Post #2459249 in The Book of Fables, a roleplay on RPG

Era Kodes, Sorceress of Dunmarr

As the stranger dropped the staff at his side, Era moved one of her hands in the direction towards it. Stopping it from clattering to the floor, she lowered the staff onto the ground with ease. Her eyes and her free hand, however, didn't leave the intruder. "I apologize my lady it seems I have lost my way and saw this staff and it called to me." A lie but it would gauge who this was. "Do you know who this house belongs to? I wish to issue an apology as it seems my wandering has got me into trouble again." As the intruder spoke, Era's hands fell at her sides gently and her head tilted upwards as she studied him.

"It called to you?" She inquired, not trusting his words at all. It was one thing she had learned quickly when she started her reign. Don't trust anyone. "I do know who this home belongs to, you must not be from these regions since you are not aware." She spoke, her voice testy as she stood in his path. No way in hell was she letting this man, who had tried to take her staff- whether it was what he said was true or not, walk out of her home so quickly. "Your wandering has gotten you into trouble again, so this is not the first time?" She went on, her hands folding across her chest as she stood before him.

At the sight of his hands moving, Era flinched a little. When they stopped to land behind his head, she cleared her throat impatiently. She was going to find out as much as possible about this man, that was for sure. Whether she had to use the aid of her abilities or not. The benefit of having lost a large amount of her emotions was proving to be helpful once again. This situation wouldn't have come at such ease had she still had them. One reason she was thankful for the loss of them. She figured that had she been in this situation, with the emotions she had lost, she would be unsteady and trembling with restless nerves, deeming her much less suitable to handle this.

Katrin Bade, Queen of Aravale

Katrin turned from where she stood at the railing's edge, her attention leaving the butterflies. "My dear it can be very troublesome and with portal open again trouble is sure to follow, but if nothing else we have each other. We have our loyal people and we have our allies. As the problems will arise we shall handle them like a royals should." His words settled uneasy in her thoughts as she walked over to sit next to him once again. She rested a hand near his knee before she started to speak.

"Yes, with the portal open again there is sure to be plenty of trouble to follow." She started as she stared straight ahead and gave a slight nod with her open thought. "And yes, we have our people and allies, and thankfully each other. But we do not know what lies on the other side of the portal. What may come, what may happen. A lot of open ended questions are now unanswered." She went on as she took these things into heavy consideration. The light mood she had earlier seemed to be almost long gone. "Of course we will handle them as we should, but what if that is not enough for what lies beyond the portal? Don't you find it kind of strange that those beings can come here, and we cannot go there?" She said right before he pulled her into his lap.

At the movement, she shifted so that she was sitting sideways on him, her shoulder brushing against one of his as she moved to rest her head on it. Her breath landed lightly on his open neck with her exhales. "I'm glad we hired that new gardener the last one was not very good at his job." The hint of change in conversation went right over Katrin's head as she let out a small sigh.

"Don't you ever want to know where Demetri and the others came from? What it might look like, how it differs from here…" She trailed off as her hand furthest from the warmth of her husband came around and rested on the other side of his neck. Her fingers gently stretched across the open skin as they traveled up by his ear before her hand fell to his shoulder and rested there.

Snippet #2459249

located in The Kingdoms, a part of The Book of Fables, one of the many universes on RPG.

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