For a few moments, a grin graced her lips as she listened to his play on words. It wasn't every day that someone treated her like a normal person instead of the woman who could have them beheaded if they said the wrong thing to her. The playful content of the words only made him more interesting to her. If she hadn't known better, she may have even said the soldier was flirting with her. Even so, it ended almost as quickly as it began, and she fought the urge to roll her eyes. Very unladylike.
Her expression matched his, though, when he grabbed her bow from her fingers and snatched an arrow from the quiver on the back. Now, she was just fine with him talking to her like an equal, but she would not even let her own mother take those things from her. So where in the world did he come off doing it? So what if he could shoot? So could she, and he'd still basically called her... what was it? A pretentious twit. She could no longer hold her tongue.
"Is that what everyone is to you? Twits? Idiots? Are we all below you? Should I be calling you, Your Highness, instead of the other way around? Because that's certainly how you act, so you must believe it. Please, tell me what makes it so that you are up in the heavens while the rest of us are still down on Earth." Her voice was dripping with sarcasm. Astora was built on equality, love, and freedom, and here he was pretending that he was better than the damned Princess? Just because he believed her job to be silly and the people she spent most of her day with to be stupid, it did not give him the right to judge her.
Despite this, she was impressed by what he had shared with her. The plan was a rather good one. It would allow them to leave the castle inconspicuously. No one would recognize her if she was not dressed up, and no one would question that they did not belong if there were only two of them. They were bringing very little of value, so there wouldn't be much a reason for bandits, though she knew there were other dangers on the roads as well. Kiara, however, would never share her thoughts with the likes of him. Not after the things he'd said to her, and certainly not after his last comment. That was the one that struck her the hardest.
"If I could establish a truce just by fucking someone, you bet your ass I'll be all over that one a hundred times over."
The sentence rung in her head while she stared at him, looking as if she'd been slapped. He had no idea. How could he? He thought that her life was all parties and money. How in the world could he ever understand that it wasn't simple? Her voice was hard and angry as she spat out at him. "If you think that all I'm doing is fucking someone, you're more of a 'bumbling idiot' than you claim. Fuck. If that's all this was I wouldn't have hesitated either." She didn't even bother to apologize for her language. What was the point? He'd started it anyways. "You have no clue what it's like to be married, and even less what it's like to be a woman. How can you stand there and act like this is nothing? Like it's easy?" Here her voice betrayed her with just the slightest break.
She shook her head, trying to remember how it felt just staring at that target minutes before, but she could not. Why had she expected anything more from him? Kiara stormed off to gather her things without another word to him.
No one would ever understand. Kiara knew this, and still she had been hoping that maybe he would. A silly hope. What she wanted was to be normal. To be able to shoot arrows as she pleased, marry who she wanted. God forbid she didn't want to marry at all. That was against her entire life plan. He'd never understand that she had been born and raised only to give birth to and raise her own children. For her country, for him, she was shackling herself to a man she did not know or love. A man who was their enemy and could possibly kill her in her sleep one day.
For that stupid ungrateful knight, she was giving up her home and her people and her freedom. And he thought all it was was fucking. Kiara decided right then and there that Ostus was delusional. That bit of playful banter they'd had at the very beginning? Well that was surely never going to happen again.
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Hello all who have deigned to grace my profile with their presence! I am the great Arrayah, lord of the Phoenix. Or something. I don't know.
Anyways, bio. As of writing this, I am a 23 year old female. I am married. I own two dogs (a Dalmatian and a Labrador... so cliche). I work from home. I like crafty stuff and games. I used to be an MMORPG girl, but have since moved on to things like Minecraft and Ark as well as Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress. Who knows what's next?
I love writing, but only get to roleplaying a few times every couple years. Unfortunately, life gets in the way. I'm starting to have more time lately, and thought it'd be fine to start it up again. We'll see how it goes, but hopefully I stick around this time.
I was on the old RPGuild, so you may recognize my name. If so, hello again! If not, maybe we'll have lots of fun together. If I've been online recently, and you're interested in doing an RP, feel free to PM me. I'm almost always interested in 1x1s as long as I don't have too many going on. Check some of my old threads to see my rules, or pm me if that's too much hassle.
Long live the Phoenix Queen. Or something or other.
Anyways, bio. As of writing this, I am a 23 year old female. I am married. I own two dogs (a Dalmatian and a Labrador... so cliche). I work from home. I like crafty stuff and games. I used to be an MMORPG girl, but have since moved on to things like Minecraft and Ark as well as Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress. Who knows what's next?
