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RESPITE STREETS - LATER MORNING
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Sammi was somewhat content. She had returned back from her trip recently, and was treating herself to an ice-cream snack. Her waterfall was still intact, but the overall vibe of the place was down, everything was so on edge, it made her skin crawl just a little. Physically, she had gotten ridden of all the bandages, but there were still marks on her skin, parts where everything was just a bit lighter than anywhere else..but..ice-cream! Sammi was very easily pleased, even if she'd had to ask them extra-nicely to check in the back to see if there was any left at all...
Enver comes out of a sidestreet dressed in less colorful clothes than usual. Since Teis brought him into town, he's been doing what he can to help around town as a guide or gopher for folks who need the assistance. He doesn't necessarily notice Sammi at first, his thoughts preoccupied with everything going on right now.
Sammi perks up a bit, before looking around "Ooh! Enver!" She waves over to him "I'm here in Respite again! And..um..oh.." She seems him much less bright and cheerful too, which is a blow, but she rallies anyway. She's gotta power herself from her own self for a bit it seems! "You're still here! How are things?"
Enver perks up at the sight of Sammi. He jogs over to her and wraps her in a gentle hug. "Sammi! I was worried about you. It's scary out there right now... bad people attacking caravans and stuff, or so they tell me..."
Sammi: "Oh yeah! Ah I was there and..uh..stabbed, a bunch of times so.." She returns the hug gingerly "Sliiighly less hugging! It's fine though! I'm tough!" She gives a wry little smile "How about you? Staying safe..right?"
Enver nods to Sammi. "Well, I'm glad you're okay now." He loosens the hug and steps back. "I'm doing okay, yeah... staying inside the walls until this blows over. I miss the waterfall, though."
Sammi: "Wait..has..something happened to it!?" She may have seen it already, but Sammi knows herself that things often aren't noticed by her until she has them 'pointed out'
Enver shakes his head. "No, nothing has happened there, just safer for me to not be out alone there. So right now I'm stay in town with my... uh..." He blushes a bit. "I guess I have a girlfriend now, by the way."
Sammi: "Oh! That's really great! I'm sure she's great too!" Sammi gives him another bright little smile "How long ago did you find her?"
Enver blinks. "Uh... a couple of months I guess? She lives in that big new house..." He looks to Sammi. "But how are you? Did you get whatever it is you had to do done?"
Sammi: "Oh! That place!" She consider it "It's with all the rules, and stuff?" There was such a feeling of stuffiness from the manor house. She just knew she'd get 'categorized' or something if she strayed too close. "Good for you! And..uh. We did! I think? Honestly, I was just kinda around for the holiday"
Enver cocks his head. "It does have a lot of rules, yeah, but like, I guess a place like that needs them or it would be chaos. A bit of chaos is good for a marketplace but not for a big house. Right?" He shrugs a bit. "Oh! Another thing...!" He takes the glove off of his bad hand to show Sammi his new prosthetic. "I have a neat new hand. It moves right and everything!"
Sammi: "Oooh! You got a new hand? It's all..glassy, and see through! Can it move left too?" She starts poking at it with curiosity "Oh! It's all alive too! That's realllly cool!"
Enver wiggles the hand about and laughs at the joke. "Uh yeah, it's powered by my blood, I think. I have to eat a bit more than before, but I don't mind." He smiles a bit. "I'm really lucky to have met the friend who made it for me. I thought he had left town, but then he showed up again..."
Sammi: "People are always coming and going around here, aren't they? It's good that you have other friends like that!" She considers him a moment "You didn't get weird about his gift, right? I remember you got a little weird about mine" Gift Etiquette is important to Sammi!
Enver shakes his head. "No, not at all. I was just thankful." He puts the glove back on and looks around. "So uh... who is it that's been attacking folks out there? I heard rumors that they're lizards, but someone else said they were big chickens or something?"
Sammi: "Oh! Raptors, so..big lizardy dino things!" She mimes them "They seemed fairly brave though, so..not really chickens, ah..though, I suppose they ran away eventually.." She rubs the back of her head, trying to keep the little smokey wisps from getting noticeable as they drifted around the ends of the tendrils on her head. They'd been starting to show up a bit the more people spoke about the events of the attack. She..didn't like that version of herself, so was trying to push back against it. "They weren't very nice at all though"
Enver cocks his head as he notices the smoke. "Uh... what's going with your hair? It's all..."
Sammi: "Ah..It's..uh..just..something that's been happening recently" She's caught now, and can't push back against it as well, now that someone she knows has highlighted it, and so she sighs, and lefts her hand back "Ever since the attack on the caravan"
Enver frowns a bit. "Oh, uh... does it hurt? It doesn't look nice." He reaches a hand up to see if he can feel it.
Sammi: It's sort of cold to rub his hands through it, and distinctly...menacing. Sammi is, after all, an eldritch being from the darkest depths of the ocean, and however much Enver overlooks that, that fact would be very much 'presented' to him here. "It doesn't really hurt..but..ah..don't..." She frowns a little more as the mist becomes a bit thicker around his hand, the attention being paid to it making it more 'real'
Enver pulls back and looks away. "Uh, oh... sorry..." He shivers a bit and sticks his hands in his pockets. "I didn't mean to... I mean, I was just worried about you and all."
Sammi: "Yeah..um..I.." She looks at Enver, and.."I..uh..I got to go. It was really nice catching up with you!" She has to get away, she can't have people she knows well, and know her well get this new image of her into their head. It just can't become the new her. She won't let it. With a lot of abruptness, she's making to leave.
Enver nods a bit. "Uh, okay. Hope you feel better soon, then. Take care, Sammi..." He looks up with a smile before she goes. "It was good seeing you too."
Sammi gives a tight smile in return as she bids her retreat "Nice seeing you too!" and with that, she vanished out of sight into an alleyway
Enver continues on his way back into the center of town, now having one more thing to worry about.