Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 10, 2021 23:04:19 GMT
“Weapons? You could learn to make waaayyy more than just weapons. I think they are used in the national contest just because they are one of the oldest sets of skills. It’s just as common for the Nuska to make tools, furniture, jewellery, buildings!” Again Lambertia waved her hands, reshaping the symbols in the air into examples of each thing she said. Gardening and camping for the tools, Benches and tables and bedframes for furniture, bracelets and necklaces for Jewellery. A simple bungalow for a building “It’s how the nuska primarily train with their fire. They pick something and forge it in their flames. Then, they take it and try to reforge it better. Again and again and again.”
“Well not with cooking. There aren’t many foods you can cook and then recook the ingredients. Oh! Speaking of cooking!” Lambertia dove a hand into the pile of food and pulled out one of the cheesy ones and handed it to Tomina “Here, why not try toasting one of the sandwiches!”
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
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18
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Bisexual
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Post by Tomina on Feb 10, 2021 23:27:21 GMT
"Really? They can make all of that? I didn't know fire was that versatile. Metalsmithing sure, but jewelry and construction? That's a new one to me."
Granted Tomina only had grown up on basic knowledge. She never had gone to school or gotten any kind of formal education. She was slightly homeschooled at the orphanage, but that was it. Tomina took the sandwich that Lambertia gave it to her, and held it in her hand. She turned it around in her hand, examining it at various angles. Then she looked back at the light elfen, frowning.
"I'll try cooking food in my own time. I'm still learning how to control some aspects of my fire abilities. I'd rather not set the table on fire. Or worse, you. Thanks for another sandwich though." Tomina dug into it, chewing and swallowing it quickly.
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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21
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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25,858z
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350 Dragon Coins
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 11, 2021 0:39:49 GMT
Something in Tominas voice gave Lambertia pause enough to have to blink away a thoughtful expression. There was definitely something painful there for Tomina. Much as she wanted to she stopped herself from outright reaching over and hugging the girl. Instead she pushed yet another sandwich half into the girls hands and smiled.
“No rush, we can work on it some other time. Eat up.” Then she reached under the table and lifted the hard leather case onto her lap. Opening it she revealed an old looking acoustic guitar. Checking its tuning she also opened the flask which had been filled with hot chocolate form the shop that Vanta worked in. Lambertia had tried making her own at home but it had turned out disastrously. How was she to know the difference between a teaspoon and a serving spoon here on earth? She poured them both a cup and placed them on the table.
“Hope you like chocolate.” She reached for the other half sandwich to the one that she had handed over, and took a big bite of it, more or less shoving the whole thing into her mouth and chewing. Thumbing a few of the guitars strings as she thought about the sound that she had been working on the way here, something that made her think of the Nuska in their city. A fiery, fiery feeling in the mouth. All-encompassing in it’s… Apparently that sandwich had been spicy. Several beads of sweat rand down Lambertias face and her eyes reddened as the world around her melted away around her. “ahh.. so… ahh … spicy…”
“tastey…”
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
291
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18
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Female
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Bisexual
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Played by Nothost
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Post by Tomina on Feb 11, 2021 1:06:43 GMT
Tomina felt relieved as Lambertia chose to move things along. The other girl knew that something was up, but she wasn’t going to push for it. Tomina’s eyes lit up as she set some chocolate on the table. Then she pulled out an old guitar. This got her interest. She swallowed the part of the sandwich she was eating, giving the light Elfen a slight smirk.
“I love it. Chocolate and a song eh? Between this and the Valentine, I feel like you’re coming onto me.” Tomina teased. She took a sip of her hot chocolate happily. Then suddenly Lambertia got the strangest expression on her face. She was about to ask if she was fine when the other girl managed to choke out what was wrong. While she did say it was good, she clearly couldn’t handle it. Tomina got up and walked over to the other side of the table. She grabbed Lambertia’s hot chocolate and held it close to her lips.
