01-23-2016, 06:36 PM
Riva is a fire in need of careful stoking; she will burn hot and bright beneath the right hand that tends to her or she will fall cold and go out just as easily without guidance to aim her burning passions in the right direction. Her hatred has stripped her of any loveliness she might once have had, she is thin and cruel in her shape, but her tongue is a sharp stabbing sword of whatever brashness falls off it - she cannot help herself, she is a bit of a smart ass and whether the Amazon has need of that or not, it will be up to her to determine and if not, her loss. The queen seems to be quick to lose interest in all and seems as if there are other tasks at hand; Riva guesses at this just by the way the queen presents herself and throws around her title like a perfect weighty stone ready to be thrown at their heads. She will not be so cowed so easily by the Amazon’s cool detachment and increasing lack of interest, but she is rather blunt in her answer - “My family, or what should pass for family other than a pack of names for me to carry around.” What more can she say to that? She will not spill the dark secrets that each of those names are though if truth be told, Errant was only guilty by association because she no more than saw him fleetingly but Lea and Laiken would come to regret the fact that they simply let her fall to the wayside and raise herself because others were more important, more special and gifted than she was.
That was the crux of it, wasn’t it? That she possessed nothing as fanciful as wings or a horn, that she was plain-born and worse, a pirate’s bastard of a daughter, a stain on the bloodline so carefully kept pure and special.
“No, maybe…” she says slyly in response to his answer. His peculiar remark about the day makes her reconsider her previous thoughts about him - he had beauty but no brains apparently, and despite his questionable intelligence, she is still mildly intrigued by him and why he is there. “Why, what do you have to offer that she cannot?” Why else would a queen come forth but to invite her to the kingdom? Hence the particular line of questioning she has been enduring rather cryptically, but she knows the ultimate goal of Lagertha is to determine if she is a viable candidate for the Amazons or a waste of the queen’s precious time. Still, she garnered the queen’s attention and that is a feat for her since she could never garner much of Lea’s and she had been a queen too, just too busy in the affairs of her heart and kingdom to pay her granddaughter much mind. Is a wonder than that Riva is anything but bitter?
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