Teaparty

From FiranMUX

Zutriana and Kalissa playing as girls. This was three weeks before the adoption.

Anarinuell: Hydra District -- Istabelik Childcare Centre -- Dining Room

Zutriana says, "Kalissa!"

Kalissa scampers in and gives her a big hug

Zutriana grins and bounces over to hug the other girl, "I haven't seen you in...forever! Oh you look so pretty." She giggles and bounces on her little feet, excited at the prospect of having a visiting friend. *Firan*

Kalissa grins brightly, "Thank you. I haven't seen you in forever either. "She leads Zutriana to the table and pulls out five raspberry tarts from her backpack. "I bought us something nice to eat." *Firan*

Zutriana's hazel eyes widen. "Oh tarts. They look so yummy. Will you eat them with me? We can have a tea party like the ladies do." She skips over to the amphora to look for some tea inside it. "How have you been?"

Kalissa nod nods, "Of course, you will get fat if you eat them all yourself." She lays out the tarts neatly and sits herself down at the table, smoothing out her tunic and her hair. "Me? Oh Mes Zutriana, I have been very well, thank you for asking. Well, that is, except for my father shotting me with an arrow..." she replies in an overly adult voice, her eyes gleaming with the story *Firan*

Zutriana gasps and turns her head as she pulls some tea from the amphora, "An arrow? Oh goodness, Mes Kalissa. You must tell me what happened or I shall expire from curiousity." She giggles a little as she pours them each some yarrow tea. *Firan*

Kalissa picks up her cup of tea, her little finger sticking out the way she has seen the ladies do it. She shakes her head slightly, "Oh, Mes Zutriana. It was just plain horrid. It was a hunting accident you see. Papa, missed the elk and hit me instead, can you even believe it?" *Firan*

Zutriana settles herself down on a chair, granted it is a chair with a cushion on it so she can reach food and drink on the large table. "By the heavens!," she exclaims. "Were you dreadfully hurt? Where did the arrow hit you? I haven't ever been hit by an arrow myself, but I hear they can be dastardly to get out." She lifts a tart and nibbles on it very daintily, just as she once saw Selia eat something. *Firan*

Kalissa puts down her tea cup and picks up another tart, breaking a little piece off the side and nibbling at it. "Where was I hit? Well, right in the back, almost by my neck. I was trying to get behind the tree like Papa said. It hurt terribly Mes Zutriana, I thought I was going to die, I tell you so." she nods emphatically *Firan*

Zutriana tut-tuts. She saw Arielisha do that once. "You poor dear. I bet your father was horrificied," she says mistaking horrific and horrified as one word. "What happened? Did he rush you to a healer for fear of you dying?" She takes another teensy bite of the tart and places it carefully on the plate then lifts her tea cup, mimicing Kalissa she holds her pinky out and takes a delicate sip. *Firan*

Kalissa picks up her tea again and takes a sip before replying, "Well no." she beams a little. "You see, my Papa is so wonderfully wonderful. He took the arrow out right there and then. He said it would get in..infe..infected if we left it." she looks and Zutriana, hoping the story is impressing her greatly *Firan*

Zutriana is definately impressed. "Your father sounds very heroic, saving your life like that." She sips her tea and sets her cup down gently on the table. "Is he very handsome and tall too? I do wonder if most heroic men are tall and handsome? Except for our Clan Leader, he gets to just be heroic." *Firan*

Kalissa almost snots her tea at this comment. She wipes her mouth with the back of her hand and grins, "You don't think Clan Leader Amenik is handsome?"she laughs *Firan*

Zutriana shrugs a shoulder, "He is a bit thin and he looks sickly. Maybe that is how clan leaders are supposed to look. I do like his smile, it is sort of dreamy. When he smiles he looks more handsome." She looks over at Kalissa and asks, "Do you think him handsome, Mes Kalissa?" *Firan*

