Adara mires
It was a nice evening in San Francisco. The weather was nice, fairly warm so it was comfortable to be outside. Sitting in a chair on the balcony, Adara was playing guitar, dressed in sweats, tank top, barefooted with her hair tied in a pony tail. The necklace Marni has given her a few weeks before she left Chicago was around her neck.
She was playing Natalie Imbrugila’s Torn, her eyes scanning the neighbourhood, her pack’s future territory. They were settled now, soon they will claim their surroundings. Eventually they will have to make their presence known, find other Garou and search for the hidden Caern
Rumor and Ruin
Mila pushed open the balcony door with a stretch. She yawned and wiped a bit of the drowsiness from her eyes. She’d been napping on the couch for some time now – it had been a perfect afternoon for it.. no good reason to get up.
“Hey.” She quietly muttered, not wanting to disturb the song. She flopped down on the free chair and propped her feet up on the railing.
Adara mires
He lean her head back to look at Mila upside down during a musical part. She smiles ot the Fostern “Hey, hope I didn’t wake you up” She continue to play the song but doesn’t start to sing again. She shift her body so she could look at her friend “How have you been lately?”
She stop playing after a moment and place the guitar on her lap, crossing her leg so her left foot was resting on her right knee.
Rumor and Ruin
“Na.. I needed to get my lazy ass up anyway. I’m good. Glad we’re finally settled a bit. Gotta start gettin the word out there that this is our turf though. Saw what I guess you’d call my ward today. She’s in one piece.. so there’s a bonus.” She shrugged slightly and slipped her sunglasses on.
“How about you?”
Adara mires
She shrugs “Me? I’m good. I’m in a slightly complicated situation but nothing I can’t handle. After all I shouldn’t have put myself in it..and yet, It was normal that I did”
She grins slightly “I saw a few friends this week, Carter and Doctor Gladecu, it was good to see them. I saw Simon too, he’s around.” She watches Mila, curious about how she feels about her ex beta to be around.
“As for the turf, I jsut want us to be together when we patrol the area for the first time, marking it as ours” She smiles “A show of force and all”
Carter Roth
They were a pack, a camaraderie of garou, and a force to be reckoned with in a city that was devoid of a caern, barren of any real influence of the garou nation itself and this was their home, their turf…it was about as safe a place as one could get in a city like this.
Carter however never really cared about such safety, despite the purity of his blood and the lust of their enemies for creatures such as he, he was known to travel in such places, to move through open terrain unprotected by the watchful eye of the True’s….he moved through San Francisco in much the same fashion…though it was hard to say he would be unwatched here.
The packmates talk casually, happily one might even say in this moment of calm, but that was disrupted by a loud knocking at the door, the pattern, Adara would note…was that of Carter’s. The announcement done, they can hear the key enter the door, and the door itself open as the man steps into the loft his gaze moving about before locking onto the balcony. It appeared they would have company in just a moment.
Rumor and Ruin
“What sort of complicated situation?” A brow rose slightly and she paused long enough for an explaination (or just a pause if Adara doesn’t open up).
“Seems like the whole city migrated west. Kinda strange – sorta makes me wonder what sort of big shit is gonna go down that made us all gravitate this direction.”
“Sure.. we can patrol whenever. Might be worth it to throw out a tag or two.. and if we’re gonna pee on trees.. I vote it’s your job since you’re Alpha.” She grinned.
“I know Simon’s here – heard about it from Nessa and this True Kieran. I’m kinda surprised he hasn’t stopped by to say boo yet.”
Adara mires
She smiles at Mila “It’s about something between me and a kin woman…and well me and Rory. I’ll handle it so it doesn’t hurt the pack now or in the future. I have to thread more carefully since I”m responsible for both of you and you for me. I might also be Tribe Elder again so…I need to maybe distance myself from potentially dangerous situations” Like sleeping with her Metis packmate.
“As for marking out territory, we’ll put on some glyphs…and I will pee on trees. I will mark the place as our” She say in teasing tone.
She hears the familiar knock and then the key being turned. Once the door is closed, she calls out “Hello Carter, mind stopping by the kitchen to grab us beers? Mila might want one too” Not handsome, no hun, no babe tonight. Only his name.
