Choice of Romance - Kingly Intrigues (Raven and Julia)

[julia]

Vito smiled and looked at the tailor, bringing Awen in front of him. He tapped Awen's shoulder lightly and kept his hands laid against her.

"Good evening, my friend. Would you mind doing me a great favor?" he asked, then noted the water on the man's pants. "Are you alright?" he asked. Vito then cleared his throat lightly and got back to what he had come in for. "I need you to make three very fine dresses for my friend here. She will choose three colors she finds fitting, and I will ask you to be able to make and finish one this evening, so she doesn't walk home in these rags," Vito explained, then pulled a small coin pouch from his coat pocket.

"I hope this will cover it!" he laughed, placing the coins on the table.

[Ravenwoodwitch]

The tailor watched the gold hit the table with wide eyes, looking between the two of them. "Y-yes your majesty! It will be more than enough!"

Awen, on the other hand, was still trying to process what just happened. She blinked in surprise, looking at all the fabric lining the store. Why would the king expouse so much money for her sake? In her experiences, good things didn't just stroll right up and order you fabric.

"May I ask why his majesty is spending this much on me?" she said, glancing back to him. "More than likely these clothes are going to get stained with soap suds, you realize. And why would a king care for a gypsy slave?"

[julia]

Vito smiled and sat down in a chair, crossing his legs and smiling. "Why wouldn't I? While you're here, you're under my protection, and I hate when anyone in my kingdom is under privileged," he explained, motioning to a chair. "Feel free to design a dress that you'd never be able to afford," he enticed.

"I've often asked myself of the reason I care so much, and perhaps it is that I have no love in my home life, and I feel no one should ever live like that," he explained. "Or perhaps it is the guilt that I am on top of the world, and all those who rely on me are not..." he sighed. "Regardless of the reason, it happens," Vito smiled.

[Ravenwoodwitch]

"No love..." Was that an admission that the king had no love for his queen anymore? Or did he bear no love for her at all? The whole thing was rather curious, and sparked the intrigue note in the gypsy's sense of drama. "Well that's a shame, good king. One's home life is to be the farm for good feelings, not where we suffer pests."

Don't I know it.

Awen picked a wine-colored dress, one she knew would be made of fancy materials. While she wondered how long she'd be able to keep it, it was nice to at leats make the few seconds she'd get to wear it wonderful.

[julia]

After the tailor finished the dress, which was done in impeccable timing, Vito smiled at Awen and laid his hands on her shoulders as they stood before the mirror, him standing behind her. Vito's hands were very large, and his body was almost like a backdrop against her smaller frame. He looked at her.

"You look very beautiful in this dress," he complimented, stepping away reluctantly.