Sime~Gen Roleplaying: Householding Naros Scenario
Episode #2: A Short Walk down a Long Aisle (5/16/98)
Wolfa gazes hungrily at Riyyh.
Riyyh is talking to a few people over by the shady side of the courtyard.
Wolfa drags herself away from the window and back to her desk.
Wolfa pulls out a brush and brushes her short, thin, mousy brown hair.
Wolfa takes off her glasses and puts them in the drawer with her brush and walks over to the group.
Wolfa: Hello, am I interrupting anything?
Riyyh waves as the last of the Agricultural people take off, leaving him alone.
Riyyh: Oh! Not at all.
Riyyh beams at Wolfa, a bit nervously. [but it looks good on him]
Wolfa beams back and her heart flutters.
Wolfa: Are you all ready for the wedding tomorrow?
Riyyh realizes 'this is really serious' even as he instinctively responds just the right way.
Riyyh: You are looking quite lovely today, Wolfa. Is that a new necklace?
Wolfa: I went and visited Randy last night. She has terrible morning sickness! 24 hours a day apparently.
Riyyh: Yes, isn't it a shame? I do hope she feels better soon.
Wolfa puts her hand to the necklace, nervously playing with it with a tentacle.
Wolfa: Why yes! I, I didn't think you would notice.
Riyyh: Nocky and Jemima have been over several times.
Wolfa blushes and wishes she could take back the words
Riyyh looks mock surprised.
Riyyh: I, not notice a flower such as yourself? For shame.
Riyyh touches her teasingly.
Wolfa swoons slightly
Wolfa: Oh, Riyyh!
Wolfa: I had no idea! I didn't think, but what about Ruby?
Riyyh wonders how he is going to break this crush... they are a bit inconvenient. At least at times they can be.
Riyyh: Ruby? She is my Companion.
Wolfa: Only your Companion? I thought, we thought, everyone thought, I mean I thought that she was more than that.
Riyyh looks indignant.
Riyyh: Of course she is. Ruby is a dear and personal friend.
Riyyh: I shall cherish her always, of course.
see note 1
Ruby slips on the skin tight, ruby red dress that leaves nothing to the imagination under the eye of her watchful and proud mother.
Riyyh is far from Ruby's mum's house, in the safety of his own office.
Riyyh is ostensibly finishing up some last minute paperwork, but is actually trying to calm down for the ceremony.
Riyyh has always gotten sweaty tentacles at the thought of wedding ceremonies.
Ruby: Oh my!
Ruby gazes at herself in the mirror.
Emerald has tears of pride in her eyes.
Emerald hugs her daughter proudly.
Emerald: I'm sure he will ask you tonight! You have never looked more beautiful!
Ruby pushes her mother back a bit.
Ruby: Don't do that! You will upset my makeup!
Emerald examines her daughter with care.
Emerald: Oh dear! No, everything is still wonderful!
Emerald: Is he coming here to get you?
Riyyh is not wearing the black outfit with red sequins that Emerald made him.
Wolfa smoothes down her regular good going out dress which is entirely sensible and unflattering.
Wolfa can't believe that Riyyh is going to escort her to the wedding!
Wolfa still looks dreamy eyed from his romantic talk the other night.
Wolfa: Just to think, he only thinks of Ruby as a friend and Companion!
Wolfa: Oh I'm the luckiest woman in the world!
Wolfa heads down to Riyyh's office to make sure he is ready to go.
Wolfa: Riyyh? Are you ready to go?
Riyyh looks up.
Wolfa: It wouldn't do for you to be late!
Riyyh: Yes, as a matter of fact I am.
Riyyh chuckles.
Riyyh: Where would I be without you to remind me?
Riyyh: [flattering her automatically]
Wolfa manages to blush and still look efficient.
Riyyh gets up from the desk, picks up his formal Householding robe, and joins her at the door.
