Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140702211641/@comment-3293219-20140705200226

Lilith sat on Set’s bedroll, stitching something together, out of a long white piece of cloth, she was so busy that she didn’t even notice Set walk in, despite the fact that he wasn’t exactly quiet with his entrance. He stormed into his tent and pulled his sword from his hip, placing it on the floor and letting it lean against the wall of his tent, Lilith didn’t look up until he let out a heavy sigh.

“How was hunting?” She asked, through gritted teeth as she had a needle in her mouth, from where she was stitching the item of clothing together but she still sounded sympathetic and soft spoken. Set looked up to respond but found himself distracted by the fact that she was sewing…

“What’re doin’?” He asked, almost in disbelief for some reason as he saw that Lilith was sewing something together. He didn’t know why this surprised him, he barely knew her but it seemed like an odd thing to see her doing as he walked in.

“Well… Your socks are in an appalling state, so I thought I’d make you some new ones…” Lilith muttered, reaching over for her needle and thread as she continued to stitch them together. Set shook his head, with a smile as he approached her and knelt down besides her, prompting her to drop what she was doing and place her hands on his shoulders as she began to massage them.

“Bad day huh?”

Set glanced to the floor, she had no idea, maybe if he hadn’t washed the blood off of his face and armour, then she might have understood straight off. He continued to stare at the floor as she rubbed his shoulders, kneeling up even higher, so that she could apply more pressure to ease the tension building up in them.

“Don’t worry Set, Tyler didn’t get anything on his first day either…” She said; cheerily as she pulled him down to his bed and rolled him over, applying more and more pressure to his lower back.

“I’m sure you’ll do better tomorrow…”

“It ain’t… That…” Set muttered, finding it hard to relax, despite the fact that her massage techniques were amazing, he simply wasn’t in the mood. Still, he wasn’t going to tell her that…

“Methral… Don’t like the way I do stuff…”

“I… See… What did you do that was wrong?”

The Bosmer paused, sighing heavily, if this person was sharing a bed with him, paid or not she should know… It would be better to hear it from him, than from Methral or from idle town gossip, would spread fast in this town and Lilith never left.

“I robbed a camp…”

Lilith stopped for a minute as she began to process this piece of information, slowly lowering her hands to her lap as the heavily scarred Bosmer turned to face her.

“If you wanna go, then…”

“No… I don’t want to go, I’m just… What kind of camp?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set paused and sighed heavily as he hung his head, slowly glancing over to his ‘lover’ as she sat patiently waiting his answer. He could tell from her tone, the way that she sat, the fact that she was so attentive, that she wanted to understand him.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer felt a little better about this, he slowly shuffled around to face her, frowning and taking her hands as he knelt up in front of her.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It was… Like ours but… smaller… I had to kill a few people to get the supplies, hurt a few more people… Hurt a lot of people in some way or another…”

<p class="MsoNormal">Lilith smiled nervously and placed her hand on his shoulder, running her fingers over a scratch, that he received at some point in his long torturous life.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You did what you had to, to keep us alive… Right?” This got Set to look up, catching her gaze, with his eye as their fingers interlocked.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah… We needed the food, the medicine and…” The Dunmer put her fingers to his lips to silence him, cutting him off as she pulled her face closer to his.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Then forget Methral and Tyler… You’re doing what’s necessary and nobody can argue against your intentions…” She whispered, pulling her face closer to his ear as her lips hovered over it and she slowly began to grin.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You’re doing what you must, to keep us alive…” She whispered before gently kissing his cheek, wrapping her arms around his body as she pressed herself up against him.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Don’t let them stop you…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer slowly reached up and wrapped his arm around her back and around her waist, pulling her in and feeling himself leaning forward as he wanted to fall onto the bed with her, unfortunately he was interrupted, when Lilith gasped and pulled away, prompting him to look over his shoulder and see Methral enter his tent.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Oh, I’m… Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“No, it’s… fine…” Set grumbled as Lilith pulled away and sat down on her bed, slowly dragging herself up to the pillow end and taking a seat, keeping quiet to avoid getting involved.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I’ve… Come to talk about today…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know…” Set grumbled, slowly pulling himself to his feet, aching and groaning from where his arms and shoulders had been overworked. He wasn’t as young as he used to be, swinging a sword that vigorously wasn’t good for his body but it got the job done, even if he did feel like an old man later.

