Wulf Redgrave draws a small knife and holds its tip toward her. 'Don't ye dare run, girl...
Elestria Ulrik shakes her head, still sitting......"I'm naut.....I've been waiting for you"
Wulf Redgrave scowls, 'Oh? Something to say, have we?'
Elestria Ulrik sighs and nods, looking at his shoes. She mumbles, actually feeling sorry for doing something for once......."I want to apologize for what I did to you two days ago at the tavern, and for going onto your ship, even though I didn't know that was yours. It was really childish, and now I want to make it right......in whatever way you want me to.
Wulf Redgrave says 'I've got a good mind to keehaul ye. Ye know what that means, girl?'
Elestria Ulrik nods, swallowing nervously. She whispers......"Throw me over the boat and under it so my skin gets ripped off, I can't breath and sharks eat me"
Wulf Redgrave smiles, thin lipped. 'Aye, so ye do know. Don't suppose ye want that do ye? But 'tis fitting for a young troublemaker who doesn't know who they're mixing with, no?' He lifts a lock of her white hair with the blade of the knife.
Elestria Ulrik continues to sit there, tense and nervous.....she really didn't know what to think of Wulf. She whispers, staring wide-eyed at the floor......"If....if that's what you think.....then siyo.....I guess....."
Mandi Tiponi rests one hand on her belly and the other on her dagger, hoping she wont need it
Wulf Redgrave says 'Ye need to learn respect, my sweet... a young girl like ye... acting like a scrag of a child, playing tricks... well ye need to learn that there be some about who will pay you back for your childish games...' He lets the hair fall from the blade. 'But I am a reasonable man... I am willing to give you a chance to... learn.’
Elestria Ulrik swallows again and still doesn't look up, her imagination running wild with what he would possibly do to her and scaring her half to death.
After a short walk to the village stocks, in which Elestria finds herself soon locked…
Wulf Redgrave strolls to a basket of rotting food... similar to the stuff the drowess put by the doors of the tavern the last eve. He sniffs it. 'Oh, nasty... such a smell lingers for days, don't ye find? Rotting food...’ He picks up a seriously revolting lump of something and holds it under her nose.
Elestria Ulrik grimaces
Wulf Redgrave says 'Take that in, my sweet... quite offputting, no?'
Mandi Tiponi puts her hand on her belly, trying not to lose anything
Wulf Redgrave scowls, 'Answer me, girl.'
Elestria Ulrik answers, trying not to gag with the stuff right under her nose......"It's.....bad.....siyo.....but I've.....swum in middens.....just ask Linwe.... Smells almost as......bad.....”
Wulf Redgrave says 'Ah well ye shan't mind this then...' He wipes the lump across both of her cheeks.
Elestria Ulrik makes a face at the smell and awful feeling, but doesn't say anything
Wulf Redgrave says 'Not nice putting this stuff around people's doorsteps either, is it?'
Mandi Tiponi puts a hand over her mouth and starts breathing hard
Elestria Ulrik answers......"Nau"
Wulf Redgrave muses, taking a rotting apple from the basket. 'Hmm... do ye know the tradition of we humans for them who has been bad enough little scrags to end up in the stocks?
Elestria Ulrik hears Mandi breathing hard, and tries to look at her around Wulf......."Throw food" She can't move her head to try to look around Wulf, and tries to use her eyes, but then gives up
Wulf Redgrave chuckles. 'Throw food... ye are correct, youngster. And I find it very hard to forego such strict traditions...' He takes a few more apples and casually steps back from the stocks, then takes aim and throws.
Elestria Ulrik gives a small yelp as the first apple hits her, but remembering that drow blood courses through her veins, bites her tongue so she can take the humiliation with what dignity she has left
Wulf Redgrave shakes his head, 'Oh, but if I were not bound to tradition...' He throws another, then smirks at Mandi. 'Ye want a try miss? Don't let me have ALL the fun...'
Mandi Tiponi keeps her hand over her mouth and shakes her head
Elestria Ulrik says, keeping her eyes closed as rotten food slimes its way down her face before dropping off, and trying not to gag......"Don't get upset, Mandi; it's naut good for the baby"
Wulf Redgrave walks back to check his shots and sniffs a little at the drowess. 'Oh, now that is foul... Perhaps something else besides apples might mix well with the perfume... let us see what we have here...' He takes his knife and digs around in the bottom of the basket, grimacing at the smell himself as some of the blackened juices lower down seep to the surface. He jabs his blade into a corpse of a cabbage head and pulls it out, dripping.
Elestria Ulrik feels her stomach heave at the smell, but decides not to open her eyes to see what it is
Wulf Redgrave curls a lip, 'Ugh... now that's just too bad for words...Have a whiff of that, my dear, see what ye think...' He brings the cabbage head on the knife under the drowess' nose.
Elestria Ulrik says, her voice so strangled by the horrible smell of it being beneath her nose that it only comes out as a whisper, refusing to look......."Pretty bad"
Mandi Tiponi takes her hand down and says "Dont...dont throw that, please, she's learned"
Wulf Redgrave leaves it there for a good ten or twenty seconds, chuckling low. 'I believe ye be right, miss... Pretty bad indeed...' He glances over his shoulder at Mandi. 'Oh? seems this one takes a while to learn, I reckon... what say ye, youngster?'
Elestria Ulrik says weakly......."You may want to take a step back, Wulf"
Wulf Redgrave smirks and steps away. 'Too much, dearest? Ye don't want this wonderful perfume in your pretty white locks?'
Elestria Ulrik waits until he steps back, before vomiting onto the ground from the horrible smell
Wulf Redgrave laughs and flicks the cabbage off the knife into the vomit below her, so she can look at it. 'What say ye, young scrag... are ye going to mess with my property again? Go onto my ship?'
Elestria Ulrik's eyes are open only as a crack after she's through, and sees the cabbage in the vomit. Then she moans, closing her eyes again. She whispers, so faint that it's hard to hear......"Nau....."
Wulf Redgrave comes a little closer and bends to scowl at her, harshly. 'Consider this - ye have gotten off lightly. Ye think this is punishment? No...no no no. This is play. Understand?'
Elestria Ulrik's eyes are still closed, but she can feel his face close to hers. She answers in the same barely audible voice......"Siyo.....this is a drow world, even among humans; this was letting me off easy."
Wulf Redgrave lingers by her a moment, fixing her hard with his good eye, then smirks suddenly. 'A little more time for ye to think in these fine stock, my dear... and then methinks ye ought to get a bath - ye stink...
Elestria Ulrik doesn't reply, just hangs in there with her eyes closed and face covered with filth.
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