Day at the lake (Kat / Mae)

Kat's would never normally head out to the huge lake in Eshanta, with its multitude of whirlpools covering the surface showing the danger of the place to all. However no one else usually comes here and she really wanted some alone time after having made her second kill in the Castle. It wasn't the first time that she had been seriously threatened by those who felt she didn't belong and probably wouldn't be the last, however part of Kat felt bad about having done the deed. She was confident that it would not be pinned on her, having covered her tracks and used a different face for the deed, but killing was never something to be taken lightly.

So she had sought out another form of death, one that she had been very scared of and only more so since the dream to bring everything into perspective. Then she saw someone trying to kill themselves in the water. Eshanta really couldn't afford to lose another person this day, and Kat was feeling somewhat guilty enough already about having caused the death of a potential defender already.

"Hey," she called out across the lake "get out quickly before you are swallowed up by the water!" 

Somehow the other woman makes it to the shore and Kat goes over to her.

The woman's hair is unusual, but nothing that could be achieved by dye. There was a brief fashion at Court for a while to have bizzare hair colours but as soon as the Queen had disapproved of it the fashion had promptly stopped. Perhaps this young woman was one that never grew out of the fashion.

Kat is a young girl of about twelve years of age. She has a darker skin and long dark curly hair, showing her twin heritage from a different skinned mother and father. Her eyes are bown and she looks warily at the stranger. She wears a dress and an overcloak in various shades of blue and has a crystal pin broach with a crown on top of it at her breast.

"Hello. They're dangerous, but I'm sure you know! I can't think of an better way to kill yourself if that was your goal." She replies.

"No one swims here. There are thousands of whirpools there and they suck you down and kill you. Everyone knows that! Its pointless to even try. You were lucky." Kat replies.

She changes her cloak to form a cloak of mirrors and conjures a towel from it.

"Here, this will dry you." She offers the towel.

"There are some towns, Chalcet is closest. The capital is a way away as the Dinathactor strides. Mine, Coarshur, is eating a short way away but you don't seem to have one, so its about a quarter of an hour to Chalcet. We should be safe this far from the boundary line. Which town do you come from?" Kat asks.

Kat figured that the other woman must be from one of the outlying villages. Probably why she didn't know about the Queen's disapproval of coloured hair.

"Someone translated you through a mirror into the lake then? Wow, they must be quite a powerful Mirrormancer to do that. Did you get on the wrong side of someone powerful then?" Kat asks as she leads the other woman to her Dinathactor. The beast, a green four legged beast similar to a camel with a long neck and no tail is happily munching on the local vegetation. The beast is untethered and Kat does not seem bothered that it is not tied.

Kat finds it odd that the other woman doesn't know what a Dinathactor is. Even the demons here know them.

She shrugs. "Don't know really. They've always been here and we form a relationship with them. Courshar has quite a sense of humour and he would snort if you say we bred them."

She puts a hand on Courshar's side. 

"Hello, I'm going to take this woman to Chalcet. She doesn't have her own Dinathactor, so I'm going to walk too." She says aloud.

Oh we're going to Chalcet. Mouraghar is there isn't she? Courshar says in her mind and picks up his ears at that. Kat laughs. So much for them breeding the Dinathactors. 

Kat sighs. "He does a good impression of a beast, but then I'm told a lot of males are like that, she says shyly, I am too young to know about that though." She blushes.

Coashur trots along beside them as the walk along the lake shore. Playfully nudging Kat with his muzzle on occaision.

"You weren't very specific about where you were from, and you are also yet to introduce yourself to me. My name is Katerina by the way. I give you the courtesy of my name. Perhpas you will give me yours also?"