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[charmprince]

Auntie's store was just right over-- Huh? [Hear that? That's the pipingest voice that ever piped.]

Cool!

I've never been here before! But I didn't ride a realmship or anythin'. An' this isn't Shrike! Maybe I'm near the Tombs. [GASSSSSSSSP.] Maybe I'll get t'meet a GHOST. Or King Sei! Or-- or--

This is so cool!But Auntie's gonna get mad. "'

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[thenobledie]

And what interest would a girl have to a ghost?

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[thenobledie]

And to be boring would be an awful fate.

[ she...would know. ]

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[charmprince]

I don't never wanna be borin'. I wanna be a hero. The brave Lady Asellus. I wish Shrike still had a King. I could pr'tect him!

An' then they'd tell stories about me.

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[thenobledie]

Perhaps they can tell stories of of the brave King Asellus, instead.

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[charmprince]

[Dubious.] But then I'd haveta be a princess or somethin', wouldn't I? I don't wanna be a princess.

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[thenobledie]

There are many ways to become king.

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[charmprince]

....Like how?

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[thenobledie]

One may be given a crown, and one may take a crown.

[ teaching children bloody politics. gj, shirley. ]

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[charmprince]

...But there isn't no crown. An'...

Isn't takin' it from someone wrong? Dis... dis..

Dishonorable! That's the word.

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[thenobledie]

What if the owner is cruel to his people?

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[charmprince]

W-Well... then... [She's six, Shirley. Why moral lessoning?]

Then he doesn't d'serve it, does he?

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[thenobledie]

[ it just happened! ]

Indeed.