210.3 Demedais and Pollyanna

[Corwin]

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[17:31] <Kotono> Finding Pollyanna takes some time.  She's practicing her archery behind Seira's inn, burnt targets falling apart under carefully aimed barrages of flaming arrows.
[17:32] <Demedais> "Hey." Demedais says as he loops around, watching the whole scene intently.
[17:34] <Kotono> Pling, pling, pling. Three more arrows are fired, slamming into the wooden targets. They smoke and shudder, under an irrestable assault. "Demedais!" She turns and breaks into a smile, "Where were you? All I heard is that you had some urgent duty again."
06[17:36] * Demedais grins sheepishly. "Yeah... Got dragged out of town on two different errands, to Parsifal and then to meet with someone in Arad briefly. Fortunately, thanks to Stronger, the latter was a short, peaceful day trip. How have things been here? I've heard about your exploits with the hellcat..."
[17:39] <Kotono> "Ugh, that thing," Witha  grimace, "Half of the guard around ended up cornering it and beating it to death." With a look of sharp distate, "No one was seriously hurt, thankfully."
[17:42] <Demedais> "Good. Such tactics... well, they aren't pretty, but they're effective in the end." Demedais nods once, a slight grimace himself. "Other than that, things have fared well for you?"
[17:42] <Kotono> "Well enough," Pollyanna answers, smiling as she gently puts down her bow. "Especially now that you're back." Coming forward, she looks Demedaisa right in the face, "Unless you're going to, I don't know, run off again by tomorrow?"
[17:46] <Demedais> "As far as I know, that won't be occurring." Demedais grins back, looking her in the eyes with a slight smile. "It had been my intent to stay here for a while initially, but getting called off to Parsifal put a dent in that plan. So.."
[17:50] <Kotono> "Good, good," Pollyanna leans upward, smiling as her hands are behind her back. "Speaking of dents, you didn't have any falls this time?"
[17:52] <Demedais> "No, thankfully." Demedais flushes a bit at this, rubbing his neck.
[17:53] <Kotono> "Good..." At that, Pollyanna deflates, blushing. "You know, I think you rubbed it off on me instead. REmember how I went off on that mercenary trip recently with a few others?"
[17:53] <Demedais> "Yes...?" Demedais says, nodding.
[17:54] <Kotono> "Well, there was a fall," With a sudden, accusing glare, "We fell right into a giant pit of mud while chasing the quarry."
[17:56] <Demedais> "..." Demedais bites his lip, face composed. "Ah. ...Well, that would be slightly frustrating, yes."
[17:59] <Kotono> Leaning foward and lightly banging a hand against Deme's chest, "If you've passed on that talent to me, I swear by Helm...:
06[18:00] * Demedais grins a bit. "Well, it is somewhat amusing, though the timing sounds inconvenient."
[18:01] <Kotono> "Try going to finish a quarry while you're dripping thick, goopy mud head to toe," Glaring back with her arms crossed, "Not to mention that the big idiot couldn't keep his mouth shut!"
06[18:02] * Demedais bites his lip again, but then nods solemnly. "Aye, I'd imagine that'd be frustrating... wait. What big idiot?"
[18:02] <Demedais> "Presumably one of the men you were working with?"
[18:04] <Kotono> "Rods, yes. The one who took this entire mess for the follows of Gond." The look Demedais gets back is rather irritated, Pollyanna going to wipe her arms off, even though they're clean. "Yes, because a woman's sexy when she's dripping mud head to toe and looking like a savage!" With another glare at Demedais, "And if the next words out of your mouth are 'I want to see you all muddy'..."
[18:08] <Demedais> "No, I wasn't planning on saying that." Demedais says, straight-faced suddenly. "So it was for the temple of Gond this started? I didn't hear how it ended; did you catch the quarry?"
[18:11] <Kotono> "Oh yes. He died, but he was trying to kill us too. Poor thing..." Her expression softens. "The part where it got interesting is where it cried out for Gond as it died. Between that and the large bounty, we all placed it as some sort of internal Gond affair gone wrong. I know Rods went to look into it further, but I didn't go any deeper in. I'm not terribly interested into poking around into anything like that."
06[18:13] * Demedais nods. "Do your duty and let those whom it concerns work it out. There is little that can be done from the outside, much of the time."
[18:15] <Kotono> "Yeah. I got a over a thousand gold for the entire affair, so it was time very well spent," Smiling a tiny bit at that, "You know..." Taking a moment, "Demedais, how much longer are you going to be...you know. Tied up with your duty," she asks slowly.
06[18:18] * Demedais smiles back as well, a bit sadly. "I do not know. If I did, you would be the first to learn of it... but I do not know."
[18:19] <Kotono> "Mmm..." Pollyanna looks away, "When you deal with things like that, fighting for your life for gold...sometimes you remember that all you really want is a warm home and a happy life."
[18:26] <Demedais> "...I cannot say I'm sure I will ever have a peaceful life, Pollyanna." Demedais says slowly. "Happy? I hope for that. Someplace to return to, to depend on? I would like that. But...peaceful? I'm not sure that's in the deck for me, so to speak."
[18:32] <Kotono> "Did I SAY peaceful?" Pollyanna challenges back. "I know that. I'll settle for happy and warm."
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[18:40] <Kotono> "Did I SAY peaceful?" Pollyanna challenges back. "I know that. I'll settle for happy and warm."
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06[18:42] * Demedais grins at that. "Point taken in both regards."
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[18:44] <Kotono> "Like...oh...a house, a home, a nice cat and dog, a few children...?" Pollyanna asks slowly
[18:44] <Kotono> .
