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Azzila — WP: #1: Justified
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Season :: Spring
Month :: Mani Veidr
Castle District, Aurora Castle
MC: 19
EXP: 19
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"I'm glad you're home.."
His sister's voice rang in his head through closed eyes. low and gentle, it soothed his own thoughts, as it was so familiar, he hadn't realized how much he had missed it. That and the scent of the clean castle, cool stone floors and linens and -...
"...I don't know what you were expecting to find there... But I hope whatever it was, you're done with it. I need you here."
He didn't know what to say. The choice to return wasn't his own, but as much as he hated to admit it, she was right - they hated him. Hated him for his look, for his smell - for his father. They would never have accepted him, not for who he was. Not as the prince of Aurora.
His eyebrows furrowed slightly as his head began to sag unintentionally. A paw rested upon his neck, reminding him to compose himself and sit up straight.
Sighing, Nikolaj spoke finally, in his clear yet slightly chesty voice; "I was foolish to believe they would accept me. Foolish to think father would let me leave... and foolish still to have returned at his demand."
His sister, Valencia, Paused from her work on applying his paint. A questioning look on her face "Father requested your return because it wasn't safe for you to remain there."
"Their dangerous Nik."
"Do not patronize me. I accept my blame in what has happened. But do not deny father's intention. The only reason he allowed me to leave was that he knew they wouldn't have accepted me. had it been any other tribe. -"
"Nikolaj..." She sighed as she met his now open gaze.
"Halsia was the closest tribe.. and you're the one who insisted on leaving.."
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Nikolaj's face scrunched up a bit in frustration, he was angry.. at his father and at himself. Lightly he felt a boop on his nose, as Val's paw gently tapped it.
"Enough with the sour face - you'll mess up your paint."
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"Their not bad."
"Hm?"
"The people of Halsia... They aren't as they are pictured here in the kingdom. Angry yes. But they care for each other, more so than I have ever seen outside of family."
Sitting up away from him, Val dropped the painting tool into the small dish of paint that sat aside them.
"Nik. They allowed our mother to be raped. For her firstborn pups to be slaughtered! because they were considered 'unworthy'.. Any tribe capable of that is dangerous." -- "They don't deserve our empathy."
"We killed hundreds of them.."
"They deserved it. They defended a rapist and a murderer!"
"From what I gathered, They have no idea. Athena's father stepped down after our father brought her here. They fought back because WE attacked them."
"So they say..."
"Val.." -- "The actions of a few should not dictate the fate of the many..."
Angry now, she stood and turned her back to him "I don't need you to explain to me what is right and what is wrong. You were with them for less than four months. You couldn't possibly know their intentions or motives. You didn't see the look on Athena's face when you were born - how happy she was.. how devastated that you couldn't have been born sooner as a Halsian... How she mourned for her first children..."
"I may not know their intentions... But I know what they didn't intend Val. They don't deserve -."
"Welcome home Nik..." She said as she left the room.
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