Comments | glacial_queen: Sadiablo Hall, Dhemlan, Kaeleer

glacial_queen

Sadiablo Hall, Dhemlan, Kaeleer

Jul 10, 2015 16:56

Lucivar stormed into Saetan's study at the Hall and slammed the door behind him, snarling something incoherent. Karla, alone in the study, just raised an eyebrow at him and set aside the papers she'd been reading, leaning back in Uncle Saetan's comfortable chair. "Yes?" she drawled ( Read more... )

trigger warning, hashtag not all warlord princes, [jaenelle], canon catch-up, this warning not in jest, who: lucivar yaslana, nfb, [marian], [saetan], who: karla, males are idiots, event: prince of ebon rih, nfi, teal deer crossing, terreille is f-ed up, protocol makes total sense rly, where: sadiablo hall, where: dhemlan

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offers_choices July 10 2015, 20:57:25 UTC

Oh, now. Here was that battlefield he was looking for. Lucivar stilled his prowl and his voice became quiet and deadly. "Meaning what?"

glacial_queen July 10 2015, 20:59:34 UTC

Karla didn't react to that, even though the quieter the Warlord Prince, the more lethal. "Do you know how Marian came to live in Kaeleer?" she asked. After dropping Marian off after leaving Luthvian's, they'd barely stayed long enough to get Marian's bags into her new room, but she didn't know if Lucivar had talked to Jaenelle since then.

offers_choices July 10 2015, 21:00:26 UTC

"Jaenelle brought her in." Another battleground, one that was less likely to end with him venting his fury in Karla's direction. They both knew that if he lost control and attacked her, like as not, Karla would end up dead. And the conversation about Marian was too personal and sensitive, like an open wound that flared with pain anytime someone brushed up against it. "And what in the name of Hell was Jaenelle doing in Askavi Terreille?!" he roared.

glacial_queen July 10 2015, 21:01:35 UTC

"Rescuing a hearth witch."

Lucivar heard it then. It wasn't anger under Karla's calmly spoken words; it was rage. So he chained his temper, no longer sure if he was dealing with Karla, his annoying cousin, or Karla, the witch who belonged to several castes that made wise men fear her wrath.

"Marian's father is a Warlord serving as a Fifth Circle guard in a Queen's court," Karla said, her own voice still quiet--and still filled with suppressed rage. "From the information your father gathered, he doesn't have the brains, the backbone, or the balls to advance any higher." Lucivar winced. If she ever met the man, at least one of those lacks would move from the figurative to the literal. "But he delused himself by thinking it's his lack of proper social connections rather than his lack of abilities that keeps him from being First or Second Circle. He likes to rub elbows with the aristo males in the court, and he likes to gamble--and so they tolerate him because they find his expectations amusing and they like winning the quarterly ( ... )

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