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Post by seraaches on Apr 16, 2008 0:46:43 GMT -5
(( This begins in the Court of Hearts, but should end up here eventually and be stuck here until the end of time. Or the end of the RP. )) There were three things to fear when you attempted to storm the Court of Hearts. First of all, and most obvious, was gaining the attention of any Face Card. Everyone knew that the Hearts in the Court were the craziest of crazy and therefore completely and utterly untrustworthy as well as prone to interbreeding. Or so he'd been told. Secondly, any Heart guards were to be avoided at all cost, because they tended to be obsessively paranoid and prone to killing people simply because they were standing there. Generally, this occurred to anyone standing in the way of a Face Card. See fear number one. The final fear was getting lost. If you got lost in the Court of Hearts, their magical, ninja killing roses would swarm up out of the ground-- or any convenient wall or floor-- to rip you to shreds and leave your warped, little now-skinless body to paint the floors in that deep red the Hearts all loved so much: the colour and scent of blood. So as the little hybrid was sneaking slowly into the Court of Hearts, he was trying to keep his attention all around them as well as on the girl with him in an effort to keep her from walking into another wall. Again. |
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Post by Bee on Apr 16, 2008 1:20:27 GMT -5
 Thalia did not understand Tosiek's apprehension at all. At the moment, she feared very little, other than running into a door (she had already smacked into two: the whole left side of her face was sore and she thought that perhaps she had a black eye, though under the dark fur it was difficult to tell) or breaking some priceless valuable or stealing some kind of sacred Heart artifact. That would get them into deep shit. But for the moment she was confident of their warm reception. Tosiek was the son of a very important member of the Diamond Court, and she was the daughter of a King, and besides, she knew the Queen of Hearts. That had to count for something in the...Court of Hearts. Over which the Queen ruled. "We don't have to sneak about, you know," she said cheerily, though she made an effort to keep her voice quiet. She generally trusted Tosiek to know more about what situations required lying and stealth. "Makes us look like little mischief-monsters. Once we find Queen Rai, he'll give us cookies. He's not half the satanic overlord of life-ruining darkness that Mom says he is." |
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Post by seraaches on Apr 16, 2008 1:35:54 GMT -5
Tosiek sent Thalia a vaguely withering look, though nothing like he would have directed at a normal person. Thalia was very naive at times. He wasn't certain if it would be a great use to explain-- the King's mind worked so strangely at times he wondered if she thought in a real and normal language in her head or if it was some made up jabber-babble. Still, it seemed worth the effort.
"He might be nice outside of the Court," the hybrid tried to stress this concept to the Corvis-mix. "But when he's inside the Court, he has to be someone else. He has to be The Queen." Which, of course, meant that they were in grave danger if caught. Really, sometimes Thalia had no sense of adventure.
"In any case," Tosiek continued seriously. "We're going to have to find him first, and this place is huge! It's not like we're just going to turn a corner and run into him."
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Post by Bee on Apr 16, 2008 1:53:19 GMT -5
The only problem with covert activity was that Thalia was horrendously bad at it. Under normal circumstances, she broke things constantly, and ran into things, which was not good for quiet stealth, and when she knew she had to be all freaky ninja, her lack of coordination warped into some unholy monster of klutz which was pretty much capable of annihilating anything in her path.
But she ducked and crouched close to Tosiek as they crept through the halls, trying to stay undetected. If she accidentally killed someone, he was going to be explaining it to the authorities.
Then she saw him. Sitting at his desk, which was covered with mountains of paper. There was someone else there, too. Her big brother. Half-brother. They were too far away for Thalia to hear anything, but they looked like something big was about to go down.
She grinned widely at Tosiek, incredibly pleased. "I see him! C'mon, let's go say hi. He'll love you."
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Post by seraaches on Apr 18, 2008 0:03:59 GMT -5
Tosiek looked around in a wild state of near-panic; he wasn't ready to meet The Queen of Hearts! He hadn't figured out wot to say yet and then there was the fact that he didn't really know how one was supposed to act around your eventual doom. Despite Thalia's cheerful announcement, however, there was no sign of the Josiggy Marshdweller. Tosi's rounded ears flicked backwards and he blinked through his spectacles for a long moment before realizing where Thalia was headed to.