Wolfa: I'm sure you would cope. [of course she isn't sure of that at all]
Wolfa: But we must be off! Can't leave the bride and groom and groom and bride at the altar!
Riyyh: Yes, yes, you're right, of course.
Wolfa: Are we stopping to pick up Ruby on the way?
Riyyh manages to don the heavy, ornate silver-and-gold-and-white robes of his office, then follows Wolfa.
Riyyh looks mildly astonished [and awfully cute as he does it]. "Of course!"
Wolfa tries to feel relaxed about that and wishes she had such a close association with her Donor.
Riyyh glances in a passing window to make sure his hair is still just-so.
Riyyh smiles and nods, pleased with the reflection.
Riyyh leads the way to Ruby's mom's house.
Wolfa follows along, proud to be with him.
Ruby sees him coming down the path.
Ruby: Oh no. He has that dull clerk with him!
Ruby: I guess he came straight from the office and she just tagged along.
Riyyh feels Wolfa's pride to be near him and of course his ego gets a good boost, something he always enjoys.
Riyyh smiles happily at Wolfa.
Ruby looks incredible as she opens the door.
Wolfa looks at Ruby and tries to hide the tinge of jealousy.
Wolfa reminds herself that poor Ruby is only his Companion.
Riyyh smiles at Ruby.
Riyyh: You look beautiful, my dear.
Riyyh reaches forward to take her hands.
Ruby knows this and glares at him.
Ruby: Yes, I do.
Ruby: And why aren't you in your outfit that mother made you?
Wolfa thinks he looks charming the way he is.
Riyyh contrives to look innocently benign.
Riyyh: Well, of course I must wear the robes of my office when officiating a wedding.
Riyyh: [mild surprise in his voice]
Riyyh: [but also fondness]
Ruby looks surprised.
Ruby: You didn't say anything about this the other day!
Ruby: Mother will be so disappointed.
Riyyh pouts slightly.
Riyyh: Well, are we going to this wedding or not?
Riyyh isn't actually hurt, he just knows he looks good when he pouts (he learned that one from Ruby)
Wolfa: Of course.
Wolfa: Are you ready Ruby? You look really beautiful in that dress.
Wolfa thinks she can afford to be magnanimous as it is her after all that Riyyh is interested in - other than as a Companion of course.
Riyyh smiles.
Ruby: Of course I'm ready.
Ruby: Don't I look ready?
Ruby: [whispers rudely in Riyyh's ear] What did you bring her for?
Riyyh blinks, then pats Ruby's arm.
Riyyh: Now, now.
Riyyh: [gentle rebuke, though he is obviously flattered by her jealousy]
Ruby pouts.
Riyyh looks to Wolfa.
Riyyh: Shall we, then? [smiles]
Wolfa worries about the hostility in the Companion's nager.
Wolfa smiles back and takes his arm.
Riyyh is practically arm-in-arm with Ruby at this point.
Ruby grabs his other arm.
Wolfa holds her head up proudly as they walk towards the wedding.
Ruby: I wonder what Randy will be wearing?
Wolfa: She will look beautiful no matter what.
Wolfa: All brides do.
Riyyh smiles.
Ruby: Pity she is pregnant though, I mean, she was plump to start with.
Ruby wiggles her oh so slim hips as she walks.
Ruby is aware that from a distance she is often mistaken as a Sime, and is proud of it.
Wolfa: Well, she is Gen of course....
Ruby: That is no reason to just let your figure go! I mean, look at Chiea! Fat as a house and seems proud of it!
Wolfa: Oh yes! Did you hear that Cheia and Zenik are getting married too? Must be the season for it!
Riyyh: Tut tut, Ruby. [disapproving yet indulgent]
Riyyh enjoys being between two chattering women clinging to his arms.
Wolfa smiles, making her face light up until you could almost say she is beautiful, if you saw her from a distance, in a bad light, and your eyesight was bad to start with.
