Post by Fenella on Mar 8, 2011 9:44:04 GMT 10
Title: Problems will Solve Each Other
Rating: G
Word Count: 357
Pairing: Team Bend-a-Lot
Round/Fight: 1/A
Summary: In which the King is short on time, and sends his Squire to learn about the world outside castle walls.
In the past three months, his first three months serving as Squire in the Royal Household, Zahir ibn Alhaz has come to appreciate that there is a simple, but powerful line of reasoning that underpins the success of his country.
One: There is no Kingdom without the King.
Two: There is no King without the Queen.
Three: The King will inevitably cave to the desires of the Queen.
Four: There is sometimes resistance, in this due process of caving.
As the King’s squire, Zahir recognizes (but not without long-suffering sighs) that he is sometimes the sacrificial goat in this process.
Appeasement, stresses King Jonathan, who is stalling from his hearing with the fifty-three councillors who are all determined that the King hear their concerns. These councillors, whose concerns are each the most important have no need for the King’s Squire. Zahir doubts that they would know him in the street.
All things considered, Zahir is okay with anonymity.
The point is that Jonathan is busy, and has no time to visit Thayet’s newly established school for commoners in Corus. Which, honestly, he would rather be doing. But he sends Zahir, because the King’s Squire is a small act of appeasement.
Thayet smiles beautifully at Zahir upon his arrival in Lower Corus, and he has a split second of reassured calm before fifteen small children launch themselves at him. Zahir hasn’t spent time with children in four years, since he left home to become a knight, and the anxiety sets in.
“Do you have a horse?”
“Do you have two horses?”
“I bet he ‘as a stable full of ‘em!”
“Shhhhhh. Don’t be a crass pig.”
“Have you ever fought a Stormwing?”
“Is the King nice?”
“My Ma says that Lady Alanna ‘n the King were lovers!”
“Ewwwww.”
"Have you and the King saved any villages this year from Pirates?"
Zahir reflects that being the King’s Squire is not quite as advertised.
“Er,” he stammers, under Thayet and the teacher’s watchful eyes. “Education is very important.”
There is a beat of dead silence.
And then, "Can we see your sword?"
"Will you teach us to kill dragons?"
quality checked by Cassandra
Rating: G
Word Count: 357
Pairing: Team Bend-a-Lot
Round/Fight: 1/A
Summary: In which the King is short on time, and sends his Squire to learn about the world outside castle walls.
In the past three months, his first three months serving as Squire in the Royal Household, Zahir ibn Alhaz has come to appreciate that there is a simple, but powerful line of reasoning that underpins the success of his country.
One: There is no Kingdom without the King.
Two: There is no King without the Queen.
Three: The King will inevitably cave to the desires of the Queen.
Four: There is sometimes resistance, in this due process of caving.
As the King’s squire, Zahir recognizes (but not without long-suffering sighs) that he is sometimes the sacrificial goat in this process.
Appeasement, stresses King Jonathan, who is stalling from his hearing with the fifty-three councillors who are all determined that the King hear their concerns. These councillors, whose concerns are each the most important have no need for the King’s Squire. Zahir doubts that they would know him in the street.
All things considered, Zahir is okay with anonymity.
The point is that Jonathan is busy, and has no time to visit Thayet’s newly established school for commoners in Corus. Which, honestly, he would rather be doing. But he sends Zahir, because the King’s Squire is a small act of appeasement.
Thayet smiles beautifully at Zahir upon his arrival in Lower Corus, and he has a split second of reassured calm before fifteen small children launch themselves at him. Zahir hasn’t spent time with children in four years, since he left home to become a knight, and the anxiety sets in.
“Do you have a horse?”
“Do you have two horses?”
“I bet he ‘as a stable full of ‘em!”
“Shhhhhh. Don’t be a crass pig.”
“Have you ever fought a Stormwing?”
“Is the King nice?”
“My Ma says that Lady Alanna ‘n the King were lovers!”
“Ewwwww.”
"Have you and the King saved any villages this year from Pirates?"
Zahir reflects that being the King’s Squire is not quite as advertised.
“Er,” he stammers, under Thayet and the teacher’s watchful eyes. “Education is very important.”
There is a beat of dead silence.
And then, "Can we see your sword?"
"Will you teach us to kill dragons?"
quality checked by Cassandra