Board Thread:Random RP/@comment-26295802-20170201160705/@comment-26295802-20170219215643

Beaumont catches up with her in the engine room.She's curled up in the corner, crying.

"You all right?" he asks cautiously

"I thought during the ceremony... you were pleased."

"Well, yeah, I was." says Beaumont with a smile. "I had some mulled wine, pretty girl gave me a hat made out of a tree, nobody said I was signing up to have and to hold..."

"You don't have marriage where you're from?"

"Well, yeah, but we do it differently..."

.*awkward silence.*

"Are you going to kill me?" asks the girl casually.

"What??" says Beaumont, his eyebrows skyrocketing, "What kind of crappy planet is that? Kill you?"

"In the maiden's home, I heard talk of men who weren't pleased with their brides, who-"

"Well I ain't them!" intirrupts Beaumont,  "and don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back. Wife or no, you're no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right same as anyone to live and to try to kill people. I mean, you know. People that are... That's a dumb planet." finishes Beaumont lamely. "We can't go back to Triumph, seems there's a warrent for our arrest there. But we'll be to Boros soon, and we can drop you off there. They have good jobs, farming, factories and the like."

The girl looks up at him with a sweet smile.

"I'd be a good wife." she says.

"Well, I'd be a terrible husband." he says with a wry smile, "You got five whole days to figure that out."

.*silence*

"Well, shiny." says Beaumont, satisfied that the girl seems to be cheering up, "You hungry? Kitchen's just through there."

She rushes past him, suddenly excited.

"I'll cook you something!" she shouts.

"No, I meant if you-"

"I'm a fine cook, everyone says!"

"Yeah, but I ain't ever even-"

"My name is Saffron" she says with a smile.

With that, she dissappears into the kitchen, as Beaumont follows with a bemused expression on his face.