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[cloakanddaikon]

Who: Any and all
When: Day 47, early afternoon
Where: The baths
What: Nothing particularly out of the ordinary.

[And while people are busy with petitions and late breakfasts and lunches, whole most are well settled into going about their daily routines, it seems as good a time as any to slip into the relative peace of the public bath.

Now, if only it would remain peaceful for the time needed to soak away a day's worth of dust and ash and heavy thoughts.]

Comments

[overclocking]

.... Why are you laughing, Tempest...

[hyanaimne]

The one thing I would not mind telling you, I didn't tell you at all.

[overclocking]

... what? We seem to have covered a lot.

[hyanaimne]

My name never came up.

[overclocking]

Tempest isn't your real name?

[hyanaimne]

[hums, amused]

Not my birth name, no. I took it up when I started traveling.

[overclocking]

... Why?

[hyanaimne]

Its meaning suited me more than my real name did. Names also have power, and giving out my real name in my world could have consequences.

[. . . waves a hand] Also vengeance and all that. He would have known it was me right away.

[overclocking]

[Nods, considering]

So what was it before?

[hyanaimne]

Aurae.

[overclocking]

... It's a nice name. It sounds... gentle?

[hyanaimne]

[huffs a little, but amused]

It means "gentle wind".

[overclocking]

..........

[l-laughs]

[hyanaimne]

[hums a bit]

Not quite suiting anymore.

[overclocking]

It's more that you intentionally picked a name that means the exact opposite. Kind of cheeky.

[hyanaimne]

Well, yes. It was on purpose, you know.

[overclocking]

Mm. It's what I'd expect from you.

[hyanaimne]

My, am I predictable?

[overclocking]

No. I just know you.

[hyanaimne]

Hmm. I cannot say I mind.

[overclocking]

It would be a bit late if you did. I don't really feel like relinquishing my position.

[hyanaimne]

[shakes her head a bit, not saying anything, but draping an arm around him]

[overclocking]

[Idly]

I guess that no talking bit didn't quite work out...

[hyanaimne]

We could give it another go.

[overclocking]

If you want.

... Somehow I don't mind either way.