Eye's staring a bit glossy like down at the lights flickering from the city bellow Aegon was hardly paying much mind to his surroundings. Hungover, lost in thought, a bit on the side of emotionally disturbed currently, pick your reason but he certainly didn't hear the other until they were damn near standing behind him and he all to suddenly jumped, body stiffening and breath damn near quickening for a second until his eyes landed on Blaine staring and clearly startled for a moment.
"Don't sneak up on me like that!!" He finally hissed, brows scrunching a bit as he took a breath and slightly move to go lax against the stone wall he was leaning against. Who the hell slinked about this part of the castle so late anyway? Well him and Blaine apparently.... Silly thought.
"Then get me a collar with a cute little bell on it," Blaine answered back sarcastically. He had been practicing parkour, not really expecting anyone else to be out and about at this time. Well, apparently Aegon was. "Buy you a drink?" he asked with a wink
"Well aren't you absolutely adorable.... But no, I'd rather not go anywhere right now" He replied at the mention of leaving the place to go down to the taverns. Of course they'd be buzzing at this hour but tonight he simply didn't feel like being around anyone.
"You could however join me in raiding my families supply in the kitchen cellars.... " He added after a moment however. Definitely something he'd been considering having already finished what was left of the one in his chambers before wandering out here. An attempt to cure the hangover but it really hadn't been enough....
"That's nice, coming from you," Blaine remarked. "Okay, I'll join you. What's your poison?" he asked, pulling a small flask out of his pocket. He liked his red wine, sure, but every so often he had to have something stronger.
"You tried that stuff from uh.... It's like a Dornish Rum basically. They make their stuff nice and strong for being animals. I'll give em that" Aegon replied with a faint sort of smile briefly cross his face as he moved to lead the way through the door back into the keep interior.
"No, not yet, but I do like me some rum," Blaine said. He nodded his chin at Aegon's smile, a wordless compliment. He moved swiftly and silently, just far enough behind that he didn't bump into the other man.
Leading the way a bit slowly through the a few different corridors Aegon was soon heading down a set of stairs to a lower level below the kitchens. Taking care to be as quiet as possible as it wasn't exactly forbidden to go in here and be taking from their store but definitely frowned upon by his parents and grandfather. Soon moving into the dimly lit room he stopped at one of the shelves and reached to pull a rather large bottle down soon handing it to Blaine only to reach up and grab a second one. "Bottoms up..." He sort of teased half heartedly before moving to pry the cork of his own out with his teeth slowly moving over to sit on top a nearby barrel.
Blaine followed along, catlike, until they reached the cellar. When Aegon handed him the bottle, he uncorked it and drank it like water for a few moments, leaving it about half-empty.
"This *is* good," he said approvingly. "Cheers."
Aegons eye went a bit large at Blaine for a moment. He liked to chug as much as the next person but DAmN...
"Mmmhmm cheers" He replied with a bit of a chuckle finally moving to take another few chugs of the bottle. "You know, I keep seeing you about .. what exactly do you even do around here?" He asked finally his curiousity having gotten the better of him. Judging by the guys lack of physical prowess he was willing to bet not a knight, certainly not any part of their military, and furthermore he hadn't seen a Maesters chain.... Yet.
"I read," Blaine said simply. "I'm a scholar of sorts. Bit of a layabout, really. I don't serve a function; no one has assigned me one, nor have I really asked."
"..... You've no idea how much I envy you" Aegon replied all to bluntly sort of eyeing the other male for a moment like he truly did. Then moving to take another swig of the rum he sort of chuckled "Perhaps not the scholar part though.... Schooling was and has been atrocious" He added shaking his head. Probably one of the worst things about being well? Himself. Being smart wasn't an option and he'd gone from struggling to read as a child to growing impatient with his teachers impatients. More than once the Maesters had called him unwilling to learn and eventually he'd simply quit trying, much to his mother's annoyance. Even of late he probably only knew about half the Valarian his siblings both did and simply not bothering to go about studying or acting as if he cared was common. He cared enough to learn to communicate with his dragon on some level, the rest he found to be utterly pointless to most degree.
"You would envy a man you just met?" Blaine teased.
