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"I could work that for you," Thierri suggested with a sly smile, waggling his fingers.Tomas wrote:"It will be leading to a clever trap and I will be able to work herr kink in my back," Tomas stretches the muscle in question, "What has been bothering me all day."
It was probably for the best Tomas was immediately distracted by balloons.
Asil stared up at the interloper, tossing the mancala stones in his hands as he mulled over whether to respond. The other Rashemi shifted subtly, folding their arms as their leader deliberated. "No reason not to sic your likes onto her," he finally said, derision evident, but only half directed at the dommer. "But we don't know. We were elsewhere when she came by. If any of us had known where that woman might have gone, we'd have brought her back here to pay Mistress Canderli everything she owed," he stated vehemently.Cyrus wrote:"You are--" Cyrus paused and had to reconsider his words. "You keep the company of Canderli," he said. It wasn't a question. "Did you see the woman in yellow that bought the gal-zuur?" He fingered some coins in his money pouch suggestively.
Katja drew her sword, which was enough to send the man skittering back into the alleyway, fully convinced "priest" did not like. The soldier smoothly sheathed the blade again, walking over to join the growing pile at the food stand. Nerit's shocked oath and collision with Eisenwald startled the salesman, who accidentally lost his grip on the string. The blue paper balloon, lifted by a spark of magical heat inside of it, flew off into the sky - trying to make its way to a better place.Sister Nerit wrote:He slipped something from his overcoat. Something in a package. "Yellow, very good stuff, yes. Priest like?" he grinned and winked conspiratorially.
"Good Lady!" Nerit backed away and into Tomas at the food stand.
The magician reached out and snapped his fingers, sending the balloon floating back down into his hands. "Tie it to your wrist or something," Thierri said, giving a disgruntled frown as he offered the string to Tomas.
"What is so important about this woman in yellow?" the food salesman hissed, turning stark white as he gripped his stand. It seemed Sister Doherty's questions had carried a little farther than she might have wanted. "You are not investigating Mistress Canderli's theft out of the goodness of your hearts. We've already told you people, we have nothing to do with whatever war you Dementlieuse are waging. Please leave us in peace!" he begged, deeply bowing.
"You people?" Thierri asked, raising an eyebrow.
"So, we are not the first to come asking," Katja stated, quietly.
The Rondelet Residence, Quartier-Savant, Port-a-Lucine; March 10th, 770, 6:13 PM
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"What an absolutely dreadful day that was. Such wanton violence, such needless bloodshed, and all because the poor dears were hungry." Madame Loiseau said, her eyes growing damp. She looked... well, she looked like someone's mother, if one's mother had gone to a very private school and wore copious makeup. Coralie Loiseau was rich and attempted to be the elegant dame of fashion, but neither makeup nor clothing managed to distort the essentially matronly-ness of her form. "They should've just been sent off home with a hot meal, and none of this would've ever happened."Celeste wrote:“There are so few settings in which it is the politest course to speak unreservedly of politics—I have always held that, when such an opportunity presents itself, one must seize it with every possible enthusiasm. Especially when a discussion of that unfortunate Sunday is being conducted! How inestimably tragic the day…and yet, how encompassing a metaphor for our fair nation’s domestic tribulations.”
"There is a point beyond which a people cannot be lulled back into complacency." M. Evrard said. "A people awoken are not disobedient children to be sent off to bed without supper. If anything, there's the problem. We treat the working classes like children, and they're rebelling like children. What we have to do is bring them into the world of adulthood." Evrard glared at Mme. Loiseau. "The world of government, not the adulthood of a pack of prancing, pointless, peacocks. Right Hugo?"
"...sorry, what did you say?" Delarue looked up, clearly paying more attention to the window than to the ongoing discussion.
"What do you think about the current situation with the revolutionaries? Those men like Avril and those who support him?" Madame Elisabeth prompted gently. "Madame Loiseau believes that we can trace the current troubles to our nation's poverty, while Monsieur Evrard believes that only self-governance can stop the difficulties."
"Oh... uh....I think Madame Loiseau is right." Hugo Delarue said quietly, toying with the candy in his hand, letting a little sprinkling of sugar fall onto his clothing. He didn't seem to notice this. "The people who join the revolutionaries are the people who have nothing to lose. Nothing makes a person a staunch defender of the existing order than having a bit of property to worry about. Fix the poverty problems and no more revolutionaries. Just some hard cases you can sic the gendarmes on."
"Bread and circuses." Evrard said coldly.
"I suppose." Delarue shrugged, and returned to looking out the window, glancing regularly at the clock. After a moment, he added. "But if fewer people had troubles with money, you'd see a lot fewer troubles with revolution."
Absently, Delarue ate the candy.
