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[tokunagas]

Characters: Anise Tatlin, Kratos Aurion
Location: Near the park and then do Northern Lights
Rating: G
Time: Jan 16, Nighttime
Description: Anise spies Kratos and enables him to buy her dinner


Anise hated waiting. She would much rather go out and do something than to just sit around. With the recent events, she really wanted a weapon to help her out but she can be picky. She was use to having Tokunaga, her doll, do most of the work but what can she do now? She was use to being in the background and dish out spells, she wanted a staff. However, there wasn't much she could do. She had to try out different weapons.

With a sigh, she mumbled and went out to get some dinner. There was no use in getting upset on an empty stomach.

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[tokunagas]

"By then it might be too late! They might try to attack me from behind and I doubt I would be able to make a sound if I'm knocked out." Why are you making this difficult Kratos? "And besides, if I were to call the Watch, how long do you think it would take for them to arrive? This is a pretty big city full of criminals! Wouldn't want that to go on your conscious do you?"

Did she finally convince him? Perhaps but she wasn't sure considering how his face usually stayed the same. If it didn't, then she will keep on trying.

[flamberge]

His conscious wasn't the problem in this case; it was his knightly sense of duty to protect those incapable of protecting themselves. Quite honestly, Kratos was positive that Anise was exaggerating on purpose to get him to agree. Even so, she raised points which made that nagging sense of duty overpower any logic. What if someone really does attack her? What if she truly lacked the ability to fight off an attacker? What if his presence would prevent that?

Hear that? It's the sound of that will crumbling. Normally, the man took pride in acting with accordance to those knightly codes. This time, however, he really wished didn't. Still, one more attempt to weasel out of this couldn't hurt. "...You're certain you cannot go by yourself?"

[tokunagas]

"If I didn't, I wouldn't have asked you!" She said as she sensed Kratos's will to argue to crumble. With a mental smirk, she was telling herself that this was going to plan. She could always give him some cookies later as thank you but she was happy that he was starting to go with her. Then she pointed to the doll on her back.

"Oh wait, you forgot about Tokunaga! He counts too!"

[flamberge]

Kratos just stared at Tokunaga for a moment. That was a doll. A girl with a doll. A girl with a doll who'd just described how she might be abducted and how no one might be able to come to her aid.

There went whatever ounce of willpower he had to deny her request. Regardless if she was manipulating him (and he was certain she was), allowing Anise to go off alone now would be something he couldn't do. A small sigh escaped him at the fact that relaxing after a long day now seemed out of the question. "...Where is it that you would like to go?"

[tokunagas]

Mission Accomplished.

With a mental smirk, she couldn't believe that she managed to get Kratos to go with her. However, she was going to milk it for all its worth. "Hehe, thank you so much, Mister Kratos! I'm going to the Northern Lights to get some dinner! Let's hurry!"

[flamberge]

All this just made Kratos glad he didn't have children. Unless those children were like Mithos, that he could handle. Having a child like Anise, however, would've driven him up a wall.

"Dinner will still be available regardless of whether or not we hurry." As in they were walking at a slow, steady pace. If he was going to be manipulated in such a way, he might as well make it difficult.

[tokunagas]

Little does he know that Anise would do just about anything to protect her parents. However, there was no way that she was going to tell him that just yet.

"Booooo!" She pouted at him. "Fine...but I still don't see the point in walking so slowly..."

[flamberge]

That pout got completely ignored as he started walking, slowly. "Consider it a valuable lesson in learning to be less obvious when manipulating someone." He deadpanned without so much as glancing at her. Anise might as well be aware that her victim knew what she'd been up to and that there were repercussions for her actions, even if said repercussions were just walking about as fast as a snail.

[tokunagas]

She glared at him and decided not to say anything back to him. He was right though, she did need to make it less obvious when she was manipulating others. However, this has been her style for the longest time, she needed to find more gullible people.

In the meantime, she mumbled. "We might as well get there when it's closing time..."

[flamberge]

That little comment caused him to glance over at her. Somehow he felt that this portion of the evening was going to end up being more exhausting than the patrol itself. "Your skills of exaggeration require some improvement, as well." Really, they weren't walking that slow. Not like her complaining would change his mind regarding their pace, either.

