Jill, from Katherine Kerr's Deverry books

[turtledove_jill]

A young woman with short blonde hair walks in, stops, and looks around in surprise. She is wearing worn baggy trousers, a slightly stained linen shirt, boots, and a swordbelt from which hang a sword and a silver dagger.

"By the Lord of Hell's black hairy balls! Since when did Brin Toraedic have a room that looked like this(OOC: This Jill is from

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[fw_darcy]

Good day, madam. *bows stiffly*

Are reading and writing uncommon amongst ladies where you live?

[turtledove_jill]

"Good day, good sir," Jill says, returning the man's formality and sketching a bow of her own. "Reading and writing are uncommon among most folk where I'm from. It tends to be the domain of bards and scribes, along with those craftsfolk and high-ranking retainers who need to know a few letters and numbers for their professions. Some nobleborn can read and write, but it isn't that common for them to learn. Now that I'm learning dweomer, I've learnt that dweomerfolk need to read and write as well, which is why I'm learning."

[fw_darcy]

Ah, I see. Such was once the case in my own country, though by my time it had come about that most of the populace had at least a little of letters. Some more than others, of course, but far better than the days when books were the exclusive province of priests.

Your eagerness to learn new things makes me think you would do well in my own House, Ravenclaw.

[turtledove_jill]

"Most folk can read and write?" Jill sounds impressed, then gives a slight frown. "Then what do scribes do for work, if everyone can read and write?"

She considers the man's suggestion of Ravenclaw. "Laura told me that Ravenclaw is for the highly intelligent people. That's not really what I'd label myself, so I'm not sure if I'd fit there, though learning dweomer is my passion, true enough."

[estebanmd]

Stephen hung back awhile and listened to the applicant's conversations with other Hogwarts denizens before finally addressing her himself.

"What, pray tell, is dweomer? This word I have not heard in any language known to me."

[turtledove_jill]

"Dweomer is...." Jill pauses for a moment to think. "It's part of the world, but not everyone is able to learn it. It's scrying, and astral travel, and spells, but it's so much more than just that. It's knowing the proper names for everything, and the seals, and keeping the natural world and all it's planes in harmony. Laura called it magic."

[estebanmd]

"What you describe," said Stephen, thinking, "sounds much like the sort of magic one of my former students had been researching. His name was Dib, and he is no longer with us. What we do at Hogwarts differs from it in several respects." By no means the least important of which being that the practical and businesslike, non-mystical way in which Hogwarts magic was undertaken seemed far less troubling to Stephen's 19th-century Catholic sensibilities than the arcana into which Dib had delved. Yet Stephen had followed Dib's research and had found a use for the work.

"I take it you are not here from any perceived lack in your own magical education, from what you have said to others."

[turtledove_jill]

"Really?" Jill says with some interest. "How do you practice dweomer here? And no, Nevyn's about the best dweomer teacher I think I could get. He's been around for four hundred years, after all. I'm here...well, I seem to be here by accident. One moment I'm in Brin Toraedic, next moment I've walked into this Hogwarts place."

[lionesscersei]

Cersei had hoped that the next Sorting she attended would have certain commonalities with the two others for which she had been present besides her own: namely, that the applicant would be male and useful in some respect. Instead, she found a woman who reminded her entirely too much of the Maid of Tarth for her comfort -- especially given recent events. She disliked the woman on sight, naturally

[turtledove_jill]

Jill sketched a courteous bow to the woman, a cold prickle running down her back. The way this woman spoke about 'the slayer of her son' reminded Jill far too much of Lady Mallona.

Whether in response to Jill's wariness or simply because he'd taken a dislike to her himself, the grey gnome appeared the woman, his warty face screwed up as he stuck out his tongue and then proceeded to make faces at her behind her back.

"If he is already here, my lady, then there is no need to hunt them to bring them back," Jill says. "And if the lords or masters of this place have already decreed against trials by combat, then that is that." She didn't bother to add that while she'd fight battles, trials by combat weren't something she did. "There are, however, many more things other than I have offered to do, if you are unable to engage me to do those two here." She puts a slight stress on 'here.' Bloody wordgames of the nobleborn. "If you are so sure of his guilt, however, why do you not appeal to the rulers here for malover?"

I'd be willing to

[lionesscersei]

Cersei had guessed many things from the woman's attire, some of it correct, some of it stupid underestimation. She gauged the woman to be a low-class version of the Lady Brienne: a sellsword who lent her fighting arm for money, not, as the Tarth trull did, for love (and one of Cersei's greatest consolations, after the scene with Jaime and the wench in Gryffindor Tower, was amusement at imagining what Brienne would think to hear some of the choicer bits of information that had circulated in King's Landing about Renly and his knight Loras). To Cersei's mind, everyone had a price. The question was only what currency they accepted

[turtledove_jill]

"I see," Jill said neutrally. Far too well, and I have no desire to get drawn into nobleborn machinations. Particularly not between a man who has treated me with fairness and courtesy, and someone who appears to be a blonde version of Lady Mallona.

She sketches another bow. "I thank you, my lady, and I will be sure to take your advice in the spirit in which it was given."

Ooc: Salamander

[safrialailo]

((Ooc: Hey, sorry to intterupt the thread but I couldn't find your email adress so the mod said it was ok to contact you here Jill. Jill, I was just wondering would you mind if I played Salamander? I'd be perfectly willing to place him at the same point in the series your playing Jill and I think we need more kerr characters on this board ;) ))

Re: Ooc: Salamander

[turtledove_jill]

(OOC: Awesome! More Kerr characters are most definately needed! E-addy for future reference is calicia at gmail dot com

<3 Ebany. He rocks so much.)

Re: Ooc: Salamander

[turtledove_jill]

(OOC: Oh, and timeline wise I've been playing Jill at a point three or four years after Dragonspell. That good for you?)

[ugly_old_hat]

Do you think these Wildfolk would have any interest in hats?

[turtledove_jill]

"They're interested in everything. But if you tell them not to do something...you need to tell them firmly, mind...then they're pretty good about it."

[ugly_old_hat]

Hmph. Firm. I haven't had a chance to be firm in quite some time. *scrunches up in a ball, as if tensing to yell* YOU WILL LEAVE ME ALONE!

Do you think that was firm enough?

[turtledove_jill]

The grey gnome jumps and vanishes, and Jill grins.

"Yes, I'd say that was firm enough."