The Savant

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Lake Ambience

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Sunni… you might have fucked up by pointing that out, the man thought to himself as he noticed Elara’s eyes and expressions kept letting guilt and regret peer through her. Staring into her blue eyes, he glanced away at the rocks underneath them and thought a little more as she spoke. He was honestly shocked that she referred to the rocks as beautiful and understood why he would like them. A thought went through his head to remind him that he overstepped in plenty of ways last night — She is being nice.

Yes, he had to remember that Elara was nice. She was being nice. Nodding his head at those thoughts, he tried to smile to encourage her to do the same, but he was trying his best not to point out the notes of negativity on her face. “Thank you for being kind,” He gave her a little more of a smile.

The redheaded man found himself feeling guiltier and guiltier as he noticed how uncomfortable Elara was looking. She looked guilt-ridden herself. Maybe you should stop talking… Except he found it hard to not talk around Elara since he wanted to share thoughts and things with her. Usually, he was able to play cool around women and had done so for a long time in Aurelia. Going to bars and having fun. One-night stands. Not making an idiot of himself. Showing Flynn how to pick up girls and smooth-talk them. Those years and years of skills withered around Elara. It gave him the same feelings as when the tutors would punish him for speaking out of line, wrong, or using “peasant words” and so on.

I care very much about learning things about you.

Those words sounded honest though he felt like they lingered with other emotions and a slight frown appeared on his lips before it quickly pursed into a thin and straight line. “You…” His culture? What about it? The man couldn’t think of anything distinctive or great about it at the moment. “You would probably learn about Aurelian culture better from the prince or the sun priestess… or something…” The man stated unconfidently. He didn’t believe that he was the best to talk about Aurelian culture, especially with how his father spoke about him.

I’ve expected so much from you, my first born son, and this is how you repay me? By wandering around with lesser individuals? Acting like they are more your family then I or your siblings?

Why can’t you be more like your siblings, they understand their places in society, and you clearly do not understand your place in all of Aurelia!

Staring at Elara when he thought about those statements and many more, he shook his head, since he did not believe one bit that he was good in that category. It was a constant disappointment that he didn’t fit into the societal-cultural lines of Aurelia. His father constantly reminded him of that.

Looking back at the rocks to give himself a break from staring at Elara, he looked at the shore of the lake, and how the water greeted the rocks lovingly with little waves and movements.

Hearing how she was not proficient in the arts, he nodded his head, and he decided to not bring up how he enjoyed painting. That wasn’t something that would pique her interest at all then. Walking over to the shore of the lake, he noticed a rock that he wanted, and it was more turquoise with darker green stripes and white dots. His body movement and the parting of his lips, it seemed like he was going to show her the rock, but he quickly shifted his body and put the rock in his pocket.

Sunni chuckled a little and smiled when she clarified that she was talking about books. Was she making fun of him? Since he clarified way too much especially when he brought up painting? A charming smile that showed his pearly whites could be seen as he continued to walk a little bit and look at rocks. “I’ve always enjoyed reading. It’s somewhat of a good way to escape from reality. I find myself reading scholarly books more than anything. I sometimes enjoy stories. Romance or adventure. Those are fun to read at times. Do you have any favorites?” He wondered as he stood up and looked at her.

“I’ve found that I do not have much free time since arriving at Dawnhaven, so I haven’t read that much,” Sunni confessed. There was so much work to be done that he found himself participating in manual labor more than anything.

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Jonathan & Joseph

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There was no leadership in sight and they assumed they got the day off today. After having a simple and quick breakfast the boys found themselves playing with one of Sunni’s many decks of cards. These ones had star signs decorated on the back, the sun, and the moon plus two decorative backs that resembled the moon and sun goddesses. They were very pretty. With a creak of the door, the youngest boy, Joseph jumped up thinking that their boss had arrived yet he seemed surprised that it wasn’t Sunni’s face coming through that door. “H-hello!” The younger one shouted out louder than he thought he did.

Jonathan was sitting on the stool and his head turned to see who was calling out. A larger woman and the innkeeper were at the front of the market building. “You do not have to be so loud, Joseph,” He corrected his brother before standing up with a semi-charming smile for a middle teen aged boy. “I’m sorry but Mister Emberani is not in at the moment,” He politely informed the ladies who were searching for the older man.

“If you want, you can leave a note for him or something, or we could tell him,” Jonathan gestured to Joseph who was on the other side. The younger brother looked confused at first before looking around. Grabbing a writing utensil and some parchment that was on the counter and handing it to his bigger brother.

The older one grabbed the items and handed them to the women. “We will make sure it gets to him too!” Joseph assured them with a smile. Bright and innocent.

