wholeness: (the people who wrecked my life)

[personal profile] wholeness 2020-10-11 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, well...

[...]

If any time is right for it, it's this. The season that favors my legs and my hands. The thaw is well past; 'twill be moons yet before the snows come to bother me again.

Summer is upon us. Dance with me while it is warm, won't you?
wholeness: (i'm going to murder all the people)

[personal profile] wholeness 2020-10-11 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
What aren't you to do? I daresay there is little you would be denied by anyone who might recognize you.

But as for what I might suggest...

There is a show playing in my favorite theater. Its run will last another fortnight at least. I have seen it before and quite enjoyed it. Comedy isn't easy, or mayhap it is too easy and thus does suffer for it, but this one made me laugh. I think it would make you laugh, too. You might funnel your fame into snagging the best seat in the house, and spend the evening in laughter.

You've also the remainder of the botanical gardens to see. The physic gardens provided you with many resources through which to perform your vaunted heroics, but I should like for you to see the hortus and viridarium. You'll not have seen its like before, I promise you. You would surely be awarded a private tour, or permission to roam freely if you wished.
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[personal profile] wholeness 2020-10-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
My dear Master Hitlein, by my very throne, I would not renege on such an oath as your choice of gateau. What I promise to you, I promise in utmost fidelity.

And I am not offended if you desire what my fair Garlemald has on offer. Indeed, it pleases me if she brings you pleasure. I did pluck you up out of your travels. If my company in the Capital might tempt you away from another onset of wanderlust, I can surely make the time.

'Twas a treat for my boys to take their lessons in those gardens now and again. The novelty of peering past the leaves at their tutors, everything all humid and green... They could scarce pay heed to the history or poetry that begged for their attentions. How they would envy you, for I shall not scold you if you can't sit still.
wholeness: (who do not deserve to live)

[personal profile] wholeness 2020-10-15 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[If heat and humidity are what Cain desires... Yes, the Emperor was, at first, the thick of bitter winter. The harshness of it. Famine. Oncoming starvation. But Cain saw him through the storm, and when the rosiness returned to the Crown Prince's cheeks, so too did spring plus the promise of harvest. If heat and humidity are what Cain desires, let him learn why the Emperor is called Radiant.]

Save for those in Sharlayan! I shan't abide this slander.

[Imagine him: the ringing of a bell, a sweet one. A gold spoon against the edge of a gilded teacup.]

I'll not have you spend another moment misconceiving that our Bibliotheca Astrum does anything less than compete with valor against Sharlayan's enshrouded libraries--at the very least! Perhaps you shall even give them a little more credit than that, once you peruse them for yourself. You would need a bell to begin to understand just how much the Bibliotheca does boast. And a bell you shall have.

Though, if I am not mistaken, you hail from Sharlayan yourself, Master Hitlein. I cannot help but wonder if a bell is all it would take for you to glean the choicest secrets hidden away within my heart, ripe for the buying by those who would pierce it. As Emperor, and thus Garlemald's most fervent guardian, I cannot help but wonder--yet I also cannot help but wish to indulge you with the honors you ask of me.

How is it you've had no other sovereign plying you with treats and titles?
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[personal profile] wholeness 2020-11-20 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[So Cain, too, has nerves that are not to be touched. Then again, Solus is an imperialist. A patient one, but unyielding.

Now, if he can write a thing gently, it's in going from Master Hitlein to this:]


My dear boy. I must have seemed to you as all the rest of them. Stoic toward your burners and harsh toward your person. Condemnatory in my demands of you.

I should not have burdened you with a first impression such as that.


[He is a deliberate speaker, the Emperor--ever a thoughtful speaker, each word chosen with utmost care--]

I should not have set upon you in the same way as other men.
wholeness: (the people who have let me down)

[personal profile] wholeness 2020-11-23 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever your powers, you did wield them with a deftness long forgotten to me. Prised the faith out of me as if I were a godly man. You, too, are unlike others.

We have made many plans together, this evening. Too much for us to do in just one day. Tonight ilms closer to completion; thus does your time in solitude. Of all we have discussed, what will you want to do first?
wholeness: (i'm going to murder all the people)

[personal profile] wholeness 2020-11-23 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
A battle? No, Master Hitlein, let us have nothing so fraught. Pray call upon them to parley. Offer them my olive branch. We shall not run out of things to do, you and I.

Let me take you to my library, first of all. You'll want to go back once you have had your look-see, so we will slip other excursions in between.
wholeness: (the people who talk too much)

[personal profile] wholeness 2020-11-27 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[How weak I am, he realizes. It doesn't stop him from saying the things he has said, or from saying what he'll say next.]

We shall dance. I will not strain your heart; you'll not need to hold out much longer. I only need your latest measurements, once you are cleared to be descended upon by the nimblest tailor in Garlemald.