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The Tourney at Ashford 2017-09-05T04:31:16+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/feed.php?f=82&t=332 2017-09-05T04:24:06+01:00 2017-09-05T04:24:06+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=5231#p5231 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
The rider's arrival tore him out of brooding and provided a major relief: father was alive, relatively well and on his way. There were many compounded issues related with his arrival, however, and Kevan's mind shifted to those. But there was no way around of self-loathing he felt, and he came to the conclusion that his misdeed has to be judged, himself to stand trial before the only arbiter that mattered - the woman he knew he loved. That was a difficult decision to make but he had to confess to her to be able to look into her eyes again without that betrayal of the mind weighing on his conscience. If there was any boon out of it, he understood more fully how much he began to love her, and how much he was afraid of losing her.

He eventually stormed out and got Tymagon from the stables to ride out into the mist.

/scene, continued

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:24 am

]]> 2017-09-05T04:31:16+01:00 2017-09-05T04:07:23+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=5224#p5224 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]> Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Tue Sep 05, 2017 4:07 am

]]> 2017-09-04T13:28:52+01:00 2017-09-04T13:28:52+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4929#p4929 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
"Scandal or no scandal, we both know what did and what did not happen. Gossip comes and goes, and it hurts only if it carries some shameful truths we'd like to hide. I think we both prefer regretting doing the right thing now than regretting having done the wrong thing for many days to come."

His body didn't feel well about letting her go.

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:28 pm

]]> 2017-09-04T12:45:19+01:00 2017-09-04T12:45:19+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4925#p4925 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
"I don't suppose I could borrow a blanket? It is just beginning to dawn and I don't want to scandalize anyone who might be up at this hour." Her laugh was slightly musical as she looked down at her nightclothes, mentally reminding herself she needed to grab her stockings lest there be a trace of evidence for the servants to find.

On a more serious note she told him, "I promise I will tell you when Dahlia returns. It's possible we could get an idea how far out the wheelhouse is."

It was unfamiliar, talking to someone other than Tomas so openly about her dreams. She had to admit she was a bit excited to have someone else to discuss them with. A trust that would never be forgotten in her soul.

Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 12:45 pm

]]> 2017-09-04T10:18:26+01:00 2017-09-04T10:18:26+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4874#p4874 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]> Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 10:18 am

]]> 2017-09-04T09:10:36+01:00 2017-09-04T09:10:36+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4867#p4867 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]> ‘Okay, so that’s not happening.’ She stayed seated, adjusting her clothing to be less provocative, closing her legs tight, and tried to cover the feelings still sending her butterflies.

“By ruining me, I meant that this secret could sully my chances of making an appropriate match. I doubt many men would care for an aberration for a wife. And, if the wrong person heard of this, they would want me dead. I’ve had a lot of time to think about such things. But you’re not the wrong person. And you truly owe me nothing. It’s not as though I saw what happened and I don’t know where he is or if he’s well. If I could, I would do as you ask and look for him, but I’ve never been able to control it and it only happens when I sleep.”

Kevan was a good man. She’d seen this or she wouldn’t have been able to trust him, quite literally, with her life. He was already probably starting to feel guilty for even having the thought to be with her. It certainly didn't help that she's paid herself no mind when running from her tent, save for a shawl.

As much as she wanted him for herself for just this night, she would never wish to disrespect this ‘Arwyn’ in such a fundamental way, before even meeting her no less. And for the sake of her own future mate, starting marriage off on a lie might have broken something inside her. Her heart was glad they’d both found the will to stop but her body did not agree despite the serious circumstances.

“I know nothing about how things are built but I do remember what things appeared broken. If we were to see a wheelhouse here, I could better show you what I saw. Just…” she looked down at herself, “probably not wearing this. Which I do apologize for. I was frenzied.”

She decided to try her legs once more and to her surprise found herself able to push out of the chair. This was hard to say and she nearly reached to put her hand against his chest before thinking better of it. “If you are now, in fact, Lord of The Burrow… Even now you are thinking of everyone but yourself. There’s a goodness in you that will serve you well. Please, don’t ever doubt that.”

Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 9:10 am

]]> 2017-09-04T08:31:24+01:00 2017-09-04T08:31:24+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4850#p4850 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
He looked up.

"If I am truly the Lord of the Burrow already, it is all the more reason for us to not give in to our desires. You're right that I wouldn't forgive myself for wronging you, my heart's chosen, your parents and our family. I could not expect to be respected or be loyal to if I put you in jeopardy, misery and remorse by taking advantage now. You deserve a better lord than a lustful oathbreaker, no matter how much passion for you I need to forsake. And Lady Arwyn deserves a better husband, one who does not pledge his heart one day and steers it elsewhere the other. It feels cruel that we can't have what we want, but maybe what is just and fair must be cruel sometimes."

