[Wild Roses] The Wars

[named_by_rhyme]

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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Comments

[billradish]

"Bow only," he'd replied, smiling, and knew it was sadder than happy on his face. "She was a harsher teacher than you."

ow.

Isael hadn't been able to help the grin that had spread across his face at that, and asked where the riding gear was. The stablehand gave him the unimpressed look that he was starting to learn went hand in hand with being very obviously his father's son

*cackles* <3 Yay, Loki-horse!

Isael didn't bother shrugging, just put a hand to either end of the saddle and swung himself up in the easy way he remembered. He was surprised when he almost overshot, arms stronger than he remembered or the horse smaller

That has got to be SUCH a weird adjustment period.

"Beg pardon?" Isael asked, politely as he could--knowing his face was dropping back to the guard's to the lord's position he'd been trained for. But the man was a king in all but name--he could hardly object to politeness, even if it wasn't entirely familiar.

Love this. It creates neat pictures, and helps the sense of not-his-world.

This was his father's

[taennyn]

Yeah. =\

*snickers!* All hail the brat horse.

It really is--he's a bit lucky he didn't overshoot and accidentally vault the damn horse. (Which he would not have approved of. At all. =|)

:) Thank you.

[taennyn]

Loki is such a shit. :)

(There is another piece from a couple days ago with another horse that may please you here. :))

[taennyn]

Loki-horse is . . well. There's a reason he's a gelding, not a stallion. >.>

Thank you. :) It was nice to be able to introduce the brat properly.

[illian]

"Bow only," he'd replied, smiling, and knew it was sadder than happy on his face. "She was a harsher teacher than you."

Like the radish said: ow

When he'd asked about the roan, the man who'd had stable-duty replied that that was Loki. In the tone of voice that said there was a story attached to the name.

*snerk* Well, it was either that or Puck.
Or Fox. (Because even if the timing worked out [my brain, made of pudding it is], naming it Takashi would be a bit much. And I can't imagine anyone actually giving Arianhrod a horse named that to ride. Not and actually surviving.)

The stablehand gave him the unimpressed look that he was starting to learn went hand in hand with being very obviously his father's son . . .

Ah, the joys of very long memories. And family retainers.

[taennyn]

=\ He's sixteen, and walking into his second war. 'Ow' is unfortunately par for the course.

Apparently the other option was 'Pooka' or similar sorts of story-horses. :) (Takashi was actually never outed as a fox, so they wouldn't have known to use his name. If he had . . yeah, bit much. >.>)

*snicker!* Ruadhan did gain quite the reputation during the Trickwood unification. Three hundred years isn't that long to forget the stories of the Bard--especially when his music is still circulating.

[taennyn]

*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

[taennyn]

*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. =\