bouchonne: (delighted!!)
Byerly Vlad Rutyer ([personal profile] bouchonne) wrote2020-10-03 12:55 pm
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contact part deux

if this were modern times byerly would probably make you listen to total eclipse of the heart before you were able to leave a message
archademode: (Leaving traces of emotion)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-17 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Then permit me to inform your estimation, Lord Rutyer.

I am not.

[Though if Byerly should happen to ask around for curiosity’s sake after the fact, there may or may not be talk of the children swarming one particularly dour knight with hand made crowns of their own.

All of which he’d worn, by the way. Discarded only after they’d departed.
]
archademode: (that I want this much)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[There’s a noise made for that, something low in his own throat, as if he isn’t quite sure how to endure the informality of it. But needs must, and so on and so forth.]

Is that when you came to join Riftwatch, then.

[Gabranth you can’t just ask people about being disinherited.]
archademode: (I take what I want)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-17 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
...who would disown a child?
archademode: (at the end of all things)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-17 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Orphans made by the weight of war and all hungering disaster that crawls in its wake; countless in number but not directly crafted by matter of intent.

[And so, to that extent, with a hardened tone rather than anything openly sypathetic:]

Perhaps you stand better off for the distance so afforded to you.
archademode: (of the ashes)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[At the words ‘deliciously interesting’ there’s a faint noise from Gabranth. Not deliberately critical, mind, but—

Byerly had given him permission to be a touch more candid, hadn’t he.
]

Skills?

[Narrow shoulders, frail hands and all— Gabranth can’t imagine him out there slinging a sword. Magic, maybe?]
archademode: (what you were going to say)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Head of—

[Excuse him, Byerly. Give him a moment, if you'd be so kind.


Actually, on second thought, he might have to call you back. That or he's died, because it's now startlingly quiet over there.

Probably the death thing.
]

archademode: (before you're doing the same)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, there he is. Still alive.]

...no, more often than not a lifetime of comfort leads to an indolent result.
archademode: (Leaving traces of emotion)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[The words Lord Rutyer almost slip out. He bites his tongue to tamp down on it.

If he'd ever managed to overcome his own tendency for offending those he ought not to, then this is its triumphant return by Gabranth's own estimation.
]

You misunderstood. I was not incensed.

[He was, though. He definitely was.]

archademode: (When the fire starts to burn)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Hardly a soldier.

[...is that not also technically an insult, Gabranth?]

Had I truly been unwilling, I could easily have denied you.

[And the orphans. And their very small flower crowns.]

Forgive my ignorance. Adjustment to this world has taxed more than I care to admit.

archademode: (before you take it away)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[His instincts are entirely correct. Between Barrow and Byerly, consider lashings now filed away under things that Definitely Do Happen around here.]

I did not think you the type to rely on bold measures.

[Most people hire someone else on for that. Like say, a Judge.]

archademode: (When you feel the heat)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yet he’d been told— ah. Foolish him, it seems.]

How do you guard yourselves from injudiciousness if you enforce so little?

[Far too transparent and protective besides, he sounds more concerned than anything else, if his unmasked voice is any indication.]

Edited (shh you saw nothing) 2021-04-18 17:49 (UTC)
archademode: (what you were going to say)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-18 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...no. [He isn’t lying, in fact.]

I’ve seen enough now to know the majority of work here is done with earnest intent. Your means might not be entirely to my taste but—

[Well, it’s his duty to worry anyway, isn’t it?]

You seem capable enough.

[Watch out for this unprecedented level of praise, wow.]
archademode: (I take what I want)

[personal profile] archademode 2021-04-19 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[He opens his mouth, closes it, and then starts again:]

Would you like me to speak of you specifically?

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