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ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ ᴀʀᴛʜᴜʀ ᴘᴇɴᴅʀᴀɢᴏɴ ♔ ([personal profile] futurarex) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-12-29 09:10 pm

oh, piled fathers, soft sighing daughters

Date & Time: December 29th, afternoon of
Location: the streets of the city
Characters: Arthur Pendragon + Arya Stark (which means a direwolf, too!)
Summary: in a land of displacement and a time of kidnappings, the strolling of one young prince takes him right in the path of a girl and her wolf. this will end super well. just your standard run of the mill random meeting log!




With precious little to do in the city besides train and wait for something to happen, Arthur often finds himself--well, they are not walks. Walking implies a certain amount of leisure, and there is little leisure in his walks. It's more like a patrol, the way he might patrol Camelot when tense. He doesn't don his full armor--perhaps he ought to, given Morgana's presence in the city. But there is little that armor would do to save him from sorcery, when all was said and done, and he will not look a coward.

So he goes out only in his tunic and ringmail and gloves, his sword at his side. There is rarely a threat that he sees--things to be wary of, perhaps--but today is different. Today he sees a wolf.

A wolf, the largest he's ever seen, moving through the streets as if it belongs there. Arthur stops short, first, his hand at his sword--a better weapon than no weapon, but if he must face a wolf, he'd prefer to do so with crossbow or spear. But it does not matter; he has no time to waste on wishing. A wolf cannot be permitted to stalk the city, making prey of all that it sees, and so he draws his sword and moves after it, as quietly as he can, scanning the street to see where it's gotten to--

[personal profile] innominata 2012-12-30 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
A better distraction she could not possibly find. While everyone kept their eyes on the wolf, the girl had all the time in the world to steal what she needed. They remain hidden inside her clothing—a loaf of hard bread, some salted meats, a knife left discarded on the cutting board—to feast once they had returned to their home.

No one could have heard the other approach, but the girl is no one and she does. She dons Cat's face and waits. Only when he comes within view does she call out.

"Are you lost?"

They pose an almost comical sight. A young girl, hair cropped too short, barely reaching the wolf's shoulder allowing the massive animal to nuzzle her.

[personal profile] innominata 2012-12-31 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"She's a direwolf and she might as well be." The girl cants her head. Beneath the nonchalance, she pays rapt attention. See. A knight had been her first thought, but that was not all. A lord, at least. A prince most like. Well accustomed to mail and sword.

Once upon a time, she would have thought him noble. She may have trusted him to help. But knights are men and men are given to greed and lust and become wroth when denied as any other man.

Her dagger would not pierce his ringmail. Neither would her sword most like. But he has no gorget and only breeches. A nick. If the wolf is not enough to tell him she will not be an easy target, a nick is all it would take.

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-02 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Scorn adorns her features. "She's as wild as wild is. She's not anyone's. She just took a liking to me."

The wolf watches Arthur. Something in her eyes speaks the truth of the girl's words. Whatever this animal may be, tame she is not.

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-02 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
A quirk of a smile. "Why? You wanting one, ser? Think you'd like a pelt?"

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-03 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Then you ought tell me if whatever weapon you got should be a threat." She raises an eyebrow at him. "Mayhaps we ought round all of them up and melt them down."

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-03 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then why was I given her as a weapon when I got here? Answer that if you can, genius." To the wolf, she says, "Come, girl. Let's go."

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-04 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"No." She looks at him over her shoulder. "I don't think I'd need another."

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-04 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
She rolls her eyes. "I feed her, idiot. Do you also want to know how many hairs I've got so we can hurry this up?"

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-04 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
The wolf moves in front of her, lips pulled back in a snarl. The girl doesn't flinch.

"Don't think I will. Don't remember asking for your help either. Seems to me you're the one ought to shut up."

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-08 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
"And you'll give me all that?" She scoffs. "No one gives something for nothing. You're not getting anything from me."

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-08 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
She gives him a hard look before relenting. "What sort of place you mean?"

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-10 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
She smirks. "A building."

It's the truth.

[personal profile] innominata 2013-01-12 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"An abandoned one. In the city." Her smirk widens. She can do this all day.

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