is new is a good distraction from the boring stuff" She shrugged a bit soon moving to lean her head on her hand as her elbow rested on the table. "Im gonna guess you aren't a traveler though. They don't last long and get all jumpy around here ya know? Not used to all the fun yet" she added rambling a bit as she sat there.
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Post by Iryla on Nov 29, 2022 19:43:04 GMT -5
Boredom was a good of a reason as any, Iryla supposed, to approach a stranger. Though she had always been a bit too cautious to do much of that. Usually when she approached anything in her life, it was with some kind of purpose. At first she had approached people she thought she could pick pocket, though since leaving her life on the streets behind, now she usually approached people to see what she could gain from them. Though she never really did it for herself. It was more like.. She did it so she could prove herself as a useful, valuable asset to those who had taken her in.
She would spy and cheat and steal all she needed to, if it meant she could cling onto this new life of hers.
"Im gonna guess you aren't a traveler though. They don't last long and get all jumpy around here ya know? Not used to all the fun yet"
“A traveler…? No, definitely not. I know the type you’re speaking of though.” She replied easily before taking another sip of her food and continuing after. “People new to the city are usually either oblivious, or they learn to be.. Jumpy.” Iryla shrugged a bit. “Hard to be comfortable if you aren’t used to life around here, I guess. But I am.”
Raising an eyebrow she tilts her head. “How about you, then? You also seem like a local.”
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 29, 2022 19:48:55 GMT -5
She nodded seeming to listen to the conversation a good bit and shrugged "always lived here yep! Nooooo place better right? Course this city is far more dangerous than most an quite a few may look own on it but what is fun without a little danger. After all nothing is certain no matter a person's intentions" She remarked "But yes im as local as local can be" She laughed a little at her own bit of rambling "So decided to try out new food places eh?" she questioned her eyes looking over the figure before her. Though her behavior was a bit erratic and childish there was more than that in her eyes. There was a calculating look in her gaze
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Post by Iryla on Nov 29, 2022 19:56:24 GMT -5
“Nooooo place better right?”
Iryla’s eyebrow went a bit higher at that statement. She couldn’t exactly say she enjoyed her life growing up in Darkveil. But then again, home was home she supposed, now matter where that may be.
As childish as the other girl’s words may be, Iryla knew better than to take such behavior at face value. After all, they were both locals.
“Got a new job, recently.” The young half-elf replied. “Decided to treat myself with some of my new income. Feels good to be able to support yourself, y’know?” None of this was exactly a lie, though she knew by and large she wasn’t so much of an employee of Zarius or Cyran’s and more like some kind of apprentice in criminal behavior. “Wasn’t all that long ago I was on the streets, you know how it is around here.”
There were more than a few orphans and beggars hanging around every corner in Darkveil. Once, Iryla had been just like them.
With a shrug, she turned the conversation back on her companion. “What about you? You just come here to hang out? Seems like a pretty quiet place, I can see why you’d do that.”
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 29, 2022 20:06:08 GMT -5
"Must be some shady work" She laughed a bit as if any work down here was legitimate in the first place. Hearing her talk about living on the streets she nodded "I'm sure we all have at one point or another around here. I mean a actual home isnt much of an option around here" She remarked as she thought about it all a bit. Yeah used to know this place pretty well. kinda like a homecoming though red is a bit more boring then previous people but hey the drinks are cheap and it's better then walking past all the crying people thinking that begging and such will get them anywhere. Apologizing and all that never really works" She remarked with a grin though there was a brief moment of a memory flashing behind her eyes and after a moment she smacked her hand on the table and took another rink from her cup "ah but that's all boring ain't it? So what kina fun o you call work?"
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Post by Iryla on Nov 29, 2022 20:38:41 GMT -5
“My work is nothing so exciting.” Iryla replies smoothly. “I work as a waitress.” Again, not exactly untrue. Her work was usually based in a place that could be considered a bar, and an employee of such a place could be called a waitress. “But I didn’t want to relax in the place I work, if that makes any sense.” With another shrug she sat back in her seat and pulls her sketchbook closer to herself on the table, beginning to idly sketch again.
