closed | i'm crooked, but upright

[wythersake]

WHO: Isaac, Coupe, Casimir, Jenin + Others
WHAT: Catchall for the month
WHEN: Waves my hands
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Addddding starters to the comments as I go. If you want a prompt hmu.

Comments

[wythersake]

"If I didn't know better," He does. There's an education, and then there's experience. "I might think you were fishing for a compliment."

Of course she's educated, and beautiful, and etcetera.

"But I'll venture that you don't have a sister."

[indissection]

"I don't need to fish for compliments, Isaac." Her lips curl into a smile. Hers seem a little more obvious than his, but she's not got all that much to lie about that might be safe enough to put forward.

Leaning back, she crosses her arms, head tilting.

"You might not be wrong. I've never heard someone give you a surname, you know, so I would imagine that to be true. Now I must consider if you are afraid of heights or pretending to be more worldly."

[wythersake]

"Is the Imperium truly a part of the world?" A show of consideration. "I suppose if you end the rest of it."

He's lied twice, of course.

[indissection]

"Your distaste would make me think that you cannot read Tevene, then. Consider that my choice."

She can read a little, of course. She is an educated woman.

[wythersake]

"Stupid as an owl for language," Cheerfully, and in Orlesian, because he is being a bit facetious — "Or so Enchanter Rigal always said."

[indissection]

A small smirk.

"Your lie was reading, not speaking, dear Isaac."

[wythersake]

"That ought to make the next round easy. Whose hearts have you broken, then?"

The proposals.

[indissection]

"My own, of course. I doubt many were truly devastated to have been rejected - but my mother has the control of those. I am at her mercy, so to speak."

No need to discuss anything to do with the specifics; that might be incriminating.

[wythersake]

If his heart doesn't exactly bleed for the plight of lovelorn nobility, he's perfectly capable of pretending sympathy —

"Do so few pass her muster?"

[indissection]

"Very few indeed. She is a hard woman to please, I'm afraid."

All the more reason for Sidony to have run away to the dangers of the Inquisition, at least as far as she's concerned.

[wythersake]

"And what pleases the younger Lady Venaras?"

Truths, lies, and otherwise.

[indissection]

"Oh, many things. Reading, my studies, flowers, wine. I am easily won, I think."

Her smile is coy, soft, fond.