Barravel/Pakani chat

Barravel Casfari is probably already lounging in one of her favourite places by the time pakani drops by?

Pakani Redstone arrives eventually once he finds it! And goes to find her!

Barravel Casfari has probably also gotten herself a nice Hookah to puff in the meantime, alongside a mug of wine. Forces of habit, they'll be damned. "Over here, Pakani."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Hey."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Where's a spot to sit?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Right underneath your pretty little buttcheeks."

Pakani Redstone blushes slightly. "Er, uh. On the floor?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "There's pillows, don't you worry. Or you could move two steps to your right."

Pakani Redstone pokes the seating to see if it's softer the floor pillows.

Barravel Casfari || It's not. Nothing beats pillows. In fact, Barravel has elevated herself by nearly half a foot by piling pillows on top of the actual seating she's currently sprawled out across.

Pakani Redstone plops down on pillows then! Setting some behind himself against the bench.

Barravel Casfari puffs the pipe a few times, blowing the smoke away from pakani. "... So. You had questions?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Er... Not really? I thought you did."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Well, you at least want to know about the boar, as you've made clear."

Pakani Redstone shrugs. "I was curious, but it's not important."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Cahlind was named an identifying feature of mine in a warrant I hid from when I came here. It's a long story, but I had to hide and disguise her."

Barravel Casfari states that rather matter-of-factly, sipping her wine.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "...Warrant?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Impersonation of nobility, Instigating infidelity and a few other laughable things like that."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "... Admittedly, that lady's anger was less laughable, though."

Pakani Redstone raises his brows. "Uh... I take it it's not... still an open warrant."

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "I didn't go back to Baldur's gate to ask, and I don't intend to, either."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Is instigating infidelity actually a crime there?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Well, to her it sure was. I didn't exactly stop to read the warrant."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "But you're not still in danger?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I think she's simmered down. That incident lies a while back."

Pakani Redstone nods.

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "..So. Echo's back to.. ah.. full health yet?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Ah, yeah, she's better now. How's Kavarsi's lessons going?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Slow, but steady. I'm glad she's concentrating on the topic. Dech is also... oddly focused lately."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh, he's back to taking lessons too? That's good."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Looks like he has to start from the very beginning as well. Whatever happened to him apparently burned out most of his innate attunement."

Pakani Redstone blinks. "Er... something happened? Other than Tilda - passing away?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Apparently, Tilda and Nikki performed some sort of ritual to... suppress or remove his fiendish ancestry."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh. Did it - work? It sounds like it had some effect."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Not - entirely, at least not from a physical standpoint. It definitely had -some- effect, though. Spellcasting seems to have gotten significantly more difficult."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Huh. Well..." He shifts around a bit to get more comfortable, stretching his legs out and reaching back to set his cane on the seat.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "WAS there anything you wanted to ask me, by the way?"

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "Given taht I am already vividly aware of a goof bit of your own past... not really, no. I simply figured getting away from Burmice was as good an opportunity as any to offer sating your curiosity."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. considering that I am apparenty widely considered 'too secretive'."

Pakani Redstone shrugs. "You are secretive."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I am 'secretive' because I don't exactly want everyone in the mask to know there's probably still a warrant on my head. I am 'secretive' because people seem to just be unable to comprehend why I don't want everything I say to be widely known by virtually everyone."

Pakani Redstone tilts his head. "I didn't say 'too' secretive."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "If wanting privacy makes me 'secretive', then.. sure."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Is it a bad thing?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Me wanting privacy? Apparently."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Why didn't you make up a story about the boar?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Right. Why, oh why might I have decided against lying."

Pakani Redstone laughs a little. "Yeah. Why?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Would you have rather had me lie?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Is that why you didn't?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I sometimes really don't get you people. Keeping things to myself is secretive, lying is bad, but the truth is oh so odd."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I'm not saying anything is good or bad, you are. I'm just asking why."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "It's the impression I'm very frequently bombarded with lately. I didn't see a reason to lie. So I didn't."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Not even the warrant?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Well, if I've got headhunters on my trail soon, I at least know whose fault it is."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Mm... I'd be more worried about the detective who was standing there at the time. But.."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Neverwinter is far outside of their jurisdiction. And at this point, I have the thankful ability to just teleport hundreds of miles away."

