1st Orb, GHB 12

[steelhearted]

[There’s a cough, and green eyes glance up at the orb, then back down towards fidgeting hands. Calloused in a few places, picked at in others; these hands have seen a lot of action, are used to gripping a sword and digging into muck and grasping tree branches and chinks in stone.]

Uh. [The eyes turn back to the orb--the voice is somewhat rough from what sounds like overuse.] I hear the kingdom is having some difficulty with very large, moving thorns?

I have--experience. If someone could tell me a little more about the thorns, I’d be obliged.

Comments

[golden_moon]

It's just so...fantastic. It's right out of a story, or would be in my world.

So. [Selene grins.] Is she pretty?

[steelhearted]

I mean, it had been so long that by my time, we weren't sure if she was real or just a legend to explain the thorns--but I don't read many stories, mostly almanacks and histories.

[He's rambling a little, somewhat avoiding the question with a flush coming over his ears. But he does answer, the words taking on a reciting quality.]

The Lady is a vision. Her hair falls about her shoulders in shimmering red curls like flame; her gray eyes soft like smoke; her complexion is flawless cream, her lips like rosebuds, her neck like a swan's. It is said she is so lovely, so fair that Queen Titania herself grew mad with envy and it is this that placed her kingdom under its curse.

[A little flustered smile.] That's the legend, anyway. But ah--yes. She's very pretty.

[golden_moon]

[I'd for forgiveness, but Selene doesn't even want it.]

So you like older women, then?

[She grins.]

Me, too.

[steelhearted]

[He coughs abruptly, deeply flushed--wait. Me too? Is she--

He blinks. And gapes.]

Uh. I. Suppose?

[golden_moon]

[Selene is a complicated individual.]

Oh, Sugar. You should have tried harder. Now I know you're easy to tease.

[steelhearted]

[Weakly, he laughs.]

I always have been and I've never been good at hiding it.

[golden_moon]

I bet that made you real popular with the noblesse.

[steelhearted]

[He laughs a little too loudly, memories of women ruffling his hair and straightening his clothes and cooing at him crossing his mind.]

I spent more time around the maids before my wife. But--uh, yes. I never wanted for haircuts and never had any holes in my clothes.

[golden_moon]

I was thinking after, Sir Prince, but maids are a very good group to have on your side, I think.