Hero, Wolfa's Companion, puffs up from behind them.
Hero is a small, dorky looking female Gen with thick glasses.
Hero pushes up her glasses.
Wolfa feels her coming and turns around to greet her.
Hero: Oh! [puff puff] I'm sorry I'm late.
Hero pushes up her glasses again.
Wolfa: Hero, there was no need to run! You could have caught up with us at the wedding!
Wolfa smiles at her Companion fondly.
Hero is wearing an outfit that looks somewhat out of proportion on her lanky body, although it is difficult to say exactly what part doesn't fit right.
Ruby sniffs disdainfully.
Hero looks at Ruby, then twitches her nose rabbit-like.
Ruby is aware though that having the other two women there just makes her look even better.
Hero transfers her attention back to Wolfa.
Hero: So um, do you want any help at the wedding, huh? Huh?
Hero is eager to please, but also just a little bit... nervous? Reluctant?
Hero: [then again Hero is always like that]
Wolfa basks in the attention. She hasn't been aware that it was missing, but now that it is back she feels so much better.
Wolfa: of course dear! I love having you near me at any time, you know that.
Wolfa: We were just discussing what Randy would be wearing.
Hero grins eagerly, nerdishly, nervously.
Hero nods several times.
Hero: ~~ happy ~~
Ruby: Yes, and how some Gens just let themselves go to fat.
Hero looks down at herself self consciously.
Ruby looks at Hero as if to say "case in point...."
Hero: I'm not fat. [protests]
Ruby: You? Well of course we weren't talking about you.
Ruby manages to make that as much of an insult as if they had been.
Hero looks hurt, until she realizes that's a good thing.
Hero: Oh.
Hero smiles, hoping to pretend Ruby isn't being mean to her. [a tactic she has used all her life, with indifferent success]
Wolfa lets go of Riyyh's arm reluctantly and puts her other arm around Hero's shoulders.
Ruby decides just to forget they are with them in the hope that they get the idea and go away.
Ruby is extra glad Wolfa let go of her Sectuib's arm.
Riyyh: Hero dear, don't be nervous. [kindly]
Riyyh: It's just a wedding.
Riyyh's tentacles are still sweating at the thought of it too.
Wolfa smiles reassuringly at Hero.
Riyyh zlins Ruby ignoring the other two and chuckles at her.
Riyyh: Jealousy becomes you, my darling. [whispers contentedly into her ear]
Hero: Oh! I'm not nervous, Sectuib, Wolfa.
Ruby: Jealous?! Who have I got to be jealous of!
Ruby: ~ look at me, I'm magnificent! ~
Hero's eyes go wide at Ruby's sudden protest, since she didn't hear Riyyh's whisper beforehand.
Wolfa looks smug.
Wolfa wonders when Riyyh will tell everyone that they are a couple.
Wolfa realizes that, as Sectuib, he has to be more careful about personal relationships, but she also knows that he is being pressured to produce an heir.
Riyyh puts his hand soothingly on Ruby's arm.
Riyyh: Shhhh shhhhh, now now.
Riyyh: ~~ pride in her ~~
Wolfa sees the movement and zlins the emotion and feels crushed and stricken.
Wolfa wonders if she could have been wrong!
Wolfa wants to run back home and cry.
Hero looks at Wolfa in meek alarm.
Hero: Are you.... [whispers]
Wolfa pulls herself under control.
Wolfa: I'm fine, fine.
Riyyh wonders what is up with Wolfa... she sure is moody!
Riyyh: Wolfa?
Wolfa: Yes Riyyh?
Wolfa is shocked out of her thoughts.
Riyyh: Are you all right?
Riyyh smiles gently at her.
Wolfa's heart melts.
Wolfa: I'm fine Riyyh, just thinking about - the wedding.
Wolfa is so uncertain.
Riyyh reaches out and touches her lightly under the chin with a tentacle.
Riyyh: ~~ fondness ~~
Wolfa swoons.
