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Built into the cliffs overlooking the Suvan Sea, Riverfall resides on the edge of grasslands of Cyphrus where the Bluevein River plunges off the plain and cascades down to the inland sea below. Home of the Akalak, Riverfall is a self-supporting city populated by devoted warriors. [Riverfall Codex]

Family Time (Kavala)

Postby Riaris Dovukalis on December 23rd, 2013, 7:21 pm

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"Come on! Is that all you got boy?" Recoomas chuckled as he looked to little Tasi and Shay. The Akalak had made a promise to his sons that he would make them into good sons and fierce Akalak. He had meant those words and now began their training, sort of. Recoomas stood beside the bed in Kavala's chamber, legs bent and palms held upward towards his son. Shayru stood up on the bed, legs spread, one hand tightly gripping his wooden lakan as he stared at his father. "Try again Shayru, try and hit me."

The Akalak was testing his son's speed by holding up his hands and quickly pulling them away as the boy tried to hit them with his lakan. keen eyes watched the little Akontak as he prepared to go again. It was probably more of a workout for the little boy than Recoomas realized. He wasn't used to being around many children and the darker brother never possessed the gentle touch for anything. "Faster my son, you must strike faster."

Reaching out quickly, Recoomas lightly tapped the boy's shoulder which made his already unbalanced footing topple and he fell backwards on the bed. But Shayru bounced back to his feet with a bit more grace than one might expect of a child his age. He had a fierce glare in his eyes, a need to prove himself to his father. The boy took another swipe at the hulking purple man, and sent a jab at him in quick succession.

"Are you even trying Shayru? Focus, imagine that I am a big, nasty Zith and you are the only thing standing between him and the people you care about." Something in his words struck the boy in just the right place, and his energy swelled, his tiny muscles flexed and with a quick action, Shayru lashed out and struck Recoomas palm before he could pull away. "Ha! There we are. I knew you could do it. My sons the great Akontak." he mused and scooped the boy from the bed and attacked him with a tickling fit.
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Postby Kavala on December 25th, 2013, 3:12 pm

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The boy was delighted. No one around The Sanctuary treated him like this. They all tossed him balls and taught him games that the Drykas played with bows and arrows or on horseback, but none of them really treated them like the warrior he wanted to be… the warrior they were inside. His mom was the same way, and though he forgave her for it because she was currently too huge to move too much and get too active. But when his brother was born, Shayru suspected even then she wouldn’t understand and play with him like he wanted to play. Recoomas did though. And Shayru thrived under the training that was often more play than naught at this stage.

The first step was the toy Lakan. Recoomas’ big meaty hands made a great target, and Shayru was bound and determined to stab them through. It wasn’t that he wanted to cause Recoomas pain. No it wasn’t that at all, but it was that he lived at The Sanctuary and in his very short experience; wounds were fleeting things that could be fixed in the blink of an eye. So for him, there was no real reason to hold back. It was even fun getting knocked down and climbing back up before the evil purple monster before him struck again. So he tried his darndest to track Recoomas’ moves and catch his hands before he could pull them away. When he finally nicked one of them and Recoomas tackled him tickling, the boy was all for it and dropped his lakan to scream in delight and try to fight the big Akalak off hand to hand.

They’d been at it a while when Kavala put in an appearance. She stood delicate like a child, wrapped in Vanator’s robe because her own clothing no longer fit her. Her hair was damp from the bath that she’d probably been in for an hour, and she leaned against the doorway overlooking the bedroom area casually. Her face was paler than normal and there were dark circles under her eyes, though she smelled clean and like the lavender scent that she usually used in her hair and soaps. The two men before her would perhaps assume she was there watching them, but the truth was she was resting. The walk from the bath to her chamber seemed to take forever and Kavala was tired.

