I won't force you to share if it's painful. [ As nosy as he is, he doesn't want to make Molly uncomfortable. ] It seems like you have... more burdens than is really fair.
Ah-- No. [He sort of, huffs a laugh? The whole thing is sort of ridiculous when it's laid out like this.] That was ... must have been a few weeks ago. For me. Guess a lot longer for Beauregard.
[He thinks, tapping his chin, trying to decide how much to explain.]
Erm, I woke up in a grave, like I said a few years back. Then I went back into one right before here. [...] Then I'm told someone or something got up out of that hole in the ground. Seems this body is a bit difficult to keep down?
[ His expression remains troubled though, despite the proof of Molly's durability. He doesn't get a chance to say anything else though, when something else slips forward.
You wake up, and it's to a hand around your neck and the ominous glint of a blade in the moonlight.
It's the first time you've woken up like this. You're maybe five, or six years old, and you're filled with fear first, and panic second.
But you still know better than to scream.
You slap the arm that's keeping you pinned to your bed, and it doesn't do much, except wherever that knife misses wherever it was meant to cut, slashing deep and bloody over your chest instead, pain slicing through your veins as your legs kick out, earning a grunt of pain when they connect with—something soft and human.
The situation starts to take shape in your head, and something else seeps in around the fear: fury. Indignation. Rage that anyone would do this to you- you're a prince.
You kick again before your attacker manages to shield himself, into that same spot, another more pronounced cry of pain. But the reason your shadow stuck close was because this time, he lodges his blade into your shoulder, and it burns so much that you lose track of everything else. How hard your fists are beating into the arm around your neck. How furiously your legs are kicking at the shape above you until eventually it staggers back.
And against all odds, you get up too. The knife wasn't driven deep enough to stay in place when you move, and suddenly it's very accessible.
Suddenly the knife is in your hand and you're screaming, launching forward and you know that you hurt him, some where, some amount of times because there's blood spraying over your floors different from the droplets dripping from your own clothes. But you're only a child, and when the fog clears from your head you realize that the would-be assassin is gone.
It's just you, covered in blood and left without a scratch.
... I think it would be wrong to let you think that.
[ He clears his throat. ]
Let me set the scene: a prince, born of nobility from two warring states, surely a sign that love can triumph over all else.
But alas, there are sinister forces at play... Working in the night to silence our young hero, and ensure that his message of love never reaches the ears of the people.
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[A little sharply:] My name is Mollymauk Tealeaf.
She mistook me for someone else.
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So it'd seem. Seems like she missed the guy, it's easy to imagine things when you're like that.
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Clearly.
[After a second.]
I did mention complications with things. It's a long-- Or. I suppose it's not that long of a story. But it's sort of a shitty one?
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[He huffs a bit of a laugh at the burdens thing.]
What can I say. Shit rolls downhill.
[...]
Couple of years ago, I woke up in a grave in the middle of the woods. Near Shady Creek Run, I'm told.
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... Beau said she was less than a year ahead of you. This isn't from when she witnessed your passing?
[ Damn, Molly. Are you secretly a cat. ]
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Ah-- No. [He sort of, huffs a laugh? The whole thing is sort of ridiculous when it's laid out like this.] That was ... must have been a few weeks ago. For me. Guess a lot longer for Beauregard.
[He thinks, tapping his chin, trying to decide how much to explain.]
Erm, I woke up in a grave, like I said a few years back. Then I went back into one right before here. [...] Then I'm told someone or something got up out of that hole in the ground. Seems this body is a bit difficult to keep down?
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[ His expression remains troubled though, despite the proof of Molly's durability. He doesn't get a chance to say anything else though, when something else slips forward.
It's the first time you've woken up like this. You're maybe five, or six years old, and you're filled with fear first, and panic second.
But you still know better than to scream.
You slap the arm that's keeping you pinned to your bed, and it doesn't do much, except wherever that knife misses wherever it was meant to cut, slashing deep and bloody over your chest instead, pain slicing through your veins as your legs kick out, earning a grunt of pain when they connect with—something soft and human.
The situation starts to take shape in your head, and something else seeps in around the fear: fury. Indignation. Rage that anyone would do this to you- you're a prince.
You kick again before your attacker manages to shield himself, into that same spot, another more pronounced cry of pain. But the reason your shadow stuck close was because this time, he lodges his blade into your shoulder, and it burns so much that you lose track of everything else. How hard your fists are beating into the arm around your neck. How furiously your legs are kicking at the shape above you until eventually it staggers back.
And against all odds, you get up too. The knife wasn't driven deep enough to stay in place when you move, and suddenly it's very accessible.
Suddenly the knife is in your hand and you're screaming, launching forward and you know that you hurt him, some where, some amount of times because there's blood spraying over your floors different from the droplets dripping from your own clothes. But you're only a child, and when the fog clears from your head you realize that the would-be assassin is gone.
It's just you, covered in blood and left without a scratch.
... Unpleasant. ]
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Molly just looks ... concerned, once the memory has faded, scratching at his temples a bit and trying to shake off the last of the feeling.]
... You alright?
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It's just a memory. [ He runs a hand through his hair, glancing away. ] Just an old childhood trial.
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Sure. Seems like a normal thing for a childhood. Suppose I wouldn't know.
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[ He clears his throat. ]
Let me set the scene: a prince, born of nobility from two warring states, surely a sign that love can triumph over all else.
But alas, there are sinister forces at play... Working in the night to silence our young hero, and ensure that his message of love never reaches the ears of the people.
[ ... ]
That's basically the short of it.
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A very dramatic tale all around, your highness.
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[ He holds up a hand. ]
Prince Claude is fine.