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[Wild Roses] The Wars

Dec 12, 2010 19:00

Title: integration
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses; Isael, Ruadhan, Annaliese, Conall, Hernén
Prompt: billradish: "practical gifts"
Word Count: 1484
Notes: sometime after secondhand boots, relatively early in the first war. Includes a new version of an August 2005 era comment-snip that was never incorporated into the indexes.

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( After the boots came a coat, given with as much careless grace as the boots had been. )

isael, ruadhan, list e, annaliese, wild roses, conall, first war, hernén

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taennyn December 13 2010, 19:11:39 UTC

*cheerful* Very specific reason; while not the most expensive of the dyes, black wasn't the cheapest, either. :)

Well, really. He might as well be. :D

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taennyn December 13 2010, 19:30:01 UTC

*relents!* Crown-trained bodyguards, composed of orphans (mostly under gentry class) to reduce that tiny family-allegiance Problem when working for particular nobles. When working, they wore specific colours and livery styles, and were generally sent out in pairs. He's been wearing black since he was a little kid.

. . The war he's heading into is his second. =\

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taennyn December 13 2010, 21:25:56 UTC

Ruadhan developed a case of wandering feet around the time Isael's mum got pregnant, and didn't come back until Isael was six or seven, and had already bonded with the group he was growing up with. While Ruadhan would have deeply loved to box the mother's ears, he wasn't enough of a bastard to pull the kid out of the group. Because the wandering feet thing wasn't going to stop. =\

The mother forbade him telling Isael who his father was (and by extension who she was), but the Bard tended to wander by on a semi-regular basis after that.

He missed the year of the war, between wandering-feet and accidentally dumping himself back into his home ground in the fall.

He'd actually come back to say goodbye, not to steal the kid--but Isael had had a shit war, and was at the stage of survivor's guilt that doesn't mind getting killed. =\ So, after talking it over with the kid's mother, Ruadhan took him, hoping the change in scene and circumstances would jar him out of the not-quite-suicidal ( ... )

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