The half-celestial stayed with her for sometime, eventually pulling out of Avis information of herself. Knowing that it was either talk, or be left in loneliness forever, Avis eventually opened up. The way she saw it, by at least playing to Ventrua's likes, it would put her in good stead with Vitruvion. Apparently something was occurring in Ventrua's mind to let her like Avis, as she got up half an hour into the conversation and went to get Avis food herself. The kenku devoured it hungrily.
And told her of her past.
She told her about her older, but young at the time, brothers, who had been called up when she was just an infant to war. Owing to their father's grand warrior prowess a lot was expected from them. She told her that unfortunately they never lived up to the expectations however, and between them and their father trying to rescue the sons, the war was lost owing to Avis' family - the Tsakaka. She also told her of her family's time in the wilderness, as one of the kegareta, the classless and shogun-less, and of her father's death. Then she told her briefly, of her mother and her great skill in baking, that which had given Avis her own baking passion. In memory of her mother, a fighting spirit in memory of her father. Twin daggers in honour of the brothers she hardly met.
"I see," Ventrua nodded, when Avis had finished. "So you are still looking out for revenge."
"I'll never get revenge against the shogun of the flock I was born into," Avis said, looking directly at her. "That is very unlikely now."
Ventrua slowly shrugged. "You don't know what opportunities being a part of this world might lead you to. My brother has business outside of here you know, and Blaze has certainly gone beyond these walls."
"So he trusts her not to try to escape?"
The other woman laughed. "No, he ensures that she doesn't."
Grimly, Avis nodded and their conversation lasted a short few more minutes. Ventrua excused herself, and Avis knew it was very likely word of her past would reach Vitruvion in some near future. She tried for a short while longer to test the chain that bound her to the bed, and got up on order to test how far it would go. The answer was two feet. Not far enough from her to the door, but far enough to go and sit in the chair that Ventrua had done.
For the sake of change, Avis did just this, hobbled but with enough energy now to drag the chair where she wanted it. Leaning back in it she gazed up at the ceiling. She found that the great swathes of material were mostly likely silk, and they all joined at a central point in the roof. From there they spread out to the four rough corners and sides of the room, making the otherwise dungeon-esque room look more like a parlour. On the sides of the room, then, the tapestries dangled, and Avis could see that they were mostly the same deep red colour. The tapestries were also of similar designs, consisting all of natural scenes, rich with trees, and animals - deer, rabbits, birds. A lake appeared in one, and had a unicorn drinking at the edge. It was near the unicorn's tail which Avis first saw the border of the tapestry, and then the strange straight line in the wall of the room.
It was like a faint crack in the universe, with the tile-like bricks, all painted the same white as outside, lining up to make an edge about six foot in height. Frowning, Avis tried to spy other areas where the wall was exposed in the room - where the torches were, for instance - but saw nothing like this irregularity. She thought that it was just the way the bricks came together - but then she realised that it would be idiotically unstable to let a series of stones lie thus.
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