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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:38 am
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Delicate fingers idly toyed with a stray lock of her own hair, her eyes following her own motions. Was it so horrible? Perhaps not. She had enjoyed his company, and she had enjoyed the intimacy they had experienced together, even if it did not get as far as he would have liked. And Na'ima could see herself spending more time with him, gifting him little trinkets and--but was it a product of her own desires or simply borrowed interest from the woman who had borrowed her face? "I have never held interest in anyone in this manner, Falair. It is...startling to me." She sighed. "I even demanded that he court me, he told me no." That was a big deal to Na'ima, who was used to getting everything she wanted. No one had ever told her no as far as she could remember. And he had done it so harshly..
"Apparently, if I truly want him, he says I must work for it." She actually chuckled. "Am I no better than a foolish filly, Falair? Mocking them for looking for the easy way out instead of working for what they want?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:12 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:22 am
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She frowned. Falair didn't need to remind her she'd made a mistake. "It was not my intention. I had been honest with him, I told him Rathsvith was useless to me as a subject and I would no longer be using him, and that he himself had informed me of his interest in cutting himself off from our tests. It was Salbei who said I would be the one to take care of it." She sagged, slouching back against the wall of the bath.
Golden eyes turned up toward the ceiling. What would happen, honestly? She needed to relax and think rationally on this. Salbei was observant, he could tell things even when Na'ima did her best to hide them from him. Would he truly be upset? It wasn't as if she was going out of her way to hide from him, but she also had not gone out of her way to say anything about it to him. But it had only been one day so far; the next day she had spent with Salbei, and the day after that she had come here to see Falair, and it would be a week before she was at the tower again. It had never been her intention to deceive him.
...It would be all right. Salbei was reasonable. He would be fine. She had nothing to worry about, if anything he would likely just see about doing something terribly embarrassing to her like a--
No. She wouldn't think about that.
Her smile finally returned as she sat up and reached for the bowl that was floating by, grabbing Falair's soap and dipping it in the water. "It will be fine," she said with no forced confidence. "I know Salbei, and I trust him. He is..." kind word kind word kind word kind wo-- "old, I am sure he has at some point in his life been young and infatuated..surely.." Now she sounded unsure, but only because she was trying desperately to think back on past behaviors. Had he ever shown interest in anyone before? She couldn't remember, there were so many years between meeting him and now, she couldn't expect to remember every moment of their time together, right?
Na'ima waved a hand dismissively and began to apply the soap to her neck and shoulder. "I still cannot believe you never told me about your stallion."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:33 am
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