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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:38 pm
"A thought comes to mind, if you'll entertain me a minute and not slap me for bringing this possibility up. You may have some sitting to do, and perhaps he'd prefer to be sitting at your side, as opposed to across the plane. And, if you'll pardon me on it, it does give a potential solution to the hier problem as well if things went well. From what I gather, Lateef will probably be replacing Kieran. that leaves his adopted daughter."
Holding up his hand in case of a slap or protest coming.
"If you get married, technically, she will have a claim on the your throne, and by the time you are relinquishing, she very well may be ready and willing to take your place."
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:57 pm
A look to the kid before he settled down and began to eat. Well things were running smoothly but the boy seemed so quiet, Galesen guess that the kid wasn't use to this really so he would take his time getting to know the boy. "Oh uh...thanks for helping me out in the caves earlier Mykorian. It is appreciated" Well the boy did help him out, and he was grateful for that. But now it was time to eat and eating was what Galesen was doing. Though he wondered at the same time as he looked at the half elf just what other little surprises were to come from hims since he is the child of a drow and a surface elf.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:18 am
"That's the point, and she wasn't. Which I know it sounds horrible, but may have been a rather well off thing if it had to absolutly happen at all to her. We're elves after all, we live a long long time and the more we experience the more the earlier memories of our lives are tucked away in darker corners." Not fun thoughts to think, but true in their own rights. But he clapped his son on the back again in that fatherly way that he had always done to the child to comfort him when his father thought he needed it. "She knows you didn't mean to. Used to be all we had was each other...it's understandable even if things had changed."
Quieting a moment...yup his son was finally reaching an age where he fully understood his early beginnings rather than just accept them. "I've had a lot of children in my life. But you're the first I ever got to have to raise as my own. I made a promise when I left Andal that first time...that I was never going to let things be like they were back then. I had gotten out, I was never going back and I was never going to let the things that happened there, happen again in any form. Your mother was just scared, she didn't know how to be a mother and she was afraid she would hurt you or corrupt you. I suppose her thoughts were like mine about my brother...end it before it goes wrong. But she promised me that you would be safe and she kept that promise to me." Smiling lightly. "Sometimes I don't know if spoiling you with cookies was good or now, Cookie Fiend."
She shook her head, but kept her hands to herself at the very least. "We can't put a pure moon elf on a wood elf throne. We may not all be completely seperatist nations of subrace division but there are still strong feelings about ruling. After all...we're all quiet different and we know our lands the best. A moon elf is one for mountains and caves where not much greenery grows and they don't have the natural connection to said greenery. People would worry about the land as well as themselves who need it most." It wasn't like she hadn't thought about such things. "Besides, I think Lharika is indeed going to take Kieran's place, she seems to like the idea. And I don't want Kieran lazing around my palace all day waiting for me to finish with whatever work I have to do." Giving a light sigh.
"We had plans...we knew we'd probably be offed the thrones when our times were up because we had Piper. She had right to claim what she wanted, but it wouldn't of settled well. If it all came to those ends...we were merely going to either put other family lines on our thrones, blood adopt, or let Council and Brigade make the decision of who would take it. Then Kieran, Piper and I, were going to move to one of the little Tidal Pendant Isles, have our own little place and what not and not be bothered by what some others who are less open to the mixing of the divisions. Even with Kieran's fostering of race relations, he can't change everyone's point of view. But obviously, that hasn't panned out."
He shrugged lightly, all too used to the sound of silence in his life. He used to talk to himself to fill the void, or rather to his parents that weren't there but that had stopped by now. "You're welcome...was the right thing to do." Mykorian ate slowly, knowing he wasn't used to too rich of food and would rather eat slow and a little so he wouldn't get sick. Was nice to have an actual meal like mom used to make every night again though. A blink at Galesen...was he staring? "What?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:35 am
Malik took a moment, and glance at Fianna.
"you want me to take it from you? This place is becoming more and more dangerous. my power here is pretty well consolidated, but it'smaking us a target. like the 'Nell said...if you wanted power in this area of the Underfoot, you go through the D'vinns."
Looking at his hands a moment.
"I've been fighting my entire existance. in wars as a general in Neriak, on the surface of other planes hunting Cymarron, and here as a powerful lord against all comers to the throne. Piper may not like the idea of being a ruler, bound by laws and to thrones, but it's a way of life I long since grew into. You may be right, people wouldn't want a non fier'dal on the throne, but I can handle that."
glancing over at her.
"Piper needs the surface. any surface. it's part of your kinds make-up. without access to a surface, your kind eventually wither and die. or they become something else. Piper is turning from the wood elf I met to a pale skinned drow. it's slow, over centuries, but eventually it will happen. she's already more ruthless, more cynical, more deadly. you have to be here, or you don't survive."
then looking at the wall.
