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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 21, 2009 21:58:12 GMT -5
Brone had never threatened anyone before in his life. He had killed before, not that she would know that, He had many secrets in his past. There was more pain that she knew, than he could describe. But at her words he lunged at her, pinning her to the side of the palace, he knew she wouldn't be hurt,and he looked right into her eyes, speaking through clenched teeth. "I never said it was an empty threat."
"And no, i don't believe I've ever said that before, you should be flattered," but his eyes glinted with malice. He really was starting to crack. And then eh let go of her, materializing to the opposite end of the courtyard, breathing deeply, as if it was a strain not to attack her right now. But he had to prove he was stringer than her, he would not give it.
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 21, 2009 22:11:04 GMT -5
Brone pinned her against the wall, she growled in the back of her throat, anger flashing in her eyes. Mina was ready to explode when he finally let her go, and retreated to the other side, far away from her. She glared at him, she did NOT like that, “Your loosing it.” she said, sure he could hear her through the distance, as they had excellent hearing. “Your loosing your sanity, all self control, and your loosing her with every outbreak like that. You say I can‘t be taken seriously!? What would they say if they saw you behaving in such a way?” she yelled.
Mina wanted to hurt him, so she said what she knew would hurt him the most. “Have you ever seen someone burned by the sun?” she said, wanting this to hurt him. “It‘s torture Brone, agony, their flesh peels away and they feel everything until eventually they aren‘t there anymore. Then there‘s the mess to clean up afterwards.” she said, this felt wrong, but it didn’t stop her, hell, she could barely think she was so angry. “I‘m going to enjoy her death, front row center.” And this time she braced herself for an attack.
[ooc: meeeep! don't kill her xD!!]
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 21, 2009 22:19:41 GMT -5
ooc- she's asking for it =P
Brone let out a guffaw. "Have you seen our father? He'd tell me I'm really a man." Brone's voice was dripping with disdain. Vlad father liked violence, he liked showing off power. Brone had never been that way. He was simple, he only wanted things to be peaceful. Brone did not relax his stance, he became a statue, looking straight ahead. He could see it happening in his eyes. Her skin peeling layer by layer. How many layers would it take to see the baby burning too.
"I'm glad you'll enjoy yourself." The words came out like a hiss,a nd his fist tightened at his side but he did not spring on her again. He wanted to kill her, her seriously did. Too bad she didn't have blood. That would ahve helped him on the attack. Reason didn't work on Mina, but neither, it seemed, did physical strength, or power, of threats. So how could he win?
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 21, 2009 22:39:58 GMT -5
[ooc- so i completely gagged when you said the baby burning, ewww! really short, i know sorry!]
Mina felt daggers pouring at her from Brone`s eyes, she wondered on a scale of 1-10 if he’d breached 10 on wanting to hurt her yet? Still, it didn’t deter her from standing just as still as she did before. Eyes lowered, hovering slightly, but he didn’t come at her, it must have been a one time deal. “I will.” she said, knowing it was a lie. Mina loved the sun, watching it, seeing shadows, it all enthralled her, but watching someone burn? Not exactly her top list of things to do. After a brief amount of time had paced Mina went back to standing normally.
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 21, 2009 22:50:47 GMT -5
ooc- sorry, lol, you brought up the skin peeling so....
Brone said nothing. He felt venom in his body--was that hate? It felt worse than hate. So much worse..... he wished Mina was the one who would be strapped to that rock. Just so she could hear someone else say that of her, she'd never take it lying down. Brone grimaced. But he wondered if her voice was slightly unsure as she spoke, a tiny hint. he didn't harp on it.
"It wont be just her death." Brone said in a low voice. "If I burn trying to save her..." he wasn't quite suicidal. he had work he could still complete. He still had a shot at peace. "You might get two for the price of one." And then he started walking back toward the door, he'd have to pass closer to Mina, hopefully she could control herself.
