Side Quest - a Camp NanoWrimo Story - Thirty: Teamwork

[aldersprig]

Thirty: Teamwork

“Why did you even buy us?”

“Kid,” Weckel sighed, “you are going to get yourself and everyone else in a world of hurt.  Would you stop that?”

“Come here.  Cory, right?”  She had no idea what she was doing.  Did it show?

“Cory.  Mistress.”  He was only a couple seats away from her; he settled on kneeling on the floor in front of her.

The Raven was either still asleep or faking it to see what she’d do. She put both hands on his shoulders and looked down at him.  “Your Mistress made me angry.  Your former Mistress.  She treats people like things.  I’d had enough of that already, and I haven’t been on the road that long.  So I took away the people that were letting her think of people as things.  It was, uh.  I didn’t think that long about it.  And that was dumb.”  She steadied herself.  “I said you had to teach me.  So.  What would your old MIstress do if you talked to her like that, and why?”

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Comments

[sauergeek]

Had any of them figured out before that they're a pretty good team? Cory sounds like he's new; I suspect he doesn't quite know where he fits into the team. But Cailing's silence is interesting: she feels like she's been there longer, but she's not involved in the discussion. Does she also not know where she fits?

I like that Raizel tries imposing silence on Cory instead of pain; it might be an interesting exercise for him to not talk. He might think! Or come up with something he actually wants to do! (That, and I'm already concerned about what Yisser's potions do.)