The First Blight: Curse of Dumat [RP/Closed]

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"Hahah! You all think me some perverted magister, it seems. Chainmail goes -over- some clothes, ladies.. Else it tends to pinch quite badly, which can be quite distracting in battle."

Diocles was, in all fairness, absolutely several types of pervert, but he wasn't going to let anyone know just yet if he could help it.
 

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"Oh. I didn't realize it was so simple. My thanks...", she looked at the elf, puzzled. He had no doubt gotten her name when she spoke it to their senior Wardens, but his name was a blank. She was sure he never spoke a word outside of curses and wishes of an end. "Pardon, but I do not know your name. I'd like to know it, if you are willing to tell it." She glanced over the lighter armor, searching for anything that looked like it would be a comfortable fit.
 

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"Ulrin," he nodded to her. The elf had finally gathered equipment he deemed suitable, he felt his selection was sturdy enough to protect him, but light enough to not slow him down. "Considering how we started this evening, I am sure I will see you more often than not."
 

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"There is no doubt of that. Ulrin," she paused, as much to gather up what she could fit in her arms as to consider her next words. "I'm glad to see you have given your second chance some thought. There has been enough death as of late."

She then turned back to the nicest human she'd met in a very long time. "Might there be a place I can try these on?"
 

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"Yes..." The elven rouge turned his gaze away from her, "I've given some thought. Of course." He hadn't really. His final goal was still death. However it seemed to please the girl that he appeared to be taking his new life sentence well.

He looked over to the human to see where he would direct Sulahn'nehn to get changed. Ulrin was sure Ghil would get dressed right where he stood, but perhaps they would be directed toward what would hopefully be their lodgings.
 

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"..Right, certainly, why don't you gather that up and I'll show all of you to the barracks. Can I help you carry anything?"
 

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She must have misheard him again, something that just kept happening. No human would ever offer to help a slave. At least no one in the Imperium. She was absolutely flabbergasted. "I-, Truly? You're having me on, aren't you?"
 

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Ghil rolled her eyes, irritated; she shifted her weight from one foot to the other, armor clinking in her arms.

"Point the way, Tevinter, else I will wander alone."
 

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"I'm not having you, sweetheart."

Not yet.

Diocles grinned, glancing at Ghil before leading the way out of the room, gesturing the others to follow. This time he kept quiet as he lead the way, nodding to the other Wardens walking about. It wasn't very far before they arrived at the women's barracks.
 

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Oh. So this is a 'barracks'.

The fortress was the first time she'd encountered the word. Or had she heard it at the outpost with her late master? Either way, she was happy the thought stayed just that. A thought. She marveled at the size of it. "It is much larger than the quarters we had on my master's estate." The company would just be...different. She would just have to get used to the smell of the barbarian.
 

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Ghil found an empty room and dumped her things on the top bunk; she didn't linger to get changed before shouldering past the group and wandering down the hallway toward the washroom they'd passed on the way to the barracks. She entered. A few moments later, three other recruits swiftly left. This was where she planned to pass the evening until a meal was served in the mess hall.
 

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Sulahn'nehn placed her new belongings neatly on a lower bunk adjacent to Ghil's. "Thank you so much for directing us. And being so kind." she could count on one hand the number of humans that had been this sweet and it would not surpass the first two digits.

Ghil had the right idea. They had traveled for so very long and she was more than ready to shed her clothes and wash away all that had passed. The last time she had a nice, relaxing bath seemed long ago. Well, the last time was far more likely to have been work rather than relaxing. It would be a nice reprieve, providing Ghil didn't mind sharing the space. She headed back the way the other woman had gone, wondering if this human was operating on the same 'equals' path as their senior. Better safe than sorry.

"Pardon the intrusion...I hope you don't mind."
 

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Ulrin shook his head as he watched the barbarian barge her way into the women's quarters. However now that the ladies had been shown their rooms he was eager to be take to his, if only so he could be rid of Diocles and go get a meal.
 

