Post by housewife on Jul 13, 2013 18:06:43 GMT 10
Title: Losing her chains
Rating: G
Prompt: A fresh start
Character/Couple/Theme: Buri/Thayet
Series: Fates and Futures
Summary: Buri had hoped that Tortall would be different.
Notes: Taking some liberties with the scene where Thayet meets Jon. I know (because I checked) that only George and Alanna were present there (no Buri or Myles), but, uh. Plot device.
Before Alanna found them, they would never have dared dream of escape from Sarain. It was not for them to hope for peace or freedom from the family name which endangered Thayet.
But when the Mother of Waters turned them away, Tortall became a fervent dream. Buri had been angry for Thayet, but she understood. There was no place in Sarain that would be safe for the Warlord's orphaned daughter. More than ever, she was a pawn in other men's games.
Alanna was different - it was she leading men, not being led. So they followed her to the Roof of the World, and when it was time for her to go home, they followed her still.
Tortall would be a fresh start, and by gods would it be a completely different life. There would be no Warlord, no war, no nobility and no chains. Thayet would not be anyone's pawn, and she and Buri could enjoy a quiet life together and hope to make a difference in other people's lives with their school. And the one thing Buri cared most about, which she kept close to herself, was that Thayet would never have to marry to someone else's advantage, she would have her own life. And Buri would be there.
This belief lasted until Thayet met Jon.
Buri had seen suitors introduced to Thayet, before she had been taken to the Convent. Were it not for the war, she would have been married by now. At all those meetings, there was a distinctive sense of appraisal from the parents and those who sought to gain from a union, as they watched the introduction, the potential partner. A sense that much rested on the first impression, and that they could only watch it happen, could do nothing to help it or prevent it. That look was mirrored in the faces she saw there, Alanna, George and Myles watching Thayet and Jon.
And Buri's vision of the future, hopeful and young, trembled.
Rating: G
Prompt: A fresh start
Character/Couple/Theme: Buri/Thayet
Series: Fates and Futures
Summary: Buri had hoped that Tortall would be different.
Notes: Taking some liberties with the scene where Thayet meets Jon. I know (because I checked) that only George and Alanna were present there (no Buri or Myles), but, uh. Plot device.
Before Alanna found them, they would never have dared dream of escape from Sarain. It was not for them to hope for peace or freedom from the family name which endangered Thayet.
But when the Mother of Waters turned them away, Tortall became a fervent dream. Buri had been angry for Thayet, but she understood. There was no place in Sarain that would be safe for the Warlord's orphaned daughter. More than ever, she was a pawn in other men's games.
Alanna was different - it was she leading men, not being led. So they followed her to the Roof of the World, and when it was time for her to go home, they followed her still.
Tortall would be a fresh start, and by gods would it be a completely different life. There would be no Warlord, no war, no nobility and no chains. Thayet would not be anyone's pawn, and she and Buri could enjoy a quiet life together and hope to make a difference in other people's lives with their school. And the one thing Buri cared most about, which she kept close to herself, was that Thayet would never have to marry to someone else's advantage, she would have her own life. And Buri would be there.
This belief lasted until Thayet met Jon.
Buri had seen suitors introduced to Thayet, before she had been taken to the Convent. Were it not for the war, she would have been married by now. At all those meetings, there was a distinctive sense of appraisal from the parents and those who sought to gain from a union, as they watched the introduction, the potential partner. A sense that much rested on the first impression, and that they could only watch it happen, could do nothing to help it or prevent it. That look was mirrored in the faces she saw there, Alanna, George and Myles watching Thayet and Jon.
And Buri's vision of the future, hopeful and young, trembled.
I was all ready to make a comment about how wonderfully optimistic this was, but then it did a complete turnaround! Poor Buri.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!