“You two are making enough noise to wake up a sleeping God.”
She said with a laugh then heaved herself off the door frame and slowly ambled over to the corner to a screen where she could step behind to get dressed. “Who killed whom anyhow?” She queried, and kept walking until she passed behind the screen. Kavala was careful to change out of sight and be nowhere prying eyes could bother her. The baby was almost ready, she could feel his restlessness. Kavala had no idea why he was waiting… bu tit seemed to take forever. She’d never gotten this large with Tasival and it seemed like the prerequisite year had come and passed and still the new boy wasn’t putting in an appearance. It was almost like he was waiting… waiting for the last minute for some unseen unknown reason, and then at the midnight hour he’d put in an appearance on some distant day known only to him.

Until then, she was careful Riaris and Recoomas didn’t see her without her clothing. She was painfully thin and the baby was taking everything. Behind the screen as she slipped from Van’s robe to an oversized tunic and leggings Rosela had made that fit across her middle, she didn’t want to think about her prominent spine or how her ribs could be counted. She only knew that this was going to be the last pregnancy she was going to subject her body too. They were progressively harder on her, and this one was killing her slowly. If the boy didn’t decide to come soon, her body would fail before she could birth him… and it terrified her.

Kavala leaned against the wall a chime, then briefly finished dressing, throwing a warm sweater over her oversized tunic. She pushed off from the wall, walked around the screen and smiled at the two males. Shayru seemed to be comparing his wooden lakan with Recoomas’ real one. When they were done talking, and Kavala was almost to where they were sitting, she paused at an oversized chair near the bed and gently lowered herself into it.

“Do you guys want some breakfast or something? What do you have planned today?”
She asked, leaning back and relaxing, glad to be off her feet for a moment.
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Postby Riaris Dovukalis on January 2nd, 2014, 4:35 pm

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Recoomas turned to look towards the door way when Kavala spoke. The Konti was wrapped in her brother's husky robes and looked as if she would pop at any moment. Over time Recoomas and Kavala had gotten over their past battles and although the darker brother was still rough, he was starting to like the more subtle life style that was more about family than war and battle. He released the tiny boy from his grasp and stood up to look his lover over. "If the Gods are sleeping, then maybe it's a good thing that we wake them."

He watched her move about and head behind a screen to dress herself. In the past he would have, or Riaris perhaps tried to escort her and help her as much as possible. But they both knew better from past experiences to give the little lady her space. "No one." He answered to her question. "I was just teaching our boys here how to fight. I think your brother has been slacking. They're soft." At the word soft, Shayru latched onto Recoomas pants and tried to crawl his way up his back for a better attack position. "What are you doing boy?" The Akalak laughed as he spun around to try and catch the toddler who was now hanging off his pants.

Reaching around, Recoomas napped the boy by his waist and flipped him into his arms. He laughed as he pulled the boy around while still holding him up side down. "What are you trying to pull huh? Come hear." he chuckled and lightly plopped the boy back on the bed and tickled him again. "Give it up Shayru, you can't escape." Recoomas tickled the boy for another moment before he finally said the word give, then left him to try his hand at duel wielding lakans. When Kavala reappeared Recoomas lightly patted Shayru's head before stepping over to speak with the boy's mother.

"Breakfast? I can always eat Kavala. You know that." Moving to her side, he placed a hand on her shoulder and leaned forward to plant a kiss on her forehead. "How are you holding up?" It may seem odd to others to see Recoomas being nice, and in truth it felt odd for him as well, but he was learning to go after things that he wanted without the show of strength or violence and that wasn't easy. "Plans for today, heh." He started glancing back at Shayru. "I think it's time we got them a tattoo. Something to show their journey so far. What do you think?"
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Postby Kavala on January 6th, 2014, 11:18 pm

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She still had trouble sometimes, initially, deciding who was who. But at the big Akalak’s words, Kavala identified Recoomas immediately. A quick glance at Tasi reinforced the fact that her Shayru was out playing. The two souls seemed to gravitate towards each other, and while Recoomas seemed to draw Shayru out of the shadows, the little boy equally did as much for his adopted father as well. She wasn’t wholly comfortable with Recoomas like she was Riaris, but they were working on things. He gave her space and she gave him immeasurable patience and somehow they managed to muddle through things. Talking was a first step, and they’d had brief conversations, but nothing in depth and sacred. After the misadventure on their trip to The Southern Boarder Post there hadn’t been intimacy either unless it was Recoomas holding her close at night sometimes and rubbing her stomach when she could not sleep because of the babe’s restlessness.

