@Lion (You should check out
the song I named the thread after, thought it was amusing :3)
It wasn't really that she couldn't
afford the drink, she just didn't see the point in spending good coin when she could sing for her supper, as it were.
Which was how Aria found herself strumming her lute and singing at the top of her voice, standing on one of the tables in the center of the inn's tap room as people gathered around to clap and laugh, a few even dancing- or, well, she supposed that could be called dancing.
She smiled as she sang, spinning in a circle that made her skirts flare and earned a few appreciative whistles from the crowd. True, music was how she made her living, but she'd be lying if she said she didn't enjoy the hell out of performing.
With a flourish she hit the last note and swung her lute over her back, secured by the strap over her shoulder, and dipped into a theatrical curtsy. "Alright, alright, that's all for now," she laughed, waving off a small spattering of applause as she hopped down from the table.
Gods she needed a drink. She wove her way through the people milling about toward the bar and bounced onto a stool. "Water, and a glass of wine if you have it," she called to the girl who seemed to b serving.
The young woman raised an eyebrow. "You got the coin for it?" Aria rolled her eyes and flashed a bit of copper between her fingers and the girl nodded, bustling off to get her drink.
With a long exhale, Aria turned around in her seat to lean back against the bar and observe her surroundings with a sharp eye, still a little flushed from the exertion of her performance.