WHO: Athessa, Madi, Lucien, Skull, and YOU!! WHAT: catch-all WHEN: mostly Satinalia and later WHERE: Kirkwall and The Gallows NOTES: post-murderhaus h/c is gonna go here
"An elven clerk whose contract can be bought? Yes. Those need only be paid in food and lodging." A vague gesture of the hand, and so on. "I kept studying in my spare time, learned more ways to be useful, and things went on from there."
It's so easy to skip over the part where, once, his master called him to his room, and Mhavos, full of fear, was actually relieved when the matter only pertained to learning how to kill. The memory sits deep in his mind, not forgotten, but largely dormant.
Athessa is quiet, mulling over what Mhavos is saying, feeling indignant on his behalf for something bygone. She doesn't know what to say, if she should say anything at all, so she simply takes in more rootsmoke and offers him the joint in turn.
Maybe he'll keep talking. That would be better than anything she might say, surely. She puffs out a couple of smoke rings, then breathes out the rest into the shapes, ruining them.
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It's so easy to skip over the part where, once, his master called him to his room, and Mhavos, full of fear, was actually relieved when the matter only pertained to learning how to kill. The memory sits deep in his mind, not forgotten, but largely dormant.
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Maybe he'll keep talking. That would be better than anything she might say, surely. She puffs out a couple of smoke rings, then breathes out the rest into the shapes, ruining them.