A customary visit to the fief in order to oversee the developments in the economic and trade took a turn for the interesting - or perhaps, a turn for the violent as a rock smashed through the window of a church. The organized religion of the land abandoned this church and left the people inside to the whims and violence of debt collectors - and your blood boils.
You are the Dukeās Daughter, and you are the Acting Fief Lord. A ridiculous responsibility for someone at the tender age of 16, perhaps, but that makes you all the more determined to show that youāre worthy of the station.
And you are about to slap a man upside the head for daring to suggest that you can be used as payment for his disgusting behavior.
Tanya appears at your side near immediately, seething and furious - and you think about how you met her nearly a decade ago, abandoned at the side of the road. Much like the children inside the church, she didnāt have anyone to aid her. She didnāt know where her next meal would come from, or what shelter would come. You think again about how when you were given the responsibility to oversee this fief, you wanted to create an environment in which no one would have to live through those circumstances again.
You hold onto her hands, rough from the hard work of a maid and so familiar with a blade that she could kill someone in no time flat, and you tell her again.
You have things you want to protect too - and so you canāt sit still.
[ it's memory time..... maya just kind of freezes up as this plays out, eyes wide. there are some things that are familiar -- creepy men, the burden of responsibility, the desire to protect, but there's so much more that isn't. the church, the setting, the violence against the church.... ]
[ oujou-sama.... ]
[ so viola is more than just a politician, then. ]
Oh...
Wow, you're so cool, Viola. I can't believe you didn't cool once while that total creep was threatening you!
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Woah! Did you know I was coming? You already have two mugs!
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I hope you like hot cocoa.
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But this is the kind of experimentation I'd love!
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[no it's memory time
āThe children here are also citizens that I protect, so I donāt mind putting myself out there.ā
A customary visit to the fief in order to oversee the developments in the economic and trade took a turn for the interesting - or perhaps, a turn for the violent as a rock smashed through the window of a church. The organized religion of the land abandoned this church and left the people inside to the whims and violence of debt collectors - and your blood boils.
You are the Dukeās Daughter, and you are the Acting Fief Lord. A ridiculous responsibility for someone at the tender age of 16, perhaps, but that makes you all the more determined to show that youāre worthy of the station.
And you are about to slap a man upside the head for daring to suggest that you can be used as payment for his disgusting behavior.
Tanya appears at your side near immediately, seething and furious - and you think about how you met her nearly a decade ago, abandoned at the side of the road. Much like the children inside the church, she didnāt have anyone to aid her. She didnāt know where her next meal would come from, or what shelter would come. You think again about how when you were given the responsibility to oversee this fief, you wanted to create an environment in which no one would have to live through those circumstances again.
You hold onto her hands, rough from the hard work of a maid and so familiar with a blade that she could kill someone in no time flat, and you tell her again.
You have things you want to protect too - and so you canāt sit still.
Not when there are some things only you can do. ]
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[ oujou-sama.... ]
[ so viola is more than just a politician, then. ]
Oh...
Wow, you're so cool, Viola. I can't believe you didn't cool once while that total creep was threatening you!
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I -
... but that never happened...?
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No... It wasn't.
[more decisively then]
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[her brow furrows]
How odd.
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It.... felt like things you would do, though...