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 Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:54 am
Lucian seemed scared for a moment. One hand made its way up to his face and ran his fingers over the useless balls of flesh that sat in his head. A grim chuckle escaped his lips. "I suppose that would certainly account for my lack of sight, wouldn't it?" His mood shifted a bit. It wasn't just some side effect he was dealing with of getting cured all those years ago; no, this was something far more unnatural. That opened the floodgates of a thousand other questions regarding his treatment and life up to that point in time, but was really in no mood to dwell on them now. Scarlet already felt bad enough with her small slips of the tongue.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:06 am
After several moments Scarlet knelt down and picked up her scissors, approaching Lucian from behind so that she might start with his hair. "Startling revelations aside, there's still the matter of fixing up your loose ends. Sit still, please." It was better to focus on the task at hand instead of asking herself a million pointless questions that would only serve to make them both feel uncomfortable.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:21 am
Lucian sighed slightly as he shifted a bit to sit up properly for her. He was still wasn't entirely sure what to do with this revelation or how to feel about it.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:34 am
Scarlet, once Lucian was in place, went on to carefully trim his hair. She didn't really cut it all that much shorter so much as make sure that it evened out properly. The task wasn't a very difficult one, so Scarlet finished relatively quickly. "Wait there. I'll be back with a change of clothes!" With that, she scurried off for probably two minutes or less to dig out her father's old clothes from the chest at the foot of his and mum's old bed and to properly put away the scissors. She scurried right back out to bring them to Lucian, and of course to let him have a feel and see if he would be comfortable with the texture or if she would have to dig out another outfit for him - or possibly buy him some new threads outright. "Feel this." she said, holding the clothes out to her friend.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:01 am
"Feels fine to me." Lucian after finding the set of clothes in her arms. Tucking them under one arm he returned to his room to change, a task he could manage on his with only minor difficulty.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:13 am
Scarlet sat herself down in one of the chairs, waiting for Lucian to get dressed and all that. She worked on lightly tidying herself up, tying her hair into a loose bun, and only got up to find and put on her favorite red cloak.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:17 am
"Well? How do I look?" Lucian stepped out looking very much like a normal commoner outside of his eyes. "Oh, do you think the cane is too much?" Normally he would've been fine, but his family had to splurge on a hand-carved ivory cane. Why it mattered when he'd been confined to the estate was beyond him.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:31 am
"The look really suits you. Then again, you've always looked rather nice no matter what you decide to wear." Scarlet let out a soft chuckle. "The cane? ...Yes. If any of the servants saw you walking around with that, they might reccognise you immediately or accuse you of stealing it from the missing duke's son. We might have to get you an extra cane, if only for public use."
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:50 am
"Then I hope you don't mind leading me by the hand for a while. I admit, I tend to be more prone to bumping into things without one." Lucian admitted with a sheepish smile.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:07 am
"I don't mind at all." Scarlet looked around the place with a grin. "So, what do you want to do? If it involves going to the village, you'll have to keep your eyes closed until I can get you some glasses. Otherwise, I don't think anyone would bother us if we did something in the woods like fishing or foraging or whatever."
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:16 am
"Might as well get the shopping over with." Lucian said with a slight sigh as he leaned his cane against the wall before pulling his blindfold out from a pocket. "Though I'm sure if I dirty this old thing up a bit no one will think it belongs to the son of a duke."
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:24 am
"If you want I could dirty it for you on one side and keep the other clean, that way it could still keep the appearance of being commoner-like while not getting a bunch of dirt in your eyes." Scarlet offered after a moment of thought. "Blind or not, having dirt in your eyes hurts."
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:30 am
"True, true." Lucian noted with a small smile while holding the cloth out for her.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:38 am
Scarlet gingerly took Lucian's blindfold before heading outside momentarilly to dirty it on the side that wouldn't be touching his eyes. She didn't cake it in dirt. In actuality, she just smeared enough on to make it look less than pristine, but not enough to look outright disgusting. If anything, it would look like a commoner's clothes during midday chores in the fields. Once she was satisfied with the aesthetic she went back to Lucian as she said, "Tell me whenever you're ready and I'll tie it for you."
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:53 am
Lucian was about to reply but stopped himself. "Ready when you are." He could manage his own blindfold just fine, but this kind of pampering was different. She wasn't doing it because she thought he was helpless or anything like that at all.
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