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| Demoness | Feb 23 2014, 08:42 PM Post #1 |
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In an unspecified Third World Country... Crafty Roukai was mostly satisfied with the way her life had gone so far. She was in her late twenties, naturally pretty, and athletic, but best of all, she worked with a mercenary group called the Hessi. She would have preferred a private military company, as they provided better pay and benefits, but her current situation and contacts only provided her with so many resources. She was still wanted by Demonessian authorities for her role in the 2011 ITC Patin attack, among other reasons, and so she could only be involved in low visibility operations. Even if she was living in what some would consider terrible conditions, it wasn't too bad. During her time with the Apostates, she had discovered she had a talent for destruction and her current line of work allowed her to explore it. The Hessi were enforcers for a local warlord and though she lived in a misogynistic environment, she had earned fear by reputation: she didn't shy away from brutal techniques to quell the local population and she had disemboweled the first man who had tried to take her by force. While she was not in a position of power, she was respected. That wasn't to say she hadn't suffered. Her athletic build had become slimmer since food in the Watari region was scarce, even for the Hessi. News traveled slowly, so she couldn't stay informed on her wanted status, and the equipment she used was nowhere near the standards she had used as Special Tactics. She had acquired a few scars along the way and malaria had nearly killed her the first month in Watari. She now lived in the Hessi compound, which was a collection of six buildings - more accurately a collection of sheds - and smaller huts that also housed Hessi families. The compound was walled with tin and barbed wire and had an armed guard in a tower. Crafty should have been boarded with another mercenary, but after disemboweling the last one she ended up housed with a young pregnant girl named Darli; Crafty didn't know her story since Darli didn't speak English, but she strongly suspected Darli wasn't here willingly. The Hessi compound was approximately ten miles from the nearest town, a goat farming village with no name, and fifteen miles from Warlord Ekard, who lived in a much better guarded compound in an isolated mountain. Tomorrow, Crafty would take the Jeep with a few other Hessi and head up to Ekard's place to replace the guards. She liked it better up there - there was clean water - and she planned to catch Ekard's eye, but she never saw him. |
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| Demoness | Apr 13 2014, 04:21 PM Post #51 |
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Topaz visibly grimaced at the question. Being a High Guardsman trainee, her childhood had been uncommon in Demoness, but her path diverged when she followed her sister. At age thirteen, she'd chosen to abandon the High Guards and follow a new vocation. She'd been given a monthly stipend and a place to live while she attended school, but she had essentially isolated herself from the majority of her family, including her biological parents. She made new friends, but they didn't understand her background, and she was still very much in awe of her older sister. While she had been happy back then, she'd had a lot of time in exile to examine her life and she realized it was her blind following of her sister that had led her to the path she was now on. She didn't know what to think of her sister and there were times she wondered if Crafty was the same woman she knew. She turned the grimace into a shrug. "<My sister and I lived on the third floor. A few times a year when it was hot, we would drop water->" She paused, not knowing the word for "balloon", and tried to mimic it. "<What is the word? Plastic, you blow air and it get bigger, almost round?>" |
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| Fenwick | Apr 14 2014, 12:03 AM Post #52 |
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Erryn observed her body language a bit. He was fairly familiar with her origins, having read her files. Though he wondered if they had ever run into each other when he was at the palace. "<Water balloons?>" Erryn asked. |
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| Demoness | Apr 14 2014, 12:16 AM Post #53 |
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Topaz nodded. "<Yes, water balloons,>" she repeated, though her pronunciation left something to be desired. "<We would drop 'water balloons' onto the street. One time, we managed to get dye and put it in the water. I'm not sure where my sister got it, but the first victim was not happy. He had red dye all over his nice suit, including his white shirt and briefcase. He entered the building, but we hid and luckily he never found us. I think he talked with the, ee, leader and he knew who I was from description because I was punished the next week with extra chores. My sister was not caught. It was funny at the time.>" She smiled slightly. |
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| Fenwick | Apr 17 2014, 12:26 AM Post #54 |
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"<Did you live in an orphanage or boarding school?>" Erryn asked. "<Apologies, that might've been too personal.>" |
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| Demoness | Apr 19 2014, 04:48 PM Post #55 |
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Topaz nodded. Telling him that she lived in a boarding school was less complicated or personal than telling him the truth. To let him know her history might allow him to extrapolate where she'd originally lived and she'd rather keep that private for now. Besides, it was the truth after a fashion. "<Boarding school,>" she agreed. |
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| Fenwick | May 4 2014, 11:28 PM Post #56 |
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"<Ah, well at least you got to have some fun while going to school. Hope you didn't get in too much trouble for your antics,>" Erryn replied. |
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| Demoness | May 4 2014, 11:37 PM Post #57 |
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Topaz smiled. "<It depends on your definition,>" she replied. "<I had extra cleaning duties for a month and kitchen duties, which were not part of the normal cleaning->" She struggled for the next word and finally substituted it for one she knew. "<-Schedule. It was very upsetting for a teenager.>" |
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| Fenwick | May 7 2014, 12:01 AM Post #58 |
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Erryn laughed. "<I can imagine so. I hated doing any chores as a teen, let alone extras. My parents realized sending me to my room was not a punishment and had to get creative.>" |
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| Demoness | May 7 2014, 11:51 PM Post #59 |
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Topaz tilted her head, wondering if she'd missed something. "<How was being sent to your room not a punishment?>" |
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| Fenwick | May 13 2014, 08:53 PM Post #60 |
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"<It was where all my books were, so I'd spend a good portion of my time in there reading anyway,>" Erryn replied. |
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