Pakani Redstone shrugs. "So you didn't lie cuz it doesn't seem dangerous enough to worry about? Or cuz you didn't want people thinking worse of you? Or it might've hurt my feelings if I found out?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. the latter. People can't really think any worse of me."

Pakani Redstone looks thoughtful. "What do you think?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Think on what?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Well, yourself."

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "I tried to shed my skin and evidently failed. Not much more to it."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Hm... The reason I got used to not lying was because me and other people I knew got hit with truth serums and zones of truth. I had to start thinking of how to phrase everything as 'technically' true as possible. That's probably a more selfish reason. I had to make sure anybody who really talked wouldn't... have conflicting stories. It's a hard habit to break, keeping up facades."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "And I've never done anything -but- lie. Every skin I crawl into is another story to remember and remove from myself. Trying to not do that anymore apparently didn't help any."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Some things you end up carrying to the grave because of how dangerous they are."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: Oh, yeah. But isn't that true for everyone."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I've been scolded a lot for just saying things what people want to hear, being what they want me to be."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I think that trying to break out of that habit and... not treating everyone like I used to treat nobles - to be afraid of..."

Barravel Casfari shrugs somewhat. "I never understood why you would do that anyways if you don't get anything out of it. With friends, mayhaps. But strangers?"

Pakani Redstone shrugs. "Being afraid of them."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Most, if not all nobles, are nothing to be afraid of anyways."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "For a while I just barely talked to anyone, here. Didn't approach or greet, it was - above.. my station. Sirring and Ma'aming anyone who talked to me."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "They are if they own you."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "And even then, most of them lack the wits to be truly dangerous."

Pakani Redstone smirks. "Thayan nobles stay nobles because they're clever and dangerous."

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "Hardly been there. And I don't plan on going."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I was used to two types of people before. Fellow slaves who who knew all the same shit to talk and complain about, and everyone above us to avoid, fear, or kiss ass."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Nobody's here in those categories. Nobody could relate. So I just kept my past a secret instead and put everyone in the second category, to respect and fear them."

Barravel Casfari chuckles. "I don't think I've ever held much honest respect for anyone 'above' my station. Pretend? Certainly. But honest?"

Pakani Redstone laughs. "There's no difference. Respecting someone is the same as giving them respect, pretending to respect them."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Not quite, not in my opinion at least."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "To them, it's as good as the same thing. You don't have to like them. I mean, obviously, why would they care what your feelings are? It's just how you treat them that matters."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "And the nobles that think this way are usually the ones that don't keep their station long. Actually -felt- respect comes with a certain sense of loyalty and honesty, regardless the disposition. Pretend respect lasts about as long as it takes for opportunity to arise."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Well... there's a lot of backstabbing and usurping positions in Thay, so. Not just nobles, anyone, really."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "It's the same in Athkatla, really."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I mean, who the hell cares about how a slave feels? What's it gonna do?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Depends on the slave, really."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "That's like caring if you hurt your dog's feelings. Or your furniture's feelings. You want them to do their job, not have emotions. They're things. YOU might think of them as people, since you're from out west."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Calimshan has it's fair share of slavery, too. My mother was born one."

Pakani Redstone tilts his head. "I'm surprised this sounds strange to you then."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I'm guessing she... actually had the motivation to escape."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Slaves are a significant investment and the amount of slaves you own an indicator of your wealth. Treating them like firewood doesn't help either of those things."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "And I.. don't actually know. She never told."

Pakani Redstone shrugs. "Depends on the owner... Some would just keep a few slaves, and keep them for life, and take care of them well. Some... the mines and certain farms - you get burned up in a few years, and then piled in a cart for a necromancer. S'not like killing them is a 'waste' over there after all..."

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "Of course there's always those and others."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "The point is that I got used to the idea that if I stepped out of line, I'd be dead and worse pretty quickly."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Makes sense, I guess. Then again, I dislike the whole Slavery-thing in general, so."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "And... I guess slowly breaking that habit here, is - easy to get carried away with the freedom to kind of be a pest and prod at people when they can't smite you. Or bring them off the pedestal of 'person I have to respect and fear' to just - just another fellow person to joke and tease around with cuz you're probably all in the same shit anyway."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Oh, yeah. Most of the people have had some issues somewhere."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I mean you know I'm talking about you here, right..."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I assumed. And while I don't expect a pedestal, I don't think it's too much to ask for a bit of respect and privacy without hitting you left and right with it."

