The God of Wine Came Crashing Through [Closed]

[vissernone]

WHO| Eva, Gannicus and Nasir
WHAT| Eva drags people into her web
WHEN| Before the arrests and murder.
WHERE| A bar in the Capitol
WARNINGS| None yet.



For once, Eva is making progress. After decades of snooping, memorizing, selling herself out for scraps of information, she's found a crack she can sneak through. The lure of potential success is exhilarating, dizzying. It would make her heady and stupid if she hadn't been hiding her base impulses for so long.

She's smothered the urges to fight back, scream and cry for so long that she doesn't really know who she is anymore. She knows what she is, though, and that is a tool of revenge. A weapon, turned first against her own people but now honed towards mightier targets.

She's given up drinking since she started sleeping with Wallander. Not entirely - she doesn't have the fortitude for that - but she gets drunk at home now, and when she's out at bars still she has a single glass and nurses it against her lusher instincts. And that's what she's doing now, waiting at the bar she's seen Gannicus visit before, hoping he'll have Nasir in tow.

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[calledmenasir]

Nasir knew Eva by sight, at least, as he did many of the tributes and mentors. He was not prone to seeking people out but he didn't avoid them either. As long as Gannicus didn't try to convince him to have a threesome with him and this woman, he was perfectly fine with sharing a drink with her.

He nodded. "Gratitude. I hope to prove yet more capable in the coming arena."

Nasir took his glass as it was handed to him but he didn't drink from it yet. The memory of last time was a touch too keen in his mind.

[gladiayyygirl]

The smooth weight of the glass now felt as familiar in Gannicus's hand as any cup of clay or metal. He raised it readily, taking an unnecessarily large mouthful considering how early the evening yet was. Perhaps it was the proximity of another hard drinker, or perhaps it was the warm and relaxed air of the bar and its customers - either way, Gannicus found himself all too happy to start as he meant to go on, and had made quite an inroad in to his glass even by the time Nasir and Eva had made their pleasantries.

"Eva is doctore of my District," He explained to Nasir hoarsely in between gulps of amber whiskey. A pause, and then he threw a long, challenging grin at Eva over Nasir's head. "Two others stand alongside her, but neither possess beauty and deadly skill to rival Diana herself..."

[vissernone]

"I didn't realize you were as skilled with flattery as you are with a sword." She isn't too terribly much taller than Nasir, so she straightens a bit to meet Gannicus' smile with one of her own.

She pulls her bar stool back so that the three of them can converse as a triangle, rather than as a line. As she does so, she rests her hand on Gannicus' knee.

"I hope that reflects a keen mind, Gannicus." She drinks. "I may be in need of service from the two of you. Nothing important, but a delicate matter."

[calledmenasir]

Nasir glanced at Gannicus at the words "delicate matter." He was no stranger to tasks being asked of him but he chose who to obey. If, however, Gannicus trusted her...

Or perhaps he wanted to bed her.

"I've experience in certain matters," he said slowly. "Yet delicacy may be beyond our abilities." At this he gave Gannicus a look. Discreet was not a word he would use to describe the man. "What use would you have of us?"