Post by xun on May 16, 2008 10:50:28 GMT -5
Nonchalantly Xun held a palm up to decline. The gate guard nodded then began using the parchment slip for himself, tugging a small leather pouch roped around his neck from under his attire and measuringly shook its contents onto the parchment. His partner, another gate guard also coming on duty, was cautiously clacking two spark stones before his puckered lips with a rolled stick of paper held at the end as he craddled a spear in one arm.
Absentmindedly Xun went back to tapping a boot against his satchel as it set between his feet under the stone bench, knees above his waist due to his unusual height.
The guard pulled the lit stick from his mouth, exhaling smoke before turning to Xun. "I'm sure she'll arrive soon enough," holding out the stick to so his partner could light his against it. "I hope..."
"You better, for your sake," the other guard laughed. "Sundown and payday isn't for sometime," patting him on the shoulder.
Watching the long shadows upon the road leading up here to the northern gate, Xun assumed he was another party involved in the on-going wager he was told about. But he gave no real concern to the matter, what was important to him was that this woman returned. And soon.
Uniform and armour still layered over with dust, he had road into the village ealier today. A few of the guards seemed disappointed at his arrival, having mistaken him from a distance as they awaited a bounty hunter that had recently left the northern gate. A betting pool had then formed as to when she would return with quarry in tow. And now Xun sat here waiting for her as well. A nonbender yes, but he was told she could be as useful as bender. And that monster she road, a Shirshu would most certainly be of use in keeping the soon-to-be prisoners constantly sedated for the long ride back to Ba Sing Se.
Absentmindedly Xun went back to tapping a boot against his satchel as it set between his feet under the stone bench, knees above his waist due to his unusual height.
The guard pulled the lit stick from his mouth, exhaling smoke before turning to Xun. "I'm sure she'll arrive soon enough," holding out the stick to so his partner could light his against it. "I hope..."
"You better, for your sake," the other guard laughed. "Sundown and payday isn't for sometime," patting him on the shoulder.
Watching the long shadows upon the road leading up here to the northern gate, Xun assumed he was another party involved in the on-going wager he was told about. But he gave no real concern to the matter, what was important to him was that this woman returned. And soon.
Uniform and armour still layered over with dust, he had road into the village ealier today. A few of the guards seemed disappointed at his arrival, having mistaken him from a distance as they awaited a bounty hunter that had recently left the northern gate. A betting pool had then formed as to when she would return with quarry in tow. And now Xun sat here waiting for her as well. A nonbender yes, but he was told she could be as useful as bender. And that monster she road, a Shirshu would most certainly be of use in keeping the soon-to-be prisoners constantly sedated for the long ride back to Ba Sing Se.