Rumor and Ruin
Mila had looked to Adara when she heard the knocking.. and then the key opening the door. She didn’t look startled – it almost seemed like she expected the person. When the previously troublesome kinfolk appeared.. Mila was a little surprised. She hadn’t expected him of all people to come knocking on their door.
“Yo.. and if you’re grabbing.. I’ll totally take a beer.” Only after he wandered off to get beverages did she lean over and whisper to Adara. “When did he start liking True’s?”
Carter Roth
Carter paused halfway through his movement towards the balcony, hearing their request for beer and he seems to pause, a slightly agitated look upon his face before he turned and strode towards the kitchen….he could use a beer, it just so happened he was gathering some up for them as well.
Adara mires
She laughs at Mila’s comment, amused “Well..not sure if he likes True…but he’s my friend and he’s improving a lot.” She says with a little grin and leave it at that. Some things were part of Carter’s private life. And what he told her about it, what she has observed were between her and him.
It’s not that she didn’t trust her pack mate, she trusts her with everything that was hers. Other people’s secrets and confidences that is another thing entirely.
She waits for the big man to be back and holds out her hand for the beer “How have you been?” She asks him with a small smile, looking up at him
Rumor and Ruin
She gave Adara a skeptical look. Right. From what she heard Carter was nothing but Trouble. Whatev though.. if he was as crappy of a Shadow Lord kin as she heard he was.. then hell, Adara could have him. Furies like to take lots of strays in.
Mila, however, smiled when Carter appeared and thanked him quietly – but decided to let the pair talk.
Carter Roth
Carter eventually reappeared with three cracked beer’s each of them cold. He passed them out briefly and nodded to Mila as she thanked him. “Sure…” He said as he adjusted himself to the flow of rage in the room, it was never a great amount with these women, but it was still there, and still got to him in its own small way.
“Alright I suppose, still looking for a job.” He said with a shrug. “Theres plenty out there…I’m just not particularly interested in wasting my time as some fucking bag boy.” He said as he leaned against the wall and looked out over the city. “Nice view.”
Adara mires
She nods her thanks to him, not getting up for a hug or kisses “Well good luck with the job. What it is you want to do? Doorman in a bar? Maybe hmmm bodyguard? Work in security?” She eyes the dreadlocks for a moment “Hmmm..maybe not the last two”
She eyes the area and smiles softly “Yes, I lvoe the view here. It’s part of why we wanted the place. And the space, it’s spacious enough for everyone not to feel crowded.”
She drinks form her bottle “How’s Myoko?”
Rory
They share beers on the balcony, and two of them know of her impending presense before the third, thanks to the bond they all share. It’s a momentary warning, though, before there’s the distinct feel of the veil between worlds tightening, stretching, rending to spill a certain redhead to the floor of the living room with a pop and a muttered curse….
Rory shakes herself, shreds of the gauntlet slipping from her skin, disappearing again as everything rights itself again. She wrinkles her nose, rubbing at the side of it with her fingers, before she drags herself up again, and slips free of her backpack, moving to let it clank down on her work table. She stretches and rolls her shoulders slightly, before she starts digging through and emptying today scavanging efforts out onto her table.
It looks like a bunch of junk.. but to her? It’s treasure. Absolute treasure.
Rumor and Ruin
Mila sips her beer, quiet for a moment. “You look like you’d make a good bouncer or something. Just an idea – know it kinda sucks too though.”
A pop, a curse and a thud. “Welcome home Rory..” She called back towards the living room.
Green eyes flick back towards the kinfolk. “Anyone offered you protection – if you should need it at all of course – yet?”
Carter Roth
Carter rolls his eyes before snorting, looking out over the city as he spoke, no interest in looking at anyone for that moment as he thought about his morning. “Oh its been great.” His voice slightly sarcastic. “Had a wonderful conversation about how much of a child I am this morning, its really helped the search efforts.”
He said as he shook his head and looked briefly to Rory, offering her a nod of greeting.
He then looked to Mila with those blue green orbs. “Two people actually.” He says casually. “One is of course Adara…” He says gesturing with the beer to her. “The other was Myoko….who may or may not work out.”
Rumor and Ruin
Well.. Adara she wouldn’t mind – but who in the world was this Myoko character? A brow rose. “He family?” She did her best to keep all judgement out of her tone and gaze. She wasn’t about start anything with him at the moment.. she just needed to know. Especially if plans worked out. She needed to know exactly where all the pieces might fall.
