Muninn Newsrag/Adventures of one Drunk and her Rabbit/RP2Ch4

Davendrall and Anneliese welcome Katelijn to Tara - Chapter 4

Roleplay from Anneliese

A procession of soldiers entered the stronghold city, carrying banners identifying the group as the 'Grey Guard'. Underneath some of them, however, a different message had been inscribed: 'Help, we're lost!' 'Which way to Eston?' 'Someone please give directions to our Dame so she will quit leading us in circles'. "So this is Eston's capital," Anne said, astride her horse. "Uhm..." A young soldier broke off from the procession and came up to her. He looked to be one of the new recruits; she couldn't remember his name. "Miss, there's a... uh, someone vandalized the banners." "What?" Anne turned sideways in the saddle so she could look over her shoulder. "Oh. I see." A look of displeasure crossed her face. She turned back to the young man, "Thank you for alerting me to this... prank." Nobles tricking her, she could tolerate, but her own soldiers? No, that wouldn't do. "Captain Gismar!" "Yes, Dame?" The captain pulled his horse up beside her. "Did you notice the banners?" "Well, I've been quite busy trying to navigate through the city so-" Her voice was unnervingly calm: "This is a simple, yes or no question." "Uhm, yes, but I just saw it out of my eye and you know I have bad eyesight since that tim-" The look Anne was giving stopped him mid-sentence. Her mouth was tight and expressionless, but her eyes were arched in that particular way that made her look rather like a very angry owl. "I, uh, I'll get those taken down and fixed right away, ma'am." The captain excused himself, and rode off. "Good." She smiled, though the Captain was too busy going the other way to notice. She dismounted her horse, and gave the reins to a stablehand. "Dame...." She heard another person come up behind her, and sighed. All she had heard through this trip was complaints: 'Dame Anneliese doesn't know where we're going,' 'Dame Anneliese can't read a map ' 'Dame Anneliese has us walking in circles' 'Dame Anneliese wouldn't know which way to Eston was if the sign hit her in the face' and finally, 'Dame Anneliese is cruel and keeps whipping me for complaining'. Her expression softened when she saw that it was the astringer. He was carrying a hooded goshawk. "The hawk has had a terrible time of it - particularly this last stretch." "Aw, poor thing." Anne said, and took the hawk from him. On her left fist was a glove, which the hawk was placed on. She attached the jesse to an eyelet in the glove so the bird would not fly off. "We'll have to get you out hunting, won't we? That'll calm you down, I bet..." Killing things certainly always calmed her down, at least. Until she met the Norlanders, she took long hunting excursions with her hawk to distract her from courtier work. Hopefully, now that she was away from Tara, she wouldn't be stuck doing region maintenance.

Roleplay from Davendrall

"AHA! "Anne" person! I see you made it! Captain Lemming, I'd like you meet Anne, my pet rabbit" Davendrall introduced the two formally "Would you like a carrot?"

Roleplay from Anneliese

"Dave, I know I'd said I'd follow you, but I am not a rabbit." She gestured with her free hand at her head, "Do you notice the lack of long, rabbit ears? The lack of a bushy tail? Do you know what the means?" A pause, "It means I'm not a rabbit!" "...Also, I hate carrots."

Roleplay from Davendrall

"Nonsense ! You clearly have rabbit ears! Admittedly they are a bit small, must be very undignified to have small ears as a rabbit...but you have rabbit ears none the less, and as for the tail...that fluffy tail is just adorable! Now eat the carrot!" Davendrall held out a carrot towards her "Here ikkle bunny! Eat the nice ikkle carrot! Here comes the chew chew train, chuga chuga chuga chuga" Davendrall waved the carrot about in front of the "Anne" persons face, trying to encourage her to eat it.

Roleplay from Anneliese

"If I were a rabbit, I imagine my own hawk would try to kill me." The hawk was still perched on her left hand, unmoving. Anne stared at the carrot, and then at Dave. "No. Get that thing away from me, it's disgusting, and if you keep waving that thing near me, I will hurt you."

Roleplay from Davendrall

Davendrall turned around, realizing the approach of Xaphan "MR SNUGGLES!!!!" Davendrall ran towards him, grinning wildly, carrot in hand, running towards him, arms wide open ready to pet the Squirrel

Roleplay from Anneliese

As Dave was distracted by the squirrel, Anne sighed in relief, and took the opportunity to sneak off.