But Kavala figured getting to know him better would come, perhaps after the baby, when her body was in better shape to please a man such as Recoomas who was fierce and lacked the gentleness of his brother. But her son, her beautiful intelligent fierce son, loved Recoomas with all his heart and came forward whenever the brother was about; gravitating towards him like the sunflowers in her garden gravitated towards the sun.

And if for nothing else, accepting and loving Shayru and giving him all the things that he needed which Kavala and her human family didn’t and couldn’t realize meant the world to Kavala. She loved Recoomas for that, fiercely, though she’d never told him. She’d never said a word to Riaris either. But it was if the small boy and the huge man needed each other. The boy softened Recoomas in a way that wasn’t unwelcome, while the man toughened the boy in a way that made his life easier when it wasn’t always easy to be Akontak in a Drykas world. Tasival liked Recoomas too, but there wasn’t the bond there that his darker side had. He was most often with Riaris, following him and listening, a boy of thought and less action than his brother who was always quick to anger.

So, she treated him like she treated Riaris. Kavala took care of him when she let him, finding joy in feeding the big Akalak and growing closer with him when he was of a mind. That he leaned forward and kissed her on the forehead surprised her and made her pale skin darken with a blush. He was a charmer when he wanted to be, not fussing over her like Riaris could, and certainly not treating her like she was made of eggshells. She appreciated that about Recoomas. When Riaris started worrying and got to carrying her about and fussing, there was no end to her frustration at times. Recoomas never did this to her, but treated her like the tough strong woman she felt she was, no matter how she looked on the outside. A weaker man wouldn’t have let her make him breakfast. But in this, Kavala needed to feel useful.

Kavala didn’t say anything in regards to the tattoo.

“I’ll meet you two in the kitchen.”
She said, turning and leaving them there to shuffle off and see what was cooking if anything. Nothing was, when she arrived, the hearth empty of even heat. Kavala carefully moved wood into place, lit the fire, and began warming up the place. Quickly, Kavala threw together some dough for biscuits, pulled gravy out of the icebox and set it to heating over the newly warmed flames. The Konti gave that a stir, feeling useful, and then turned to work on the stove. She stoked the stove, adding wood to that as well, and began scrambling eggs for the pair. Recoomas got a good dozen, to which she added fresh baked biscuits when they were done ten minutes later. The boys got jam and butter, and thick slices of ham from the hanging pig in the icehouse, which she fried in a separate pan.

Both her males got heaping plates of breakfast, with hard cider for Recoomas and spiced cider for Shayru. Once they were well underway eating at the bar and Kavala had cleaned up a bit, she settled across from them with a small bowl of dried seaweed to gnaw on.

“So… about this tattoo. What kind are you getting?”
She said calmly, half afraid of their answer.
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Postby Riaris Dovukalis on January 7th, 2014, 2:59 am

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Recoomas moved away to allow Kavala to move passed him. He didn't have the intimate level with her that Riaris had, but he was slowly working towards it. He kissed her while she slept, cuddled with her, and rubbed her belly when she was awake. Their ideas on topics were probably too different to have a serious conversation about, so that he didn't bother with. But he hadn't forgotten how it felt to hold her as he once had, but it would take time before they retried that level of closeness.

He gave Shayru a glance when his mother left, and the Akalak held up both his fist in front of him. The little Akontak knew exactly what that meant and he wandered over and punched Recoomas fist with his own. He had strength in those tiny hands, a fact that put a smile of the big Akalak's face. His son had to be strong, powerful and as daring as his father was. Little Shayru rubbed his knuckles from punching the stone like fist of Recoomas. The dark brother smiled, catching the boy's eyes and opened his palms to allow him a softer surface to punch.

