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Post by Eleanor on May 23, 2008 17:05:00 GMT -5
"What?"
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Post by Steerpike on May 23, 2008 17:11:31 GMT -5
"I see them looking at me... they know, Eleanor, they're starting to know..."
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Post by Eleanor on May 23, 2008 17:12:18 GMT -5
"Easy, love. That's what power is about."
*She reached out to touch him*
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King Orduag
- In the Duggins -
The King is I!!!
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Post by King Orduag on May 25, 2008 9:26:22 GMT -5
*Orduag's ghost floated in through the open window. He stood in the moonlight, glaring evilly at Steerpike.*
"They know,Steerpike. They know."
*He whispered, as the room became colder.*
"And soon the turn will come to you...."
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Post by Steerpike on Jun 13, 2008 15:12:07 GMT -5
((That suddenly made me think of this scene turning into a kind of twisted version of "All I Ask of You".))
"I understand there's trouble at the border," he said roughly.
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Post by Eleanor on Jun 13, 2008 15:15:14 GMT -5
"We can manage, darling. You can manage."
*Truth to tell, he wasn't the one most people thought of as the leader, but she wasn't abou to tell him that while her nickname was "Eleanor the Kind", his was "Steerpike the Not Too Bad, Considering Who We Had Before Him."*
"Why won't you look at me?"
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Post by Steerpike on Jun 13, 2008 15:24:52 GMT -5
"If the nobility are so wrought up over the grain shortage, why aren't they out there plowing the fields?"
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Post by Eleanor on Jun 13, 2008 15:31:21 GMT -5
"Because they're born royal, and never had to do a day's work in their lives. That's the way things go."
*She sighed, and sat down on the bed*
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Post by Steerpike on Jun 13, 2008 15:35:15 GMT -5
"Then I imagine someone will have to force them to."
((No, I haven't been reading about Vlad the Impaler. Shut up.))
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Post by Eleanor on Jun 13, 2008 15:36:45 GMT -5
"I know you'll make the right choice about what to do."
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Post by Steerpike on Jun 13, 2008 15:48:58 GMT -5
"I don't understand how you can be so calm at a time like this!"
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Post by Eleanor on Jun 13, 2008 15:50:16 GMT -5
"It's a crop faliure, it can be dealt with- we've overcome worse things."
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Post by Steerpike on Jun 13, 2008 15:54:16 GMT -5
"What have you overcome other than- than making sodding pies all day!?"
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Post by Eleanor on Jun 13, 2008 15:57:19 GMT -5
*The former Mrs. Lovett was silent for a moment*
"You really want to know, do you?"
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Post by Steerpike on Jun 13, 2008 16:00:27 GMT -5
"Oh, certainly!" he shouted angrily. "Go ahead and regale me with tales of how hard it was for you!"
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