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rainbowfic2019-02-18 04:22 pm
jkatkina) wrote in rainbowfic2019-02-18 04:22 pm
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A couple of brigands in training
| Name: | jkatkina |
| Story: | Fensirt and Everwood! |
| Colors/Styles: | Metallic Gold 5. education Graffiti: Valentine's Day Challenge, Option #2 (making use of Akadine and Brandili, who belong to Dray) |
| Word Count: | 915 |
| Rating: | G |
| Summary: | For dray! I thought I'd follow up the one you wrote for me. :D |
They didn't swing by these parts often -- well, that was an understatement; now it'd been twice in three years, and even that just barely and on the flimsiest of pretence -- but Akadine had left an impression. She wasn't the only one who had, then again, but it was her in particular that warranted a strategic reintroduction.
Tua had rolled his eyes at her when she'd sketched out her plan, full of glee, but he hadn't stopped her and Kaitan considered that as good as permission. "Don't get yourself stabbed," he'd drawled. "I'm too old and crotchety to train a third human."
Urdasvale had been a delight to discover, when she'd found her way to it by rumour and Tua's nose. There wasn't anything quite like it back home, and she'd spent the better part of a week renting a room at the little inn there, excitedly introducing herself to the residents. Tua had spent that time sniffing about and exploring the woods, largely; Kaitan thought he felt a little out of place there, though she knew him well enough to read an odd distraction in him too.
She'd met Akadine when a couple of kids had found Tua and begun to grill him about what manner of thing he was, what he was doing here, what magical things he could do -- more of a nuisance than she'd been when she was young, she was sure, and she'd swooped to his rescue the same time that the girls' mother -- one of their mothers -- had done the same.
The rest, well, it had unfolded as it might, and had left Kaitan with a rich stew of delight and mortification and a dire wounding of the ego.
The latter of which she was determined to rectify.
They snuck into Urdasvale one evening, confident that no one knew they were on the mountain, much less coming for a visit. Tua carried them around the perimeter of the town, picking their way around remembered cabins -- avoiding at least one that hadn't been there before. His great padded feet, good for moving over sand, fell wide and careful around endless foliage, picking cautious through twigs and mast, and the whole time Kaitan was grinning like an idiot.
When they arrived at the cabin that she remembered Akadine living in, she pressed a palm to her partner's shoulder and he stopped. She slid down and picked her way to the back wall of the cabin, breathing shallowly, until she was beside a window. Carefully, oh so carefully, she twisted her body and peered through a bottom corner.
That peach-fuzz head she remembered Akadine's partner had greeted her, close enough to the window to make her breath catch -- but Brandili was facing away, and therefore safe. The two girls were in front of the fireplace... and Akadine was right there, the sharp creature. Kaitan grinned wider, and then ducked hurriedly when Akadine began to turn.
She'd been wearing a coat. Going out, or coming back in? Kaitan, feeling her heart hammering away, skittered around the house's handmade walls to the doorway. There was a trellis there; good, she mashed herself in alongside the vines that grew up the framework, holding her breath. She kicked a river-stone that sat amongst the many others that lined the pathway, and let it skitter down the side of the hill, hoping the noise would be enough to get Akadine's attention.
The door creaked open.
Kaitan hesitated for a fraction of a second -- it wasn't a bald head or a child, good -- before she yelled and lunged.
And found herself flat on her back, the echo of a roar ringing in her ears. Akadine's face was a mask of a snarl -- she couldn't have made that noise, that was too much noise for human lungs. She stared up, round-eyed, frightened despite herself. That had been inhuman speed, and that was an inhuman expression.
But the fear faded as Akadine's expression changed. Her hands, vice-like, pinned Kaitan's wrists to the dirt, her scowl morphing into something pettier and more annoyed and -- thank the goddesses -- filling with recognition.
"Kay -- Kaitan? Right? What the fuck are you doing -- back here?"
Feeling manic with adrenaline, Kaitan bared all her teeth in something like a grin. She could feel the subsonic sound Tua's feet approaching at a trot. "How did you do that? How do you do that?! I should have had the jump on you!"
"You're fucking lucky I didn't have a knife!" Akadine let go of her wrists and punched the younger woman's shoulder into the dirt, then stood and offered a hand. When Kaitan was up and brushing off, she glared into the darkness at the looming form of Tuanada. "You letting this upstart jump people like a brigand now? You have a change of career?"
Tuanada laughed, deep and -- Kaitan thought -- vaguely relieved. "I only let her jump known brigands. Turnabout, and all."
"I hope the lake serpent takes you both," Akadine growled. Brandili was sticking her head out now, and Akadine grunted into the cool night air. "Well, we're no barn but we'll make room at the fireplace if you two want to come in and try to make up for being a couple of flea-bitten bastards."
Kaitan, gleeful, accepted, and tugged Tuanada along with her. She had a lot to learn from this woman, and this time, she aimed to learn it.
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I love this so much, I love the hint of a backstory and the way these characters all mesh together. What an entire treat, Kat, thank you!!
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Now the ball's in your court~
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