First Growth ❦ Open/In-Person

[thornstained]

[Briar woke up and was immediately wary, looking around the strange room with an economy of movement. Nobody else here... and nothing keeping him to the bed. What was this? Some kind of kidnapping? He couldn't feel the sticky drag of unmagic that Sandry had mentioned could drag people from one place to another instantly, but he also didn't feel the

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[In Person]

[p3rfect_kill3r]

[Shiki raises a brow at the boy sat in the tree. Most of this week he'd been surveying the area and learning the landscape. People had been mentioning bad feelings about this place since they arrived and he knew better than to disregard it when he felt something was wrong too.]

You. Have you just arrived?

[In Person]

[thornstained]

[Briar draped himself along the length of a branch, looking down to the man below; he was in his element here and had no fear of strangers. And if the man didn't know it, he'd soon find out if he chose to threaten Briar.]

Maybe. What's it to you?

[In Person]

[p3rfect_kill3r]

[Shiki drops the grip on his sword and considers this for a moment.]

This place won't be safe soon, from what I've heard of the others talking. Knowing our captor I wouldn't put it past her. So I'd heed the warning.

[In Person]

[thornstained]

This that writer-mage I've heard talk of?

[His tone is lazy, but he's watching Shiki with wary eyes.]

What could she do to us here?

[In Person]

[p3rfect_kill3r]

Mm, the very same.

[At least the boy wasn't foolish enough to completely take his guard down. Even if at this point Shiki wasn't intending to be a threat, merely a presence of authority.]

Anything that sees fit. We can all survive, we can all die - so long as it's amusing for her to watch.

[In Person]

[thornstained]

She sounds lovely.

[Briar grins, but it's all white teeth and no humour showing against his dark skin.]

I'd like to meet her and tell her what I think of her sometime.

[In Person] (sorry I'm so late with tags notifs are being slooooooow)

[p3rfect_kill3r]

[Shiki snorts and shakes his head.]

I'm afraid you'll have to wait your turn. Unless the idea of a brawl sounds appealing.

[In Person] (They're being slow on my end too, so no probs ^^)

[thornstained]

Guess I'll just have to move fast and get there first, seeing as I grew out of brawling a while back.

[There's something sad to his tone - gone in a moment as he settles himself to better peer at Shiki]

What nick should I be calling you by, then?

[In Person] (/damns LJ maintenance)

[p3rfect_kill3r]

Nick? My name is Shiki. What should I refer to you as?

[Name exchange? Good lord stop being so normal Shiki.]

[In Person]

[thornstained]

Briar Moss.

[He's half expecting some sign of recognition at his name - he and his sisters have a re[utation, after all]

Briar'll do.

[In Person]

[p3rfect_kill3r]

[Shiki however is oblivious to his status. He gives a firm not before turning to look at the plains.]

As you wish. Tell me, how do you make the trees behave so strangely?

[Once again it's spoken more as a command than a question.]

[In Person]

[thornstained]

[Shiki's manner is reminding him a little of the nobles in Chammur, so Briar makes the decision to be obnoxiously obtuse.]

I guess plants must just like me.

[He pats the branch he is sprawled on fondly.]

[In Person]

[p3rfect_kill3r]

[That earns you an unimpressed brow raise.]

Plants do not move by themselves.

[Damn that militaristic training and general disregard for manners.]

[In Person]

[thornstained]

Who'd have thought? I guess you learn something new every day.

[Briar lets the grin he's been suppressing out.]

Maybe you don't talk to them enough?

[In Person] /I believe the icon expresses his sentiments XD;;

[p3rfect_kill3r]

[Shiki rolls his eyes and shakes his head.]

I can see this will get me nowhere as you seem to be lacking in basic knowledge exchange etiquette.

So be it. I have better things to do than play word games with a little shit who needs to be knocked down a few pegs.

[In Person] Briar is enjoying himself far too much

[thornstained]

[Briar smothers a laugh - he'll probably feel bad later for baiting Shiki like this, but at the moment, it's just damn funny.]

Sorry to disappoint, your high-and-mightyness, but I grew up on the streets.

If you wanted etti-ket, you should have talked to someone else.

[He's slipping back into his street manner of talking to be annoying, still grinning down at Shiki from his lofty perch.]