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 Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:43 am
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Azela was happy that everyone showed up, she took her seat and got thanks for the invites, but some thanks came with some unsettling undertones to them. Marianna's and Vavara's welcomes was the most disturbing to the young queen of them all. The young princess said she was the lost left of the royal family. Xavier had told her about the coup, but she was guessing he didn't tell her all the details. Xavier's daughter's welcome however seemed to hold some kind of hostility toward Xavier. Azela wondered what was Surtr hiding as well for now she was sure he had some unspoken choice words as well even though when he saw her, he was already accepting. Sitting in her seat, she tried to maintain a smile the best she could. Closing her eyes was a big mistake for she had a vision. The vision was not so good either. Marianna was angry to the point of her dinning table cloth being burned. Xavier was rioting the table. Surtr was just trying to hold in whatever he wanted to say and keep Marianna from hurting Xavier. Vavara was hiding behind Surtr. Azela was sick to her stomach and crying. She opened her eyes and the smile she was trying to hold on to quickly faded. Looking at everyone, she stayed quiet and kept her mental block up. This was going to be a long night.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:00 am
¤ Surtr ¤  Location : Monstrous meadow
Company : Mei, Emilia, an unknown giant lizard...
Feelings : Playful...
...For out of the ground we were taken... for the dust we are...
Things were moving fast. At the very least this night would be entertaining. Marianna was the first to make a move. A snide remark and a gentle caress of Surtrs hands caused Surtr to sigh as he sat down. Vavara was next not meaning to make a jab but sending one all the same. Then came Xavier who as predicted fired back at both of them. It seemed Surtr would be on defense the whole evening. A soft smile came to his lips. Oh how he would enjoy this.
"Now children..." He said glancing to Xavier and Marianna. He said it in a playful tone as his left hand snatched Xavier's cigarette smiting it in his palm as it seemed to turn to ash. His closed fist seemed to get so hot that even the ash disappeared leaving just a small puff of smoke as his hand opened. His right hand would stay above the table but his right leg would deftly move over and his foot would hook around Marianna's ankle as if to get her attention. "Play nice." He said with a soft smile. His words were polite but his tone said "cut the s**t".
"Thanks to both of the princesses Karst has seen unprecedented prosperity." Surtr said countering Xavier's point about the Alkaev family being unfit for the job. "As for me, no I haven't been having much fun. Though I'd imagine that's to be expected when a king has no queen to rule besides him." He said glancing to Azela. His words were soft and smooth he was attempting to compliment her and draw attention away from Xavier. Shifting the focus would be his first move, with everyone together there would be a group dynamic and he had to figure out what drove the mob in order to control it.
As the food came Saga his little flaming orb would hop down to Surtrs right shoulder as if to get closer to the food. It would turn to face Marianna and its eyes would be wide boring a hole into the princesses head. It was Surtr way of directly telling the woman to stop screwing around. She was better than this. From Xavier he expected as much but Marianna? She was smarter than that. Though if her father kept picking a fight then he surmised she would stoop to his level. "Looks lovely." He said with a smile as he looked to Vavara casting her a playful wink attempting to keep her spirits high. He hoped she'd hear his words and focus on him not on whatever could be coming from Xavier's mouth.
...and to the dust we shall return...
O.O.C.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:51 pm
 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Location: Were-castlexxxxxCompany: Surtr, Vavara, Xavier, AzelaxxxxxFeeling: FuriousxxxxxOutfit: Clothes, Hair ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Marianna paid little attention to what Vavara said to Azela, too busy studying her fingernails in her lap. Of course, it wasn't long before Xavier spoke up. Of course he couldn't resist taking her bait could he? Much too easy to provoke that man. She sneered at him when he mentioned that she was already starting with the bitterness. Starting? Dear father, it never stopped. She went back to paying him no mind until he made a low ball comment about something she thought to be off limits. Her mother. Her dead mother. Ice blue eyes widened, fists clenching in rage. Her head snapped over to him, gritting her teeth together while barely visible smoke escaped her hands. She took a deep breath, voice filled with venom as she responded. "Never pegged you as the type to speak ill of the dead." She felt a foot hook around her left ankle, drawing her attention to her left and to Surtr. He told her to 'play nice'. Sure...no problem...