Kalissa sips at her tea, pondering this issue, never having given it much thought. "Well..."she begins, "..perhaps brave men get more handsome as they do more brave things and get older?" *Firan*

Zutriana breaks off a piece of the tart's pastry and places it in her mouth. She looks thoughtful as she savours the pastry melting on her tongue. "Perhaps. But what about Father Javier? He's sort of handsome...if only he smiled more. Do you think he has done brave things? He is old. Really old. But is he brave? He shouts a lot." *Firan*

Kalissa puts down her tea, reaching over to pick up a pieve of tart, "Father Javier? I think he must be very brave, he is incharge of a lot of people isnt he? I once heard my father say it takes courage to be in charge of people. That is why all nobles are handsome, arent they?"she leans back, taking a small bite of her tart and pondering this issue deeply *Firan*

Zutriana really wants to dip her finger in the tart, but that wouldn't be ladylike. She picks up the tart and takes a miniscule bite then sets it down again and says, "I do not know, but I met a woman that I thought was a lady. She had white silk clothes and platinum jewelry. But Mes Leena said she was really a whore. A bad woman who plays games with men for stenis." *Firan*

Kalissa looks surprised, "Oh? A whore? A dove perhaps? I have heard about them. But being a Lady isn't all about being beautiful or having beuatiful things, that is what I heard" *Firan*

Zutriana nods her head as she whispers conspiratorily with her friend, "Tell me more about these lady things you've seen. I did really think that woman was a lady. I even called her one and she giggled but didn't tell me she was a whore." *Firan*

Kalissa thinks about this for a moment. "I am sneaky you know. I know many many things, but I can't tell you. It is a secret. The Lady things I head? Well there is a book in the library all about being a lady, and how to be a good lady." *Firan*

Her little eyes widen and she whispers, "Will you tell me someday if we're the best of bestest friends? I know some things, but they're not so exciting." She sighs forlornly, wishing she knew some juicy tidbit to share with her friend.

Kalissa grins broadly, "Maybe, maybe one day I can tell you but you are too little now." *Firan*

Zutriana laments internally. Ten is so small. Ten means you can't do anything fun. Zutriana shakes her head,

Kalissa looks to you and takes her hand, holding it tightly between two of hers and repeating what the adults always tell her, "Don't worry Zutriana, the years will fly so quickly you will wonder where they went." Then adding some of her own, "Before you know it, us two will be grownups, good proud Hydran women with our children playing together in our houses." *Firan*

Zutriana wrinkles her nose, "I just hope they don't make us marry fat mean men. I want a nice husband." She grins, "A handsome heroic one." *Firan*

Kalissa giggles, "Don't worry."she pats her on the head gently, "We Hydrans have plently of those..." *Firan*

Zutriana laughs, "I don't know. Some of them look really hair." She licks her lips and whispers, "Do you know who is really handsome?" Her eyes dart around as if she were checking to see if anyone might be listening. *Firan*

Kalissa follows eyes around the room, certain there is no one there and leans forwards, "Who?""she barely whispers. *Firan*

Zutriana wets her lips and whispers, "Lord Paydor." She nearly swoons then. "He's so handsome and tall. He'll be a hero I know he will. He is very brave and kind." *Firan*

Kalissa lets a smile break, "Lord Paydor N'Gadanik, huh?" She leans back in her chair and folds her arms, "Well, well... I will have to tell him he has an admirer then." *Firan*

Zutriana blushes and picks up her tart. She bites into it, a bigger bite than before and mumbles, "He knows." But that doesn't mean she wouldn't be embarassed if he learnt she was telling other people that she thought he was the most handsome boy ever! *Firan*

Kalissa giggles softly, "Did you tell him? Does he like you? Are you going to get married?" *Firan*

Zutriana nods a little, "I told him, but I tried to be sneaky. Only I think he knows. I think he likes me, but he's a noble. He has to marry some snotty noblewoman. I wouldn't mind so much if he married Lady Selia or even Lady Arika, but it will be somebody else not them." She sighs a little, poor lovestruck girl. *Firan*

Kalissa leans forwards and gives her friend a big girly hug, "There, there. Maybe something good will happen. Maybe you will get adopted or something. You should pray everyday for it, if you really want it" *Firan*

Zutriana nods her head even more, "I do! I pray to be adopted. I asked Lord Lutrios if he'd maybe make it a warrior's challenge. See who is the best family to adopt me. He liked the idea and said he'd ask His Honour about it." She frowns, "You dont really think His Honour was one of those shot down in Scirlut do you?"