Blaine shook his head. "I've always loved learning," he said. "My family... we belong to a particular sect back home. I was raised to become a priest of that sect. My tutor hammered into me the importance of knowledge and how it pertains to power. He's not the funnest of guys," Blaine remarked, "but he has a firm hand and, if I do say so myself, taught me well. There were worse things than being under his wing." Of course, they hadn't seen much of each other since coming here, but that wasn't important. "What is it that you enjoy?"
"Awe splendid and a priest.... " Aegon remarked very clearly sarcastic this time. Soon snickering a bit at the fact Blaine seemed so proud of his intellectual compliments. He sounded nearly like Jace which was both amusing and nearly made him want to jab at him for it. How some people spent so much time on useless matters was beyond him and though he'd have never told his mother or their preacher this he also found any sort of faith a joke. Something humans clearly made up merely to feel like they would have some sort of reward for being a decent person and others such as his families faith was clearly also used for it's political ability to push things.
"Drinking.... " Aegon mused a bit smartly before laughing a bit at his own smart ass remark. "No I jest I do a little more than that though admittedly I'm usually also drinking... If it wasn't this time of night I'd probably either be sneaking off to see if those Jesters have worked up a new amusing performance or going to the brothel. Makes an amusing time whether it's just watching or actually spending a good deal of money" He added with a bit of a smirk.
"Former priest. I don't know what I'll be if I go back home. Can't feature myself taking myself as seriously as old Faustus." Blaine grinned.
For his part, Blaine didn't understand what good it was wasting time and poisoning the body. He'd seen his companions drinking, doing drugs, throwing themselves at anyone who looked twice at them, and he didn't get it. Sure, he liked a good drink now and then, something that tasted nice, and sure, being a witch he had a decent tolerance, but to say one enjoyed drinking most of all... What a pitiful existence.
But if that was pitiable, the brothel comment made Blaine visibly cringe. This wastrel was, he understood, someday to be king? If he'd been of a different faith, he'd have prayed for the lands! "Sorry," he quickly said, "but I don't understand. What's the fun of brothels? And drinking to excess?"
"The serenity that comes with.... Seven you sound like my brother" He remarked shaking his head. Moving to take several more chugs be moved leaned against the wall that edged to the stairwell for a moment seeming to suddenly go quiet. "This.... Is the only way I'll be sleeping tonight. You asked me why I envy someone I've just met? If you don't understand that.... That's why" He added not much caring if it made him sound pathetic. Clearly Blaine didn't have the kind of problems he did, or else he was simply a better human being like his brother. It was certainly one of those things.
Blaine didn't understand a word Aegon was saying. Maybe he was too sober. He gave Aegon a bemused stare before a quiet sound behind him distracted him.
"Really, Blaine, the man speaks perfect sense," came the voice of Faustus's best friend, Lucifer, who'd just entered the room. "Perhaps one day you'll actually *have* sex, and you'll see what all the fuss is about."
Blaine chuckled uncomfortably. "I'll uh, leave that to you." Addressing Aegon, he said, "Well, thanks for the drink. I think I'll go practice free-running until I feel like sleeping."
"Have fun with that," Lucifer's high demon, Maze, deadpanned. She came up from behind Lucifer and stroked a finger over Aegon's chest. "You sound like you know how to party."
All to quickly Aegon was stifling a laugh at the insult that Blaine was a virgin. He'd wondered upon hearing the priest comment but then, he nearly imagined that wasn't the case for all and hadn't jumped to conclusions. "Mmmm you know if you'd finished that you'd have an amazing sleep.... Or maybe get alcohol poisoning..." Aegon mused with a bit of a laugh upon Blaine suddenly announcing his departure. Eyes moving to the female of the two he'd only briefly seen about, maybe once even he just sort of smirked. "Well I'd say anyone who doesn't think me a blast is probably a miserable prude" Aegon replied with a fairly proud smirk. To say he knew how to party would have probably been an understatement, already he was sort of eyeing the female a bit in thought with a smirk as he moved to stand and took several more swigs of his drink.
Blaine wasn't one to consider virginity an insult, nor did he feel the need to disclose his sexual history with anyone present. He just walked off without another word as Maze and Lucifer continued their overtures towards Aegon.
"Yes, unfortunately the world is full to brimming with miserable prudes," Lucifer said, disdain clear in his voice. Maze just nodded and circled Aegon, cupping his ass experimentally.
"Not bad," she said in a would-be dismissive tone, but a smirk could probably be heard in her voice.
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