Adara mires
She tilts her head at the mention of a morning talk, her lips curling into a grin
“Hey baby, we’re outside” She calls to Rory before looking at Mila and Carter “Myoko is a she and she’s from your family and our auspice.”
She look back at Carter “IS everything all right between you two? Need to talk about it?” She offers. They were friends after all, they shared their problems, worry and good moments.
Rory
Mila tells her welcome home, and she shoots a grin toward the balcony, shy yet pleased even as she grabs part of her treasure, her small box of tools, and heads out to join them on the balcony – detouring briefly to get herself a beer and the box of chocolate poptarts from the kitchen.
She’s positively filthy. She looks like she’s been dumpster diving and well, she has. That and she found a junk yard, and they let her scamper through the piles for HOURS while they just shook their head at the crazy scary lady who didn’t even know what she was looking for.
She brushes her fingers across Adara’s shoulder as she joins them, moving to an open spot on the floor near her where she can go about happily dismantling the thing in her hands. Sometimes she’s like a little kid, really. The most simple things make her happy.
Carter Roth
The man shook his head at Adara’s offer to talk about it. “No, I think I’ve had enough of people calling me a whiner or a dependent in the last twenty four hours.” He said as he tilted the beer upward and downed a good portion of it before wiping his mouth with the back of his leather jackets sleeve.
He looked around at the rest of the company for a moment before looking back to the city itself. “I jsut need to prove her ass wrong.”
Rumor and Ruin
Good enough. Mila was satisfied with the answer that Myoko was of their family. While in Chicago she didn’t much care what the kin did – there was an established sept and multiple channels of communication if needed in times of distress. Here, there was nothing. It was thus making her a little more protective than usual.
She sipped her beer, smiling a bit as Rory appeared with her prize. Whatever made the ahroun happy.
Adara mires
She looks at Carter “All right but you know I wouldn’t do such a thing. So when you want to talk, you call and we’ll meet ok?” She say looking at him with some concern. Her hand moves to play absently in Rory’s hair as she sit on the floor beside her.
She smiles slightly at the kin “I’m sure you can. So far you’re proving a lot of people wrong. In time you will prove her as well”
her smile widen slightly when she look down at Rory “The hunt was good?”
Rory
She peeks up at Carter as he says people call him a whiner and dependent. She tips her head, slightly, with a brief look of confusion dancing across her face. Then she simple shrugs it off and looks back to her newest project, seemingly picking it apart at random. A real repair man would be horrified to watch her… especially one that repairs instruments.
It looks odd, really, but she looks pleased as punch to have the box like object on her lap. it has a crank on one side, and some buttons and.. well…
“Its a gurdy-hurdy.” Knowing she means a Hurdy Gurdy likely doesn’t lesson their confusion any…
Rory
She peeks up at Carter as he says people call him a whiner and dependent. She tips her head, slightly, with a brief look of confusion dancing across her face. Then she simple shrugs it off and looks back to her newest project, seemingly picking it apart at random. A real repair man would be horrified to watch her… especially one that repairs instruments.
It looks odd, really, but she looks pleased as punch to have the box like object on her lap. it has a crank on one side, and some buttons and.. well…
“Its a gurdy-hurdy.” Knowing she means a Hurdy Gurdy likely doesn’t lesson their confusion any…
Carter Roth
Carter simply shook his head at that, pulling up the beer to down more of it, like he was trying to wash a bad taste from his mouth. “Yeah….” Is all he says in response to that as he goes to lean on the balcony edge, watching the city beyond.
Rumor and Ruin
“What is that exactly, Rory?” In an attempt to change the subject from the kin who was feeling sorry for himself to possibly something more positive, she drew the attention to the ahourn happily sitting on the ground.
