[RE] Roleplay Recap: Week 7
Gospel
Gospel encountered Zerey Zeyad in Ul’dah while she was traveling amongst her allies to recruit additional troops for his coming battle with the Masaki. While she made her inquiries with him on the status of the Hashima insurrection, Gospel let it slip that she had finally decided to part ways with her paramour, Syrio Nessaire. It gave Zerey something else to focus on for a while instead of his own troubles.
In typical little brother fashion, Zerey was offended and upset on Gospel’s behalf, that Syrio could break her heart. However, Gospel tried to dissuade his ire, saying it had been her decision to part ways. Even though she’d tried, she couldn’t come to terms with all of the changes in Syrio since his journey to Corvos. He’d left to go there as the hyur midlander that she’d loved, but he came back a veena viera stranger. While he claimed to be the same man, it didn’t feel the same to her. Everything about him had changed, from his form, to his voice, to the way everything felt with him. It broke her heart to have lost the man she loved to a journey they’d promised one another they would take together.
Zerey was Zerey and would not be swayed. Gospel’s only saving grace from him punching Syrio the next time they crossed paths was that Zerey had no idea what Syrio looked like as a viera. She thanked Nymeia soundly for the good fortune.
Katja
In Thanalan, Katja met with her friend T’Shira Rihll to follow up with a promise she’d made to show her how it was that Katja manipulated aether and cast her spells. It was a hope that it would provide T’Shira some manner of insight in how to cast spells faster, her current weakness in her abilities. They traipsed down to Scorpion’s Crossing where there were some practice dummies, whereupon Katja demonstrated how she casts magic. T’Shira seemed to gain some manner of insight from watching her and was ecstatic to take this new knowledge and apply it to her own studies.
They adjourned back to Ul’dah afterward, Katja having been excessively fatigued by the demonstration. They sat by the coolness of the Gold Court fountain to allow Katja to recover and they spoke of their mutual friend, Valeria Camena, whom Katja had not seen since her outburst at Valeria some weeks prior at the Tap & Gambit Tavern run by the Vanguard Company. T’Shira reassured her that Valeria likely still felt badly for that argument, but that she cared and wouldn’t ask Katja to do anything she didn’t want to do.
Katja had no interest in helping Zerey with his war for his clan. She barely knew the Doman samurai and the two of them didn’t exactly get along. She knew, though, that Valeria would go to help him without question and that’s what worried her most. Katja worried that Valeria would get hurt or worse, that without her friends, Valeria would get into no end of trouble. As much as she wanted to help, Katja had responsibilities here at home to her mother and to her other friends, like Tetra Vinn, whom she’d promised that she’d stay out of it.
T’Shira did her best to comfort her, and Katja allowed herself to be consoled — at least for now. She went home, her heart still heavily burdened, but it was nothing that her beau, Tora’a Honi couldn’t cure.
Lafiel
In the days that have followed since they’d done their part for Zerey’s conflict in Kugane, Lafiel retired to her new home in Lavender Beds, along with her miqo’te lover, Koh’li Nbolo. They spent some time settling in, getting things arranged just as they wanted them, filling their pantry and generally getting it livable. As they worked, Lafiel made mention of the Afterlight Story Hall that was hosted elsewhere in the Lavender Beds and invited Koh’li to go, along with Zerey, hoping to distract them both from the worries of Zerey’s problems for a bit.
They went the following evening, listening to the myriad stories. Even Lafiel joined in, telling the story of Mogwin, a moogle that wanted to become an Adder. The three of them passed the evening in pleasant company and camaraderie with the other storytellers and story-listeners until it was time to return home.
On their way, Koh’li informed Lafiel that he needed to drop off some reports to the Adder HQ so they went. They took a pause on the bridge near the Adder’s Nest — the place where they’d first met — and reminisced about how far the two of them had come in the moons since that fateful first encounter. It was here that Lafiel learned of Koh’li’s love of Xelphatol Apples and how he longed to travel there in order to obtain a tree cutting or a transplant tree to bring home and plant in their upcoming garden. They also discussed the possibility of traveling to Thavnair and other places beyond Eorzea, after they had an opportunity to visit Lafiel’s homelands in Coerthas and Dravania.
