Recent content by Maranae

She blinked those great yellow eyes of her and cocked her head to one side as if she were considering what she had heard. Of course, there wasn't much running behind her eyes other than where the next meal would come from. That, and the words spoken by her Master - the only reason she was even...

He watched her work from a doorway leading back into the depths of the shop. Intent eyes that seemed to glow in the firelight of the forge and an expression of such intense concentration would have painted a much more serious scene if it wasn't for her tongue caught between her teeth. She began...

If Quinton had any idea who or, more importantly, what he was talking to he would not have mentioned bloody anything. She had eaten some pretty bloody guts. Some of them were even dead at the time. She drew in a deep breath of the piece of meat which only made her more hungry. The description...

She cocked her head to the side, confused at the answer. It was clear as day on her face that she did not understand how thirst or hunger defined what one was. "But children should not drink that," she said, and pointed to his drink meaningfully. She cut her eyes to look at the cabbage and made...

"At this hour? Asleep, girl," a man at one of the tables replied to her, looking up from a wooden mug of something sour smelling to her nose. She remained in the doorway, eyes swiveling to the man that spoke and locking on until someone else grumbled about closing the door. Maranae started at...

Yet another errand sent out of the city, as though the Master craved his privacy and sought to send his apprentice far enough away that he could have the shop to himself for a day or two. Every man needed to be alone with their own thoughts every now and again, yes? Surely it was so for him as...

She blinked and considered his words carefully. After a few moments, the grin widened. "The master wants me to take these to Argile," she said, swinging the heavy sack off her shoulder and shaking it until it made the unmistakable sound of steel. The bag was made of heavy material but being...

The sack slung over her shoulder was quite heavy, but the redhead seemed absolutely oblivious to the fact as she ambled along the road. It contained special-order horseshoes for a customer a couple days travel outside of Alliria. For lack of a better word, that place was her home now. She...

I am looking to learn how to be a people? Yes, I am looking to learn how to be a person! Looking for a moderately paced partner to continue the journey from being a thing to being... well, not a human, but close!

The heft of the hammer felt good in her hand. The heat pouring off the furnace dispelled the cool of early spring, and together the work and the heat worked a sheen to her pale skin. Maranae was happy. She had been happy for some time now, ever since arriving here in this city alongside Guslan...

A cry cut through the air, drawing the chimera's eyes like iron to lodestone. She had no understanding of what she was seeing and sought none; magic was not a thing she was familiar with. The fellow hit the ground, a glint of something floating through the air as he bolted and roughly shoved her...

No answer forthcoming, and being fair there was none needed. Perhaps it was willful ignorance that kept her blind to the nature of the world. However... ...some part of her knew the answer. The uneasy glance at the stranger, sometimes. The listening beyond the words. The world was cold, cruel...

She looked at the stained earth, and recalled the men they had killed. They had the same way about them as the ones from the bad place, the hole in the ground that she had escaped. Unlike those worthies, she was not the undoing of all of them. They did, however, represent the idea of villainy...

That unrestrained, ear-to-ear grin was offered to Goffred as easily as it had been to Ruslan. SHe even mimicked the two-finger gesture that he had, not understanding in the slightest what it meant. "No more trouble from these," she said. It brought the jubilation down another notch, but it was...

Her face split in an ear-to-ear grin as she popped back up to her feet. "Company! Yes! On the road to learn," she chortled happily. It was an opportunity that went far beyond anything she could have hoped for. She danced a little caper before settling, still beaming brightly at Ruslan. "Must...