Adara mires
She puts down her guitar next to Rory, knowing the Fianna will make sure it doesn’t fall and fluidly get up, moving beside Carter, leaning against the railing, bumping his hip with hers, head turned toward him
“Want to spend the night over? So we can talk about what’s troubling in the morning?” She offers him, now worried about him. He was in one of the worst mood she has seen him..in like..well, ever
Rory
She chews her lower lip a moment, as she tries to think of how to explain it. She rubs the side of her nose, leaving a smudge behind, and then studies the latch on the lidded area, to see if they’ll need fixing – they will. There’s keys there, and 4 strings – one of which is busted – going to the tuners, and a wheel that is attached to the crank, and…
She lifts her gaze as Adara gets up to talk to Carter, then turns her shy little grin on her packmate again. “Hurdy Gurdy. Like a vechanical miolin, sort of…”
Rory
(for reference – THIS is a Hurdy Gurdy. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Oy8FaBirQ&feature=related )
Carter Roth
Carter actually turned his gaze from the city and gave Adara a smile, it was weak and it was still filled with something bitter and driven before he shook his head.
“Thanks but no, I think I’m going to spend the night out, probably go back to the motel.” He says as he finished off the beer and set it down on the ground, not wanting it to fall to the street below.
“Not gonna shake this till I get my ass set up.”
Adara mires
She nods “As you wish. If you need a good kick in the ass to motivate you, that you can as me you know. I’m a pretty good ass kicker” She says teasing him, then drinks from her bottle.
“Do you want to be alone tonight or need a drinking buddy or something?” She asks, looking up at him.
Rumor and Ruin
Mila spent a few more minutes examining Rory’s find before she simply sat back in her chair again and finished off her beer. The conversation was.. a bit sad and well, she didn’t entirely feel like she wanted to get in the middle of that pity party. If Carter wanted to bang this chick that got him down then he should just do it.
Carter Roth
Carter shook his head and turned. “Thanks, but no thanks, I won’t be drinking.” He says as he stepped towards the doorway.
“Thanks for the beer, but as you got your pack here, I’m gonna take off. Things to do, people to prove wrong.” He said as he turned and nodded to the group. “Mila….Rory.” He said calmly as he then looked at Adara.
“I’ll catch you soon.” He says with one last nod as he stepped off the balcony and started for the door.
Rory
Rory, for her part, is actually pretty oblivious to Carter’s mood. She shifts the box on her lap around as needed, systematically dismantling pieces of it, examining it for wear and tear, and putting it back together. It seems that there is no rhyme or reason to the way she does so – and any musician would likely curse her and tear the instrument away from her in fear and disgust. But Rory’s fingers are nimble, and she seems to have an innate ability to undestand how things work… even this thing… which looks like even at its best it shouldn’t work at all…
The wood is in pretty good condition, though it needs some tender loving care, and a good sanding, oil and varnish… but it’s mostly in one piece. The inner keypads need some new felt, and as well as some oil and fastening, and she needs to fix one or two or five of them. A string needs replaced, a tooner knob or two, and cosmetic corrections…
And Rory is pleased as punch to have found such a prize. It’s better than Ruarc’s guitar… THIS will be hers….all hers.
“Hack bome, a kin had one of these… it lounds sike bagpipes, kind of.”
Rory
[for kicks and grins: dex+crafts=7 diff -1 for aptitude]
Let’s fix the Hurdy Gurdy!
Dice: 7 d10 TN5 (3, 4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10) ( success x 5 ) Re-rolls: 1
Adara mires
She frowns as Carter move away and then follows after him, naked feet making almost no noise on the wood floor. She put down her beer on the living room table and catching up with Carter.
She gently place a hand on his arm to slow him down “Hey babe, slow down” She move in front of him if he doesn’t turn around and hug him tightly, kissing his cheek before stepping away slightly, looking up at him
“Breakfast, tomorrow, come here and we’ll go out and find a place for it all right?”
Rumor and Ruin
“Later Carter. Take care..”
Mila’d wait for a moment for Carter to step away .. and apparently for Adara to follow before she once more changed the subject.
“Can’t wait to hear you play it Rory. Might even need to put some of it in a song or somethin.” She smiled warmly.
Rory
She glances up as Adara follow Carter – waving a screw driver at him in farewell, before diving into her project once again. She rubs the side of her nose, and smiles shyly at Mila… “will take time lo tearn, but I like the way it sounds.” And her packmates know well how quickly she learns something when she puts her mind to it. Soon they’ll wish she’d found a quieter instrument, she’s sure.
At least it’s not actual bagpipes…
“Have to go to the shusic mop to get strew nings tomorrow.”