She sent one last, scorching glare towards Xavier before looking back to her lap. How could he? She closed her eyes, taking another breath to stop the heat that was rushing to her palms and the tears from her eyes. Azela was silent throughout the entire exchange. Though it wasn't like Marianna expected anything different. Although she did look pale. Or maybe she was always that shade of white? The princess didn't particularly care.
The food was brought in and frankly, Marianna had little appetite after that jab from Xavier. She looked down at the plate in front of her, getting distracted by the feeling of eyes burning holes in her head. She raised her head and looked over to Surtr, eyes landing on his little flame, Saga. She pouted at the little flame and leaned over towards the king, blowing a sharp, puff of air at the light as if to tell her to 'shut it'. The breath would pass across the little flame, some of it reaching the side of Surtr's neck. Marianna would look back down at her food, gently running the back of the foot Surtr had snatched up the front of his leg under the table before moving it back in front of her.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:37 am
 VαvαʀαxxAʟκαev I'll defend my people from harm... ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The dinner certainly was off to a pretty rough starter, with Mariana and Xavier going head to head within the first few minutes. She could understand the other princess's snap at the man, she would be in the some position had somebody insulted her parents directly had she the same experience as Mariana. While Xavier's comment about her family being unfit to rule did managed to pester her, she did her best to remain ignorant and feign that it was merely a playful jab. The records would show he had started it anyhow. She turned her head towards Azela to looking troubled, with reflections of tears coming down from her eyes. Leaning towards the queen, Vavara whispered to her, hoping their conversation could be private. "Queen Azela, is everything okay? I can help if you're in need of it." She offered, looking back towards her companions in time to see Surtr's smiled once more. It did help her feel somewhat more comfortable in here with Xavier. When the food came to be served, Vavara would pull back from her position and begin to eat whatever was brought to her. She was quite ravenous, having been travelling for most the day inside of the carriage without of food or entertainment to go on. It tasted heavenly as she began to eat at a moderate pace, though she felt as if she had not eaten for days due to her ongoing metabolism. She was always eating portions that probably could astound a dragon (in human form, at least). Vavara would most likely need seconds, but it was all in due time. "How have things in your kingdom gone, Queen?"
But who will protect me?...
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:11 pm
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"I speak truths. Whether they are ethical or not. I personally care not for either case. The dead are simply people who are not here." Xavier stated as he looked at Surtr burning his smoke completely. "Hmm?" he wondered looking at it go way. "Yes, but considering the fact Karst wasn't able to prosper like that until now,/.. Well I think we both can tell what was holding it back." He countered. He really wasn't in the mood for whatever game Surtr was trying to play. Especially since he just admitted that NOW under the direction of the two princesses that it was prospering. Probably under Marianna more than the Alkaev. Either way, he let it all reside for right now. As the food came out, he started to drirnk a little wine before digging in. For him, he had lamb and ribs with a dab of ranch. As he ate, he was trying to go into Azela's mind. The mind link technique among mates is really useful. However, he was getting nothing but murkiness
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OOC;: sorry for crappy post and no bolding dialogue. Was rushing this out from a dying phone. see yall in a week
If red ,is blue, then death means a new life
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:06 pm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Azela was not eating and she was feeling worst. Xavier and Marianna were not making things better for her either. Looking over at Varava as she asking was she okay, Azela gave a weak smile to the princess. "I will be okay and the kingdom is doing fine." Xavier was trying to get in her mind and it was causing a massive headache. Letting down her mental block, Azela sighed. "Why are you insisting on being in my head dear? I wish to be blocked off and not stressed out." As much as she was trying, her morning sickness was getting the best of her. She slowly got up from the table. "I will be back in a second. Please excuse me." She left the dinning hall. Once outside the double doors, she rushed to the nearest bathroom. Her mental block was still down, but she forgot that when she thought, "This dinner is going to kill my unborn child with all the bickering going on."