"Thalia, wait! It's not--" Too late. As usual. The girl ran smack into the ornamental and decidedly closed door. The avian mix gave a small sigh as he hurried to the hybrid's side. "Thalia, are you okay?" As usual, that definitely seemed like it must have hurt. The Corvi-mix, however, generally seemed to take these conks and blows to the head with an easy aplomb.
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Post by Bee on Apr 18, 2008 0:55:01 GMT -5
"I'm fine," Thalia wheezed. The left eye was definitely swelling now. She was really going to need to ice that at some point. Blood trickled out of her nose. She was pretty sure it was broken. It felt broken. She poked at it curiously. No, it seemed intact. It just hurt like a mother. Oh well; there was time for a doctor later. She got to her feet and wiped some of the blood away. "Good, very good. I'm great. We, uh, now know there's a door there. A very hard door. Excellent! I have gathered valuable intelligence. And Queen Rai is in here."
She beat on the door. "Queen Rai? It's me, Thalia. I've brought a friend!" Primly, she added, "We request an audience with his most es-tee-med master of magnififabulous, the Queen of Hearts. We he allow us into the inner sanctum?"
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Post by seraaches on Apr 18, 2008 12:51:29 GMT -5
The door nearly flew open and they were greeted b the sight of a pink and purple equine with a dark snarl across his face. His ears flattened at the sight of Thalia, and he spared Tosiek a brief, unimpressed glance. A Seven of Diamonds. Scrawny. Goofy-looking. Not worth his time. He turned tail on them and moved gracefully back into the study. He did not react to the sight and smell of blood. But it was a difficult choice. The yearling draped himself back onto his chair and sent his father a dark, challenging glance. "It wasn't anything important at all." His tone was indulgent, as though he were catering to the stallion's whims. "I'm surprised any one even noticed." Obviously they were continuing a conversation from before and despite his easy words, there was a tension in the Yarrow Gardens equine's frame. He was not pleased about being here. |
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Post by seraaches on Apr 18, 2008 12:56:50 GMT -5
A fine trembling was threatening to shake the stallion's form, but he kept it in check by sheer willpower. In bipedal, a rare occurrence at the Palace, the Queen of Hearts Shinrai was staring down at his son with cool, grey-green eyes as he tried to decide the best way to answer the challenge within the yearling's gaze. "You misunderstand me," the man said easily. "This isn't about a servant going missing and blood leading right to your door." He ignored Thalia's presence for now, though he sincerely hoped he would not regret it. She was. . . rather flaky at times. "This is about you killing people in my territory. That is unacceptable, Eir."There was something dark and predatory in his son's whole demeanour and the stallion was fighting to come up with a good way to relate to the boy. |
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Post by seraaches on Apr 18, 2008 13:00:22 GMT -5
Tosiek felt his eyes widen at the overpowering sight of the two large and obviously strong horses in the room. Neither seemed to really notice him, though the younger one sent him a dark look. Still, he fought to keep from taking a step closer to Thalia and trying to hide behind her strange appearance to keep from being really seen.
He lofted a brow at the words, however, and his mind was rapidly doing computations to figure out just how likely it was that he could escape with Thalia in tow. She tended to slow things down rather than speed them up, but perhaps blind panic would help. . . No, if anything that would make them slower; she didn't handle excitement too well.
If he threw himself at them, however, Thalia could probably still escape, though he wasn't entirely certain it would occur to her to do so. No, he had to keep them both alive. He simply had no idea how to do it.
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Post by Bee on Apr 19, 2008 22:34:16 GMT -5
Oh, Thalia hated it when she stumbled onto something awkward. Blood trails. Dead servants. She looked at her half-brother with alarm and annoyance. Alarm, because he was a total cannibal nutcase who was probably contemplating how well her kidneys tasted with a nice alfredo sauce and some corkscrew noodles. Annoyance because she really wanted to have fun with Queen Rai and Tosiek, and if all this dour business about killing and eating people was going on, that likely wasn't going to happen.
Poor Tosiek probably thought her family was batshit insane. She sent him a reassuring look. No one was eating anyone on her watch.
"Hey, brother," she said, with an anxious smile and much nervous bouncing. "Did I...um...did we come at a bad time? 'Cause I don't want to interrupt something really important like...stopping death...But, um. Hello! And this is Tosiek. He's great."
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