Recent content by Jiya Luana

Jiya laughed as she accepted the wineskin, taking a sip as she cast her eyes about for firewood. "I keep telling you I am rather boring, unless you enjoy long lectures on history and science," she passed the skin back then went to collect some of the pieces she had already picked out on the...

Despite his reassurances he was well enough to ride, Jiya kept the next leg of their journey noticeably more sedate. The fastest she urged her horse was into a collected canter but for the most part they stuck to a brisk walk. They cut across bubbling brooks and meandered through lush meadows...

"I thought my life was in yours?" Jiya quipped, but there was a nervous flutter in her stomach. She hadn't pressured him into coming but he had come all the same because of her. Whatever happened to him would, technically, be her fault. Aside from the tree branch; that he should have simply seen...

Archimedes stamped his hoof and Jiya patted the stallion in an effort to sooth his wounded ego. "Rhea's and my ancestors diaries are not specific, I suppose in order to stop them being found," far from looking annoyed or discouraged, an almost feverish light seemed to make her eyes glow as she...

Jiya rolled her eyes but once again found it hard not to smile at his light banter. She had to give him credit where it was due, but he had taken her order not to treat her so formally to heart. As they watched their horses drink it felt more as though she stood with one of her fellow peers from...

Jiya handed the reins back with another musical laugh. "I think Onora won the race, not you," her brows rose as though to challenge him to disagree, before turning her horse about to walk at a steady pace back towards the river. She hadn't let them stop to drink in case Arryn had actually been...

Archimedes had been a nose behind when the tree branch helpfully ejected the knight from his saddle, so Jiya was treated to the full spectacle. A startled laugh escaped her as her horse ploughed on after Onora, dashing past where Arryn dangled with a brief salute in his direction. Free of her...

Jiya raised both brows at Arryn's challenge. This was a far cry from the man who had sworn her off danger only that morning and chided her much like a mother would her child. All it had apparently taken was a bet to make him cast off the form constraints of the city. Or maybe it was just the...

Jiya's eyes widened as Arryn pulled not only level with her but then surged ahead. Her laughter was one of startled delight and as they rushed out under the large archway of the Southern Gate, Jiya finally let her horse have its head. Academes was a horse getting on in years but his bloodline...

"Well..." Jiya hesitated. She had a habit of speaking before thinking - a habit which was not a bad thing in Elbion where one was encouraged to speak their mind and have a healthy debate - but she was not sure still if Arryn was of that same mindset. From how he hadn't blanched at her comment...

Jiya fought to keep her face looking innocent when he finally called her by her first name but the dimpling of her cheeks gave away her amusement. Still, she listened to his words without passing comment on what she had been doing and the dimples slowly vanished and her nose scrunched up as...

Jiya's horse seemed to take the new pace as a challenge and set off at a frisky trot causing the Lady atop to bite down on her lip to keep from laughing. She didn't ride the stallion enough anymore. Meetings, luncheons and silly social calls kept her mainly in carriages or pretty sitting rooms...

"I don't mind whistling," Jiya stopped fighting the urge to smile. Linton would tell her it was improper and she could just hear what her mother would say, but she couldn't bring herself to care. Her mother had decided to leave almost as soon as Jiya had returned, taking her two youngest...

Jiya's smirk softened into a smile as he told his story then further into something contemplative. She had not imagined the Royal family capable of being... kind. She had come to loathe and resent her life from an early age and that had turned into a hatred for the nobility as a whole...

"This is Arcamedes," Jiya smiled as she patted the white horses neck. The beast seemed to roll it's eyes. "He has put up with me since I ran away to Elbion," it had been the only thing she had taken aside from her pack of clothes when she had left her families mansion with no intention of...