Killing off two previous characters in one post, Awes, wow. That's cruel.
Oh, and that's noon MDT.
Aili had to take vacations from governing with Dainard on Nalthis every once in a while. Taking care of a city was no easy job. This time, she had gone with her friend, Maw, to Roshar. Right in the middle of riots, it seemed. A strange figure wearing his sword upside down zigzagged randomly towards them.
Mailam saw the pair from the other end of the street and knew he had to talk to them. The tall, curvaceous woman was definitely not Alethi. Alethi women didn't look like that. The man, the lighteyes who looked like a poor man, was glaring down the roads with his scythe. What lighteyes dressed like darkeyes.
As Mailam approached them in his strange, zigzag way, he realized the woman was making all colors around her more vibrant and it only added to her allure. "Who are you this fine evening?" Mailam asked the pair. Couldn't get too predictable.
"I believe you mean how," the gorgeous woman said.
"Of course I didn't. Why would I mean that? Calm winds, that's too normal!"
The man stared at him with an unbelieving expression. "Get your head on straight and listen to us. We've survived this, you can too. Listen to what we tell you and you have a chance."
Mailam decided to take them up in the offer. "How would you like an eat in my house? It's quite okay, I assure you, chulls haven't broken in since tomorrow." The woman giggled at this.
All of a sudden, a figure dashed behind the pair. Both the woman and man spun around just before he came barreling around the corner. "Hold things when thrown," the woman told a rope she had pulled out of somewhere. She threw the rope at the man with a sword who was lunging forward. The rope hit him and bound him just as tightly as if someone had tied him up. "We have to go. Now." The woman said. "We need to hide. If they've found us, we can't come out for at least a day."