I love writing, but only get to roleplaying a few times every couple years. Unfortunately, life gets in the way. I'm starting to have more time lately, and thought it'd be fine to start it up again. We'll see how it goes, but hopefully I stick around this time.
I was on the old RPGuild, so you may recognize my name. If so, hello again! If not, maybe we'll have lots of fun together. If I've been online recently, and you're interested in doing an RP, feel free to PM me. I'm almost always interested in 1x1s as long as I don't have too many going on. Check some of my old threads to see my rules, or pm me if that's too much hassle.
Long live the Phoenix Queen. Or something or other.
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Woop. Gonna post one more time, and it'll probably be the last for a day or so. Homework and sleep and classes oh my!
Cracking me up. Can't wait till he sees how she has to act in front of other royals xD
Woo for more people!
Lol no you can have whatever voice you want. It's just interesting that the people who want to join all want to play girls xD
Maybe I'll just have her leave him there <.<
Well then. You're accepted, but the female to male ratio is getting out of control D:
Yes, I'm waiting for some others to see if anyone decided to follow before I dictate her struggle to drag Hide inside with his broken ribs. Cause that will be fun. Though help would be even more fun :p
I do hate those D:
When she first felt the presence of another, Kiara turned both her weapon and her cold eyes towards the intruder, expecting the worst as always. She was a princess raised in a war, it did not matter if she was supposed to be off frolicking in some pretty dress because it was just not practical. When one was just as likely to be assassinated as to be invited to a party, it was necessary to learn how to protect oneself. This was the argument she always gave her mother, though it usually did little to convince her.
As he spoke, she kept her position, not once moving or lowering the bow. After all, he had interrupted her while she was only trying her best to relax. However, after his entire rant, she relaxed her stance and raised an eyebrow curiously. He certainly did have a mouth on him, and in the presence of royalty no less. Though, she did suppose to him she was not so. To him, she was the enemy. Or had been before now.
Kiara looked at him, surprised also. She had been expecting a brutish sort of man. Perhaps covered in scars, all muscle, and rather harsh. Well, that last one might have been proven true. When she finally did speak, it was with amusement. "I believe they call it the tea room. You see us pretentious twits are rather simple with our names and hobbies. Tea in the tea room. Sewing in the sewing room. Pleasure in the..." Here she grinned mischievously. "Well I'm sure you can see where this is going."
In return to his show of... not respect, but perhaps acknowledgement, Kiara nodded her head and introduced herself as well. "Princess Kiara Rydell, as I'm sure you've heard by now. It may seem strange, but I would prefer you to not treat me as such, especially since no one can recognize me on our journey. Mostly though, I just hate it. And yes," she smiled a bit at the question she figured had already formed in his mind. "I can use this bow for more than just target practice."
Placing a hand on her hip, she stared up him again with the confidence only a royal could exude. "So do you have a plan perchance? Or are you just going to pretend you know what you're doing, take me away, and just hope that I'm safe?"
As he spoke, she kept her position, not once moving or lowering the bow. After all, he had interrupted her while she was only trying her best to relax. However, after his entire rant, she relaxed her stance and raised an eyebrow curiously. He certainly did have a mouth on him, and in the presence of royalty no less. Though, she did suppose to him she was not so. To him, she was the enemy. Or had been before now.
Kiara looked at him, surprised also. She had been expecting a brutish sort of man. Perhaps covered in scars, all muscle, and rather harsh. Well, that last one might have been proven true. When she finally did speak, it was with amusement. "I believe they call it the tea room. You see us pretentious twits are rather simple with our names and hobbies. Tea in the tea room. Sewing in the sewing room. Pleasure in the..." Here she grinned mischievously. "Well I'm sure you can see where this is going."
In return to his show of... not respect, but perhaps acknowledgement, Kiara nodded her head and introduced herself as well. "Princess Kiara Rydell, as I'm sure you've heard by now. It may seem strange, but I would prefer you to not treat me as such, especially since no one can recognize me on our journey. Mostly though, I just hate it. And yes," she smiled a bit at the question she figured had already formed in his mind. "I can use this bow for more than just target practice."
Placing a hand on her hip, she stared up him again with the confidence only a royal could exude. "So do you have a plan perchance? Or are you just going to pretend you know what you're doing, take me away, and just hope that I'm safe?"
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