[RP] The Inn of Peace - IoP (Open to all)

[Gren_Eckener]

Malachai nibbled another apple slice. "So you got more exited than usual because he really meant it, huh?"  

[Astra_Senpai]

She blushed, "I- n-no! I- maybe- I don't know. I haven't been able or allowed to hunt on my own since I was very young. I've never really talked with my food before. I've always had someone else there to corral... I don't even think I ever asked what they were corralling away," she waved a hand for emphasis before resting long fingers along the bridge of her nose.

"I sound like a complete idiot. I let attendants wrangle the one which were the most heavily effected and didn't even think about it. I'm a spoiled little creature," her gesture was wide and grand but her arms crossed again.

Sadness in her tone, "The man died because I was too hungry, the enchantment on the ring suppressed my hunger too well and when I took it off everything went black. When I woke up I was a coated in him and the pretty little thing who had followed along was alive but the bliss had long worn off."  

[Gren_Eckener]

"So you lost control and ate too much? This is why hunger suppressants are bad for you, you know." he frowned. "Trying to deny your true nature is just trying to fool yourself; it won't help anything..but I guess you already learned that, right?"

He finished his apple slice. "You certainly have led a charmed life...I've never had food corralled for me before."  

[Astra_Senpai]

"Yes, I suppose I have learned that," she played with her rings absently, "I just feel so naked without the enchantments and suppressants- like I'm not quite right without them unless I'm alone or with someone close."

She looked up, terra cotta eyes shimmering, "And yes, I've lived a very lavish and charmed life. One which I don't want any longer. I want to be away from the contract and bidding and simply be."

She turned away and pulled the oven open, using a mitt she pulled the finished bird from the oven and set it on the top of the oven to cool. To her it smelled wonderful- human food was a dangerous blessing in itself. Get too greedy, you get fat. "I'm trying to relate more... though I think I am falling flat in many, many places."  

[Gren_Eckener]

"Really? Because I feel weird when I'm wearing clothes...and glamoured." he said, sniffing the chicken. "You know, I heard a story once about this kind of situation, between a wolf and a mastiff...the wolf met the mastiff, and heard all sorts of wonderful stories about the good food, and safety, and comfort, and was about to sign up until he saw the collar. He chose his freedom and ran off."

He looked to her with a raised eyebrow. "Is that what it's like? The mastiff's trying to join the wolves?"  

[Astra_Senpai]

Tamriel shrugged, picking up a knife and pressing it into the flesh of the chicken- it crackled pleasingly, "...I guess so."

Tamriel washed the plate she had served the apples on, drying it with careful consideration, "It is wrong to want to be like the others? To want to be out in the world without having to put on a face and smile while they bury knives into your skin or try and burn everything down around you?"  

[Gren_Eckener]

"Of course not. Why do you think I'm here? I want to see what it's like as a mastiff." he said, taking a scrap of chicken skin and nibbling it. "It's okay to have privileges so long as you know you have them, and appreciate them."  

[Astra_Senpai]

She sighed, "I don't know how to make a good impression being myself. The airs of court make everything easier to take." Her hair returning to the gossamer blue, slicing evenly into the bird and putting the meat and then vegetables on the plate. She held it out to him, "Here. Tell me what you think."  

[Gren_Eckener]

"It's hard to get used to things without clear rules, huh?" he asked, taking a nibble. "It's yummy! May I have two plates?"  

[Astra_Senpai]

She smiled brilliantly, hair flickering blonde to blue and settling. She twittered cheerfully, "I'm glad you like it."

Tamriel was happy to serve up the second plate, "Very hard- I have no idea what to do with myself or how to act with people. Not a damn clue."  

[Gren_Eckener]

"I felt that way when I started here too." he said, starting in on the first plate. "So I just sort of pretended I was still in Hell and that everyone else was higher on the ladder. It's worked so far."  

[Astra_Senpai]

"But Bure can see it- the change in my demeanor. I- I haven't had much experience with other demons, especially not those higher on the ladder. You're the highest I've been near. I can't treat everyone like I'm at a party all the time because it's already backfired on me." She pulled a small onion from within the bird and sucked on the broth and juice- this wouldn't hurt to have.  

[Gren_Eckener]

"How could we see? We haven't seen you in a month." frowned Malachai. "The point is, if you act with everyone's a little better than you and you aren't trying to suck up to them, but you aren't scared of them? If you bring them too much stuff, they're gonna think you're trying to pull a fast one."  

[Astra_Senpai]

"I'm not very good at this at all," she sighed, starting to eat the onion then stopping and tossing it into the sink. "Treat everyone better without too much flair because it makes them suspicious if you give too much. Wait does that mean me cooking could have insulted someone?"  

[Gren_Eckener]

"Right, and I doubt it, if you're cooking for yourself and then offering around." he said, clumsily working with his fork, stabbing at his food as he held the utensil in his fist.