Day Fourteen - Firedogs revisited

[ashes_like_sand]

Who: Aisling, Bond
When: Later afternoon
Where: Beach
Rating: R for sex

Status: Closed, completed
Summary: Ais is dancing with her firedogs on the beach when Bond shows up. He expresses interest in her power, and she explains it as well as she can. They discuss the fact he's a new arrival, and he asks for help finding his residence

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[deatheaterjr]

"I'm new," he admitted. "Firedancing? What is that?" Aside from really weird and logically impossible.

[ashes_like_sand]

Ais grinned. "More or less what it sounds like," she said. "Dancin', with fire." She let her unshaken hand fall to her side, shrugging off the lack of introduction.

"I'm an elementalist," she said, gesturing back toward the firedogs. "My element happens t'be fire. Flames. Anythin' hot, really," she added as she winked at him.

[anotherway2die]

"Really?" Bond asked, smiling just a little at her wink. He took a seat next to her without asking permission. "Show me how it works?" he asked.

[ashes_like_sand]

"How it works," she echoed, likely more amused than she thought she should be. "I'm not sure what you're gettin' at," she murmured as she flicked her fingers.

At the motion, the two flame dogs started to move, prancing in place as if to the beat of a drum. "I play music," she began, "an' dance to it, with the fire? Like I was when y'came upon me?"

Though she supposed she could demonstrate, if he wanted.

[anotherway2die]

"When I came upon you," he said, laughing quietly. "Right. The name is Bond," he added, offering her a hand to shake, "James Bond."

[ashes_like_sand]

"Generally, this part comes when I introduce myself. Y'missed your window by a couple of minutes," she teased him a little.

But if he was new, he might be a little scattered still. "I'm still Aisling," she said. "Or Ais, if you prefer." She reached to take his hand, the fingers of the other flicking to still the dogs.

[anotherway2die]

"Ais," he said, testing the word out as it rolled off of his tongue. "Forgive me. I'm not used to be teleported into an impossible strange land to fight in a battle I knew nothing about. My manners may be a bit confused at the moment, but I can assure you," he lifted her hand to his mouth to place a gentle kiss on the skin there, all the while keeping her gaze, "I am a gentleman."

[ashes_like_sand]

"And I've no doubt that y'are," she said. "It is a bit disconcertin', I will admit that. I've been here just about over a week," she said, pausing to ponder. But no, that was about right. "Y'get used to it after a bit. And at the rate people're showin' up here? There's always someone new t'meet."

[anotherway2die]

Bond smiled, finally letting go of her hand. "Well I seem to be running into all the beautiful locals," he told her. "Is everyone so lucky?"

[ashes_like_sand]

"Hard not t'be. I think everyone here is someone's idea of beautiful." She certainly hadn't met any unattractive people - though some had been prettier than others.

Whether she missed the flattery or was deliberately ignoring it remained to be seen.

[anotherway2die]

"I'm sure," he agreed, lancing at the packet in his hand. "Would you mind helping me figure out this map? I need to see where I'm supposed to be staying." And it wasn't like he was a really intelligent spy with advanced training in navigation or anything.

[ashes_like_sand]

"Sure," she agreed, wondering if she'd even need the map. After all, most people were in the dorms, and they were easy enough to find.

She crossed over toward him, crouching down beside him to look at the map with him. "D'you remember your room assignment?" she inquired, wondering if he had the page where it was listed.

[anotherway2die]

"I've been trying to make sense of all this information," he said, offering the packet to her for her to look at, "but it's a different format than I'm used to."

[ashes_like_sand]

"I imagine so," Ais agreed as she took the packet from him, studying the map as well. "Not in th'dorms," she pointed out before she glanced up the beach toward the road. "Guess you've got one o'the houses there, down by the pitch."

Well, the pitch was behind them, and the houses had been there first, but the pitch was bigger, and thus more of a landmark.

[anotherway2die]

"Well they must plan on keeping me around for a while if they've given me a bloody house," Bond pointed out.

[ashes_like_sand]

Ais grinned, then shrugged. "Everyone has t'have somewhere t'live," she pointed out before she nodded her head toward the road. "You wouldna be the first one to have his own house here, nor will ya be the last."

She turned toward the dogs before she drew them to her, letting them race along the short stretch of sand to leap into her. She supposed that was a more dramatic way of dispersing the fire - especially since she could have simply sent them into the ocean - but it was simply how she did things.

"C'mon then, we'll go find your house."