Kit
Squire
Duchess of Emelan
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Post by Kit on Apr 8, 2013 23:40:08 GMT 10
Title: First impressions Rating: PG Word Count: 244 Pairing: Kalasin/Kaddar Round/Fight: 1/A Summary: The prince and the princess do not begin well.
“You don’t have to do this.”
The words come unbidden, spiked and awkward from somewhere deep in his throat. He is too old for this. She is old enough. They are…what they are, and none of it should have him standing in a doorway while his bride-to-be looks up from unpacking that others were meant to do. But all Kaddar can hear are his uncles words—an old, easy drawl as he examined a painted miniature, the correspondence for the ersatz Tortallan peace agreements piled all about him. “Yes, nephew. If their majesties ever give that chit up, you’ll finally be useful.”
Kalasin, eyes wide at his interruption, looks distressingly close to her thirteen-year-old painted self. She is pale, her lips obviously bitten. White lines bracket her mouth, and worry has pressed its thumbprint between dark, straight Conte brows. Kaddar wonders what he must look like to her. Whether the Wildmage had been there to see her off.
“I’m sorry, your Majesty.” The princess’s voice is cool, jolting Kadder from worries woven through with the past. “But please, don’t be stupid.”
She turns away from him, eyes fixed to the window. Her chambers have a view of the university, rather than the palace. Kaddar has always preferred spires to streets. A small, worried part of him had wondered if she would, too. Her back is straight. She does not look at him again.
“We both have to do this.”
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Post by stardustrial on Apr 9, 2013 5:57:33 GMT 10
I really like how nervous and awkward they are. And I love love love how Kalasin is already a little bit more diplomatically savvy than Kaddar is.
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Post by wordy on Apr 9, 2013 10:53:36 GMT 10
Ah, your description, as always, is just heavenly! And it really suits these two characters beautifully. Their behaviour in this really shows that they'll come to understand each other eventually, which makes me happy.
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EymberFyire
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Kel/Lalasa. I will go down with this ship.
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Post by EymberFyire on Apr 9, 2013 15:30:18 GMT 10
You have a way of capturing small moments that leaves me breathless. It's so subtle, but speaks so much to both their characters.
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Muse
Knight
Official Rogerfic Curator
Junior Overlord
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Post by Muse on Apr 17, 2013 2:53:03 GMT 10
Of everything about these two, I like how you've portrayed them both as almost bending to meet in the middle...but they've gone past each other without noticing. It's beautiful and painful, here, please have my feelings *holds out*
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Griff
Knight
Deputy Mischief Maker
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Post by Griff on Jun 7, 2013 10:33:42 GMT 10
I love that Kally is the one who's past all the childish impulses - she's already had all of hers crushed before she ever arrived.
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