dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Private]

I can't --

I can't.

I should. Should try and put all of this together, figure out what I think, what I feel, I should try and make this all make sense in a way that I can -- make sense of. Hah. Fucking circle-talking, Leigh would --

But Leigh is gone, and that's what -- that's the fucking kicker, isn't it? Leigh is -- gone. Gone, gone, and gone, and I don't know what happened, I can't know what happened, it doesn't make any sense, fuck, who was there? Who could have been there. Elyiethe and all her cast were here. If not for that -- but it's true, and --

Leigh.

Dammit, Leigh. Fuck -- fuck you, you couldn't have just ... asked, just asked for help, just told me where you were going, it would have taken two fucking seconds to write down some damn words but you didn't, you couldn't be bothered, you had to do everything by yourself, and why?

Catch --

Catch myself thinking.

Thinking --

Is this what you wanted, Leigh?

You said we'd talk. Would we have? Or would you have run away again. Or could you have run away again. Did I change everything too much for that. Is that selfish to wonder. Could you have just faded back into your -- could you have? Or was this the only way out. But no, you were a survivor, you were

I need to know, I need to -- make this --

Leigh.

I'd -- I'd be ... without you, I would be dead. My father would be dead. Kelita would be Queen, but she'd be Erana's puppet, and I'd never ... I'd have died that shitty spoiled little boy who thought he should be able to just do whatever was fun because it was, who didn't understand anything about anything, and you changed all of that. You changed me. Or where you took me, what you did was -- but that doesn't matter the specifics it doesn't matter because you were the only one who was there. As far as anyone else knows I went into that forest a short little kid and came out strong and tall and a man and you were the link between it all, and now you're gone.

And what am I?

Who am I ...




I can't

I can't just let this go.

You'd -- want me too, I know you would. Who cares about what fucking rangy old hunter, right? Doesn't matter, focus on the living. Keep making life better for the people who don't waste their own breath. Don't destroy other people for revenge.

But I can't not, Leigh.

Fuck

How can I not.

[there is a pause]

[Filter: Autumn]

... Autumn.

Autumn, please. I know -- I know you're in a state, I can't even imagine, I can't begin to understand what you went through and what you had to see, but I need to talk to you. This is so important, Autumn.

Please, will you just talk to me? You're the only one who knows what happened there. The only one.

... come on. Please.
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: P

[viciously scratched out]

[Filter: Autumn]

... Autumn. I need you -- I need you to actually talk to me, okay? I ... I need your help, and -- shit. Please.
dandelionking: (serious)
Where the fuck is my fucking wife?!
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Leigh]

... Autumn isn't -- she isn't doing good. Are we any closer to finding him, Leigh? I -- I've barely seen you since this started, now, and ...

She's really not doing good. And you're ...

How long is this going to go on?
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Autumn]

Hey ... listen, last night, it wasn't -- I wasn't ignoring you, or I wasn't trying to, anyways, I just ... I had some really important work to do, you know? It's not that I didn't want to spend time with you, and you really did look beautiful, but ... it really was ...

Anyway, I'm sorry. ... and still busy, actually, so ...

[Filter: Private]

She's going to like this even less, soon ...

[Filter: Leigh]

... I found something.
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Leigh]

... um, I --

Look, I don't know if I've thanked you, yet. It occurred to me just now, watching you trailing after Autumn. I don't think ... I mean, I was just so surprised to see you, I didn't think to say ... I mean ...
dandelionking: (SO MAD)
[Filter: Autumn]

... Autumn? Where did you go? I swear you were just right here. Um, if you see this, write me back, okay ...?

[there is a five minute delay here]

Dammit, Autumn!

You know, I'm not even mad that you obviously told April we got married, I'm just mad that you didn't talk to me first about it. Whatever, it would make sense if you did, but you seem to forget that the reason we did all of that was to take care of you! I am trying to take care of you, Autumn! And now you just wander off, and --

[Filter: Leigh]

I don't know what I'm going to do with her!
dandelionking: (SO MAD)
[Filter: Private]

She's so stubborn!

She tells me that she wants me to protect her and take care of her and then she won't let me? And why? Cause I'll ruin her stupid shopping day? How much is your shopping day gonna be ruined if you get killed, Autumn? Shit!

Ugh!

... I can't just sit here! I can't! I'll go crazy! Just knowing something could happen to -- to my wife at any second and she won't let me there to take care of her is --

[Filter: Daisy]

Are you working? Well -- it doesn't matter if you're working, you work for me, so I'm reassigning you, okay? You're officially reassigned.

I need you to go to the market and watch Autumn. And her friends. But mostly Autumn! It's super important! She's your princess, you know! You have a responsibility to her as the mother of your future King!
dandelionking: (:DDDDDD)
[Filter: Autumn]

You did it! And you were amazing! At first, I thought you were going to five up before you even started, but ... that was incredible!

It's fun, isn't it? There's something about being out here, back amongst the common folk ... everything is a simple pleasure for them, everything! And they work so hard every day, so Festivals like that are a treat for them, and they just let it all loose ...

You looked amazing, out there. Like, uh, a zinnia flower amongst a bunch of daisies and dandelions. With your curls bouncing and your skirts hitched up and your eyes shining and your cheeks all flushed ...

I don't think you've ever looked so beautiful.

I love you, my princess.