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Definitely. Thanks looing forward to getting more involved. I'm glad i waited to post and have everyone else to interact with. ^^
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@amorphical

We will definitely get Becky interacting with Sunni.

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@amorphical At the ending of your post, I am assuming that Becky went to the market building, Sunni's area? I will definitely have Becky interact with someone, possibly Joseph or Johnathan, the NPC teenagers that work for Sunni because he's not at the building at the moment.

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Any fool could tell the woman was forcing a smile, at least Sunni could, and he said nothing about it. His thoughts filled with uncertainty and doubt. Was she uncomfortable around him because of last night? No… He didn’t think it could be that if she was willingly going on a walk with him. It could be the fact that Flynn and Octavia were fighting and she blamed herself. He was unsure and could only have assuming thoughts which meant he had no clue.

Her words were reassuring that he was not the cause of her energy. There were a lot of emotions that he could sense from Elara. Her tone was filled with concern and he almost felt guilty for pulling her away from her duties to the princess. Maybe he shouldn’t have offered a walk? Would a walk end up making her day worse? Sunni, why do you have to fuck things up?” He asked himself internally as he looked at the ground and nodded. “I think it might be nice,” He tried to sound more cheerful about the walk but it was difficult knowing that she wasn’t in the best mood. How could he make it better? His brain started running with ideas.

It was not dreadful weather, not yet, and he found himself enjoying the outside and its coolness more than he thought he would. Thoughts gnawed at his mind as he wished the sun was up in the sky inside of the moon. The moon was beautiful at the time of night and the sun was great during the day. He found himself silently mourning the loss of the sun once again.

Once they got near the water, his eyes started roaming around their feet and slightly ahead of them. In the shallows of the water. Sunni was looking for pretty or interesting rocks already. Something he did almost every time he came to the lake. Then he heard her voice and glanced at the woman, his amber eyes focusing on her ocean blues, and he stayed quiet for the moment.

The man was not allowing himself to show the screaming emotions that erupted internally when Elara referenced last night. Everything in his mind was telling him this was not going to go well at all. She had to be upset that he compared her to rocks… dead people… and the moon because he thought it was a large rock in the sky. He understood why she was mad. Sunni knew he was out of line saying everything that he did last night. Then she asked about rocks — why do you like them?

Her confidence was lacking in this situation and he could tell. Sunni felt the same way when she began to formulate, awkwardly, as if she didn’t know how to talk about rocks at all. Her cheeks had a light blush and that caused him to feel his face beginning to burn yet no color was showing just yet. Looking away so he could take a hold of his emotions and not blush from the awkward energy of this conversation, “Well… I…” His free hand began to rub the back of his neck while he looked around. Searching eyes found a pretty and unique looking rock.

Gently, Sunni guided the woman over to the shore, as he reached for the rock that he spotted. Grabbing the smaller red rock with green stripes and the larger pink rock with a green splotch, He brought them up in one hand before letting his other hand slip from Elara’s. Holding out the pink one, “I think they are very pretty and always unique. See how these two have red and pink coloration with green? But they look totally different. Not the same at all,” His tone seemed to wander just like his eyes did. Sunni was looking around more, as he put those rocks into one of his pockets.

He picked up a very plain looking rock that was in the shape of an oval and comfortably palm sized for himself. “Or like my mama used to have us do. She would have us collect rocks like this and paint things on them. Little animals or scenery or we would make “wish” rocks and write what we wish or want to happen then we would throw them into the nearby water or bury them in the desert sands,” Sunni was smiling so much when he spoke about this then he set the rock back down. She doesn’t like rocks, why is she asking me about them? His face grew a little too serious.

“How about we talk about something else? I don’t take you as someone that actually cares on why I like rocks…” Sunni spoke his mind truthfully since she didn’t seem to like rocks especially with his comments last night nor did she seem confident to ask him about them when she did a moment ago.

Looking around and trying to find something to switch the conversation, he had no idea what to switch to, because his mind was on rocks. His eyes glanced down to around his feet as he looked at the rocks, his brows furrowing, since he was trying to get his mind off of rocks. “Uhm…” He felt his face heating up and turning a different color. The skin around his cheekbones let a faint blush hit him. “Now, I can’t stop thinking about rocks or painting them. Do you like painting?” He asked in an attempt to change his thoughts from rocks to painting, simply painting, and seeing if she liked painting at all. “And I am not saying painting like in painting rocks. Just painting. Like… on a canvas,” Sunni felt like he had to clarify that. His eyes glanced at Elara @Qia.

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@The Savant, thank you, they'll be lumbering into town soon! @PrinceAlexus, pretty dresses for everyone! :D

@Lu

I might agree that Sunni would look fabulous in a dress. He might prefer something that isn't a dress.

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@Lu Cassandra and Butternut are adorable! And we finally got a seamstress, let's go!!!