Sorana

"Ohhhhh - sorry!" Solona giggled and turned visible. "Sometimes I forget you can't see me, but I can see you." "You scare her wolf. That's not nice."

Solona saw the girl ignore her, instead draw her sword and look at something behind her. Right, that hallo. Turning around she smiled at the wolf and waved at him. "Hello wolf."

Althea hesitated. Hand Brashen over? Just like that, to someone she barely knew. Offend him or hand her spren over. He tried to help, she reminded herself. He only tried to help, and then she smiled in relief when she had an idea. Inhaling stormlight she touched the earth close by, convinced it to change it's form. Bending down she picked up a halberd and handed it to Devaan.

Nodding she walked over to the man with the bracelets, smiling friendly. "Hello. I'm Marianne Tekiel and I'm here to investigate what happened. Could you please tell me what you observed? Every little deatil could be important and I'd be really glad if you could help us." There. Hopefully that wasn't too much. @Nohadon

Althea instinctively stepped back a bit. "I've used a halberd and a staff and I can't wield both, so I guess the answer is none."

Max already offered to help her, but she couldn't say no, could she? She didn't want to be impolite and he'd already told her, that this was what he did best. "Of course, gladly." Max would understand, and whatever Devaan had in mind she'd never turn into good fighter in a short time anyway.

Marianne thought about the options. Be nice or not. Was she a nice person? She wasn't sure. He could be both, could she? How did she appear, a woman, people tended to underestimate her. Unsure how to decide she looked at the suspects. "Good?" She asked.

"I don't know. I've never done this before."

Grateful for the change in topic Althea watched him painting his card. "I'm an Elsecaller. Third ideal." For a moment she hesitated, then added. "And I know my surges. I can't use my shardweapon, but when it comes to my surges I'm good, really good." Brashen poked into her neck and she took him on her hand. "That's Brashen."

Marinne noted down their names and then looked over to Cslien. She wasn't sure who to choose first, but maybe he would know. They all might have seen something. Then she realized, tvat she had been here as well when the train arrived. Did that make her witness, too? Well the inspector would have told her, if he needed her. @I think I am here.

Althea laughed as well. "The trick is, if I mess it up, I can always soulcast something. Tastes a bit artificial, but it's edible. But right now, I'm trying to learn how to bake a good chocolate cake, unsuccessful so far, but I hope I will get it right one day." Her smile vanished, when he asked after Mara. "No, I never met her. I heard that the duel was taking place, but such things didn't interest me, so I stayed away."

"I'm sorry." Althea said quietly. "I never wanted to imply that you died on purpose. I -" She stopped herself before the situation turned even more awkward. She'd only wanted to know, so that she could prepare. Catch Max should it be neccessary. She liked to be prepared, to know what she might be facing. "Would you like to come by for dinner?" "I'm only an alright cook, but maybe you would like to know where we live? We can go to a restaurant of course, as you prefer."

"Thank you. But mostly I felt out of place. I rarely use my surges in an offensive way." She replied truthfully and then wished she could vanish in the ground. It wasn't like her to talk without thinking, she should have accepted that compliment. Simply accept it. A great match, he thought her a great match. That was good. Althea forced herself to relax a bit. She could do this. She had to. "Yes it sounds useful." Which it did, but it wasn't the most important right now. "I do. Two questions, actually. Maybe more, but two right now." Hesitating she looked to the ground. There was no good way to ask this. "Will you stay? Is this permament or will you vanish in a few days?" Hastily she explained. "It took Max long to get over your death, I know everybody dies one day, but he was so happy, that you're back, if you vanished tomorrow - I don't want to know what it would do to him."

She paused. Now. He wanted to talk now. But she could answer that question, it was an easy one. "He's fine, or at least he was a few hours ago. And he is definitely alive." She replied, softly touching her bond to Max. Interesting how things turned out, that meant he wasn't opposed to it? She never wanted to put Max in a situation where might have to choose, so Devaan needed to be alright with it. And that meant she had to make a good impression. Thinking back at the fight with Sebastian and Myriad she inwardly sighed. Probably she had already messed this up. But at least she had taken a shower. Looking down she realized that the color of her shirt looked maybe alright to her pants. "I never expected it to end with a marriage either." She added, mostly to say something else. A hint of a smile touched her lips, when she remembered. Could she ask him a question or was that impolite? Should she tell him something? About herself, their marriage, their plans? She had no idea, what she was supposed to do.

Thea. So that meant - he knew? No one called her Thea but Max. She wished she could ask Max what he'd told him, what she was supposed to do, and she could ask him, but he was busy and originally she had wanted to talk to him about all that in person. "I know about your access." She replied calmly. "I won't let him hurt the children, and I won't hand Benson over. If he's willing to kill children, there are few borders he wouldn't cross." Her eyes moved to Benson's face. "And right now it's easy. Despite your crime or not crime, I won't hand over one of mine to a criminal." "Right now I guess we need to wait for Fred's reply."

Althea fell silent. He had a path, he followed. A dark one, but it was a path. "I guess that didn't work. I was willing to let you to fight, but the situation has changed. I can't stand by when we're talking about someone threatening innocents." "Master Devaan. Do you have a possibility to constrain him, until the part with the children is sorted out?" It felt strange to adress him. He'd raised Max, he was some kind of father-in-law to her? And she had no idea, what that meant. Storms, she didn't even know if he knew who she was. Later. That one had to wait. @Nohadon

"Lost. Do you have a path to follow?" "You said you returned out of fury, you offered a duel. Did you look for a way to die?"

"It's dangerous to admit treason if you didn't commit it." Althea looked at him for a while, pondering. "I have no way to prove your words are true. You could always have tried something, failed and now claim you did nothing." But in the end it made this easier, a lot easier. "Do you feel lost?"

Althea thought back at the process. She had been so tired back then. He had claimed to be not guilty, but then they always did. Apart from that - she didn't recall. "So you never tried to take over?"

Althea looked at Benson. "Who or what are you following right now? Why did you decide to return here?" @beantheboy12

Althea nodded curtly at Benson's outburst and sent a message to her assistant to start travelling here. This sounded like someone would need to investigate this afterwards. Devaan called someone over to help and she turned to Fred. "Who has the children and how can I contact him?" @Gancho Libre

Solana (=the little ghost) woke up in the evening. The sun was still painting the sky in yellows and reds and she decided to take a look around. Leaving her castle, but taking her keys, she flew through the wood and arrived at a lake. A fox was sitting there and a girl packed some things together. "Hello." She greeted them excitedly, totally forgetting to turn visible. @Kelsier'sGodComplex @Bluest

I helped get it going, when it was created. But I don't spend that much time outside of the rp subforum, so i posted less here , unless some quotes/ tags me. But feel free to always tag or mention me

The woman who had watched silently for the last few hours received a message. Reading it twice she got to her feet and left for Oasis.