Situated at the edge of Kingswood Forest, The Stone Dragon tavern is on the border of the King's control. Consequently, it is a hotspot for outlaws and law-abiding citizens alike. A number of secret rooms, doors and passages enable outlaws to hide or make a quick getaway whenever the King's men come swooping in. As there is also an inn here, this is also a popular place for temporary travellers and explorers.
temporary residents
Faeyra
Zohar
Nine
Kaito
Evelyn
Paris
permanent residents
Jacopo, under house arrest
Olive
Alder
Cypress
Effie
Torram
Renn
Nerissa
Sapphire
employees
Olive, Owner
Renn, Bar Staff/Waitress
Jacopo, Gardener
Nine, Bar Staff/Waitress
Zohar, Stable Hand
Paris, Bar Staff
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Bar: Fairies can drink and be merry in this pub-style bar.
Inn: A comfortable place for temporary or permanent residents to stay.
Stables: The stables offer a variety of pens for different animals while their owners are staying in the inn.
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Jacopo’s face had flushed handsomely when Thoth spoke, either from being half-choked on alcohol-free beer (one of the conditions of his probation) or the incorrigible proclamation. It turned an even darker shade of brownish-rouge the longer Cypress kept talking.
“I don’t think I’m the one who needs the sex talk,” Thoth remarked, rather slyly for him. He lifted his glass to his lips but got his comeuppance when Effie barked abruptly and pointed at him; he jumped, spilling water down his front.
Seizing on the excuse provided by his granddaughter, Jacopo mumbled something barely coherent about cake, grabbed Effie and bolted. Presumably he’d broach the subject again once he’d gotten his wits back and ascertained a new approach, but for the remainder of the party they were probably safe. Thoth swept his arm across the table in a pulling motion away from himself. The water on his shirt was dragged away as though by an invisible vacuum, leaving him bone dry. It clung together to form a small cube, which he froze and dropped back into his drink.
Now that Cypress’s stepfather had departed, a more serious (and somewhat sheepish) expression wormed its way onto Thoth’s face. He gave her hand a little squeeze.
“I didn’t want to presume,” he told her in a low, uncertain voice. Unless he was being pursued by enemies, Thoth didn’t usually bother moderating the volume of his voice. “It’s still new, and you hadn’t said anything, and you are younger than me – ” his emphasis made it clear that that was one of the points Jacopo had raised “ – and I haven’t done… I haven’t had, uh,” he rubbed his chin, “a girlfriend before.”
It wasn’t a lie, but even Thoth recognised that this wasn’t the moment for total honesty. As a seventeen year-old boy, he thought about most girls naked shortly after meeting them for the first time.
“And,” he added, in the matter-of-fact voice he used when reeling off encyclopaedic knowledge, “you have to do all of the bases before you can have sex.”
From his tone of voice, it was evident that this was one of the unerring rules of social behaviour to which Thoth doggedly stuck in order to make sense of people. Presumably he’d read this somewhere in a book or had made a fastidious mental note of a throwaway comment from a source he’d deemed knowledgeable about such things. This addendum was a fairly obvious admission that, in spite of what he’d said earlier, he’d not only thought about it but to some extent had also researched it.
“Maybe,” he said slowly and quietly after a pause, but hesitated again almost immediately after saying the word. After wrestling internally for a moment and coming to the conclusion to plough on, he continued in a kind of mutter which she could pretend she hadn’t heard if she wanted to. “I could pick you up after work tomorrow, and we could – uh – go somewhere private.”