Anarion/Atheris/RP

(12:28:18) Atheris sitting in the dim bar, a cigarette in her maw; Atheris sat in the back of the booth alone writing in a ledger. She hated coming here but it was lucritive to her to do so. So many masters looking to kill each other off, or slaves able to scrape together the coin to poison their abusive masters; she didn't care one bit, although she offered discounds to the slaves, as she disagreed with it personally. One more dead slaver didn't matter to her. Persephone moved around in the bag next to her, happy to have the thick notebook out of there with her. "Oh stop being dramatic, it doesn't take up that much space" she told the hidden snake. Rolling her eyes a little she stopped writing and took a drink of the scotch that was in front of her. The bar was quiet, it always was, no one ever wanted to hang out here. Not enough bare flesh. Thats why it made her raise a brow when she saw the gem encrusted ginger in there all the sudden. They were the onlt two in the bar save for the tender
(12:36:08) Anarion entered the bar with a big huff. He hated the main hall, nose still wrinkled up in distast for the smells of blood, sex, and excriment. He wouldn't be there at all if it weren't for the place being the only place he ran into his own kind aside from his family. Hand's would fall to rest on his hips as he looked about the bar, not a living soul. Oh wait, there was one, tucked away in one of the rarely used booths. A brow would quirk at her attire. Ana was a tribal canine, and was dressed accordingly in leathers and furs. Her quite dapper outfit had his attention and he would, without hesitation walk to the same side of the bar as her, taking seat at a neighboring table. He'd wave at the bartender, who would have recognized him and brought him a beer. "Dead today, huh?" he'd chuckle to the other patron. Today? It was always dead, but small talk was small talk.
(12:46:43) Atheris raised a brow at the male, his leathers and furs very different from her tight fitting suit she wore. She recognized his kind, another type of long living creature like her, not a cadenti but what was it, she wracked her brain for it, ark... ark.. Arkaine that was it. She had met a couple here, they congrigated here after all. "Its always dead in the bar. No one likes being here. Not enough tits" she spoke, her voice cared a somewhat cold sarcastic tone. She made a few more marks in her ledger before blowing at the ink and closing it once it dried. "I am surprised to see anyone else up here. I tend to do my work up here since its the quietest place in the teather"
(12:51:20) Anarion didn't recognize the creature she was and found himself staring at the feathers that sprouted from her ears with some confusion. Anarion might have been 50 years old, but that's barely an adult in Arkaine. Just a baby practically. So most things he experienced were brand new to him. Despite her tone lacking humor he still laughed at her comment, "Which is exactly why I like it in here. It's crazy out there," he waved a hand passively towards the main hall. "I tend to stick to here or the gardens, depending on my mood." Ears would twitch at the mention of her work, "Oh, am I disturbing you?" voice held honest concern, "I can leave you be if I am."
(13:00:47) Atheris ears flicked a little when he would stare at them, the long dark feathers that haloed her curly hair quivered. "No, I was just about done. I have to stay the night in this god forsaken place before catching the boat back to the mainland to get back to my shop and... my friends" she didn't know how to phrase what her basement of snakes would be called. "I come in, meet my buyers, fill out my paperwork and try to leave as soon as I can. I don't condone slavery.." her voice sounded a tad bitter. "You can stay here, I have a bottle of scotch to finish anyway." she took a long puff of her cigarette, blowing a few smoke rings before she took a drink. She loosened her tie a bit before she stared at the male with her icy blue eyes. "You can sit on this side," a soft hiss from her bag objected to her offer quietly

(13:07:38) Anarion listened to her speak about her business and how she had to stay the night here, "That sounds rough. I live on these islands, but not here, so I get to go home. Hopefully your night passes quickly, so you can get back." He nodded as she continued, "Why do business her if you dont condone what they do here?" he'd pause before adding, "I don't condone it either. But many of my kind are imprisoned here, I come here to comfort them." Ana at heart was a big softy. Very idealistic and loving. His fluffy tail would give a sway when she said he could stay, and he would move to slide into the other side of her booth. Smiling nervously at her as he dipped his muzzle in hello, "I am Anarion, by the way."
(13:17:41) Atheris raised a brow at him. "The simple reason of money. I like having it." she told him. "I make a lot of it here from the slave owners and the slaves themselves" she actually took a loss from the slaves but hey, it was fine. "I'm sorry many of your kind are enslaved here. That must be hard." she couldn't imagine seeing another cadenti being enslaved, they were free spirits. She would have bought them if she saw them for sale. "I usually get a decent room and am not bothered. The staff know me, I am sad to say." her lip turned up in a scowl. "Atheris. Pleasure to meet you, Anarion."
(13:23:47) Anarion could understand that. Money is a necessary evil. "That's cool," he responded about her making a lot of money. He himself was a craftsman and made his living that way. Although he was pondering other professions as of late. "It is, but it's always been that way. At least in my lifetime." He would also buy his own kind if he could, most of them were just rentals though. So there wasn't much hope in a flat out purchase and he also didn't have neccessary coin. "Oh that's good, that your not bothered, not so much that your well known around this place. But I guess that is required for doing business in such a place. "Likewise, Atheris. That's a nice name. What are you? If you don't mind me asking."