"I'm not saying that I want to leave here. and I'm not trying to say piper can't manage here. But if it comes to it, if you had to do it, I'd be willing to take your throne. despite my problems with airborne pollens. I could let Malikhai take over here, and go to Andal with Piper. then you can have your house on the Pendant Isles, Piper can spend as much time there with you as she wants, and I'll deal with your kingdom."
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:05 am
"You may be able to handle that, but wood elves are skittish creatures by our natures...if they don't trust you they will not tolerate you. If they think you'll try to rule and keep your rule acknowledged through brute force and intimidation they won't stand with you, but against you as well. Your Gods as well would be untolerable if forced or seen as above others that are native to the plane. Andal may seem like a peaceful place, but not all the history is spotless." It was indeed a difficult matter at hand and each Council was getting harder seeing as the issue was more commonly addressed.
"I wouldn't want the issue of something as trivial as a throne to come between you and Piper. She'd still be in a palace all day, waiting for you to finish whatever the day had planned for you so she could have what time you had left. She's grown up Malik...and she'd rather spend time with you than go galavanting around as she pleases with her whims and the wind." Quieting for a moment and brushing a few errant strands of hair from her face. "I don't want you feeling like you have to give up your own things for mine. I didn't like you in the beginning honestly. I hated and feared you. But I learned what you really are, and for that reason I can't ask such things or force them on you Malik. I made my own problems, they're mind to fix."
Looking to him, "Are you afraid you're losing the woman you fell in love with, or are falling out of love with her?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:02 am
"I know you did. being a devout follower of Innoruuk, I can feel that presence."
A shrug.
"It's not falling out of love with her. it's not losing the woman I fell in love with. it's seeing that woman get buried. I don't know how she handled it with me. knowing that there was someone there that was..well like I am with family, yet seeing at all other times a vicious, cold, ruthless person that could slit a child's throat as easily as she could breathe."
A moment there.
"Like Neriak. To be in neriak, she had to appear, at all times in any public area, to be a slave. of some value, but not my equal, and certainly not in love with me. To do so was to invite a thousand different people in as many ways to use that as leverage against me or her. I cannot imagine how that must have been for her. I had to speak, and act, as if she was expendable. as if her death would mean nothing more to me than a loss of coin."
A frown.
"I drew a great deal of attention preventing the assassin guild leader from killing her for slapping him. too much attention. I don't want to see that kind of situation in reverse, or with our children. I don't want them to have to accept that their mother is heartless, ruthless, cold and vicious to the rest of the world, just not to them...and then have to wonder which piper is on the surface at all times."
"wether or not anyone wants to admit it...you begin to wonder. you begin to not want to fall out of 'favor'. I had slaves like that. they would do anything, anything at all, because they didn't want to be seen like the rest of the world. scared that if I was angry, that they'd be treated no differently than someone that was coming here to purchase or petitioning for some favor."
Though a slight smirk.
"and you'd be surprised how much fun she could have in a palace all day with me despite a workload. of course...not all that fun would be able to be had during meetings and the like, but still. and it's not forcing. It's just an option if all the other options run out. I'm not jumping up saying 'pick me' just letting you know that if all else fails, I'll be there to take that mantle."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:31 am
"Pip's always had her own way of doing things. I think she can turn a cheek to your more...vicious and cruel...sides if you will because she learned to do it when she was little with herself. When she was with me, she was a wood elf and you couldn't convince her otherwise. When she was with Kieran it was the same though she would proclaim moon elf. Hardly was she ever both like she truely is. And love makes one see past what one learned to be and what one is. As Kieran says...the drow, and all divisions of them, aren't born evil or cruel. They're not born ready to kill and trick their way through life. They're conditioned that way to suit the needs of the enviroment."
Tilting her head lightly. "She did it for you. She probably never would of come down here if you hadn't wanted to visit your home. And when you're in love you'll do anything in your power to please the one you're with when it's their turn to have the proverbial reins of the journey. You think she wonders and never knows which you is there?" Shaking her head lightly. "You think she's trying to keep your favor by comforming to your ways?"
Little dismissive wave. "You sound just like Kieran I swear. He got us into the most trouble when he was courting me." Giving a little chuckle at her own memories before a soft sigh of her own. "I do appreciate the offer though Malik, and I'll keep it in mind. But you have to remember that you have to think about what is best for your family as well." Giving a thoughtful look then. "You say she needs the surface, wouldn't it just be as easy to create something like we saw today? Filter enough light down here in one spot and things will grow."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:03 pm
"I would think she knows by now. and no, but I don't want my children thinking to do similar, not that she does."
though a glance and a shake of his head.
"It's too dangerous. what we saw before...I could have collapsed that entire section. would have only taken one good wack in the right spot and it would have all tumbled down. I wouldn't be surprised if a good thunderstorm or lightning strike up there doesn't collapse it."
