<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/d8/RowanPF.jpg)  </div><strong>Rowan Riks</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Rowan.pdf)<br/><strong>Tagging</strong>: Amanda, Florica, Corporal Will<br/><strong>Status</strong>: Lightly tipsified but in control<br/><strong>Rolls</strong>:<br/><br/>Rowan looks hard at Amanda, her lower lip hanging a bit open.  "That sounds sooo beautiful."  She sighs.  "Gods, doesn't everything she says sound beautiful? With such grace... like you'd imagine a Royal should be..."  She tips her head, staring long at Amanda, then snaps her gaze back to the Corporal.  "Sorry, my mind just... you know... drifts away sometimes."  Grinning sheepishly, she shrugs and sips again.<br/><br/>After a few blinks, she slowly pivots her gaze back, as if Amanda's last few words sank in slower than everything else.  "And yet, be damned, she speaks the truth.  That's right.  No betrothed, no... time for such things.  No boys catching my fancy so much as the open road.  No jilted lovers.  No... clingy baggage.  Nobody's chasing me.  Just me and the  and the company of these two lovely ladies."  She goes wide-eyed again, as if she's spilled jam down her blouse.  "I mean, not like THAT, you know.  I just mean we've been companions.  Traveling.  Not that they aren't... or that we've ever.  Not that I wouldn't!  I mean-- not with a woman, least not these..." raising her eyebrows for emphasis, in a dire, doomed attempt to add humor, she continues to try to catch her errant tongue.  "I mean gods know I've thought about it many a time, as little as just a moment ago, even.  Oh but not like that, just-- you know-- how a thought just" she snaps her fingertips "<i>pops</i>up and you're wondering 'oh where did that come from?' like kind of like when I look at you, or looked at you... or when someone you kind fancy or could fancy just... Oh... Look there my cup's empty, be right back."<br/><br/>She stands quickly, snagging her ankle on Amanda's foot and nearly tumbles into the elven Paladin as she tries to stand.  "Ha ha, really put my foot in it there.  Let me just... Ah.  Be.  Right.  Back."  She pats Amanda's shoulder and takes a few steps toward the back door, then pauses, holds her head and heads for the front.  "Just a-- breath of air."