Carter Roth
Carter’s mode didn’t improve much when she hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, his face remaining mostly neutral as he watched the Fury as she suggested he come here in the morning for breakfast and for some conversation. He nodded slowly.
“If I ain’t dead on my feet…sure.” He said with a two fingered salute as he backed up the last bit, headed for the door, leaving unless hes stopped.
Rumor and Ruin
“Want some company for that?” Apparently she just didnt’ have much to say tonight. The city had drawn her attention and chosen to keep it for the time being.
Adara mires
She nods to him, letting him leave “All right. If you don’t make it, give me a call during the day ok?” She watch him leave and then returns to the patio, picking up her bottle on the way. She steps out drinking from it.
“How long you figure it’ll take before you got it working?” She asks, looking at then instrument before turning her attention to Mila “You ok? You’ve been fairly quiet? And what do you say we start claiming some grounds tomorrow?”
Rory
She nods with a little grin as Mila offers to come with her. She’ll be happy for the company, and it’ll help her find the shop that Sid mentioned without too much trouble that way. Her packmates understand she can’t read, and following directions is a near impossibility without an illustrated map. this way, she won’t spend half the day lost before finding where she wants to go.
She looks up with a pleased little grin as Adara rejoins them – though voices her concern for Carter first. “He ok?”
Then, in reply to her question, she rolls a shoulder into a shrug. “Working? Day, taybe mo. Pretty? A week or more.”
Rumor and Ruin
“Yeah. I’m alright. Just wondering a bit about Carter. Not sure he should have been given a key to our place. I don’t find him all that trustworthy. He hasn’t done anything in particular.. I just don’t know where his loyalties lie. If it comes down to it – I couldn’t say he wouldn’t sell us out to the wyrm and hand them the key.” A small shrug. “He’s hard to read. Makes me wary.”
Adara mires
She smiles to Rory moving to take back the chair she was sitting on earlier “Carter will be fine. He has some trouble dealing with his warder, but it’s Carter, no surprise there. Myoko seem..I don’t know..not right for him. But she’s form his tribe so that’s their business”
She look back at Mila “Carter is rough, he’s not always in a good mood but I do trust him with my life and everything I own. He’s one of my dearest friend and I know he would never betray me in a million years.”
She smiles softly “Don’t worry about him, you can trust him. Maybe you won’t like him but he’s a decent man. And he’s not that hard to read. I do know every little ways possible to annoy him”
She says with affection in her voice. She knew more than that. She understood him most of the time and usually was able to help him out. But she did love to tease him and annoy him.
Rory
She furrows her brow, slightly. “bust jecause he is gunshy about us and not hung go about the nation doesn’t mean he’d sell anyone out. Even kappy hin raised with Nation can be turned against us.”
Rumor and Ruin
“He may not betray you.. but I don’t know about the rest of us.” She shook her head slightly. “If you think he should have a key.. then I’ll trust your judgement on that matter. But I will be locking my door at night.”
“I’m glad to hear he has a Warder though. Saves me the trouble of having him hate me for having to do it and thus increasing the likelihood that he’ll stab me in my sleep. I’ve got one ward already and another prospect I’ve yet to fully investigate.. don’t need three.”
Adara mires
She smiles at Mila “Fair enough. But I know he won’t betray my pack mates either. He’s an honourable man. I’ve seen who he really is. That’s why I”m not worried. And if it doesn’t work out with Myoko, let’s place him under the pack’s protection and I’ll handle him
He can hate me for me..but I know he won’t” She shrugs slightly with a smile. She isn’t worried about things breaking her relation with Carter.
Rory
Rory, having voiced her opinion – something she rarely does at best – bends her head to her musical project, her fingers working the mechanics of the Hurdy Gurdy with dexterous ease. She chews on her lower lip, absently, listening as they speak, but the most of her attention is on the instrument on her lap.
She is forbidden to have kinfolk, and only warded those tribemates of chicago because she was the only one who could. That’s something she will enjoy here… she won’t have to figure it out…
Rumor and Ruin
“Carter and I just don’t get along I guess. I don’t like his style and he’s never given me a hint as to where his loyalties lie. I’m glad it’s with you guys. I probably would be easier on him if he wasn’t family.. and I guess I expect more from family.” She shrugged slightly and glanced at her bottle – which suddenly seemed too empty. She wanted more. This whole topic had put her on edge.
