The liquor is a familiar burn down her throat, close to but not quite exactly a match for the drink she had once preferred to carry around in her hip flask in her own world. Ah, the monks were right. Attachment to the mortal coil and worldly desires were such heavy, painful chains…
A last swallow moves down the pale line of her perfectly crafted throat before Kiritsubo releases a satisfied sigh and leans back onto a hand where she lazes on the roof’s edge, returning her temporarily teal gaze to her companion, her own smile just as amiable.]
As do you.
[She thinks they both know it, but. They both deserve the compliments. Why not. It’s his question that is a bit trickier.]
One who spent her fair share of years at the human court, writing poems for the moon viewing banquets and lovers’ pillows… ? One who met far too many cultured men wandering the mountains searching for enlightenment and leaving verses behind them like fallen leaves… ?
[Both, and more, but that would do for now.]
I find myself wondering the same… You do have a courtly air about you…
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The liquor is a familiar burn down her throat, close to but not quite exactly a match for the drink she had once preferred to carry around in her hip flask in her own world. Ah, the monks were right. Attachment to the mortal coil and worldly desires were such heavy, painful chains…
A last swallow moves down the pale line of her perfectly crafted throat before Kiritsubo releases a satisfied sigh and leans back onto a hand where she lazes on the roof’s edge, returning her temporarily teal gaze to her companion, her own smile just as amiable.]
As do you.
[She thinks they both know it, but. They both deserve the compliments. Why not. It’s his question that is a bit trickier.]
One who spent her fair share of years at the human court, writing poems for the moon viewing banquets and lovers’ pillows… ? One who met far too many cultured men wandering the mountains searching for enlightenment and leaving verses behind them like fallen leaves… ?
[Both, and more, but that would do for now.]
I find myself wondering the same… You do have a courtly air about you…