FADE RIFT [INBOX]
LADY LAKSHMI
( Lady Lakshmi, Bai Saheba, Rani Lakshmibai )
( Lady Lakshmi, Bai Saheba, Rani Lakshmibai )
VOICE | ACTION | NOTES
- Unavaliable To All:
- 30mins around dawn
Only to Voice: - Hour training morning and evening
- Any time she's gone riding.
- When she's in the field.
Only to Book: - When she's otherwise in a meeting, leave a message.
- Very late at night or early in the morning.
Other: - She usually takes her morning meals in the mess hall with everyone else.
- Her days are usually spent in Kirkwall seeing to either her personal business or Inquisition tasks.
- She has a bath twice a day, every day.

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All right.
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[Because it was that easy, of course. ]
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Oh.
[ By her face, she's a little alarmed and creeped out by the sensation of being on top of a living creature, but - she's there. ]
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Well done. Your first attempt too. Most do not always manage it so well.
[ She would always encourage even the smallest sign of bravery, trying. But still, on with the instruction, coming around the side. Unravelling the reigns over her leather gloves as she goes. ]
Your form is good. But keep your heels down, press into the stirrup. [ As she gets closer, she holds up the reigns for her to take. ]
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[ Kitty gives an little half-laugh in response to the praise, a bit more awkward than pleased. Encouragement isn't really something she knows what to do with. ]
Erm - like - do I have to stand up, then?
[ She demonstrates by half standing in the saddle. ]
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[ She catches herself a little - when do I stand up like you?, Anand had been so eager - swallows, keep moving. Keeping pressing on. Her hands stay on the reigns a little longer as she jostles them with a tug.
Obediently, the horse starts to walk, easy, easy, easy, one foot in front of another - letting her get used to it by herself as they go in the odd backwards-forwards dance of horse, rider and handler, and out of the stable. Out into the fresh, open air. Warm here, maybe not as warm the desert, but pleasant weather for a ride. ] Make sure you're comfortable.
[ Because once they are free of the building, and walked a little further into the courtyard of the Gallows, she passes the reigns to Kitty directly to hold. Not much in the way of explanation, one more check over everything, a brief whistle to a stable hand to tell him that they were heading out. Then she moves closer herself. Her hand hooking on the saddle horn, and vaults herself the same way - if without the use of the stirrups. To sit right behind Kitty, hooking her arm around her waist to snag the reigns off her once more. ] Still holding on?
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[ Kitty sounds just a little bit stressed (there's still quite a bit of mistrust for the large, deadly beast beneath her) but she's doing well enough. She's keeping steady in spite of the swaying of the creature - well. At least until Lakshmi jumps up behind her. Then she goes a little tense; even though Lakshmi has amply proved herself, Kitty is still a bit nervous of anyone at her back. ]
I suppose it gets harder.
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[ And with that, she gives a firm kick to the horse's flank. Enough to spur the animal forward into an even walk. ]
Towards the gate. Remember - firm, but not hard. She will listen.
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So I...move the reins?
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[ And she trusts her, at least, to be able to follow along with the rest. Even if they do wander around in a circle too long. But even so, she leans around, making sure that her chin stayed above Kitty's shoulder to find her hand and show her the pressure she needed to pull with to get the horse to listen. ]
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[ She sounds a little uneasy with it, even as she does tug. ]
Controlling it.
I am so glad that this is the first thread in my inbox and we're going to break the whole damn entry
[ Because you look so much older, Lakshmi, anyway - ]
It becomes second nature, and you will need to adjust, I'm afraid. But the Inquisition treats their horses well, you can have that much peace of mind.
Same, same...
[ She gives a sigh immediately after saying that, though, shaking her head. ]
I guess it's just a stupid horse.
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[ she will tug you by the ear Kitty if you ever hear you say that again. As it is, she reaches forward, tugging at the horse's reigns to still the horse before they go any further. Stopping them, right then and there. ]
So you should apologise to her, for she is giving you the benefit of her trust and sweet temper.
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[ Kitty half turns around to shoot Lakshmi a look of are-you-crazy. ]
I don't think it loves me when I'm climbing up on it and making it take me places.
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[ It's firm, not even slightly back down. ]
Apologise.
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Yes.
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It could speak the language of the Gods, for all it matters. [ It's gritted, leaning back that little to look at her directly. ] Respect to those that work hard for you, whether you think it is ridiculous or not, must always be given. What would you think, if I, when a servant who went out of their way to fulfil my request, threw it back in their face to say they were stupid just because they were doing what they were asked?
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[ Kitty shakes her head, her expression turning fierce. ]
Anyone who lets themselves be forced to serve, anyone who lets themselves get ground under someone's heel and thanks them for it, loves them for it, is a complete blithering idiot.
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[ It's pitched, a little higher and louder than what they had just said. Probably too paranoid by far, but it had never been wrong to be too careful. She snags her arm around her waist. Locking it hard, to keep the reigns balled in her fist. The goal was at least a straight line. Out of the main keep, down and around the many winding paths. Until there were marginally fewer people around before she slows the horse, down from the canter, to a walk. Then onwards a little further until she's quite sure they're out of sight, and can be excused as having done nothing more than having had an impromptu lesson. Relenting a little. A little out of breath when it's over but even so - ]
Watch your tongue.
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I'll watch what I want to watch, thank you. Just 'cause you're used to wearing silks and finery doesn't mean you can give me orders.
[ She flushes immediately afterwards, embarrassed and righteous by equal measure. She doesn't want to snap at Lakshmi, she likes Lakshmi, but that anger of hers is always there, and sometimes she can't rein it in. ]
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[ It's snapped back. Her own foul temper that got the better of her just the same - but age enough to let her swallow down a little, it hurts, maybe, if she was in the mind to let herself be hurt by much of anything ( always ) how fiercely she used to rage, was not so different to Kitty now. Declaring to her father all that she might have, declaring to the priest that she would never be parted from her husband. Swallowing all her pain to think that she at least, could never be parted from her Jhansi.
How Devi, young and all of her heart, would snap about how her Queen-Mother could be so fussy, so worrisome, so determined to protect her. ]
Do not let them hear you say those things.
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If they're the sorts of people who'll kill me just for saying that, then they ought to go ahead and do it, 'cause then they don't deserve my help.
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