Kalissa frowns. She thinks a long while before replying, "The reports say that they found a man with the Warriors Code on him but, it doesn't make any sense at all to me."She leans forwards putting her elbows on the table and steepling her fingers like she saw Amenik do once. "The Hydrans have far more serious things to worry about than Scirlut. We have to protect Arinzi. Why send our griffons to Scirlut." She shakes her head, hopefully sounding awefully wise.

Zutriana scratches her bare arm. "I know. I've been to Scirlut, we went all over the merchants and I before reaching here. I saw every Firan city. I think Arinzi is more important to protect, but then it depends on what His Honour promised the viceroy doesn't it?"

Kalissa hmmmms, "The viceroy?""she shakes her head, "I don't understand much about the politics, who is he?"

Zutriana shifts in her chair, "Well the way I understand it is that we once had a king and he called himself ravineer. And he had a queen. But they went away on a trip a long, long, loooong time ago. So the clan council, that's all the clan leaders, vote to see who will be the pretend king until the real king returns. That pretend king is the viceroy. Now it is some man named Tally-ho. I think it is a funny name. Maybe he likes horses." She waves a hand, "Anyway, they all have meetings and things. We can go to them I've heard, but we have to be very quiet."

Kalissa ohhs, "Wow, you know a lot about all this. So.. is Queen Shenisa the viceroy's wife then?"

Zutriana shakes her head, "No. She's just a pretend queen. The pretend king appoints ladies to be the pretend queen. She has somebody else for a husband. The viceroy's wife is the savage clan leader. I hear she wears really short dresses."

Kalissa ponders this new information, "So, the viceroy's wife is a Tirancee?""she would spit but it is unlady-like so she just makes a face. "Poor him."

"Yes. The have lots of kids too. I hear she keeps pushing them out. Do you think they really have their babies outside in fields?" Zutriana sips her tea, "It sounds so icky."

Kalissa looks shocked, "Outside?!? How yucky. Oh, I am so glad I was born a Hydran and not a filthy savage..."

Zutriana nods, "I know. But it's what people say, so maybe it is true." She shrugs.

Kalissa nods too. She picks up the last of her tart, munching at it until it is all gone. "Well, Mes Zutriana, I must get going. I have some errands to run, you know."

Zutriana smiles at Kalissa and rises to her feet, "Thank you for coming to see me, Mes Kalissa. Please do come again. I shall make cakes for us next time."

Kalissa pushes back her chair and smoothes out her tunic. "Why Mes Zutriana, that would be lovely. Thank you for having me." She grins brightly and giggles

Zutriana curtsies and then giggles as well. "Thanks for the tarts, they were yummy." She hops over to hug Kalissa.

Kalissa curtsies too, almost having forgotten her manners and hugs her friend tightly. Kalissa says "I had best be going now Zutriana. Can I tell you something first though?"

Zutriana nods her head, "Of course. You can tell me anything." She beams at the older girl, thoroughly worshiping Kalissa's savviness.

Kalissa holds both of the younger girl's shoulders at arms length and smiles warmly, "You are one of my very bestest friends Zutri."

Zutriana smiles all the broader and says, "Thank you. You are one of mine too." She grins then, "Don't be late and get in trouble."

Kalissa giggles and hugs her friend tightly once more before waving good bye, "Zutri, be careful ok. They say the Shammies might raid us here. If you need anything find me at the mansion, ok?"

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