He slowly rose and while standing he leaned over to gently kiss the top of her scalp.

"I don't think less of you because of your gift, nor will I ever. My only concern is to find a husband for you who wouldn't either so you could be happy with him without forsaking who you are. Though right now I find the idea that another man could have you abhorrent, this will be good for the family. I need to educate myself to think about things in those terms more."

Where passion had been, shame and silent self-loathing started to creep in. His free hand unwittingly gripped the pouch on his chest.

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:31 am

]]> 2017-09-04T07:26:09+01:00 2017-09-04T07:26:09+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4829#p4829 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
"The Lord Commander's wheelhouse, broken. It's on the side of a road." She looked down, before closing her eyes to better recapture the images. "It's been there for some time. It's been torn apart. I'm not sure if it was stripped by thieves or if bandits were what ran it off the road in the first place. The wheels were gone. Inside it's all been cleaned out. I wouldn't be so worried if it weren't for the fact that it's been days and we've heard nothing that I know of. There were no horses and surely someone would have made it back here or to The Burrow to send word of safety."

She moved her other hand to join the first, holding his for mutual comfort. "I didn't see blood." She was more direct than she meant to be. "It could have been there but I didn't see it."

She wanted to make him understand her. He was the first person beyond her brother that she'd told about these strange abilities. Tears threatened to fall but she valiantly held them back. She shouldn't be thinking of herself. "Only Tomas knows I can see these things. I can't control it, and I know it makes me broken; less desirable as a wife to have something so wrong as a part of me. But I had to tell you because he's important but more than that he's your Father. I wouldn't have lived with myself if there was something that could be done. I beg you not to hate me, and not to ruin my chances in life. I'm trusting you."

Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:26 am

]]> 2017-09-04T07:03:51+01:00 2017-09-04T07:03:51+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4821#p4821 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
"Tell me what you saw." He would still have a lot to tell her, but first things must come first. He had been worried about his father and now it sounded like his darker assumptions might be the right ones. He fell back on his heels, slipping out of the frame of her thighs, still holding her hand.

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:03 am

]]> 2017-09-04T06:15:06+01:00 2017-09-04T06:15:06+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4802#p4802 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
“So that’s what that song’s about?” It came out in a voice she’d never heard herself use. Breathy and whispered, and almost able to hear her own smile. “I never knew. I never knew that I could feel.” His descriptions cemented images of possibilities she was sure would never leave her entirely, be it with him or a man yet to come. In this time, though, it was wholly him. Was it normal to feel this pull? Was it always this intense?

Duty, honor, and respect jousted against feelings she wanted to get to know better. A desire to give the man before her what he’d been brave enough to confess to her. She would give it all and more. “I want this, I do. More than I thought I could ever want anything. But I cannot have it. You would never forgive me for reasons you already know and one that I have yet to tell you. But I pray to the Seven you won’t hate me for taking this, to carry with me.”

She took his face in her hands and delicately pressed them to his cheeks before kissing him. While it was a release for the passion she’d barely kept bottled, to an outside eye it perhaps looked nearly chaste. It was her first kiss and she dared not let him teach her how to sink in and do so properly. So it had to be gentle; had to be, fittingly, just the smallest taste of one another.

She pulled back her forehead leaning against his, eyes closed now because if she looked she may not be able to say the words that would help ground her. Say much about Kaelyn, but never say she lacked for will power. She didn’t know it but it was part of the reason she was able to use the magic inside her.

“You belong to another in your heart and we can’t break hers. I’m a Lady and I serve you; I would be putting my value to you at risk. I’ve been taught my whole life that it’s wrong to want these things, and I truly haven’t until now. But I came to you tonight to tell you…”

She pulled her head away to look him properly in the eyes. She took one of his hands in hers, looking to comfort him and herself. “I came to tell you what I saw in my sleep. It's real and it frightens me.”

She came back to her senses a bit, recalling to mind the horrible images. Nothing quelled lust like fear and loathing. “My Lord, something has happened to the Lord Commander.”

Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:15 am

]]> 2017-09-03T17:45:29+01:00 2017-09-03T17:45:29+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4662#p4662 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
The pouch.

Essences were struggling. As a young man, Kevan had ever been quick to become angry or jubilant, to laugh or to fight, and not to think twice whenever he had a chance to lay with a pretty girl. How it could be different now when the beauty in his grasp was building the flimsiest stockade of reluctance around a burning desire to be claimed by him?

It was. And yet...

