Room 528 - Afternoon

[provostsdog]

Beka hadn't realised how much clothes she'd gathered in her time here. She knew it'd be easiest just to throw them away or leave them here for Emma to do with as she pleased. Twasn't as if she'd be able to wear them in Corus, but the dress was pretty and soft. Mayhap she'd not minded it as much as she'd let on

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[icecoldfrost]

"This is absolutely, positively, outrageous." Oh yes, someone was throwing a tantrum. "You're supposed to simply leap at a command, with no notice, when they sent you here in the first place? I absolutely refuse to break in a new roommate."

[provostsdog]

"I did not know I'd been broken in," Beka sat down on the edge of the bed, frowning a little. "I would go either way," she said, "but I do want to go."

[icecoldfrost]

"So you reward their abandonment with your loyalty?" Emma asked scathingly. "Were you dropped on your head as a child?"

[provostsdog]

You could say much to her, but Beka stiffened at the insult directed to her Lord.

"No," she said with a glare that'd made her eyes look much like the ghost eyes people said she had. "I grew up in the worst district in Corus. He was the only one who'd listen to me when I went to the Dogs. He took me and my family from the streets and gave us a home, gave us a change to be more than Rats. He deserves my loyalty for he'd never abandon one of his Dogs."

[icecoldfrost]

"He sent you here, didn't he?" Emma challenged. "When you didn't want to go? I'm just saying there's no reason you have to go right now. Take a trip with that boy you like and go to the ocean for a weekend first. Do a grand tour of some sort. Do something for yourself."

"You may feel you owe him, but never, ever, let someone own you so much that you leap when they snap their fingers, Beka. You're better than that."

[provostsdog]

"He gave me a choice," Beka argued. "There was no one else to partner me with and my Senior Dogs were gone. He could transfer me to another district or I could come here. Being a Dog in the Lower City? Tis all I've ever wanted to be."

[icecoldfrost]

"That wasn't actually a choice then, was it?" she asked. "And you both knew it."

[provostsdog]

"I still picked the one that led me here," Beka replied. It felt looby to argue now and she shrugged a shoulder. "And there's much I'll be taking with me."

[icecoldfrost]

"It still feels wrong," Emma objected. "They couldn't have written you two weeks ago? How am I supposed to fill your luggage with scandalous dresses on a deadline like this?"

[provostsdog]

"I think the letter took a long time getting here," Beka said, but she was laughing a little now. "You could promise to drop them off in person."

[icecoldfrost]

"I could, but would I have to be on my best behaviour, or do I get to actually see the town?" she bargained, not quite willing to let up yet. "This still seems like I'm getting the bad end of the deal. I lose my roommate, my little sister, and the cat I get to spoil all in one blow."

[provostsdog]

And we'll miss you too, darling, Pounce informed her.

Beka shook her head. "We shall," she agreed. "You're not losing me. You can visit and I shall show you my city like you've shown me yours. Tis not as fancy, but I think you could like it somewhat."

[icecoldfrost]

"Is there shopping, and am I allowed to associate with your wonderfully wicked friends?" Emma asked.

"And I did not say anything about missing you, Pounce. I am merely amused that I got all the benefits of having a cat about, with none of the drawbacks of needing to care for it."

Emma was a liar.

[sorry, got eaten by cleaning!]

[provostsdog]

I do not need to be cared for, Pounce told her promptly.

Beka bit her lip. "He only enjoys getting spoiled. There's shopping, but naught like what you have here, and I do not think my friends would mind associating with you."