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Vervain Calob
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#1

With a newborn, dancing was not really top priority for Vervain. With that being said, however, she loved the music dearly, and her feet itched to move to the more lively songs.

There had been a time where she could drink a fellow hunter under the table and then dance atop it to whatever warbling song a bard played, but it seemed she had matured. (A bit. Not much). So for now she merely hung at the fringes of the dance as the music thrummed through her, Felix gathered up in her arms.

She cooed and smiled down at him, the baby watching her with big, calm eyes as she swayed, her movements gentle and careful but seeming no less buoyant with the energy of the festival.

vervain
well i'll rest my eyes
and i'll let the earth breathe
Jigano Silversmith
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#2
Released from the need to play music and itching to let his feet do a bit of dancing while other people played, Jigano coasted the edges of the gathering in search of a familiar face. He wasn't intending to be picky - any of his friends would have been a delight to see, but when he spotted Vervain through the crowd his eyes lit up with joy. She wasn't alone, but as both she and he companion looked healthy and well he hoped they wouldn't mind a third wheel. She was swaying to the music but not properly dancing and that seemed a damn shame when the world was so wonderful and Jigano had a heart full of joy to share.

Slipping around to her front Jigano gave his friend a gallant bow, even finding a grin for the solemn little one in her arms. "My dear lady and sir, may I please request the honor of a dance with you this fine and lovely Flowerbirth day?" He wasn't just laying it on thick, he was shoveling, but there was laughter in his eyes and a lightness in his step that had been missing since long before he had arrived on Caido. "And who is you handsome partner, mistress Vervain? I don't believe we've been formally introduced yet!"
Vervain Calob
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#3
Vai had been altogether too involved with her son, at first, to notice the gallant bard as he stepped up before her, but as her eyes flicked up to look at him she couldn't stop the smile from lighting up her face. "I was wondering why the music didn't seem quite up to par. You aren't playing." She tipped him a wink, dipping into a shallow curtsey given the baby in her arms - the baby who flailed a little and blinked up at the silver haired man who had joined them.

"This is Felix. He graced us with his presence but a few days ago. Don't think that will stop me from dancing, though. Healing magic is a wonderful gift, indeed." Laughing quietly, Vai straightened up so she could adjust Felix to hold him in one arm, offering her free hand to Jigano. "Lead the way, sir!"
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#4
"I was until a short while ago," he admitted, smile wry as usual. "But they finally gave me a break and now it's some other poor musician's turn to serve the dancers!" He grinned at Vai and then at the young one in her arms. He was not good with babies at the best of times... but this was the best of times, and there was light and patience enough in his heart to welcome the infant as freely as his mother.

"Felix," he said solemnly. "It is my honor to make your acquaintance. I hope you're as good a dancer as your mother is!" With a grin he took Vervain's hand and led her out among the other couples. The music wasn't slow enough for the true romantics, but it wasn't quite the pulse-pounding pace of the wilder country dances either. They could move easily to the beat of the tambora without worrying about being bumped around too badly, and Jigano curled an arm to rest lightly on Vai's shoulder, protecting Felix just in case.

"Mistress Vai, I don't believe I've seen you dance before," he teased his friend as they joined the circle of dancers that shifted across the grass, stepping twice back and then three times forward before circling their partners. "Even during my rowdier performances in the Rathskeller. You've been holding out on me!"
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#5
"Poor musician indeed. I bet you adore it," Vervain countered with a mischievous smile, allowing Jigano to lead her out into the circle. The music fizzed through her, Vai's steps light and her son cradled safely against her chest in one arm as she joined the dance with the bard. "He will be, given enough time. Had I been able to raise Ashetta I'd have taught her to dance as well." She chuckled to him, seeming more energised by moving than she had been standing in the sidelines.

Flashing a smile to Jigano, she shrugged a shoulder. "As mistress of the establishment, it wasn't my place to jump on the counters and start dancing. I'm a married woman now!" From the look of her, though, that didn't seem to bother her a stitch. "Ah, I've been meaning to apologise, by the way. I've not been able to drop by the Loreseeker's Guild yet, to officially join. I've not forgotten though."
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#6
"Just a little," he admitted with a laugh, leading them into the dance with a care for his partner and her precious cargo. He almost faltered at the mention of her daughter - and particularly her name. He recovered his steps quickly, but his eyes widened, some of the light fading from his smile. "Ashetta is your daughter?" he asked, voice pleasant but with a hint of caution in it. "Ashetta... the assassin?"

Not his fondest early memory of Caido. Not the worst, either, but...

Well. He had a bad track record with assassins.