"Neither have I expected this, and yet here we are, craving for each other. Do you know what could happen if I gave in to how much I want you right now, Kaelyn? I would..." He leaned forth, pressing her legs slightly apart to make space for him to get his face closer to hers, to get the message across, as he assumed the haze of passion was as acute for her as was for him. Unwittingly, he whispered to her the details of how he would use his mouth to make her body catch up to her bold declaration, giving her the answer to the question the tavern song had raised in her mind, in vivid description rather than demonstration. Kneeling between her legs, facing her daringly, trapping her eyes in his gaze he uttered all that his imagination was telling him about how their nocturnal rendezvous could unfold. He bared his thoughts before her, honestly admitting to what his body strained for, letting her know it all in no uncertain terms. His breath was heavy, hard to rein in, and his body was shuddering and convulsing, demanding that he acted on his words.

He didn't. Not because his will was like steel, but because there were drives in him even stronger than his overarching desire of Kaelyn. The oath and the affection the pouch on his chest embodied felt like a smoldering ember pressed on his mind, and the awareness that he might actually be Lord of the Burrow already had his father met a similar fate on the road like Leo Tyrell in the lists was weighing on his every move. Seeing her beautiful face and eyes, he couldn't forget that he had watched how this beauty came into being from a small child much younger than him, a girl that was family before she became that smoothness under his hands, beaded with passion sweat, revolting against convention and inhibitions in order to meet his desire halfway. He couldn't ignore that for all the dissimilarities her Dornish blood introduced into his own stock a shard of Maera was looking back at him. And above all else, that she wasn't Arwyn.

But at the crucial moment when 'but' was about to start and his inaction finally getting explained, his throat had dried out and words stopped to yield to him in his sentence-making as the scent of her body invaded his nostrils. There was a moment of pause, of uncertainty if the tension would give, with no ambiguity about what their bodies wanted, very much against better judgement...

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Sun Sep 03, 2017 5:45 pm

]]> 2017-09-03T13:57:08+01:00 2017-09-03T13:57:08+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4640#p4640 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
She could feel the blush of her cheeks sidle down her neck into her chest, her blood scorching beneath her skin. Kaelyn’s eyes met her Lord’s with a blaze in them she could actually feel had never been there before. Intense and bright with wonder.

“I rushed to you this night never expecting to have this,” she took one of his hands in both of hers. “To want this. I want to serve you the way a Lady should not desire to.” She closed her eyes once more, enraptured in the simple heat of his touch. ‘Just a little more for myself.’ A flash of what could be came to her mind, without permission or regret. It was all at once and the sweetness of it drowned her.



She moved her hand from his to rest it tenderly against his cheek. To hold his beautiful face as hers. “But the best way I can serve you is to remain pure for whatever match is chosen for me. And you love another and the kindness you possess… You may not forgive yourself. And I may not forgive myself for not showing her the respect she deserves.”

“Nevertheless, for my own selfish sake, I would give you my chastity if I did not think you might never forgive me for keeping what I know to myself as we shared this night.”

Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:57 pm

]]> 2017-09-02T21:33:24+01:00 2017-09-02T21:33:24+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4560#p4560 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
He knelt at her feet and took one of the undressed legs in his hands, warming it with his touch, ever so slowly so she wouldn't jump. "And now you ask me if you should continue. My curiosity has already been piqued, Kaelyn. And I think your has been as well, since you ask what it means to taste a woman after telling me you really trust me. So, do you want me to continue, to give you the answer?" His hands massaged the chill off her calf as he was looking up at her with a wandering smile and flickers in his eyes.

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:33 pm

]]> 2017-09-02T20:56:32+01:00 2017-09-02T20:56:32+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4553#p4553 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
Kaelyn knew this next part would be perhaps the most unnerving for her Lord, but would be the most convincing piece of evidence for him.

"For instance, the night before last, she did not go far at all. I fell asleep rather quickly after that first day; completely at rest before night even fell. That night I joined Dahlia. She was curious about all the noise coming from the tavern. She sat up there listening to the conversations of the men below. You sang a song about tasting the Dornishman's wife, you mentioned that being second born has its advantages, it was worse being a squire than a virgin, and proclaimed you would marry Marqus Forrester's sister if he'd marry yours so that you could be brothers... Do you want me to continue?"

She no longer cared if her hair was down around her shoulders, her legs visible, and she was being watched. She had to get out of these wet stockings and slowly undid their ribbons and rolled them down and off of her.

"And why would someone taste someone else?"

Statistics: Posted by Kaelyn Dunn — Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:56 pm

]]> 2017-09-02T20:20:23+01:00 2017-09-02T20:20:23+01:00 http://ashford.fallenash.com/viewtopic.php?t=332&p=4536#p4536 <![CDATA[Re: The Would-Be Messenger [D3 - LN]]]>
"It is and it is not. I can't hope to understand the magical side of this or where your strange power comes from. But since you do things like that, I can ponder what a talent like that could accomplish. Hmmm, how far your gyrfalcon can fly?"

Statistics: Posted by Kevan Dunn — Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:20 pm

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