Your friendly neighborhood Negative Nancy de las Needles

[myironeyes]

[Public, filtered away from Vin]

If anyone has mending that needs to be done. I sew.


[Spam for Zane]

[He knocks, brusquely as ever, burning bronze as usual. He is carrying pie.]

It's me.


[Spam sort of for Touko]

[He leaves a package of snacks his younger self took and hid on her doorstep: a lot of apples and little pastries. Things without their own packaging, that he recognized as food. There's a handwritten note on old-fashioned, handmade brown paper, in neat, cramped handwriting.]

I remember you said you didn't like people watching. Take care of yourself.

- Marsh

Comments

[spam]

[godsays]

...no.

I didn't even really think it.

[Not until just then. He's a little surprised his own self.]

[spam]

[myironeyes]

Perhaps you should.

It sounded. Worthwhile, to me.

[spam]

[godsays]

...maybe.

[permutates]

Hey... I remember your voice.

[myironeyes]

It's...changed.

[A lot of things have. He can't see her, but he can make a decent guess based on her voice as well.]

Raven.

[spam]

[myironeyes]

I never liked Mistborn, you know.

[It's a little bit dour, but mostly just conversational.]

Kelsier didn't snap until very late. I mostly thought of them as...everything I disliked about nobles, but moreso.

But that - you made it sound lovely, just now. A fine thing to want to be. I don't know Charles well. But I think any good warden would respond to that.

Video

[burnmythoughts]

You do? [The surprise on her face is warm and delighted.] Me too. Maybe we should do a project together.

[spam]

[godsays]

[A sharp look, but he understands, after a moment.]

I'll talk to him.

...noble Mistborn have a world, you know. At night. After a while, you get to recognize most of those who live near you - not who they are, but they way they use metals. The way they move in midair. There are never more than a handful anyway.

I think there's an understanding that most of their masters never feel.

You know I fought with Kelsier once. I thought he was someone from Elariel - I think he knew I was Venture. I didn't realize it was him until we fought here, and I saw him use a technique I've never seen anyone else try.

Video

[myironeyes]

I was a dressmaker, for a little while.

And I...would need some assistance selecting colors, if I were to work on anything new.

[This is a yes.]

spam

[persecutioncomplex]

[She hears shuffling around her door and it's always smart to go look, especially if she doesn't expect it. She cracks the door a little to make sure it isn't someone who wants to cause trouble only for her to see one of the really creepy-looking new arrivals around.

She doesn't slam the door. If she can talk to Zane, she can talk to someone she doesn't even know.]

What did you want?

[surrenders]

For fun or for real?

[spam]

[myironeyes]

Even Inquisitors had - something like camaraderie.

[He doesn't shudder, but he doesn't fully manage to suppress it, either. Softly -]

Tell me about how he is, then. As a Mistborn.

[It's not a side of Kelsier he rejected, exactly. Scoffed at, a little (he always was a show-off), and then had other things to do, away from the rest of the rebellion, and never really. Saw.]

[myironeyes]

I was a tailor, for a few years.

But I do...like it.

['Enjoy' is, apparently, too strong for him to actually say.]

spam

[myironeyes]

[He hunches a bit. He hadn't wanted to make a personal confrontation about it.]

We - met. When we were younger.

I wanted to bring you this. That's all.

[spam]

[godsays]

Graceful. Like he was born to the mists. To the sky.

[permutates]

Yes.

I'm pretty good at picking out the same person, even if they're older or younger.

Video

[burnmythoughts]

[A broad grin.] I can definitely help with that.

What sort of dresses did you make?

spam

[persecutioncomplex]

[There's something in the posture, the tension, that tells her who this was. She met a lot of people when they were younger, but nobody else so sad.]

You thought the food was going to disappear.

spam

[myironeyes]

I hadn't seen that much in one place since - in a long time.

[surrenders]

[She almost wants to ask what brought on the change, but that's really not a question she thinks either of them are ready for, especially not for him to answer.]

Both's good.

I don't trust myself to fix some of what I got.

[persecutioncomplex]

[It doesn't take much more than that and her memories of a skinny little boy to fill in the story, even if she doesn't know (or care) how accurate it is.]

And if you didn't know where it came from, you couldn't know if it was going to go.

[myironeyes]

I expect that was useful.

Video

[myironeyes]

I would be. Grateful, if I could help.

[myironeyes]

[He doesn't quite nod, but his tone is one of continuation, not correction.]

He didn't have any context for food that didn't - belong to somebody.

[Somebody else, he manages not to say.]

[permutates]

Not really. Most people don't age when you turn your back.