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Dec 22, 2024 2:34 AM

Pastoral andante

While Fraddir is working on the Plan, events continue

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Arina

Eruantalon

Princess Arina loves the forest.

It's not the same as the castle - sometimes she still misses everything there, like on her birthday when she'd been really hoping for a proper cake in the shape of a bird like she'd had every other year, only for Selma to remind her that they didn't have any sugar. But Selma had made some griddlecakes with berries, and cut one to look sort of like a bird, and that was fun anyway.

And she doesn't like her new dresses that're so much scratchier and less colored than anything she used to wear where people would see her. But she reminds herself that she's in disguise like the heroines in the middle of so many songs, and then it's not so bad. Especially once she pricks herself on some thorns or scratches herself on a tree, and the scratchiness of the dresses doesn't matter so much anymore.

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Arina

Eruantalon

And it turns out that rather than just pet the horses and hounds in the castle, it's so much more fun to comb the horses here, and try to find the birds hiding in the branches. Rather than walk into the chapel in the castle, it's so much more fun to build a chapel out of branches and leaves.

Arina

Eruantalon

And then in that self-made chapel, she can pray for her Animal Mindspeaking Gift to come quickly so she can actually talk with all those animals.

And also, she can pray for her father, and her kingdom.

Arina

Eruantalon

"Selma," Arina demands one day when Selma's just come back from a journey to town to buy grain, "what's the Empire doing?"

Selma

Eruantalon

Selma doesn't even pause in her spinning. She doesn't want to talk about this with Princess Arina now.

(She isn't sure when she would want to talk about it with Princess Arina. At least, after she's thought about it some more. Maybe after Fraddir's plan is finished.)

"The same thing they were doing last month."

Arina

Eruantalon

Selma's looking concerned! They must be doing something really bad! "Did you see any soldiers? Any Imperial Prefects? Doing bad things?"

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