01-05-2019, 07:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-05-2019, 07:20 AM by Leilan.
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Leilan
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
and the superstars sucked into the supermassive
and the superstars sucked into the supermassive
Are there sharks in here?
A Kelpie bit you?
(As if they could never bite or kill anyone.)
Ok, one of the bites is from Rhae. But we didn’t, you know, do anything? The other one is from Ivar. He’s a kelpie, did you know that?
She’s gonna get herself killed.
It’s not the first time he thinks it, nor will it probably be the last.
The fact that the boy is mute is not something Leilan could possibly know about. He hadn’t been given the time to ask around who he was (since he never showed up to introduce himself, nor would Chryseis say a word - Leilan doesn’t even know about the boy’s parentage, only had deciphered from Magnus' presence that he lives in Tephra now). Mutism wouldn’t have mattered - if he’d shown up at least. But the roan just doesn’t like the idea of a boyfriend that he never gets to meet at all. That she never talked about, even, until her father called her out on her being claimed twice over. What kind of a father would, in fact, like to discover these things that way? Unless they didn’t care about the girl’s well-being?
Sure, he shouldn’t have been so angry about it - it was like saying ‘no’ when she had wanted to swim (even when she couldn’t). Like saying ‘no’ when he’d told her never to go find a kelpie on her own.
Like saying ‘no’ to everything dangerous in her life, because she just had that tendency to not see if anything was dangerous or not.
And so she was doomed to make his mistakes all over again, like he'd repeatedly worried about, and repeatedly had tried to tell her. But she refused to learn a fuck-thing about his life, and get probably as miserable as he. Or worse, since she would be the one carrying foals. Instead, she had kept both Rhaegor and the kelpie a secret. Apparently they were things to hide from her father, and also her adoptive mother, because she was embarrassed about them. He's not quite sure if Briseis knows, but he suspects she didn't get told much either.
Now why is that, one could wonder? Surely not because the boy is an absolute saint. Probably more like he’d already done what every boy did at least once in their life. Steal glances. Break hearts. On to the next one.
But nonetheless, all he ever gets for trying to protect Chryseis, is glares.
Glares and shrugs. When he told Ivar he didn’t like that he was hanging around with his daughters, especially those barely coming of age, all he got was a shrug.
He might have tried ripping him to shreds if Naia hadn’t spoken up to address the more important issue.
The lowering of his head had only been a way of looking him straight into the eye. But the boy stiffens as if his mighty pride had been hurt by it. But I don’t care about your personal pride right now. I care about nothing about you personally, in fact - we're only here because you're fucking my little girl or are about to. You should know I'll be looking out for her whenever she doesn't, and that happens to be a lot.
And with every word Rhae crams into his unprepared mind, that feeling of ripping someone to shreds gets directed slightly more at the younger claimer. A mind reader. For fucks sake, not even his jumbled up thoughts are safe. And just like Raed and Set had not too long ago, it seemed that all mind readers were notoriously bad at interpreting whatever stray thought (conscious or subconscious) they picked up on.
Rhae might have been innocent, before. Right now, it’s clear to Leilan that he’s just about as much a hypocrite as everybody (this includes Leilan himself). Thinking himself better than her father, for what reason, he doesn’t quite know. The fact that he dares to tell his daughter 'no' once in a while? Maybe Rhae is of high birth - born with his wings and pretty-boy looks no doubt, or perhaps even more magic - maybe that's the explanation. Surely he would attract a young girl like his daughter; about as much as it had attracted her - still did - to go find a kelpie and get infatuated. Infatuated and drowned.
He lets the word flow pass. Establish a friendship or understanding? Hah. And yet here you are, you’re yelling inside my head. Real nice of you. More stray thoughts, feelings more like, declare exactly how he feels about all this, though he refuses to make a move or to let any thought complete into a sentence, lest the boy will use that against him too. Out of spite, maybe. Stubborn refusal to give the boy what he’s clearly out for: to get him fully mad - not even Chryseis knows what that look like, but Rhaegor is so very close and he doesn’t even seem to know it. Why wouldn’t he know it? Well, that’s an easy one: because he’s too angry to look past his own feelings, just as much as Leilan is.
But it has some kind of effect, anyway, this yelling. Though probably not the desired one. Suddenly, the roan jerks his head up and away, though the furious rant (not all of it is true, but he doesn’t really take the time to waylay all his thoughts before this mind-invader, arguments for him to pick apart - he's tired of this) is just about halfway through. Then, he reaches out unexpectedly quick, in an attempt to have his sharp teeth sinking in and out the younger stallion’s shoulder, probably painless in the moment of contact, marking him just as much as his daughter had been. ”Congratulations on joining the family. Turns out you’re just like the rest of us.” Hypocritical, easy to anger, and making rash decisions - that sort of thing. The tone of his dry comment is not congratulating at all, of course, but rather some kind of careless-angry-disappointment mix. But if this is Chryseis’ choice, then it is her choice, though not one he will back up at this moment. But she doesn’t need his permission to find a stupid boyfriend who might ruin her. She doesn’t need his, or Rhaegor’s, permission to find herself a Kelpie to carry half-fish babies for or who will drown and eat her, whichever comes first. (He’ll never forget the hungry way in which Deiti had stared to him that day. It’s only waking up in time that had prevented her from chewing his flesh off his bones.) He'd never give his permission if she asked, but she's not going to ask any more. That time is over. Her mind is set on her own path to destruction. A path so similar to his own, but she lacked the immortality to protect her.
But that’s something that Rhaegor will find out for himself in due time.
She’s gonna get herself killed.
And she'll drag you down, too.
A Kelpie bit you?
