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Post by Brian on Feb 18, 2023 7:34:36 GMT
OOC: Fair enough didn't know if you meant any special ones
IC:
"Also Princess. If you speak to your mother, let her know I would like to avail myself of her offer of her hospitality sooner rather then later"
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 18, 2023 23:52:09 GMT
"Why?," Lorelei asks. "Because we are 'alone', again, in a bed-room? Mother and I have already had that talk when we were traveling with Lady Shelly. I would be more concerned about how trusting your wife is concerning your honor toward kin. And that brings us back to blood-ties and the attempt to discover exactly which ones are in place."
"No. Your greatest danger lay in your honor and ego trying to apply your cultural standards where other cultures prevail, no matter how wrong-headed they may seem. Such clashes tend sometimes to produce pointy pieces of metal that others try putting into you." She frowns slightly. "And sometime that reaction results more from another's tampering." Obviously, she is thinking of Coy when she adds that last part...
"I have to keep reminding myself that other cultures are not as free and forthright as you find in Rebma... I mean dress-up can be fun but to have it as one of the core elements of one's supposed morality, uhg..."
Smiling once again, Lorelei adds, "I'm certain mother would want to speak with you should you choose to visit Rebma at any time. There is no need for me to intervene in an already extended offer of hospitality." .
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Post by Brian on Feb 19, 2023 0:07:32 GMT
" Why?," Lorelei asks. " Because we are 'alone', again, in a bed-room? Mother and I have already had that talk when we were traveling with Lady Shelly. I would be more concerned about how trusting your wife is concerning your honor toward kin. And that brings us back to blood-ties and the attempt to discover exactly which ones are in place." " No. Your greatest danger lay in your honor and ego trying to apply your cultural standards where other cultures prevail, no matter how wrong-headed they may seem. Such clashes tend sometimes to produce pointy pieces of metal that others try putting into you." She frowns slightly. " And sometime that reaction results more from another's tampering." Obviously, she is thinking of Coy when she adds that last part... " I have to keep reminding myself that other cultures are not as free and forthright as you find in Rebma... I mean dress-up can be fun but to have it as one of the core elements of one's supposed morality, uhg..." Smiling once again, Lorelei adds, " I'm certain mother would want to speak with you should you choose to visit Rebma at any time. There is no need for me to intervene in an already extended offer of hospitality." . I scribble
"The first was a joke. And my honor travels with me wherever I walk....if the rest of the family is any indication Ego comes in the blood."
"Honor is all a free person has. How you choose to carry your load of the world. I've tested it and pushed boundaries with the choices I've had to make. And now I am going to have to do that again it seems."
" I hope Kat was able to find the peace she needs if she failed to free her people."
"And why did you suppose my Armor didn't let the priests of the Unicorn remove it?"
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 19, 2023 1:00:37 GMT
"As long as Kat's people exist, she only fails if she gives up. If she needs peace, a place will be provided for her in Rebma to seek it."
"Take yourself, Flora, and Calvera as examples... all very different... while most will agree what is or is not, the final shape of honor is sculpted by one's worldview," Lorelei cautions. "Adherence to honor is a virtue, something apart from ego although it can be fueled by ego, however over-inflated it may be, and admittedly some do so poorly - choosing ego over honor..." She chooses not to voice how she thinks of each...
Leaning forward and pressing her face through the watery cocoon, Lorelei places a kiss on Brian's forehead as one might do for a troubled child.
"I know nothing about you armor, and would be reluctant to guess... As for the priests, where does one draw the line between adherent and fanatic?" .
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Post by Brian on Feb 19, 2023 1:07:28 GMT
"My armor and sword have become talkative to me in my journey....showing personality."
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 19, 2023 1:11:37 GMT
"Are you certain it is the sword and armor speaking?" Lorelei asks playfully. .
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Post by Brian on Feb 19, 2023 1:20:00 GMT
" Are you certain it is the sword and armor speaking?" Lorelei asks playfully. . "Not words as such....more feelings...and yes."
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 19, 2023 2:02:12 GMT
"I have trained in sorcery. A conjuration specialist could graft life-like attributes and powers into creatures and items. If you carried these items through an initiation into a power, that may have changed them... It's all outside my current fields of study," Lorelei answers. .
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Post by Brian on Feb 19, 2023 2:16:00 GMT
I nod at that.
" hmmm....I suppose you could be right."
" Have you sorted out your problem with Flora?"