Pakani Redstone shrugs. "It's not excuses or justifications, just an explanation."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I'm not good at talking to people yet since I'm not really used to being one."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Well, you'll get used to it eventually. To having a voice, I mean."

Pakani Redstone nods. "I was kinda surprised by your reason for not lying."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Why?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Like I just said. I'm not used to people doing things because of how I might feel. Just how they want me to act."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I mean. To be fair. YOu -can- get pretty bothersome when you're upset."

Barravel Casfari sounds half-quippant.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Ah.. Yeah. When?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "While back. It was also something about me not telling something outright over the stones. You chastized me for not telling you."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh. About Anora's investigation?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Yeah. My opinion on that hasn't changed, by the way."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I... was kind of trying to figure out what usable assets there were. And, also kinda scared you might die. Also, Graye had wanted to kill me at one point, and... I was still keeping tabs on him at the time, mostly. To figure out what dangers there were there."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "His story on that is a little different. But as for the assets, I still think that coming out of the closet might've saved us a day or two."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "...er... y..es?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I'm not sure what you're talking about now actually. I chastised you for keeping secrets but you should have come out with them sooner?.."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "No. You with your contacts."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Would it have? I inherited them from Anora. They didn't know me or trust me. I was putting their lives on the line asking them to be involved, for me, a stranger. If I went telling people their names, it wouldn't have made them work faster or learn faster. It would've ruined them as a contact, for all of us."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Don't get me wrong. ANoras death is... was... all on me. I know that, and I'll live with that. But I believe that, yes. Though I will never know, because to this day I still have no idea who or what you were or are talking about."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "They were Anora's people first. It's how SHE wanted it to be."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Which isn't really a really valid excuse given the situation back then."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "It's how she set things up for them, for their safety, so they wouldn't get killed too."

Barravel Casfari gnaws on the mouthpiece of the hookah.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Why wasn't it a valid excuse?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "A contact loyal to someone dead is worth nothing."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "If I was a spy and my boss suddenly got murdered, and some stranger shows up promising I can trust him and go throw myself into danger... And then he goes and starts telling people about me... I had to earn their loyalty, Barravel."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Sure glad you apparently have it now."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "What would you have done if you knew their names, huh?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I didn't give a rats ass about their names, and I still don't."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Then what is the problem? What did you want from me? I told you as much as was safe. You even gave ME a line about how we can just let each other keep our secrets."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "But knowing what they knew on the case might've given us the day we would've needed."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I TOLD you what they knew."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "You told me nothing."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I literally told you what they found out! All of it! Are you seriously holding a grudge about something I - Yes, I did. The papers they found on him? The dates of deliveries and pick up dates? That was from them. From me. It was all they found."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Delivered through Sullivan, if I recall correctly.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "And? So what? So what's it matter who the info gets to you? I had him do a reading on the papers first like we did on all of them."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "With no word on the actual informant. Which could've kept me from getting as mad as I did."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Have you seriously been - thinking I let her die, all this time? Because of that?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "No. I killed her. That's on me."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I told you at the time that I'd already shared what I knew. You obviously... didn't trust me enough to take my word, I guess. And have been feeling this way ever since, holding onto it."

Barravel Casfari might be puffing a little more than healthy at this point.

Pakani Redstone sighs. "And... you did ask me for their names then. I told you where I had assigned them, what they were looking out for. They didn't find much. Which is why I didn't -say- much."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I'm pretty sure I asked 'who', not 'names and dates and places of birth'"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: " 'Names would help, Pakani.' "

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Yeah. Because being accused of being secretive while talking to someone refusing to give information isn't exactly how a healthy talk works."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I literally told you, at the time, exactly how much I knew through them. But you apparently forgot, so you could get mad at me all over again about something we covered."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. nevermind. Just forget it."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "No! Gods! I'm not going to just let you stew on something against me for another year."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "You wanted an example, I gave you one. Don't blame me for the conversation escalating."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Did I ever say being secretive was a bad thing? I said I was sorry for prying and that I wouldn't anymore."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I explained why I'm secretive too, I agreed with you about it."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Good. Then we can move on."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Well, can we? Or are you still going to keep holding on to this anyway? Like, the fact I have to explain the exact same things twice. I didn't KEEP any secrets from you except their names. Ever."