As he turned his field of vision back towards at the street ahead, he added. "At the pace we're going, it should not take us more than 30 minutes to arrive and it's highly doubtful any eating establishment would close its doors at around 6:40 in the evening." It would be foolish to close a restaurant during hours at which people ate dinner, albeit a slightly belated one.

[tokunagas]

She mumbled some more before looking back at Kratos. Who did he think he was? Her father? Then again, she had no right to criticize him either. He was willing to go with her to dinner and he was probably just a stick in the old mud anyway. "It's a skill that I like!"

"Yeah but who knows what might happen, they might close early for certain reasons tonight!" Although Anise wasn't that hungry from the baking lesson earlier today, she was someone who was impatient.

[flamberge]

That continuous, disgruntled mumbling caused him to sigh once more. Why couldn't all children be like Mithos? Good kids that rarely --if ever!-- complained about just walking and simply did it. Really, the less she'd whine, the faster this would go. Not that she particularly irritated him with ordinary complaining (being friends with Yuan made him more than tolerant of such things), but he preferred to do without it, if at all possible. "That's a risk we'll just have to take."

[tokunagas]

"Hmph..." She said before quietly walking to the restaurant once more. She did have to admit, he was definitely more patient than she thought. Yes, she was complaining but most people would have said sighed in annoyance or just scream back at her. Oh well, she thought, she wanted him to come along so she doesn't have much of a choice but to deal with him.

As they continued walking, it was starting to get a little too quiet for her. "So...found a job yet?"

[flamberge]

Good, she appeared to have ended her complaining. Despite that little performance, she did at least know when to stop such behavior. That was already more than some people who would've continued doing that regardless of whether or not it was effective.

Now normal conversation he didn't mind, though he would've minded it less were he not tired, but there was no helping that now. At her question, he nodded. "I've joined the Watch."

[tokunagas]

"Oh really?" She raised an eyebrow at him. "I was thinking of joining myself before I decided to get another job..."

[flamberge]

Hold it. She had thought of joining the Watch? Kratos matched Anise's raised eyebrow with on of his own. "You were considering joining the Watch?"

[tokunagas]

"Yup, but I decided against it since I needed a weapon." And Anise was kind of picky too.

[flamberge]

"You are provided with a standard weapon of your choosing upon joining." Note the sword Kratos has on him right now.

So her reasoning for not joining was a lack of weapon, not lack of fighting skill. Interesting considering she played up that defenseless little girl act a few minutes prior.

[tokunagas]

"But I'm picky." She said to him. In addition, she wasn't too sure if it was a good idea to join the Watch. Without Tokunaga to help her and in a place where fonic artes doesn't work, how else could she fight? She was only 5'0 and fairly light.

"Besides, I doubt that anything that they have would work for me."

[flamberge]

So she likely did know how to fight, though that knowledge did little good at the present moment. At least he'd have that bit of information for future reference, or rather, for next time should she attempt dragging him somewhere with the pretense of being defenseless.

Although, he was curious as to what weapon she possibly use which could not easily be acquired for her. "What are you typically accustomed to using?"

[tokunagas]

"I usually use two weapons, a mace and..." She pointed to Tokunaga. "my doll ♥!" While she was a little unsure about talk to people, giving some really basic information couldn't hurt. Besides, she doubts that telling him how she fights would come back to haunt her. At least, that's what she hopes. "Tokunaga can grow fairly big and he can match my movements too."

[flamberge]

Kratos glanced once more at Tokunaga, but this time studied the toy for a moment. A doll as a weapon? Certainly an original way of battling. Seeing as a mace would likely be easily obtainable, that must have meant that the weapon she couldn't get a replacement for was her doll. "So then your doll does not function here?"

[tokunagas]

"Nope, he doesn't. If I could, it would have made fighting a lot easier!" She pouted. "Oh well, at least I don't have to worry about him getting quite as dirty anymore! It will ruin how cute he looks! ♥!"

[flamberge]

"Hmph. Indeed." How that doll constituted as cute was beyond him. Strange, perhaps, but hardly cute. Ah well. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the saying went. Shame it didn't work here, though. Witnessing a doll fight would have definitely been interesting. "Could you not have simply opted to wield a mace alone?"

[tokunagas]

"Yea but I'm not use to fighting without Tokunaga around." A sigh. "I suppose practice makes perfect, I'll have to find a mace soon and start fighting whenever I can." Although, a part of her does feel like this place has taken away what reminded her of her world. Yes she still has it but it felt odd not to fight with it anymore.