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

"Good day to you!"

INFO ✧ PERMISSIONS ✧ KINKLIST ✧ EXTRA

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[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.

[savewell]

Does your Wallachia know the story of a gnome who used a spinning wheel to spin straw into gold?

[reposing]

It does not.

[savewell]

I see. Well, he was a very clever gnome, rather magical. He's an old friend of my family's, actually, and helped my father become king back when he was still only a knight. So I grew up around him, hearing his stories and all that.

There's one thing that's different between the real gnome and the stories about him, though. He spells his name backwards.

And I think you do, too. Don't you?

[reposing]

[It's surprising how many people don't realize what it means. Really, he should have known that someone as clever as Rosella would figure it out eventually.]

It's not technically my name.

[savewell]

I know. You answered to Adrian in that dream we had. When I mistook you for my brother, Alexander.

Please don't be upset. I doubt anyone else will have worked it out, unless you've been going around telling them stories and introducing them to your dream parents like you have with me.

[reposing]

Rosella, I'm not upset. I was

How shall I put this

I was concerned what you might think of me if you knew who I was. What I was, specifically.