Barravel Casfari pinches the bridge of her nose. "Fine. I'll keep my thoughts to myself in the future."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "You asked for an example, I delivered."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "No, I'd rather just - be talked to. Like. Why..."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "That's all it was supposed to be."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I mean, I wish I'd kinda known you still thought about this sooner so I could explain it."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I didn't think about it until just now. I had honestly even forgotten what the argument had been about."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Well... okay. I mean, you... Forgot that I had already explained it I guess. And just brought up the first part where you asked me, and forgot the part that I answered about."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "... Pakani. You're not helping."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I told you back then they were Anora's people, working on Ysberyl's case, I sent them to some taverns to keep a lookout, they didn't uncover much of anything..." He sighs tiredly.

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I get it, I get it. Can we move on already. Sorry for saying anything, you're innocent, I was wrong."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "That... sounds more like sarcasm."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "It isn't, but you keep pushing your thumb in."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh." There's a long pause. "I don't... think anyone blames you for her death at all, for what it's worth..."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I could've saved her by going through the door and I didn't. Her blood's on me."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I thought you did go through though. And got attacked?"

Barravel Casfari rubs her face, several times. "..No."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "But they would've outnumbered you in there."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I overheared that halfelf talk about a mage-safe door anora was brought through, detected magic on the door, and was too scared to follow. That killed her."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "No. He did."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "There was nobody down there except the guard that brought her there."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Good people making mistakes isn't nearly the same thing as evil people doing malicious things."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I really don't-... want to go over this again, Pakani."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "And they're going to -want- you to blame yourself for them, every time. Just... remember nobody thinks that about you, okay?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "mhm."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "At least I never did. And if someone said they do, then they were an ass."

Barravel Casfari just shrugs, taking another few sips from her mug. "Anyways."

Pakani Redstone has somewhat withdrawn against himself over time by now, legs pulled up and head down somewhat.

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. So. Back to the happy part of the conversation."

Pakani Redstone fidgets with his sleeve hems. "I - was wrong to pry back then too, mostly I was - scrambling, confused, scared, for anything. But I - meant it that I - don't really care about prying, I'm - I won't. I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable and upset so often."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Eh. It's fine. I haven't done a marvellous job at keeping my temper in check either. I mean. I'm trying. But it's a lot harder than you'd think. So sorry for that as well, I suppose. If that upset you."

Pakani Redstone hesitates and shrugs. "It...'s what I'm used to."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Not the point of this, though. Either way. Uhhh."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "It doesn't... necessarily upset me, per se? I don't know. But, thank you."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "My ears and the soles of my feet are ticklish."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "What?"

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "Attempt at derailing the conversation."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Why'd you pick Neverwinter?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Heard rumors that an elf fitting my father's description had been seen around the area. I had to ditch anyways, so I figured... might as well, even if it's wrong."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "From Baldur's Gate?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "... the farther the better. That woman was -nasty-. Well.. granted, I stopped at Waterdeep on my way there. You can imagine that trying to find a pale, white-haired elf gets you a lot of wrong leads."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "And you found your father?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. well.. he found me. In the end."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "How did it go?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. poorly."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh..."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Well, I mean. It's better now. But. Uh. All I knew that one day he'd disappeared without a word."

Pakani Redstone blinks. "What... happened?" he asks, somewhat cautiously.

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "And then, seven years later, he's suddenly there and basically goes 'Good evening, I'm back home by the way.'"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I was... mildly upset."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Where was he? Or... why?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "He says he got stuck working in the feywild. Apparently what only seemed like a few weeks to him were seven years to us."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh. Wow."

Barravel Casfari shrugs. "Apparently the feywild is odd like that."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Hm... only apparently?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I've never been there."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Do you, uh..."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "mh?"

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "...Not believe him...?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I.. don't think he'd lie about it."

Pakani Redstone nods. "And things are alright between you now?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "They're... better than before. But a lot has happened, and I don't think he's coping well with all of it."

Pakani Redstone nods, somewhat hesitantly suggesting, "Your mother?"

