orientation ♔ others have excuses | i have my reasons why

[bancroft]

♬ Reasons Why - Nickel Creek

WHO || Thomas Bancroft, Klaus, open if people want to bang into them, just threadjack wherever.
WHAT || Thomas comes for his squire
WHERE || Knight's HQ, outside Klaus' room
WHEN || Stupidly early, morning of May 14th
HOW || Actionspam

[ Klaus has had a few days to get sort of the lay of the land so to speak. But today there's an insistent banging on his door at 5am, accompanied by cheery whistling.  ]

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[asuma]

[Jesus Christ. At first, Klaus just lies there staring at the chandelier hanging above the gaudy-ass bed in his gaudy-ass room (which are actually to his tastes believe it or not). When it becomes clear that his early morning visitor has no intention of taking a hint, he rolls his ass out of bed and tries to bite back the irritation that he feels at being disturbed at the asscrack of dawn so as not to immediately alert whoever it is of his bitchy disposition.]

Can I help you?

[bancroft]

[ the figure at the door is unconventional even by knightly standards. he's a mad slash of long straggly black hair, a incredibly beat up and tattered black leather cloak, and a scruffy beard. he opens with a very large, wild grin, revealing teeth that seem almost a tiny tad TOO sharp to the eye of someone with a spot check 15 or higher. A spot of 10 reveals something intensely unusual about his eyes: for all the roughness of his appearance, they're an appallingly attractive shade of phosphorescent blue, much too bright to be normal. ] I believe that's my line, actually. [ he offers a wide, swooping bow, that sends the tails of his coat flapping out around him ] Sir Thomas Bancroft, at your service.

[asuma]

[Apparently Klaus has no fucks left to give at this hour because neither one of those features stands out to him in particular (spot: 2). Klaus just clenches his jaw as he watches the disheveled man bow in introduction.

"Now that you mention it, you could try back in another three hours," before closing the door was probably not the best way to greet the man who he had been squired to. By the time Thomas is finished bowing, Klaus has a adopted a much more amicable expression.]

You can call me Klaus. [Was he expected to invite this peasant inside? Because he isn't...]

[bancroft]

Klaus it is. [ he leans one forearm against the side of the door and gestures freely down the hall ] I thought we might take a walk.

[asuma]

You'll have to forgive me. I'm not generally up at this hour.

[When you are used to living like a King you generally set your own schedule. Even so, Klaus had a tendency to be an early riser but this was just ridiculous. Oh the joys of being a daywalking vampire werewolf hybrid.]

[bancroft]

I can come back. [ there's a smugness to his smirk that seems to indicate he finds an inability to get up and at 'em to be endlessly amusing ]

[asuma]

[And Klaus might have actually taken him up on the offer if it weren't for that smug smirk. He really doesn't like feeling challenged in any way.]

I'll need a few minutes to get dressed.

[bancroft]

I'll find some way to amuse myself.

[asuma]

[Now he'll go ahead and shut the door in Thomas' face.

And yes, he probably makes him wait a little longer than is necessary before opening the door again, and emerging properly dressed for the day.]

Where to?

[bancroft]

[ thomas was flipping a coin from one hand to the other, and he catches it on the back of his palm when klaus emerges it, consulting it as if to answer the question. ] How about a tour?

[asuma]

I can hardly wait.

[At least he's playing along. It was probably a good idea to get a tour from someone who wasn't Faye anyway.]

[bancroft]

What catches your interest, then? The training rooms? Our halls of sorcery? The rec rooms?

The dungeon?

[asuma]

[Alright, that last one will earn him a smirk. Maybe Klaus likes your style after all.]

Is that how you charm all of your new squires? At the very least, I should think I'm entitled to dinner first.

[bancroft]

Wynn might enjoy all the decorative foreplay, but not everyone likes to dance around the point.

[asuma]

The dungeon it is then.

[Although Klaus will be on high alert the entire time. He was paranoid enough to consider that this might all have been some elaborate ruse to get him to place himself somewhere they may have found it difficult to try and force him. Feel free to note the way he doesn't turn his back on the Dragon's Claw--because he won't be doing it of his own free will.]

[bancroft]

[ if thomas takes note, he doesn't say a thing about it, as he turns and heads down the hall, long purposeful strides, taking them past all the old artwork and suits of armor decorating the halls. ] On our way, perhaps you could tell me something about yourself.

[asuma]

I'm afraid there isn't much to tell. Like most, the details of my previous life appear to have been affected by my coming to this world.

[Except that wasn't entirely true (bluff: 13). Klaus had retained most of his memory, though for him the farther things went back into the past the better he was able to recall them. His family, for instance, remained one of his clearest memories after his having passed through the veil.]

I was fairly certain that you'd have been given any information on me prior to my joining. [Like that little mess he made upon arrival. Whoops.]

[bancroft]

I've always put more stock in hearing a person's story from their own lips. Sheets of paper only offer one fixed perspective.