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[we'll all love you just the way you are if you're perfect] [open]

Jul 17, 2008 17:15

Melou, wearing his usual look of utter woe, is picking huckleberries on the edge of the woods. He remembered a basket this time, and is working steadily, his fingers a little sticky from accidentally squashed berries ( Read more... )

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eyrienprince July 18 2008, 03:46:01 UTC

Lucivar's in a good mood, and so he goes looking for Melou, because he's fond of the boy and he knows he frightened him a little last time they spoke. So he comes and finds him, and perhaps sits down next to him.

"Hey there, you."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 02:33:59 UTC

Melou looks up and over, raising his mournful eyes to Lucivar's face. "Good morrow, sir."

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 04:07:31 UTC

Lucivar finds a smile for him. "Looks like something's eating at you again."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:18:01 UTC

"I would do more to please my lord."

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 04:23:24 UTC

"Your father?" A pause. "Do you know that you're not pleasing him?"

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:30:35 UTC

"I am bringing him trouble, and show him no service of any use."

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 04:44:54 UTC

"Funny thing about fathers. They don't always expect much of you."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 04:54:46 UTC

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Melou looks at him blankly. You have got to be kidding him, Lucivar.

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 04:59:56 UTC

Lucivar offers him a bit of a small smile. "No, really. I have a son of my own. He's a little beast, and I wouldn't have him any other way. You're far from that - you're a good boyo, and the way I see it, that's probably enough for your father if he's worth his salt."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 05:14:09 UTC

Well, maybe that's because you're a GOOD FATHER, maybe THAT's what the issue is here. Melou's expression does not change. "Sir, I cannot fight."

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 05:59:04 UTC

"So? Some people don't have the gift for it."

lesser_son July 19 2008, 20:40:11 UTC

"Sir, my lord wanted a soldier."

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 20:51:01 UTC

"Did, yes. But does he here? Seems if there's no war going on there's no need for soldiers."

He pauses. "There are other things boys can do than fight."

Right, Lucivar never-without-a-weapon. Ha. But he does honestly believe it.

lesser_son July 19 2008, 21:01:16 UTC

Melou looks nonplussed. "But that would please him?"

eyrienprince July 19 2008, 21:09:39 UTC

Lucivar looks at Melou, sideways. "I don't know your father. But I'm sure there's something."

lesser_son July 20 2008, 02:48:49 UTC

"He did not wish aught but a soldier, all my life, and now I do not myself know him enough to know what he would wish."

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