CRYSTAL | maybe you should wait.

[poleaxed]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Jone
RECIPIENT: Y'all
NOTES: Comments may be spicy.

Is anybody dreaming of getting back topside? Know I am. Blimey, a sweaty fucking pit, is Orzammar.

We've a tennis court. That's jeu de paume for the rest of you. [Her Orlesian is surprisingly not terrible.] It ought to be finished by the time we're back. I know, I know, you don't like to train in the yard, it hurts your knees or your bloody feelings. That's what the court's for. Let's play a game and get your stamina up, aye?

Noticed we've had some new folk lately, and I wanna say again: I'm Jone, the six-foot-bitch in the training yard with the red hair. I'll train you, and I'll do it right. You ain't for swords, we'll find what you're for. Free fucking service, you only have to make an effort.

Think of it this way: if you work hard enough, get strong enough, one day you'll get to break me nose.

Comments

[littlemissfutility]

...You have tennis here?

[poleaxed]

Haven't stuttered since I were seven, luv.

[littlemissfutility]

Yeah, but--I dunno. I didn't realize tennis was that old.

[elegiaque]

I've played since I was about seven.

[littlemissfutility]

You'd probably kick my ass, then. The only time I played was gym class.

[elegiaque]

Not much longer now and we're back to the Gallows, that noted home away from home for questionable decisions and debatably legal marriages.

( there's been like three of them, now, gwenaëlle is prepared to assert she started a trend of some kind. )

[poleaxed]

Thank the Maker I've no business with unholy matrimony!

[Leave Me Out Of This.]

[elegiaque]

Bless you, etcetera.

I've already got training and several weapons, but I'll play tennis anyway.

[rowancrowned]

The paperwork and contributions to the Chantry are decidedly still in our favor.

[elegiaque]

The paperwork that we got while there wasn't a Divine personally in favor of Circles for Rifters and mages is, I'm sure, absolutely ironclad and would surely be upheld.

( —dryly. )

I don't know that we have the kind of contributions to guarantee a rule in our favor on that one, let's not pretend.

[molineux]

I'm not sure what tennis is, but I'm all for games in courts.

[wythersake]

Oh, it's remarkably similar. Rackets, a grand ball —

[novokribirsk]

And you're encouraged not to hit things.

[ which makes it inferior to tennis, to be clear. ]

[molineux]

Are you quite proficient in it then?

[pittance]

Hey, folks pay good money for saunas.

[poleaxed]

Saunas are clean.

[pittance]

After you step in 'em?

[acreage]

You know you don't have to end every announcement with an offer to punch you, right?

[ he sounds more amused than concerned, but just. throwing that out there! ]

[poleaxed]

...Fuck! You're right, I did it again!

[acreage]

I'd ask if you're trying to tell us something, but the answer seems pretty clear.

[truthtied]

Orzammar is interesting, but yes, I'm beginning to miss the sun rather desperately.

And I'm not certain the point of training should be breaking your nose.

[poleaxed]

Everybody needs a motivation.

[truthtied]

I'm sure one could find other motivations that do not include breaking your nose.

[clawings]

I ain't played tennis a day in my life.

Think I'll like it?

[poleaxed]

You have good stamina in a fight?