Jupingatna

[Kimdir]

After resting for a while, Apollo went back downstairs. He saw Amras and began to ask him about the history of the guild, but he appeared busy, so he decided not to. He went into the corner and looked around for a bit

 

[Jenka]

Shiori turned to look at the training grounds that she expected to take advantage of.
Suddenly a young man rushed by, he seemed at first confused at her appearence, but proceeded up a long set of stone stairs.
Shiroi wondered briefly where they led to. She shrugged, believing that it led, most likely to the dorms.

Shiori stepped out of the building into the quickly falling sunlight. The red shawl she had tied around her waist fluttered slightly in the wind. It was the sign of a dancer, more or less a calling card so they could always be recognized.
She wore a black sleevless tunic, revealing smooth strong arms, and black calf-length breeches. On her feet were a simple pair of sheep-skin slippers.

Shiori narrowed her dark eyes as she watched the man practise. A hand ran through her short hair, it then moved to her right earlobe where several hoops of gold that pierced her ear, sat together.

She leaned up against the wall and crossed her arms over her chest.
It seemed to her, that this man would practise all night.

Gracefully she walked back into the building and asked about her sleeping quarters. The man mearly grunted and pointed up the stairs.
Shiroi picked up her bundle and made her way into an unccupied room.

She prodded the bed inquisitivly.

//I've slept on worse.// She thought, as she climbed into the bed.

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She awoke early the next morning, hunger driving her.
She dressed quickly and silently in the still dark of the morning.
With soft steps she made her way back down that stairs and out the door to the training grounds.
She smirked at what she saw, the man was still there, just as she had thought.

Shiori walked forward, towards him.

"Don't you ever sleep?" She grinned. "I saw you practising last night as well."

She glanced up and down him, he was a handsome young man, and being a dancer herself, she was much less shy, then the next "lady."

"Why don't you take a break and have breakfast with me?" She smiled. "Although I'll be at your mercy, seeing as I do not know where to go to get food."

 

[Kimdir]

The young lady from before was over next to Palandir. He listened in and heard he say that she didn't know where to get breakfast. Apollo looked down at the table in front of him where a loaf of bread that he had brought with him to the training ground in case he got hungry. He then stood up and walked over to the young dancer and handed her the bread. "Here..." he said shyly and then walked out the door to the training ground once again. This time, he practiced firing multiple arrows at a time, and he soon became skilled at this.

 

[Jenka]

Shiori was surpsied as once again she met up with the young man that had brushed by her to go up the stairs.

"Here"...he said shyly, handing her the bread before heading off to practice his archary.

Shiori held the bread. "Thank you." She said quickly, but wasn't sure if the young man had heard.
She tore off a piece and looked down at the soft bread before looking back up at the young man, her eyebrows raised slightly.
He was firing multiple arrows at once, and was doing it accuratly.

She turned to the man with the sword. "One second."


Shiori walked back to the archer and stood beside him.


"Thank you very much..but I didn't catch your name. I'm Shiori, and would be honoured if you came to breakfast with me and..well, I don't his name either.
I don't know anyone here, it would be nice to talk to some other people.
We don't even need to eat in the hall..we could eat outside here too.." Shiori shut her mouth realizing she had been rambling.

 

[DUNEBRAKE]

Intent and completely focused in his exercises Palandir didn't even notice anyone around him, nor did he hear the soft voice of another that was addressing him... war was his life and when he practiced it he was completely devoted to it. His strokes were coming easier now and his technique was honed. finally his muscles could no longer bear the strain that was put on them and he was forced to sheath his weapon. Pausing for a moment to catch his breath Palandir saw before him a young lady and one of the recruits... I suppose that she must have joined while i was absorbed in my practices. Palandir walked up to the pair in the same bold attitude that he always had and addressed them... Welcome the the castle my lady, I trust that Apollo here has shown you around already?

 

[Jenka]

Shiori turned suddenly to the man with the sword once more.

"Welcome the the castle my lady, I trust that Apollo here has shown you around already?" He said, his voice deep and very much in a no-nonsense tone.

"Ah, Apollo is it? I was wondering. I'm afraid you are mistaken on two counts. I have not yet seen anything albit my sleeping-quarters and this training area."

She smiled, her eyes full of mischief. "Also, I am no Lady as you thought. My name is Shiori, I am a dancer by profession and trade. I am here to train..."

Her dark eyes scanned the compound, before resting once more on the man before her. "I am not a great fighter, indeed I use no weapon except that of my hands and body. However, I do wish to learn."

