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TEXT ✧ AUDIO ✧ VIDEO ✧ ACTION

PRINCESS ROSELLA ✦ KING'S QUEST
RESIDENCE ✦ Residency
GEMBOND ✦ Amethyst

"Good day to you!"

INFO ✧ PERMISSIONS ✧ KINKLIST ✧ EXTRA

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[reposing]

If only to settle it and make sure it's not wandering around the city.

I'd be grateful for your help.

[savewell]

Of course, I'd be happy to.

Hopefully this time we won't wind up finding ourselves at any strange castles, hm?

[reposing]

Yes. Hopefully not.

I'll send you my location. It's probably best we remain together for the moment.

[savewell]

Wouldn't it be funny if that were the horse's devious plan all along? Making us work together in order to find him, I mean.

[reposing]

What, so it's some sort of mischievous intelligent horse coercing us into cooperation to chase it down for its own merriment?

[savewell]

Well, from the way you talk about it, at times...

[reposing]

Please. It's just a horse.

Probably.

[savewell]

I'm concerned by your lack of conviction.

[reposing]

I figure it's best to leave a bit of wiggle room for doubt, low as it may be.

[savewell]

Well, it just better not be a cursed something-or-other trapped in the shape of a horse. And if it is, I'm not kissing it.

[reposing]

If for some reason the blasted horse is cursed, I will kiss it. Fair?

[savewell]

Very fair. And I'm going to hold you to that, you realize.

[reposing]

This is if it's cursed. It's not cursed.

[savewell]

Oh, so we're not leaving wiggle room for doubt anymore, then, are we?

[reposing]

Listen, the doubt was for other things. Not in case I have to kiss a horse for a theoretical curse it certainly does not have.

[savewell]

So we're settled on it, then. It's a mischievous intelligent but not cursed horse running us around for its own merriment. Yes?

[reposing]

Well, it's certainly mischievous, that much I will recognize.

[savewell]

Well, it's a start. Shall I bring the unicorn on our search, or are we tracking this mischievous horse on foot?

[reposing]

I do not tire easily; bring your mount if you find it makes the task that much less difficult.

[savewell]

No, I suppose you don't, do you...

There's quite a lot about you that's special that way, isn't there?

[reposing]

[SWEATS.]

Whatever do you mean?

[savewell]

I...well.

Ask me something first. Something terribly invasive or uncomfortable. Don't think twice about being rude, just — ask something of me.

[reposing]

I suppose

Tell me why that prince bothered you so much. Really why.

[savewell]

[Ah. Well. That's almost a relief, actually. Now she won't feel nearly so bad about what she's ultimately going to ask him, since it'll be coming on the heels of having to be this honest.]

Because I was alone, and afraid, and exhausted, and all I wanted was just one person to help me. And that's how it goes in the stories. He was a prince and I was in trouble — he should've helped.

He made me feel like I was the one who'd done something wrong. He called me ugly and a peasant, but it felt like he was saying I wasn't...enough, somehow. Not enough of something to be worth helping.

You told me once that I oughtn't compare myself against my brother. The truth is, it's not really him that I compare myself against; he just makes for an easy object to direct it at. Really it's...what I'm supposed to be. What a princess ought to be. That awful frog didn't even think I was worth a kind word after I'd broken his curse and it bothered me because deep down I sometimes feel as though he might have been right.

[reposing]

Regrettably, there are many a noble like him, Rosella. You deserved to be helped, of that I have no question about.

Thank you for sharing. ...Whatever you have to ask, I will answer.