Flashback: All for the Children || Beatrix & Rye
@snow-queen-bea
If Rye’d had to guess how he would learn about an orphanage opening in Nightshade Row, he wouldn’t have picked Finn to be the one to tell him.
It wasn’t even intentional, Rye was certain. Finn was excited about a casino opening, and offhandedly mentioned that the person opening it was also opening an orphanage. After asking around the Row, and a few servants around the manor who spent time there when they had free days, Rye learned that someone was indeed opening and orphanage, and actively looking for a benefactor to do so.
“Money talks,” his brother had told him once. “But money of a nobleman’s family speaks a different language. Be certain you know what you want to say when you go throwing our name and money about.”
Rye didn’t want the money to say anything. Not now. While Rye was certain his brother wouldn’t mind their names attached to such an altruistic endeavor as an orphanage, Seraphina would, and Rye didn’t want to risk the cruel woman coming in and threatening to tear it down, or worse. The glamour Rye chose gave more than that singular benefit, though. He also appeared some hundred years or so older. No matter his name or title, Rye was conscious of too many people treating him as the sapling that he still technically was. He was fully of the belief, and had expressed it to Robin, that once they’d started training as knights, they should be exempt from being treated as children. Unfortunately, few others seemed to agree.
The directions he was given by a bartender in the Row led Rye to a nondescript looking building. It seemed too small to be the future orphanage or a casino, but then, looks could be deceiving. Every glamoured noble family’s manor that looked far grander than it actually was could attest to that. A fae hanging around outside caught his attention, and Rye nodded towards the building.
“I’m looking for Beatrix Snow. You know if I can find her here?”