<p class="MsoNormal">They stood, face to face, waiting for Methral to speak, it took her a few moments as she got a small speech scrabbled together in her head but eventually she managed it.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Set… What you did today…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“I know…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Let me finish…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Sorry…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“What you did today? I’ve been thinking… I detest that kind of behaviour, that mindset of yours…” Methral stepped away, turning away and wandering over to his table, where she saw his katana and found herself shuddering at the sight of it. It had been cleaned well but it was still sticky with blood in her eyes…

<p class="MsoNormal">Set remained silent, knowing full well that there was a ‘but’ coming along, he knew this, because he was right and no matter how much she, Tyler and that idiot Pol wanted to pretend that everything was alright? It wasn’t…

<p class="MsoNormal">Safety, comfort, life itself came with a price, even before everything turned to shit, the empire’s citizens prospered from the misfortunes of others, they ate, slepts, were safe, because of the exploitation, murder and even enslavement. Things hadn’t changed, they’d just become a little more… Obvious.

<p class="MsoNormal">“You’re… Right though, yesterday, we were on death’s door, Tyler coming back with a squirrel would’ve meant that we’d have to use up the last of the emergency rations. We would have been done for, if it weren’t for you and your…

<p class="MsoNormal">Methods…” Set nodded and glanced back to Lilith, who just nodded for him to look back to the other Dunmer, who was slowly turning around.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Set… I need more days like today, Colm could get me those results but if I put him in charge of my scav team, we really will have returned to the days of Irvine. We can be better than that, we must be better than that…” She then paused, glancing away as if she was having second thoughts, but no, this was the right way forward. It was the only way…

<p class="MsoNormal">“Set? I want you to lead the scav team tomorrow…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer frowned, somewhat surprised as ten minutes ago, he wouldn’t have thought that she would have allowed him to stay on the scav team, never mind lead it.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Tyler will be watching over you and he’ll be reporting back to me… If I hear anything that doesn’t sound necessary, you will be off the scav team and you will no longer have a place here! Is that understood?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yes…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Also, I don’t want any tales of your exploits making it back here… What happens out there, is between you, me, Tyler, Pol and Kurt.

<p class="MsoNormal">Is that understood?”

<p class="MsoNormal">Set nodded in agreement as she turned away, bent down and grabbed his sword, slowly extending her arm out and shoving it in his face, silently demanding that he took it.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Do not let me down…”

<p class="MsoNormal">The Bosmer took the blade, by the sheeth and slowly lowered it to his side, nodding silently before raising his head to face her again.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Understood…”

<p class="MsoNormal">“You leave tomorrow; same time as today, I’ll inform Tyler and have him prepare your equipment.” Methral said, slowly wandering out of the tent and leaving Set alone with his Dunmer, still holding the sword in his hand.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yes ma’am…” He muttered, as soon as she was out of earshot, immediately walking back to the swords previous resting place and placing it down on the ground, beside his table. Lilith jumped up, to her feet and rushed over to him, clapping her hands together with a huge grin on her face.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Congratulations!” She gasped, leaning forward and wrapping her around him, unable to wipe the large grin off of her face as she pressed her ear against his back. The Bosmer just stayed still, though he didn’t feel particularly proud of this fact, it was… nice to share this moment with someone, even if he didn’t feel the same way about it. He turned back to her and gave her a slight smile, earning himself a giggle as Lilith began to pull him towards his bed.

<p class="MsoNormal">“C’mon… Time to celebrate.” She giggled, yanking him forward and causing him to fall on top of her as she began to kiss him. She pulled away and glared into his eyes, giving Set a chance to see how powerful hers were, an intense shade of red, which were almost overwhelming to look at.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I guess it is… Kinda good, first time anyone’s ever promoted me on my first day…” Set noted, glancing away from her face before being pushed onto his back.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Yeah it is!” She beamed, gently rubbing his chest with her hands as he began to relax, letting her long black hair drape down as she stared down at him.

<p class="MsoNormal">“It really is…” She whispered, pulling him in closer and kissing him…