I figured I'd just let the RP log speak for itself here.
I usually dont post RP logs, but telling the story for story sake just makes me type too much
[17:42] Scott123 Gaffer looks from one to the other of the gathered. Crus, and LAdy baby, if you will excuse me, I need to speak with Lady Thyri."
[17:42] Crus (crusader.arado): grins of course brother..just remember you break it you buy it
[17:43] Scott123 Gaffer chuckles. "Aye... I have heard that before... but I'm not borrowing a kajira this time."
[17:43] thyri Carver opened her eyes wide and she looked over at the magistrate "I hardly think he's going to be breaking me!" she harumphed
[17:43] Baby Tairov nodded " of course." she smiled at the couple " Be well you two
[17:43] Crus (crusader.arado): ahh he grins pointing to his paga bowl and saying "did I say that out loud"
[17:44] thyri Carver waggled her finger at Baby "oh dont give me that smile Baby!" she just shook her head and laughed
[17:44] Baby Tairov takes his arm " I think you need some more paga Crus" then looked at thryi " What smile Lady"
[17:44] thyri Carver put her finger aside her nose
[17:44] Scott123 Gaffer: Lady Thyri, it is time for you to show me this kajira falls you spoke of. And no, I shall not pay you if your shoes get muddy."
[17:44] Crus (crusader.arado): grins and mumbles..I ah!! more paga..excellent idea...looks around for mira
[17:45] Crus (crusader.arado): laughs at Scott...she will just shop for new ones
[17:45] Baby Tairov reached for the bowl " here, you men are so helpless" and stomped up the hill to get him some more
[17:46] arella Rage: Mistress, I can get it!
[17:46] Scott123 Gaffer smikrs. "Probably want me to buy them for her. By the kings you shoulda' heard her whine to the woodsman!"
[17:46] thyri Carver hrrmphed "I hope you're strong enough to carry me then if there are any dung patchesI. But yes I suppose I should show you this kajira falls"
[17:46] Crus (crusader.arado): nods in mock seriousness to Scott and says..and yet you go to speak even more...a man of stout will you are brotehr
[17:47] Scott123 Gaffer led off int he direction fo the gates, with the bottle of ta-wine and goblet in his hand.
[17:47] Scott123 Gaffer looked over his shoulder. "Aye of course! I am a rarius!"
[17:47] thyri Carver looked at scott still holding the wine "Do you want to drink that before I show you? I dont want you to break a perfectly good bottle of wine" she said as she took off after him
[17:47] Baby Tairov: He is taking wine Thyri, be ware
[17:48] Scott123 Gaffer: Alright, Lady.. lead us.
[17:48] thyri Carver: well lets see if I dont get lost in a box this time. I remember there was a bridge somewhere....
[17:49] thyri Carver: ok bridge... blue flowers... woods cutters house... ok I'm not lost so far
[17:51] thyri Carver: ok blue flowers... woodsman's house... ok and then there were trees... and try not to step in the water
[17:52] thyri Carver: annnd stop at the red flower and yes! I managed to not get lost!
[17:53] thyri Carver looked back at Scott "And there is the eternal kajira as the woodsman calls her"
[17:54] Scott123 Gaffer stopped as he saw it.. the waterfalls, and the stone.. statue? Indeed, he could clearly see it all... " No kidding, Lady Thyri... there it is, plaina s day. Well I'll be."
[17:56] thyri Carver thought for a moment "well the woodsman says there's a story behind her. Something about a very pretty slave girl, and she was bought for some obscene amount of gold, and then some bandits came, and tried to steal her but the man fought off the bandits. Something like that. I'm no poet like the woodcutter seems to be"
[17:57] Scott123 Gaffer nods softly. "The man has a true gift of tongue, that is for certain... but as I stand here... I look at it... and..." he turned to face you. "And I think of you. Perhaps I alone know your past, I am not sure, but your past means much to me."
[18:01] thyri Carver looked up at the man her eyes wide "Few know of my past" she then turned away from him and walked a few paces "That girl died though, died in the work gangs of Telnus, hardened in the accountancy of that merchant and all of his riches. I am what I am today..." she turned and looked at him "because of what had happened to me, well, perhaps that and much more. My first attempt at taking a companion.. it was a failure. Children Scott, Children was what I wanted ever since I was freed. But on the night I was companioned to this warrior of... the city. He disappeared into the woods, only to return with some panther slut and then disappeared back into the woods but a hand later." she again turned from him "I perhaps have more in common with this eternal kajira than meets one's eye"
[18:06] Scott123 Gaffer closed the gap as you stepped away, and he listened to her every word. With patience he absorbed the imagery and the thoughts, and the bvery emotions she was speaking. He could tell she had been hurt in the past. Badly. But in some ways, indeed, that previous life HAd died. But some parts of a woman could never fade away, and that was where his own mind was. "LAdy... Thyri... I kknow you are not the same woman I took up on tarnback, and thrilled and teased, and played with. You have grown much since you gained your freedom. You havegrown stronger, and wiser, and yes, perhaps a bit harder. But the one thing I know has not changed, was the beauty that is you. The beauty of your features, or the beauty of your heart. I listened to your words as you spoke your oath, as you had bled over the Home stone of temos. And you know what? They were genuine. Just as mine. And so when I look at the kajira in the falls, I see the same thing in her I see in you. Beauty."
