The Roof; Wednesday Evening [ 08/25 ].

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

After a rather long and unsuccessful day looking over maps at work, Alexander found himself feeling distracted with thoughts of Cassima now more than he ever had since coming here. Without classes to fill his days, all he could do was think about her. Now was the added worry that, after all this time, she would slowly be forgetting about him, and would vanish completely from hope if he did not find the Land of the Green Isles soon.

So he found himself on the roof, looking at the stars, fascinated by them in a way. How they were so different from the stars above the kingdom of Daventry, or even the kingdom of Llewdor, and how they, like the vast sea, seemed unending. Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, was Cassima. He just knew it. The key was just how to find her and if she was out there, as he was, thinking of him as well.

He sighed, wishing he knew, and continued being emo thinking.

[[ open roof is open! MY NEW SCHEDULE AND TIME ZONE IS WEIRDING ME OUT :\ ]]

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[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I haven't been beyond seeing the beach here," Maladicta replied. "It mostly just looks like a lot of water." And no shade to hide in.

Boo. Hiss.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

That's what they made parasols for, though, right? Nice ones. With pretty lace trim...

"I haven't been far into these waters, myself," Alexander admitted. "Except being on the ship for Sing Like A Pirate class." He was still sad that was over. "I should look into a bit of a small sailing tour of the area, mayhaps."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Couldn't you simply hire a boat to take you out?" People traveled like that, didn't they?

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander wasn't going to respond to that with anything more than a look that clearly stated that this suggestion defeated the whole purpose of bothering with going out on a boat in the first place.

Nothing more, that was, until he added, "Maybe I'll have to take you out sometime and show you."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

She raised an eyebrow, wondering when the innuendo would begin. When nothing happened, she carried on gracefully. "At night."

A pile of ash was no fun to talk to.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Well, it could be if one had an active enough imagination.

...what? When one's childhood involved isolation and slavery, one tended to get creative in methods of entertaining oneself.

But the comment made Alexander grin. "Of course. A bit hard to navigate by the stars in the daytime."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

He clearly needed to use that creativity for innuendo. Really.

"When would you like to try this?"

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Well," Alexander, eager for a project that might distract him from his endless thoughts of his lost love, considered this with a grin. "I'd have to procure a boat somewhere. I can't imagine it would be difficult, but we start a new semester of classes next week. Perhaps some time after we've become acclimated with our new schedules and teachers?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"And before the weather turns cold." And like Borogravia was nearly year round.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"You don't think you'd be as big a fan of the arctic adventures?" asked Alexander in a teasing voice.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Not unless you plan on defrosting me."

...oh god, she was innuendoing on accident.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Now that's just cold," said Alexander, shaking his head.

...apparently, the night time was not the right time for innuendo on Alexander's end. Just really awful puns.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

Maladicta had to stare for a few seconds, then pat him on the shoulder. "Are you looking forward to more classes?"

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

...hey, he thought that one was pretty good!

Clearly, Maladicta must have just been too awed by his rapacious wit. So Alexander could easily move on to another subject where she perhaps wouldn't be so quickly overwhelmed.

"I...am," he said, after a moment. "I'd rather I didn't have to attend classes at all," so he could explore the worlds better, "but I enjoyed everything last semester much better than I presumed I would. It shall be exciting to see what may be offered."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Hopefully they won't make us move to those shacks again during it."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"The cabins?" asked Alexander, arching a brow but failing to keep back a smirk. "Not a fan?"

Compared to what he had going on in Mannanan's castle, those cabins were a luxury suite.

Not compared to his room in the castle of Daventry, though, of course.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"A bit too much sharing."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"I thought it was actually rather...cozy," said Alexander, who was actually really lying because he had to agree that it was...odd sharing space with so many people, but having a roommate helped cure him of that prior to the cabins.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Cozy?" Really, Alexander?

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"All right." With a response like that, Alexander couldn't help a laugh. "Maybe they were a bit much, but, even if they do send us back that way, at least you'll have a few weeks living with just one person."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I'll be glad for that, at least. In the army, at least it didn't seem so... chipper."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's right; she said she'd been in the army. It was a detail that was easy for Alexander to forget, considering that he'd never even really seen an army before.

"So probably definitely not the rustic part that's the problem," he mused. "A bit more open air to enjoy as well."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I can handle rustic any day," Maladicta confirmed with a grin. "Though I'd never say no to indoor plumbing."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander couldn't help another laugh. "I still can't get over what a marvel that is!" he said, with perhaps way too much excitement for indoor plumbing, but it truly was a wonderful invention for a man who spent far too much of his life emptying out bedpans. "I should see about sending something back home to see if Father might be interested in getting something like that installed in the castle."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Otherwise the castles are just an absolute mess."