Fantasy To Reset the World (Accepting Again)

[Kazehana]

As the lady walked away, Cat realized that she hadn't really helped the situation at all. With an eye twitch, she sat down next to Everyle, cradling her head with her hand as she pouted. She knew better than to try to follow her by now. She was definitely irritated that she hadn't been able to get someone to take her away from the group, but she wasn't going to do anything about it. If there was anything that she got out of prep school, it was how to obey your superiors. And unfortunately, Everyle was her superior. While she was very reluctant to accept him as her superior, she had an innate acceptance of someone having power over her. Oh well, 'tis the life of a female noble. She just hoped that he wouldn't punish her for this.

 

[Silver Wolf]

(Lana told us to enjoy ironwrath as she deals with family issues, so on we go!)


Everyle just sat there as he watched the people go by while hiding his hands in his cloak so he could surprise attack anyone who confronted him. One hand on a throwing knife and one on a smoke bomb. He honestly didn't care what Cat asked right now. But from her disappointment and pouting, he could tell things usually went her way. However...thought of something.


"Come with me, we're going to a pub," Everyle said as he stood up and waited for Cat to respond. Perhaps this would be a good time to show her just how poorly the other races were treated. "However, I'd suggest you stay quiet, it would be best if I do the talking."

 

[Kazehana]

Cat looked up with surprise. It wouldn't be hard to get lost in the city should she 'accidentally' get separated from him. She stood up and nodded, holding her hands in front of her. She figured that 'suggested' meant that she was required to do so, which annoyed her. Especially since it didn't make a whole lot of sense to her. Why would a non-human get to speak over a human? How annoying. Either way, there wasn't much she could do about it until there was a crowd. It was easy to hid her excitement, mainly because she was raised to hide most of her emotions. If only she was raised to be a ninja or something, she could leave just like that.

 

[Silver Wolf]

Everyle led them through the streets in hopes of finding a pub. There were a number of people and he could also easily feel the presence of an excited Cat behind him. He couldn't blame her even if she didn't feel it. He could feel everyone's presence. And a lot of it was unpleasant or blood lust. In fact, this is why he had his hands in his cloak. He didn't know what to expect walking around with a noble. He had visited Ironwrath more than once, and when he first visited, he thought he would go insane from the unpleasant aura he got from most people.


He continued to walk until the sound of a whip caught his attention and he turned around with his hidden hands on a throwing knife until he noticed that it was just another public whipping. Ten slaves were lined up, an elf, six dwarves, a giant, and two hobbits. Each and every one was being whipped as the slaver said, "This is what you get for not working hard enough! Do you really think I or anyone else will tolerate you collapsing from exhaustion? Especialy you dwarves, you've been pushing and waorking for twelve hours strait and now you collapse?! Don't think I forgot you, you little elf, after I'm done whipping you, you're getting some more personal punishment from me."


"Don't you have any mercy?" The elf cried before she was whipped once more. "Why, why are you working us to death? Why?"


The slaver narrowed his eyes and put his whip down to switch to a direct beating until the elf was knocked out. He continued to whip the bare backs of the others and while he was whipping the hobbit someone peculiar in the crowd spoke up.


"If you keep doing that, he'll die," a doctor said as he turned around to look at the whipping. "Are you sure you wish to do that?"


(This is actually inspired by a little history. Back from when America still owned slaves)


"He'll bloody live," the slaver said as he whipped the hobbit ten more times, only for the poor thing to go unconscious and begin his process of death right there. "What a weakling...I might as well have hung you!"


"Bastards..." Everyle said as his eyes narrowed and he emitted a bloodlust to the point that some people even backed away from him. He had said it in a quiet enough tone, but next he turned to Cat and said, "Let's stop watching and continue on."

 

[Kazehana]

Cat was not quite sure what to make of what she just saw. What was their crime, again? Not working hard enough? She hadn't heard that one before. It seemed... cruel. But at the same time...


Her attention snapped back to Everyle when he told her to keep moving. She hesitated, mainly because she could feel the bloodlust. It made her nervous to follow him, especially since she seemed to be in a rather dangerous city. Following him, she waited until they made it to a large enough crowd to look to the side for a moment, stopping right away. As he kept pushing forward, she slowly backed up, then darted through the crowd. She was not going to be near someone so belligerent, for it frightened her of what he might do.


