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 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 1:42 pm
Queen Guinevere, Daughter of King Leodegrance and Camile, would achieve her proper title and become queen, just like her mother always believed she would. A small smile pulled up the corners of her mouth, it was not a fake smile used to lure unsuspecting stallions into her web, no it was a true smile of happiness that he goal would soon come into fruition. “Others will come to us when they see the rightfulness of our mission. They shall see the truth, for not all are blind.”
Idiot, he did not know that he would not see the completion of this mission, he would not see her in power, for once he helps kidnap Gwen he will be disposed of, since he knows too much already. “Thank you Araucaria, I do not know what I would have done without your kindness. Yes, let us leave this forest and continue our journey to the kingdom.” Her brown eyes looked down the path ahead; she was so close she could almost taste the revenge.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:38 am
Araucaria nodded his head, prepared to undertake the journey with Guin. He knew the rightness of his decision, to help restore someone to what was truly theirs---that was right, it was just. It would keep him busy, give him purpose...and the stillness in his heart, the kind of ache that he felt for her--that was another thing to consider. He was smitten with her. But it didn't change the fact that helping her was what was right to do. As they moved through the trees, he though of the dangers that lay ahead. There would be resistance, and lots of fighting. And let's face it, he doesn't really know how. "How many do you think we'll have to fight? What will we say to make them listen?"
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:54 pm
The manipulation and the act was getting easier to achieve, Eve believed that she could encounter the Angeni of Truth and even he could not say she was lying. In order for her lies to work, a small part of herself had to believe those lies, she had to believe that she was good and gracious, how a proper queen should be. Most of what other she had said was the truth, she should have been queen, her father loved her mother and that should have been enough for him to cast his bride aside for his mistress, but once he discovered his mate was pregnant, his mistress was cast aside and left to give birth to her daughter alone. Rage seethed in Eve, she tried to extract her revenge on her father years ago and had almost achieved her goal until Gwen came and interrupted her plans. The insufferable witch! In just a few months perfect Gwenevere will no longer be the bane of Guinevere’s existence.
She was drawn away from her inner musings by the stallion, what was he yammering about? “Hopefully we can achieve this goal with little death as possible, I do not want to kill the soldiers who were lead wrong, and it is not their fault that they fell for her lies. I will tell them the truth and show them the cloth I bear as proof of my royal lineage.”
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 6:10 pm
It made sense to Araucaria who knew nothing about cloth or lineage. But something else was stirring deep down in his quiet soul, and odd sort of hurt. His siblings...they were gone. Some before he ever met them, and the others before he knew much about them. They were just shadows on his memory, just painful feelings that existed and lived on.
He had loved them desperately without knowing them because they were his family. Guin had never had that. She'd never had a sister to love or cherish, a throne stood between them and maybe it was enough to keep them from seeing the realness of it. They were family and shouldn't they at least try to love each other? At least try to see beyond their differences?
Had they ever tried? He meant really tried to set things straight, to love each other despite the differences or their mothers?
He spoke the words without meaning to. "Have you two ever tried to get along? Ever tried to talk it out? Family can be tiresome, they can be bothersome, and sometimes you dislike them alot....but usually underneath you love them. I lost mine Guin, and if there's a chance to keep yours together maybe you should try it?"
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 6:20 pm
She seethed, she wanted to scream at him and say he did not understand, that he was a fool for believing that talk would be what would cure this rift between her family, only revenge would do that, sweet delicious revenge. He talked about how he lost his own family and felt terrible about how he did not get to live each moment with them while he could. She wished her family was dead, if only fate had been kind. Her jaw was clenched and she was glad that the fool of a stallion could not see her face as she controlled her emotions. “I have tried yes, but Gwenevere would not see reason. She screamed at me and called me all sorts of foul words that had to do with my mother being a whore. Which she was not,” vehemence filled her voice when she said those words, “my mother was the true love of the king and definitely not a whore. She was sweet and loving, and gave me this cloth to prove I am beloved of her and my father. But Gwenevere did not see it that way, she believed that I had no right to the title Queen. And after that she banished me from her sight and I have not seen her since that day.”
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 7:02 pm
Araucaria sensed a bit of ferocity in the mare's words. He felt himself shrinking back at her words for a minute, and then the next he thought he had imagined it. She was just as lovely and sweet as ever.
"I'm sorry then for bringing it up, and that she...treated you that way." How could some siblings be like that, how could some siblings be that way to each other? Didn't they know that they were all each other had?
