[b][center][h3][color=orange] Lein [/color][/h3][/center][/b]
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[b][color=orange]Location:[/color][/b] The Lonely Frame
[b][color=orange]Interactions:[/color][/b] Sergio [@VahkiDane] Lucas [@Saiyan] Fleuri [@Crimson Paladin]
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The Flying Family! That was it - Lein hadn't quite pinned down where he had seen those acrobatic movements before; where else other than the great Fergusons! [i]A gladiator, a paladin, a trapeze artist and a dog walk into a bar... heh. The goddesses must have a sense of humor, to have collected everyone here.[/i] Though as his curiosity floated around his mind, Lein stole a glance at a murky expression on Lucas. [color=orange]"A circus, huh? Must've been quite the sight!"[/color] Everyone had a stake they wanted buried. Lein knew better than to pry.

[color=6ecff6]"So this outing...  You got family in the city?  Friends?"[/color]

[i]Family, huh.[/i] Lein took a long swig, the reflection of the lone Hundi tilting backwards into the cup. For the briefest of moments, a great loneliness washed over him, a gentle wave rolling over the deck of a distant whaling ship. A shiver up his spine whispered many names, unuttered for years.

[i]They're all going on without you.[/i]

But as the cup went down, Lein's expression betrayed nothing but playfulness one would come to expect from him. [color=orange]"Eh, just visiting a bunch of riff-raff I ran into way back when."[/color] Lein continued, inconspicuously slapping a warning to Sergio's legs with his tail. [i]No ratting.[/i] [color=orange]"My blood-kin all bit it while I was still on The Keening, so I'm stuck here with nothing to do but sit in this [i]taudis[/i] and spit it with a bunch of these whoresons, heh."[/color]

Lein rapped his fingers across the countertop, catching Lucas' strange fascination with them. [color=orange]"But this bar has the loosest pockets in Aimlenn, so who am I to complain."[/color] With a flurry of both real and ossific fingers Lein produced a couple of coins, juggling them around between the digits. It will be a while before the drunkard he swiped these from woke up anyway. [color=orange]"Besides! If I can learn from the Champion himself, why, it'll be all worth it!"[/color] With a flick, Lein shot a coin across the counter-top and towards Fleuri's mug.