Ren was distracted by Gareth's laughter to almost the same extent as the King. She had the good sense not to stare, but the sound of it made her heart clench so strongly she felt she might have to sit down. It felt like someone had taken a great wooden spoon and stirred up her insides. It felt like an old injury aching in winter cold. She thought she might cry.
He never laughed like that when SHE was around. He never laughed at all when she was around.
This was terrible. She felt like she was sick. She WAS sick, and she needed to purge it out immediately. Thank god she was running tonight. She only hated that she'd seen this before she'd left. As if the house hadn't been bad enough. If she'd always thought of him as impossible and stodgy and annoying and only intermittently kind, she would have had no regrets at all.
Leave it to GARETH to make even this harder than it needed to be.
She tried to look normal when the King turned back to her, but he said the worst possible thing, and it was an inexplicable difficulty not to laugh or cry. It felt like there was something in her chest constricting her throat. Also she felt a little drunk already, which was definitely not helping.
"He doesn't like me," she informed the King matter-of-factly. "He just really likes fucking me." She was sure the King could relate. She was sure EVERYONE could relate. It was a very common opinion of her, second only to open hatred.
She was overjoyed to be walking further away from Gareth, despite what her whole body was yelling about running over there and hugging and other stupid fucking bullshit. She was clearly already drunk. She'd have to eat more to counterbalance it.
The King got distracted by a proper pumpkin chuck, but she'd been so focused that she hadn't even noticed the first one. No, she was distracted by something else entirely. She stared, then, unthinking, began to pull at the King's sleeve and point like a child seeing a toy store.
"Yer--Avi--sir--" She pulled his sleeve again, almost beginning to jump with excitement. "ARE THOSE APPLES COVERED IN CANDY."
There was, in fact, a whole stall of candy apples, in dozens of varieties, run by a familiar face she hadn't even noticed. She was fixated, astounded that such a thing could even exist. She remembered the King's love for candy, but begged anyway. "Please!! Pleasepleaseplease!" She wanted twelve. They were huge enough that it'd be a struggle to finish even one.
Bridget nodded. The King WAS gossipy. He was worse than a laundry maid, the way he carried on. Especially about Gareth, not that she'd ever point it out. She'd heard enough drunken complaints for even HER to understand they were complicated. She couldn't begin to understand why; the King was absurdly straightforward and sweet.
This, she thought despite any evidence provided by the story of their first time together and how she'd come to work in the castle. She flushed a bit at the memory, as much for her own youthful stupidity as anything else.
"I always forget the King's Guard are technically soldiers and shit," she admitted after hearing Gareth's incomprehensible lesson. It still sounded like a curve to HER. The benefit of having come after the King had already settled in somewhat was that she'd missed all the chaos and had been living on the outskirts of the country her whole life before then. And the King's Guard weren't exactly written in the annals of history for her to read about at length. "I kinda think of you as engineers and secretaries," she informed him. She worked in the library. She only really saw a certain KIND of King's Guard.
But someone had loaded up their trebuchet and actually managed to fire. She dropped the jug and its remnants into Gareth's arms as she stood up on his shoulders and launched herself forward with so much force that it would have knocked someone else over. She transformed mid-leap and hit the ground sprinting with a howl.
She rocketed after the pumpkin at breakneck speeds, then launched herself into the air more like a cat than a dog, teeth snapping. She collided with the pumpkin--her first catch of the night!--and crunched into gleefully as they both collapsed into the snow.
Her tail wagged furiously as she tore into it with satisfying crunches, scattering the ground with pumpkin seeds.
Your chuck only counted as far as the smear. It was much further when she didn't catch it, and there was the werewolf penalty to boot. She wasn't actually sure anyone kept TRACK, and it seemed pointless when Gareth dominated every single year. She didn't care. She was ready to chase and that was everyone ELSE'S problems.
Someone else's pumpkin went soaring above her and she began to give chase with a long, delighted, baying howl.
He never laughed like that when SHE was around. He never laughed at all when she was around.
This was terrible. She felt like she was sick. She WAS sick, and she needed to purge it out immediately. Thank god she was running tonight. She only hated that she'd seen this before she'd left. As if the house hadn't been bad enough. If she'd always thought of him as impossible and stodgy and annoying and only intermittently kind, she would have had no regrets at all.
Leave it to GARETH to make even this harder than it needed to be.
She tried to look normal when the King turned back to her, but he said the worst possible thing, and it was an inexplicable difficulty not to laugh or cry. It felt like there was something in her chest constricting her throat. Also she felt a little drunk already, which was definitely not helping.
"He doesn't like me," she informed the King matter-of-factly. "He just really likes fucking me." She was sure the King could relate. She was sure EVERYONE could relate. It was a very common opinion of her, second only to open hatred.
She was overjoyed to be walking further away from Gareth, despite what her whole body was yelling about running over there and hugging and other stupid fucking bullshit. She was clearly already drunk. She'd have to eat more to counterbalance it.
The King got distracted by a proper pumpkin chuck, but she'd been so focused that she hadn't even noticed the first one. No, she was distracted by something else entirely. She stared, then, unthinking, began to pull at the King's sleeve and point like a child seeing a toy store.
"Yer--Avi--sir--" She pulled his sleeve again, almost beginning to jump with excitement. "ARE THOSE APPLES COVERED IN CANDY."
There was, in fact, a whole stall of candy apples, in dozens of varieties, run by a familiar face she hadn't even noticed. She was fixated, astounded that such a thing could even exist. She remembered the King's love for candy, but begged anyway. "Please!! Pleasepleaseplease!" She wanted twelve. They were huge enough that it'd be a struggle to finish even one.
Bridget nodded. The King WAS gossipy. He was worse than a laundry maid, the way he carried on. Especially about Gareth, not that she'd ever point it out. She'd heard enough drunken complaints for even HER to understand they were complicated. She couldn't begin to understand why; the King was absurdly straightforward and sweet.
This, she thought despite any evidence provided by the story of their first time together and how she'd come to work in the castle. She flushed a bit at the memory, as much for her own youthful stupidity as anything else.
"I always forget the King's Guard are technically soldiers and shit," she admitted after hearing Gareth's incomprehensible lesson. It still sounded like a curve to HER. The benefit of having come after the King had already settled in somewhat was that she'd missed all the chaos and had been living on the outskirts of the country her whole life before then. And the King's Guard weren't exactly written in the annals of history for her to read about at length. "I kinda think of you as engineers and secretaries," she informed him. She worked in the library. She only really saw a certain KIND of King's Guard.
But someone had loaded up their trebuchet and actually managed to fire. She dropped the jug and its remnants into Gareth's arms as she stood up on his shoulders and launched herself forward with so much force that it would have knocked someone else over. She transformed mid-leap and hit the ground sprinting with a howl.
She rocketed after the pumpkin at breakneck speeds, then launched herself into the air more like a cat than a dog, teeth snapping. She collided with the pumpkin--her first catch of the night!--and crunched into gleefully as they both collapsed into the snow.
Her tail wagged furiously as she tore into it with satisfying crunches, scattering the ground with pumpkin seeds.
Your chuck only counted as far as the smear. It was much further when she didn't catch it, and there was the werewolf penalty to boot. She wasn't actually sure anyone kept TRACK, and it seemed pointless when Gareth dominated every single year. She didn't care. She was ready to chase and that was everyone ELSE'S problems.
Someone else's pumpkin went soaring above her and she began to give chase with a long, delighted, baying howl.
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