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 Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:36 pm
Sabyien looked up with suprise, did Masaya pass along a word or two?
After asking for Draken to leave the room he said. "Ket me hear what you have heard, and I will give you another message to pass along the winding trail."
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:41 pm
he smiled and moved to check that they were alone. "The man who sent me here. paid me an extra hefty fee. he seemed to be of keen insite and willed me to come straight to you. i have come to know men and how their hearts work. it is clear his beats thus." the minstrel began to strum another ditty, a romance ballad of a warrior profit who traveled the world to solve a riddle that his lady-fair was the answer to.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:57 pm
Sabyien smiled, his eyes downcast. He knew that Masaya would spare nothing to give him a message.
after teh last notes of the soung faded away he stood up, "Minstral, I want you to fly ahead of me, I shall meet the King's army."
He puased for a moment. he despertly wanted to say "and tell my General to come back to the capitol.' but instead he continued with:
"Let my Head-General know that he is to hold the border by what ever means nessary till I arrive."
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:01 pm
the minstral bowed to him. "Sire. my horse and i shall have wings." he nodded turning to go. "and my payment?" he asked with a teasing smirk. "young love is such a secret thing."
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:11 pm
Sabyien Flet himsefl flush hotly, He walked over to a cupbord and pulled down a jeweled rose, the bloom was white opal the stem and leaves wrot of the deepest emerald. The white rose was the sign of the highlord.
"This is a rather poor gift for my beloved....I would rather give real flowers. You may have this jeweled flower as your payment."
A costly payment indeed, the flower alone would feed a village for two years and still have left to spare.
He held out the flower to the minstral.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:39 pm
"It will do." he smiled. "Secrets are easilly bought." he bowed. "I bid you good night." and with that he left afixing his new aquisition to his person where it would be surely noticed. this was clearly not a man to be hidden. though he did have subtety and decorum.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:50 pm
Draken was pacing just inteh shadows when he heard the door open and out walked the minstral with one of the family's jewels pind to his shirt front.!
Shocked, Draken melted into the darkness and waited it the mortal was beyound hearing. He stepped into the room. "Sabyien that Minstral..."
"I gave him orders to pass along to the Head-General...
"The jewel...???"
"Is a symbol of my gratitude, Now please Father, Let my men gather as many as there are, we will ride out tomorrow morning to the broder."
"Y-yes....my son..." He gave him a slight bow. "All will be ready by sun up. " Dracken left, puzzling over what he had seen. Ovboiusly Sabyien knew the roses value, he would not give it away so couluesly. He frowned, a flower given to a male forniger......
He gasps, Perhpas he'd got it wrong the whole time, Sabyien's lover wasn't a woman, but a man! And it could have been that man he gave the flower to.
It made sence, a minstral could go anywhere, and no-one would question. Sabyien was found of music.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:54 pm
The minstral wandered through the home looking for the exit. he continued to play strumming out the love ballad again mumbin the words to himself as practice. he thought he was alone.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:02 pm
Draken allowled the luxuery of stripping off the outter robes he uesaly wore and the turben that hid his horns.
His Demonic features always alarmed ashlanians, his lower legs like the legs of a dragon, with three large toe claws, his clawed hands normal keep hidden under deep sleeves and the tail hidden under the robes served to put the "normal" people at ease.
His large batlike wings opned and flexed, groaning with the relief of freeing them for only a moment, he stepped off the staircase and flew silently as a shadow thorugh the dark emtpy hals towards the wandering Minstral.
When he found the man, he was singing some ballad of wind-sent love. Draken dropped in behind him, his toe claws claking on the marble. "Hold a moment Minstral, I want words with you."
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:07 pm
The minstral stopped. the last plainntive notes fading from his lips. "Yes sire? have you a request? a ballad? A lymric?" he turned and seeing Draken there made a suprised gasp and fell onto his backside in shock.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:17 pm
"Oh get a hold of yourself, you fool." Draken said irriated, "I'm not going to hurt you."
The father of the Highlord frowned down at the man. The Minstral was darkly handsome, black hair and a deep tan. A noveltiy that Sabyien might have favored. The man was also a travler, a forginer, free to come and go like the wind. While Sabyien himself was trapped in his duties as Highlord, such a forbidden love was all the more passionate he knew.
"I have come to understand that my son favors you." he said in low voice just in case that anyone might be within earshot. "You had best break off any connections with my son if you want to continue to 'serve' him."
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:22 pm
The shock and confusion onhis face was more than evident. "...Favours me?" he asked his face a mix of shock and indignation as he stood recollecting himself. "I have no idea what you mean." he turn again. his face burning at the thought. he perfered women. specificly the buxom lasses met on stormy nights in taverns. or trouble-swept temple maids fleeing their home. he would never be a molly-boy to some noble fop.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:32 pm
"Be that as it may...." He reatched and plucked the jeweled flower off of the man's shirt. "It was still a mistake for him to give this to you."
"Now I will leave you with a more fitting reward, your own life."
He hated to do this, but a love between these two would only end in tragidy. Best to n** this thing in the bud before it becomes a problem.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:36 pm
"That was given as part of a fair bargain! not as a lovers gift!" he insisted his hand reaching for the false flower.but as it was swept out of his grasp he made an agitated noise turning to leave. "And if I had been allowed to keep it i may have been willing to tell you who your son truely favours. but now to the grave~!" he insisted before attempting to storm out of the room heading instead of towards the main gate, rather the palace liabrary.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:45 pm
That damned idoit!
Draken followed behind the fool.
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Sabyien coughed, he was in bed now, buring slighlty with a feaver. He had taken some medicne in hopes that he would be feel better by morning.
But Masaya, Masaya was out there slone agsint the might of the southerne army. He needed to get to him quickly.
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" Stop, I will give you as much gold as you can carry if you tell me right now who, if it's not you."
Throwing all cation to the winds, he closed the liberay doors and lit some candles.
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