06[18:54] * Demedais blinks a bit slowly at that, the grin still lingering on his face slightly. "I have no objections to any of this, though children I think would be... a bit more problematic than the rest of the list." A moment's pause, then, "Firstly, with how Balmuria's been cleaning up it's so hard to find an unclaimed one on the streets lately!" With this, Demedais quickly steps back.
[18:59] <Kotono> "Oh, of course not. I don't want my own little Deme that way. I'd rather make one the old fashioned way," With a smile and a very long look, "Just don't delay forever, alright? ...we get in a lot of danger and we both get hurt. We may not have forever."
[19:00] <Demedais> "...We'll see. I fear for a child's safety, as well..." Demedais nods once. "And... can we make one agreement right now?"
[19:01] <Kotono> "Yes?" Pollyanna asks, looking into Demedais' eyes.
06[19:01] * Demedais looks deep into Pollyanna's eyes, and intones gravely with a slight grin, "Any children? Please, let us avoid the name Demedais for them."
[19:18] <Kotono> "Aaaaw. I wanted to have Demedais jr." With a bit of a laugh, she reaches out and hugs him. "Alright, it is your name, after all."
06[19:19] * Demedais hugs back, before looking Pollyanna in the eye. "Are you aware where the name comes from?"
[19:21] <Kotono> "No." Answering, Pollyanna waits.
[19:22] <Demedais> "...Will you keep this between us? I'm surprised it's not more well known, but I suppose it's a testament to... well, something." Demedais frowns a bit.
[19:22] <Kotono> "Alright." Pollyanna waits, "Spill it...I will, but I'm curious now too."
[19:23] <Demedais> "...Father Ceiar and a few of the other priests are book lovers." Demedais says with an odd flush. "The name... was that of a main character in one of the stories."
[19:25] <Kotono> "So?" Pollyanna leans forward a bt, a puzzled look on her face "What's so wrong about that?"
[19:26] <Demedais> "...The name of the story was, if I recall correctly, something along the lines of... 'Heated Love Amongst The Garden's Fallen Petals' or something equally... well. You get the drift." Demedais looks away, clearly somewhat uncomfortable.
[19:27] <Kotono> "...oh. That's so romantic," SMiling at the image, "There's nothing wrong with that at all."
[19:30] <Demedais> "Ah. Well... yes, I suppose there wouldn't be." Demedais says, still a bit disturbed. "It's just a rather awkward name for a priest to name an orphan."
[19:33] <Kotono> "So? As long as it's not Longtongue or Marion Bigbreasts, who cares? It's your name, nothing else." Smiling at that and poking Demedais in the ribs, "It's a good name."
[19:38] <Demedais> "Well, moving on from that... " Demedais says slightly loudly. "...There's some things we should definitely talk about, then; one of my... perhaps more irritating traits, even to myself, is that I plan far ahead of time, but..." A moment of thought. "It would make it easier on the priests, too, most likely, and with the new arrivals my room could be used for that purpose, so..."
[19:40] <Kotono> "Are you telling me that..." Pollyanna asks, letting Demedais finish.
[19:41] <Demedais> "...Yes. On the other hand, you're going to probably curse my nonexistant sleep schedule before long." Demedais says with a slight grin.
[19:44] <Kotono> "When then?" Pollyanna asks breathlessly, "And hey...shouldn't you be on one knee?"
[19:52] <Demedais> "Is that how this works?" Demedais asks with a quizzical grin, before moving to one knee. "And.. I don't know. Soon... It will take time to plan out where would be easiest, what time to handle all this... but... if you want it..."
[19:53] <Kotono> "I'll plan it." Pollyanna says with a big grin. "I can get some people to help. Seira and Alicia are both women, they'd understand..." she says distantly. "Yes, I really want it. We'd have it at your temple, of course?"
[19:56] <Demedais> "That would be preferable, yes." Demedais nods. "Something more to talk with them about. Heh, Father Ceiar will likely be overjoyed at this."
[19:57] <Kotono> "Oh..." Embracing Demedais warmly, "Now...we'll just have to get you to be ablet o dance a bit, too. For the celebration afterwards."
[19:58] <Demedais> "Now that may take a miracle of Helm's own." Demedais grins at that. "I... heh. It's for this that... I can say I don't know where my duty will end..."
[20:03] <Kotono> "I know, but...I'll make it so you have a good place to return to when you can."
[20:04] <Demedais> "..." Demedais grins at Pollyanna, eyes focused on her. "If that is what you feel should be done... but so you know, it is not the only option."
[20:05] <Kotono> "Well yes, I know there'll be times I'll go with you. Just so you aren't hurt," she asnwers.
[20:05] <Demedais> "Heh.
[20:07] <Demedais> "Heh. Speaking of which..." Demedais slowly rises back to two feet. "Devils... well, they will likely be more common, and more likely to want to strike at anyone here. It may not hurt to learn more about them... and we can see about enhancing your bow to let you strike them more easily."
[20:14] <Kotono> "Good." With a shiver, "That hellcat was problematic enough. I know that most devils are even stronger than that. Like the Erinyes that used to have this," Going to her bow, she picks it up and looks it over.
06[20:15] * Demedais nods. "Irritably so; to pierce their defenses, a good weapon is usually needed, and despite all their idiocy they're usually good enough to not bring along a weapon good enough to kill them."
[20:18] <Kotono> "Pityt hat," Pollyanna observes, "But don't you need a holy weapon to do that?"
[20:20] <Demedais> "Not always..." Demedais gestures to his sword. "There are ways to ensure your weapon strikes just as effectively on most all opponents; you simply lose the greater efficiency that, say, a holy weapon would have."