antivanleather | First Cut - It's the deepest, woah [Action/Voice] Backdated to this morning

[Another day dawns and it's normal enough for the village. People laughing, groaning as they wake, brushing their teeth, taking a shower, or sleeping in. Things that are normal enough for anyone that isn't nocturnal.

What might not be normal is the fact that there is, your bed, hammock, or wherever it is that you sleep, an elf.

A tanned, tattooed sleeping elf, all but cuddled up next to whoever's still in bed with him, or curled around a pillow if they've stepped out for the aforementioned shower. The exhausted thing is out cold, wings tucked up against his spine, fingers of one hand curled as though cupping the face of a lover. Or around the hilt of an absent knife. Care to wake him from his deep slumber? Perhaps with a kiss? Or a fist. Whichever comes first.

Later in the day a voice rich with laughter crackles across the network]

-nd it records voice as well? Marvelous! Ah, the wonders of this world shall never cease. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Zevran, Zev to my friends, and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a prime hunting ground. I've recently found my blades and find myself in need of an...exhausting diversion.

(ooc: Breaking time is just fine, and the art linked was drawn by the lovely Plum, Sabriel's mun. Tattoos doodled in by me.)

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Sad? [A bit of honesty for this mage. This very powerful mage.] No. Frustrated? Yes. I had hoped to be free of this situation rather than pulled into another one much like it.

Oh? Are you incarcerated at home, as well? What did you do, Zevran?

By circumstance, more or less.

[He lifts a shoulder and flips through the next set of pages.]

I am a blade for hire, so to speak.

An ashigaru? Or...a ninja?

[She understand the concept, not the meaning]

A Crow, for whatever it may be worth to you.

A crow? Is that...some sort of association? You do not look like a bird.

[Zev snorts a soft laugh and shakes his head at that, flipping the book closed.]

It is a guild of assassins.

Oh. Well then. You...hopefully are not going to try and kill me to keep me quiet. I don't think that would go very well for you.

[She knows thats something assassins do...]

[That pulls a brighter, more earnest laugh from the elf.]

Ah, I can understand why you might think that- but no. It is a job much like any other, unless I am paid I've no cause to kill anyone. Not to mention I do not think I would be able to kill you even were I paid to do so.

But you do. Kill people that is. Why?

[Shut up Saori, you've killed lots of people!]

Because I was paid to do so. And once I've been paid I am obligated to perform a service, am I not?

I suppose, if you value money. But, that doesn't answer my question. Why did you start taking money to take lives in the first place.

I was not given much of a choice in the matter.

First Cut - It's the deepest, woah [Action/Voice] Backdated to this morning

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