But this time it was a fake, and when Shayru punched out, Recoomas grabbed the boys hands and drew him in to tickle him more. "Never let your guard down Shayru, never!" he chuckled as the boy laughed and tried to pull away from him. Finally after the tickle war was done, Recoomas lifted the boy over his shoulder and carried him into the kitchen as if he were a baby. "You're still a whelp boy, but I'll help you man up."

Shayru struggled the whole time, but it was easy to see that the boy was having a good time with his father. Once they were in the kitchen, Recoomas flipped the small boy off his shoulder and placed him upside down in his seat. This too gave him a laugh, watching the little guy fumble over and reset himself correctly in the seat. "That smells good Kavala, and I'm ready for a good meal." He moved closer to her, giving her a hug, but taking his affections no further for the time being. He sat down and enjoyed his meal, and watched Shayru with his. The playing would stop for now, Recoomas liked messing around with his boy, but when it came to food, he didn't like to be bothered.

When Kavala brought up the tattoos again, the dark brother looked to his son with an arched brow. He had figured that her earlier silence was her answer to the idea of her little one getting a tattoo. "Something small for now, maybe a dagger with his name on it. What do you think? We should get you one too...with my name on it." he smiled watching her expression.
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Postby Kavala on January 7th, 2014, 8:41 pm

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Shayru peered at his mother and then peered at his father, sensing the underlying currents of unspoken challenge passing between the two of them. But as far as he was concerned, if Recoomas said he could get a tattoo, then he was going to get one. And already his mind was whirling with what he wanted and ran by a half dozen suggestions to both of them while they simply sat quietly across from each other at the kitchen bar and stared.

Kavala ignored her son for a moment, though she reached a hand across the table and righted his mug of cider just before he spilled it in his excitement. Her eyes never left Recoomas'. She sensed this was some sort of unspoken test, and she wasn't about to fail it, at least not in his eyes.

"I've seen ever inch of you naked and no where on you do you have a tattoo with your name on it, Recoomas. Neither does Riaris. The boys can get a tattoo of whatever design you want to celebrate you adopting them or whatever occasion you two decide, but they cannot in any way shape or form get their own name etched in their skin in ink." Kavala said, the tone of her voice brokering no argument.

Then she paused a few moments more, looked thoughtful as if she were deciding something, then nodded to herself. "I will get one of your name. I would like that. But not now, after the baby when I have my fighting weight back. And you can pick the design and location, though I do get veto powers if say its on my forehead." Kavala said simply, glancing between the man and the boy and wondering suddenly how Riaris would feel about his dark brother etching his name in his lover's flesh. With that, she took another drink of the water she was sipping and tore off another piece of dehydrated seaweed and began to chew on it thoughtfully.
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Postby Riaris Dovukalis on January 7th, 2014, 9:08 pm

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Recoomas smiled at her words and nodded. Kavala was the mother and he wouldn't challenge her in this. She agreed to a tattoo which was more than he expected at first. But he could see it in her eyes, the fact that she wanted her son to be excepted into the Akalak culture and for him to feel a part of something beyond all the Drykas smothering him. "Fair enough Kavala. The boys can look over designs, and pick one that they like...without their names."

He could see Shayru bouncing around with excitement, and it truly was a time to be excited. They had the family now, one that Riaris had always wanted and Recoomas had never expected. However this was a welcomed surprise and when Kavala agreed to get a tattoo of his name, he was just as joyous as his son, but he didn't allow it to show. "Well very good, we can make it date for a later time."

He had thoughts about where he wanted to see his name on her body, and it didn't bother him at all that most people, at least outside her home, would never see it there. But instead of making a decision right away, he decided to wait and think it over, maybe even with Riaris in the conversation. His lighter brother was silent at the moment, but that could mean a few things. Riaris was there, watching, listening, but he saw that this needed to work.

