#mairynn

[mairynnshae]

Reunions of a sort

 This was home.

 Stormwind was Mairynn’s city and she’d tell you as much if you asked and probably even if you didn’t. But she didn’t live here anymore, not really; only for brief, but not infrequent, periods of time when she’d escape Pandaria to come and visit. 

 Few things made her happier than setting foot in her city again. But those few things were also not infrequent. And they almost all centered around the orphanage she’d run away from so many years before. Around the people she’d met there. They were quite often her reason for the journey back after all.

 She came back when someone got adopted; she came back when someone aged out; when someone got off the streets, when someone was in more trouble than they could handle, when someone got a new job, when someone got married because holy cow some of them were that old now.

 But right now? Right now she was here because she wanted to be. Because it was her turn to leave the island and go do her own thing. 

 So she’d set herself up on a little retaining wall with her sketch book and her pencils. Reclined against a tree with her drink at her side she drew and she hummed and she tapped her foot on the stone and she watched the city and the orphanage and all of the people passing by.

 For hours she remained just like that until eventually something, no, someone caught her eye. She was up in a flash and dashing through the street to the side of a young man who was far too tall for her purposes. Once she’d reached him she had to tip her head nearly straight back to see him properly which had her lips pursing.

 “Hi!” she squeaked out just as she reached for his hand. “Come with me!” She was so excited that she didn’t pause to think about whether or not she was being rude or weird or whether or not he might recognize her. If he was who she thought anyway. And she was pretty sure; she just needed to get him a little lower, or herself a little higher so she could see his face better.

 And so she did her best to drag him back to her retaining wall so she could scramble up onto it and get hold of his face. Despite her excitement she took his face in her hands carefully and looked him over and as she did her smile grew. “Rhys!” Her voice squeaked again as it always did when she was too excited but that did not stop her from flinging her arms around his neck to hug him regardless of the fact that she was probably being very weird.

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[captainseawolf]

Librarian + 145

((Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin))

Gossip spreads rather quickly among old women and traveling thieves. So when Cris, Alaia, and Mairynn went into the village for groceries, the gossip was so loud, the three of them were smirking and glancing at each other.

"A wolf,"a man said. "What’s it doing in our village?" The pandaren whispered with a few humans. The three continued through, gathering their provisions and talking amongst themselves. 

"I heard they stick to themselves. I heard they trap their prey and eat the poor soul alive! I heard everyone one in the pack does his bidding. I heard the young ones were threatening to fight the alpha for leadership. I heard they were a bunch of outsiders. I heard…"

Cris only chuckled and didn’t speak much unless he had to, helping Alaia with her baskets and looking around the village. He loved hearing speculations about him and his family. It meant that they knew who they were and no one would mess with them.

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[piratemage]

Wolf Pack Response

Everyone listened so quietly. Not once did anyone interrupt or even look as if they might. And when he was done he was out the door before anyone could even think of anything to say. Alaia had watched him with a soft, adoring gaze until then and as he left she slid forward in her seat.

 But Mairynn was faster. The girl practically dove at the table and snatched up two rings. She shoved one rather unceremoniously at Kyl and then scrambled from her chair so quickly that she knocked it right over and sent herself tumbling to the floor. But she scrambled right up as if it hadn't even happened and raced out the door.

 She ran straight at Cris, she might have knocked him right over if she were bigger. Instead she flung herself on him, arms winding around his waist, and clung to him for all she was worth with the biggest smile plastered on her face. He could smoke with her there just fine she figured.

 Her antics had turned Alaia's soft smile into stifled giggles but once Mairynn was out the woman was up and gathering a handful of rings to pass out. Zedain took his with a faint, curious smile then turned to cock a brow at Ismay as his sister moved on to hand the  other three rings to the pandaren, the tauren and the human woman.

 They were uncertain she knew so she just smiled at them gently and pressed those rings into her palms. "It doesn't mean that you have to stay here with us. We would love it if you did but I know you never meant to stay in the first place. But you did and I'm grateful, we all are. And you can come back here any time, or . . . find us wherever else we might be. I know you have other things to do, other family, but you're ours now too. And I hope you feel the same. But if there are rings on the table in the morning I promise we'll understand."

 She kissed them each on the cheek then and walked away before they could do more but murmur "thank you." They were thinking and that was all she really needed to know. With a wink to Kyl she settled back in to make faces at the babies and watch them grab at her hair.

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