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 Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:43 pm
 Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi sighed "As am I...or at least for now I am" she said to him as she stood on the deck "Once my sister in law has her children then I will no longer be alone with my family name" she said to him as she looked up at her half brother "A Chhatrapati's body is burned and the ashes are mixed in with the rest of the family so that all may end up in the same place when we meet after death" she said to him, looking down "A very old god from when we were still a tribe in the far south of Ethe, It has no name but according to our oldest source this old god created a small piece of paradise just off the side of the world where those we love can always be at peace" she said and looked around. Chusi then shook her head "Argus is not Chhatrapati, according with tradition he will simply be burned" she said "...and his ashes tossed over the edge of the world to be swallowed by the nothingness between us and the world the God of my family made, since his very existence is considered a dishonor to our line" she said to him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:36 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
"I see..." He'd remembered hearing something like that--mostly a fairy tale in other parts of Ethe. Dixon came to revere such places for the social implications in the past year, as he and Bernard had been working on getting him as cultured as possible. "Then I would have my men help prepare for that as much as possible." Already stretched thin, the count was now digging into funds he might not have had. All this would push back the highway some months to a year.
"Suppose anything that has to do with Phobos is an abomination to you," said the count, musing about his involvement with nearly ever leader who would hear him. "You must despise me then, fraternizing with the dragons and Bellris--I haven't found favor with the Empire, I'd have you know," he said somewhat pointedly. His hand flicked; he would like for such a thing to be dismissed as he paced on that haggard porch.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:52 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi shook her head "I can pay for my half brothers funeral on my own, its the least that I should do.... despite what he is" she said to him and she listened to what he said. Chusi sighed softly "Dragons have always cause a problem with us. I don't despise you for reaching out and attempting to make good with them, but until something proves differently I must doubt that those people that you come to terms with mean any good by the words they spin you" she said as she walked off the porch and looked up at the forty foot ice barrier made from spikes "I don't think they should have any say in Ethe's politics such as your Princely friend from Bellris, I doubt he has a good bone in his body being related to that blonde haired witch he calls a sister." she said crossly "but I'm not going to get in your way, just tread carefully" she advised "Is the lady of Antigone doing well?" she asked him.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:04 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
At this the count couldn't help but hang his head off at an angle. "I just want to do everything I can for our people..."
The conversation shifting to lady Marigold was a welcomed change for the count, finding it harder to justify his own actions. What was he doing? Was he not shrewd enough? He took a seat, supported by an alabaster pillar. "Lady Marigold is doing better, I'm told. Bernard and the others have briefed me: she should be up and about her duties as soon as week from now--possibly sooner." He fished out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it by pressing his finger to the tip.
"She'll need to be married soon," he commented with a certain blankness. "Much as it is my honor to serve, holding Antigone has clearly become too steep a task for me..." That guilt, the guilt of inaction, returned to him. He looked away, finding he could not face the person he felt he let down the most outside the heiress. "If only I'd moved sooner..." he whispered to himself.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:18 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi smiled slightly "I know you want that, as do I. I'm just worried that outsiders might not understand how complex Ethe really is" she said sadly and she listened to the Count and nodded her head to let him know that she was still listening. She would remain silent for a moment before she opened her lips and breathed out "I'm glad she'll be alright" she whispered "I heard though the grapevine that my brother did most of the damage to her. I'm sorry that such a thing happened to one so young, No permeant issues I hope?" she asked him. At the mention of Lady Marigold having to be married Chusi couldn't help a small smile "and what if she doesn't desire to get married? She like you and I are the last of our house...but besides that do you have any suitors coming your way for her?" she asked curiously.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:38 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
"If she doesn't..." Well, simply, that would mean the count would mean... "--then I'd have to continue leading the state for another year or so." There was a heaviness in his tone, but he managed to abolish it by the time she asked about his plans; he even allowed a smirk to crawl up his cheek.
"I wouldn't say so," he admitted with a chuckle. "The Emperor has tried to win me over with one of his daughters--in that I mean Azazel Drosselmyer is a suitor of mine. Other than that, it is mainly men nudging me to be married." He ran a hand through his hair, dashing his cig and watching the cloud it birthed swirl about and begin to fall under the weight of the cold air a brief moment before rejoining.
"I'd like to find someone with a good pedigree, but..." He didn't quite know how to say it. He gave up the chase and began thinking aloud: "--that has become rather impossible. The days of Undifferentiated Phoenix blood are over: I am just an echo to a song long finished..."
"I'm afraid, as it is, whatever I decide to do would destroy our legacy, whatever that's worth in a shrinking world like this." He gave a small shrug. "But in that," he admitted, "I guess it really doesn't matter. The options are as open as the skies above." He looked up, only for a moment, taking another puff. "And what about you? Surely a clamour has sprung up in recent years at your doorstep."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:15 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi sighed "You should find someone that's good for her, so many arranged marriages end up with the woman getting put down or running away or not being able to stomach her husband, at least do her that service when choosing her suitor" she said to him with a small smile. She listened to him and when he brought up pedigree she snorted slightly and then she sighed "My family wanted me to marry back when I was... jeeze it feels like a long time ago now, but my father wanted me to marry back when I was twelve." she managed a strained smile "but I got away with not having to do so by getting my father to agree to my stipulation" she said to him, pausing for dramatic effect "They have to beat me in a one on one fight of the weapon of their choosing" she said to him and then had the nerve to ask "what do you mean pedigree? like pure phoenix blood or of noble birth? and what were you about to say before you stopped yourself?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:54 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
The count couldn't help smiling as the woman snorted. What a quirky and adorable thing! His eyes followed her as she recounted her story, holding her as shade in summer holds the attention of every bee in a hive. "You sound very proud of that," he said with a bemused smirk.
