Kimmi

*Leana starting to make bread/instructing a few kitchen staff what to do*

“The tablecloth’s a bit unwieldy.” Though it might be good for bandages. “Do you have smaller bags? Five of them, about the size of summer skirts?” *some ladies scurry to get pillowcases, thinking they’ll be fine…*

Leana looks around the room, while kneading dough. It’s…[Read more]

(Leana stuck her tongue out at Hades, if only a moment, when he refused the nick-name… She’ll still use it.)

As she listened to Alessio… Leana’s heart warmed and bubbled like a brook. Father loved Alessio. He knew him. He named him.

He… always seemed to make people feel valuable. Be they a senator whose carriage lost a wheel. Or a begger…[Read more]

What to use for a hair tie? *considers just knotting it into a bun, with nothing* But that could still fall out, and she wanted to take Alessio’s advice.

Alessio ducked onto the floor, like he was afraid to be hit, and ripped a strip from the hem of the tablecloth.

Leana’s brows lifted. Her eyes widened when he snapped off the leg of the table.…[Read more]

“And I’ll call him Big Softie,” Leana’s brows furrowed at Alessio’s remark.

No one knows Father’s language. Leana’s mouth opened, both in shock, and to say something. Though, his translation wasn’t completely accurate. 

But Alessio plowed on, looking at her. “You should braid your hair so it doesn’t get in your face when you’re fighting and…[Read more]

*Kimmi sent something earlier this morning, and… sees now it never went through* *grrs* *types abbreviated version* 

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Leana had been joking about the biting. She tended to joke, when nervous, but always wondered if anyone realized it was in jest. Dom did…

She danced away from Alessio when he released her. But she didn’t…[Read more]

“How do you break free?” His arm locked around her neck.

Leana did her best not to make a gagging sound. Break free? Uh… “Bite you?” If I had my dagger, I could try to stab you in the gut. But I left it on my horse, and… I wouldn’t want to risk success, with that. Not that I would have success. “But… you might not taste too good.” *br…[Read more]

Alessio nodded thoughtfully and took her hand, and shaped it into a fist. Leana watched, brows furrowing a bit.

She tried to put her thumb inside her fist, because she always did, but Alessio corrected, “You need your thumb outside of your fist, so you don’t break your hand throwing a punch, your feet need to be spaced enough for balance but not…[Read more]

Alessio backed out of the embrace, but his hand still lingered on Leana’s shoulder. “We’ll need to decide which mirror to enter and come up with a plan to make it through alive.”

Leana nodded slowly, and took a step back. You said… the point of all the mirrors is to make us feel guilty? 

Alessio glanced uneasily at the chocolate guy, I should…[Read more]

Her heart relaxed, when Alessio truly squeezed.

“I – Sorry,” He stammered.

Leana didn’t pull away or look at him. So many things still rushed through her mind.

After a minute or two, Alessio spoke again, “I’ll keep searching until we find your father- I believe we’ll find him eventually, but if we don’t…” Leana stepped back. Alessio’s face ti…[Read more]

Alessio seemed in a daze, and Leana resisted the urge to fidget.

Finally he looked at her, biting his lip, “It’s possible if Nithel is still in this world…dimension…place…then he might be forced into the trials as well and there’s a chance of us finding him there. I don’t know.” He sucked in a deep breath, and Leana’s brows furrowed. “The…[Read more]

“Alright, we’ll need to come up with a plan.” Alessio spoke, “We don’t have a lot of options and we don’t know really what’s ahead of us so we should be prepared for the worst. Our best option would be to work together and manage our assets and liabilities accordingly.”

Leana’s eyes widened, as she still hunkered under the table. Is it too m…[Read more]

Leana did squeak as the table flipped. As she saw the dark dust around the guy’s hand. Zounds. Eyes wide as the pans, she pressed her back against the upturned top. What do I do?

The idea to again run and hide, overtook her. The idea this was just a strange dream. Wondering who she could turn to. Why these guys were acting like little boys,…[Read more]

Cathy- 😄

Leana gaped as the fight broke out. She’d been in frisky fights before, with her family. Be it apples, hay, dung, water, or pebbles. But she wasn’t in the mood for it, and honestly would much rather go outside and start toward home. If home still existed.

But even if she did feel like a food fight, such a thing, in such a beautiful setting, with…[Read more]

“Pardon me Ma’am, but are you hungry?”

Leana’s eyes widened, and she looked up to see one of the men. The one who’d given her the bag, and the chocolate. She wanted to scoot back, but Leana already leaned against a wall. “I-” I am.

I don’t trust you. I don’t know what’s happening? I want to wake up. How can this be real? But who do you say all t…[Read more]

@this-is-not-an-alien

(I thought it was Sasa Lele. 😄)

Leana would have thought it was Sasa Lele, shyly, like Alessio. If… she could read. 🙁
She might be inclined to think they’re just ugly curly-cues… that… might have been supposed to be pretty?

Leana honestly had no idea where to run, after getting down the stairs. Go back to Crorie? No. No. She ran the other way, darting around a man with strange clothes, and into a giant room.

Her jaw dropped and she looked up at the painted ceiling. Three or four houses tall. A giant thing hung from the middle of it, hundreds and hundreds of jewels…[Read more]

She took another step back at the absolute chaos in the room. At Alessio’s apology. At the arrow. At the two guys trying to wrestle the others to the ground.

Run? She bit her lips and whispered, “It’s morning.” One of the suns had just started to flicker through the drapes, at the end of the hall. Finally.

The man growled as the other tackle…[Read more]

Leana gaped and took a step back, before she thought better of it. Don’t let these geezers think you’re afraid of them. She pulled her shoulders back, and waved at the frumpy man, with a fake smile, “Hi?”

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