10-06-2013, 02:31 PM
When Calden calls, the phone rings three times, gets halfway through the fourth one before it's answered. There's a pause of two or three seconds, dead air to be found when the line picks up, before a woman's voice came to it, sounding somewhat distracted, like she'd come out of a conversation to answer. "Hello?"
Miss Hawkes? This is Calden.
"Oh. Yeah, hold on." There's a 'psst' noise when she takes the phone away from her face. She's telling someone in the background not to kill each other and that she'll be right back. Whoever she was talking to said something back, and she light-heartedly snapped something at them in Spanish to the tune of 'kiss my ass' before she was back on the line.
"Calden. I've heard talk of you-- Tamsin is a friend. I just wanted to reach out, get to know you a little. Most of the Kinfolk around here are stuck about the city-- not nearly enough of us out where we ought to be, if you ask me." She cleared her throat. The woman that Calden hasn't ever met in person, who he'd have no reason to know of (unless he went around Forgotten Questions often enough to know who the Hawkes family is), sounds boisterous and headstrong, right from the get go. There's a force in her words, an underlying authority that seems to be on its airs by default.
"Do you leave that ranch often?"
Miss Hawkes? This is Calden.
"Oh. Yeah, hold on." There's a 'psst' noise when she takes the phone away from her face. She's telling someone in the background not to kill each other and that she'll be right back. Whoever she was talking to said something back, and she light-heartedly snapped something at them in Spanish to the tune of 'kiss my ass' before she was back on the line.
"Calden. I've heard talk of you-- Tamsin is a friend. I just wanted to reach out, get to know you a little. Most of the Kinfolk around here are stuck about the city-- not nearly enough of us out where we ought to be, if you ask me." She cleared her throat. The woman that Calden hasn't ever met in person, who he'd have no reason to know of (unless he went around Forgotten Questions often enough to know who the Hawkes family is), sounds boisterous and headstrong, right from the get go. There's a force in her words, an underlying authority that seems to be on its airs by default.
"Do you leave that ranch often?"