#griffinacixd

[flaminggildedrose]

@griffin-acixd liked for a starter ~ 

       🌹 If it hadn’t been for the bumpy boat ride down the Mystic river and the steep march into the great mountains Maria’s brain would have been fog. For the most part it was fog with everything shew as trying to recount. She’d always seen so much blood, people beaten and left mangled by beasts or by the hands of other men. 

            The blood of a King however. It was almost taboo to her. They were to be those of the gods, children cast down to aid people as a vessel. Maria knew better then to think Foltest more then just a simple man but at the same time with all the victory and good. All this pain and sorrow while leaving Temeria’s now shrinking boarders felt ......hollow. 

            She’d tried so hard to keep from being sick but at least on the boat people didn’t think twice. The march however was harder to hide. Several times she had to stop and throw up on the side of the road. Luckily many took pity for she was a women and had been through so much in the coming days. 

             As the made camp that night Siegfried offered to stay with her after her tent was pitched. Honestly all she wanted to do was hold her brother close in fear fate would take him too but she only wished to retire. That and as the commander Siegfried had an important job to lead the Flaming Rose. 

             Still, for a little bit she sat around the now bright campfire with meal plate in hand as her fellow comrades laughed and talked. All the sorceress could do is look at her meal moving it around on her plate. She felt so alone.  🌹

[flaminggildedrose]

Closed starter for @griffin-acixd

         🌹 She had seen a lot of things in her life, from simple monster-slaying to great battlefronts for The Order. The one thing that she would never get used to was how men always had to be worth their salt. All they were doing was taking to their normal march, taking back to town was all they needed but instead of keeping corse the honey-haired maiden had to watch as a few of them took to an extra task on the road. 

             They had no orders to handle outside disturbances beyond the cities walls but there they were bothering the hooded figure. Maria pushed her way to the back of the assembly only to hear her fellow company men yelling and screaming. 

             “Come on you two-bit freak! It’s about time The Order shows you just where you're placed in the ladder of power. Can’t keep your nose down you’d have just slipped on by.” 

               “Hey!” Maria called trying to be louder than the men around her, “Hey we need to keep marching. There’s no time for this, let the man be.” 

              The group seemed to sneer and turn their noses up at her too,” Of coarse, you’d stick up for a Witcher. We should trial you for treason after we give him an ass-kicking. ”  🌹

[flaminggildedrose]

 💍 (Adern uwu)

Send me ‘💍’ for our muses to wake up married after a night of heavy drinking

       🌹 The knight knew that it would be bad to drink as hard as she had but the music and the need to push herself always got the best of her. She wasn’t in any danger given seeing to her right as she sat up in bed was the over-familiar Witcher. 

          Knowing that she should really make herself decent first she couldn’t control herself and reached out to push back some of his long tresses that had fallen into his face as he slept. Then and only then upon pushing back the strands did she see the ring, confusion filled her. Why was she wearing such a thing when she hadn’t wore any other jewelry but her necklace that night. 

          She felt stupid on how long it took her and finally as it hit her a slow uneasy noise escaped her as she dragged out the others name. All the while not taking her eyes off her hand, like it was some foreign object itself like the ring. 🌹

[flaminggildedrose]

Closed starter for @griffin-acixd

       🌹 She wasn’t a stranger to the act of keeping a secret, getting letters every so often, however, was new. Sure there were times she got missions via post boy but when she got the first letter there a pause to respond.   

            Maria took a few hours before finding a polite way to respond and thus started their communications. Though it was strange still for how did it ever find the right place to go when she got worried she sent one by dove just to make sure.  

            Now, now they made meetings of it always making notes at the next place they would be, it didn’t mean they didn’t miss one another by a few days when passing through. Accidents happened after all. This time she waited within the gates. Here nobody questioned her post and if she were to wander away they would think she was taking to another spot on command. 

              She had killed monsters far bigger than herself but waiting for one man made the butterflies in her stomach flutter wildly. It was the thrill for sure but she told herself that all secrets had their day in the light eventually. For now, she just had to enjoy this game.  🌹

[upperaedirn]

@griffin-acixd || continued from here

“You misunderstood me, witcher,” Saskia commented with an amused chuckle. “There is no dragon to be slain here, least of all for a contract.” 

She took a swig out of her own drink, watching him carefully over the rim of her mug, dark blue eyes narrowing with unconcealed interest. That was a lie, of course. There was a dragon sitting right in front of him and among the people in this crowded tavern, none the wiser to Saskia’s true nature.

“I was simply wondering,” she clarified, idly swinging the non-descript ale with a circular motion of her wrist. “Where do you draw the line? When does a creature become too dangerous or too intelligent to be killed for coin?”