Thread 19 - The Dance of Snow and Fire

??!aLEJudith. 19 Nov 2015 7:57:18 AM No.41153360>>41153362



>>41153347
>From his tone, she could tell he was different from other prisoners she had the displeasure of dealing with. She'd seen other prisoners under Victoria's care, if they weren't falling apart at the seams they were begging to be sent to the mines instead. Many varying states of broken man she'd seen bit this one... had yet to crack as far as she could tell.

>At his comment about her being cute, she frowns a fair bit.

Sister was right, you are a rude little man...

>Ironic she used the word little when she herself probably only came up to Patick's chest in height.
>But this man was an interesting case none the less if Victoria was this paradoxically excited and annoyed about someone under her 'care'. As she opens his cell door she makes a snide comment or two back at him.

Keep your compliments I have no interest in low-born barbaric ruffians like yourself. Frankly, you should be thankful I'm even willing to be in the same room with you much less feed you myself.

>Look at him, he didn't even have the decency to wear a shirt. How scandalous! Did he lack as much modesty as he did brains?

??!aLEJudith. 19 Nov 2015 8:38:36 AM No.41153376>>41153403



>>41153362
>About his age? Who was he talking about now?

Who's age?

>The girl scoffs at the idea of the "highlife" as grabs a stool to seat herself before him.

What is there to enjoy? Noble Ignoramuses who think their rank is enough to make me spread my legs? Stuffy balls full of bloated egos where they only talk praise of themselves in spite of doing so little? Being forced to wear horrid fashions because someone slightly above us with no taste said they were wonderful? I hardly have time to actually enjoy what is actually enjoyable!

>It seems the girl had nothing nice to see about people above or below her. She grumbles a bit more as she dips the spoon into the bowl and beings it to Patrick's mouth.

And I am here because my sister says that we must all do things we do not enjoy to chip in, least I become like those I have no love for. Essentially you are a chore that I'd rather be doing then engage in my other obligations. As I can not fight, repair armour, or sharpen a blade, I am taking this task so someone else can get other things done.

>Talking about her reasoning, she didn't seem to be angry that she had to do this or that her sister made her.

??!aLEJudith. 19 Nov 2015 10:20:17 AM No.41153423>>41153435



>>41153403
>Her expression doesn't change much aside from the slightest of blushes. She simply waits for him to clean off the spoon before giving him another bite to eat.

Please, I've turned down men more charming them you. And that have smelled better too.

>As for her vocabulary, and more importantly her location.

I'm just visiting the Capital for a while. I'm live much further north, in Frost Fade. With the new transit tunnel we can finally come and go as we please instead of only see the light of day three months of the year.

>Victoria saw fit to make that happen, those where her people after all and she was determined to look after them.

You ever been that far north before? Or have you been keeping to the more southern lands?

??!aLEJudith. 19 Nov 2015 11:15:03 AM No.41153447>>41154149



>>41153435
>This time she actually chuckles as his sly bragging... if only to mock him with an icy truth to his boasting.

I'd hardly call being sat on the first time, then failing an escape attempt so horribly the second time nearly coming out on top. Perhaps a few more years of training and you might actually get close to besting my sister.

>Confident she was in her older sibling she certainly was. How could she not be? She'd seen what she could do first hand, and it was all amazing. Just like her.
>So he has been that far, but he tended to wander around further south. Perfect.

Oh you'd be surprised how frank I am with basically anyone. Don't think you're special, I speak my mind to anyone regardless of who they are. Keeps the nobles on their toes, I love watching them squirm under my scrutiny~

>She really was Victoria's little sister. Capable of being just as sadistic but excelling in the non-physical rather then the brutal full contact way her elder does. Though being related to the hard-ass of a general she was made that something she can actually do without getting in serious trouble for it.
>Once again when he's done, he's provided with another.

To be honest, you do have something over the lazy slobs here in spite of your low standing in life. You're worldly, or at least appear to be in some regard. That means you've seem things, experienced things that people of my standing nary have a chance to happen upon.

>She sighs as she thinks of her position. A noble lady who was guarded at almost all hours, forced to talk with people that she frankly would rather not care to know existed, locked away from the world when it was so full of wonder, filling her with a need to explore it, feel it, for herself. It was torture. Books can only go so far, she wanted to know, she needed to know the real thing for herself. So she'll grab what little shreds of it as she could even if meant talking to some criminal.

So yes, I want you to entertain me. Tell me of your travels, what you've seen, what you've experienced, what you've felt, tasted, heard, walked upon, everything!

>Her voices actually rises a bit in volume the child like excitement she had under a shroud of cool refinement.

??!aLEJudith. 20 Nov 2015 8:59:55 AM No.41154195>>41154214



>>41154149
>It didn't take even a moment for the girl to understand what he was doing. And it didn't take much longer for her to put the spoon back on the bowl and, with her now free hand, create a snowball and slap it upon Patrick's head.

Stop that, or I'll eat the rest of this in front of you instead of letting you finish it.

>She's already heard this one for several other people. She wanted something else, somthing more.

There must be wonderful places you've gone to! The monster fill lands of Astrolia, the wondrous technology of Alaestus, maybe even places no one else has set foot before!

That's what I want to hear damn it!

>She appeared to be getting a little impatient with him now.

??!aLEJudith. 20 Nov 2015 10:29:51 AM No.41154235>>41154242



>>41154214
>Now that got her attention. Her mouth fell open and her eyes filled with wonder.

The Chronicles of Kleist...

>And the Church knew something about it? Maybe she could-- No, Victoria already told her of her own mistrust of that group, asking the Church for secrets was just a really good way of vanishing from the world. He said it himself, "this girl who stopped by to provide me food was told about something she wasn't supposed to know about.".

I see, now that sounds like an interesting tale.

>She once again begins feeding him and Patick can see her mind was working very hard to try and figure out how she can find out about this without shaking the hornet's nest.
>That only re-enforced the need to go through her own plans with him.