spellbinders | [WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

Who: Participating coven members
Where: The Palai marketplace
When: Day 49
Open/Closed: OTA

[ Any and all who are in the marketplace will find that there is suddenly a mysterious barrier around the marketplace (that may be eerily familiar to some) -- specifically one large portion of the marketplace with a large number of tables and chairs, perhaps purposefully set out for nefarious reasons.

A few Palai are ushering coven members to chairs, and everything seems about normal. As normal as the Palai can be when they're putting on a show anyway. It's not until a sizable portion of the coven members are seated (and also supplied with breadsticks and small shrimp), that things get a bit more bizarre.

Thanks to the power of the Eltos, a small band of energy keeps coven members stuck to the chair (magic can interfere, of course), but that's not the end of it. On each table, next to those delicious smelling breadsticks and shrimp, is a bowl of scraps of papers. Every five minutes, a strip of paper will pop out from the bowl.

If you ask the Palai, they'll be inclined to explain speed dating to you. Asking questions, getting to know a person, then being shimmied off to the next potential mate -- this is made possible by Elto magic yet again, through flying chairs that transport their holder to a new table at standard intervals.

The Palai are extremely invested in this exercise? Will you let them down? ]

[ OOC: In the spirit of speed dating, each character will have a top level. All who want to respond to this top level can with questions from this post, but the threads have to end at 10 comments from each character. After this last tag, the characters can be assumed to have been whisked to a different potential match. You're free to have characters make up their own questions, interact with Palai serving food, etc. ]

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Exactly! We can take care of ourselves just fine!

[Camilla's own threat in harming whoever tried to mess with Nike will help to rise her spirits. She has almost forgotten about the situation they were currently in. Which wasn't all too terrible since it was getting a smile to come out.]

But, I do admit it's always good to know there's back up to rely on. I'll really appreciate the help. I only hope it won't come down to it. I don't want to see you getting your hands dirty, Camilla-nee.

[Yes, Nike did just refer to Camilla with the older sister title already. She wasn't kidding over hoping the other princess won't get her hands dirty for her sake. It wasn't correct, in Nike's opinion.]

Why couldn't they leave the fortress? I'd expect the one who's gonna be king to have issues with leaving out of the palace to the town all willy nilly like. [Says the fourth daughter to the Rain Kingdom that would escape from the palace to visit the sailors or the mountain while as the next queen of the Sun Kingdom she still escaped to the town and acted like a normal girl without use a disguise.] But, I'm glad you were able to go out to have fun. Do you have a favorite date with Corrin?

You're quite the little tomboy, aren't you Nike? While I'm not the outdoorsy type, believe it or not, I am a seasoned warrior. My favorite position is the front line, and I have a wyvern back home. Prince Xander commands all our armies, which is why he is not confined.

[ camilla doesn't have to worry about hiding the fact she's a violent sadist when it comes to fighting, because she knows enough hoshidan to understand nike's honnorific-- and the smile it puts on camilla's face is incredibly bright. ]

Oh Nike, you really are a princess after my own heart! I could just eat you up! It's nice to have a little darling to fawn over. My father kidnapped Corrin, thus their imprisonment, but just as I do you, I love them as if they are my own.

[There may be a weak laugh as she can't deny Camilla's claim over her being a tomboy. She's heard so many people call her that. Along with savage, tactless, and naive. Nothing like Camilla was known as (even if she did beat up four palace guards on her own once).]

Whoa! That's pretty amazing. I've never met a monarch that would enjoy or even hold the front lines in battle. [Livi, for one, wouldn't and couldn't.] But, what's a wyvern? Is that the name of your weapon?

[She can't help smile a little proudly on having made Camilla's day. It was clear she didn't mind the new honorific after her name while all at once she was impress she understood it too. Nike didn't once consider it could be a term that didn't exist in other worlds. She'll have to ask about it later. For now, though, she needed to react to the new bit of knowledge, didn't she?]

Kidnap? [She didn't expect to learn a detail like that. It was enough to raise her voice a tiny bit.] Why!? Isn't he your brother?

A wyvern is a type of dragon. I ride mine into battle. We've known each other since we were both children, so while he is a proper brat, I do so adore him.

[ camilla's smile falls somewhat. ]

In order to initiate full-out war with our neighboring kingdom, my father murdered their king and kidnapped his third child. That child is Corrin. The imprisonment was under the guise of Corrin's protection, but now, I must wonder if it was because my father knew of Corrin's ability to become a dragon.

[ she shakes her head. ]

It is too late to ask now, but I suppose it is for the best. I could never understand a parent who would treat their children with cruelty.

[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

sorry for late reply, computer broke :(

omg it's totally okay!! i know how it is, it's such a pain >:0 you're fine though!!

thank you! this thread is so cute to just handwave it.

it's true, these two are too adorable for life