“Here, drink. That was probably too much for you.” Tomina said, looking at the Light Elfen with concern. It would be funny if she didn’t look like the sandwich had punched her in the mouth.
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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21
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Female
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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25,858z
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350 Dragon Coins
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Amber-Alert
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Played by Lambertia
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 12, 2021 22:15:56 GMT
Lambertia opened her mouth to try and respond to the comment but the fresh air enflamed the spice in her mouth somehow she managed was an unintentionally enthusiastic, “Weeellll….. huummmmm……” with a head tilt.
When the drink was pressed to her lips she muttered, “Might, be surprised, much I can…” then gladly took a long sip from the chocolate and leaned back against the table. Rolling the drink around her moth a few times before swallowing. “Damn. That, jalapeno stuff is nice.” Her mouth was pain. Pain and flavour! After a few moments she looked down her nose, so up from this position and grinned at Tomina.
“Thanks.” She was going to ask if Tomina liked music but again. Pain. She glanced at the pile of remaining sandwiches, wondering for a moment if there were still more spicy ones of if Tomina had lucked out and got them all. She looked back up at her. Then sat back up and took another sip from the chocolate. “So, I take it you also like it spicy?” She adjusted her grip on the guitar so that there was space next to her and patted the bench. Quickly checking the instruments tuning again.
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Post by Tomina on Feb 12, 2021 22:34:49 GMT
Tomina chuckled, patting Lambertia a couple of times on the back. "Yeah, but a bit too much can burn you. I'd stay away from the intense spices if I were you. Believe it or not, jalapeno's are fairly mild compared to other spices."
Tomina walked back over to her side of the table, sitting down and crossing one leg over the other. "I love it spicy. I've never had that many chances to eat that kind of food though. So, what is the light tribe like? I wanna know how you grew up."
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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21
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Female
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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25,858z
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350 Dragon Coins
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 13, 2021 0:56:01 GMT
“I do like it though. I’ve made a point of learning how to prepare spicy dishes. Though, it takes a bit of interpretation when I can’t just create the fire myself.” She shrugged and turned so that she was facing Tomina. “The Nuska have the best spices in terms of, spicy food. Once I had this dish where the chief had me go and get permission from my elder before I could eat it. Which I ‘got’ of course.” Her smile turned a bit wry for a bit, “I spent the next five hours crying uncontrollably, while laughing because screaming just didn’t’ cut it.” She slowly rant through a few chord paters one note at t a time on the guitar, familiarising herself with the pattern she had planned. “Vanta had to practically carry me uh, I think you’d call it four blocks, to get me back to where were staying that night. Shame, the prentice was cute and I think they were into me….”
The parts of the song were just coming into her head when Tomina asked the question about the light tribe and her own upbringing. She faltered for a moment but recovered, tapping the guitar, “Maybe but i’ve been working on this uh piece for a thing I do. Actually about Enbar and the Nuska… if you’d like to hear it early?”
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
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18
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Post by Tomina on Feb 13, 2021 1:11:43 GMT
Tomina laughed at the Elfen's story. "It looks like I wasn't the only one expecting special food. Sorry Brightlight. The only thing I can cook competently right now are instant noodles. I certainly can't make food so delicious that you'd lie to someone to get it. Even if I could I wouldn't give you anything that spicy. You have an even worse tolerance for spice then you do alcohol."
Tomina teased, making a jab at their first meeting. The other Elfen wasn't plastered, but she was definitely hung over. She hid it well, but Tomina had been around enough drunk homeless people to know the tells of a hangover. Tomina she leaned forward and gave the other Elfen a grin.
"They were huh? You really have an addiction to spice of all kinds Lambertia. Shame you couldn't add some to your night the way you did to your dish, eh?"
Tomina chuckled, looking at the Elfen in amusement. What seemed like a normal girl at first was actually very bold with her lifestyle. She was surprisingly out there with how she lived. Tomina noticed that she shifted the conversation away from her own tribe. Lambertia hadn't pursued her when she did that, so Tomina was going to return the curtesy. Besides, she was curious about this song of hers.
