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Zevran Arainai ([personal profile] antivanleather) wrote2013-03-09 09:56 pm

Fourth Step - back from that ledge my friend, you could cut ties with all the lies that [action]

[He'd been living in...a state of frustration the past month. Of denial. But with a week and some spent in the wilderness in tail end of winter Zevran sought to reconnect with the cold hollow that the Crows instilled in him at an early age, one that time with the Warden and several months here had worn away. Filled with food and restful sleep and pleasurable company. With sentiment. It was not something he could afford, that sentiment, that desire for companionship beyond the odd body in his bed or verbal spar. To want comrades was something a Crow did not do, and as much as he wasn't pleased by the guild wanting him dead back home he was still very much one of them. Old habits died hard after all.

Hunting, tracking, setting a spartan camp and keeping mobile- avoiding all others that might have been hunting, forsaking the company of his fellow villagers did little more than weigh upon the elf and leave him far too much time to think over the events leading up to and just after that odd valentine's shift. How he'd handled it, or rather hadn't. The conversation he'd had with Isaac just before leaving, or rather the argument. The time between then and now did little to sooth the ire it'd caused. He'd lost something there.

He didn't know he cared enough to get it back.]

[Days away and he'd intended to remain so for awhile longer but the fall of snow urges him back to the village. Bundled along with his camping gear on his back are furs that need to be trimmed and roots, dried meat and bundles of flesh from what animals he'd trapped and butchered while hunting.  It's a fairly sizable stash of hunting loot if he did say so himself, and he's far too much to keep to himself.  Perhaps after he cleans up he'll offer the finished furs or bits of wrapped meat to his neighbors, or any that stop him along his path. He waves his way in from the south, past the battle dome and up through the plaza to stop in the grocery store for a few vegetables, perhaps a bottle of wine to go with the meat he's still carrying, and then he makes his way back to community house 7.

The normally boisterous and cheerful elf is weary and quiet, without any quick smile or laugh to crack at those he passes. His leathers are grubby from time in the woods, his boots scuffed, his hair a loosely braided mess. He'll make conversation if someone engages him, and he will be polite enough, perhaps even offer a cutlet of venison or dirty joke if the company is pleasant.]
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-19 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
And suddenly I feel like chopped liver. You really know how to charm a guy.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-20 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I will take that as a compliment, I guess.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-20 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ He laughed. ]

And here I thought you only liked me for the way I looked in a pair of leather pants.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-25 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, well, I am glad you recognize what a wondrous thing it is! I would hate to think that you had so quickly forgotten.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-26 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose that depends.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-27 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
If you promise never to talk about what happened with you and Spock ever again.
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[personal profile] universal_charm 2013-03-28 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm not sure he'd appreciate you spreading it around, but for the basis of this agreement, just me.