The lighter brother had told, promised Kavala that his brother would come around and he finally had. He needed this to work, the tattoo not being important, but they needed something they could share in, that binded them together closer, and so he whispered an idea into the mind of his brother. Recoomas smiled as he thought it over, then reached an arm out towards Kavala. "I'll let you pick, your name on my body..where ever you want and with what ever design you'd like to see. How about it?"
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Postby Kavala on January 9th, 2014, 8:38 pm

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Kavala smiled, having not anticipated getting her way in this. Tasival was her child, but the boys had clearly picked Riaris and Recoomas as their father. And in doing so and having the men accept the boys, Kavala needed to take a back seat on dictating how the boys progressed in their growth in Rivarian Society. Someday, in a shorter amount of time than she realized, the boys would be standing beside Recoomas perhaps even as big as he was, and indistinguishable in age from the man who trained them. Kavala ran her fingers over the swollen bulge in her abdomen. In thirty years there would be two of them that the violet man before her raised and she hoped they would stand shoulder to shoulder as a family for whatever cause they took up. Staring at her young son with Recoomas and with her hand along her stomach stroking a second, Kavala felt interconnected with the world in a way that was almost indescribable. She was a Konti in a man’s world staring at their traditions and trying desperately to understand them and accept them.

And then suddenly Recoomas took a step and included her, promising more ink on his own body to represent her. She blinked in surprise, and nodded. “It’s a deal. Towards the end of winter then, we’ll both go and get what the other wants where the other wants it.” She said, the smile on her face lighting her eyes. Recoomas was a tough one to reach, and because of the fact it made him hard to get to know. Like him, she felt a glimmer of a connection. She had no idea how Riaris would feel, but deep within Kavala the woman wanted and needed to be liked and appreciated by the darker brother. She wanted to love him too, for more than how he treated her sons, and for more than how he always had time for his sisters.

Without thinking, she reached forward suddenly and unexpectedly, cupping Recoomas' jawline in her scaled palm for a brief moment, feeling the solid warmth in her hand. She offered him a smile and dropped her hand abruptly, moreso because her sleeve had slipped back and revealed her painfully thin arm than because of not wanting to touch him any longer.

She glanced at Shayru then, to cover her embarrassment, and grinned at him. “Just because Recoomas and I are waiting until the end of Winter doesn’t mean you have to as well. I think today would be a good day to go get yours. Are you sure you want one?” She asked, smiling and tearing off another piece of seaweed to stuff in her mouth. If they all took the ponycart, she decided she could go as well and maybe stop by the market and pick up a few more things she might need for the baby.
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Postby Riaris Dovukalis on January 11th, 2014, 7:44 am

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Recoomas wouldn't admit it, but Riaris present in the room made it all go better. It had been he whispering into his darker brother's mind for days upon days to forge this connection with her slowly. Kavala wasn't one of the women at the bar that were there just for wild and fun times. It was true they had first connected in a bar, but neither of them had gone there looking for sexual partners. They had connected on a level that allowed them both to let go and trust completely in another to catch them if they fell. Recoomas wanted this to, and for as many pretty women he saw in the city, Kavala remained on his mind..even when he wasn't so pleased with the idea.

For now, he would take his lighter brother's advice and seek out a friendship for the sake of friendship instead of pushing for more. So far things were going well, and she had agreed on the tattoo on both accounts. Smiling, he leaned forward in his seat and scooted a little closer to Kavala. "I like the sound of that, that makes you mine and me yours." That statement may have been a bit rough, but Recoomas couldn't help wanting to seek her out for more than just a friendship. It was hard pretending not to know what he knew, what he had seen through his brother's eyes and what he had felt as well. He felt he needed the connection sooner, before Riaris could get around to asking...

When she reached out to touch his jaw, the darker brother turned his head slightly to lean against her hand. He was mindful, and the Akalak wasn't the type to forget past events, no matter the reason. He was cautious, and Riaris, the feelings the lighter brother had hoping that they didn't have another problem like they had twice before gave him pause not to push forward with his own affections for the woman. Still, he started to reach out, to take her hand as she pulled away and hold it inside his. "Did you hear that Shayru? We can go as soon as today and make you into a man." he smiled warmly to them both and seeing the joy in his son's eyes reflected in his own. "Now then Kavala.." he added as he sat back in his chair. "When do I get to run with you on the beach?"

