kawa~ inspiration #46
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Title~ Target Practice
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ I dunno who those two are, but they're mine.
Notes~ kawa~ inspiration 46. I'm sure I've titled a fic 'Target Practice' before. Meh, whatever.
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“I dare you.”
Malini glanced back over her shoulder at the group of men pitting daggers at the target in the back of the pub. “Do you have any idea who they are?”
“I know exactly who they are,” Kilen answered casually, lifting her glass to her lips again, “That’s why I’m daring you and not doing it myself.”
Malini stuck her tongue out at her friend. “So what am I going to get out of this?”
“Well.” Kilen leant forwards on the table. “That would depend on whether you’re successful or not.”
Malini raised her eyebrows and folded her arms, resting back in her chair. “Keep talking.”
“Unsuccessful, it’s my shout, but no more than three gold pieces. If you’re successful, then you get a Liquid Sunset, and you get to say you booted the King’s Own from their dagger throwing.”
Malini drummed her fingers on the tabletop, lips pursed as she considered the proposition. Finally, she sculled the rest of her drink and stood. “You’d better not back down on this one,” she warned, then crossed the room to where no less than five members of the King’s Own were gathered around the target. It seemed that only two were competing though. These two she recognised as the two blade archers in the Own. They drank here often enough for her to know who they were. The others were just standing around talking and drinking.
How in Lin’s name did a girl ask the best blade archers in the kingdom to move on and find another target?
Taking a deep breath, she moved in unobtrusively to lean against the bar beside one of the non-participating members. He turned to her, eyebrows raised in question.
Malini shrugged with exaggerated nonchalance. “My friend and I are just wondering how much longer those two’ll be on the target for.”
He shrugged. “You’d have to ask them.” He picked his glass up from the bar bench and called to the blade archer taking aim. “Hey Yoryl?”
“Melraan?”
“Do you plan on letting anyone else have a shot or two at the thing tonight?”
“Only if you plan on taking me on,” the blade archer responded, letting his dagger loose. It joined the cluster of dagger hilts already protruding from the target’s middle red.
Melraan held out one hand towards his colleague, looking helplessly at Malini. “There’s your answer.”
Malini shrugged again. “I can work with that,” she answered with a grin, then wandered smugly back to her table. “You owe me one Liquid Sunset,” she told her stupefied friend.
Kilen’s eyes widened. “Are you serious? Did you get the target?”
“In a manner of speaking. They’ll let us use it, but only if they can too.”
“So we’d be playing against them?”
Malini nodded.
Kilen nodded slowly, staring thoughtfully at the Own members, then she suddenly broke into that mischievous grin again. “Dare you to beat them.”
Author~ Annarti
Disclaimer~ I dunno who those two are, but they're mine.
Notes~ kawa~ inspiration 46. I'm sure I've titled a fic 'Target Practice' before. Meh, whatever.
“I dare you.”
Malini glanced back over her shoulder at the group of men pitting daggers at the target in the back of the pub. “Do you have any idea who they are?”
“I know exactly who they are,” Kilen answered casually, lifting her glass to her lips again, “That’s why I’m daring you and not doing it myself.”
Malini stuck her tongue out at her friend. “So what am I going to get out of this?”
“Well.” Kilen leant forwards on the table. “That would depend on whether you’re successful or not.”
Malini raised her eyebrows and folded her arms, resting back in her chair. “Keep talking.”
“Unsuccessful, it’s my shout, but no more than three gold pieces. If you’re successful, then you get a Liquid Sunset, and you get to say you booted the King’s Own from their dagger throwing.”
Malini drummed her fingers on the tabletop, lips pursed as she considered the proposition. Finally, she sculled the rest of her drink and stood. “You’d better not back down on this one,” she warned, then crossed the room to where no less than five members of the King’s Own were gathered around the target. It seemed that only two were competing though. These two she recognised as the two blade archers in the Own. They drank here often enough for her to know who they were. The others were just standing around talking and drinking.
How in Lin’s name did a girl ask the best blade archers in the kingdom to move on and find another target?
Taking a deep breath, she moved in unobtrusively to lean against the bar beside one of the non-participating members. He turned to her, eyebrows raised in question.
Malini shrugged with exaggerated nonchalance. “My friend and I are just wondering how much longer those two’ll be on the target for.”
He shrugged. “You’d have to ask them.” He picked his glass up from the bar bench and called to the blade archer taking aim. “Hey Yoryl?”
“Melraan?”
“Do you plan on letting anyone else have a shot or two at the thing tonight?”
“Only if you plan on taking me on,” the blade archer responded, letting his dagger loose. It joined the cluster of dagger hilts already protruding from the target’s middle red.
Melraan held out one hand towards his colleague, looking helplessly at Malini. “There’s your answer.”
Malini shrugged again. “I can work with that,” she answered with a grin, then wandered smugly back to her table. “You owe me one Liquid Sunset,” she told her stupefied friend.
Kilen’s eyes widened. “Are you serious? Did you get the target?”
“In a manner of speaking. They’ll let us use it, but only if they can too.”
“So we’d be playing against them?”
Malini nodded.
Kilen nodded slowly, staring thoughtfully at the Own members, then she suddenly broke into that mischievous grin again. “Dare you to beat them.”