Making her way through the crowd, she burst out of the mass of people, her eyes darting back and forth. She decided that staying in the open would be a good idea, mainly because there would be witnesses should anything happen. Frantic, she made her way through another crowd, maneuvering in hopes that he couldn't find her again. When she left that crowd, she found herself back at the whipping site, stopping suddenly as if she had hit a wall. Somehow, she managed to get up to the stockade, but she didn't remember how. Eyes on her, she felt awkward and slowly stepped away, not sure what else to do.

 

[Silver Wolf]

"Who in the hell are you?" the slave driver asked with cold eyes as he turned from his punishment. "It's a hefty crime to interrupt a public whipping!"


"Pardon me," Everyle said as he approached the slaver with his hood down as well as his mask. "My master merely got lost when she separated from me, she tends to get a little frantic when she doesn't know what to do."


"And your relationship with her is..." the slave driver asked as he crossed his arms and stared at Everyle with pure malice.


"I'm her bodyguard."


"Well then, you should learn to do your job better!"


"My apologies," Everyle said as he bowed deeply to the slave driver who narrowed his eyes further at this.


"Shut up maggot!" the driver shouted as he kicked Everyle in the gut so hard that the elf coughed up blood. After that though, the slave driver took a look at Cat and held the whip out for her to take. "You're his master, teach him a lesson."

 

[Kazehana]

Cat wasn't sure how to respond when Everyle took over. Now, she was presented with a whip, supposedly to punish Everyle. While it was tempting, she had better ways of dealing with punishment than whipping. Regaining her composure, she stood at her normal grandeur, staring daggers into the man. "Do you know who I am? I am Catherine Roche, the Grand Executioner. I have no need for your whip or your advice," she replied coldly. She wasn't about to let some commoner tell her how to do her job. "And I would think I would understand my follies when I make them, wouldn't you?" she retorted, obviously believing the man to have a superiority complex.

 

[Silver Wolf]

"Who's that? I know you're a noble, my apologies madam, but I was just offering you a chance to punish your slave, I just thought you'd want to whip him ten times or more."


Everyle was still there, he grinded his teeth while pulling his head down more so the slave driver couldn't see. However, he couldn't be too sudden here. Stinking Catherine, why did she have to run off like that? He didn't even know she could sense bloodlust, then again, he could say the same for the people that tried avoiding him at one point.


"Sir, we're kind of in a hurry, we're on a job for Andor," Everyle said as he began to get up.


"Ah, Andor. That explains why you think you can talk back," the slave driver said as he pushed Everyle onto his back with his foot. "Now then, I need to give this other elf some more private punishment," the driver said as he picked up the unconscious elf woman and began carrying her off.


Everyle waited until the slaver was gone before climing back to his feet and wiping the blood from his mouth. He hated this, why was he even here now? He would just as soon set the upper district on fire before stay here for most other reasons. Lana's name for this city wasn't too far off the mark.

 

[Kazehana]

Catherine was livid, too upset at the man for words. Her face seemed frozen on that 'you did not just say that to me'. She watched him saunter off with god only knows who, and she looked back at Everyle. "Just... The nerve of that guy. I ought to see him whipped for being utterly stupid!" she exclaimed, her face twitching with frustration.


"And you," she kept going with the same tone. That man had pretty much just set her off. "Why do you insist on keeping me with you? Why can't you just leave me aloneee," she ranted, pacing back and forth. "AUUGHHH" she grunted, trying to get the frustration of it a off of her chest. She just wanted to... Do something. Smash a tea pot or something.

 

[Silver Wolf]

"Do you spuriously think your rank as noble holds merit in a foreign nation? Be grateful, that could've gotten much uglier without me. He reopened some old wounds, but I guess I'll just have to refrain from fighting. You owe me a drink now."


Eeryle gave off a cocky grin and took pleasure in Cat's frustration as he got to see the tables turned. Him in charge of a noble wa quite entertaining. (Good night)

 

[Kazehana]

Cat stopped and frowned. "It does if I have been here before. I have high respectability here, just like any nation!" she protested, still pouting that the man didn't know her. "And I owe you nothing. I can take care of myself," she retorted, spinning on her feet and walking off in a different direction. She'd show him... but that went against the whole thing where she didn't want him to see her anymore, so... Whatever. She'd prove to herself and everyone else that she didn't need this.

 

[Pashpu]

Keline, who was dressed in a merchant's coat, frowned at Cat. "It's not that you need us. It's that we are keeping you on a leash because you nearly killed us all. And we still spared your life! You owe us." But the noble woman just walked away. Whatever. She hadn't been much help anyway.