[Filter: Daisy]

-- okay, this is a great big huge secret and you can't tell anyone but I feel like I just scaled a mountain right now and I want to tell somebody, so --

I got married!
dandelionking: (Default)
[Filter: Private]

I keep thinking I should feel different.

I mean, I'm married, now! Autumn is my princess. Someday, she's going to be my queen! That's crazy, right? All of this is crazy! I should feel like I've totally gone insane!

... I don't, though. That's what's crazy. It all just feels really normal. She's still Autumn and I'm still Finlay. Nothing feels different -- except how happy she is. And how -- how little I feel like I'm mad at her.

I think ... she actually likes it here. I mean, not at first, obviously. At first, I thought she was going to kill me for suggesting we stay. But ... I think she likes it. Not the way I want her to, exactly, she still looks down on it all, but it could be worse.

It could be a lot worse.

We'll be really good partners, one day ... I think. Sure, she doesn't really know how to handle the commons ... but I don't really know how to handle the rich, like Fayre said that one time. And Autumn is good at that stuff, and she's only going to get better.

Someday ... someday maybe we'll be remembered as an amazing King and Queen.

... heh. This is so crazy.

[Filter: Leigh]

Um, hey, how are you? ... we did it. We got married. It was almost a week ago, now, but we totally did it. It actually feels kinda good ...
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Autumn]


... hey.

Do you have a sec to, uh, talk?
dandelionking: (serious)
[Filter: Private]

Ugh, just look at her.

Something is wrong with her, again. It's those moods she gets in every so often, when it seems like nothing can console her. But -- but I do my best, and I'm pretty good at it, aren't I? When I'm really trying, and I really do try, I can turn those moods into flowers, I really can.

...

Maybe I should -- write? Or ... or send a gift?

Ugh.

But the last time I tried to offer an olive branch, she threw it back in my face! In front of everybody, too! "Are you sure that's not going to be too inconvenient for you, Finlay?" Shut up! If it was, I wouldn't have offered! And then she acts all innocent and --

No way am I letting her make an idiot out of me like that again! No way.


... but she ...

But she looks so sad ...

Maybe Maybe I should

[a pause]

[Filter: Autu

No way. It's not worth it. Maybe -- maybe if she's sad all the time for a while, she'll realize how much she really misses me.
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Autu

[Filt

[Filter: Kelit

[Filter: Autum

[Filter: Pri

[Filter: Aut

[Filter: Leigh]

Sometimes I really wish I could run away like you always do.
dandelionking: (SO MAD)
[Filter: Au

[Filter: Private]

Argh!

I don't know what's wrong! I don't -- get it! When she came back to court yesterday, I was so relieved! Hey, look, everything is fine! But then instead, she blows me off and acts like she barely knows me, all "Your Highness" this and that. What the hell? I don't know what happened!

-- Dragons Light and Dark, she makes me crazy. I need to finalize these plans to send the dragon riders north to a war, not sit here mooning around because a girl isn't paying attention to me. This is so -- stupid.

... but I can't help it. It ... I really don't like seeing her upset, and ...

Dammit.

When did I get so -- serious about this?

About her ...

[Filter: Fayre]

... hey ...
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Aut

[pen taps]

[Filter: Autumn]

Hey, you weren't at court the last couple

[a long pause]

[Filter: Private]

... I don't get it.

Everything was going so well, and now, all of a sudden, she's just ... like a complete stranger to me! She hasn't been to court, she doesn't answer my missives personally and they just say she's "unwell," but if she were really unwell, she'd come here to be with me, and --

Did I do something wrong?

Ugh.

I really thought I was doing good, here, now. What happened?
dandelionking: (serious)
[Filter: Lord Gebann]

... I know this isn't exactly the best way to open an official dialogue, but I also know that time is of the essence here. I have some things I want to discuss with you -- political things. Military things. And I was wondering if you'd consent to doing it in this platform, despite how ... well, questionable the authority of the whole thing is.
dandelionking: (oh really)
[Filter: Autumn]

Hey ...

I heard you're awake, finally. Did you get a good sleep? I had a really really big breakfast sent for you with all your favourites when I heard, did you get it? There's eggy toast! Lots of it! You love eggy toast, right? And marmalade?

... um ... how are you feeling?
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Private]

... there would be a lot of benefits. If they win that war -- or at least just get a favourable truce ...

I know I haven't got the strongest army in Eire, but I know the individual people in that army are strong and good and want to fight for the future of their country. Some of them may have enlisted just for the easy money and prestige, but I know a lot of those people! They know what they're doing, and they'd fight to the end. And bodies are bodies ...

[Filter: Leigh]

Um ... hey!
dandelionking: (thinking and laying down)
[Filter: Private]

Ugh, if I don't get this all totally perfect, she's going to kill me, I just know it. And then we'll spend another couple of months fighting again until I do what I should have done the first time, and --

... sometimes I miss what it was like before all of this. I -- I admit, the people here are starting to grow on me, but I miss being ... one of them. The normal people. The people I really want to fight for. I never realized how close I was to what I wanted down there until it was too late, and --

... right. Autumn.

I definitely need help.

[Filter: Miss Ebony]

Um, hi!
dandelionking: (devious smile)
[Filter: Autumn]

Your dress definitely looks gorgeous, Autumn, just like you said. I know that everyone is quietly saying Ebony has the best gown of the night, but I think that you look a lot better than she does. In fact, I think you look a lot better than anybody else here, tonight, and I absolutely mean that.

Heh, so what about me? Am I embarrassing you, tonight?
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