(13:29:47) Atheris laughed, she had been around for so long, 'Its been this way for a long, long time, not just in your lifetime." she told him. Being over 1000 she had been around with this place had been built, some of her kind had been instramental in it even. "Oh. I am a Cadenti." as if that explained everything, she was used to others having atleast herd of the star bound creatures. "I enjoy my work, but Some of it is questionable." she opened her bag, putting her ledger back in it, persephone having had enough at this point moved out and crawled up her arm and laid around her neck like a large pink necklace. Covering the actual silver charm her friend had given her recently. "Oh you big drama queen" she told the snake. "We do not have to get a bigger bag." she was talking to the snake as if she knew what she was saying, well she did but he had no way of knowing that she could carry a convorsation with the serpents

(13:33:55) Anarion shook his head a bit, "Oh I meant since my kind had been enslaved. It's been 150 years since the wars. Ears would twitch as she so matter of factly stated her species, "Oh. Cadenti huh?" He didnt pry to much more into it. A name was good enough for him. Plus he didnt have long for his curiousity before that slithering death made its way from her bag onto her neck. All the color from Ana's face draining and he'd let out a nervous, "Uh...Atheris, are you aware that there is a venemous snake around your neck?" He'd lean back in his seat to make as much distance between him and the creature as possible. Oh, she talks to snakes? Just his luck that every single person he meets here is crazy!
(13:40:18) Atheris raised a brow as she pet the snakes head. "Uh.. yes? This is my companion, Persephone. Shes a bush viper." she told him, a lot of others were afraid of snakes, she understood his reaction. "Being a cadenti, we are connected to host stars in specific constallations, and mine is connected to the binding serpent's heart star. It gives us all some powers mine include talking to snakes" she shrugged, it was normal to her. "I'm over a thousand, I've been talking to them for a long time." Persephone settled around her neck and started to sleep. She was a big baby
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(13:52:03) Anarion seemed to be calm some knowing it was a companion and not a wild snake, "Odd pet but okay. She's uh...pretty? I don't think I have seen a snake with such colors before." He'd chug some of his beer then. "That's all super interesting. I know some Arkaines can talk to other's using their minds. Kinda sounds like that." Ana had yet to show any of the Arkaine magical abilities. So he couldn't speak of them personally but he had met many that had a bad habit of trying to talk into his head which he quite disliked. His jaw would drop at the mention of her age, "Over a thousand? That's wild."
(13:59:37) Atheris laughed when he called her odd. "Shes the most normal animal I've ever known. Shes friendly, and funny and smart." she told him, she tapped the snakes head so she woke up. "He called you pretty," she told her, the snakes tongue poked out and she hissed. "She says thank you. Bush vipers usually come in green colorations but sometimes they are born in red and pink." she told him. "We all have different powers, mine just is snake related, I can also do this" she held out a hand and a a group of hard dark scaled emerged from her skin and fur to cover it. "There are some who have ice and snow manipulation, some who can create their own poisions, and many more."

(14:04:57) Anarion eyes never left the snake as she woke it up. "Oh, I don't know much about snakes. Another arkaine told me about naga's which I guess are like snake people? Anyway, I want to avoid them." He'd awkwardly smile to the snake, "Uh..you're welcome? Ive only seen brown and green snakes before, never pink ones. Very interesting, learn something new everyday." And that was an understatement, the amount of knowledge being crammed in his skull over the course of two weeks has been...overwhelming. His eyes would widen as she spouted scales out of nowhere, "Wow, wish I could do something cool like that. I just make these," He'd search around in his pocket for a second before setting a little wood carved flower there. "I make bows and stuff too. But I like making these more," tapping the flower. "I made this one for my sister, shes obsessed with flora."
(14:14:22) Atheris nodded a bit at him "I have a friend who is a silver-smith. I really like the work of those who craft with wood or metals.." she smiled a little. Moving a hand she lifted the snake charm on the leather chord to show him. "He made this for me to pay for some anti-venoms I make to take with while he travels. He is a cadenti hybrid though, mixed with a hellhound" she spoke quietly, taking a sip of the scotch. "You are good," she looked at the flower, it was delecate and detailed. "I'm sure your sister will like it." she patted the snakes head while she went back to sleep. "I run a small apothocary on the main land, sell mostly herbs for medical and recreational use. I uhh, have a lot of snakes I keep in the lower part of my shop" she didn't dive into the fact that she milked and mixed the venom of these serpents and sold them for a high high profit
(14:22:26) Anarion leaned forward just a bit to peer at the silver working, "Oh that's amazing." Admiring the metal snake for a moment before nodding, "I will have to keep you in mind then, anti-venoms come in handy when hunting. What do you charge for such things?" brow quirking some. He didnt come here for business but he wasn't going to pass up some that arose. "And thank you, I think she will too." The way Atheris was with snakes reminded him of his sister and her flowers and how she tended to them so lovingly. It wasn't a far stretch from apothecary, selling anti-venom, and a basement full of snakes for him to figure out that she milked them. Odd to him but he also assumed it would be easy work if you could talk to the snakes.
(14:35:37) Atheris raised a brow at him and got into her bag. "Depends on the potency and how much you need." pulling out a small vial and set it on the table. "This one is 5 gold, bigger they get more exspensive." she told him, her business voice talking now. She had been wrapping up for the night and was glad to have company other than business but that didn't seem like the case anymore. She was starting to feel tired, taking a drink again she flicked her ears forward to him again and she took a long inhale of her cigarette before putting it out in the tray that sat on the table.
(14:46:31) Anarion waved his hand, "Oh no, we don't have to discuss this now. You said earlier you were wrapping things up. I'll find you on another day." He also didn't have much money on him. Most of it having gone towards the drink he had ordered. He was more curious so he could save up and purchase some at another date. Ana was empathic in nature and would pick up on her draining energy. He'd rise from his side of the booth then and smile. "It was so nice meeting you Atheris, and your friend. I think it is getting late and I will be going. But I hope to catch you around again, next time you are on the island."