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[Touko]

-Brilliant post Kiro C: I'll post soon.-

[zippyzoo77]

"Oh for goodness sake put that down." Arctria said, a hint of annoyance forcing it's way into her voice. "You've nothing to fear from me boy king, it's the guards you've got to get away from." Arctria gave a pause and took a single deep breath, just long enough to restack the layers of her tone to one that would fit the purpose of what she said next. "You probably don't remember me do you, you were after all rather delirious. I'm Arctria, and I was the new castle harper, but I can see things are way worse than is thought out there. So I have a plan that will not only fix the issues with those controlling advisors, it would also save your life. And if that doesn't count for something in your own mind, then I don't know what will." Arctria's words were a bit more rushed than she had hoped for, but there was only so much time before the guards would be coming this way, she could see one of them just rounding the corner on the castle wall, but it would be a minute or two before they could identify the three of them. Arctria knew she would have to be quick in getting her things, she was glad she hadn't fully unpacked before she had come. A quick trip to the kitchens wouldn't hurt either, there were a few food shortages over the kingdom, and they would need to be full, or at least not hungry, in order to convince the people that the new queen was in the wrong here, not Ren.

Zaire was a bit annoyed that she had been the one chosen for the wall patrol today. How in the world was she supposed to meet the new queen if she was stuck out on the walls all afternoon? The answer was she wasn't. And that annoyed her, that she had been picked as one of the least important. In fact, all of the girls in the guard had been picked for wall duty, she thought, rounding the corner of the wall. She was mostly scanning outside of the wall, since chances were that any couple out in the courtyard was there for some privacy with a lover they shouldn't have. At least that was her logic of the situation. She did glimpse three people, but they were too far away to be identified. Three meant an argument in her books, and those she didn't care for either. She continued scanning the forest outside the wall for unknown dangers.

[Noel]

((Sapphy: I'm beginning to think we're both waiting for the other to post. ^^" Just wondering, are you waiting to post or for me to?))

[Sapphy.]

Sapphire –

In my opinion, Ren had all the reason to pull out the gun on the girl. I myself wanted to have a gun in my hands and pull a trigger once she finished saying what she needed to. Not even I had dared think the words ‘boy king’, for that phrase only proved how naïve the girl was. It didn’t take two minutes for me to completely hate her and all bleak chances of trust to be annihilated.
“You speak rashly for a palace harper. However, we do need to get away. If the guards capture you then the whole kingdom is doomed.” Hurried movements became graceful and quick as my muscles worked together as a union to remove the cloak which I had worn for so long. I handed it to Ren with a smile. “Here. It might help masking your identity a bit. They aren’t looking for me, after all.”
A rather small excuse for what I actually had in mind. It went more like ‘Well, you are the technically dead king, if people see you, then they’ll panic. I think a random pretty girl following a cloaked boy and an ex-palace harper will attract much less attention.’ This might be right… but then again, even my plans failed sometimes…
In a rush, I put up my hair up in a little tail. After cutting it short a few days ago, I looked much less feminine, though my natural charm hadn’t deserted me. “Putting it up in a little pony tail could make me pass for a young boy, with my childish figure, I believe. If they are, for some reason, looking for me, then they won’t think it’s me that they are searching for.” I explained, and then looked at the palace harper. My tone towards her was cold, “You. They will be searching for you too, most likely. Please do something about your own image as well.”
After those last statements, I grabbed Ren’s hand instinctively (my grip light, so he could pull away if he wished too) and led the way away from the palace.

[ I am so, so, so, so sorry. I really wanted to post, and kept telling myself I would until I got to this point. I know its late, but even so... I still don't want this RP to die! It's really wonderful and has a lot of potential, so I hope a lot more people join, but lets do our best job to keep it alive till then! ]

[zippyzoo77]

As soon as Arctria saw the other two go, she made a dash into the castle, quickly scooping her things up from her room, she was back out before they were out of sight. She caught up quickly, just outside of the castle walls. "We should get into the forest, that guard is getting very close." She said with almost no emotion. She was still rushed, she hadn't had the time to go to the kitchens, but she was very thankful she had quarters on the first level right next to the courtyard. She wouldn't have been able to dash in and out so quickly if she had had to go further than she had. It also meant that she went unnoticed, since nobody was patrolling the first floor corridors with a new queen around. "And don't worry about me, I have things that I can disguise myself with now. And I could help make you look more like a boy as well if you would like." She added the last bit, then wished she hadn't. It probably wasn't very smart of her to do so, since she could tell that the younger girl already didn't trust her.

((Sorry it's a bit short. I'm a bit low on muse at the moment.))

[Noel]

((It's fine Sapphire. ^^ I have no right to talk anyways. (: ))

In all honestly, there was one reason that Ren hadn't pulled the trigger: noise. A gunshot was a loud thing, and that close to the castle after his mysterious 'death' it would bring guards running for sure. Given that the girl had yet to kill him Ren pocketed the gun, but simultaneously vowed to never yet it get further then arm's reach away from him. Arctria had lost any trust that Ren might of had with her when she had called him 'boy king', and then said that he had been delirious. He remembered her alright; the girl that had stumbled upon him and then sent Mark off to a hospital. It was not something to distrust, but it was not something that made him trust her either. For all Ren knew, if he had stayed there she could have summoned the guards on him. Sapphire had won his trust over awhile ago, not that Ren had fully realized it until then. She had, rather then spoken of saving the kingdom first, sympathized with him. Didn't run off when she saw him crying in the middle of the woods.

But it was no time to ponder loyalties. Ren was going with Sapphire; and for then, confused with depression and shock, he was in no shape to be doing much anyways. And a lone wandering cloaked boy would be checked immediately; he could not travel alone. Silent as ever, a habit of Ren's that would prove to be slow to fade, he threw the cloak over himself and pulled the hood low over his face. He thankfully was still in clothes of a street-child, which would hopefully help to hide him. There were a great many skinny and frail street-boys after all, and surely a good amount of them had black hair as Ren did; hopefully he would not draw attention. For once, his weak appearance was useful.

"Stop arguing... It's a bad time. We have to get away... now. If you want to come Arctria, fine. But know that I am putting 'staying alive' above doing anything to help my-this doomed kingdom for now." That was about four sentences more then Ren would have liked to say, hence the brief hesitations. Ren just wasn't one to talk much to people. Feeling Sapphire's grip on his hand, thankfully light, Ren managed to not make himself pull away. Without a glance behind him, he followed after the girl.

The bird was broken, there was no changing. But if a fish could become a bird, then what could a broken bird become?