royal_obligation: (n. No patience left)
Edarial Cartalian ([personal profile] royal_obligation) wrote2014-05-24 08:39 pm

Announcement

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.
come_midnight: (m ~ desperation)

[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do you want to read his proposal?" asks Iobel, plucking the letter from the bedside table. "Here, read that in the context of me trapped here, guarded night and day, cat kidnapped."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Read, read.

Then she makes an 'Eep' sound, and drops the letter.

"Oh all-knowing one above, oh my god! This is against your will and the prince has forced you here?!"
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"My cat," Iobel adds, "was poisoned when I was packing to leave the country because I didn't like being ordered here, and they took him when I brought him to the fountain."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh my god," repeats the woman, both hands closing over her mouth and looking terrified. "And they still have him?!"
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. I found him the first night, knocked out two guards on my way, but they said they were going to move him after that."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
She nods, shivering. "I'd - in a normal situation I'd get the prince, but that won't work here, do you think I should get - Zevros or, or - oh, no, no no he would be on Edarial's side, wouldn't he, they're always on each other's side..."
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wouldn't know. I've never met my future husband or my future brother-in-law."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The woman makes a little frightened but sympathetic sound. "They work together on everything, they act like they fight but it's fake, they don't have actual fights at all, oh god I can't get Zevros. The - the former king's useless, no actual power, oh my god I don't know what to do," she squeaks.
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Apparently what you're supposed to do is pretty me up for the wedding," says Iobel.
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"B-But - but you're - you're a hostage, you shouldn't be here!"
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. I know. Do you think you can get me my cat? Because if you can't I still have to get married."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I-I could try but I wouldn't know where to look and if he's guarded I wouldn't know what to do! I'm not a spellbinder, I've - I've got no experience with weapons or - or anything, I'm - I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry..."
Edited 2014-05-25 18:32 (UTC)
come_midnight: (m ~ desperation)

[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"I could turn you invisible. I was working on something to walk through walls but I didn't get it finished in time."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I'd still have to open doors. If he's guarded then it would be in a - room or something, they'd notice me opening the doors..."
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. That was my problem, too."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I - can look during the - the wedding, maybe? Or - no, then you'd still be married to him..."
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I currently expect to get him back after the wedding, and then I'll see - if it's bad enough to risk running away. If they don't give him back..."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I-I can help look?" offers the woman, shivering a bit with fear.
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe. What's your name?"
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Zephrys," says, apparently, Zephrys. "Zephrys Birch, it's um - nice to meet you, but not under the circumstances."
Edited 2014-05-25 19:27 (UTC)
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"I understand the feeling. Okay. What am I wearing?"
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"A pretty dress? I was all prepared to get excited about it before but now it's just..."
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of the things that bother me about this situation the dress isn't really one of them. We might as well get on with it. I don't want anyone to think I'm stalling so I can put together a grand cat rescue plan and have them decide to jump the signal."
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[personal profile] aestrix 2014-05-25 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good point. Okay, dress and hair and makeup."

She gets to work doing her job. She turns out to be extremely good at it.
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[personal profile] come_midnight 2014-05-25 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
At the end of it Iobel is attired in lavender satin and draped with periwinkle silk, both shot through with silver threads, and several tendrils of her hair have been woven into complicated braids that form a knot around the loose remainder. The makeup is pretty enough to supply an extra incentive to try not to cry, even if she'd never want to spend the time on an ordinary day. The jewelry could probably buy an entire row of houses, all sapphires and platinum.

There's a tiara, but apparently she's supposed to carry that and let her husband put it on her, not wear it yet.

She looks like a princess and she's about to look like a queen.

Fuck.

"Okay. Do I go now, or later - are you showing me there or is someone else?"

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