OOM - Eric's room, Athelstan
Dec. 19th, 2014 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onceavikingThe room is cool and tidy.
There's a bed (huge and covered in red bedding), a desk with a closed laptop, and a small table with a couple of low chairs. They're draped with skins (deer and sheep), with carved backs.
Eric turns to face Athelstan.
There's a bed (huge and covered in red bedding), a desk with a closed laptop, and a small table with a couple of low chairs. They're draped with skins (deer and sheep), with carved backs.
Eric turns to face Athelstan.
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:36 pm (UTC)"No!" he protests. "Things are... very different there."
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:40 pm (UTC)"Someone might decide to take you. That won't necessarily reflect poorly on you. Because you're property."
He smiles a little.
It's meant as reassurance.
"And there's always the girls."
He's pretty, women like that. Some of them.
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:42 pm (UTC)"I'm Ragnar's property", he says quietly. "And as such, for his own honour, he must defend me from anyone doing that without his permission. And yes, there are some... very lovely girls."
He does notice.
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:46 pm (UTC)It makes him look young.
Animated.
Alive.
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:47 pm (UTC)It's contagious, and Athelstan grins back.
"Some of them are free, but some aren't. And for them to have a choice in the matter..."
Well, it makes a difference.
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-20 07:50 pm (UTC)"From what I've gathered, women have ways to be sure of that."
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:53 pm (UTC)"Always pick the smart ones,"
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Date: 2014-12-20 07:56 pm (UTC)Athelstan nods. "Being clever makes them... prettier, in a way, to me. There's more life in them."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:13 pm (UTC)"Yes," he says. "The confident ones, the smart ones."
Thinking of women he has known,
Looking a little distant perhaps. Lost in thought.
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:14 pm (UTC)"Like your Pam."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:16 pm (UTC)"Like Pam," he agrees.
"She never was afraid of me."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:18 pm (UTC)Athelstan smiles.
"You've said that before, and how rare a thing it was."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:23 pm (UTC)Though more common now, both at home and here.
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:24 pm (UTC)"Have you ever found another you'd been tempted to turn?"
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:26 pm (UTC)"No," he says.
He lies down on the bed and stretches. It's a large bed. That's a good thing.
"You should eat something when you go downstairs. Meat and kale, I'll pay for it."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:29 pm (UTC)"Meat and kale", he repeats dutifully, getting up to fetch his tunic and cloak. "I will. And I'll see you soon."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:35 pm (UTC)"Perhaps," he says.
He'll go back. And perhaps he will return.
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:36 pm (UTC)"When will you go back again? Before long?"
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:38 pm (UTC)That's the plan so far.
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:39 pm (UTC)"Then I can only wish you the best of luck."
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-20 08:43 pm (UTC)Athelstan looks at him for a moment, his expression caught between a number of things, then turns away to finish dressing.
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:46 pm (UTC)Maybe this will be the end.
It's time to get that will drawn up.
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Date: 2014-12-20 08:46 pm (UTC)[ooc: and I think we have a wrap]
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