Ashley Introduction - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
14/5/476
Log
In the back corner of the Shadow's bar, Ashley sits, in a plain set of clothes and a hooded cloak. She stares off into the nothing, as she sits, perfectly still. This being a place that shadows congrigated often, she felt almost at home here, if not for this shell that surrounded her. Still getting used to being in a physical form, she twitches her skunk tail a bit, that being the only motion she gives.
The doors opened with a defiant squeal, making Angus cringe a little as he walks in. "Really should oil those hinges." He mutters as he walks up to the bar, ignoring most of the shadows as long as they ignore him, and orders a drink. This place always put him ill at ease, being in a room full of what use to be Promises greatest threat would do that to you.
Ictus nods as he follows after Angus and hmms, "Yeah, they should." he looks at the shadows curiously as he watches them warily, mumbling something to himself before he shakes his head free of the thoughts
Ashley looks up as two enter, warriors, she can tell by the necklaces they have on their necks. She has one now too. She looks down at it. She has her mission, she just needed to wait. She watches the pair, then notices! What she has been waiting for. One of the two tailed ones. And here were two of them! She takes a moment, staring into the distance to confer with her mentors. Then gets up to walk over to the pair of foxes.
Angus had a drink in hand, and about to take his first actual sip of it as he turned around, and noticed someone walking their way. "Um....hello there." He comments, an eyebrow raising in curiosity as he eyed the skunk before him. Then he finally noticed the pendant that she wore and his expression became serious. "Is there something we can help you with?" He asked, his tone neutral as he watched her.
Ictus glances over at the skunk as she approaches and eyes her carefully, "Hello..." he looks to Angus and nods in agreement, "Something wrong?" he notices her pendant and seems to recognize it but says nothing about it
Ashley was just walking up to them when they started talking. She hadn't got used to that yet. So she just takes a seat at a table next to the bar. Her eyes are unmoving, unwavering as she looks at the pair. Could these two really be who she was after? They confused her to no end, but she hadn't been around them long. She looks away, far and distant a moment. Perhaps it was too soon for her to take her mission, but it was too late now, she had a shell, and she was here. Still unblinking, it is quite sometime before she says anything at all, "Come with me."
Angus eyed her for a few seconds, before he gave a nod. "Your word that no harm will befall us if we do, and you got yourself a deal." He shot back, smiling lightly as he already knew his answer no matter what she said. Threat or not, this shadow had peaked his intrest, granted he wasn't in the mood for a dagger to the ribs.....but he was still curious.
Ictus blinks at the skunk and then looks to Angus, "Well... That's new..." he shrugs a bit and nods in agreement, "As my cousin said... We'll go if you promise no harm." he looks over the skunk some more, still seeming guarded
Ashley looks at them both still unblinkingly, if she wanted to hurt them, they'd be hurt, so why were they even asking about that? She just nods and turns, walking back toward the table she was at before. The shadows themselves also watch her, but she pays them even less mind, or at least seems to. Once back at her table she sits down again where she was, and waits for the two foxes to follow.
Angus shrugged, as he really only did it as a formality. "Shall we?" He asked Ictus, giving him a sideways smile as he stood up, easing his hand of the musket still hidden within his cloak. He had dealt with Shadows before, most of the time he came out of the ordeals without a scratch, but that didn't make him any less cautious as he walked over to the skunks table and took a seat.
Ictus shrugs at the nod and sighs, "I suppose." he chuckles a little as his tails sway, "I'm curious as to what her interest is..." not to mention his own questions, he takes a seat and looks around more while he waits for the shadow to speak
Ashley looks to Angus as he sits down, then to Ictus. She'd only need one, just one really. Why did there have to be two? Maybe two would be better. This way she could lose one and still have the other. She looks distant a moment while she conciters this. "Warriors. What do you think of the ones you call Creators?" Her speech is slow, as if she wasn't used to using her mouth, and the way she sits looks almost unnatural, didn't she know she had a tail at all? It just hung limply behind her on the floor, under the cloak.
Angus leaned an elbow on the table. "I think they are rather mysterious, and they care to much for shiny things." He joked lightly, knowing all to well she wouldn't even crack a smile, but he tried anyway. "To be honest, I don't know what to think of them. Only thing I really actually know, is that they are powerful." He hadn't forgotten his drink back at his table, and he quietly started to sip at it's contents as he watched the shadow.
Ictus blinks at the question and shrugs, "Warrior huh?" he chuckles a little at Angus' joke and shakes his head, "Well, they did create us. Though, if I saw one I wouldn't know what to do really." he ponders a bit and shrugs, "Why do you ask?"
Ashley looks at Angus first, a dead stare. If he looked closely, he could tell her eyes were purple. Purple with pink dots. "Shiny things." she repeats, somewhere between a question and a statement. She nods at their seemingly basic understanding. "They are dangerous. Why do you think they left you here?" she says next. Some other movement, just a bare amount as she shuffles her paws slightly. She continues to speak slowly and softly.
"Beats me." Angus replied without a thought, the only time he ever came into contact with anything that was Creator made. Was in his studies as a young kit, and the few times he was sent out to retrieve creator artifacts. Any other time he never really brought up the subject, and had no opinion on it.
Ictus hmms at that and nods, "I'm sure they are quite a bit more dangerous than we are..." he hmms at Angus and shakes his head, "I only know what we were told as children, that this world was given to us... The real reason could be quite different."
Ashley looks over the two again, eyes moving from one, to the other. Why couldn't this form just sense them, and see them more easily? Why did it have to actually.... well, at least it made up for it in other ways. It wouldn't do to just tell them, no. This.... would be far harder then she thought it would be. She stares off again. "What are you two?" she finally asks, maybe if they forgot where they came from and why they were here, they'd forgot that too?
Angus leans against the table and eyes her. "I'm a Fox, to be correct I'm actually a Kitsune. One of the Sacred families the Creators made." He answered tails flicking in amusment as he watched the skunk. "But then again, that's not the answer you are looking for. Is it?"
Ictus looks at the skunk curiously at that, "Well... I could spout off any number of things I believe myself to be... But like my cousin said, I doubt that is what you are looking for. I am a Fox and Kitsune." he shrugs at that
Ashley nods once. At least they hadn't forgot that. "Warriors and Kitsune. You can be useful." she says to them, for the first time blinking. She stares forward again, off into the distance. Then she gets up and grips Angus' hand, "Come, this way." she says, almost as if unsure she was saying the right thing. She tries to pull Angus off toward the doors again.
