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Post by Rosie on Dec 11, 2011 9:42:30 GMT 10
To: Katty,
Message: Still addicted to these two!
Title: Just Have a Little Patience Rating: PG Word Count: 247 Wishlist Item: #4 - Zahir, either as a squire or a knight Summary: Zahir is willing to wait.
Zahir isn't naturally a patient man.
It is something he cultivates at the knee of his knightmaster, though he is certain Jonathan does not mean for Zahir to employ the skill in waiting for Jonathan's youngest daughter.
Zahir doesn't mean to wait for her, of course. It is just that nobody makes him laugh like Vania, whose mirth-filled eyes are enough to make his heart light, even after Scanra. It deceives him into a kind of easy intimacy with her, where they go on long rides, and after she leads their horses to water, she tells him she doesn't want to marry anyone.
He rejects Asalah, the girl his parents lined up for him, and holds Vania's hair back when she drinks too much at her seventeenth birthday.
It isn't until he gets tangled up in a Rider mission that he realises quite how intelligent she is, and she sparkles with a sense of purpose for hours after.
She gets betrothed, of course, because her father is not so easy to dissuade as his, and then married, because a royal engagement is a sticky thing to undo.
Zahir took her first kiss, though, the night of her eighteenth birthday, and her whispered promises of forever the night before she left for Galla. And he waits, still, even as her stomach grows heavy with child and his hair turns grey - because he knows that, should she come to him, all the waiting will have been worth it.
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Post by Katty on Dec 11, 2011 10:07:42 GMT 10
This is divine! Thank you so much.
(And yes, they are SUPER addictive!!)
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Kris11
Squire
Shipping in Circles
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Post by Kris11 on Dec 11, 2011 13:37:34 GMT 10
So sad and so sweet... Great pairing and I loved the easy way you passed so much time. Lots of good lines here, but I really liked "and then married, because a royal engagement is a sticky thing to undo." because, wow, understatement? Great job!
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Elsceetaria
Knight
May or May Not be a Little Teapot
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Post by Elsceetaria on Dec 12, 2011 7:57:23 GMT 10
Aw, this is so sad and sweet and lovely.
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Post by Rosie on Dec 13, 2011 22:26:21 GMT 10
Thanks, I'm glad you all enjoyed it! Kris, I was actually going to have Vania get out of the engagement, and I couldn't think how, which inspired the line
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Post by Kypriotha on Jan 1, 2012 10:17:29 GMT 10
Aww you really make me feel for Zahir here And I agree with Kris - that's a great line.
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