Barravel Casfari nods slowly, and it takes her a few moments to remember that Pakani is blind. "Mhm."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "I'm sorry about her. How'd she pass?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Age the first time. I'm... not sure about the second."

Barravel Casfari 's voice grows progressively more quiet over the course of her sentence.

Pakani Redstone nods slowly. "She'd... come back as a ghost, right?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "...mhm..."

Pakani Redstone just sort of waits for if she'll add more or not.

Barravel Casfari takes quite a break before speaking up again. "All I know is that... apparently, someone my-.. father trusted convinced her to--- go."

Pakani Redstone nods a little. "Was it... a good or a bad thing?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "... to him.. apparently bad."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: ".. he was dirt-drunk when I found him. He barely... recognized me."

Pakani Redstone frowns.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "The person who convinced her didn't say how?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I have no idea who it is or how it happened."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh."
telling Morrhan that witnessing Eyrin's ego interact with anyone else is entertainment enough

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I just.. know that she's gone now. For good."

Barravel Casfari fidgets with the waterpipe, snuffing the coal and putting it aside.

Pakani Redstone nods, then hesitates a bit. "Mine... was... killed in front of me. When... I could see."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I'm-... sorry to hear that, Pakani."

Pakani Redstone shrugs slightly, worrying at his sleeve fabric with his fingers. "She um. Tried to get me out. They were gonna sell me. But... y'know, toll booths, guard stations everywhere, can't really..."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "... I.. have an idea, yes."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "She wasn't the kinda person to let... Like, she fought a jackal with her bare hands once when it tried to attack me once."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "That... wow."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Heh. It - was starving I think, it came running onto the estate cuz it saw me out in the open. She got between us instead."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "That.. is still quite something."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "She was like that. She said it was better to be scary and deadly than scared and dead."

Barravel Casfari makes a very brief, somewhat amused noise. "COuld've been from my own mother."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "And she meant it. If anything threatened me or Dad..."

Pakani Redstone chuckles a little, but his laugh turns into a sort of awkward throat noise. "Anyway, I was fifteen, she knew what kinda people would buy someone that age. We went on the run on the spot."

Barravel Casfari furrows her brows somewhat, but doesn't interrupt.

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "And that didn't work out, uh. obviously. And. Zenta won the auction."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "... I'm sorry, again."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Ah... thanks. Sorry, I didn't mean to derail into all of that."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "It's-.. fine, really. My own mother was.. similar. Dragon's temper, but woe was you if you meant her family ill. She... was listed as combat-ready evoker in Eshpurta for quite a while, as far as I know. Probably.. tell you everything."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Eshpurta?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Military city in the east of amn. Not.. too horribly far away from where I was born."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh, so she was registered for... conscription?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "So to speak. Luckily, Amnians are naturally superstitious and suspicious, and would rather use steel to solve military conflicts. ... heard that my brother's father was killed in a scuffle near Eshpurta before I was even born."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Your mother remarried, then?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "mhm."

Pakani Redstone nods again, just listening.

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Took her over a decade, though." She shrugs. "My brother's eldest is already... thirteen or so, I think."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Is he a half-elf or a human?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Human. Could be older. I'm not really keeping track of his brats."

Pakani Redstone laughs. "Did you ever know your grandparents?"

Barravel Casfari shakes her head, slowly. "... neither side."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Me neither."

Barravel Casfari chuckles briefly. "Revelations, Revelations." She drains her mug, stifling a yawn. "Either way... it's getting rather late. I should get back to the paperwork."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Paperwork?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "Mostly my uncle and his ideas of proper compensation. And some other things. I wanted to finish some of it tonight."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "...Compensation?"

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "The Chult trip. He currently expects us to dive into that ruin out of the goodness of our hearts and a hunger for adventure."

[Say] Pakani Redstone: "Oh. I didn't know he was... I actually don't know anything about the trip."

[Say] Barravel Casfari: "I don't know too horribly much myself yet. But my unlce is a silver-tongued bastard, and I'd rather have anything written down before we do anything."

Pakani Redstone nods. "Makes sense." He pushes himself up to stand again, retrieving his cane. "Have a good night, Barravel."

Barravel Casfari stands as well, flattening her robes out somewhat. "Rest well, Pakani."