Vedette Niveue-Uthral (in_the_service) wrote in adusta, @ 2009-12-07 22:11:00 |
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Entry tags: | ithacles, vedette uthral |
hot and cold (ithacles)
One small trip to the healing houses for their band of soldiers had left them with half their men in sickbeds, and the other half ready to nurse their wounds with tankards of ale. Already the streets of Tauberwald were lit with news of a Dragon, something none of them had seen in quite some time. Not to mention stories of Ithacles' bravery against the orcs and the dragon itself. Some where painting stories that he'd single handedly killed the Orc and the Dragon. Vedette tried not to glare when she overheard such stories, and from the looks of it Ithacles was trying to drown himself in his ale.
Tauberwald was a small village deep in the forests at the northern end of Faustben. It's height in the mountains left the stream that ran through it frozen nearly solid most of the year. The locals were often seen chipping away the ice and melting it down in large pots so that they continually had water through the winter. Snow hardly found it's way through the thick trees amongst the village. Some of the houses themselves did not see the snow as they were low enough to the ground to be under a tree. But people hardly kept outside, even with the somewhat dry ground around them, it was far too cold for such things.
Vedette preferred it outside as she was boiling to death inside the tavern they had found themselves in.
The Smoke Pit was not named because there were an abundence of smokers in the village, though many a man could be seen with a pipe, it was because of all the fireplaces the building had inside of it. It was made of wood and yet these humans tempted their fate by trying to keep the place scorching hot during the winter. She supposed that's why Ithacles chose it as he wasn't very fond of the cold. That's also why the set of chair's they'd taken up were right in front of the largest fireplace in the tavern. Vedette had folded her legs up eagerly away from the fire and tried not to look as if she were about to melt from the heat.
Every drink she ordered was ordered with ice in it. If it didn't come with ice she made sure it was frosty cold before she drank it.
"Are you warm enough, Ithacles?" She asked, only a small touch of annoyance in her voice.