[18:11] thyri Carver turned around and looked up at him "Perhaps I have grown. Perhaps in the ways that I had never wished to grow. But then again, in ways that I could only have dreamed of." she turned back to look at him "Noone is a stranger to the pains of the heart. Odin knows that I am not alone in the world of broken promises and being turned into something that one truly isnt" she shut her eyes "I had never forgotten that tarn ride. Even when I rode every day into the mountains, I would close my eyes and I would see one tarnsman's face. I know, its silly and sentimental. That tarnsman now stands before me stronger than ever. With more power and influence and responsibility than before. And I ask of that man, why do you flatter me so? What is it you wish of me?"
[18:19] Scott123 Gaffer paused for a couple of ihn. he could lay seige to massive cities, and invade hidden fortresses with his steel drawn and singing for blood, he could defend his home against any foe and be victorious. Yet here? He was was as defenseless as a newborn gianni. And it was as his need was greatest, he suddenly remembered what was in his hand. And so with some small effort, he twisted the stopper from the bottle of ta-wine, and dropped it to the ground, and then took the goblet into his free hand and poured a large measure. regardlewss of what he was going to face, the wine would certainly steady him. He set the bottle down carefully si it fould not fall on its own, and he spoke calmly, and evenly. "What you say is true. All of it, with a small difference. I do not flatter you. At least I do not intned such. What I say I speak from my head and my heart. Indeed over the passing of years, we have both grown. Sretngth, stature, power, wealth, whatever. But I am not trying to convince you to purchase the remedies of
[18:19] Scott123 Gaffer: health that a charlatan would sell. I am ... speaking of a need. And of a.. feeling, perhaps? I don't really know. But what I do know is this. I offer you this gobelt, filled withthe wine of our shared homeland, so that we may drink of it together, adn share more than a city. I would want us to share a family."
[18:26] thyri Carver her eyes got as big as saucers when she saw the wine that he proffered her and she gasped. This man, this man who she had in secret thought of on more than one occasions, looking to the skies to see that one tarn soaring overhead but never came. She gulped hard at what the man was asking her. She looked down "You ask me to be your companion then. You ask to be my equal in many ways and yet in no ways. I know that I... I trust, no that's not even the right word" she was becoming too at a loss for words when words came so easily to her "I know that you would not tomorrow run off into these woods never to be seen again. Somehow I just know that. Perhaps it is your honor that speaks so highly of you." she gulped deeply and she clasped the goblet that he held "I accept Scott. I will accept you as my companion. To be of your household, to represent you as your woman. For the next year what is mine is yours, and that includes my heart. I pray that you will hold it safely"
[18:32] Scott123 Gaffer let her fingers collect the goblet from him, and as she spoke, he could only nods softly, a faint smile upon his face. "Thyri... You do know my honor, and you do know my duty. I could no longer leave you alone as I hunted for kajirae on the loose than I could foresake my homestone. I will hold to my duty, and my station, and I shall hold to you as my duty as companion and fatehr of our child. To protect you, and keep you safe, to give you what you need to provide for my House. And to give you the guidance a man would give his companion, to hold her station, and her place in our city. That means honor when deserved, and discipline when called for. It also means I shall battle for your freedom. I woud not see my companion on her knees in service to another. I shall protect yourheart as I protect my city, not to be plundered."
[18:38] thyri Carver took a drink from the goblet, her hands were shaking like the lush leaves on the trees in the forest. "You know I am not a woman of little means anymore. As our households become one, this wealth is yours to keep safe, though I do know your household is not without its own means. And I will honor you Scott. I will give you the honor and respect that you deserve as my companion. And perhaps the wit of my tongue when deserved as well" she tittered lightly trying to bring herself to some levity to prevent herself from crying "I will not dishonor our home Scott, only strive to bring it the greatness that it so richly deserves. As well as children. Though, I will tell you this, I have not been released from that which protected that slave girl from copulating with a man. I will need to visit the physician before I am able to give you a child" she blushed sadly "Also know, while children is my greatest desire, the act of conception frightens me. Scott, do know that in your arms, behind the doors of our house,
[18:38] thyri Carver: I... I may not be as free as I am on the streets. Forgive me this weakness" she passed then the goblet back to him
[18:45] Scott123 Gaffer took the goblet, the lip coated softly with the tinge of wine and the woman's own saliva. He held it carefully, and spoke as carefully. "Thyri... whom I take as my woman, the agent for your body we shall obtain for you. And we shall share the tinesity of the privacy of my bed chambers. The act od conception, as you call it, shall be a time of great joy and pleasure between us, no matter the way or need. What happens int he privacy of our companionship stays within the companionship. And it is of no one else's business what we do, or how we do it. If you fear strength in the furs, i shall be gentle, if you need... more, then I shall deliver it. For just as you will receive my body to yours, and my seed to your womb, it shall be something of pleasure to the both of us. There is only one opinion of our companionship that matters, and that us ours. Yours and mine, and no one, man or lady, or even the fool hardy kajira who would open their mouths, has a voice in what makes us happy."
