Breakfast at Milliways

[go-between.livejournal.com]

Richard steps behind the bar and ties on his apron.

"What'll it be?"

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[go-between.livejournal.com]

Richard blushes bright red and grins at this.

"I-I think I know what you mean. I am bloodlinked to my lover."

He can't stop grinning.

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

A chuckle at that and he just smiles. "Aye then, I'd guess you would know. But that is the shapechange, that joy and perfection."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

"That just sounds amazing. I'm learning a bit of magic now, but I doubt I'll ever get that far."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry to say, lad, but without a lear, I don't know if you could do it or no. But your magic, I don't doubt, is differing from mine. You can likely do things I can't." Not that it bothered him in the least.

[go-between.livejournal.com]

"I only know a little magic. Just a few things Sooty taught me. Like this.."

He casts the light rune and a small globe of lavender light appears.

"Useful, but not powerful."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"Says something for you that you're able to do it in my presence, though - usually Cheysuli and Ihlini cancel each other this close. Maybe it's that you don't have the blood." Blais shrugged. It didn't matter to him. He had Tanni, and if this lad could do Ihlini magic, well then, who was he to protest?

[go-between.livejournal.com]

"Really? I didn't know that. Must have made fighting one another challenging."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"It made Cheysuli and Ihlini face as men to men. It made the fighting fair." He shrugged. "Or as fair as it ever can be, when Cheysuli are known for bows and knives. They ever tried to wipe out our race. Near succeeded. But we never fully died."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

"That's horrid. Sooty did that?"

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"The driving force behind it, aye, but never the direct hand. His will was that the prophecy fail - that the Firstborn never be given life, or did it come to be, that the Firstborn be his to control. The methods were up to the Ihlini that were, at the time, serving him in Valgaard. I don't know what came of it. I died when the only one with all the right blood was ten."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

Richard is pretty troubled by this but says nothing.

"I don't know any of the stories of prophecy. I just know that Asar-Suti and Lochiel were defeated."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"Now, look you, lad..." Blais sighed, leaned forward so he would be heard more easily. "Don't you be thinking ill on them now. Here, they aren't what they were. Here, they're men, same as you and I. ... Lochiel wasn't, last I was looking, on the outside. But inside, yes. They've got magic, and they've got pasts that have more trouble than mine. But they're changed."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

He nods.

"I'll try to remember that. Sooty has been kind to me."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"If either of us has more reason to hate him, 'tis me. 'Twas an Ihlini that took Tanni's life, on behalf of Lochiel - on behalf of Asar-Suti. Here... 'twas Asar-Suti I laughed with near to the point of crying about these silly birds called penguins." Blais shrugged. "To me, here, they aren't the ones I knew of."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

He nods again.

"I can except that. They don't seem like your typical Dark God and Overlord."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

He keeps from mentioning Lochiel's condition last he'd seen him. Barely. "Far from what they were, at least - and I'm glad of it. I would hate to have to break the bar's rules. I've come to like it here."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

He smiles.

"I love it here too. Milliways has become a second home."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"Right now, Milliways is all I can have," Blais pointed out. "I am rather dead."

Then he grinned, shrugged, and stood from the stool. "But, thankfully enough for me, Milliways also has woods. And I'm chafing for the outdoors. How much is it I owe ye, boyo, and I'll be letting you on with your work."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

Richard waves him off.

"See you later, mate."

[erinnishwarrior.livejournal.com]

"I'll be remembering you, lad," Blais laughed, and with a wave, he started out toward the back door. Outdoors, even if a touch cold. Cheysuli just tended to chafe at walls. Tanni nudged the door closed behind them. Polite wolf, at least.