It had been on his mind for sometime now, and he could still remember the feelings that he and his brother felt that day when they ran together. He wanted that, he wanted everything they had and more. " And..I may not be much of a sailor, but I do enjoying swimming." He needed an edge, he thought, something that she liked, that his brother didn't so it would be their thing and no one else's. "So what do you think?"
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Postby Kavala on January 11th, 2014, 5:00 pm

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What did she think indeed? Kavala gently pulled her hand away from his and studied her fingers where his had touched hers. The Konti wasn't she certain she wanted to belong to someone else ever. “I… don’t want to be yours, Recoomas. I don’t want you to be mine. I’m perfectly content belonging and being beholden only to myself. I’ve been caged and owned by someone else once before, briefly, and it didn’t work out so well for me. And I vowed to myself if I managed to live through that situation, I would never be beholden or belong to anyone ever again – not for my safety and protection and certainly not for anything else besides that. I would hope you and Riaris would understand that.” Kavala said, her voice low, pitched in a serious tone but not angry.

She glanced around at the room, at all her years of hard work, and wondered if he even saw it for what it was… The Sanctuary was a fortress. It was her way of taking care of herself and those she loved. It was her way of proving to the world she would never be a victim again because she COULD take care of herself. If he couldn’t see that, then there was very little hope there would ever be understanding between them. Leave it to an Akalak to say something like that to her. “No ink anywhere changes anything about someone, nor should it.” She said, hoping he understood but not counting on it. He might get mad. He might think her unreasonable. All of that she expected from him. Things hadn’t gone easy for them, ever, and at times she thought he did it deliberately because he didn’t like the idea of a woman in their lives. But she spoke with firm kindness, not anger, trying not to set him off or heat the situation that had been going so well.

“When do you get to run with me? To swim? I don’t know. Ask your son. Then ask me after he’s born. At this point, I’ve done all I can. It’s not up to me now.”
Kavala said, wondering why he’d never asked her to do those things before, when she could. They felt safe to ask her about now. Who asked a painfully pregnant woman to go running on a beach with them anyhow? Kavala took a deep patient breath and tried not to get mad. Was he trying to be sweet or was he just pointing out her weaknesses? She searched his gaze to find out, unable to read him and not sure by the way his face looked. There was a smile, a warm one, so she thought in his way he was maybe trying to be sweet. “I’ll have to get back to you on that. Hopefully soon. I’ll be doing a lot of running after the baby. I’ll have too.” She said, stroking her stomach once more.

Shayru glanced between his mother and his father, uncertain what was going on. He knew his mother's moods and sensed the change immediately in it as soon as Kavala had responded. He hadn't really paid attention to what she'd said after she'd said yes, his mind on the ink and what design he wanted.

The appeal of a trip to town was gone though. She had work she could do in the lab, so long as it didn’t involve strong smelling spices. “If you guys are done eating, I’ll clean up here and you two can get going on your trip.” She said, uninviting herself just like that, knowing that the boys would probably have more fun without her along anyhow. She hoped Recoomas would use restraint in Shayru’s design, considering this a sort of test to how far she would trust the man in the future.

OOCDid you mean to call Shayru Shayna?
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Please Note:
  • This pc is maxed out in Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Observation, Rhetoric, and Socialization.
  • Kavala a Master Teacher. Students she is teaching in thread can earn more than the maxium 5 XP per thread.
  • This pc has a Konti Gift of Animal Empathy. She has a superpower from a Riverfall city event that allows animals of all sorts and Kelvics (in kelvic form) to speak clear understandable Common around her.
  • Kavala is a Konti but was raised in the Drykas culture so her accent is entirely Pavi though she can speak Common, Pavi, and Tukant well. She's only conversational in Kontinese.
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