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 16:27:02 GMT -5
Mina usually didn’t show her emotions, at all really, if she was upset, surprised, concerned, happy- it didn’t show on her face. So when Brone spoke she didn’t show any emotion, not because she was hiding it, but because she didn’t understand. Was he insane? Suicidal? This was insane, and suicidal! Would he really give up his life to save some woman?
Frustrated Mina again growled quietly in the back of her throat, “What?” she said, before Brone could pass her she swiftly moved in his way, if he had to he could get by her, but she didn’t want that now. “You cannot be serious! You would kill yourself for her? There‘s no chance you could save her by burning yourself!” she said, realizing her words would no longer mean anything to him. If he was serious about this what would she be able to do to stop him, short of having him restrained in the dungeon beside her? There had to be something else, she couldn't [as much as it killed her to admit this] let him die. Who else would she torture in her spare time?
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 16:34:41 GMT -5
"I wouldn't kill myself if she died," Brone said calmly. "But I am willing to risk my life to save he. If I die in the attempt, and she makes it out, it would have been worth it. Living with her dead--having tried to save her--would be much better than letting it go on and having her death on my head for the rest of my life." Brone looked at her for a long time after that. he would never die naturally, and really his life was not his own to control persay.
Usually, kings would die in battle, or at the hands of their first son's for the throne. Sometimes a son would let the old king stay as a member of council. But more foten, they would ask to be killed and the son's would kill them, a right of passage. he wondered if Mina knew that. If she'd long for his spot then. But he did not want to be at fault for Serena's death until that day. He wanted her to live.
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 16:42:14 GMT -5
This was s frustrating! How could Mina make him see how crazy he seemed to her? But, she didn’t understand love, so that was why she couldn’t understand how he would want to put her life before his own. She did care for her brother, and though she had no qualms earlier about wanting to see him suffer, she couldn’t bare the thought of him burning in the suns light.
“If she makes it out. Brone, there will be guards, people everywhere, she wouldn‘t make it past the castle before she‘s found, where would she run without burning? Not far. If it isn‘t the guard‘s who find her the sun will, and the King would never stop looking.” she said, making sure to poke enough holes in his plan. But if he was going to risk his life for her, Mina couldn’t, wouldn’t, let him do that, anything but killing himself. "Think of something else." Was all she said.
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 16:51:44 GMT -5
Brone looked at her and shook his head. She just didn't understand him, she never really had, but certainly not now. So he decided not to talk about Serena, not about her death. Not his plans to save her. nothing that really had to do with him. She'd been in attack mode, now she'd have to switch to defense.
"I thought you'd be happy Mina," Brone said, teasing along with anger and frustation in his voice. "You always wanted power. If I'm out of the picture, that just means you have to take care of jon and you get the throne." he said with an unhappy smirk. His words were taunting, and true on some level, but he knew she never wanted it that badly. At least, he hoped so.
"Just a warning though, you have to kill dad one day, maybe both our parents, its how these things go. i hope you enjoy that." Brone said stiffly as she walked around her. he was done fighting.
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 17:16:49 GMT -5
Since when did he get so good at this whole battle of the words thing? Of course she’d love the throne, who wouldn’t? Power would be wonderful, sure she had status, but power? Then wouldn’t she be able to have a say in this war? With power couldn’t she do so many wonderful things, but still. “I wouldn‘t want that.” she said, honest for the most part. Sure she’d love it, but there just had to be a different way to do so rather then have her family killed off. She suddenly realized just how lonely she would be without her family there.
“Is that what you planned to do? Have us all killed so you could have the Crown all to yourself?” She asked, feeling anger, would he do that? Brone walked past her, she spun and stared at him, why hadn’t she been told these things before? This all was so new to her, how could he ever consider killing their parents, “I didn‘t know you wanted the Crown that badly that‘d you would be willing to slaughter both of our parents, and who knows who else to get what you want.” she said.
