Goaty Love
Lady of Goats, Bananas and Cheeses
Mercenary Company of the Black Snake
Leyra, Ainu 'Wolf', Damos and Taio
Kildran Nervos Estate, Morning->Midday
They had been on the road for weeks now going from Hold to Hold, Estate to Estate, looking for Lords or rich merchants with the money to hire them for whatever they needed. Today would probably be no different but Leyra promised herself every morning that fate would come knocking sooner or later. She gave Damos a tired look as he secured her cuffs, she didn't get any proper sleep last night because of another vision. She could still remember it so vividly. 'Thunder storms, falling sphere, claws and teeth, screams, fire and the stench of death.' She looked at Wolf with an apologetic smile, he had a fresh scratch mark or two in his face because he tried to calm her down.
"Morning Yela." She said to Damos' pet goat as she petted her, why he kept a goat as a pet was still beyond her but it was nice to have something else to pet than horses. One of the men gave her a piece of bread before helping her onto Lada's back and making sure she was firmly in the saddle. "Wolf, haven't died yet?" She asked Wolf in a joking tone and only got a beastly grunt as reply. Around her the company finished packing up the camp and loading the tents onto the carts. "With luck we're at the next Estate before dusk, think you can manage on just that piece of bread till then?" Damos asked as he rode his own horse alongside Leyra's. "Are we out of food then?" She asked with slight concern in her voice. "Yes, but if I recall correctly there is a bakery along our route where we will stack up whatever we can stack." Damos replied calmly as the rest of the company had mounted on either horseback or on the back of the carts. It didn't take long for the company to start moving and since Leyra's horse was being led by Damos she decided to take a nap until the next stop.
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"Ainu, we still haven't talked about last week..." Taio said to Wolf. "Please tell me what happened, pretty please?" She begged him with big eyes. "Fuck sake Taio, will you quit bugging me about it?" Wolf reacted quite irritated. 'What was wrong with him today?' Taio thought to herself as she felt hurt deep inside, she likes Ainu but he's very arbitrary in his moods and it makes conversation... Difficult. "I'm sorry..." She mumbled knowing that he doesn't care whether somebody was sorry or not. "But what happened with me?" She asked carefully. Wolf didn't reply at all and the silence was terrifying as the moved through the landscape on horseback. It seemed like an eternity until he finally did decide to say something. "Okay, fuck it." He said frustrated and rubbed his eyes with one hand. "You got yourself so fucking drunk that it was impossible to have a conversation with you and then you started rubbing yourself all over me like some horny female cat. I knocked you out and dumped you in your own bed before you would literally fuck up." He said with a tone that a father uses to chastise an unruly child. "I did... What?!" Taio yelled in surprise and tried to disappear into her horse when some of the men in front of them looked behind them with frowns on their faces. "Do you make the same amount of noise when you see a deer?" Wolf asked her with a tone that didn't really make it clear to her whether it was a serious question or not. "Fuck you Ainu, you ass." She said to him as she playfully punched his shoulder. He poked her back with one of his fingers before saying. "No thanks." There was only silence afterwards and Taio was left with her thoughts. 'I just wish he would see me like I see him...' A hopeless thought and she sighed it off as they rode on.
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Hours had passed and the height of the sun indicated noon was coming close. Damos drank from his flask and spotted the bakery ahead. He beckoned his lieutenants to him. "Corwin, you take charge of the carts and let them stop near the bakery. Lutwin, you will take your men up the road and take a break there and watch for trouble. Kardran, same for you but you and your men will remain here and wait for the signal to move again. Nids, you will take the rest of the men and take them a bit off the road and onto that field of grass and rest as well, send out hunters and gatherers to supplement our food stockpile." He said to his lieutenants who in response nodded, rode off to their troops and executed their orders. "Wolf and Leyra, you guys will be coming with me and Taio, you just follow Nids and see if you can hunt some food okay?" He said to his close friends. "Fine, don't let the baker turn you into a pie." Taio said sarcastically as she wandered off.
Damos, Wolf and Leyra dismounted at the bakery and saw that a few guests with horses were already there. Leyra pointed at the horse with a saddle for two. "Guess some noble is out here with his secret lover?" She asked in a mocking tone. "Wouldn't surprise me." Damos replied as he opened the door to the bakery. There was a T'Odis in the way and if there was something Damos didn't like it were big fellows standing in the way. "Scoot over big guy." He said as he shoved the man aside, not really hard, but hard enough to shove a T'Odis out of his way. He ignored the other patrons and went straight for the baker. "Wander, it has been a long time but I was hoping that you have a surplus of bread right now, I might be running a tad low on my food supplies." He said to the baker in a friendly manner, he's been here before a few times and the man just really knew how to make good pastries.
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Ainu followed after Damos when he opened the door and grinned when he shoved aside a T'Odis. 'Hang on... T'Odis out here?!' He thought to himself and that's when saw the other T'Odis, a young girl who could at best be 17 years and was darn pretty, but also quite out of place out here. He moved a step closer and wanted to take another step but felt something tug his chest piece. "Don't. Scare. Her." Leyra whispered in his ear as she stopped next to him and scratched her nose with her cuffed hands. Ainu shook his head and looked at the T'Odis girl again. "Vhupar uv Pymgar, pleg iuo bu lara uun mug ym T'Odis?" ("Flower of Winter, what you do here and not in T'Odis?") He asked with a concerned tone in slightly broken T'Odis but with a warm tone to it.
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