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Oh, how he loved the sound of wood against the hollow of a man's chest. That was the sound that Azazel heard as he beat his sparring partner across the chest with a wooden sparring sword. The tall and muscular brunette gasped in agony as he doubled over. Smiling darkly, Azazel beat the man between the shoulders with the wooden sword's pommel. The man then dropped to his knees and fell over, defeated.
Swinging his sword in a circle, the Emperor put his other thumb through a belt loop and skipped away, whistling, in triumph as sweat on his bear chest shined bright. Once a few paces away in the dirt floored arena, he slung the wooden blade over his broad shoulders and ended his whistling in a slide from high to low. "Come on, Boys. Who's next?" he asked in a bright, sing-song tone as he looked around at the other sparring partners. About a dozen other men all sat an leaned against pillars or lay flat on the ground holding and massaging their wounds. A pair of men with bandages wound about their heads were actually attempting to pop a man's leg back into his hip. At their lord's question, a look of terror flitted through the crowd of wounded men. At this, Azazel gave a smile of mock-kindness."Come on, Boys, I'm jus' getting warm---"
A meek and timid clearing of a throat nearby cut the silvery blond off. Turning with a surprised blink of his silver eyes, the servant from before stood shaking before him. Irritated that his fun had been interrupted, he gave a dangerous "Weeeeell?" look signaling the man to speak. "A-hem, M'Lord. I-I've just been to the Lady's Quarters, A-a-a-nd---""And?""A-and the Miss, is, uh, ah, mi-mi-missing.""Missing?! Missing as in how?""Oh, well, she... she's... snuck o-o-out... Sir...," the man squeaked out with a deep bow and nervous claps of his hands. Azazel, who had stood with a snarling smile up 'til now, opened his mouth to speak then shut it. His grip on his sword tightening to where his knuckles turned white, he ground his teeth in a pained smile as he threw daggers at anyone nearby with his eyes. The sparring soldiers took their leave at this point.
So his little bride had ran off again, had she? How terrible in timing it was. Here he had come with a gift and she wasn't here to receive it. True, it was not her first time in running off and getting off, but it brought it brought up the question of where on earth did she keep going? The servant, seeing his lords vehemence brooding behind his wide smile, piped up in an abnormally high voice. "W-would you l-like me to f-fetch the guards to go and... fin-- fetch her?"
Azazel turned and began walking away towards the armory and knights' quarters adjacent to the training arena. "No. Instead bring me fresh clothes and a horse." "M'lord?" "I'll be going to find her myself. Be sure the clothing you select is inconspicuous. Otherwise people may prostrate at the sight of me." With that he disappeared into the dressing rooms to clean up and prepare for his first Taliya hunt.
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