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 7:46 pm
Eve noticed when the stallion pulled back from her, but she ignored it, her false persona still needed to be perfected if this dim witted stallion was able to crack her façade. With her false persona back on, Eve took a deep breath and gave the stallion a sheepish smile, “I’m sorry that I snapped. I just loved my mother and it always caused me to get angry when someone calls her a name that she was not. And again I am sorry for dragging you into my family drama, you are a great stallion to help me with this quest.”
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:19 pm
Araucaria murmmered, "You're welcome." But his mind was floating along long forgotten roads and painful memories. He remembered more clearly than he had in a long time, about his family. The blue of their eyes, the calico colours that looked dappled beneath the sunlight of the trees. And everywhere the scent of green and rich earth.
Most of the time, all he could smell was the burning. The hot putrid smell of smoke that seemed to come over him in nightmares. He closed his eyes for a moment, and then shook away the thought--but he felt himself tremble.
"When do we meet the otheres?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:27 pm
She bowed her head when he accepted her words of thanks, and she was glad he was dim witted enough to forget that she had shown a flash of her true wicked self. At his question Fake Eve fidgeted, “Well I was hoping to get more help along the way… I only have one other knight, and I hope to find him soon, since he will have the military strategy and prowess to show the world that I am Queen.” Eve looked at the stallion; she had other plans, ones that involved kidnapping her sister and chaining her to a cave where Araucaria would be her guard. But the stallion still needed to earn the right to be told the rest of the plan. Would he be up to the challenge?
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:55 pm
Just one other knight, "Is that all?" For the first time, he showed honest to goodness doubt. "Who is he?" He wondered who else was in on this plan. There was something shifting in his mind almost like a warning, like a fragile tiny flicker of something warning him...but he couldn't quite catch it, couldnt' quite figure it out.
Flames...He thought back to the fire, coming home finally and it was all laid to ash.
Ashes and dust. All, just ashes and dust. He could still feel the fine silt of it in his nose, dragging him back and under.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:03 pm
She was losing him, he had started to doubt her and doubt that her plan could succeed, Eve internally cursed herself for her ineptitude. How was she going to save this? She did not want to have too many people on the plan at this time or it would cause problems, the less who knew, the less rumor would spread and her sister would get wind of it. Fake Eve looked chagrined, “I know, I made it seem as if I had an army at my call, but I think the smaller the better on this, because if I came marching in with an army, the populace would not believe me to be the rightful Queen, but a wicked tyrant. You would not want me to be that would you?” She looked at him pleadingly, like she actually cared what the peasants thought about her.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:40 pm
Araucaria snapped back to her, his mind moving from the murky waters it was in. "No, I didn't mean that." What did he mean? He was a bit shocked she didn't have more, but then again it did sound like a good idea. The less in on it, the less that could go wrong.
But there was something that he couldn't even put a hoof on. He tilted his head toward her. "Okay, we'll get there and do this. I mean, you're the rightful queen? It's what's right." But there was a little less conviction that he had had before.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:49 pm
Eve gave a sigh of relief, “Thank you, it would have worried me if you thought the right form of action was to march in on my sister and make demands. I do not think I have the heart to do something as vicious as that, all the innocents who would be hurt.” She shook her head as if trying to rid herself of the imaginary screams of those destroyed by her armies. Eve bit her lip, was the idiot starting to get a brain? If he became any smarter she would not use him in this plan but be entertained by his death. “You still want to help me even know that I have told you there is only us and one other?” She gave him a bright smile, “I was blessed to have met you.”
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:23 am
Araucaria paused, "Yes, milady. I will help you, only...how do you expect to reason with your sister if she is a tyrant?" He caught himself and blushed, he made it sound as though he did not believe her sister was a tyrant. "I mean, she's a tyrant surely her and reason do not go hand in hand?"
How could they prove the mix-up? How could she win the people over and her sister? There was so much here that did and didn't make sense. But he had never played these games of thrones or yearnings for power. He knew little to nothing about what was needed to prove one's worth, one's divine right.
Was it even divine right?
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Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:01 am
Eve paused, and cocked her head to the side, pretending that the thought had never come to her mind before, a slight blush came to her face and she looked flustered, “I do not know Sir Araucaria… I had hoped that her knights would come to my side once they discovered I am the true Queen. And then have the King do the negotiations, I am not good with these types of things. War and battle, I know they may be needed,” she shudders, “but I don’t believe I have the stomach for such atrocities.”
She continued to walk, silent and pensive, “I know there is a lot of risk in what we are going to do and there is nothing sure about it. I am just hoping that there are those who will see reason and come to my aid.” Guinevere shook her head, tears coming to her eyes, “I just want this to be over.”
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