Post Mission Party At The Bar

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Its time to unwind, relax and receive news of home. A pod pop occurred while some were on a mission and it's time to meet up with new friends, drink well with old, and relax.The Drunken Dragon has opened its doors and stands ready and willing to assist in forgetting the trials those on the mission experienced.




OOC: If you want a specific barmaid, just put their name in the subject. Otherwise, enjoy, intermingle and do as you like.

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"Yes, Papa." She watched him, concerned, resting her hands on his wrists. "You do not remember that either."

She frowned, uncertain. "But you were there, with Mama and Yana and Brevo and Grosk. We were all there."

She looked away, unable to leash the childish impulse to avoid his gaze, fearing wrong doing on her own part. "He did not approve of someone he could not trust staying with his group. He did not like or wish me to be there and made as much clear. He blamed me for some action you had taken on the ship. I...left. I could not stay, not with the place being hidden."

[governorkang]

"No, I don't remember." Kang hated saying that, as it was a lie, but she was obviously too young to understand the truth. He'd found it difficult to understand as an adult. "You were barely a month old. But you'll help me remember, right?"

He was going to have to ask Eva about that. More than likely, she'd already handled it.

"Wait. You said you were pretending to be Krisi. Why? And if you weren't with Eva, where did you stay?"

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"I will, Papa." she nodded, smiling. The strange, draconian smile that hardly looked happy to human eyes, wings relaxed and lose against her back, her tail swaying slowly behind her. "I saw the picture of us, in your rooms. When we were very small. I could show you what they look like. How mama looks."

She nodded, leaning on him. "I thought it might be safer, if it were a trick. If someone had been kidnapping children, a niece was less of a threat to you than a daughter. Worth less, in their view." She paused. "I stayed in your rooms, or here. I drifted some, depending on the day. Miss Kaylee and I were here some."

She had mostly been on her own, exploring and staying as far away from the river as possible without leaving the city entirely. Hydroponics was a pleasure and the buildings a lure that she knew her siblings would be unable to resist, but so far she had made only a few tiny hops. Not wanting to risk much height when she could not rely on someone being there to look after her.

"Age and I climbed trees in Hydroponics." It was a hesitant distraction, she knew she had not obeyed his orders, but she had done her best with the reversal of her welcome to Eva's home.

[governorkang]

Kang didn't say anything verbally to that, hugging Kali to him again and smiling. She'd know what he was saying.

And, he knew that distraction for what it was. Laughing, he settled her more comfortably in his lap, "It's alright. You found friends, and you took care of yourself. I'm proud of you." He really was, too. The niece thing was very clever of her to think of, in a situation where she had no idea what was going on and had no proof she wasn't being used against her father.

"You did well to trust Kaylee and Eva. But, how did you know that you could?"

Slowly, he'd realized that they weren't alone in the tavern, but he didn't care. He needed the physical reminder that she was there, that she was real and alive.

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She returned the hug, making another sub-vocal chirping sound as she curled against him. It was good to have him here, to have the smell and the sound of him.

"Eva found me out, she knows you better than I understood at first and I was not secure in my role. She said I knew your patterns better than a niece could, I thought it best to be honest with her. Kaylee was an accidental find, mentioned in passing by others that knew you enough times for me to collaborate independently her connection to you, I choose to trust her."

She had known from the start that they were not alone, but it hardly mattered.

[governorkang]

"She's very perceptive," Kang agreed. "And so are you. We'll talk more about that later, though; how much do you know so far about Stacy and why we're here?"

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"Not as much as I wish." She leaned into him, head tipped to the side, birdlike and calm.

She was very used to listening to him. She was used to taking her instruction from her father.

[governorkang]

"Tell me what you do know, and I'll fill you in on the rest," Kang leaned back against the wall, letting Kali snuggle in to him as much as she wanted. A little bit of blood had stained the bandage, from the way he'd been holding her before, but it was barely visible as a faint greenish spot on the white cloth.