[Event] Galavanting
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:47 pm
1st of Yaris, 2719 • midday
“I don’t know why I agreed to any of this. I haven’t been back here since I was a schoolboy. You know when I was young, we were not permitted to run around like these- these hooligans!”
Mr. Raynarus went red-faced as two twelve or thirteen year old galdori children went by screaming at one another, nearly knocking the older galdor off his cane. Cat couldn’t help the grin on her face as he grumbled more about how dress code certainly had changed since he’d been at Brunnhold. She signed to him, Did you not want to come see the locomotive?
Funny, Estuan sign had no word for locomotive. Cat hadn’t even heard that word until it was presented on a pamphlet for the upcoming Gala. Something that Mr. Raynarus has kindly offered to let her come along to. It was the first time she’d ever been to anything like it. There was a ferris wheel, games, music, and enough food to fill every belly in Anaxas ten times over. She was practically bouncing with excitement. Raynarus only rolled his eyes at his human apprentice. She didn’t get out at all and he wondered for a moment if he maybe should have been more thoughtful of her social life when she was a teenager. Nah.
“Yes, I do want to see the ‘moving-steam-carriage’. That isn’t for another four days. Do you mind explaining why you thought it necessary to arrive this day?”
Cat stared at him completely unable to stop smiling as she signed, “Fireworks!”
Raynarus palmed his own face. The girl was 22 years old and acting as if she were still 14. “Yes. Fine. Fireworks. I should not have let you make the arrangements if I wanted this to be a simple trip, I suppose.”
Cat shook her head, practically laughing.
“Cat. This is...a very crowded place and I see that you are excited but if I hear one mention of a crazed mute redhead causing any trouble I will drag you back to Vienda by your ears and you will not leave the forge for another decade.”
Cat sobered up and nodded, giving a small bow while signing, “Sorry, Master. I’m just really happy you let me come with you.”
Raynarus held back a smirk. Truthfully he was here to show his face and spend the rest of the time in a tavern where he could hopefully relax. But if nothing else, watching the human’s reaction to everything was indeed entertaining. Cat knew her place. That much was true. It was also true that Raynarus had interacted with her very little in the past few years and he could see she had grown up a great deal in that time. But something in Raynarus refused to stop being the strict Master to his apprentice.
Cat was turning around and doing that thing where she rocked on her heels when he flicked her in the back of the head. “Pay attention. Do not take anything anyone offers you for free, and do not leave the main festivities. Do not go anywhere with anyone unless it’s in this public place. We’ll meet back here at sundown, you can watch the fireworks and then to the Inn.”
Cat nodded but she wasn’t even looking at him. Raynarus rolled his eyes, seeing that he was going to have to hope for the best or follow her around. He opted for the former and headed into Brunnhold to go do all the obligatory hand shaking he could before the end of the day.
Cat was left in the stacks, looking happy, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do first. Of course, that changed immediately as she saw a man...with a cart...selling food...on sticks. Sticks! Cat begrudged that she herself couldn’t always enjoy certain foods without looking like a freak but nonetheless she hurried to join the already growing line of people waiting for this novelty food.
Mr. Raynarus went red-faced as two twelve or thirteen year old galdori children went by screaming at one another, nearly knocking the older galdor off his cane. Cat couldn’t help the grin on her face as he grumbled more about how dress code certainly had changed since he’d been at Brunnhold. She signed to him, Did you not want to come see the locomotive?
Funny, Estuan sign had no word for locomotive. Cat hadn’t even heard that word until it was presented on a pamphlet for the upcoming Gala. Something that Mr. Raynarus has kindly offered to let her come along to. It was the first time she’d ever been to anything like it. There was a ferris wheel, games, music, and enough food to fill every belly in Anaxas ten times over. She was practically bouncing with excitement. Raynarus only rolled his eyes at his human apprentice. She didn’t get out at all and he wondered for a moment if he maybe should have been more thoughtful of her social life when she was a teenager. Nah.
“Yes, I do want to see the ‘moving-steam-carriage’. That isn’t for another four days. Do you mind explaining why you thought it necessary to arrive this day?”
Cat stared at him completely unable to stop smiling as she signed, “Fireworks!”
Raynarus palmed his own face. The girl was 22 years old and acting as if she were still 14. “Yes. Fine. Fireworks. I should not have let you make the arrangements if I wanted this to be a simple trip, I suppose.”
Cat shook her head, practically laughing.
“Cat. This is...a very crowded place and I see that you are excited but if I hear one mention of a crazed mute redhead causing any trouble I will drag you back to Vienda by your ears and you will not leave the forge for another decade.”
Cat sobered up and nodded, giving a small bow while signing, “Sorry, Master. I’m just really happy you let me come with you.”
Raynarus held back a smirk. Truthfully he was here to show his face and spend the rest of the time in a tavern where he could hopefully relax. But if nothing else, watching the human’s reaction to everything was indeed entertaining. Cat knew her place. That much was true. It was also true that Raynarus had interacted with her very little in the past few years and he could see she had grown up a great deal in that time. But something in Raynarus refused to stop being the strict Master to his apprentice.
Cat was turning around and doing that thing where she rocked on her heels when he flicked her in the back of the head. “Pay attention. Do not take anything anyone offers you for free, and do not leave the main festivities. Do not go anywhere with anyone unless it’s in this public place. We’ll meet back here at sundown, you can watch the fireworks and then to the Inn.”
Cat nodded but she wasn’t even looking at him. Raynarus rolled his eyes, seeing that he was going to have to hope for the best or follow her around. He opted for the former and headed into Brunnhold to go do all the obligatory hand shaking he could before the end of the day.
Cat was left in the stacks, looking happy, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do first. Of course, that changed immediately as she saw a man...with a cart...selling food...on sticks. Sticks! Cat begrudged that she herself couldn’t always enjoy certain foods without looking like a freak but nonetheless she hurried to join the already growing line of people waiting for this novelty food.