In all honesty she thought he had potential to be something good.. if only he’d stop feeling sorry for himself! He just needed to take the bull by the horns and do what he needed to do.
Adara mires
She nods to Mila “It’s not with only Rory and I, it’s with us hun. He’ll be loyal to you if you try to be polite with him. And by loyal, I mean in the general sense of the word..on our side. Carter is a kin sure, but he doesn’t owe anything to one of us personally. He chooses to like us or not. And we owe to treat him decently like we should everyone until proven otherwise.
I think that not enough people before Chicago has done that for him. But now he knows a few who does and he’s different form back then. He’s changing slowly”
Rumor and Ruin
“I was plesant enough, wasn’t I?” She didn’t recall saying anything too snide. -Not to say it didn’t happen.
“I’m gonna grab anothe beer. Anyone else want one?” Mila rose from her chair, stretching slightly.
Rory
She understands Carter, though it’s likely she’d never be able to tell him so – at least not so that he’d understand. Perhaps if she could, if she was able to tell him of her life as Garou, and how fucked up it was until she got to Chicago, and why she is how she is… he’d learn to trust her too. But as he can hardly stand to be in the room with her…
Well. Adara’s word is good enough for her, and she knows all too well the feeling of being used by the Nation. chicago changed that, a bit, for her. Perhaps San Francisco will do so more.
Mila asks who wants a beer, and Rory waves a screw driver at her in request.
Adara mires
She smiles to Mila “You’ve been pretty neutral. And it’s ok. I won’t ask you to like him. Just don’t..hate him ok?” She then empties her beer “I’d love another one please”
She reaches to caress Rory’s hair very gently, the back of her neck, watching her with a soft smile. Her eyes have a faraway look as if she finds herself lost in her thoughts.
Rory
She leans into that caress, turning to press a light kiss against Adara’s palm, before she turns back to her work. She glances back, again, seeing that fare away look, and tips her head…
“Ok?”
Rumor and Ruin
“Hating and not trusting are two very different things, Adara. I don’t hate him, I just don’t trust him. And, I have no plans to hate him unless he gives me damned good reason too.. and just being a snot like he was back in Chicago isn’t enough of a reason. We already nearly came to blows once.. and look at us – we had a civil conversation tonight..” She spoke even as she was heading into the kitchen.
She returned a moment later two two beers. She figured the waving of the screw driver was a no from Rory..
Adara mires
She smiles to Rory as she blinks herself back to the patio. “Yeah..I”m good” She leans down to kiss Rory’s lips softly “I’m fine don’t worry”
She waits until Mila is back to reply to her “All right. That’s good enough for me” She takes the offered beer and uncapped it “Thanks. So ladies, are we going on a turf claiming tomorrow?”
Rumor and Ruin
“All of it?” She questions as she flops back into the chair and reprops her feet back up on the railing. Maybe she was kidding.. maybe not?
Rory
She watches her a moment more, and then nods, slightly. Mila comes back without a beer for Rory, and she tips her head slightly, but shrugs it off and goes back to her work. She chews her lip absently, but nods when its suggest they go on a claiming mission tomorrow. She needs something to patrol – else she go crazy.
Mila wants all of it – and she huffs a soft burst of laughter.
Adara mires
She chuckles, drinking form her bottle than offering it to Rory “Not all of it..not yet, but Nob Hill. It’ll be a vast territory to watch out for, but we can do it. Maybe we’ll get a few prospects in and that will help. If not, we’ll work harder”
She leans into her chair, fingers playing with red curls.
Rumor and Ruin
“Nob hill it is then..” A sip of the beer. “But in all reality – no one else has claimed anything – why not simply plant our flag and state that the city is ours, ruled from right here on Nob hill?” It wasn’t an argument, simply a statement thrown out there and meant to be mulled over. She didn’t seem to be pushing it.. just merely mentioning it.
Rory
She takes the offered bottle, and a swallow or two, before she hands it back, and bends her head to her work. She’s got quite a pile of little pieces around her now, and it seems that it will never get put back together again.
She snorts, slightly. “Should only claim what ce wan hold. Anything else is recipe tor frouble. invites conflict. Will have enough trouble ho told and cleanse the Hill on our own.”
