Moonstone

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote this to kunama_wolf' prompt "Moonstone Sunstone Bloodstone. oh hey yeah more angelsverse would be good (thanks for the reminder kelkyag) or one of those officer friends of the cadet?"

For those with limited spoons or time, this piece runs to 1,842 words. Birgenes and Saprista have appeared before in Choices and Consequences and Correcting Assumptions.

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[tuftears]

Yay, thieves getting married. ^_^

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[rix_scaedu]

They are what passes for archaeologists in this time and place. :)

Besides, is it theft if everyone whose stuff their taking has been dead for at last hundreds of years?

[tuftears]

Given their ratio of scholarly analysis and information preservation to acquisition and selling of treasure... They're definitely far more in the 'scoundrel' end of things than the 'scholar'. ;)

[rix_scaedu]

Fair enough but they do keep pot shards instead of discarding them as useless and they don't have a university or a museum behind them.

[aldersprig]

heehee hee ;-D

[rix_scaedu]

:)

[thnidu]

Oh, I +like+ this.

[rix_scaedu]

Thank you.

Hee

[anonymous]

Maybe she had someone sew some of that gem haul into her wedding gown.
I liked where that ended up going. An interesting hook regarding the free men status. Also about how they see marriage as a contract rather than something more nebulous and inescapable.

Kunama the lazy

Re: Hee

[rix_scaedu]

I'm glad you liked it. :)

I suspect she's not a valuable stones on the dress type girl myself.

Re: valuable stones on the dress

[kunama_wolf]

Yeah I got that impression too.

Then I went googling for gemstone bridal wear, most of them were quietly elegant... but one of the pictures was indian, and it seems most of their bridal wear is colourful! decoration!

Wow today is rambling day

Re: valuable stones on the dress

[rix_scaedu]

For Saprista, think more Roman. :)

[rix_scaedu]

Well, it probably is a tomb by default and they certainly are raiding it...