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The city hasn't changed very much, in the time since he was last there. The market still heaves with bodies, the air heavy with spice and incense. He finds himself remembering the scraps of Hindi that he learned when he was here last. He doesn't know the others well, but he tries to keep them in the corner of his eye - particularly Kivrin, who he knows matters to Julie.
"There has to be some way back," he says, to nobody in particular. "To the island, I mean? We cannot be stranded here?"
ooc: gathering post! This is where they get separated, so choose the groups you will, darling ones! :D
"There has to be some way back," he says, to nobody in particular. "To the island, I mean? We cannot be stranded here?"
ooc: gathering post! This is where they get separated, so choose the groups you will, darling ones! :D
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"I dread to think what Laurence'll get up to while I'm not there," says Granby, because thinking about that means he doesn't have to linger on the thought that he might get stuck here. "He's already brought up marriage and she's only been with child for five minutes."
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"If Laurence has done anything other than locked Julie in a room, I'll kill him," says Granby, grimly. "He can come himself, if he likes, but he'd best have taken measures to stop her."
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"Souvenirs," says Granby, trying to nod, trying not to take everything so far to heart. "You're right. I must find her something she'll really like. Lauence is far easier to please."
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He nodded and then, almost as an after thought, offered her his arm.
"Excuse my manners," he says, giving her a crooked smile. "Laurence would reprimand me for the most horrific sort of scrub."
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"Good," he says, smiling, a faint flush starting under his ever present sunburn. "Because I think that having both of them angry at me would be something like between trapped between a devil and the deep blue sea. They've both got a temper, though Laurence is far more difficult to find."
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"I'm used to a dragon who holds me to account," he says, pausing to examine a stall full of jewelled rings far too big for Julie's fingers, far too flashy for Laurence's. "You'd think I'd be used to it by now."
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"My mother sent me to the Corps when I was eight years old," he says, pausing as she looks at the ring. "I've been trying to remember that I do not have to snap to constantly, but training is hell on a man. Though, I imagine, Laurence would have something to say about the quality of my discipline from time to time."
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"My father died and she couldn't afford to keep all of us," he says, no emotion - just a fact to be stated. "It was that or let my sister starve, I suppose."