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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 17:34:34 GMT -5
"why so quiet?"
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 17:36:37 GMT -5
"It is hard to know what I may say to you, Prince of Shen."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 17:37:19 GMT -5
"and why is that?"
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 17:39:19 GMT -5
"Because you are a man, your highness. If you were of my people, I would not have said much of what I already have. To push this any further could prove very dangerous for me. I cannot trust you."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 17:40:07 GMT -5
"you can trust me as much as you trust yourself. My mother raised me not to harm others without just cause. A few words are not just cause."
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 17:45:53 GMT -5
*Azra gave him a curious look, hesitant to push the subject. However, after a long night of being ignored and bored, she was more than eager to share her disgust... She glanced around cautiously before moving close to the prince, her voice soft in volume but hard with frustration as she looked at him with a sharp gleam in her blue eyes.* "Very well. Do not think for one instant that I am content to stand idle at Balthazar's side. I have seen more and known more than the fool ever will, and I am the one forced to be silent and watch his incompetence both martially and diplomatically. He is a spoiled man undeserving of any power, especially that over my people. But this is not Shen... This is Valeria, where I may find myself dead or locked away for speaking too harshly of the wrong people."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 17:47:59 GMT -5
"and of course if I speak as such to the wrong people it could mean war for several countries. Though I can admit that Shen has the advantage with it's long distance and great desserts. Few people who don't live there normally can cross it without our help."
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 17:50:49 GMT -5
"Yes. You have distance between your enemies and yourself. Distance and fortifications and armies to protect you. I, on the other hand, will soon share a bed with my greatest enemy and will be forced to stand at his side day and night. I do not speak with you so frankly because I trust you, your highness. I speak with you this way because you can do nothing to me that will be more torturous than the marriage bed I slowly approach."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 17:54:37 GMT -5
"then run away. Is marriage with him worth it really? you will gain peace, but it will always be shakey."
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 17:59:53 GMT -5
"There will be no peace for me, your highness. But there will be no escape either. Balthazar intends to wed me before he and his troops depart for an assault on Haldor, in hopes that I might bear his heirs in case he should die in battle. My time runs out very soon... and all of my plans thus far have been foiled. Balthazar will hunt me to the ends of the earth because he believes me to be his already. And Balthazar never surrenders what is his." *She paused a moment, clenching her fists in anger before drawing away from Kuren slightly.* "But this is none of your concern and I have taken enough of your time with issues irrelevant to your purpose here."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 18:01:49 GMT -5
"my purpose is to simply stop the fighting and keep peace, should it be yours then it's still my purpose."
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 18:05:41 GMT -5
*Azra looked at him with disbelief for a moment before scoffing.* "You cannot stop my struggle and keep my peace of mind, your highness, even if you really wished to. Your purpose here is to join forces with the great nations of the region to fight the Haldorian threat... It is not to rescue dissatisfied women from their idiotic and overbearing men, as much as I may wish it was."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 18:07:03 GMT -5
"my reason for being here is to protect my people and keep the peace. I'm not picky on who's peace it is. And having to marry some overbearing man is just signing a death warrant."
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Post by Kait on Nov 14, 2006 18:10:09 GMT -5
"Yes. It is. And death may be the only solution to my problem. But it is the problem of one woman and you have the problem of thousands to solve. Besides this, I am a stranger. I don't know your name, let alone who you truly are, and for all I know, you may bring death to me, willingly or not."
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Post by Ze on Nov 14, 2006 18:11:44 GMT -5
"I am Prince Kuren of the Shen nation, heir to the thrown so long as my people see fit that I take it. I've come here for my father in his illness as I said before, and I plan to do nothing more than keep peace and keep people safe."
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