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 17:24:20 GMT -5
"It was never my choice Mina," Brone said loudly, whirling back to look at her. "Its part of this trade off. I am the first born, so its my right to be king from birth, but in order to decide if you are strong enough to lead, you have to kill the one who has it before you." Brone paused, as if remembering something, his voice more quiet. "You weren't alive when dad had to kill his father. I remember enough, its the earliest memory I have." he was only a year older, but he had been a witness.
"If a king would live forever, why even bother picking an heir? if it worked that way, we'd still have the first king we ever had. Think Mina!" Brone said. "The other option is the old king leaving to live a different life, or staying as council. But father will never be in my council, he told me so himself. i won't become king until he's willing to give it up to me, and perhaps his life." he wasn't supposed to tell these things, he'd never found them important to share, in case he didnt have to kill them.
"Do you think i want to take his life?" brone asked her. he hated his afther but he would never kill him if he had the choice.
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 17:47:16 GMT -5
It was like having some sort of bomb dropped on you, and your not quite sure what to do with it. The truth was coming out now, and Mina was glad she knew, but still, it felt different, her parents death was imminent it seemed with Brone in charge.
Mina wasn’t even born yet when her father took the throne, so she had always just thought her grandfather died in some fight or something, she didn’t consider this other, awful option. So many things she felt she should have known. “No Brone.” she said quietly, “I suppose you wouldn‘t want this life. How could I have known this though? No one told me about that side of it.” she said.
Her eyes widened in horror, “Are you planning on killing our father? To save her?” she said, her voice even but her eyes were wondering, lost. She’d never considered her father not being there, they weren’t close at all, but still. “Our mother?” she said, that she wouldn’t allow.
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 17:55:57 GMT -5
"Its a well hidden secret," Brone said, he really wasn't supposed to be spreading this around. "I think Grandfather asked to be killed you know---in case that changes anything...." his voice was was quiet. That was the part Brone knew, he could see the man's face, asking with a please to be taken from this world. Unless he had read it wrong.... he was so young then.For once, Mina seemed to realize a bit about him. maybe if he told her about his painful teenage years she might really understand him, but not for a couple more lifetimes.
He shook his head. "I will not take the throne by force," He said, his voice was cold and stern. "Never." he was not going to keep the fighting going, he was not going to choose a life for a life. Nor was he going to take the throne in order to keep Serena---wether he was ready to be king or not. Force was not going to be what started his life as a king.
"I will never kill her." he added. His mother would not die by his hand, no matter the circumstance. Brone shook his head again in desperation.
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Post by Mina Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 18:17:15 GMT -5
He wanted to be killed? Her grandfather wanted that? All of these secrets, she didn’t know how she could have been kept in the dark. Shouldn’t she have been informed, damn it, she was Mina Van Estra, she deserved to be informed! “You can tell me that all you want, but you just said that‘s how it‘s always been done, and that Father won‘t step down!” she didn’t know what to do about this, she wanted to think, she wanted her brother not to die saving some girl, but not to kill her parents either, though he said he wouldn’t.
Mina looked away from Brone, she needed to think and decide if she trusted anything he said. Stepping out of the way she decided if he wanted to pass he could, but she couldn’t talk to him anymore. There was someone else she needed to talk to more, and that person was Serena.
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Post by Brone Van Estra on Jan 22, 2009 18:40:35 GMT -5
"You know what, there's no point in explain this to you. He can do what his father did. Decide their time was up, make the fight easy. More like putting someone out of their misery than death. I don't know much more than you now, and you can think whatever you want---but I'm not having this conversation with you anymore." he said. Mina didn't understand him, she just made this difficult. he was unsure how to reason, how to explain to her. He would have to kill his father, his mother could live, but he wasnt killing anyone over Serena.
He'd still have a death on his mind, on his head.... he would not do that to himself. It wasn't worth it.
He strode past mina, praying she wouldn't stop him again, he needed to get out of here, and if it had been simple, if he was smart he'd smuggle Serena out and they'd just run away, that would have been better, safer..... more reasonable than anything else. But somehow he couldnt run away.
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