[Wild Roses] Trickwood Unification

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: box traps
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; a tributary baroness, Ruadhan, Ettore, others
Prompt: 21D "war"
Word Count: 892
Notes: after the incident with the crocodile, before the incident with the tiger.

Comments

[illian]

There was a way out of this. There had to be.

Well, yes, he gave you three of them.

The fourth involves Divinities or things that look like them and you'd just end up deeper in debt that way.

[taennyn]

:D Yeeeah. She's still hoping for some way to eel herself into power, at least to the point of keeping her place.

Frankly I suspect she's damn luck she got Ruadhan in her keep, as opposed to any of the others. >.>

[illian]

*facepalm* Aaaaand it didn't occur to her that she could work her way into that kind of position? (Again?) She's more of a short and mid-term thinker, isn't she?

There was a certain genteel "You are a perfectly lovely young woman1 and I'd be dreadfully sorry to blow your brains across the walls if you do something exceptionally stupid2" kind of feel to what he was saying.

1. Lovely young woman being code for "I'm sure your mother will miss you. Probably."
2. Exceptionally stupid = anything other than what I just said.

[taennyn]

Yeah, she's great at short term advantage but crap at long term planning, which has and is going to cost her a lot.

:D I'm delighted that came across, as that's exactly it.

[taennyn]

They're coming upriver, past her place at the fork of where a big tributary meets another river, and there are more destinations upriver. She collects less when traders are coming back downriver than when they're headed up. And the boats headed upriver she could see from her window were using sail and poles to head farther up, not coasting with gravity down. So, they obviously came past her and she has new stuff, yay!

Only not. Because the Sabaeys have got fed up with her and figured out a way to rig an overland hauling route to get the traders past her bottleneck.

[billradish]

...Neville-who-taught-Ed, on the other hand, once yelled: "Right of way in the name of the Holy Mother Church!" in his best stentorian declaiming-from-the-pulpit voice, and got away with it; people got out of his way. I'm fairly sure clergy aren't supposed to cheat...)

I've already apologized to Tae for saying so but, really. This wins more than the writing. That's awesome.

[klgaffney]

okay, NO lady. you lost. give them the game and if you really, really must, try again tomorrow. *rubs face* morbid curiosity makes me wonder which of the options offered she goes with, or if she does in fact, wind up a greasy spot on the floor. =|

[illian]

The Elders say "Yes!" but that's just to give me a headache.
*searches for a 2x4 to whack them with*

[billradish]

At first? I thought this was Arianhrod. It caused a bit of confusion before it started making sense again.

I like this. Ruadhan's tone is priceless and yes, everything Illian said. <3

[coastal_physics]

I like the submission to Ruadhan by the wolf.

also, yay!

[taennyn]

. . yay?