Slice of life
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Thread Topic: Slice of life
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"That's very kind of you my friend!" Rathal exclaimed. "Next time we drink on my coin." He said raising his glass. "To new friends, and new beginnings!" Rathal toasted and drank. In the windows the sun was making its way past the horizon and the moon gave chase, before long stars dotted the sky to watch, Drinks flowed as did their conversation.
"So obviously you're a half orc, whats it like?" -
(It's won't let me download it on my phone ðŸ˜)
Durga looked at Rathal for a moment as she pondered the question. "It's been....interesting." She turned to face him a little bit more. "Not being accepted by either of my families was a struggle. Whenever my parents died, I didn't have anyone to rely on, so I went out on my own." She took a deep breath. "That's why I decided to settle here. I have found out that not all people are bad. Ended up getting myself into some trouble in my past, and I had some preconceptions about how things were." She adjusted the way she was sitting for a moment.
"Enough about me. What about you? What brings you here?" -
Rathal sets he drink down as his smile dissappears slowly from his face.
"I was a part of a group of nomadic scholars, our sect studies ancient war tactics and weaponry specifically, well in my teenage years it started to wear on me. Making friends had become easy, and keeping them had become near impossible, i had met this girl in a town we traveled through."
He takes another drink and laughs.
"Young and dumb, I thought I'd met the one, I told my group that i was running away to be with her. Well when i get back to the town i see her with a boy in the town, i was heart broken as one is when these sort of things happen, it took till morning to return to where we had made camp and when i got there they had up and left me. Been searching ever since but i found out they got on some boat to the land out beyond the horizon and well."
He finishes he drink. After that i decided bout here was good enough. -
"After that i decided bout here was good enough."**
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Durga shook her head. "You seem like a nice person. I'm sorry you had to go through something like that." She took another swig of her drink. "I think this town is the perfect place for both of us then. A place for us to let go of the past, and carve a new life for ourselves." Durga placed her emphasis cup on the counter of the bar, and pulled out an ancient looking coin. "If anything, take this." She handed Rathal the coin.
It wasn't anything extraordinary, just an heirloom. Something her parents gave her, and so on.
"When you are having a rough time, just remember someone out here in the vast universe cares." She stood up, and waved at the barmaid, thanking her. She had to stretch. Her sitting down was causing her mind to get restless. It was either that, or the alcohol. -
Rathal looks at the coin in his hand and smiles before putting it in his bag. "I have something for you too." He pulls out an ancient looking dulled dagger. "This was the first thing i ever found in our expeditions, it would mean a lot for you to take it." He extends its handle to her. "Whenever you hold it may you know, there is at least one who knows the true heart of Durga the Kind."
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Durga looked at Rathal, her emotions conflicting. He didn't know her, and he was giving her this dagger. But maybe, he felt the same whenever she gifted him the coin. She nodded, taking the dagger carefully. "I will keep it safe, and cherish it forever." She took a cloth out of her pocket, and placed it on the counter. She carefully placed the dagger in the cloth, and wrapped it up. "So, I know it's getting late. Do you have a place to stay around here? I know it can be kind of difficult to get a room for the night." Durga looked at the bar. For a small place, it sure got a lot of attention.
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Rathal smiles upon seeing her acceptance of his gift. "Yeah I have a small camp on the edge of town, set it up beforehand just in case I didn't want to stay here." He stands up, comically a full head shorter than Durga, and tosses a coin to the barmaid. "But I think I like it here so I'll find somewhere more permanent tomorrow." He grabs his bag and slings it around his arm, almost throwing himself off balance. "How about yourself? Do you have a place to stay?" He asks smiling not realising that after three months she almost certainly had somewhere to lay her head at night.
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(After six months**)
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Duega nodded her head. "Not to far from here, actually! If you want, we can meet up sometime tomorrow and look for you a place together!" She said, little bit too excited. It had been too long since she had the luxury of talking to someone that actually treated her like somebody. It was nice just to have someone that wasn't afraid of her. "If you want, if course." She added the last bit. She didn't want to seem desperate, but it was nice just to have someone else around.
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Rathal smiles and extends his hand for a hand shake. "It's a deal, see you tomorrow friend." It had been a long time since he had someone to keep a promise to, and it was nice to have a friend already.
"We're closing up in 5 minutes everyone, last call!" The barkeep called to the entire tavern. -
"Or, if you want you can always stay at my place; and we can just go get your stuff in the morning." Durga suggested. Albeit the city was a nice place to stay, you still ran into the occasional bandit, and theif. "I have a spare room that I don't use anyway. At least until you can get settled. I don't think it says to much of my hospitality if I let you stay out there when I have I perfectly good room you can use." She stood up, and held onto the dagger that Rathal just gave her. She pushed her stool in, and waved over to the barmaid. "Good night!" She said, a little to clumsy.
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"I would be glad to!" He says with a smile. "Beats sleeping in the dirt ...which is what I do most of the time." He laughs deeply at his own joke, or rather statment. Around now he was really starting to feel the affects of a full night of drinking leaning on a post as to not fall over. "Well let's get going, we shouldn't hold them up from closing."
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Durga nodded, and grabbed Rathal's arm. "Don't want you falling down the street." She chuckled. They both walked out of the bar, and toward her house. Her house wasn't too far away. Just a couple of blocks. Before either of them knew it, they were there. It looked modest, and quite average. Durga took a singular key out of her pocket and unlocked the door, and motioned Rathal inside. "There I'd a couch in the living room to your right, or there I'd a guest bedroom upstairs." She shut the door behind them. "If you need any pillows and blankets, let me know. I should have some holed up on a closet somewhere." She said softly. She was a bit tired herself
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Rathal was shocked a bit when she grabbed his arm, he knew she was bound to be strong but she held him up with nearly no effort. She leads him down the road to her house and they go in.
"Thank you Durga, I don't think you really [i]want[i] to carry me up the stairs so the couch is fine." He said jokingly as he sat down on the couch. He stretched and yawned before he set his bag on the ground beside him. "But really, thank you.."
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