Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160910175125/@comment-25126355-20160918131707

Jannia swirled the wine in her glass, looking on as the red liquid would form a small vortex. Luthor too sat silent. His dear sister was quite the paragon of virtue, compared to most, yet she too had her flaws. Her mind, being one of them.

With all that intelligence, all that knowledge, he still knew how to play her. His silence, would lead to her mind filling in the gaps of their nonexistent conversation with assumptions of why he was here. Julien's return, and her own issues with her husband, would then likely begin flow though her thoughts. And soon enough, her irritation at her brother, will simply lump onto her growing anger towards Julien.

Jannia sighed. "You're very full of yourself, you know that?" She asked him, breaking Luthor free from his train of thought. For a second, he had drifted away from the room. He looked at her for a long moment, before smiling and sipping his wine.

"How so?" He asked post-sip, before taking another.

"Coming here, just as Julien is returning. Half of Tamriel knows how much you dislike him. And then you come here, when he's just returned, stirring up trouble with your very presence. He's just come back. Give him time to greet his children before you ruin any chance he has of relaxing." She said, looking at him with the same expression their mother used when she was unhappy with any of her children. Granted, that was very rare.

"Oh?" Luthor asked, somewhat amused. "Relaxing... From what, exactly? Hmm? From a war he started because he's an ambitious prick who cant see he's risking his own son's inheritance? Oh, and the children... You know, if the Gods ever deign me the opportunity to have a child with a beautiful woman I love, I'm not gonna run off to play at war!" He said, his tone harsher and louder with every word.

"Play at war? These are peoples lives you're talking abou-"

"Exactly! And he takes his prospering, peaceful nation and plunges it into war, just because he's pissing himself to "restore the family name". For Mara's sake, you were pregnant when he left? What kind of man does that? To his wife? To his family!?"

"You have no right to come here and point out my husbands faults. You know nothing about marriage! Especially about mine! What did you expect? When he has to live with the knowledge that his ancestors disgraces their once proud family name?"

"Oh don't give me that bullshit. He was scion of a royal family, that got very lucky when his uncle-cousin-whatever went against Darius and the throne became vacant. Then, to maintain his silly crown, he married an heiress, and now I'm willing to bet that most of Evermore, as it is today, exists because of his wife's money. He's a self loathing prick, who can't handle that his wife is wealthier and more influential, than he is. You'll always be a Hassildor. He'll never be anything but a corpse in the ground, if he thinks this is how he's going to restore his family's honor."

Jannia remained silent. She looked at her brother for a while, before looking down at her wine. Luthor too grew quiet. He rarely lost his temper, but His sisters plight really hit close to home. Even if she was too loyal to admit it.

__________________________________________

Percy nodded and quickly followed Julien.

__________________________________________

As Arielle and Wolfida began to walk away, Eyjne looked back at the guards, then at her companion and their new "friends".... And then she sighed. She put her hands and her sides, tapping her foot, obviously thinking about something.

"Wait." She finally said, addressing the large man, as she approached him."I can't leave just yet. They've seen me without my mask and my employer (or at least her brother) would shit a brick if he knew I did that. I can't leave loose ends, not here. I won't be long, but I need you to do me a favor." She said, explaining her situation, as she offered a smile and turned, walking in the direction of the drunk guards.

__________________________________________

Aldous and his party continued on their way to Evermore.