Dinner Theatre
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museworks((OOC note: This is technically posted the morning after the event, and is timestamped accordingly. But I already had it written, so I decided to post.))
Lohendrin invited me over for dinner last night; he seemed to feel he owed me a dinner, when he really didn't, but I wasn't going to argue. Good food not prepared by me? Yes please! He also said he'd wear The Pants. (To be fair, he said they're comfortable pants-- I didn't want him to wear them only for my benefit, but as long as he likes them, yes please to those too.) He had a very nice dinner whipped up, too. Not to mention before that he let me take a look around their workroom.
I didn't disturb Marbas' things; not only for common sense reasons-- one doesn't disturb a warlock's work area without knowing if there are certain 'precautions' taken to protect said work-- but just for courtesy. I like Marbas, I don't want to disturb his things without his permission. But I got to look a bit at where Lohen does his gemcutting and even his alchemy; potions and elixirs and flasks, oh my! A bit fascinating, that. But supper was waiting, so the inspection had to be cut short.
Of course, dinner was interrupted soon enough by an unexpected guest: one Kylion Tensuns. AKA Lohen's ex-boyfriend. A right jerk of an ex, at that, who seems to take serious issue to Lohen being, oh, an independent person.
Frankly, I thought he was a bully. Lohen's description of him was spot-on: the man was absolutely beautiful, from an aesthetic standpoint. Fortunately for me, I suppose, I have a fairly healthy distrust of people who are just too good-looking. If nothing else because I grew up with Malinde, but she had some handsome bastards-- well, figuratively bastards, not literally, Malinde was 'too good' for THOSE-- among her suitors too, like Jor'edil. But I'm not going to talk about him here, because that's unimportant.
Tens-- as Lohen called him when speaking of him to me-- knocked Lohen down just from opening the door. I threw on a sort of act of super-friendliness and introduced myself. Managed to freeze him in a block of ice before the bastard hit me with what Loh said was a Repentance spell. Prayer. Whatever paladins call their spells. I can't say I really like that feeling-- I was aware of what was happening around me, but it was sort of like watching from a third-person perspective: I understood it but I couldn't seem to string together the requirements for simply moving, much less trying to fight back. A strange, Holy-magic mind-daze of some kind. But I still froze him before Tens' spell took hold.
Repent of my sins, my bony ass, you bastard. You are NOT going to waltz in here, spout some nonsense about Lohendrin-- MY Lohendrin-- belonging to you and some Crimson Legion. I DO NOT THINK SO.
I'm proud of Loh-- he took his mace and stood up to Tens. Gave him a really hard clout on the head; I'm pretty sure the only thing that saved that cretin's life, or at least his wits, is that he still had some of the ice going on. He was about to break out of it, and I was still just watching like a dullard. At least I didn't drool on myself. But Lohen knocked Tens out cold, and then put him in the hands of an Arcane Guardian, for an attempted crime-- well, I'd say a crime, period, since he actually did hit me with a spell-- against us.
Actually, what Lohen said was, "A crime against myself and the elf I love."
The elf I love.
I'm not going to lie-- those words did make my stomach flip-flop a little, in a good way. I just didn't address it, and he didn't bring it up again. I'm not exactly sure how I feel; I've never been in love, I really don't know what such a thing feels like, so I'm very cautious about saying that word for the moment. Loh's my first boyfriend, actually. First boyfriend, first kiss, all that silly crap that adolescent girls seem to hold so important that I went just fine without for decades. But you know, now that I have said boyfriend, I'll be damned if I'm not going to fight for him.
I don't know about love, not yet-- I don't want to jump in too quickly when it comes to intense words like that, words I don't believe should be flung around without care. But I DO care about Lohendrin a lot after becoming closer to him, getting to know him more. The world needs more Lohens. It wouldn't miss Kylion Tensuns. But, we're better than that. I'm sure he'll be bailed out, I'm sure he'll be back, but maybe he'll pause more this time when he realizes Lohen's not going to be nearly as cowed as he had been before. I like to think that particular spell's been broken, regardless of where my relationship with Lohendrin goes.
I think I'd have happily gone through much worse, just to see that confidence in Lohen, to see the way he carried himself after we dealt with Tensuns.
