#rivervale_lodge

"So put on the brakes?"

"I mean, dude, you're sixteen."

"Seventeen" she says "Despite the amazing missing birthday trick" then she shrugs "He's..wanting me to move to HIbernia with him. Possibly going home soon...that's where hse's from you know?"

"Well." A pause. "I don't think you should."

"Living together isn't the same as marriage, and I have wanted to travel" She says "But no. I.. don't think I...I am such a hypocrite. I fuss at mom and dad to let me travel more. I whine like a child when I'm cooped up... and boast bout being 'waveborne' and seeing so much when I was little, and here's the man I love and I and he... coudl be maybe? ANd.... suddenly from waveborne to chickenfeet"

"No, it isn't being chicken." She shrugs. "I don't see you as somebody that just runs after a guy. And running after a guy ain't exploring or adventuring."

"It's more like, you're scared of losing him or being alone... so you'd do something you aren't sure about."

"That seems like a bad reason to me. So I don't think you should go. He can wait, or you can break up friendly, or lots of things - but being scared of losing him is a stupid reason to go."

"You're PROBABLY right. Your points are logical, thought out, and take into account every reality of the situation. So.. with that in mind why am I still so tempted?" She asks "mom seems to think Bancroft and I should go questing together, a couple of thing. Which I find ironic. 'Siv, Lamb, love is complicated... go punch a dragon'"

She laughs. "Well, hey, that might work too!"

"It might"A chuckle "Just ..wow. over a year of sheltering me, and now go quest, young lass"

"For you, the Dreaming is probably safer, yeah?"

"I guess it is, which means sometimes I think maybe I should really quest at like a walmart. Quests should test you right?"

"See, that's why we need to find a dungeon to crawl!"

A smile "Well, if it's okay with Symon, tell me and I'll try to go along. Maybe we'll find a bag of holding..make a great purse"

Snort!

"Oh what would YOU use it for?"

"To hold stuff. Weapons? Carry my armor?"

"What do you think purses do? Stuff? plenty. Weapons? Can of mace. Armor? Extra bra"

She MIGHT be funning the younger troll

"But they're... girly. I'd rather have a backpack."

"So tempted to tease you a bit now" she nods "Sides, I bet Symon could point to ne of his books and find a magic backpack or something... and that means one is in the Dreaming. Maybe backpack of the armory or something"

((And he might not even make a Dag-mora the Explorer joke...))

"What'd be cool would be, like, something like Iron Man. Or Thor - like, I grab Flyswatter and then, BOOM, armor on!"

OOC: Ha BIC: "Ooo that would be handy! Save time, looks awesome"

"Exactly."

"Maybe it would even come with some cool display while it happens... like lightning cracking in the background"

She nods, eagerly. "It'd be awesome."

"Like a superhero, right?"

"Yes, or maybe a pastel aura while little hearts spun in the air about you as the armor assembled"

"...No."

"Hey, if it got the armor on fast it would be worth it."

"I'm not convinced."

A laugh "Okay okay. Still... if we find one that makes lightning backdrop you get first dibs"

And the two go talking a bit about maybes and perhaps