Shiori held up the small loaf of bread. "You must be hungry?" she raised an eyebrow and grinned again.

Shiori was very bold for a woman, and was very devilish in her ways.
Although even if she was smiling, sometimes it would seem as if her eyes were not. They were dark and would sometimes even seem black.
If eyes were the windows to the soul, then hers was masked behind years of hurt.

 

[DUNEBRAKE]

Refusing the bread and looking into the intense eyes of the women before him Palandir speaks... I apologize for the inconvenience of not knowing your way around the castle, i don't think that Apollo here has been shown around either now that i come to think of it, with a warm smile coming to his face Palandir continues, nothing that cant be fixed though. If your not busy at the moment i would be more than happy to show you both around the castle as well as take you to the dining halls where we should be able to get some decent grub, I'm famished.

((please note that i am assuming that there are dining halls but am not completely sure and thus am risking a yelling at by the GM, if there are no dining halls i amend the above statement to the following-
...as well as take you to some of the best inns in town to get some decent grub, I'm famished))

 

[Jenka]

(lol..sounds good))

Shiori shrugged and ate the piece of bread herself. She followed silently behind Palandir.

"This place certianly is interesting. Are there many people here? and who trains us?"
Shiori was full of questions, and these two men just seemed to create more questions then answer them.

"So, how long have you two been here?" She asked.

 

[DUNEBRAKE]

((I'm waiting for Apollo's reply Kimdir, this is great))

 

[Kimdir]

((yeah, it is.))

"Uhh, I think I've been here for about a week, and I have no clue how long Palandir here has been here. This place is a lot bigger than I thought it was." Apollo was looking around at the walls and vaulted ceilings with awe, as he had managed not to enter this part of the building yet.

 

[DUNEBRAKE]

not long, but long enough to know my way around and to call it home. Continuing to talk to the young women Palandir asked, so you have come to learn how to fight... Palandir stopped and turned now, he was at a loss for a name and showed it.

 

[Kimdir]

"Shiori, wasn't it?" Apollo interjected. "I thought I heard that before."

 

[DUNEBRAKE]

My own name is Palandir... what weapon did you plan on training with Shiori? Asking the question Palandir continued the tour in the same confident manner, his soft leather boots making his footsteps inaudible against the smooth stone floor.

 

[Kimdir]

((Palandir, you should be using quotation marks.))

"You could train with magic." Says Apollo. "You did want to be an illusionist, right?"

 

[Jenka]

Shiori smiled at the two attentive young men.

"Nice to meet you Palandir, and yes, I'd like to learn magic. We had an Illusionist in my troupe a few years back, he was amazing. I've wanted to learn ever since.
As for a weapon, well..probably something small, like daggers or dikes." Shiori shrugged.

She took a large breath of air, looking over the green grounds and at the forest on the horizon.
The wind picked at her shawl. She put a hand at the back of her neck.

"It's lovely here." She said quietly.

"Apollo, you're an archer I assume from your fantasic display earlier in the training grounds, and Palandir, you're a swordsmaster?" She asked. "I was told that I would be assigned missions, but only as help, as I am pretty raw at playing soldier." She smiled. "I'm sure I could learn a lot from you two."

 

[DUNEBRAKE]

If you wish to wield a dagger than you would learn more from Amras.. hes incredibell with those things. You'll find yourself holding your guts if your on the wrong side and Amras is around. I prefer to go for a clean kill, chopping off the head, slicing them in two and other such ways. Smiling in a nonchalant way he continued, but right now i would probably give my head for some grub, come on, the dining hall is straight ahead.

 

[Kimdir]

"How you can stand that close-up fighting is beyond me. It takes too much...and thank you for the compliment, but if you had seen my first mission, Shiori, then you would understand that I have come quite some way from where I was. That, and the arrows Amras gave me. Speaking of which, have either of you seen him?"

 

[Amras]

"Ah... who called my name?"

 

[Kimdir]

"why, speak of the devil. Here is our dagger expert, Amras. Amras, this is Shiori."

 

[Amras]

Amras scans over the new recruit, "I can see you aren't a fighter, it's not in your eyes..." His own stared at her, but as if he were staring at nothing. "So then, what do you have to offer to us, mi'lady? And what is of this Dagger-Master nonesence, if you must start that you forgot Martial Arts and Hand-to-Hand fighting expert aswell!" Amras grinned one of his rare grins.