The rest of them continued onward in the streets, where Keline noticed a city tavern. It was cramped and busy, with a stream of seedy-looking humans walking back and forth. "Ok," said Keline. "We can stop here, get something to eat, and then maybe ask around about Lana's friend." People in taverns were always full of information.

 

[Silver Wolf]

"Perhaps we should get something to eat? It's almost lunchtime anyways," Everyle said as he tossed Cat's coinpurse in the air casually. "It's on you too." He had a mischievous grin on his face as he waited to see Cat's reaction. "EH, no wonder another name for you nobles are fatpurses, how much you got in here?"

 

[Kazehana]

Cat scowled and tried to get her coinpurse back. "It's none of your business! Though I wish I had more. That was only supposed to last for the day," she argued, unhappy to have been stolen from. The way Everyle treated her was so annoying, and she swore she'd do something about it. But she didn't know what. At least not yet.

 

[Leo Radomir]

hoturi sits at a table by himself, drinking and eating his food, and a smart ass little halfling try to pickpocket him so he flips him on his ass and then kicks him down the middle of the tables and he goes crashing into a beer vat, then houri sits back down and continues like nothing had happen.

 

[Silver Wolf]

(@Leo Radomir wow, a lot of swearing for one post, oh well. Seems like this will be entertaining.)


Everyle and the rest of his group entered the pub. Everyle led them to a table and sat down. He took twenty gold coins out of Cat's purse then gave her her purse back and said, "As promised, you're buying me a drink."


Everyle pt a cocky smile on his face as he held up one of the coins. He was enjoying this quite a bit. "Anyhow, glad to not be around during the next execution. I hate them, but the slaughter is the worst. Those slaughters happen even more frequently than executions back in Seoga and Andor combined."

 

[Kazehana]

Still attached to Everyle's tight leash, Cat had no other option than to go in and sit down next to her favorite person. She snatched her purse back, snorting. "I never agreed to this," she retorted, but said nothing more on the subject. Arguing with a blockhead like him proved ineffective, especially when he thought he had complete control over her. He definitely didn't, as shown by her previous adventure, but while he was on guard, her plans tended to foil in on themselves. "I'm supposed to be attending to that execution today," she mumbled mostly to herself. It was weird that she didn't have to be on the job all the time. But at least she got to live at home with people who respected her. That and she got paid quite well for her services.


She looked into her purse, trying to count how much she had left. It wasn't hard since Everyle took a lot of it. If only she'd grabbed more before she was rushed out of the manor. With a small grunt, she squeezed her eyes. This wasn't happening. She couldn't afford to get her own food. She needed the rest of her money for emergencies! Though for normal people, quite a bit more could be used before emergency frugal mode set in.


So, she waited for Everyle to stop paying attention to her. When he did, she darted out of her seat, walking across the pub where she let out a sudden shiver. It was nice to not be able to see any of them anymore. But she knew she couldn't go too far, less she wanted to deal with Everyle when he inevitably found her. He was annoying that way. She found a man who seemed to be alone at the bar, leaning against the bar herself and putting her flirtatious facade on.


She chatted him up with a few innuendos here and a few subtle body movements there until he took a liking to her. When he did, he offered to buy her something to eat on the condition that she kept him company. She happily accepted and sat down, talking with the man about this or that, until he wanted to leave. He invited her to go over to his place, which set off a small red flag in her mind. If she went with him, who knows what he expected out of her. If she didn't, she was stuck with Everyle. Which was worse? So she reluctantly took his hand as he gently pulled her off the seat and towards the exit of the bar, hand around her waist and dropping. It made her uncomfortable, but she was determined to stick it out.

 

[Silver Wolf]

Everyle stalked them from the rooftops of the city, his hood was now up and his mask was pulled to his nose. Leaving his eyes only as he watched the man make advances on Cat. This was pretty bad, if she got angry and murdered him for this, things wouldn't just get rocky for them. In fact, he would have to dispose of Cat immediately. or kill all witnesses and hide them which would be a pain in the arse.


Everyle watched them for a while as he hid his presence and watched that of the two. The presence of the man emitted an active lust while Cat emitted a fear of sorts. Everyle grinned at this, he should watch this a little longer, the man could be forceful, then he could easily exploit Cat's fears. Fear was definitely a powerful tool as he found out. It was never an overlooked tool in the art of the blades or the silver tongues. However, he used both and more.


As he silently jumped from rooftop to rooftop, he played the event in his mind, it would be nice on his end to see the whole thing through, if she was just an ordinary girl. Foolish too, he could tell her tongue was more than just silver, it was a polished silver. She used this tactic before, but only on the wealthy. The wealthy had to follow rules and think about other people's thoughts, but not this worker. He had nothing to lose, and to have this happen to a lowly worker like him, seemed like a fantasy.


