#warscorned

[ofdynasts]

Closed starter for @warscorned​

While Renaud considered himself a man of many talents, he was humble enough to admit that he wasn't infallible and perfectionist enough to grow irritated when he didn't have an answer that he thought he should possess. The guard should have been nothing more than a brief acknowledgement, someone that Renaud saw and then allowed his eyes to flick past, but something about this man bothered him. The plague had stopped royal travel for years, so why did this one man stick out to him so?

"Have you ever been to France?" It was said congenially enough, the sort of idle question that might come before an invitation after their current engagement ended, but Renaud's interest was hardly polite. If the man said no, then perhaps Renaud would need to send a spy after him to figure out exactly who he was and why something niggled at the mind.

[royalrites]

adrien / @warscorned​:

With the visiting royals came a whole host of other people - their servants, the staff, and more importantly, the guards. While Dante wasn't going to call himself overly paranoid, he did want to know the people closest to his guests if only so he could ask later what his own guards thought of them.

"You are with the Austrians, yes?" He thought that he'd seen the man with one of the princesses earlier, but it was so hard to be certain and besides - sometimes it did well not to show everything that you knew. "I hope everything has been agreeable, both to the family and to those of you guarding them." Wouldn't want his guests thinking he wasn't concerned with their safety, after all.

[royalrites]

adrien / @warscorned​

Dappled sunlight falling across her features, Ariana was enjoying Switzerland's weather as she wandered along the paths of one of the castle gardens. For so long, being safe meant trying to stay inside away from contagion and being outside in pleasant weather still felt like a luxury, the sun falling down on her in full beams instead of a shaft from a window.

She shouldn't have been surprised when she wandered across someone else enjoying the weather, but she was. Not a royal, but a guard without anyone to guard, it seemed. "Oh." She was hardly worried - she had her own guard with her, of course, and no reason to suspect that the stranger had tried to meet her alone. "My apologies. Did I interrupt a private practice session?"