He shook off the trickle of ice down his spine as best he could, striving to regain the merriment of mere moments past. "As mistress of the establishment it was not only your right but practically your duty to get the dancing started!" he protested, teasing outrageously. "As a married woman I would only expect your husband to be the first to join you!" He winked roguishly, spinning away so she and Felix wouldn't have to, then returning to her side. "And I had hoped to speak to you of that very thing, but I rather thought this little one," he tipped a wink at Felix, "might have been proving a wee bit of a distraction, making his grand entrance to the world. No apologies are necessary, lovely Vai, though when you're feeling up for it your wisdom and grace would be more welcome than ever in our humble Hall."
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#7
Vai was happy to let Jigano lead the dancing; she couldn't be too carefree given the babe in her arms, but she was more than happy to move to the beat of the music. Felix, for his part, seemed utterly not bothered by the affair, snug close against his mother's chest and enjoying the whirling lights and bubbling melodies around them. It would have been a lie to say that Vai didn't notice the falter in the bard's smile, though she understood it more than well enough.

"The very same," she murmured, her smile sad yet understanding. "I lost her, when she was but a child. I fell very ill, and my then husband believed I was dead. I spent over a decade trying to find her again... only to learn of the terrible life she had been forced into."

But that was a story for another time, Vai determined not to let the darkness of her daughter's past muddy the enjoyment of the dance. "You have clearly never seen my husband dance!" She all but giggled to him, slowing her steps as the song began to wind down and rocking Felix gently in her arm. "He did prove quite the distraction, it's true. But I'll come to the guild as soon as I find a spare moment, I assure you."
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#8
He listened to Vai's story with a faded smile, solemnity returned to his expression as some of Ashetta's story came to light. She had been forced into the life of an assassin? A... strange thought. The assassin he had known had chosen the life willingly - eagerly, even. "I am sorry for the years you lost with her," he murmured, being forced to consider if, perhaps, his snap judgment of the young woman had been... hasty?

A thought he would return to after the festival, perhaps. For now there was light and laughter and dancing, and he spun Vai gently in a slow promenade as faster couples whirled passed them towards the center of the circle of dancers, the younger couples determined to get a last few fancy twirls in before the music ended. "I have never seen your husband at all!" he pointed out with a grin. "If it weren't for young Felix here, I might think he was mythical!" He chuckled as their steps slowed, smiling down at his friend and her new baby. "But I would like that very much, lady Vai. Our door is always open to you."
Vervain Calob
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#9
"I am just grateful for having found her," Vai murmured, though she nodded solemnly at Jigano's apology, a sad smile on her face. Luckily it was easy to banish in lieu of lighter topics, and the jubilance of the dance even at its wind-down was something she eagerly allowed to buoy her spirits. Her laughter was musical and mischievous, Vai tipping the bard a wink and grinning down at Felix. "Oh, you might have met him and not realised it. He's a bear," she said simply.

"He spends most of his time in the Woodlands. Not mythical, merely grumpy and antisocial," she said, though the words were suffused by an unmistakeable love. Turning her gaze back to Jigano and dipping into a careful curtsey as the song ended, she nodded to him. "Then expect me to darken it very soon. Thank you, Jigano. I didn't realise how much I had missed this."
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#10
"A bear," Jigano repeated, deadpan. Then he broke into a broad chuckle and gave a shake of his head. "As often as I wander those woods, he has managed to elude me, I'm afraid. I don't think I've met any bears since I arrived, for which fact I am usually grateful!" Bears tended to be bad news for foxes, after all. Still, he grinned and returned Vai's wink. "I'll keep an eye out for him, though, now that I know that he's out there!" And a curious thing it would be, too, to meet a man who was a match for the formidable Vervain!

"Hardly 'darken,'" he protested, but softly as he bowed - first to the lady, and then again to her young son. "Dear Vai, it was my pleasure," he assured her with a smile that warmth without teasing, only sincerity. "Bring that husband of yours by for a dance at the Rathskeller some night when I'm performing, now that you aren't weighed down by your duties there," he suggested slyly, escorting her out of the shift and flow of bodies as new couples moved into the dance floor for the next song. "Let Edy watch Felix for a few rounds and I'll play something to really kick your heels up to!"
Vervain Calob
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#11
"A bear," Vai repeated right back to Jigano, though her tone was much brighter and her smile was barely contained, threatening laughter at any moment. "He has a colourful past which has made him untrusting of people. Luckily, that means if he is around, that's likely because he wants to be." Or because Vai had asked him to be, more like. She could only hope that they were able to give Felix a better life than the one Devrum had been subjected to.

Rocking Felix in her arms and gathering him back against her chest now that she had the use of both hands again, she nodded to Jigano. "Believe me, the pleasure is all mine," she murmured, something wicked and mischievous lighting in her eyes at the thought of a reunion of sorts at the Rathskeller. "You got it," she confirmed, committing it to memory. "It's a date."

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