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 19, 2023 3:03:24 GMT
"Flora is ~Regent~ of ~Amber~, but family so I will help where I can. Moire, mother, is ~Queen~ of Rebma and my liege... Both are True Pattern realms. My only ~problem~ with Flora is Flora's ego. I intent to avoid her as much as possible until she grows out of it - that should only take a few millennia..." .
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Post by Brian on Feb 19, 2023 4:39:20 GMT
"If you make it a challenge for Flora to do you ill she will. Even with your father, brother, and mother as points of concern. You should come to better terms with her now."
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 20, 2023 21:18:15 GMT
"At some point Flora will have to learn that snapping her fingers won't always get her what she wants. This trying to impose her will on everything is actually driving away what she needs," Lorelei replies.
"Mother and I get along as well as any mother and daughter can be expected. It is foolish not to expect turbulence occasionally."
"I had not seen or talked to my father or brother in... decades. I do want to reconnect with them but lack the means to do so easily... or the time to try whenever I want." .
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Post by Brian on Feb 20, 2023 22:16:46 GMT
Lor did say the healing spell could be ended....I should be healed enough.
I clap my hands and end the spell "Bare with your Sainted Kinsman."
I pull from the closet a Robe and a Towel
~Huh.....~ I think for a moment ~ Interesting~
I start to dry myself while I talk to Lorelei.
" I think you don't see the world from Flora's position. The Throne changes things....and it makes it necessary to see the other's point of view."
I start to comb and get my hair back into its 'Hawk "Amber has enemies both without and within, and she is seated on the throne to manage the crisis. Those who would be viewed as STRONGER or MORE CAPABLE are missing or dead. And this is her home, the home she's had since she was a child. These are her people. While there are decisions she's made I don't agree with...I can't fault her path to the decisions." I then go to the closet and find clothes of a style appropriate for a Lord of Amber. " And while I don't have a love for Amber exactlly. Amber is the center of all things. And if the Center doesn't hold all matters in shadows will be a mess. And you whose home is a reflection of Amber....are not one she would count as a champion or defender of Amber. You who brandish the name of your brother as a valuable coin.....who his being family notwithstanding, is the king of one of the powers outside who is threatening the position of Amber. You've not claimed your birthright...As she sees it...but you speak proudly of it. You can understand how Flora might look down upon you? How she might view you as a potential threat and risk?"I start to dress in the new clothes. " And how if there was a situation where your Brother and Mother's name might not be enough to save you she'd take your head from your neck. And your Aunt, Mother, and Brother would curse your foolishness. You need to make peace with Flora. Even if this crisis abates she will hold a grudge. "
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Post by Lorelei on Feb 21, 2023 16:29:21 GMT
"There are some valid points to what you say. I am, however, only as much threat as she creates me to be," Lorelei begins.
"I ~do~ have ever right to the anger I feel boiling inside. I hold the former king directly responsible for the death of the sister I never had the chance to know, even though there are echoes of her all around me. He never once expressed regret at her passing or interest in their son. This ~precious~ Regent... for CENTURIES she sat back and did NOTHING while she watched my father stumble about on that Shadow Earth in the time of his amnesia. Now, now she is throwing away the power of the throne, selling it to nobles who have less honor than vermin while she does her little "oh, love me... worship the ground I trod upon' act," Lorelei pantomimes sotto voce, having raised the back of her hand to her forehead as if she were about to swoon. "That is when she isn't doing the 'I'll decide what's what, don't try to confuse things with actual facts' routine."
"Undeserving, yet I am doing what I can to help because they are family, NOT because a throne is involved, and I value my family no matter how far-flung. I take so much onto myself to defend my home, and because what happens here gets vaguely reflected there, I defend Amber too - ironic because the greatest threat to my home originates in this castle. And even knowing she has good cause to do so, seeing Llewella, who had sense enough to stay away from this place most of her life, cozy up to Flora actually makes me feel ill. On top of all this, as much as she has tried to shield me from it, there is the pressure, the duty, of knowing I must sit Rebma's throne when mother eventually steps down. Not claiming my birthright is my way of keeping all this at a manageable distance..." .
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Post by Brian on Feb 21, 2023 16:53:21 GMT
I give Lor a hug. " you at least know what can misguide you. Just think of it as advice to consider from your sainted 'Cousin ' eh?" And with that I lead her from my room.
" I will be trying to squeeze in with Flora next.....let's see if we can organize whatever troublemakers are under the castle roof for dinner or somesuch?"
I make sure to grab one of my bags which holds the map I found here. I look at my sword and armor in the closet....
Maybe Pattern has shuck personality into them?
Locking the room I try to find my way to Flora
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