"My lineage has little to do with the peerage, I'm afraid," admitted the count with a sigh. This was always a tricky subject. "The records of which are a bit scattered, but it is fairly clear that Titanus by way of Cleon has claim to the original population of phoenixes... That is to say, we are neither of the light variety that the peerage and royal lines are, nor are we of the dark-feathered ones in Bellris: we are as purely phoenix as it gets." Whatever pride the count mentioned this with was quickly skirted off by some worry; he set his sight down near his feet for a moment.
"After the eruption, it's just me. I, Titanus, last son of Cleon, have nothing but a dusty trail of library slips as my claim." He couldn't help chuckling, though it was weaker, less convincing. "Mind you, I should have a claim to the throne with such a lineage... --Ah, but that's neither here nor there."
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:07 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi smiled at him "Marriage is a very scary thing to a twelve year old, and making such a request made sure that I was able to train myself along side the boys in my family. I set a standard for the females of my line as well, so at least I will be going down in my family for something" she said as she listened to him and then closed her eyes for a second, tilting her head back and letting her breath out into the cold fog "What really is a pure Phoenix at this point?" she asked him, not meaning it as an insult despite the tone that it came out in "We have very little records going back the two hundred years the Kingdoms have been around, they'd probably have something in the Maude but even that's unlikely I bet" she said to him "but with that in mind... why don't you marry Lady Marigold?" she asked, a playful smirk on her face, however she was only partially joking "shes of pure phoenix decent as far as anyone is aware, and her lands are vast, between you and her you would make up a good third of Ethe, and its not unheard of for people to marry their wards"
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:21 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
Dixon couldn't help but smile at Chusi's answer. Such a tempered strength was exactly the reason he didn't seem to mind her outbursts at him: he rather respected her; came to find that these were things, at least in this moment of forgiveness, that he wished he could say about his character...
Instead he was pugnacious, ericaceous, too capricious to be called a proper nobleman--and this was without a country in peril! How, then, could he claim anything at all, let alone any throne? He thought back to what had happened a couple hours ago in the Castle Blackstone, which of course led him back to what he had done...
In that moment, as the count no doubt, despite his best effort to conceal it, held an aura of despair in spite of his playful chuckle at her teasing, he knew he was the one who, in murdering their goddess, brought this aggression from the Empire to their doorstep.
"You're right," said the count with a wry smile, "but with Etelan and my back-alley deals in Kaishin I could easily keep two thirds of this country." He allowed himself to laugh, if only to help him be more steady.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:31 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi rolled her eyes "right 'back alley' dealings" she said to him, air quoting the bit about them being under the table "And my ancestors use to ride Giwa into battle" she said before then smiling again "But from my knowledge none of those names you threw about have any real military standing, even if you took all of Ethe as yours you would have no way to keep it but though diplomacy, and just now that failed" she looked back toward blackstone as the sun began to set "Before my brother fell to the family curse he came back with news that we had managed to make a little bit of headway with the tribes of Phobos" she said to him "They want to send some of their warriors into Ethe to train instead of taking any goods that we could give them" she said as the cold chilled her "Its getting late..." she trailed off "would you like to stay in Solidon for the night and fly home in the morning? My castle certainly has the room now" she said, glancing up at her frozen halfbrothers form.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:00 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
Call it weakness, or any other name, but Dixon was wounded deeply at the words of the duchess. Was he really so incompetent? She was just riffing with him about the deals--that he could let slide easily--but this bit about him being essentially worthless with diplomacy as his only tool (that insinuation alone was enough to raise his eyebrow: implying that he had no experience commanding a militia was something that damaged his pride as a male among other sectors) was especially outrageous. Instead of showing anger, however, as the woman spoke she would start to see the effect her words had as they sunk in. His face was like a slowly melting ice sculpture of his normally composed self; his hand shook a little as he took another drag.
"... I wouldn't want to impose." His eyes seemed to lose their sheen, and as he turned to face the scene of the battle he would once again exude that chilling, hollow aura. He shook his head stiffly. "No... I think I would be better off tending to things at home." Dixon wished not to look her in the eye, almost running from her as he bowed hurriedly and stepped away from the porch, aiming to fly off to Titania.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:20 pm
Lady Chusi Chhatrapati350EC clothing: White Hanfu, Veil, Head Veil Lady Chusi watched as his eyes changed and his stature changed and she looked at him with more and more confusion. When he denied her off she frowned underneath her veil. She watched him start to walk off and she watched after him for a few moments before she finally said "Did I say something wrong?" she asked him loud enough that her veil fluttered loose and swung to the side showing the frozen tears on her dark skin and the confusion that was in her eyes as she watched him leave.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:18 pm
✺Forgotten SonEC: 100
In that instant the count had these two options: stay and suffer the ineffable pain of being right in that your life had come to be a farce, or run away and prove her right when she implied he was weak...
Dixon's eyes tightened on the cooling horizon. He used to be so much stronger than this. Somewhere in all of this the man had found himself wondering what the lady would think of his killing their patron deity; an unseen smile came and went before he turned...
"No," he said, barely above a whisper at first. "One more for Pride," he said, managing a smile now. He took a few steps toward Chusi, confident: "Bernard should be able to handle Lady Marigold for the time. I shouldn't refuse hospitality when it's offered." His mind made up, the count prepared himself to fly to Solidon for the night. He needed sleep either way, and this way perhaps was easiest on his fragile mind.
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 4:45 am
Year 203
Epsilon Empire of Drosselmeyer
Third Year into the Reign of Emperor Azazel
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