(As if they could never bite or kill anyone.)
Ok, one of the bites is from Rhae. But we didn’t, you know, do anything? The other one is from Ivar. He’s a kelpie, did you know that?
She’s gonna get herself killed.
It’s not the first time he thinks it, nor will it probably be the last.
The fact that the boy is mute is not something Leilan could possibly know about. He hadn’t been given the time to ask around who he was (since he never showed up to introduce himself, nor would Chryseis say a word - Leilan doesn’t even know about the boy’s parentage, only had deciphered from Magnus' presence that he lives in Tephra now). Mutism wouldn’t have mattered - if he’d shown up at least. But the roan just doesn’t like the idea of a boyfriend that he never gets to meet at all. That she never talked about, even, until her father called her out on her being claimed twice over. What kind of a father would, in fact, like to discover these things that way? Unless they didn’t care about the girl’s well-being?
Sure, he shouldn’t have been so angry about it - it was like saying ‘no’ when she had wanted to swim (even when she couldn’t). Like saying ‘no’ when he’d told her never to go find a kelpie on her own.
Like saying ‘no’ to everything dangerous in her life, because she just had that tendency to not see if anything was dangerous or not.
And so she was doomed to make his mistakes all over again, like he'd repeatedly worried about, and repeatedly had tried to tell her. But she refused to learn a fuck-thing about his life, and get probably as miserable as he. Or worse, since she would be the one carrying foals. Instead, she had kept both Rhaegor and the kelpie a secret. Apparently they were things to hide from her father, and also her adoptive mother, because she was embarrassed about them. He's not quite sure if Briseis knows, but he suspects she didn't get told much either.
Now why is that, one could wonder? Surely not because the boy is an absolute saint. Probably more like he’d already done what every boy did at least once in their life. Steal glances. Break hearts. On to the next one.
But nonetheless, all he ever gets for trying to protect Chryseis, is glares.
Glares and shrugs. When he told Ivar he didn’t like that he was hanging around with his daughters, especially those barely coming of age, all he got was a shrug.
He might have tried ripping him to shreds if Naia hadn’t spoken up to address the more important issue.
The lowering of his head had only been a way of looking him straight into the eye. But the boy stiffens as if his mighty pride had been hurt by it. But I don’t care about your personal pride right now. I care about nothing about you personally, in fact - we're only here because you're fucking my little girl or are about to. You should know I'll be looking out for her whenever she doesn't, and that happens to be a lot.
And with every word Rhae crams into his unprepared mind, that feeling of ripping someone to shreds gets directed slightly more at the younger claimer. A mind reader. For fucks sake, not even his jumbled up thoughts are safe. And just like Raed and Set had not too long ago, it seemed that all mind readers were notoriously bad at interpreting whatever stray thought (conscious or subconscious) they picked up on.
Rhae might have been innocent, before. Right now, it’s clear to Leilan that he’s just about as much a hypocrite as everybody (this includes Leilan himself). Thinking himself better than her father, for what reason, he doesn’t quite know. The fact that he dares to tell his daughter 'no' once in a while? Maybe Rhae is of high birth - born with his wings and pretty-boy looks no doubt, or perhaps even more magic - maybe that's the explanation. Surely he would attract a young girl like his daughter; about as much as it had attracted her - still did - to go find a kelpie and get infatuated. Infatuated and drowned.
He lets the word flow pass. Establish a friendship or understanding? Hah. And yet here you are, you’re yelling inside my head. Real nice of you. More stray thoughts, feelings more like, declare exactly how he feels about all this, though he refuses to make a move or to let any thought complete into a sentence, lest the boy will use that against him too. Out of spite, maybe. Stubborn refusal to give the boy what he’s clearly out for: to get him fully mad - not even Chryseis knows what that look like, but Rhaegor is so very close and he doesn’t even seem to know it. Why wouldn’t he know it? Well, that’s an easy one: because he’s too angry to look past his own feelings, just as much as Leilan is.
But it has some kind of effect, anyway, this yelling. Though probably not the desired one. Suddenly, the roan jerks his head up and away, though the furious rant (not all of it is true, but he doesn’t really take the time to waylay all his thoughts before this mind-invader, arguments for him to pick apart - he's tired of this) is just about halfway through. Then, he reaches out unexpectedly quick, in an attempt to have his sharp teeth sinking in and out the younger stallion’s shoulder, probably painless in the moment of contact, marking him just as much as his daughter had been. ”Congratulations on joining the family. Turns out you’re just like the rest of us.” Hypocritical, easy to anger, and making rash decisions - that sort of thing. The tone of his dry comment is not congratulating at all, of course, but rather some kind of careless-angry-disappointment mix. But if this is Chryseis’ choice, then it is her choice, though not one he will back up at this moment. But she doesn’t need his permission to find a stupid boyfriend who might ruin her. She doesn’t need his, or Rhaegor’s, permission to find herself a Kelpie to carry half-fish babies for or who will drown and eat her, whichever comes first. (He’ll never forget the hungry way in which Deiti had stared to him that day. It’s only waking up in time that had prevented her from chewing his flesh off his bones.) He'd never give his permission if she asked, but she's not going to ask any more. That time is over. Her mind is set on her own path to destruction. A path so similar to his own, but she lacked the immortality to protect her.
But that’s something that Rhaegor will find out for himself in due time.
She’s gonna get herself killed.
And she'll drag you down, too.
you set my soul alight
@Rhaegor
For you to decide if the marking-thing worked. Also, Leilan has nothing else to say to Rhae at this point, so I was thinking this could be the end if you want?
Two things I know I can make: pretty kids, and people mad.
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