[8:11 PM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
The dining hall had lost its appeal once Noah had left so Peregrine continued his exploration of the grounds. And so, there he found himself, in the courtyard, keeping his smug unimpressed expression on his face as he circled the statue. He certainly wasn't avoiding the pathetically annoying butler and whoever those people with him were, no sir. Just happened to ignore them. There was just more interesting things in the courtyard.
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[8:14 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
More interesting things, certainly. Almost directly following Peregrine, someone else entered the courtyard, nearly stealing all the dramatic flair of his entrance. Yeonaixho briskly exited the main building, wrapped in a warm cloak and tapping his cane on the ground in front of him. He paused halfway across the courtyard, listening to conversation between the new voices present. @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[8:19 PM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
If Peregrine knew anything about interesting people, most of them hated being ignored. He wasn't keen on it himself. So he ignored the tapping, continuing to stare at the statue. Then he chuckled. "I think a statue of an angel would look far better here," he mused out loud, as if trying to pass it off as him talking himself. But he wasn't. He was aware of Yeonaixho, and was just toying with him.
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[8:23 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
Yeonaixho laughed, mostly to himself, and turned vaguely in Peregrine's direction. He shifted the position of his cane, bringing it closer to him. He wasn't planning on going anywhere, anytime soon, now.
"Really?" He hummed. "I wouldn't be a fair judge of what looks better, though I've heard the one we have now is quite nice. And an angel would be far less suitable for the space, I believe." @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[8:35 PM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"It's plenty nice, as far as statues go," Peregrine continued. The way he spoke could have been seen as a response but it could have also been read as a continuation of his thought. He turned his head to look at Yeonaixho and his smug smile fell slightly. Slightly. Not too far. He still spoke with the same tone, as he'd been taught. Vaguely flirty, always amused, never truly sad.
His next words were clearly a response to Yeonaixho, however: "It may be less suitable but angels are adored for a reason. Though perhaps I'm biased, since I am the Angel."
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[8:39 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
"Do they?" Yeonaixho questioned with a subtle tilt of his head. "Strange. I've never heard of much devotion to angels, in particular. After all, what can an angel offer that doesn't pale in comparison to a god. It's like a moon, trying to outshine the sun that gives him its light." He smirked. It was almsot a threat, if it hadn't been delivered in the most calm, gentle of tones.
"'The Angel"..." He repeated, a breath quiter. "What a silly name." @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[8:45 PM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
Silence for a few moments. Then Peregrine laughed. Of course. "God, or any god for that matter, is out of reach. Angels are so much closer. Easier to grab." He smiled, knowingly. "The moon is so much closer, and people like to look at it. People want the moon to he theirs. The sun is too far away, unexplored. We'll never truly know it." Threats weren't supposed to scare him anymore.
"The Hand of God," he replied instead, slightly raising his voice as if to truly mirror him. "It doesn't really mean anything, does it?"
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[8:49 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
"An angel is a herald," Yeonaixho laughed. "A messanger. Is that what you claim to be? Because you can hardly be a messager of any God if you place yourself higher than one. The moon may be mysterious and intriguing, yes, but without the light of the sun, it's nothing but a rock. The sun provides. It grants life. Much more useful than any pretty thing, no matter how close or understandable it might be."
"A bold assumption," Yeonaixho hummed, "From someone so ignorant about our faith that you'd claim we believe in angels. It does mean something, if you'd like to know. I wonder if you're clever enough to figure it out." @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[8:57 PM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"I don't place myself above something I don't believe in." Peregrine leaned in teasingly. "And sometimes all people want is a pretty thing. Something to hold, claim as their own. All people want is me." He stepped back with a small laugh.
"I never said you believed in angels, dear, just that they're quite adored." Peregrine looked at the back of his hand. His tone was the same but his smirk was dropping to blankness. There was no one to see it. "I'm clever enough to not care to know. If the information is so important, it'll come to me one way or another. I have a habit of attracting the important." The smirk returned as he eyed Yeonaixho. "I suppose you're going to be proof of that."
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[9:02 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
Yeonaixho laughed again. "People want you? I find that hard to believe. You're not even interesting enough to debate theology with, all with how stuck-up you are. Adored... yes, I'll believe that when I see it." A very stupid joke, from a very strange man.
"I'd prefer if you didn't refer to me as 'dear'. It's unbecoming. " He added. "Hm, you're a confident one. Such blind certainty is not a very attractive trait, especially when you have no real way of backing up your lofty claims."
At the final comment, he raised an eyebrow. "Will I? You seem to have a lot of ideas about me, already." @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[5:29 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"Oh people who want me really don't want to discuss theology. It takes away from the fun, really." Peregrine chuckled. "And they love the confidence, it matches them."
"All right, sweetheart," he replied, his voice coping mockingly. "And I like I said, people like my confidence. It's a shame you can't see my wings, they're my best asset to back up my claims." He spread them out and ruffled them out so Yeonaixho could at least hear them, the weight, the feathers, the size. "Hence my bias."
Another chuckle. "Are you denying that you're an important person?"
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[5:38 AM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
"If you aren't interesting to hold a decent conversation with, I sincerely doubt you're good for anything else." Yeonaixho shrugged. "And while others you try this on might like the confidence, not everyone does. I don't." He titled his head to the side and gave Peregrine a coy smile, fully aware of what Peregrine was trying to do.
"If you'll call me anything other than my name, please, call me by one of my titles." He suggested, and raised an eyebrow at the sound of the wings. "I don't need to see them." He shrugged. "Are you trying to impress me, angel?"
