Alderaan - Love and Intrigue

There was such a golden opportunity out there, beyond the dome that Riss looked up at which shielded the festival grounds from the rain. A soft sigh as she leans herself back and places both hands into the grass behind her. Shifting her gaze down from that shield, up there, letting her look directly at storm clouds that floated above her without getting wet. When she was a child she always wanted to ride a thranta, and she did a bit when she was older but being away from them for so long left it's mark. Today she would have gone down there had it not been for one of the woman close to the Queen, one of those organizing the little event.

Focusing on the Shrine of the Saint, "So.." she inhales, holding it in her chest, "you got any answers for me? What's your take?" she asks, a soft laugh for herself.

"I might." Came a soft and warm voice from behind her. Omandri stood slightly damp from the rain with a small smile on his lips as he looked to Riss walking next to her and sitting in the grass beside her looking up at the dome.

He didn't speak immediately just sat there next to her and watched the rains roll down the side of the shield.

Riss glances over to him from where she sat, observing the statue. Leaned back as she was her arm rested along just behind him. For a moment she just sits there like that before the smile curls up, "Hey you," a soft chuckle, "you've got answers for me then, what kinda answers?"

Omandri didn't respond immediately seemingly enraptured at the display if the storm held at bay "Well maybe not answers but possible options." He replied eventually.

Looking over to her "but first I have a question of my own." He paused a little looking down to the ground then back up to her "why did you lie to me?"

Furrowed brows, a look of confusion, and then the brow settles as realization sets in. Riss leans forward and scoots back so that she can lean off her arms and rest them across her knees. Resting her head along the side of her forearms she looks back to him. "I- I just didn't need anyone else knowing, worrying," she sighs, giving a half-shrug in this position which wasn't conductive to the full display.

"I.. usually downplay this little bit of my history," she chuckles, softly but awkwardly.

He smiled to her, there was a warmth in it "hey I get it, you think I haven't thought about changing my name flying away and not looking back?" He shook his head "and I can, appreciate, not wanting to worry me but....." He sort of stopped and looked for words his eyes searching the ground between them for a few moments "when you came to me it made me feel like you trusted me, like even though we hadn't seen each other in a while that there was still some kind of connection here." He said as his eyes looked up and found hers "but even though I knew, I figured, you were trying to keep me from worrying it made me think maybe you don't trust me as much as I thought." He finished a little more quietly.

Riss sat like she was, listening for as long as he spoke and then some. Just sitting in silence for a moment the mental cogs doing their work to feel out her reply, it was complicated. It was always complicated. Shifting her head off her arms she lays them down around her knees instead and holds them a bit closer to her center. Looking up toward the statue in front of them, "I don't not trust you, Omandri. You know that but- I enjoy you, a lot, you're enjoyable. But you do know that we've got a good connection, but it's not a special connection right?"

The Doctor looked out for a bit not focused on anything as he listened. He didn't respond for a bit "yeah. Yeah I guess I do." He said after a bit his voice very obviously neutral. He stared forward for a bit longer then back at the ground he turned to her his eyes searching for a bit, his mouth opened as if he was about to speak but he closed it and shook his head looking back out to the rain as it made its way down the shield.

He took a deep breath "Well my sister says there aren't many options to get you out from under the contract. I'm assuming you're already not using the name or claiming it for anything but if you are, don't, relinquish it. If that's not enough maybe look into joining another family. Might be enough to get them off your back." He shrugged his voice a bit of an analytical tone.

"But yeah thats all. Need me for anything else?" He said his tone friendly but maybe overly so.

Riss listens along, though she doesn't seem to move much and only focuses more on the statue in front of them. Holding that way for even half a minute after he asked the question, if she needed anything else. There was a sort of detachment to the words as she brought them up, "No, Omandri. Thank you," she says, that detachment growing into distance as her focus is retaken by her thoughts and the view of the statue before her.

Not looking at him she wouldn't not see hos face, his reaction to the detachment in her words. There would be no response for a while, the silence between them stretching, becoming a gulf that felt impossible to cross. It could have been seconds, or minutes they sat there so close, nearly touching, but so far apart.

She would hear a shuffling finally shatter the crystalline silence around them as he stood. Further silence before a voice came out "See ya around Riss. You know where to find me if you need anything." The words were even but Omandri was no good at hiding the pain that was underneath them.

He would fall silent again, the words hanging in the air before dissipating into nothing. Before soft footsteps would be heard in the grass

Riss doesn't reply, just sits there in the silence until Omandri has left. Leaning back her hands find the ground again to support her. A soft sigh, an inward chuckle, she looks up at the statue and sticks out her tongue in a more mocking manner. Eventually she'd get up and leave, but for now she was gonna sit right here for a while and relax.

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