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[Wild Roses] The Wars

Dec 11, 2010 15:44

Title: here things begin
'Verse/characters: Wild Roses Wars; Etienne, Nicolai
Prompt: 29A "defying gravity"
Word Count: 1723
Notes: Part of the dragon arc. Follows from collared. I think this is the first time I've actually written Etienne, and certainly the first time writing this particular set of brothers interacting.

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( Nicolai's letters, Etienne had thought more than once, wouldn't take much work to become either code or easy to transmit by flags. )

dragon arc, first war, nicolai, etienne, list a, wild roses

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taennyn December 12 2010, 00:08:05 UTC

We can probably explain a lot if we say that the reason Hernén and Geoffrey are actually remarkably well-adjusted given what Joceline and Aifiric were like when they were small has a lot to do with several other members of the family taking Nicolai and Etienne as a Terrible Warning. >.>

billradish December 12 2010, 00:22:50 UTC

As the trees coalesced around him, fading out of the spell's transitory mist, he wished--yet again--that Nicolai would include tiny, unimportant details like 'You'll be arriving in the Dragon-spine Mountains' in his messages. A 'bring walking shoes' or Winter, a 'Bring something to shoot with', anything for warning, but no. No, Nicolai liked to surprise him.

Or honestly didn't consider it worth mentioning. Which was a slightly terrifying possibility

oh dear.

"Dragon, Nic--" Etienne repeated, starting to feel cold as the breeze curled around the terror-sweat on his skin.

"He won't mind," Nicolai replied, gesturing a come-here that was only just barely not a spell, not a command. "And all the food's inside."

Nicolai really is quite alarming.

watching Etienne eat with a born mage's patience for energy consumption

Nice detail.

"All right," he said, leaning back and taking a long swallow of beer as he melted into the chair's embrace, "what's our angle?"

Dear Etienne, you are also quite alarming.

taennyn December 12 2010, 04:11:26 UTC

Oh, man, this brotherset brings the alarming in ways Hernén and anyone you put him next to (or hell, Dón and Ruadhan) just can't. =|

larathia December 12 2010, 02:20:47 UTC

Oh, that poor kid. Henchmen tend to last only as long as they're useful.

taennyn December 12 2010, 04:16:28 UTC

:) As I said in chat, he's less henching and more 'fellow mastermind', because frankly Etienne is just as much a Terrible Warning (if much less obvious about it) as Nicolai. =\

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taennyn December 12 2010, 04:19:48 UTC

:D I love your interpretation, here. It's not entirely accurate--each of this pair considers the other the Very Closest and Most Trustworthy of his family . . but that's not saying that much. Things were not so great when they were young, and it wasn't caught in time. =\

(It would have gone similarly for the next set after them, being Hernén and Geoffrey, but several of the elder siblings had learned the lesson of Nicolai and Etienne. =\)

But yeah, two thirds of the main conspiracy are sitting in this dragon's cave. one could wish Nic hadn't got outside in time. >.>

klgaffney December 12 2010, 03:58:26 UTC

...... dear GOD, nicolai, you thoughtless bastard. =| you're lucky that etienne still bothers with you. otoh, dragon. shiny.

"what's our angle?"

heh. it's one thing knowing the plotline and another when you see something of the reality of it. it's a really SPECIAL situation. *wince*

taennyn December 12 2010, 04:21:38 UTC

oh, Nicolai brings the thoughtless bastard to the room. He's been doing this for AGES. (If on a rather smaller scale.) On the other hand, Etienne's long since used to it, and he gets his own back when he needs to.

... Yeah. Nyergh.