blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

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with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[kingsidecastle]

"And you want your character references from me or Royal?"

[imeanforever]

"Or both. Yeah."

[kingsidecastle]

"That can probably be arranged. Do you need the reference urgently or can it wait until you meet Royal this evening?"

[imeanforever]

"It is not technically urgent but Arcane - the sorcerer - will be sitting immobile on the floor of Tea's crypt until we can come to some kind of agreement, which I don't like much."

[kingsidecastle]

"Reasonable. Should one or the other of us come to Tea's crypt to talk to you?"

[imeanforever]

"Yes please. I'll get the address from Tea."

Promise leans back into the crypt. "Tea, how should Royal or Castle find the place?"

[eversomuchfun]

Tea offers a serviceable description of the crypt's location.

[imeanforever]

Promise relays it.

[kingsidecastle]

"I'll send Royal," says Castle.

[imeanforever]

"Thank you."

[kingsidecastle]

"No problem." A pause, then, "Royal's on her way."

[imeanforever]

"When should I expect her?"

[kingsidecastle]

"In about half an hour."

[imeanforever]

"Thanks."

[kingsidecastle]

"Is that everything?"

[imeanforever]

"I think so."

[kingsidecastle]

"Bye, then."

[imeanforever]

"Bye." Promise hangs up. She goes into the crypt to announce that a mortal will be appearing to make a character reference in about half an hour. And then she waits outside for Royal.

[summa_iniuria]

And there is Royal.

"Hi."

[imeanforever]

"Hi."

[summa_iniuria]

"Before I talk to your captive about my assessment of your personality and motives, is there anything you want to tell me to give me a clearer picture?"

[imeanforever]

"About my personality and motives or something else?"

[summa_iniuria]

"About your personality and motives. About the goals you're trying to accomplish. Or miscellaneous things that might affect how I see you," she says. "I've heard you may be trying to assail a palace, and you don't seem like the sort of person who would assail a palace for trivial reasons, but I don't actually know whose palace it is or why you want to assail it and that seems like relevant information for this purpose."

[imeanforever]

"It's the Queen's palace. She is... not the worst of all possible masters, but she isn't good, except in the sense of being skilled. It doesn't matter if someone wants to work for her or not because she can have anyone she wants; and if someone tries to betray her or annoys her personally she resorts to torture; and she leaves worse masters who don't happen to interest her as vassals to run rampant on their own."

[summa_iniuria]

"Those are pretty good reasons to assail a palace," Royal says agreeably.