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[carmesi]

Who: wanda maximoff + others
When: september/october
Where: solvunn, horizon, nocwich
What: catch-all for the month! including quest, and general top-levels for solvunn. horizon threads based on request! additionally, she'll be in nocwich teaching high magic basics.
Warnings: blood??

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[carmesi]

[two hours is such a long time to just sit on this bench. with any luck, lasse would be a little more expedite and come around a little sooner instead of getting distracted with something or another out in the fields.

wanda takes a deep breath and leans back.

soon as she feels her strength return to her, she's going to set the basketful of gifts to the side and go about the settlement instead.]

You got somewhere to go?

[why he's waiting for the carriage...]

[leitstern]

Obviously. Such is why we are here, surely?

[Better to believe he has a place to go - a purpose to fulfil - than to realise he has nowhere to go and nobody to visit. He awaits a carriage that cannot come soon enough. People are tiring these days. Give him a break.]

I am returning to the primary settlement. Business has concluded and I find myself growing tired of the countryside. Do you not find it too quiet?

[carmesi]

I might have grown used to it at this point.

[to the quiet, that is. wanda barely notices it anymore, and actually worries when things aren’t quiet.

as it were—]

I’d also argue that everywhere is the countryside.

[leitstern]

[In his mind, there is a difference between a village and a town, a town and a city. His medieval city with a castle and walls. There is no work when things are quiet. But his mind is active enough that he craves stimulation.

So he finds himself desiring a break yet detesting it. He inhales from his spot on the bench. How stressful.]

Is that because the countryside looks familiar to you?

[His words are personal without any intent to pry but the question? That is asked from a desire to connect.]

[carmesi]

I don’t know if it’s because it’s familiar.

[she offers, instead.]

It’s just that Solvunn is a lot of what would be considered countryside. I wouldn’t call any of the settlements cities.

[there’s just nature all over.]

[leitstern]

Nor would I.

[He looks silently at his feet for a moment.]

I thought I would welcome the silence. But instead I find it lonely.

[For Hendrik isn't here. To be admired, to be hated, to be loved.]

[carmesi]

[wanda’s quiet, then shoots him a look.]

You, lonely?

[there’ll be digging over his words if he’s willing to open up about it, but wanda’s guarded for now. besides, whatever she may say may end up making him shut down—which is not the point.]