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Map of the Known World -- OOC thread
Second City
Outside the Secondary City Wall of the City of Yalla
Late Evening:
"Nina" -- as her friends and family called Ninaparrakania -- was helping put her little brother and sister to bed when she heard a stranger called out, "Clara...? Clara!"
Her father rushed out of the bedroom, followed by everyone else; Nina had been on the backside of the bed and was the last to make the doorway. She heard her father's pleas -- first in their native language, then in Common Tongue almost exclusively spoken in the City of Yalla -- for the stranger not to hurt the children.
Peeking out through the doorway drape, Nina knew exactly who the man who'd invaded their home was: Morrow, the former lover of the home's previous occupant, Clara.
"You live here?" Morrow questioned, following up after her father's silence, "Do you live here now?"
"Yes, m'lord," Nina said, stepping out into his view. "Is our home now."
She stepped between her mother and father, patting the heads of the little ones reassuringly as she whispered to them in the Virtish that they were learning alongside Common, "Do not be afraid. This man is not going to hurt anyone. I promise."
She continued out into the room, curling off to the right in an attempt to pull Morrow's attention away from the others; she might have been barely half a fortnight past her 18th birthday, but Nina considered herself just as much a protector of her family as her mother or father.
"Clara gone, m'lord," she told Morrow. She counted back in her head, clarifying, "Clara gone, six days." She continued moving, unaware of the effect the fire's penetration light was having on her dress, nor the effect that her silhouette was having on Morrow; she stopped near a box sitting atop a small table as she said about Clara, "She give cottage to us. To me. To family. I have paper, prove."
Nina's mother began ragging on her about the stranger in their house, wanting to know what was happening; her mother had made the assumption -- correct as it was -- that Nina knew who this man was and should provide such information to her parents. Nina instead told them to go back to the bedroom, put the kids to bed, and wait until she returned with an update.
In Virtish, her father asked Nina accusingly, "Is this him...? Is the man ... the one who you have to--"
"Yes, father!" she cut him off. Continuing in his language, she chastised, "Unless you have a better idea for keeping up in this home. Would you rather live on the streets again ... with the rats ... and disease ... and thugs?"
The argument continued a bit more before her parents finally took the other two children to the back room. She looked to Morrow again, smiling, then introduced herself, "I am Ninaparrakania. Nina. You call me Nina, please m'lord." She smiled again, asking, "You are Lord Morrow...? Morrow Tyne, Viscount of Orland." Then, pausing and smiling knowingly, added, "Clara's lover, yes?"
Nina turned up the wick on the lantern sitting upon the table, then opened the wooden box, dug around, and withdrew a piece of rolled parchment. As she approached Morrow, she pulled off the little bowed ribbon and handed the unrolled sheet to him. "Deed. To house. Clara give home. Paper says so she says."
Nina wasn't at all literate in Common, though, she did read and write in Virtish enough to get along. Clara had told her what the parchment said, and she assumed that it was legitimate. She asked with hope, "Is true, yes? Home belong me and family?"
She listened to Morrow's reply, then smiled and offered out her hand invitingly. When Morrow looked to her again, she said, "Can make pay now if want. Other night if want." Morrow looked confused, so Nina explained, "Clara give home to me, for me give sex to you. We sex now?"
Second City
Outside the Secondary City Wall of the City of Yalla
Late Evening:
"Nina" -- as her friends and family called Ninaparrakania -- was helping put her little brother and sister to bed when she heard a stranger called out, "Clara...? Clara!"
Her father rushed out of the bedroom, followed by everyone else; Nina had been on the backside of the bed and was the last to make the doorway. She heard her father's pleas -- first in their native language, then in Common Tongue almost exclusively spoken in the City of Yalla -- for the stranger not to hurt the children.
Peeking out through the doorway drape, Nina knew exactly who the man who'd invaded their home was: Morrow, the former lover of the home's previous occupant, Clara.
"You live here?" Morrow questioned, following up after her father's silence, "Do you live here now?"
"Yes, m'lord," Nina said, stepping out into his view. "Is our home now."
She stepped between her mother and father, patting the heads of the little ones reassuringly as she whispered to them in the Virtish that they were learning alongside Common, "Do not be afraid. This man is not going to hurt anyone. I promise."
She continued out into the room, curling off to the right in an attempt to pull Morrow's attention away from the others; she might have been barely half a fortnight past her 18th birthday, but Nina considered herself just as much a protector of her family as her mother or father.
"Clara gone, m'lord," she told Morrow. She counted back in her head, clarifying, "Clara gone, six days." She continued moving, unaware of the effect the fire's penetration light was having on her dress, nor the effect that her silhouette was having on Morrow; she stopped near a box sitting atop a small table as she said about Clara, "She give cottage to us. To me. To family. I have paper, prove."
Nina's mother began ragging on her about the stranger in their house, wanting to know what was happening; her mother had made the assumption -- correct as it was -- that Nina knew who this man was and should provide such information to her parents. Nina instead told them to go back to the bedroom, put the kids to bed, and wait until she returned with an update.
In Virtish, her father asked Nina accusingly, "Is this him...? Is the man ... the one who you have to--"
"Yes, father!" she cut him off. Continuing in his language, she chastised, "Unless you have a better idea for keeping up in this home. Would you rather live on the streets again ... with the rats ... and disease ... and thugs?"
The argument continued a bit more before her parents finally took the other two children to the back room. She looked to Morrow again, smiling, then introduced herself, "I am Ninaparrakania. Nina. You call me Nina, please m'lord." She smiled again, asking, "You are Lord Morrow...? Morrow Tyne, Viscount of Orland." Then, pausing and smiling knowingly, added, "Clara's lover, yes?"
Nina turned up the wick on the lantern sitting upon the table, then opened the wooden box, dug around, and withdrew a piece of rolled parchment. As she approached Morrow, she pulled off the little bowed ribbon and handed the unrolled sheet to him. "Deed. To house. Clara give home. Paper says so she says."
Nina wasn't at all literate in Common, though, she did read and write in Virtish enough to get along. Clara had told her what the parchment said, and she assumed that it was legitimate. She asked with hope, "Is true, yes? Home belong me and family?"
She listened to Morrow's reply, then smiled and offered out her hand invitingly. When Morrow looked to her again, she said, "Can make pay now if want. Other night if want." Morrow looked confused, so Nina explained, "Clara give home to me, for me give sex to you. We sex now?"