"No. I'm denying you're at all attractive." @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[5:46 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"Hey, hey," Peregrine mockingly protested, speaking through a small laugh. "I never said I couldn't hold conversation. Just that most people don't bother with philosophy or religion where I tend to spread my wings, ha." He stepped closer to Yeonaixho. "What sort of thing do you like then? I've spent plenty of time with actors, I've picked up a thing or two."
"Oh, are you a 'sir' type of man?" Peregrine teased, shifting so that his feathers continued to ruffle against each other. "I seek to impress or at least be memorable. I think I've gathered quite the reputation here already."
Peregrine's smile pressed backwards further into his face. "Clearly you're wrong. And such a shame. I thought you were rather handsome, for a hand of God."
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[5:52 AM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
"Even if you can hold a conversation, your refusal to speaks volumes." Yeonaixho shrugged. "The question of 'what I find attractive' does not concern you at all, though it might do you good to know you don't fit most of the qualifications."
"If you refer to me at all, I'd prefer you call me by my name." Yeonaixho shrugged. "A reputation is not always the best thing to have. Though, you're rather young, so I'd assume you wouldn't have learnt that yet."
"Speaking of-" Yeonaixho completely changed the subject now, "I've heard that reputation of yours landed you in some hot water. Do you require healing?" @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[5:57 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"I decided it wasn't worth trying to talk about religion to a religious leader. They never listen to angels. Let alone the Angel." Peregrine smirked to himself, chuckled at Yeonaixho and shook his head playfully. "Well I like a challenge. I'm very good with what I do."
"True as that may be, at least my name is known. At least I'm known. And really that's all that matters in the end." He raised his eyebrow at the subject change. "Oh, yes, healing. I do believe I require some." How he was pushing it this far was a miracle - something something Angel - but now that it had been properly acknowledged, the weight of the pain seemed to drip into him. "A consequence to being known. People can't keep their hands off you."
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[6:01 AM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
"Perhaps, no one listens to you because you have nothing to say." Yeonaixho shrugged. He ignored the other comment.
He laughed at Peregrine's comments about reputation, and tucked his cane into the crook of his arm. "Please, come closer. This healing is a bit of a hands-on process." He rolled his eyes. "A consequence of being known? My child, that sounds more like a consequence of purposefully irking people and putting yourself into these situations yourself. Not all who are known are so often hurt. I would know." @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[6:14 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"But I have a lot to do," he said sing-songily. This man.
"I see, I see, of course." Peregrine indeed moved closer until he filled Yeonaixho's personal space. "Oh it doesn't hurt." A lie. Well, generally it didn't hurt so technically not a lie. "Nothing ever really hurts me, sir." He added in that 'sir' with more teasing. "Nothing hurts when you enjoy it. I would know." He threw the words back at him, shaking his head. "Though it is nice to be held in the strong arms of a doctor."
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[6:22 AM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
Yeonaixho didn't seem to be phased by Peregrine getting so close. He laid his hands over the younger man's shoulders, then moved one to his face. "It's your hand that's hurt, isn't it." He hummed, with no indication of how he knew that, and took Peregrine's injured hand in his own, gently tracing where Roque had bit him.
"Ah, a masochist." Yeonaixho rolled his eyes. "Of course."
He didn't say anything more, but began to heal Peregrine. His hands glowed- not in the way Albanes's had, rather in a radiant, warm glow, like all that was beneath his skin was sunlight. The scars beneath his eyes lit up, too- teardrops of gold. The process lasted only moments before Peregrine would feel instantly better. Yeonaixho removed his hands, and stepped back.
@soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
peregrine is restored 14 hp
[6:29 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"Yes, especially that," he affirmed with a small chuckle and allowed him to hold his hand. "Holding hands before marriage?" Peregrine tsked at Yeonaixho, shaking his head but of course not pulling away. He continued in a mock exasperated tone, "But I am the Angel, I suppose everybody wants their handful." Stop.
"Not a masochist, sir, just someone who rolls with the punches, and I roll with them quite well."
Peregrine watched, surprised at the difference. Yes, this was a far better healer than that sad little girl on the boat accompanied by the other sad girl. He stared at Yeonaixho's glowing form as he was healed, taking a deep breath through his nose as he began to feel better. "My, my," he laughed quietly. "You're good at your job, sir."
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[Peregrine is at 22hp]
[6:32 AM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
Yeonaixho decided to ignore all Peregrine's rambles and attempts at conversation, and stepped away.
"Thank you. If you ever need any other medical attention, please, come to me, or my daughter." He smiled calmly. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I do have to go prepare for the gala. Will I be seeing you there?" @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[6:38 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"Your daughter?" Peregrine mused, sounding just bored enough to show that he didn't really care but not entirely numb to the information. He was, at least, thoroughly entertained by Yeonaixho specifying what attention he'd give out. "Oh you're excused, sweetheart. I'll certainly make my presence known, at the very least."
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[6:41 AM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):
"Yes, I assume you might've seen her on the boat ride here? Albanes." Yeonaixho nodded proudly. He adjusted his cloak, and prepared to leave. "Wonderful! Enjoy your evening, then!" He didn't even wait for Peregrine to say anything else before leaving. @soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻
[6:44 AM]soul | peregrine 🎭 + ekmeros 🎻:
"Ah. Her." Peregrine laughed. "I certainly will, sir!" He watched Yeonaixho leave and stared back up at the statue, satisfied with himself.