Riyyh catches Wolfa easily in his arm. [grinning]
Riyyh is glad he still has "what it takes".
Wolfa quickly regains her feet.
Wolfa: Oh, I don't know what came over me.
Wolfa: Must be the excitement!
Wolfa fans her face.
Riyyh plays with a long lock of his hair, with a tentacle [looking unbearably cute as he does so]
Riyyh: Weddings do tend to do that, don't they?
Riyyh: Right Ruby? [turning his attention back to her briefly]
Ruby sniffs.
Ruby thinks that if Hero was a better Companion Riyyh wouldn't have to pay so much attention to the obviously inferior Wolfa.
Riyyh thinks Ruby is not being much fun and turns his attention back to Wolfa.
Hero, whose relationship with her Sectuib has mainly been one of nervously trying to pretend he's not there, stays on Wolfa's other side.
Hero: ~~ eager nervous supportive submissiveness ~~
Hero: ~~ in a suppressed toned down sort of way ~~
Wolfa: I hope they have something cool to drink before the wedding. I'm not sure I can wait till after!
Ruby can't believe that Riyyh is paying so much attention to that woman.
Ruby: ~ pout ~
Riyyh licks his lips.
Riyyh takes Ruby's hand, and when the other two turn a corner, steers Ruby away into an alcove.
Riyyh kisses Ruby passionately, cloaked by the alcove's stone.
Ruby kisses him back, hoping it doesn't smudge her lipstick
Ruby: Oh Riyyh! Why did you drag that drag along!
Riyyh's mouth kisses her throat hungrily
Riyyh: Mmm... hmm fmmm hmma.
Riyyh's hands and tentacles run up her shoulders.
Hero hurries anxiously after Wolfa, looking over her shoulder once or twice.
Wolfa walks along in a day dream
Wolfa suddenly realizes that Riyyh and Ruby's fields are missing
Wolfa: Whaaaa???
Riyyh finally releases Ruby, rubs off his mouth with a smile and a sigh, then walks out of the alcove, smoothing back his hair.
Ruby catches her breath
Riyyh continues along toward the wedding, breathing a little hard and looking... revitalized.
Wolfa turns around to see Riyyh, sans Ruby, catching up
Wolfa: Where is Ruby Riyyh?
Riyyh smiles negligently.
Riyyh: She'll be along. [smiles at Wolfa]
Riyyh: You sure you're all right?
Ruby hurries, as much as her high heels will let her, to catch up.
Wolfa: I, I, I'm not sure. What's going on?
Riyyh looks at her curiously.
Wolfa blushes.
Wolfa: I mean, Ruby....
Wolfa: Ah - there she is....
Wolfa: Ruby, I was just worrying about you.
Ruby pushes her hair back into place.
Ruby: I'm fine!
Wolfa stares at the smear of lipstick across Ruby's cheek.
Riyyh meets Wolfa's eyes briefly.
Riyyh: ~~ it's OK you're cool ~~
Ruby wonders why Wolfa is staring so rudely and stares back.
Ruby: ~ what you staring at 4 eyes? ~
Wolfa blushes and looks away.
Hero: ~~ support ~~
Hero gives Ruby a "drop dead" look.
Riyyh finds himself actually looking forward to getting to the wedding now.
Wolfa leans on Hero, a lot more uncertain of herself then she was when they left!
Tholia comes up behind them.
Tholia: Oh hi, Ruby!
Tholia: Nice... dress!
Tholia: It really shows your, um... [can't say curves]... your lines!
Ruby: Oh Tholia, thank you!
Ruby preens.
Ruby doesn't know about the lippy on her face.
Tholia: Is it one of your mother's?
Tholia is using double meanings on purpose, confident Ruby won't pick up on them.
Ruby: My mother made it of course.
Ruby glares at Tholia.
