New to Giralda, I see. Well, it takes all sorts around here. Take that shifty-eyed weasel by the fire.
Oh, he acts looks like a simple merchant, peddling meager wares, but watch what you say around him. The Empire’s got ears everywhere...
See those two there? They seem all chummy now, but that’s only because Var is trying to convince Jarek to desert the navy in Thisbē and join
those lawless bastards who sail from the Spice Isles. I’m sure that one will kill the other before the week is out, once they’ve got what they want from each other.
Then there’s always the usual mercs; bastards who’d happily kill their own mothers for a coin. Oh, they say those twins from Brelan aren’t so bad,
but a merc is a merc, and money is all they see.
At least there're no damned elves here tonight. One got uppity last month when I insisted the
bastard slept in the stables. A damn generous offer for a half-breed, if you ask me!
Mind yourself if you head into the Wilds. It’s full of things that
would happily eat you and shit you out without a second thought. Even the people who hunt those things are more beast than civil.
Anyway stranger,
what'll it be: a room, or a drink?
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WANTED: That storm was the other reason he was following the boy. The storm and what to do about it-it wasn't often anymore that he was so torn by indecision.
WANTED: That storm was the other reason he was following the boy. The storm and what to do about it-it wasn't often anymore that he was so torn by indecision.
Walter had no fear the boy would see him: Uncle Sam had ensured that Walter could hide and track, and decades of living alone in some of the most forbidding wilderness in the States had made him into a fair imitation of those miraculously invisible Indians who had populated the favorite books and movies of his childhood. If he didn't want to be seen, he wasn't-besides, the boy had all the woodcraft of a suburban housewife. They shouldn't have sent him into grizzly country on his own-feeding grad students to the bears wasn't a good idea, might give them ideas.
Not that the bears were out today. Like Walter, they knew how to read the signs: sometime in the next four or five hours there was a big storm coming. He could feel it in his bones, and the stranger didn't have a big enough pack to be prepared for it. It was early for a winter storm, but this country was like that. He'd seen it snow in August.
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So gather ye demons, it seems it's your day
I sin but I've paid more than ten thousand graves
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And while you are sitting indoors waiting for the storm to pass I will be outside dancing in the rain
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And while you are sitting indoors waiting for the storm to pass I will be outside dancing in the rain
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[attr="class","itokaytext2"]Red as the dawn. Those words echoed across her mind, electrifying her very soul and silently urging her to pick up the sword and fight for her people. The Reds, who slaved needlessly over the cruel and cold-hearted Silvers, suffered far too much pain and injustice for far too long. It should have been easy for her to say yes to her inner desires to join the Scarlet Guard and take her place among the Reds, fighting for equality for her people. Surely it was a glorious cause to be a part of, but something gave Mare pause as the young girl’s pale fingers raked through her umber hair, the locks slithering over her digits in a soft brushing movement.
There was the prince, after all. Cal. Mahogany orbs peered out from Mare’s long, dark eyelashes as a soft sigh escaped the young girl’s lips, tumbling into the air as the breezes whispered in through the open balcony window. “You better hide your heart. It won’t lead you anywhere you want to go,” Maven’s warning whispered once again from the depths of her memories and Mare’s fingers tightened around the railing at the reminder. Even though the temperature outside was warm, the air felt cold to Mare as she stared up at the sky’s dark indigo expanse, small stars starting to fade as light began to peek from beneath the horizon. “The gods have indeed come from the stars,” came the barely audible whisper that tumbled from the girl’s rosy lips. But the Silvers are not kind. Except for Cal.
Even now, Mare couldn’t stop thinking about Cal’s fiery eyes that were like the sunset, with flecks of gold and red clashing into each other like a storm, and his dark hair that framed his sharp, strong jaw. He was tall and regal, with that sharp, calculating look in his eyes that burned a deep passion that almost scared Mare, yet drew her in like a mouse being lured in by a cat. “He’ll make a splendid king,” Mare softly murmured as her brows furrowed slightly in a scowl, annoyance marring her contemplative look. Flashing back to the dark night when Mare ran into him in the muddy street, and the way Cal’s calloused hands slid around her wrist in a tight, but gentle vice when he caught her trying to steal from him that night, Mare realized a horrible truth about herself.
She was falling for Cal. She was falling for that sweet, yet hidden smile of his that seemed to radiate warmth whenever the dark-haired prince looked her way. Even though every fibre of her being was screaming at her to never trust a Silver, to remember that her people had suffered under the reign of the Silver people, her heart was swaying. Her heart was swaying to Cal’s fierce hopes for a better future for not just his own people, but for everyone else, including the Reds. Truly a king in the making, her mind whispered as Mare watched the golden streaks slipping into the sky.
However, her common sense spoke to her, saying that Cal was still different from Mare, and he was already betrothed to another, just as Mare was to Maven, Cal’s brother. Cal would always be Silver and Mare would always be Red. Or she thought she was Red. She was something else entirely. A girl who bled red blood, yet had the innate ability to harness electricity. The impossibility came in the form of a mere little girl who once was a thief but now was the very picture of nobility, with her rich, sumptuous violet dress and fake silverish skin. Looking down into the pale palms of her hands that were caked in white powder to cover up her true tanned skin. The white was slathered upon her skin to hide the fact her own blood was truly red, unlike the blood of the Silver who bled glittering silver blood instead.
They were like gods, these Silver people, and the Reds, the ones who had no superhuman powers like the Silvers, were forced to bow down to them. To be their servants, to be looked down by the Silvers were their eternal destinies. And Mare, too, was being played by the Silvers. She was just a mere pawn to be used to force the Reds to obey the Silvers once again. If she joined the Scarlet Guard, she would be betraying Cal, who was the first to show kindness for a Silver. Was it worth spilling yet more blood to prove her point to the Silvers? But too much red blood has been spilled already.
Resolute determination set in her brows, Mare pursed her lips as she released her vice from the metal railing, electric sparks flying from the tips of her fingers and the girl’s arms humming with electricity that bounced up her veins. So what was it to be? Yield to her heart’s desires and risk her life to fight for her people? Or choose to stay in the palm of the Silvers, forever to be ruled by their games? A hand sliding into her dress pocket, Mare pulled out the red handkerchief with a sun stamped on it. A beat passed before the breeze tickled her neck, brushing against the emerald earrings. Three earrings, one for each of her brothers. One of them had died, slaughtered by the Silvers’ injustice. “I won’t let myself drown in this sea of Silvers, brother.” the fierce whisper escaped Mare’s lips as she stared up at the bleeding red sun that was crawling up from its slumber and she clenched the red cloth in her fist.
Rise, red as the dawn, indeed.
THEME: Tough choice. NOTES: Inspired by Red Queen, which is an amazing novel by Victoria Aveyard. WORDS: 950
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