Word Count → 312 :: i am bad and feel bad.
Ataxia woke up with the intent of visiting outside the Thistle Kingdom's lands. She needed some time and space to digest all the changes that had occurred. So much of the Kingdom brought up childhood memories, or the more recent ones of Tlanti and her father's death; she could not think clearly here.
She had not quite reached the stables to retrieve her horse when she spotted a dark woman staring intently at a penned elk. From the ring in her nose, she recognized her as Salvia's slave, which made her both curious and hesitant. Ataxia had to wonder if she knew anything of her elder sister's opinion on her (or whether she was even noticed at all) but knew asking such outright would be suspicious. Still, curiosity was enough to make her investigate.
"Looks delicious, doesn't it?" She half-grinned, her voice sly and slightly taunting. "Someone should find a female and breed it so we can have fawns to eat." She was tempted to encourage the slave to attack the creature, but was afraid of catching the wrong side of her sister's attention.
If she knew the owner was Reykr, the male who hung around Alessandra, she might have been smitten with jealousy and suggested it anyway. The young hybrid was a spiteful thing and would have found a way to claim it was an accident; perhaps by letting the creature loose and pretending that she did not know it was owned when she ordered it to be killed.
But she didn't know, and wasn't inclined to act without reason - so, instead, her attention was entirely on the slave. She was struck by the contrast between her dark fur and white eyes. Ataxia stared intently at the latter, trying to find some hint of a pupil or iris. Such rudeness she would not have done to anyone but an outsider or a slave.
.heraldictxt-box {background-image:url(http://i.minus.com/isouZf6qbMVQM.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: top center; width:233px; height:178px; float:right; margin:3px; }
.heraldictxt {font-family:'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing:0px; word-spacing:2px; text-align: left; margin:0px 25px;}
.heraldictxt p.ooc {font-style:italic; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify; text-indent:0px; padding:0px 5px;}
.heraldictxt p.ooc + p {padding:0px 5px;}
.heraldictxt .wc {text-transform: uppercase; font-weight:bold;}
.heraldictxt p {text-indent: 25px; margin:0px; padding:10px 5px;}
.heraldictxt b {letter-spacing:1px; font-family:georgia, serif; font-size:12px; letter-spacing:-.05em;}
</style>
[/html]