Everyle followed and followed up to the point of the house, where he began to go out of sight and climb down a building while he blended in with the crowd. Al while keeping a close eye on the two. That girl is so ignorant...I can't believe she actually put herself out like that...

 

[Kazehana]

They had made it to the entrance of his abode when he stopped her and whispered something in her ear, grinning and grabbing her butt at the same time. Cat smiled and looked down, then whispered into his ear for herself. For a moment, his smile held strong, obviously excited about the prospect. Then, it slowly faded as he exchanged his expression for one of horror. He immediately pushed her away and shouted something at her, to which she stared blankly at him and smiled. When he finished barking at her, he went inside, slamming the door behind him.


She smiled and started her way away from the house. She didn't really want to be there anyway. As it turns out, she is very good with men. So she made her merry way through the city, wondering where she even was at that point. She saw no sign of the group that had brought her here, which pleased her.


Around the town, she walked with an air of confidence about her, holding her head up high as she glided through the crowds with her hands behind her back. Now this was what she was used to. Not particularly caring about what anyone else was doing, she headed for the high point of the city, which contained its royalty's castle. Couldn't hurt to get a job while she was here. If she could, she could pay her way back home. That sounded like a plan to her.

 

[Silver Wolf]

Before Cat could even reach the high point, Everyle, seemingly out of nowhere, grabbed her wrist and whispered, "Make one more step and you're as good as dead!" right into her ear. He had been following her through the crowds until he had finally decided to make a move as they reached the edge of the poverty stricken part of the city. If she had gotten out, he didn't know what would happen, he'd actually have to leave and try to convince everyone else to. Now, he wasn't taking any chances. He released a bloodlust only so she could feel it. To let her know that he meant business this time.

 

[Kazehana]

Cat stopped and cringed immediately as he grabbed her. She nearly froze for the first few moments, too shocked to react. When he said he would kill her, he wasn't kidding. Her heart almost stopped as she forced herself to realize that she wasn't quite free of Everyle. Would he ever let her go? And why did he seem to be everywhere at once? It was rather annoying, that was for sure. She took a slow blink, her eyes looking at him as they opened. For a second, she considered his proposal. What good was being alive if she didn't get to enjoy herself ever? "And what happens if I go with you?" she challenged, returning her gaze back to nothing in particular in front of her.

 

[Silver Wolf]

"You do what we say, and if you come back now, you can have a drink. But I would refrain from being a whore again." Everyle said as he turned her around and began leading her back. He was grinning under his mask and his bloodlust had weakened, but he showed no signs of weakening his guard. This girl was quite stupid, she had obviously never been to a slums of any sort before. Now it was time to show a noble just exactly what hell was for once.

 

[Kazehana]

"A whore?" she asked with horror, looking incredulously at him as he led her to god knows where. For now, the condition that she had to do whatever he said was on the back-burner. "I am no such thing. That man got nothing out of me, just like any other man," she spat in disgust. How could he even say that? To a noble no less! She brooded about his comment, breathing deeply yet shallowly. She thought about leaving again, but she didn't quite know how she would go about it, nor how she could even get away from Everyle since he seemed to be everywhere she wasn't looking. "And what do you mean by 'do what you say'?" she asked. She was quite over this by now, and she wanted to make sure the terms of her temporary service were not out of line. She didn't want him to get any ideas.

 

[Silver Wolf]

"The way you were acting. Giving suggestions, flirting, and even allowed you to be led straight to his house. All the trademarks of a whore from the slums. As to doing what we say, it means that when you're told to do something, you do it. I don't see hat's so hard about that, you have to execute people on order all the time."


Everyle led her back to the pub and sat down at the table. He waited a little bit until one of the barmaids came over and placed his order for some ale and then gave the barmaid the twenty coins. The he just sat there while keeping an eye on Cat in his peripheral vision. He was quite glad he had no legends on him. He was actually quite glad he was going to have a couple of drinks for the first time in a while.

 

[Kazehana]

Cat wasn't happy to be back in a pub with him, especially since it was with him. Ignoring his description of a whore, she decided to move on. "And what are ya gonna do if I don't?" she challenged, obviously hinting that she wasn't going to. He could force her to be there, but he couldn't force her to participate. Much like me with my classes! Watching her money go down the drain like this disappointed her. The least he could do was buy something with refinement, after all!