Adara mires
She takes the bottle from Rory and nods at the Fianna’s words “I do like the idea of ruling the city, but let’s do this as if we’re playing Risk. Claim a place, solidify our hold on it then expand. Spreading ourselves thin will end up with us being attacked on all front.
If we claim the neighbourhood, then move up, we might end up holding the entire city. Who knows. I much prefer to hold what i can..until we have a network of kin and Garou on our side”
Rumor and Ruin
Mila nodded. Their reasons were fair ones, and she wasn’t up for a fight – merely a conversation. “Fair enough. Tomorrow we start with Nob Hill.”
She smiled then and lifted her drink in a toast. “To taking this city back from the wyrm, piece by piece.”
Rory
She looks up at the toast, and nods her agreement to it, before looking down again. Nob Hill was big enough territory for more than just them. Ambition is fine, but caution is sometimes called for, especially in a city with now Caern, no cohesion, no group plan. They are effectively on their one… piece by piece it’ll have to be.
Adara mires
She raises her beer to Mila “Tomorrow Nob Hill, the day after…the world!” She says in her best villain voice and then laughing, she drinks form her bottle. She turns to look at their future territory with some pride in her smile.
This will be a good challenge to hold this. Yet it was worth it. This was a beautiful neighbourhood.
Rumor and Ruin
{Alright guys.. it’s my bedtime! This seems like a good enough place to have Mila bow out! So.. night! See ya’ll soon. I do check forums and stuff if ya need me}
Rory
Mila takes her leave and goes to bed after a while, and Rory keeps workting through it all. Adara seems quiet, and well, Rory’s not one to speak under the best of circumstances, so is not uncomfortable with her silence…
She does worry, a bit though, as it seems as if something is worrying her, at least a little. Carter, probably. Rory pauses, for a moment, and lays her head agianst Adara’s knee. Just a moment’s connection, while she contemplates her next move with the instrument in her lap…
Adara mires
She waves Mila good night and finishes her beer slowly, hand still playing with Rory’s hair. She looks down when Rory rest her head against her knee. She smiles softly
“So baby, are you all right? You seem quieter than usual” She ask, reaching to caress the Fianna’s cheek lovingly
Rory
She nods, slightly, and tilts her head to look up at Adara with a shy little smile. “I’m ok. Just… trying go tet work like in Chicago. Is harder than I thought it bould we. Even thith we Missus’ letter…”
she doesn’t like mooching off of anyone, even if it’s her packmates. She wants to be able to contribute. “Going to that shusic mop tomorrow. Maybe Sid gan cet me a job there…”
Adara mires
She smiles softly “All right. Let me know how it goes. If you want a job then we’ll go hunt for one. I’ll be your agent. In spite of my rage, I’m still a pretty good sales person. Like getting gigs for me. I have another one friday. So you should come, Mila too…and Carter”
She’ll have to remember telling him tomorrow..but who she was kidding, she remembers everything..
“I’ll get you some contacts for jobs baby”
Rory
She nods, slightly, and rests against adara’s thigh, turning her head to press a kiss against her knee. She wouldn’t miss her gig for the world – she loves to hear her sing. She just want to help…
wants to fix things. For everyone.
“Ok.” She knows she’s in good hands though – she knows very well just how good those hands can be…. especially in the privacy of their room.
Adara mires
She picks the guitar up and place it on her lap, careful not to hit Rory with it “Anything you want me to sing?” She asks before starting to let her fingers move on the cords expertly.
She loved music so much. She knew her passion for it was stirred even more by their totem..as much as her passion for women but redheads more precisely was too.
She starts singing the song I’ve been thinking about by Handsome Boy Modelling School featuring Cat Powers. She had managed to make it sound good with a guitar and of course she changed the word boy to girl, making it come out fluidly when she sings
Rory
She smiles, shyly, and shrugs. “Anything.” She could listen to adara play and sing all night long, and it always pushes her to learn to play better herself. She can’t sing, of course, but at some point she will be quite the accompanist, and perhaps she’ll be able to help support Adara during her gigs…
She starts to play and sing, and Rory sighs contentedly, and goes back to work on the Hurdy Gurdy. It’ll have quite the distinctive sound when she’s finished with it. Maybe she’ll even learn to play it well enough to panhandle a bit on her own…
New city, new possibilities, right? Right.