[looking at Entanglement and Exsilium // but feel free to generally tag!]

[noble_sin]

1.



Loiec has gotten three Chinese finger traps stuck on his hands, and he's got a rather cute dejected look as he struggles with them. Apparently he doesn't know the secret to getting them off.

2.



Piles of coins, strange objects d'art, tapestries and books, discarded suits of armor peeled open like tin cans, gnawed bones... you've stumbled into a dragon's lair. The dragon isn't very large, for a dragon, only the size of a wolf or so in body, before you add in the wings and long tail... and it's slumbering on one pile in particular, wings folded around it like a pterodactyl. Some of that stuff around it looks awfully valuable.

3.



You keep seeing a mouse in different places, watching you. Nothing that seems special about it, really, except that it's the same one each time. And any other animals around keep getting anxious whenever it shows up, even if they don't actually know that it's there.

4.



Loiec's been awfully focused on reading lately - so much that he's even taken to eating while surrounded by books, even though he's having to sound out words terribly often and has all of the reading pace of a snail. Today, though, something seems to have gotten mixed-up, because while he's staring so intensely at one book, it's another softcover he's taking bites out of and chewing instead of the sandwich still sitting in front of him.

5.



Loiec's managed to get someone rather offended, and with things being a matter of honor, now it's turned into a duel. Loiec probably seems rather outmatched at best, but he's rather too overconfident about it - and the duel is coming up quick. Is it you he's dueling, or someone else?

Comments

[dashing_phantom]

[Hey look, another bishounen. Phantom couldn't help but look a little amused. He quietly watches Loiec while smiling, while smiling]

[you didn't pick one so I will pick one for you muah ha ha // 1]

[noble_sin]

Ahh... [he clears his throat, glancing down. he seems rather embarrassed about having gotten his fingers stuck in these things]

Meant to say 1....

[dashing_phantom]

{A light laugh} That's quite a trap there. Need some help?

[noble_sin]

Er, yes, amabo. [he offers up his hands contritely, looking kind of confused about what the help is supposed to be]

[dashing_phantom]

I'll try to pull it off first.

[The Thief in white pinches the trap and gently grabs one hand, pulling it]

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[nomen_est_numen]

"..."

Have a giant anthropomorphic peacock staring at you in disbelief.

"I don't think I've ever actually seen anyone fall for those...."

[noble_sin]

"Well, I -" As he sees the creature talking to him, the boy lets out a noise somewhere between a startled 'weh?!' and the squonk of a duck that's just been stepped on, but he recovers his composure just as quickly. He clears his throat. "They're just... tres malféque," he says lamely. He obviously knows he's looking a bit silly.

[nomen_est_numen]

"Is that why you've gotten yourself stuck not only once, but three times?" Shen asks drily.

He's really starting to wonder if maybe this boy is just an idiot.

[noble_sin]

"I was... erm—experimenting," he says, almost stumbling over the word. "To find the secret. I don't want to ruin them," he adds, putting a special emphasis as if to suggest that he could pull his hands free anytime he wanted by tearing the things to bits, but that he's being thoughtful about it.

[nomen_est_numen]

This amuses Shen. I mean, really, those things were invented to amuse particularly malevolent children and to confuse foreigners. Well, if the boy's linquistic smatterings were anything to go by, they'd certainly succeeded in the latter task. He debates just snickering at him and leaving him to his inconvenience.

Or, he could just tweak one of those things free and then leave.

He reaches out a wing to do just that: one expert twist and one of them would pop right open.