“Mmm. Sure, Sisi. But where do you want to go?” In her experience, the castle was only safe if she stayed where the other servants were within call. Frost’s mercenaries were as bad as their master for the most part. Leena thought he liked it that way, having people he could treat just like his hounds, snapping on their short leashes. Dangerous for everybody.
That kind of control couldn’t last forever, could it? But what did it matter if the sisters didn’t live to see it? There had to be a way to make someone important care. Lady Larissa, she knew, would never take a risk to help them. The true-born brother, perhaps … Siora wouldn’t be able to get close to him, with the way Bastien watched her.
Meaning Leena would have to try it if no better option presented itself. Rahse would want her to play the cards she’d been dealt, no matter his feelings. Or at least, he would say so if pressed.
She smiled at the picture Siora painted, a fantasy beyond her own imaginings. No masters at all, rather than simply better ones. Plenty of people lived that way – other elves, even – but she’d never met them, and it was hard to imagine what her life would look like.
“Is that what he’s ‘training’ you for now? Sneak around, ferret out secrets?” Leena wrinkled her nose, not necessarily surprised, but irritated. Elven servants were near-invisible as it was. Odds were Siora could be just as effective a spy if she lived exactly as Leena did and no one would need to hurt her besides.
“I guess he must mean to send you away, in the end.” The forced cheer that had been in her voice to this point faded entirely, and Leena wilted against her big sister’s side.
@Siora Craynore
That kind of control couldn’t last forever, could it? But what did it matter if the sisters didn’t live to see it? There had to be a way to make someone important care. Lady Larissa, she knew, would never take a risk to help them. The true-born brother, perhaps … Siora wouldn’t be able to get close to him, with the way Bastien watched her.
Meaning Leena would have to try it if no better option presented itself. Rahse would want her to play the cards she’d been dealt, no matter his feelings. Or at least, he would say so if pressed.
She smiled at the picture Siora painted, a fantasy beyond her own imaginings. No masters at all, rather than simply better ones. Plenty of people lived that way – other elves, even – but she’d never met them, and it was hard to imagine what her life would look like.
“Is that what he’s ‘training’ you for now? Sneak around, ferret out secrets?” Leena wrinkled her nose, not necessarily surprised, but irritated. Elven servants were near-invisible as it was. Odds were Siora could be just as effective a spy if she lived exactly as Leena did and no one would need to hurt her besides.
“I guess he must mean to send you away, in the end.” The forced cheer that had been in her voice to this point faded entirely, and Leena wilted against her big sister’s side.
@Siora Craynore
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