"You've been acting strange lately, I'd apreciate it if you'd tell me what's gong on" -Kaina, @Clans-of-axes-and-chants
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“I’m not sure exactly what’cha mean, love. I’ve been same as always far as I can tell.” Lalinda avoids Kaina’s eyes while speaking, trying to look down into the contents of her drink. She pretends to be fascinated with it as she swirls the cup, trying to make a visual excuse to not look Kaina’s way.
Lalinda wasn’t clueless to what Kaina meant though. She’d been acting sketchier since Thaddon visited her dreams. It was bad enough she had to deal with him at all, but now Seri’al couldn’t even be bothered to speak to her himself?
Lalinda smiled, but in a more pleasant way. She could see the honesty in Kaina’s answer and she knew it was taking a lot for her to say such things. What Lalinda never understood was why people hide their feelings like that. She understood secrets, but when it came to feelings what was the point?
“Well well the truth comes out, doe’n’t it?” Lalinda nods, understanding. “Buuuut..” she dragged on the word, knowing there was more to this story.
“well he lead me to his contractor as promised, I even took off the chains so that the slimy fuck didn’t suspect anything, sparrow got his payment for the job before Faelyn and i stepped in, arresting the contractor. Sparrow slipped off while the ass was putting up a fight and I made sure he was safely in Faelyn’s hands before pursuing our resident stabber. It took me a good hour to catch up with him but when I did he was at the door of an orphanage, giving the money he had earned from the murder he’d committed to the headmistress.” She paused, looking a little guilty “before then i had seen the world in only black and white, good and evil, crime and law. To see someone who was a hardened criminal do something so utterly selfless and kind, that benefitted people… children like the kind i had been rocked my world so harshly that i started acting on impulse. I told Sparrow to wait outside of town in a nearby inn for three days at least and then went to process the nights events and any paperwork i had left. I left Faelyn a letter, and followed Sparrow out of town, seeing him as my ticket out to learn just how grayscale morality could be.”
She sighed, looking at Lalinda and smiling “Sparrow grey to become more that just my traveling companion over those two years, he became my other half, we’ve fought together, traveled together, learned about each other and grown closer than i’d ever expected. I can’t imagine my life without him, and I will honestly admit that if he walked into hell i’d follow him so that i could pull him back out when he got in over his head. I don’t think the word ‘love’ accurately describes my feelings but it gets pretty close….” Kaina sighed. “I don’t know if that really answered your question….sorry”
“Are you kiddin’? Of course it bloody answers my question.” Lalinda chuckles a bit and places a hand on Kaina’s shoulder. “I don’t know much abou’ people outside o’ where I grew up, but if I’ve learned anythin’ in nearly the past year, it’s that ye shouldn’t keep those feelin’s to yourself. I’m not saying ye have to tell him or anythin’, but I’m at least glad ye told me.” Lalinda smiles at her comrade.
