Post by Cass on Mar 15, 2011 11:44:39 GMT 10
Title: Play the Game
Rating: PG
Word Count: 371
Pairing: Kalasin/Wyldon
Fight: 1C
Summary: Kalasin gets her way-- but Wyldon also gets his. Takes place in an AU where Kalasin is allowed to train for her knighthood.
Notes: for Kat ♥
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She waits a year. She doesn’t intend to, but Father insists. It’s one of his conditions.
It helps that Carthak has indicated they wouldn’t mind a knight-empress, even if Galla has dropped negotiations about her and have started inquiring about Lianne and Vania, much to Mother’s disgust. Even though both of her parents have been proved right, they still spend most of their time being icy in private.
Still, Kalasin doesn’t mind waiting a year. The training master, the man who saved her brother and sister, he will still be there to teach her all that she knows. Roald will be there as well. She will have her brother to lean on for support.
And, as it turns out, there will be another girl.
Her name is Keladry of Mindelan and she has lived in the Yamani Islands since she was four. She’s been trained in combat already, and Father favors her family mightily for helping with the negotiations for Roald’s marriage contract.
Lord Wyldon decides to put her on probation.
It only takes three hours for Kalasin to corner her father.
“Why is she on probation?” she demands of Jonathan. She notices the lines etched more deeply in his face. He looks very tired, older than he usually does.
“Because Lord Wyldon requested it,” he responds, in a voice he only uses when he is very clearly the king and not her father.
“And what of me?”
“You are not on probation,” he says.
“Why not?” Her hands are balled up and resting on her hips, her lip protrudes in an angry pout.
“Because you are the princess, as well as second-in-line to the throne. You won’t be hazed and there was never any chance of Wyldon threatening to reject you. He knows that you will work for it, he has my word. Keladry of Mindelan he cannot be sure about.”
“That isn’t fair,” Kalasin blinks. “Aunt Alanna won’t like it.”
“And neither will your mother. It’s called politics, Kalasin. You’ll learn to play the game sooner or later.”
“I don’t think I want to,” she sniffs, and runs off to find Roald.
It probably isn’t a good thing to lose respect for the training master even before she begins.
QC by: jazzyjess
Rating: PG
Word Count: 371
Pairing: Kalasin/Wyldon
Fight: 1C
Summary: Kalasin gets her way-- but Wyldon also gets his. Takes place in an AU where Kalasin is allowed to train for her knighthood.
Notes: for Kat ♥
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She waits a year. She doesn’t intend to, but Father insists. It’s one of his conditions.
It helps that Carthak has indicated they wouldn’t mind a knight-empress, even if Galla has dropped negotiations about her and have started inquiring about Lianne and Vania, much to Mother’s disgust. Even though both of her parents have been proved right, they still spend most of their time being icy in private.
Still, Kalasin doesn’t mind waiting a year. The training master, the man who saved her brother and sister, he will still be there to teach her all that she knows. Roald will be there as well. She will have her brother to lean on for support.
And, as it turns out, there will be another girl.
Her name is Keladry of Mindelan and she has lived in the Yamani Islands since she was four. She’s been trained in combat already, and Father favors her family mightily for helping with the negotiations for Roald’s marriage contract.
Lord Wyldon decides to put her on probation.
It only takes three hours for Kalasin to corner her father.
“Why is she on probation?” she demands of Jonathan. She notices the lines etched more deeply in his face. He looks very tired, older than he usually does.
“Because Lord Wyldon requested it,” he responds, in a voice he only uses when he is very clearly the king and not her father.
“And what of me?”
“You are not on probation,” he says.
“Why not?” Her hands are balled up and resting on her hips, her lip protrudes in an angry pout.
“Because you are the princess, as well as second-in-line to the throne. You won’t be hazed and there was never any chance of Wyldon threatening to reject you. He knows that you will work for it, he has my word. Keladry of Mindelan he cannot be sure about.”
“That isn’t fair,” Kalasin blinks. “Aunt Alanna won’t like it.”
“And neither will your mother. It’s called politics, Kalasin. You’ll learn to play the game sooner or later.”
“I don’t think I want to,” she sniffs, and runs off to find Roald.
It probably isn’t a good thing to lose respect for the training master even before she begins.
QC by: jazzyjess