"Hell yeah, give me the notes Brightlight." Tomina leaned back, her red eyes watching the light Elfen curiously.
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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21
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Female
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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25,858z
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350 Dragon Coins
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Amber-Alert
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Played by Lambertia
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 16, 2021 1:46:57 GMT
It didn’t pass her notice that Tomina understood her choice to pass over the question about the light tribe. Lambertia hadn’t really prepared anything to say about the light tribe as she hadn’t wanted to and somehow hadn’t anticipated the question. She appreciated her willingness to leave it for now and her enthusiasm for the music. She would have to revisit the topic and give her some answers later. Maybe not today but she would make sure to answer her for that bit of grace given. “All righty firecracker,” Checking the instruments tuning she got up and sat on the table, feet on the bench so she could tap her feet on it like a drum. Testing a few different taps quickly to try and work out the sounds she could make. Left or right foot, heels, toes or whole foot. “Here we go, just, do me a favour and keep in mind this one is still, being written. Only started... recently.” On the train on the way here actually. The idea hadn’t struck her till she was practically out the door.
It started off with tapping of a plodding rhythm on the bench. Then she turned so that she was side on facing Tomina and could make a little bit of eye contact as the slow melody began. Instead of plucking the strings she slid her fingers along the strings with a bit o vibrato, producing a more drawn out sound, fading this into more regular strumming of the backing to her opening vocals. She snag in a low voice, not quite a whisper but akin to a lowered voice as though telling a secret and as she did turned so that she was side on facing Tomina, it would “Can you imagine a place, in a wide open place” “Where steam wagons roll over the sands” “If spices only burn off your tounge, the’ll serve you some hotter!” “It’s intense, but hey they’re fun!”While she sang and played, the steady plodding rhythm ion the bench continued. For the next bit she didn’t have the words as well worked out so she hummed how she thought the melody would go, building its intensity alongside the guitar leading into what would eventually be the songs chorus which was vastly more bombastic, "Enberian Nights,” “Like Enberian days,” “More often than nor are hotter than hot” “from the fire in our eyes” “Enberian nights” “like Enberiand Days” “this shineying city of copper and steel” “made of more than it seems"
She kept playing for a little bit after that but wound it down shortly to a stop. Without more lyrics written, it would get repetitive rather quickly. Carefully she placed the guitar on its case, taking her cholate having a sip before speaking again. “Wish I had more of it ready but yea, only started writing tis one recently.” She felt it still needed a bit of work, probably should have lead with something that was a bit more complete than this but Tomina did want to hear stuff about Enbar and the tribe.
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Post by Tomina on Feb 16, 2021 2:04:23 GMT
"Hey, it's a learning process, right? You need to train in order to get more proficient in anything." Tomina said, leaning back and listening to Lambertia. The other girl was gazing into her eyes as she played it. That and how soft she was playing it gave the impression that it was a song meant for her. There was a personal feeling to it. Even though Lamb had been writing this song since before they met. At least that's what Tomina assumed. The tune itself had a life to it that Tomina had never heard from that instrument. Tomina had only ever heard acoustic guitar songs before. Sometimes she came across a homeless person who used that as a method to getting more cash. But those songs didn't have much life to them. They had effort put into the motions, but it didn't invoke the images Lambertia was conjuring. Tomina clapped her hands a couple of times when she was done, giving her a cheerful smile. "Damn, that was the best guitar solo I've ever heard. Say, you'll play me the full version when you're finished, right Brightlight?"
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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21
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Female
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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350 Dragon Coins
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 16, 2021 2:42:06 GMT
Seeing how much Tomina had enjoyed the music gave Lambertia a sense of greater certanty to the direction she was taking the song. She had had one other idea for a melody that was very diffrent and even more bombastic.