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Ghil raised her gaze to the elf and gave a curt nod. There was enough space that she wouldn?t deny the elven girl the room to bathe. The barbarian had already stripped off her loincloth and kicked it somewhere near the wall as refuse. A basin of hot water was in use with a scrub brush in a vigorous effort to remove her tribe?s body paint. She was not delicate in the action, and it might have appeared to others that she was aiming to remove her skin as well.

Rather than chat up the shapely little thing as the archer had done, she sat in silence at her work. Nearly an hour had passed before she began to look more human than tree, bronze flesh exposed. She took the scrub brush to her head next, but it was such a mess of tangles that she quickly muttered a curse and tossed it to the floor in frustration. A few steps, and she was at the shelf beside the pump, flipping a men?s razor into her hand and grabbing a fistful of mane.
 

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It was something to behold. Admittedly, Sulahn'nehn had long since been cleaned but was simply amazed at the transformation happening on the other end. Her own skin felt sore watching Ghil attack her skin as if it betrayed her. She'd been content to sit and soak and see a human emerge under all of that mess. That was of course until she'd though a brush on wet, tangled hair was a good idea. She could not help but giggle. Though that didn't last long either. It seemed Ghil was full of bright ideas, the newest being to chop off her hair. "Don't do that!"

She got up and briskly walked over to the other woman, taking hold of her wrist. In hindsight, that was not the brightest of ideas given all she's seen Ghil do. She immediately released the woman to explain herself. "Sorry. I know it is not my place. But if you would allow me, I can help fix it. If would be a shame to lop it all off." chancing having her hands chopped off with that razor, Sulahn'nehn guided the human back to sit, taking up the brush and placing it back on the shelf. "Just a moment and please do try not to be upset with me, I will do my very best not to yank." She went in search on the shelves and returned with a widetooth comb working her way from the ends of the nest of hair to the roots. The arduous task was not unfamiliar to her, but she still worked carefully for fear that the slightest pull could see her face pressed firmly under the water.
 

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The barbarian woman scowled, but neither stabbed nor drowned Sulahn'nehn for all her effort. Occasionally she gave an annoyed grunt when the comb hit a snag, but for the most part she sat on the stool with her elbows on her knees, watching twigs accumulate on the floor.

After a long moment, she finally spoke to break the silence. "You ought not be here. You are a house slave, not a warrior."
 

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She kept to her work, nodding her head though the woman could not see. She could not tell if her comment was out of concern or if it was an insult. It did not change that it was undoubtedly a fact. "I know. Servitude has been my life, I know nothing else. I do not think I will be of much help against darkspawn at all. But, I am here and if this is what I am meant to do for my mistakes, then I must do it." she'd seen the darkspawn, what they could do, how the almost overpowered her master who was in all rights a powerful magister. "I will not lie, I am terrified of battle, ser."
 

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The form of address pleased her. She straightened her back, tilting her head just so to give the girl another glance over. Small, could be quick on her feet. Ghil had noticed her take a staff from the armory. She was well-liked by their captors, as well. And useful, if Ghil chose to adopt her as a servant. Life in Weisshaupt may not be so bad after all.

"The man in the stone room called you maleficar."
 

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Sulahn'nehn paused far too long to be natural. It was a bit of a touchy subject. Would she be in danger again if the woman didn't like mages or feared that particular status. However, she was afraid her prolonged silence was far too telling. If she confirmed it, was she damning herself and if she denied it, did that just confirm suspicions. She spoke sheepishly, running the comb through Ghil's hair again. "I a mage. And I mean harm to no one but the darkspawn."
 

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"I do not like mages," Ghil muttered, looking forward again, "But you have nothing else to your advantage. Are you finished?" The barbarian woman stood, turning towards the elf with her fingers combing through her now well-groomed hair. She towered over Sulahn'nehn easily, but seemed now less threatening. "Soola, you said? You work well. That is a good... trait. I will soak until dinner. You may go."