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-: Royalty Is A Funny Word :- [self ; L & V]

Postby Sarah » 10/20/2013 2:22 PM

Ashaelyn was not used to waking up in the morning and having fog so think she couldn't see out her window. for most of her life she lived in the forests of Lambastia, a place of warm summers and cold winters. in the rainforest things were drastically different not only the environment and the weather that followed, but in culture and experience, and all of the new dangers that threatened the wild tangles of the rainforest. this place was constantly to hot, and the water was so thick in the air shae was convinced no one would ever have thirst. though she would never admit it in fear of insulting her new friends she missed the cool embrace of snow, and the way it sparkled when the moon hit it. at first the thought of living in an eternal summer had been one of the only things that shae had looked forward to. now that she had lived in the pack for a few years she knew that seasons were around for a reason. while there was spring, summer, fall, and winter in the rainforest, the leaves didn't change color, and no snow graced the forest floor. where the hot forest lacked snow, it made up for in rain, and thunderstorms. every winter the packs village flooded, though it had little effect on the houses it did cause for a few months of left overs from the summer hunting.
(writing this on an ipad so there may or may not be more mistakes than usual)
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Re: -: Royalty Is A Funny Word :- [self ; L & V]

Postby Sarah » 10/20/2013 2:53 PM

of course it wasn't her first time being here, as a child her father would take her here in order to get her accustomed to her future home. all the visits in the world would have prepared her for life here. in the rainforest shifters were much more superstitious and religious. many members of the pack, and many wanderers visited the small shrine that was guarded in the middle of the village. all of the healers used old magic and faith to heal wounds. and though there hadn't been a shifter war in hundreds of years, many of the wild creatures in the forest were hostile towards anything that got to close. even are living here for five years the older members of the pack looked down on her. no one would give her a real job, they all told her that she was royalty and that the only thing she should focus on is learning the ways of the pack. she tried not to laugh when she heard that, in her first two years she had read over half of the library, and now if she were to take that advise she would end up rereading books she had memorized.

shae could not say she had been overly happy about getting shipped off to another pack, but it was her duty as daughter of the alpha to relocate and be married. unfortunately, the only child her new alpha's had was a boy, and once they came of age according to human laws they would be wed. she wasn't upset at the thought of being married. in a way she was excited, many children grew up fantasizing about being a princess, and she would actually become a princess. someday she would be queen, not in the sense of ruling over a vast people but maybe by the time she and her husband ruled there would be many families in her pack. strong guards, lithe hunters, trustworthy betas, fluffy summer pups, and wiry winter pups.
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Postby Sarah » 10/20/2013 3:45 PM

with a sigh shae turned over in her bed to look at the digital alarm clock that sat on her nightstand. in red letters it read '6:30 am' two hours before her alarm would go off but she knew there was no way shed fall back asleep, it as to hot and she enjoyed walking around her house in the morning. the air conditioning would kick in once she was up, and she liked to watch the news before she had to go about her day.

if shae had done what she was supposed to her day would last all of four hours, but she made sure she busied herself and did more than she was asked. every morning she went to all of the meetings, watched all of the patrols and hunting parties leave. she ate breakfast with the den mothers and for the rest of the day she went from house to house, and then from store to store and talked to all of the people in the village, weather they were shifters or not. she made it a point to know everything about everyone, and everyone should know her face. not that it was hard to be acquainted with the whole 50 people that lived permanently in the village but it was rare that she saw shifters interact with the mortals. she would run her pack differently, even if the customs said that shifters could not mix with common folk.
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Postby Sarah » 10/20/2013 6:05 PM

Slowly Shae sat up in bed, her feet touched the surprisingly cold wood floor and she contemplated wrapping herself back into the sheets. Instead she rubbed the sleep from her eyes and reached for her red and cream silk robe. Her fingers touched the silk just as the lights turned on. “Good morning sweety.” The words dripped with venom. Suddenly Shae remembered why girls only wished to be princesses; they knew that the real thing was not like the fairy tales. Suddenly her naked body was being presented to her future husband, and her face grew hot. She quickly snatched up the robe and wrapped the smooth fabric around her body, hoping it’d protect her from whatever he had in store. He had never hurt her in that way before, but Shae knew it was only a matter of time.

h-hello.” She said tentatively, her voice cracking. “How was your night?” she asked, hoping she could distract him away from her. “Don’t use your formalities on me.” He hissed at her, she could feel his shifter form ready to spring. In public he was the perfect gentle soul, but when he was alone with her… well, she had to come up with some very creative ways to cover bruises. Something she wouldn’t let people say about her was that she was weak most of the time she got hurt by him because she let her big mouth go off. “Did you come here to ruin my morning, or is there a real reason you’re here?” she asked. Fire burned in his eyes for a moment, and then he started walking towards her. Shae prepared herself for the worst. So she was rather confused when he just sat beside her in the bed.
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Postby Sarah » 10/20/2013 6:43 PM

All Shae could manage to do was eye him curiously and raise an eyebrow. He put his hand on her leg and she flinched. “Annabelle would like to speak to you this morning.” He said softly, and Shae remembered why she hadn’t just run away. Sometimes, he was everything a good man should be though he was flawed. He got up to leave, but Shae didn’t watch him go. Instead she pushed his visit to the back of her mind and got up to take a shower. All of the lights in her house were controlled by a slider instead of a switch. That way she could chose the intensity of the brightness. She had planned on only half using it so her eyes could adjust without too much pain but her future husband had come in and put the lights on fully so there was no need for that now.
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Postby Sarah » 10/20/2013 7:23 PM

When she turned the water on in the shower she heard the air conditioning kick on. Its soft hum played in the background as she scrubbed her body and shampooed her hair. If she was to see Annabelle today then she needed to look her best. Although Annabelle was nothing like her son, she was kind and didn't judge Shae still felt it was important to look like a princess in front of the queen lest she think Shae unfit to wed her son. She didn't take her time getting out of the shower, and only half towel dried it. She didn't want to fix herself today, but she did anyway. Her blonde hair didn't want to cooperate so Shae just straightened the waves out of it and braided it. She put on a simple white sundress that was embroidered with the colors of the sun and wore white lace stockings with white crochet flats. “So much for dressing up.” Shae muttered looking at herself in the mirror. Shae didn't feel like she had dressed up at all, on a normal day she might wear exactly this minus the stockings. At that point she felt so discouraged she didn't even put on full makeup, just a bit to make it look like she had tried.
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