"Course i will, and if you'd like i'll save you a seat at the first performance." Lambertia grinned. Things weren't compleatly arranged but they were as close as could be. "If you'd like to come. Once the details are sorted that is." She pushed the last sandwitch over to Tomina suspecting it was one of the spicy ones. "With any luck that one should be finished by then. Either way, you can hear it beforehand" Lambertia took another sip of her hot chocolate before leaning over and offering Tomina a refill from the flask then topping up her own. She considered her thoughts from before the little performance again.
"We're what they call nomads. Light elfsn are travelers. Moving from place to place constsntly. Thats how i've been to all the tribes capitals."
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Post by Tomina on Feb 16, 2021 3:14:28 GMT
"Hell yeah! I sure as hell ain't sitting in a nosebleed section." Tomina took the sandwich and bit into it. Her eyes widened for a moment. Then her eyes shined brightly.
"Damn! It's spicy!" Despite saying that, she scarfed it down at the same rate as the others. She then took a swig of her hot chocolate, letting out a satisfied gasp. Although she looked at Lambertia with confusion as she described how she lived.
"Wait... you didn't have a home to call your own?"
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
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21
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Female
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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25,858z
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350 Dragon Coins
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 17, 2021 18:25:07 GMT
“I look forward to seeing you there then. Fraid I won’t be doing the catering though but glad you like it.” Nosebleed section was, not a term that she had heard before, it sounded like something involving stray elbows and close encounters. The continued enthusiasm kept her smile beaming as she leaned down and tucked the guitar back into its case for safekeeping.
“As in a place like a house? No I‘ve never had a house till moving here to earth. To me home meant, with the others in the pack. The light Nomad clan live in packs that roam Hegemon traveling from place to place. We carry messages, news… stuff like that.” She swung round so that she was now fully facing the side of the table that Tomina was on, planting her feet softly on the bench, “To me what most people call home isn’t a physical place, its where people are that I want to go back to.”
Again she reached over and topped up the hot chocolates, pouring the last of it into Tominas cup. “That or, going home with someone.”
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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"Interesting. Come at me!"
Tomina
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18
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Female
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Bisexual
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445PL
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56,483Z
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208 Dragon Coins
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The Wild Flash Fire
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Post by Tomina on Feb 17, 2021 18:49:39 GMT
"Aw, and here I was hoping for some more of your lovingly crafted home cooking." Tomina teased, giving the Elfen a cheeky grin. Tomina was having a fun time just talking with Elfen. And it seemed like she was enjoying herself too. With the way she was just lounging there with her feet on the table. That was fine with her, considering it showcased the Elfen's legs.
Although the jolly atmosphere somewhat dissipated when Lambertia told Tomina about her nomadic lifestyle. She couldn't help but be reminded of how her life used to be. But she wasn't going to let that ruin the mood. She gave the Elfen a surprisingly soft smile.
"I know the feeling. I was on the streets for a few years. But now I've found my place in the world. Not just physically either. I have people I care about now. Although winning the lottery and buying a house is certainly a good way to get a new home."
Tomina chuckled, taking a sip of the hot chocolate that Lamb poured for her. What Lamb said about home implied that she had come here to Earth for the sake of someone else. Although Tomina wasn't going to press too hard for an answer here. If Lambertia wanted to talk about why she came to Earth, then she'd bring it up herself. She wasn't going to try and dig up painful memories. Tomina blinked, looking at the Elfen curiously.
"Someone? Like a friend? Well, you're always welcome in my home. It's not a mansion or anything, but I have enough room for at least one more person."
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Light is brightest in the dark
Lambertia
111
POSTS
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21
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Female
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Yes
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Elfen
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173 PL
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25,858z
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350 Dragon Coins
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Amber-Alert
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Played by Lambertia
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Post by Lambertia on Feb 17, 2021 19:05:54 GMT
“It sounds nice….” Lambertia took a slow sip form her own hot chocolate. Staring off into the park while she did so and thinking on the last of the words from Tomina.
“If you'd like I could stay, and cook breakfast,” She looked down and would make eye contact with Tomina.
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I, will always be within your reach. Just reach out to me and i will take your hand.
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