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keepcruising2022-02-17 03:08 pm
intermingled) wrote in keepcruising2022-02-17 03:08 pm
Just two part-elves fucking shit up, being sassy
Being visibly an elf, but not fully one leaves Spock in a very curious situation in society. He fits completely in neither place, but given the right situations he finds himself able to go unnoticed in both. Unfortunately, the right places often involve a criminal element, clandestine dealings and morally questionable situations.
Spock has lines he will not cross and he makes them plainly clear to anyone he works with, but he also owes a good number of favors to a good number of people and as it turns out, pretending to marry someone is not crossing any of those lines. With enough logic, he can word things in a way that doesn't even involve telling an outright lie.
That is how he finds himself in a human tavern with a hat tucked over his ears to meet with a "friend" of a "friend" of a "friend" who is a quarter elf and who requires Spock to get her into an elven settlement and accepted among the community. He does not know if she is aware of just what an undertaking that is when Spock is barely tolerated by some, but he will do his part in this and if his father believes Spock to be taken with her, he will no doubt inadvertently help them. The rest of her goals are her own.
She is easy to spot when she walks in, not only by her eyes but by the way she looks. She is beautiful in a way no one else entering this tavern comes close to and Spock nods to her from his table in the corner when they make eye contact.
Spock has lines he will not cross and he makes them plainly clear to anyone he works with, but he also owes a good number of favors to a good number of people and as it turns out, pretending to marry someone is not crossing any of those lines. With enough logic, he can word things in a way that doesn't even involve telling an outright lie.
That is how he finds himself in a human tavern with a hat tucked over his ears to meet with a "friend" of a "friend" of a "friend" who is a quarter elf and who requires Spock to get her into an elven settlement and accepted among the community. He does not know if she is aware of just what an undertaking that is when Spock is barely tolerated by some, but he will do his part in this and if his father believes Spock to be taken with her, he will no doubt inadvertently help them. The rest of her goals are her own.
She is easy to spot when she walks in, not only by her eyes but by the way she looks. She is beautiful in a way no one else entering this tavern comes close to and Spock nods to her from his table in the corner when they make eye contact.
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While she would have preferred to meet somewhere less public, there is also any number of business that is conducted over tankards of ale little better than piss; the problem for Yen, however, is that she tends to attract attention at exactly the time she does not need it, and sticking in the memories of others makes more clandestine arrangements difficult to maintain as such. She would never go back and change the day she had been transfigured to look like this, but there can be times when attempting to blend in more sufficiently mean she must take more precautionary measures.
Therefore her contact isn't the only one covering himself in an attempt to disguise his features; Yennefer too wears her cloak with her hood drawn up as she enters, finding him at a table in the corner as had been indicated to her in the letter she'd received. He is young — at least by appearances, but knowing the longevity of his race, perhaps the youthfulness of his features is as deceiving as her own.
"Are you here to play cards?" It's her half of the code phrase, ventured between them as she sits down across from him even though she's fairly certain of his identity already.