Catch-all: Bradley

[ercnerd]

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[ercnerd]

You have a point there.

But it's one thing for a noble to leave his residence. A princess is another story. What happens while they're roaming the countryside?

[battling]

[SHRUGS.]

They get attacked by... monsters?

[Wait how well of is this fictional kingdom?]

Dunno, you start makin' shit up now.

[ercnerd]

Why me? . . . Fine.

[It's better than just sitting around, he supposes.]

A pack of goblins attack the princess and her knight. The knight draws her sword when the princess declares that, as a fellow bandit, she won't be protected anymore and brandishes . . . her claws?

[battling]

[Why not?]

Yeah! Her claws. Then they fight off the monsters and loot their stuff. It ain't great but they can sell it off when they get around to leavin' the country. [wait] Kingdom.

[ercnerd]

What's stopping them from leaving right now?

[battling]

You still gotta travel. Not like they can teleport.

[ercnerd]

That's true.

All right, then. It only makes sense for the royal guard to catch up to them at some point.

[battling]

Are they all cat people?

[Bradley you made this stupid story up.]

[ercnerd]

Isn't the knight technically one of them? It wouldn't make sense for all of them to be cat people when she isn't.

[battling]

[Hmm hmm...]

She was... an orphan from a different country. [again a pause.] Kingdom.

[ercnerd]

Oh, now it's starting to get interesting. Was the feline princess charmed by her knight's unusual features?

[battling]

Yeah, ain't seen anythin' like that before.

[ercnerd]

That settles that.

Back to the royal guard . . . do they bare their claws at the knight or the princess first?

[battling]

The knight. They're usually way more disposable than the princess, y'know? They'd die for their lord or whatever.

[ercnerd]

Hm . . .

What's their impression of the situation, anyway? Do they think the knight has seduced their princess, or is the princess a traitor to her kingdom now?

[battling]

They're still tryin' to get her back. For uh... princessy reasons. [He doesn't know] So let's go with the knight has seduced the princess and they want them to come back. To throw the knight in jail for crimes against the state.

Kingdom?

[ercnerd]

You know, this has been going on for a while now . . . but why are you so slippery with that word?

[battling]

Don't really have it where 'm from. 's just countries.

[ercnerd]

No? Your world really is different.

You've come to the right person, though. The continent I'm from is shared by two powerful kingdoms, so I know all about them.

[battling]

There's just two? We got five counties.

[ curious ]

[ercnerd]

It's just one continent out of the rest of the world, and there are three countries. One just happens to be a nation of elves. There are more places beyond Bermesiah, and many uncharted lands on Aernas besides.

[battling]

Huh. Our place only has the one continent. The ocean goes in forever.

[ercnerd]

It must be a huge continent if it houses five countries.

Week 4: Saturday

[ercnerd]

[After all that, some air sounds nice.

It feels nice, too, as he stands in the outdoor playground—just himself and his emotions, which are a mixture of concern, sadness, and anger with their prominence in that order—with his gaze directed outward. His expression when he turns to receive Bradley's company is the usual smile.]

Was it feeling stuffy for you, too?

[battling]

[He takes a seat on some toy and looks up to the sky.

Frustration, heartbreak, anger are blaring away from him.]

Somethin' like that.