"I can force things to grow, but that only lasts for days at best. and the surface has to be just right, so that enough light would even filter this far down. unless you have a method of an alternate and viable lightsource that isn't going to get somebody runically killed."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:25 pm
"Your children are smart, and even if they faulter in their opinions they can always be set right." Nodding lightly to that. "Well...if you honeycombed it it would let through but be stronger, or just have no ceiling at all in that spot. Just my two cents, even if I know nothing of how things work really down here." Smiling lightly, she knew how things were and how they weren't before that thoughtful look. "No, not one viable enough by Andal standards. But that's just one idea. You can come up with more if you think she needs the surface I'm sure."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:15 pm
"Do you think she's gotten over it? I mean it has been a while and I know elves never really forget but like you said, we do end up pushing things to corners of our minds. I haven't had the reverie of when I was born for a long, long time but I remember being terrified by it when I was little." One of those times he'd been in bed with his father for weeks after. "That's why she doesn't understand us now. And sometimes I think you don't either..."
He knew most of the story, had talked to Piper and Fianna about it since they'd both witnessed his mother's pregnancy and they were mothers themselves. Some things were just easier to talk to women about. "I'm just glad she didn't feel the same way when Kelligrin came along. Kinda nice to know my little brother won't deal with it, you know?" The energy ball disappeared with his father's hands on his person since he didn't feel the need to do anything with his hands anymore. Grinning, "It was. Trust me. Cookies and milk followed by a story or practice or even a nap. Good times."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:25 pm
"No one ever really gets over it. But I think she has to a degree. You mother used to act very differently. You couldn't even touch her in a casual manner in certain ways or you'd lose a hand or get a broken nose. I'd say she's come a long way actually." But a sort of a grimace at his son on those last words. "Sometimes I don't. I think you're the only one that really does." And until the boy was ready to tell or say or do what he needed to do or accept, it would be known to him only. All Sevilin knew was that it was practically devestating sometimes. He'd openly admit he played favorites with Zykariel.
"She coddles your little brother because she's afraid with messing up with him like she did you. With your sisters she was more settled. I think it upset her that even though she's your mother and after we all got together that you still looked to me first on things." Grinning himself in that parental way. "Now you just sneak eating cookies in your room. Yes I know you do."
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:27 pm
"Or I can make her take vacations to Andal. besides, Dhairiss is getting well old enough to go there. I have to torment Isle yet. though piper did lay down the gauntlet that I couldn't play matchmaker with her as effectively as I did Zahara and Sevilin. And of course, now I have a reason to poke at Kieran about being stupid enough to try and make an armed Fier'dal lose concentration and not expect to get shot by an already drawn bow. Even I know you don't do that."
glancing at her ankle.
"How's you ankle? you going to be able to walk on it? and do explain this previously set aside example you have in mind for Dhairiss to show that I am not the kind to beat Piper into submission?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:30 pm
"Of course, I owe you though for that at least. Though just how were you able to find me anyway?" And back to waiting before the half elf just used a normal question to his staring. Hey Galesen couldn't help it, the kid kind of reminded the older elf of himself a little. "Sorry, you remind me of me a little and I just could help but realize I use to be where you are at right now awhile ago." A small shrug and he went back to eating, better not weird out the only guest he has had here like this in awhile.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:51 pm
"Well well...you just always seem to have the most fun when you all plan a trip to Andal don't you? Despite your little alleric reactions and such. But I would take it easy on Isleandra, she may bite you. But perhaps if you do think it's a good idea for her to take such vacations, then make her. Andalian time is two times faster, so she'd get twice as much too." Rolling her eyes lightly. "He didn't mean to." Hey she still felt bad and it was hard for her.
But a look down to her ankle as well. "A little sore, but I think it will be fine." Grinning back up at her son in law, "It's simple really. Control and submission has key signs. For example even if you're not beating her she'd be wary of hand gestures, quick to come when called or quick to go to you in general. You'd never approach her or you'd do so aggressively. Thus we just have to show such things...in other words be fluffy with you wife you could say. And we both know she likes to swat at you when you mess with her, show a little defensive motion to that. You know, duck or something. Meanwhile me and Dhairiss will just...well for lack of a better word, spy. And if need be, we'll let Dhairiss get in trouble and show him he's not a cause either."
"Heat vision remember? Not hard for me to follow things. They went one way and your heat went the other way. Thought you could use a travel buddy." but a tilt of his head, "What do you mean used to be where I am?"
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:12 pm
"Okay, so fluffy but not in the 'lets go to the bedroom' manner. fluffy in the surface elf courting manner."
though a slight shrug.
"You know I enjoy making the brigade uncomfortable and on edge. I do it so well. and how could anyone pass up the opportunity to poke at kieran like he pokes at everyone else. Oh, and since he's on bedrest, that means I'll get to see my father in law. won't that be special."
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