It was hard to tell what Iryla’s sketches truly were, but that was all the better for her secretive work. After all, being illiterate made it difficult to take notes, so she improvised, drawing faces and symbols that would remind her of the things she had seen and heard later. The things she felt and thought. But to onlookers, she just seemed like a child with a more artistic hobby.
“Somethin’ about lingering around where your boss is makes it hard to let your guard down.”
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 29, 2022 21:01:03 GMT -5
"A waitress? well that is waitress exciting then I thought it would be something more fun if you work around here and everything." She let out an exasperated sigh seeming to deflate a bit. After a moment however she popped back up "Scary boss or somethin? Those can be entertaining" She grinned some "Met a few of those and they whine and cry more than any of their underlings usually. Think they are untouchable and all that" She remarked thinking of a few small groups she had taken care of here and there over the years though their market was more rooted in..."Pharmaceuticals" lets call it and there wasn't much competition anymore, just a few small groups here and there which at least drove some of the boredom away.
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Post by Iryla on Nov 30, 2022 18:55:06 GMT -5
"Scary boss or somethin? Those can be entertaining"
“Is he scary…?” Iryla thought about the dark skinned tiefling that ruled the Rookery, so to speak, and shrugged. “I guess he can be.. To tell you the truth, when we first met, I thought he was going to human traffic me or something like that…”
Really, the threats hadn’t made a great impression on her at first. When being confronted by someone connected to the Ashen Fathers like that... She really thought she'd end up on the wrong side of Darkveil or worse in his hands. “But he’s not that bad now… I’m more afraid of the bar manager than him.” Truly, Zarius’ sister was someone Iryla would not wish to fuck around with.
“What about you?” She asked then. “You haven’t really talked about what you do, much. I don’t even know your name, and here I am talking all about my life and work.”
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 30, 2022 19:04:12 GMT -5
"Hmmmm true I guess. Well I just help out my old man and take care of problems for him usually. Mainly keep trouble from starting or star a little bit here and there when necessary as well? Call me Eira kay?" she asked as she grinned a bit "Oh! did you say your name already white?" She questioned calling the girl by her hair color for now. She tapped her fingers a bit as she waited to hear an answer enjoying her drink with a curious look on her face. This was the longest and least violent or worrisome encounter she had in a while. Granted, she was usually the cause of such things but the change of pace was interesting to entertain for now
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Post by Iryla on Nov 30, 2022 20:29:32 GMT -5
"Mainly keep trouble from starting or star a little bit here and there when necessary as well? Call me Eira kay? Oh! did you say your name already white?"
White, huh? She hadn’t exactly decided on a name for herself while out on this little excursion. But she had asked Cyran to teach her a few words here and there of her native tongue. “Fana. My name is Fana.”
So far this conversation had been surprisingly pleasant. It was easy to tell that both girls were being cautious and trying to feel each other out. Both of them were hiding something. But Iryla hardly minded that. She couldn’t fault someone for having secrets when she had plenty of her own. Besides, wasn’t that the whole point of being here? Finding out things that others wouldn’t want her to know.
“Your old man, huh? What’s he do? He own this place?”
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Post by Eira Aderinx (RETIRED) on Nov 30, 2022 20:46:18 GMT -5
Eira nodded seeming to make note of the name, her expression changing for a moment at the question from the other "Well the second one did before things went to hell and he died and I was abandoned but hey that's a normal day down here right? But I found one right after who is better and likes me for me so yeah. I guess we kinda own this place but we mainly just work on our own stuff and make what is needed to survive around here" she grinned, not caring to linger on her actual parents or the man who had adopted her previously in life. Thinking of it was confusing and caused headaches. The voices of her past would only haunt her to call her a screw up or a jinx if she lingered and boy did she hate seeing the ghosts of her past even if it was all just in her head. She shook off the lingering thoughts and leaned back in the chair, her demeanor a bit more serious and cautious than she previously seemed "You aren't here to cause any trouble are you? If so that would be a very bad idea." she warned, with a look that would chill most to the bone
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