| "LET'S HAVE X CHARACTER SHOW UP AND BE RANDOM BECAUSE OF LULZ AND REASONS AND HERE'S A POST GO GAME" |
[May. 22nd, 2013|09:51 pm] |
After speaking with Celena down at the sign, Shou takes her into a portal that just conveniently happens to open above the landlord's desk. She looks over at Celena, and smiles, making a gesture to allow her to do the honors of causing heart attacks. |
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| A trip to the Nexus |
[Aug. 11th, 2010|04:44 pm] |
"It's only for a few days, Brother," Celena assured Allen for the fifth time as she carefully folded another dress into her smallest travel chest.
Allen sighed. "A few days in a place you won't tell me, with a friend I don't know about."
Celena gave her brother a weary look. "I will be perfectly fine. My friend is trustworthy," she promised, giving her brother a peck on the cheek to reassure him. Or at least win him over.
It wasn't working. Allen frowned. "If she's trustworthy, why can't you tell me her name?" No, he was not figuring it could be a male friend. He'd be scandalized that his little sister was running off to spend a few days unsupervised with a male.
"I choose to keep this friendship secret," she explained. "It could do me ill at court."
Allen walked over and put a hand on her shoulder. "You also know I would never do anything to ruin you. I keep your secrets, Celena."
Sigh. Celena looked at her brother, feeling rather guilty about keeping such a secret from him now. Millerna and Dryden would give her grief over how hard she and Van had worked to put up the appearance of pure disdain for each other, only to be secretly friends afterwards, but Allen would not, and she knew it.
"Very well," she said, crouching down and locking the chest. "If you really must know, I am meeting with Van Fanel."
That seemed to surprise Allen. "Van? I thought you two hated each other."
Celena gave him a wry look. "We worked together to ensure the nobility did not try to marry us off to each other. The animosity could only last so long under such circumstances. Don't mistake me, a marriage would still be a terrible idea, but the animosity has been resolved."
The look Allen gave her was shrewd, as if he were plotting something, but it vanished before she could fully process it. "It had to do with-"
"Dilandau?" Celena finished for him, then sighed and sat down on the trunk. "Yes, that was the source of it. Apparently, I was not too terribly annoying for a noble once he realized there is a difference between that creature and myself." She had a rather dry tone at that.
"How generous of him," Allen said just as dryly. "Well, now that I know who you're meeting, I'm not quite so worried. Where will you be meeting him?"
Good question. How to field that one. "No place on Gaea." She smiled.
Allen's eyes crossed. "Surely not the Mystic Moon."
Celena laughed. "No, no, nothing like that. Would you care to see it? It's a fascinating place. It's called the Nexus, where all worlds meet."
Allen shooed Celena off her trunk and hauled it up. "I'll escort you, my lady," he said with a smile.
"Cedric can handle that, Brother," Celena tried to protest.
Her protests fell on deaf ears. "I'm sure he can, but it's a knight's duty to see his lady to her destination safely. You don't let me spoil you that much, indulge me, Celena."
Another sigh. "Very well, Brother." She smiled. "Thank you." |
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