She desperately didn't want the King to say that. Because when he said things, even things she knew were bad and things she knew were false, she could feel herself teetering towards believing them. She couldn't think about Gareth liking her, because as she was right now, thinking about his laughter and his hair down and how warm he had been against her in the golden lake and his cabin in the woods... She wouldn't want to stop at 'like' the way the King probably meant it.
Besides, the King had never seen them alone. He didn't really know. He'd seen Gareth fussing and worrying over her but never her taking out her endless frustrations on him until he almost screamed with fury. The King had never seen the way they fought. He'd never heard her call his mother a demon-whore and never heard him threaten to just step back and let them hang her or throw her corpse in a ditch. The King didn't know a thing about what Gareth really thought about Ren. Ren wasn't sure anyone did, possibly not even Gareth.
But if the King said it one more time, she might believe it, so she let the topic drop and distracted herself with candy apples. She was too excited about them to even protest his characterizing her as begging, although she did quietly file away that "excitedly asking please" apparently counted. She'd never been really clear what people wanted when they asked her to beg, just that they were cruel and she didn't want to.
She wished she could know that 'being good' would always mean trips to the fair and the mountains and food and sweets and all the things in life that had been denied to her. But she had just slipped out of a cell that she was only in because she'd tried to save lives when she should have been selfish. When she should have run. She knew exactly what being good would really get her, and she couldn't trust the King's moods.
Carefully, Ren studied the apples as if she was going to be tested before selecting a simple large green apple dipped in deep red, shiny candy. "I'll take this o--" She stopped abruptly when she looked up. He looked like... But... No, it couldn't be. Could it? Was she being racist? Was this an "all old elves looked the same" thing?
"...Buck?" she asked, the fact that she was supposed to be in disguise flying entirely out of her mind. "Grandpa Buck?"
"That's me!" said the older elf, long beard streaked with grey and resplendent in its messiness. "But I don't think I--Wait. Not lil Ren, surely?" He reached for her chin and titled it up to get a better look. "Oh! I'd recognize those peepers anywhere! Lookit you!"
Ren was stunned. Seeing a shard of her old life made everything come crashing together, realities whirlpooling and leaving her pulled out to sea. Meanwhile, Buck was happy to keep going.
"Oh, look, yer all grown up! And a boy, maybe? I owe Timmy a barrel of moonshine, damnit. And look at this!" He appraised the suspiciously dressed King from head to toe. "...Y'got a rich boyfriend!" he decided, cheerfully. "Aw, I always knew ya'd make it somehow! ...Admittedly, I thought it'd be more explosion-related, but, y'know."
Bree, for her part, was going absolutely feral in an extremely literal sense. It wasn't a full moon, but you'd never know that to watch her tear across the field at breakneck speeds, launching herself repeatedly into the air. Her howls mingled in with drums and fiddles as she streaked back and forth chasing pumpkins, catching a worrying number of them, until the trebuchets got good enough to start landing in and over the river. Once it became clear she'd catch no more pumpkins that night, she raced back to the fair. She didn't see Gareth, which was a good sign.
She made her way over to his trebuchet and nosed the carefully selected pumpkin out of the sling before climbing in herself and curling up. She gave a little wiggle to get herself settled, and waited for Gareth to show up. She'd had a lot of moonshine, and one way or another, she was getting tossed through the air.
Besides, the King had never seen them alone. He didn't really know. He'd seen Gareth fussing and worrying over her but never her taking out her endless frustrations on him until he almost screamed with fury. The King had never seen the way they fought. He'd never heard her call his mother a demon-whore and never heard him threaten to just step back and let them hang her or throw her corpse in a ditch. The King didn't know a thing about what Gareth really thought about Ren. Ren wasn't sure anyone did, possibly not even Gareth.
But if the King said it one more time, she might believe it, so she let the topic drop and distracted herself with candy apples. She was too excited about them to even protest his characterizing her as begging, although she did quietly file away that "excitedly asking please" apparently counted. She'd never been really clear what people wanted when they asked her to beg, just that they were cruel and she didn't want to.
She wished she could know that 'being good' would always mean trips to the fair and the mountains and food and sweets and all the things in life that had been denied to her. But she had just slipped out of a cell that she was only in because she'd tried to save lives when she should have been selfish. When she should have run. She knew exactly what being good would really get her, and she couldn't trust the King's moods.
Carefully, Ren studied the apples as if she was going to be tested before selecting a simple large green apple dipped in deep red, shiny candy. "I'll take this o--" She stopped abruptly when she looked up. He looked like... But... No, it couldn't be. Could it? Was she being racist? Was this an "all old elves looked the same" thing?
"...Buck?" she asked, the fact that she was supposed to be in disguise flying entirely out of her mind. "Grandpa Buck?"
"That's me!" said the older elf, long beard streaked with grey and resplendent in its messiness. "But I don't think I--Wait. Not lil Ren, surely?" He reached for her chin and titled it up to get a better look. "Oh! I'd recognize those peepers anywhere! Lookit you!"
Ren was stunned. Seeing a shard of her old life made everything come crashing together, realities whirlpooling and leaving her pulled out to sea. Meanwhile, Buck was happy to keep going.
"Oh, look, yer all grown up! And a boy, maybe? I owe Timmy a barrel of moonshine, damnit. And look at this!" He appraised the suspiciously dressed King from head to toe. "...Y'got a rich boyfriend!" he decided, cheerfully. "Aw, I always knew ya'd make it somehow! ...Admittedly, I thought it'd be more explosion-related, but, y'know."
Bree, for her part, was going absolutely feral in an extremely literal sense. It wasn't a full moon, but you'd never know that to watch her tear across the field at breakneck speeds, launching herself repeatedly into the air. Her howls mingled in with drums and fiddles as she streaked back and forth chasing pumpkins, catching a worrying number of them, until the trebuchets got good enough to start landing in and over the river. Once it became clear she'd catch no more pumpkins that night, she raced back to the fair. She didn't see Gareth, which was a good sign.
She made her way over to his trebuchet and nosed the carefully selected pumpkin out of the sling before climbing in herself and curling up. She gave a little wiggle to get herself settled, and waited for Gareth to show up. She'd had a lot of moonshine, and one way or another, she was getting tossed through the air.
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