Something Left To Save;

It took him some time to make it down to the undercroft and part of him was rather surprised to see the well trained pup still there. Course he could have been rented a time or too. Raiden always had a soft spot for dogs. Specially well trained ones. 

Taryn had been reading in a corner to try and stave of this painful need. But that only lasted so long. People walking by with the scent wafting off them, it left Taryn all but ready to pounce at any moment should the right person just happen to waltz in. And the right person certainly did....

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Taryn was always... fidgety during the heat to say the least. He didn’t feel like virtues could exist when something felt like torture twenty four seven, but here he was trying to keep his mind satiated as he walked through the halls before bumping into a face he wasn’t familiar with. The guard sat there watching them, irritated by the pause in their move to... well obviously the pool. Taryn didn’t want to upset too much, so he offered to keep walking in that direction, stretching his arm out before him as he talked. “Yeah... I get that. More than you know.” He admitted, the Inugami in him dying to mount or be mounted.

There were only a few people that Charlie would leave the suite in search of and he’d liked Taryn well enough to seek him out.  The dragon had been expecting him to be rented out considering that even some of the masters went through heat, so it was relief for him when the other man seemed to be available.  Charlie beelined toward him and grabbed the other man by the hand, pulling him to his feet.  “C’mon, let’s move somewhere a little more private than this.”

Taryn had remembered the last encounter with Charlie. It went well, but he always felt strange being in a master’s suite with the person they’d claimed. Taryn wondered if some of them resented it but when Charlie walked in and pulled him to his feet, he could feel the heat rolling off him as well. “I.... yeah. Okay.” A chuckle and a grin on his face he tossed his book back to the cot and let Charlie take the lead. “You’re not... you’re not gonna get in trouble, are you?”

Once Kaden found a free moment in his schedule between working and Lucien being…well, Lucien, he ran down to the Undercroft in hopes that Taryn wasn’t rented or otherwise busy. He’d promised the young valkyrie some white magic lessons and Kaden was never one to turn down teaching young mages the benefits of abjuration. Fortunately, he found the slave in the common room and walked up to him, smiling wide. “Hey, kiddo, you up for some of those magic lessons today? Figure we can get some trainin’ done and go to lunch in town afterwards. Sound like a fun plan to you?” 

While he'd been trying to teach himself things, there was a face he'd found himself missing from time to time. And as he slowly peered his head in to the other's office, he cleared his throat. "I... I haven't seen you in some time and I just wanted to drop in. Say hello." He offered with a small smile. "Hello."

Taryn grinned as Elliot waved him in, shutting the door behind him. He moved to place a basket on the desk beside him, grinning. "I figured I would get you something to eat. Rumor has it you live in here now. So... I followed a recipe one of the cooks taught me. It's steak and potatoes with some roasted veggies." He offered, shoving his hands in his pockets. "I couldn't get you a Christmas gift or anything... so I figured this would do. Or I hoped it would. The chef said anything over medium rare was sinful in this castle." Moving to pull up a chair, he sat patiently. Just happy to be in the company of the other. "I've been okay. Reading, studying. Trying to learn more white magic."

The more he remembered about himself, the more Taryn found himself wanting to know. If he wasn't hiding in the undercroft buried in a book, he found himself in the library pulling books about ireland, spirits, anything he could soak in knowledge on. And white magic, of course. With the collar on, he couldn't very well do much about what he did or did not know. Still, learning the basics by word would be at least a little help, wouldn't it? Weeks of relentless studying landed him here, on his bunk. While he was in the undercroft, he did manage to look up just for a moment to see a familiar face. "Hey..." He'd missed Christmas, New Year's....all for the sake of picking up some more things to know. "Haven't seen you in a little while..." Nor had he been paying attention to see them. Shutting the book, he grinned. “How were your holidays?”

He looked at the books around him and hummed, agreeing. “I’m remembering more about my time before here... I’m just trying to get a handle on it all. I know I’m capable of white magic. Apparently, I can become a dog if I try hard enough. And that somewhere along the line my mother tried to put me into hiding. I was being sold here regardless.” He offered. “I’m also trying to miss home less by reading about it.” He picked up a book about Ireland and shrugged. “It’s helping. That’s something, I guess. But I’m glad your holidays were quiet. Better than being eventful.”