In the end, it was a very good night despite the interruption, and Loh has a surprisingly comfortable lap. He needs more furniture, though. At least a couch.
Lohendrin invited me over for dinner last night; he seemed to feel he owed me a dinner, when he really didn't, but I wasn't going to argue. Good food not prepared by me? Yes please! He also said he'd wear The Pants. (To be fair, he said they're comfortable pants-- I didn't want him to wear them only for my benefit, but as long as he likes them, yes please to those too.) He had a very nice dinner whipped up, too. Not to mention before that he let me take a look around their workroom.
I didn't disturb Marbas' things; not only for common sense reasons-- one doesn't disturb a warlock's work area without knowing if there are certain 'precautions' taken to protect said work-- but just for courtesy. I like Marbas, I don't want to disturb his things without his permission. But I got to look a bit at where Lohen does his gemcutting and even his alchemy; potions and elixirs and flasks, oh my! A bit fascinating, that. But supper was waiting, so the inspection had to be cut short.
Of course, dinner was interrupted soon enough by an unexpected guest: one Kylion Tensuns. AKA Lohen's ex-boyfriend. A right jerk of an ex, at that, who seems to take serious issue to Lohen being, oh, an independent person.
Frankly, I thought he was a bully. Lohen's description of him was spot-on: the man was absolutely beautiful, from an aesthetic standpoint. Fortunately for me, I suppose, I have a fairly healthy distrust of people who are just too good-looking. If nothing else because I grew up with Malinde, but she had some handsome bastards-- well, figuratively bastards, not literally, Malinde was 'too good' for THOSE-- among her suitors too, like Jor'edil. But I'm not going to talk about him here, because that's unimportant.
Tens-- as Lohen called him when speaking of him to me-- knocked Lohen down just from opening the door. I threw on a sort of act of super-friendliness and introduced myself. Managed to freeze him in a block of ice before the bastard hit me with what Loh said was a Repentance spell. Prayer. Whatever paladins call their spells. I can't say I really like that feeling-- I was aware of what was happening around me, but it was sort of like watching from a third-person perspective: I understood it but I couldn't seem to string together the requirements for simply moving, much less trying to fight back. A strange, Holy-magic mind-daze of some kind. But I still froze him before Tens' spell took hold.
Repent of my sins, my bony ass, you bastard. You are NOT going to waltz in here, spout some nonsense about Lohendrin-- MY Lohendrin-- belonging to you and some Crimson Legion. I DO NOT THINK SO.
I'm proud of Loh-- he took his mace and stood up to Tens. Gave him a really hard clout on the head; I'm pretty sure the only thing that saved that cretin's life, or at least his wits, is that he still had some of the ice going on. He was about to break out of it, and I was still just watching like a dullard. At least I didn't drool on myself. But Lohen knocked Tens out cold, and then put him in the hands of an Arcane Guardian, for an attempted crime-- well, I'd say a crime, period, since he actually did hit me with a spell-- against us.
Actually, what Lohen said was, "A crime against myself and the elf I love."
The elf I love.
I'm not going to lie-- those words did make my stomach flip-flop a little, in a good way. I just didn't address it, and he didn't bring it up again. I'm not exactly sure how I feel; I've never been in love, I really don't know what such a thing feels like, so I'm very cautious about saying that word for the moment. Loh's my first boyfriend, actually. First boyfriend, first kiss, all that silly crap that adolescent girls seem to hold so important that I went just fine without for decades. But you know, now that I have said boyfriend, I'll be damned if I'm not going to fight for him.
I don't know about love, not yet-- I don't want to jump in too quickly when it comes to intense words like that, words I don't believe should be flung around without care. But I DO care about Lohendrin a lot after becoming closer to him, getting to know him more. The world needs more Lohens. It wouldn't miss Kylion Tensuns. But, we're better than that. I'm sure he'll be bailed out, I'm sure he'll be back, but maybe he'll pause more this time when he realizes Lohen's not going to be nearly as cowed as he had been before. I like to think that particular spell's been broken, regardless of where my relationship with Lohendrin goes.
I think I'd have happily gone through much worse, just to see that confidence in Lohen, to see the way he carried himself after we dealt with Tensuns.
In the end, it was a very good night despite the interruption, and Loh has a surprisingly comfortable lap. He needs more furniture, though. At least a couch.
