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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: rclemens86 Date: September 24, 2022, 7:09 pm
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Emrys walked back to his room and dressed. Pulling on his
leather pants and the black tunic. He pulled a whale bone brush
through his waves, and pulled his hair back in his usual half
ponytail. He picked up a bottle of honey colored liquid, and
twisted the cap off before splattering some of it in his hands
and rubbing his hands over his chest, under his shirt. The smell
was a deep forest-y smell with subtle hints of leather and musk.
He took a deep breath and turned to the door and started back
out, walking out of the palace and down to the village.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: Havok Date: September 24, 2022, 7:24 pm
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After sitting a few minutes simply rubbing the coin in her
pocket, Anya stood up and went to the front door to flip the
sign to "Open". She unlocked it once more, then went over to the
small shelf beside the wall of herbs, and picked out some
Dragon's Blood incense sticks. As she walked to the small
readings table that was covered with a satin blue and silver
lined cloth, she hummed beneath her breath. Once at the table,
she carefully settled the sticks into the small jar of stones,
then picked up the lighter from the table and lit them. Soon,
small tendrils of gray smoke wisped through the air and carried
the scent throughout the store. She smiled and then set up the
sign that simply stated "Tarot Readings 35 crowns", then went to
open the register and fill it up for the day.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: rclemens86 Date: September 24, 2022, 7:28 pm
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Emrys spent a good portion of the afternoon in the village. He
helped to gather things needed, and reach to the taller places
some couldn't. Just after midday, he finished and left the
village. He went back to the palace and grabbed his cloak once
more, readying for his breach of the veil again.
"I hope she hasn't tried to cross over yet..." he told himself,
checking his reflection in the mirror and straightening his
clothes and hair.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: Havok Date: September 24, 2022, 8:11 pm
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An hour went by, and Anya had helped a handful of customers. She
helped an elderly woman by making her a pain relieving salve,
and an herbal tea mix that would lull her to sleep at nights. A
man had come in desperation, looking for help to allow him and
his wife have a child. She'd given him some cloves for luck,
dried fig for fertility, and a tea made of ginseng powder and
hibiscus for sexual potency and an aphrodisiac.
With a lull in her day, she now sat at her counter, mindlessly
shuffling her tarot cards as the coin sat snugly between her
breasts. With her hands no longer idle, she wanted to keep it
against her skin as a means of comfort. At the time she didn't
know why. She ran a hand through her dark, golden tresses after
setting the tarot deck down, and a card slipped out onto the
counter. Blinking curiously, she turned it over was surprised to
see The Lovers.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: rclemens86 Date: September 26, 2022, 12:24 pm
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Emrys took a deep breath and started out, walking slowly while
he was on the grounds. As he left the Palace grounds his feet
moved a bit more swiftly. The early part of evening starting to
take hold and he knew the trip to the veil wasn't going to be a
fast one. He pulled his cloak over him, hooded himself and
walked for the wall.
By the time he reached it, dusk had settled in. He reached his
hand through the veiled bramble and stepped over onto the other
side. He shrouded himself in the darkness of the night that was
coming and stood briefly in the shadows, just to watch...and
wait.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: Havok Date: September 26, 2022, 1:00 pm
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"I wonder... if it's pertaining to that man," she mused quietly,
gazing down upon the card. She paused for a few moments, feeling
the coin against her skin, then drew the top two cards from the
deck. Her eyes widened slightly to see The Empress and The Six
of Cups reversed?
"What the hell?" she breathed, looking at the cards laid out
before her. She felt her heart start pounding in her chest.
"Becoming a mother..? I'm going to leave my home?"
She leaned back in the stool, her thoughts reeling. She was
hesitant to believe this fortune, but the cards were never
wrong; not once had they failed to give the outcome predicted.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: rclemens86 Date: September 26, 2022, 1:23 pm
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Emrys watched as the night sky darkened slowly. He watched
people walking to their cars, store fronts shutting down, and
cars heading home for the evening.
The entire time since she'd had the coin, it had been sending
off that resonating pulse.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: Havok Date: September 26, 2022, 1:40 pm
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After several moments of silence and pondering, Anya shook her
head to clear her mind. She looked up at the clock, noting that
it was well past closing time. She'd been so engrossed in her
own reading, she hadn't noticed time passing. She picked up the
cards she pulled, placing them back into the deck with a
shuffle. She put them in the black silken back and pulled the
gold drawstrings to shut it. Placing them back on the table, she
licked her forefinger and thumb, putting the incense sticks out.
They hadn't quite burnt down all the way. She then walked to the
backroom to grab her broom and dustpan.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: rclemens86 Date: September 26, 2022, 1:43 pm
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Tired of waiting, Emrys started walking toward the streets where
the cars were passing. He turned down the sidewalk and noted her
store front was still lit up. Cloaked in his darkness, he walked
up to the window and stood just outside of it, watching her
clean up within. He dropped his shroud and placed his hand on
the window, watching from beyond the window display.
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Re: The Highlord's Court
By: Havok Date: September 26, 2022, 1:48 pm
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Sweeping her long tresses from her face, Anya came back to the
front and began her nightly closing duties. She didn't notice
him standing there, she was too engrossed in her own thoughts at
the moment.
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