Post by Kris11 on Mar 18, 2011 9:45:33 GMT 10
Title: What Friends Are For
Rating: G
Word Count: 354
Pairing: Aly/Taybur
Fight/Round: 1D
Summary: Taybur knows that someone has broken into his office, and his first suspect is, of course, the castle's resident spymaster.
Aly was an expert at lying to people.
Oh, she knew it was more than that, but that was what it boiled down to in the end. She could make her face and body and words mean whatever she wanted them to mean. And the other person believed her, because there was nothing there not to believe, except that the truth behind her words was one of her own creation.
So when Taybur burst into her office, furious that one of her people had been through his private papers, she made her eyes go innocent-round and her voice take on just the right tone of indignation and told him that she had no idea what he was talking about.
And because she was such a good liar, he didn’t see through her words.
After he stomped back out into the hallway to track down the next person on his list of suspected trespassers, Aly sank into her desk’s chair with a smile. He should know by now that if he really wanted to keep her out, he would have to get trickier than a few magic charms and a piece of glass inside the door. She looked forward to the next time she had to go through his private papers; he should have thought up something really devious by then.
Turning back to her desk, she opened the letter she had stolen from Taybur’s secret drawer and smiled thinly when she read his steward’s account lines. She had seen that the man was lying to her friend, but wanted proof before she paid the cheating steward a visit.
Taybur would never suspect that Aly had dealt with the man who had been cheating him for years; out in the open just wasn’t her style. The man would simply resign from his position, claiming that his eyes were too poor to continue with all the paperwork... look at all the money he had miscalculated from Taybur's last payment! All returned with his resignation letter, of course.
And after all, she thought, as she slipped the re-sealed letter back into his desk’s drawer the next night, What were friends for?
QC by: inthefire
Rating: G
Word Count: 354
Pairing: Aly/Taybur
Fight/Round: 1D
Summary: Taybur knows that someone has broken into his office, and his first suspect is, of course, the castle's resident spymaster.
Aly was an expert at lying to people.
Oh, she knew it was more than that, but that was what it boiled down to in the end. She could make her face and body and words mean whatever she wanted them to mean. And the other person believed her, because there was nothing there not to believe, except that the truth behind her words was one of her own creation.
So when Taybur burst into her office, furious that one of her people had been through his private papers, she made her eyes go innocent-round and her voice take on just the right tone of indignation and told him that she had no idea what he was talking about.
And because she was such a good liar, he didn’t see through her words.
After he stomped back out into the hallway to track down the next person on his list of suspected trespassers, Aly sank into her desk’s chair with a smile. He should know by now that if he really wanted to keep her out, he would have to get trickier than a few magic charms and a piece of glass inside the door. She looked forward to the next time she had to go through his private papers; he should have thought up something really devious by then.
Turning back to her desk, she opened the letter she had stolen from Taybur’s secret drawer and smiled thinly when she read his steward’s account lines. She had seen that the man was lying to her friend, but wanted proof before she paid the cheating steward a visit.
Taybur would never suspect that Aly had dealt with the man who had been cheating him for years; out in the open just wasn’t her style. The man would simply resign from his position, claiming that his eyes were too poor to continue with all the paperwork... look at all the money he had miscalculated from Taybur's last payment! All returned with his resignation letter, of course.
And after all, she thought, as she slipped the re-sealed letter back into his desk’s drawer the next night, What were friends for?
QC by: inthefire