Announcement

[royal_obligation]

Edarial makes a list of necessities for a wife. He has Zevros check it over, who promptly rips it up and throws it at him. He is of the opinion that if Edarial doesn't actually want to marry a specific person, he shouldn't, and Zevros will have nothing to do with any of it. Edarial sighs, rewrites it, and keeps it and a copy of it away from his twin in the future.

He makes the announcement to various interested people that he will be looking for a bride. Just saying it makes him feel sick. Edarial manages to keep it together long enough to give a list of the qualities he's looking for before he flees. He says he's busy, no one will look twice at him being curt and disappearing to get work done. So no one comes after him when he hides in his room and locks the door.

Face buried in his pillow, he realizes that there's no way he can be personable to his - whatever they are. Potential brides, suitors - whatever, he doesn't care. He'll hire someone to vet them, so he doesn't have to torture himself dealing with women trying to persuade him to marry them.

Comments

[come_midnight]

"[Kitty, I think they'd kill you.]"

[alicornucopia]

"[Well, we run away after, then!]"

[come_midnight]

"[Maybe. I don't know.]"

[aestrix]

"How long of a conversation are you ha-" begins Orman.

"Ssh!" says the guardswoman.

[come_midnight]

"The fucking least you can do is let me talk to my familiar through the fucking door," hisses Iobel.

[alicornucopia]

"[Are they taking you away? Do you have spells? Kill them all!]" advises Cricket. "[I know you don't like to but these are special!]"

[come_midnight]

"[I don't know how long they're giving me. I have half spells but they'll just hurt me again if I charge, kitty.]"

[aestrix]

The guards will let her talk to her familiar through the door.

[come_midnight]

"[You okay in there?]" she sighs.

[alicornucopia]

"[There is water, and food, but not enough to last forever, and I will make them sorry if they open the door,]" growls Cricket.

[come_midnight]

"[Will it last you a week?]"

[alicornucopia]

"[It could. They want you to marry him in a week? Bastards. I'll bite them.]"

Cricket is usually impolite, not violent. This is a special occasion.

[come_midnight]

"[Don't, don't provoke them, kitty. They haven't hurt you yet but they can drop you in the fountain as many times as they want to if they decide to do more than lock you up.]"

[aestrix]

That is, in fact, their plan if Cricket causes too much trouble. Not that they would know what she's saying.

[alicornucopia]

"[You want me to be their docile little pet?]" snarls Cricket.

[come_midnight]

"[I won't tell you to let them touch you. But don't deliberately - antagonize them. Okay, kitty? My brave Cricket. Wait a few days till we know more?"]

[alicornucopia]

"[For you,]" growls Cricket.

[aestrix]

Their captors continue to wait for them to finish talking. It's not like they know what they're talking about.

[come_midnight]

"[I'll see if I can get together some paper and chart up something more useful than what I had for muggers,]" promises Iobel. "[I don't think I'll suddenly crack teleportation, but something to go through walls maybe, I don't know. And if I can't - then I'll marry him and maybe if I have to I'll kill him in his sleep or something - we'll see. Patience?]"

[alicornucopia]

"[Fiiiiine.]"

[come_midnight]

"Are you going to move him now I found where he is?" she asks of the guards. "Or will he be here?"

[aestrix]

"We'll move him," says the alpha bitch.

"'We'? Uh, no," says Scratched Mccatinjuryson. "Not going near it."

"... We'll move it," she repeats.

[come_midnight]

"Are you going to offer me anything to ask him not to mark you up worse? He does what I tell him."

[aestrix]

"You are really not in a position to make demands right now. If he attacks us, we will act accordingly," says lady guard.

[come_midnight]

"He knows that too, and I think of his own accord he'd rather take you all on regardless, and I won't feel a thing unless you actually kill him, which you aren't going to do unless I don't marry the prince," says Iobel.