[18:46] Scott123 Gaffer: And then he took the goblet to his lips, and drank from it, a strong swallow of ta-wine, somehow tasting sweeter, even though his heart was hammering like blows against an anvil.
[18:50] thyri Carver blushed a thousand different shades of red "It is not that I do not know what goes on between a man and a woman" she tittered slightly uncomfortably "It is just, I only wish you to be yourself Scott, noone else. Not stronger or more gentle than you are. Not some woman's lap dog, or some simpering bred slave. I look to you because you are a man Scott, as gorean as any I've ever known. And I am pleased to be your woman. Somehow less afraid than perhaps I should be. I trust you Scott. I will not come between you and your needs as a man either. For there are always needs of a man that a woman in robes and veils cannot provide a man. This I understand too. I also know where you come to at night. And that to me is what matters the most. I think we are both in unique situations in this journey. I dont think you blinked too many times when I stated my age" she laughed
[18:59] Scott123 Gaffer chuckles as she made her jest. "Aye, I did not... for I have learned much of ages. And you do no tlook a day over 200. But have little to fear, my companion that the ways of men I still hold to, but you are quite right, for I shall indeed coming home to my chambers, where you shall be waiting, either awake or asleep. Either way, it will be your body warming my furs, and your body warming our child. And have no fear... " his voice suddenly on a hard edge. "I do not allow any to sway my way. I shall not even allow you the thought you can change my strength nor my courage. I am a man. Not Gorean by birth, but by acceptance and caste. But still a man, and a man will do as he sees fit, and no one else." and his voice softened to a more relaxed tone. "I am a rarius, and I Honor my Codes."
[19:02] thyri Carver smiled and poked him in the chest lightly "And I am a woman. Perhaps born of this world so you have much to teach me about yours. You will like my girl very much. She too is a barbarian. Though she did explain to me the purpose of a rubber... oh what was it.. oh yes, rubber duck. But I am glad you will remain true to who you are Scott. While some may wish to mold a younger more impresionable man to their ways and wiles, I do not make my decisions lightly. And I do not make them with the intent to change anyone. Besides, you do need someone to do the reading for you if you're going to lead this city into greatness"
[19:05] Scott123 Gaffer chuckled and nodded, and he leaned to set the gob,let down, not caring overly much if it spilled. He stood upright, and raised both his hands to your face, and ever so gently pulled away your veils. "I would see the face of the woman I am about to kiss."
[19:08] thyri Carver lifted her face for the first time and pulled the one tassa laced pin free before he stuck himself with it, baring her face to the man she now called her companion "I show myself to you Scott, without fear, without any pretense. You know what I look like, what this veil hides. I now hide nothing from you as your woman" she lifted herself up to him and she smiled "I would not expect anything less. Besides, sometimes I hate wearing dresses with huge trains on them except for official functions" she tittered and inched closer to him
[19:10] Scott123 Gaffer simply smiled,a nd let his hands behold your cheeks for a long few ihn, eyes looking over your features, not for the first time, and certainly not for the last. And then, he leaned his head down slowly, guiding your face to his, until two pairs of lips met, first softly, and then with vigor.
[19:11] thyri Carver let out a muffled squeek when his lips came into contact with hers, and perhaps for the first time in many many years, she inched herself up closer to that fierce embrace and she softly opened herself to his lips, feeling how masculine he was up against her
[19:13] Scott123 Gaffer felt and heard the small squeak, and did not heed it except to part his lips and let his tongue usher to engage with hers, the passionate wrestling of organs similar tot he dance of love and lust that a man and woman would do. Arms falling to her waist, he held her close to him, as if he was shielding her from attack.
[19:16] thyri Carver gasped slightly when his tongue invaded her mouth and she nipped softly at his lips, perhaps not the most free thing to do, but she never had felt so much like a woman than she was in this clutch of a man. She relaxed slightly against that strong possessive arm of his and she broke their kiss and pressed her forehead against his chest "I will do everything I can to make you proud of me Scott, and I will never willingly put you into harm's way"