Tholia is a young, orange-haired renSime with red lipstick and a pink dress (not too fancy, but a nice to-church-on-Sunday-dress)
Tholia gets out some lipstick and a mirror.
Tholia: I'd better stop to do this, or I might get it all over my face.
Tholia: [does so, with a little smile]
Ruby thinks that is her hair were that colour (well it wouldn't be - she would dye it!) then she wouldn't wear that shade of lipstick or that shade of pink
Tholia hopes Ruby picked up on that little message.
Ruby thinks it would probably look better all over her face.
Ruby sniffs disdainfully.
Wolfa: Errr Ruby, you have, err, lipstick on your cheek.
Wolfa blushes.
Tholia smiles cynically and offers Ruby the mirror.
Riyyh decides this is getting way too much like a cat fight, and decides it is up to him to cheer all four of these lovely ladies up, as soon as possible.
Ruby snatches the mirror and fixes the damage, then glares at Riyyh.
Riyyh smiles at her with a perfect look of fond admiration.
Ruby thrusts the mirror back to Tholia.
Ruby: Thanks.
Tholia: Any time, Ruby.
Tholia puts the mirror and lipstick away.
Tholia: So, any luck yet? [looks at Ruby's stomach]
Tholia looks at Riyyh, then back at Ruby's stomach again, pointedly.
Ruby: What!
Ruby: Any luck with what!
Ruby knows that her stomach is perfectly toned and flat
Tholia: The baby. [stage whisper]
Ruby: WHAT BABY! [scream]
Tholia: Everybody knows you two have been trying forever.
Tholia: Come on. You can tell me, I'm your friend aren't I?
Riyyh stares at them, then realizes the safest place for him would be over on the other side of Wolfa and Hero.
Ruby draws herself up to her full 5'1"
Riyyh sidles over in that direction.
Wolfa indicates to Hero to help him if he needs it.
Ruby: I am not trying to fall pregnant, you idiot.
Ruby: If I were to even consider such an idiotic thing....
Ruby: Well, I just wouldn't!
Tholia looks shocked.
Tholia: You mean you... you don't want the Sectuib's baby? [voice raising in pitch and volume]
Tholia: Why are you hogging him to yourself then?
Ruby does a quick turn around.
Ruby: Well of course if he were to honour me by asking if I would marry him, that would be different.
Ruby looks at Riyyh sideways from under long lashes.
Wolfa just wants to be somewhere else and is trying to fade into the bushes
Riyyh finds himself getting faded back into the bushes too since he is on Wolfa's other side from Ruby.
Riyyh sighs and goes back to Ruby.
Ruby looks at Riyyh.
Ruby: ~ well???? ~
Ruby: ~ impatient ~
Riyyh: Ruby. [injured] I am flattered, of course.
Riyyh: And I would be more than pleased to discuss such matters with you in a suitably private location.
Tholia is not quite dumb enough to act indignant right to the Sectuib's face.
Tholia thinks she has enough juicy gossip anyway, with Ruby's admission she is trying to not have his baby.
Tholia: Oh well, I have to meet Juday and Ronta in a few minutes. Do take care, you two.
Tholia flashes an insincere, red-lipsticked smile at Ruby and brushes past.
Wolfa wonders what it is that Riyyh will be discussing
Ruby glares at Riyyh, not liking the way he made it sound like a business deal.
Riyyh's eyebrows raise as he realizes she is still mad.
Riyyh: Er... or not, as you desire. ~~ unsure ~~
Wolfa: Riyyh, it's getting very late!
Riyyh: ~~ relief ~~
Wolfa: We can't be late for the wedding - it wouldn't be fair to Randy and her family.
Riyyh: Of course! You are right, Wolfa. Let us go on to the ceremony.
Ruby sniffs and thinks she will have to talk to him about this at the first opportunity! People are starting to talk!
Riyyh touches Wolfa's wrist in a brief (but sincere) thanks.
Notes:
1) Some time passes between these two scenes. [return]