#earthrunes

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August, arriving at the rath in the Gardens, speaks with Rollo and having bid his companions well, and welcome, and to such comfort as Earthrunes can supply.... goes in search of the Baroness to report.

"You mean you don't want me to do it, Sir August?" Rollo grins

August smiles. "You're welcome to join in, Thane."

And off August goes.

"Excuse me.... " The newly-diminished Liam asks a passing boggan "Do you know where Lady Coradel is?"

"Yeah, she's in her room.. probably asleep."

A grin he can't help, and the knight is off to their chambers!

Earl looks to Zara, "Ready to go home or want to wait here?" He asks her gently

The room is familiar, of course. Dark. A single candle lit, on the table at his side of the bed. A sense that a candle has been there most nights that he's been away.

August takes a moment, not bursting in but.... there may be some hallway thunder to that point. He takes a breath and slips into their rooms.

He sets down his pack with special care, and then disrobes even more carefully..... the sacred paper that legitimizes his banner house is close to his chest, and he places it carefully on his dresser.

She is fast asleep, curled under a tangle of sheets. Not a peaceful sleep, apparently, but for the moment she's still, her hair fanned out across her pillow.

August strips off, and slides in beside her.

"I've a room here..." Zara murmurs, implication thick.

A moment...and she sighs....and turns...blinks at him in the dim light. "I'm...dreaming...?" she whispers.

"No. I'm home."

A sleepy moment where she just looks at him....then she pulls him close, greeting her love with a kiss that may never end.

Earl breaks into a smile, "So... you do." He raises Zara's hand and kisses a knuckle

Equally returned.......

And only candlelight sees the rest.

Caspain grins "Dame Temerity, Sir Brand, Vince? Care to join me in the pub here? I plan to have a drink for breakfast"

Earl blushes at his cousin "Yes, good quest. Dame, Sir. Nice to meet you. Pardon us. My lady is..weary"

Temerity nods "By all means, a refreshing then!" Curtly "Twas a pleasure to fight against the hordes of evil by your sides"

"Aye.... weary..." And a gentle tug on Earl's arm.

Earl surrenders to the tug immediately, closes the gap, puts an arm about his lady and withdraws with her to the chamber where his lady might ...refresh.

...eventually.

Caspian chuckles, "Glad he's found someone. " And he heads to Jack's pub.

"Come, Vince.. Come, Sir Brand. I shall drink thee under the table round!" Temerity declares "In Wine, Truthbranch!" and she heads after the Eshu

Vince also accompanies, asking, “Did anyone get the number of that dashing Captain?”

"Siv Waveborn, daughter of Rivervale" Caspain says "Her mother is the Chieftain.... known as the grimhand . Her father is Mountain there and has a large truck to run suitors over with it's said."

“The day I can’t outrun a truck in pursuit of courtly love is...” a pause for thought, and admits, “the day I’m run over by a truck?”

"Silver cat or no, sir, but one must be BOLD , good pooka VIncenitus!" Temerity says "Bold in all things! If to kiss the lady you must kiss the grill, well.. maybe she will admire they newly pug like visage"

“Sha la la la come on don’t be shy, you’ve got to... kiss de grill” he sings along in a fair Sebastian

Caspian laughs then asks "What on earth are you going to do with selkie garb?" As they come into Jack's pub.

He blinks, remembering, and places a hand upon the pack where it is safely secured. “As I am a wise man in all things, I assure you I have a 10-point 5 year plan outlining everything.”

Jack's voice, "He hasn't a clue I think. Welcome back, Vince. Glad you're alive. What'll it be?"

“The best of good earthly ale my fine friend! I’ve drunk dewdrops from the fair bosums of maidens beyond thy very imagining, but you just can’t find a solid lager there to save your soul.”

Jack pours Vincent's preferred and takes others orders, translating Temerity's request for the mead too tough for Valhalla into the Cheese Daiquiri she really wants.

Brand scowls "I don't know about this. "

"It's a drink ,sir. A drink."

"I mean being here" Brand frowns

Caspian says "Look, it's not for me to say exactly but I'm an eshu so naturally an expert on all things. You were once a part of something great and were cut from it through no fault of your own. That hurt, and the fact they may want you back doesn't help much I know"

Brand looks at him, "Your'e wrong."

"You mean it DOES help?" Caspian grins.

"No, I mean it doesn't help 'at all'" Brand says "Whiskey for me"

Jack serves, "So ... Sir August IS alive and back right? Zara and Sir Earl too? Because I only recognize two of you here" He looks at Vince "introduce me to the new folks?"

He waves a hand dismissively, sipping his ale. “We left him in the library, but we can check him out for two weeks at a time once he comes available again. Meet his replacement, the fair and feisty Dame Temerity.”

"My blade is yours, Good Barkeep! Though after my liege, my liege's daughter, her mother.... my fellow bannermen, then after my fellow questors, then may haps after other pooka... and any innocents in need of aid....but then, THEN my blade is yours" She ponders "I fear my blade is on the tad libertine edge. " Temerity says

“Our good librarian finally decided that mortal pleasure trumps a good book, which i had been trying to teach her all along. That talk drink of water was the lucky recipient of that tidbit though. Alas, always a bridesmaid. Brand here cane along to console me in my time of sorrow.” A wiggling eyebrow leaves nothing to doubt of the method of consolation,

Brand mmphs.