A Quiet Night [Private]

"Ah! God damn it!" she held a thick newspaper over her head as she ran down the sidewalk. She had not expected it to be raining today. She assumed from the idiotic weather report that it would have been tomorrow afternoon. Why she attempted to listen to the news, she will never understand. Hurrying along the side walk, she came up to the bar and ran inside. Tossing the paper into the trash, she looked around at everyone. "Damn that started up suddenly, huh?" she said, knowing everyone in the bar. A few of them laughed, a couple of them greeted her. One man stood up and gave her a quick hug. "Hey! Didn't see you here last week, work?" she asked him. He nodded and explained a few things. She only smiled and tapped his shoulder, "Well glad to have you back." That was when she noticed him. Riven. Yes, that was his name. He wasn't one she was going to forget easily. She immediately glanced around the room for some of his idiotic friends. They weren't there. "Hm..." Kyron raised an eyebrow and pulled off her jacket. She set it on a coat rack, pulling her wallet out and putting it into her pant pocket. Shaking her hair a bit, freeing it of at least some of the water that fell onto it.

"Hey." she said as she approached Riven. She sat down next to him and raised her hand to the bartender. Immediately the woman knew what she meant. Soon, a soda was brought over to her. She took a drink and then looked to Riven. "So... What are you doing here? I thought you'd be out of here by now." she said to him with a small smile, "Didn't think after yesterday that you'd want to come back... Or are you just here to see me?" Obviously she was just playing, confirming her teasing with a quick wink and giggle. She looked up and saw another one of the regulars come in. She smiled and picked up her glass, holding it up to the guy who just entered as her way of saying hello. Setting her glass to her lips, she took a small sip and put it back down. She looked to Riven, now just awaiting his answer to her question.

"Hm... Yeah, you're definitely a glutton for punishment." Kyron just watched him as he put some papers away, "Well that sounds boring in my opinion. I could never be a teacher. I like kids, but when they get to a certain age, I'd kill em." To some, she may of sounded like she was joking, but in truth, she wasn't. In their teenage and pre-teen years, children were a pain in the ass. Just knowing that made her wonder whether she'd have kids. She picked up her drink and took another sip. Setting it down, she nodded to his question about the rain. "Yeah. It started up out of no where. Luckily I was able to grab a newspaper, so I didn't get too wet." Kyron explained to him, "I likely should have stayed home, but I wanted to come out. This practically is my home, ya know? No other place I really enjoy being. It's nice to know everyone here as well. It makes it a lot more comfortable." Kyron looked around the bar. She really did know everyone here pretty well. She knew all the regulars. The people she didn't know were either people who just moved into town, troublemakers, or loud mouthed jerks who she'd have to take care of later. She didn't even work here, and at times she would help clean up. This was home. She cared for them all. A small smile formed on her face when she thought about all of this. "It really is nice..." she mumbled a bit, just loud enough for him to hear her.

Kyron was not the most observant of people. When she was relaxed, she didn't notice very many things unless they were right in her face. His saddened smile she did not notice. She merely reached into her pocket, pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a liter. "You want one?" she asked him, holding out the pack to allow him to either take or deny her offer. Once she got his choice, she pulled her own out and lit it up. She'd then set the liter down on the table to allow him to use it if he chose to take one, or just to sit it there if he did not. Inhaling a small amount, she let a breath out, allowing the smoke to escape her lungs through her lips. She then picked up her drink, took a sip, and set it right back down when he complimented her home. "Yeah. Than-..." she noticed something and then leaned in on the table, pointing two fingers at him because they were also holding her cigarette. "Look... The name is Kyron, not Kyon... There is an 'r' in there, okay?" she said with a smile and chuckling at him a bit. She leaned back into the chair a bit and laughed. She was serious about her name, but she found the way he pronounced it slightly funny. "So, what now?" she asked him as she glanced around. It was a slow day because of the gloomy weather and now the rain. Most people that usually came here went home instead of coming to the bar. "Might be stuck here until the rain clears... Dunno how hard it's gonna come down..."

Kyron stood up, grabbed her drink, and grabbed Riven by the ear. "A story huh..." she said calmly as she began pulling him over to a booth, "If you're gonna tell me a story, we're sitting at a table, not the bar..." She let go of his ear once she got to a booth on the opposite side of the bar. She slid in, all the way until her back was against the wall and used the rest of her side as if it were a couch. She looked to him, waited for him to sit down and tell his story. As he did, she set her glass down on the table and brought her cigarette to her lips. She inhaled and pulled it out, tapping it against an ash tray to allow the ash to fall. "Dude's history was erased?" Kyron chuckled a bit as she interrupted him, "The hell could someone do that they don't even want it to go down in history?" She then let him continue. On the next part of his story, she raised an eyebrow as she took another puff of her cigarette. "You talk about it like it actually happened..." she said with a chuckle as she exhaled the smoke through her lips. She laid her head back against the wall behind her, closing her eyes and listening to the rest that he was saying. One line made her chuckle again. "I see..." Kryon said as she took a final puff and then smashed the cigarette in the ash tray. She exhaled the last bit of smoke, "Sounds like the Red King.. or whatever you call him.. was the smarter of these kings or whatever... Fighting alone is stupid if it's an actual battle... Now fighting one on one is different obviously... But one man can't take down an entire army... Well at least most of the time."

"I see..." was Kyron's only reply to his first two statements. Then she looked to him when he mentioned a nickname of sorts. She raised an eyebrow and began to smile. "I'm not going to laugh at that..." she said when she actually heard the nickname, "I thought you were gonna say something that was actually funny or stupid. Like... King Strawberry or something..." She laughed at her own stupidity at that moment. King strawberry was just the first thing that came into her mind since he was called the Red King. "Being called by the name of a God is something to fear and honor, not laugh about. Whether female or not, Athena was said to be beautiful, strong, and intelligent..." Kyron explained her view on the name, "There is nothing wrong with being called Athena... I've been called Zeus and Thor at times... Hahahaha! Not like I care..." Keianna looked to her drink and noticed it was almost empty. She picked it up, took a drink of the rest, and looked up to the bartender. She smiled and held up her glass. The woman immediately nodded and held up a finger as if to tell Kyron to hold on a minute.

"Monster?" Kyron interrupted him mid sentence when he mentioned that she had seen this monster as well. She thought for a moment and then realized what he was talking about. "Ohhh. You mean the Hollow. Gotcha." she said with a chuckle as the bartender came over and handed her another drink, this time it was sprite. "Thank you!" Kyron said as she took it. She took a large drink, larger than usual. Hearing the rest of what Riven was saying, she tilted her head and raised an eyebrow. "Riven... Once again you're acting like it's real." she said to him, "It's just a story. Don't get all emotional about it. Get a drink and lighten up. You were alot more fun when you were pretending to be drunk..."