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:37 am
A Just War ¤ Surtr ¤ Location : Meadow Heights Castle
Company : Azela, Marianna, Vavara, Xavier...
Feelings : Playful...
...For out of the ground we were taken... for the dust we are...
As the bickering seemed to intensify Surtr shook his head softly as slight sigh escaped his lips. This was foreseen, though he had hoped it was just him overreacting. It seemed per the norm though Surtr was right in his assumptions. Marianna returned with a good punch but he doubted that would only make matters word. Saga was watching her and he could see how much this was affecting her. "I suppose I'll have to do something to take her mind off of it.... She seemed to enjoy out previous game Ri?" His thought was interrupted by a puff of air that caused him to shiver a bit and drop his spoon on the ground. Glancing to Marianna he could see Saga puffing out her cheeks as if to playfully challenge her. His own fiery gaze cast a bit of a playful look. "Apologies" He said aloud in a light hearted tone mocking his own clumsiness. He leaned over and in a smooth motion snatched up the spoon though not before running his hand up Mariannas left leg rather slowly. As he came up to the knee his hands would leave and his body return to view with the spoon in hand. Perfectly executed none but Marianna would be the wiser to his antics.
He looked to the spoon and watched as it turn orange before returning to its normal color. Refusing a new spoon as this one had been sterilized Surtr resumed his slow eating so that he could keep up with conversation. As Vavara leaned towards the queen and whispered Surtr smiled softly to her. "Good girl..." He mused, she was young and yet so fit for this role. In fact Marianna too. Rarely did a kingdom have one proper prince/princess much less two. He was quite lucky to be surrounded by such competency it served to make the unbearable task he was given manageable. As Xavier said his rebuttal Surtr looked to Marianna for a moment as he took another sip of his soup. If this game continued down this road he'd have to make a bold move in order to focus the princess on something other than her fathers piercing quips.
He noted Azela not eating and could feel Xavier thinking rather loudly at Azela, he wasn't aware of said ability but with it being so loudly thought he concluded they must have some bond. Suddenly the shroud that surrounded Azela lifted and he could hear he asked Xavier what he was insisting upon. A slight smirk came to his lips at this. Seems the two were more deeply connected than Surtr had initially imagined. A rather impressive bit of info. One that made the sting of Xaviers departure lessen. She rose from the table and Surtr rose as well sitting down upon her departure showing proper etiquette in an uncharacteristic manner. He took another sip of his soup the delicious broth and piping hot temperature soothing until a thought from the king reached his mind. Surtr suddenly inhaled and the same soup he was enjoying was now trying to kill him.
His left hand came up over his mouth as he began to cough trying to hack up what went down the wrong pipe. His eyes immediately darted to Xavier, the man would have heard the thought too and Surtr looked to see what his reaction was. His eyes now conveyed a bit of betrayal, reminiscent of what their gaze would have been when he left.
Saga on his right shoulder suddenly turned a deep red its normal orange tint leaving it. A color most of the group would have never seen before, it was what Saga looked like she Surtr was angry. For the first time in a long time the king of Karst was fuming. Unlike the princess sitting next to him he could control it, but Saga couldn't. As Surtr managed to rectify inhaling some soup he took a deep breath allowing a long sigh to escaped his lips. Saga would slowly return to her normal shade her eyes on Marianna. Though Surtrs gaze did not leave Xavier this would be the second time something like this was sprung on him far past the time it should have been told.
How many more times would this happen? How many more times would Surtr tell Xavier all and Surtr only receive scraps did the man even care of about Surtr? Or was it all just a ploy to move pieces around the board. If the roles were reversed Surtr would have told Xavier the day he found out especially considering Xavier would teleport, would have literally taken three seconds but no. Surtr was to remain in the dark ruling a kingdom he didn't overthrow and trying to mend families he didn't break.
His gazed left Xavier as Saga began to dim, she was growing dull her fire decreasing and Surtr was thankfully wise to it. He reached over and scooped up Saga before tucking her into his robes hiding the thing before it revealed to all at the table what it truly was. Though in truth only Marianna was ignorant to it.
...and to the dust we shall return...
O.O.C.
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