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Characters involved: Keita, Myles, & Lily.

Halyard Tavern: Main Room

Standing behind the bar, Keita is attending to a small group of customers, serving drinks and taking payment, as well as the usual chit-chat. In other words, she's doing the bartender thing.

Myles has left his sword at camp, sighing and rubbing the beginning of the scar-just under his left eye, as he enters, boxing wraps around his paws. He seems very frustrated with life at the moment

Keita looks up as the fox enters, grinning and gesturing him over. "Evenin', sah! Can I getcha anything?"

Myles looks up, seeming to appraise the doe, defore smiling sincerely. "Sure, ye got mulled wine?" He asks, his voice deep and textured.

"Mm, not quite. Got somethin' you might like, that." She turns and limps to the opposite cabinet, digging inside of it and then coming out with a bottle. She grabs a mug and fills it, then sets it in front of him. "Drink up. Ya don't like it, it's on the house."

Myles blinks, swirling the drink around and smiling it, before he takes a sip, lifting his head to reveal discernable neck muscles

From the kitchen, a loud clatter erupts. What sounds like a good deal of pots and pans tumbling to the floor stops as suddenly as it started. Not a moment later a winter-white doe stumbles out of the kitchen, a large metal pot lodged on her left foot. The doe stumbles forward, trying to kick it off. "No need t'worry! S'all... s'all un'er control!" Lily announces, though she is occupied with the stuck pot to notice anyone.

Myles's attnetion is wrenched from his ddrink as he turns to the new arrival, all whiskers and ears forward.

Keita blinks and jerks her head around at all the noise, only to see Lily exit the kitchen soon after. There's a blink, and then a teeeeeny smile, though she tries to hide it. "Lil'... ya sure, there?" Eh heh.

Lily walks a few steps. Step, clomp, step, clomp. Her eyes jerk up and widen, a thin frown curling like smoke on her lips. "Eh? 'Course 'tis. Not my fault there was ah bloomin' loose shelf, is it?" The white doe demands in her own defense. "Sorry 'bout tha' folks." Lily mumbles towards the patrons.

Myles merely raises a brow, a small smirk growing on his face, though he hides it from view with the mug

Keita waves a paw towards the patrons in question. "They forgive ya." She's too busy smiling - no longer trying to hide it - to pay them much more attention. She does, however, glance back long enough to regard Myles. "Doncha, m'good tod type?"

Lily flicks her ears, but they remain firmly pressed along the back of her neck. "Eh." She mutters and hops on one foot over to Keita. Lily holds up her foot. "Could ya... jus' ah'lil help, mayhaps?" She asks hopefully.

Myles blinks, turning to the hare. "Wot? O' ocoarse, ocoarse." He says voice echoing in the ceramic cup

Keita grins at Myles and nods. "A'right, then." She looks back to Lily, then blinks at the foot. She grabs onto the pot, nevertheless. "A'course, deah."

Lily grinds her teeth together. "All righ'. On three, huh? Mind yah don' go an' yank th' whole thing off." The second it leaves her mouth, Lily realizes that might be taken as a slight on Kei. Hoping it goes unnoticed, the doe jumps to her count. "One, two, three!" Lily says, yanking back on the foot.

Myles watches, the lip of his mug meeting his bottom lip, but not moving, as his amused expression goes happily unnoticed

It does go unnoticed, or it at least causes no offence. As Lily calls three, Keita gives a yank as well, and with something like a hollow-sounding pop, the pot comes flying out, and Keita thumps back into the counter behind her. But stays on her stool. "There!"

Lily flies back, the wall behind her being the only thing that saves her fall. She slides down it and lands on her rump, inspecting her paw and wiggling her toes to make sure nothing is hurt. "Top notch!" Lily exclaims, looking and past her toes at Keita. "Good show an' all tha'!"

Myles laughs, snorting into his....whatever it is.

Keita half-bows, as much as she can while sitting. "You're welcome, m'deah. Evah so, and all that." She grins rather dashingly and stands, holding out her paw for Lily's.

Lily looks at the other oddly, her ears slowly turning up. She hold out her own paw. "Got it?" She mumbles as she scrambles to a stand, using the wall behind her for a good deal of her balance. "Busy evenin'?" Lily inquires, looking around.

Keita brings Lily's paw to her lips and kisses it before it is released, winking. And totally ignoring the customers. XD "Not too busy."

Lily flexes her paw digits carefully, throwing the quickest and smallest glance she could out into the main area of the tavern."Oh... eh, s'good. Don' mind me. I gotta go clean up back there 'nyways." Lily says, running a paw through the white fur between her ears.

Keita raises an eyebrow. "A'right. If ya need some help, give a yell. Yeah?"

Lily fidgets from one foot to the other. "All righ'." She agrees, administers a tiny peck on the other does cheek, and turns to scoot into the kitchen.

Keita watches Lily head off, calling out once she's disappeared beyond the doorway. "Y'know, ya look righ' smart with that wintah coat!" And with that, she turns back to the customers. "A'right, a'right, what c'n I getcha? An ale? You got it..." And to work she gets. XD

Created by Oklina