EVENT: SPACE PIRATES ▒ OXYGEN GARDENS

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Oxygen Gardens
WARNINGS: Camping.
SUMMARY: Hanging out in camp, discussing pirates, etc.
NOTES: Open to all!

Camping may not be an expected activity on a spaceship, but the gardens are large and have clear, grassy areas for people to gather together. You can help set up tents, inventory supplies or guard the perimeter — just keep an eye out for any strange faces trying to sneak in...

Comments

closed to lucrezia borgia.

[northerner]

[ even here, among the stars, robb stark has his duty. just like eddard stark had once taken up his sword and left catelyn tully behind, so too shall robb take up ice and leave lucrezia borgia in the safety of the gardens. he comes to her before he leaves, after he has seen to bran and spoken to jon and caught a glimpse of arya between the trees. he comes to her and takes her hands in his own, familiar and intimate. ]

I must go. Security has need of me, Lucrezia.

[mansuetus]

[ Lucrezia knows women who would weep. Women who would send their men away washed with tears and run after them to hold them one last time.

She knows some, she has read of others. She is certain there are those who would think her to be one, too.

But when Robb Stark comes to tell her he must go, and of course he must, for he is King and it requires no explanation her eyes remain dry; the only telling of how she already worries comes in the way her hands tighten against his.

Reluctant to let go, certainly. But she will all the same. ]

These men are nothing short of barbarians.

[ men with no laws and no honor and she worries, for Robb Stark is entirely with honor and these men will always have an advantage.

She bends her head, presses her lips to his hands. ]

Be careful.

[northerner]

[ for all robb has been undecided, has not put a name to this thing between them, the roles they take are telling. robb comes to her as a husband comes to a wife before parting, the way eddard stark must have once come to catelyn tully before leaving to fight a war. robb cups her face in his hands, raises her to look at him, as if he would commit her to his memory.

he does not fear that death waits for him. robb stark has never learned to see battle as anything beyond what he will overcome. ]

You be careful in my absence. I'd not return to find you harmed.

[ though there were many who would protect her, should it come to that. robb was grateful for it. ]

[mansuetus]

[ she smiles, leans her cheek against his right palm. She will make his promise, if only because it means he will have one less worry when he goes out of this safe haven. ]

Utmost careful, my Lord.

[ the title became more of an endearment than an actual title as the time passed, formal and fond at the same time. ]

[northerner]

[ when robb leans in to kiss her, it is as a husband kisses his wife. it is the way lovers parting kiss, even if robb himself knows too little of the matter to realize. he kisses her with a promise of return on his lips, and everyone knows the starks always keep their word. ]

Then I shall see you very soon, my lady.

[ it's impossibly fond. it's a different sort of promise, one robb cannot help but give. ]

[mansuetus]

[ she had thought him to be like cesare, a bit too solemn for his own good, but oddly enough, here and now, she hears the smile in his voice and it makes her laugh, makes his parting easier. ]

Veni, vidi, vici; in my world it means, I came, I saw, I conquered. Then do these and return swiftly and I will be waiting.

[northerner]

It shall all be done as you ask then.

[ for robb stark would conquer whole armies for her, as any king should for his queen. he kisses her again, quickly, like a man claiming a token, and then clicks his tongue for grey wind and falls in with the last of those leaving, bearing her words on his lips. ]