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higuchimon · 7 years

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[fanfic] One’s Proper Place: Chapter 21

Series Title: In Chains||Story Title: One's Proper Place Characters: Shou, Brron Chapters: 21-30||Words: 1,374||Total: 24,325 Genre: Drama, Angst||Rated: PG-13 Challenge: Diversity Writing, J14, multichap with chapters between 1000-2000 words Notes: This is an AU. More will be revealed in time. Summary: Shou's life has taken the worst turn he can imagine, with his home destroyed and himself being trained as a slave. With escape a faint hope and no one around who cares, what chance is there that anything will get better?

Edo wanted to touch the crystal. He knew better than to do such a thing while they were in Brron’s household. Coming from Rune or not – and he trusted that it did; Kenzan’s senses were difficult to deceive – it could still be a trap of some kind.

He barely had to look before Saiou stepped up there, his violet eyes hinting at a mystic glow as he examined the crystal for himself. Edo waited, not quite certain what kind of result he wanted to get.

“It’s not trapped and it seems immune to the scrying and warding spells Brron has around here. More to the point, I don’t think that he can tell it even exists,” Saiou reported. “I do believe Rune wants to talk to us.”

Edo’s lips twitched at that before he settled down, gesturing for the others to do the same. Another thought occurred as he did. “Brron can’t tell that this is being used. Could he see something about what we’re doing right now?”

“Even if he could, I think now is the perfect time to take that risk,” Saiou replied. “You saw as well as I did how he ‘celebrated’ tonight. Even if he has someone else watching, I feel certain the crystal’s enchantments will make certain they see nothing untoward.”

Edo hoped Saiou was right about this. If anyone other than Brron tried to make some sort of ‘report’ on them anyway, then he could simply tell them that Rune sent a gift and it would’ve been quite rude to turn it down.

He reached out and set his hand on the crystal, a perfect sphere with a clarity he’d seldom seen before. That kind of clarity was what made enchanting it not only difficult but possible in the first place. Crystals with flaws in them couldn’t always take the stronger communication spells for long periods of time. But something like this? It could last for years.

No sooner had he touched it than a puff of rich blue clouds appeared in it and then cleared away to reveal Rune looking up at them. He tilted his head to the side.

“Hello.”

Edo didn’t bother with continuing the greetings. He had too much already on his mind.

“Have you heard from Johan? Aside from the announcement, of course.”

Rune chuckled for a moment, though Edo didn’t think it was a very amused sound. “Just this morning. He told me the announcement would probably show up today.”

“Anything else?” He knew what was supposed to happen; what they'd planned for. But if something else had turned up to disrupt those plans, he wanted to know about it.

“Nothing yet. Everything’s going as planned.” Rune leaned back on something, probably his couch. The crystal only showed him, though. “Which worries me.”

As well it should. Plans that didn’t have any hitches in them tended to mean that something was going to blow up sooner or later. The only question there would be if it could be in their favor or not. Edo refused to think it would be. Planning for the worst got more accomplished.

“Is there anything else going on here that we should know about?” Edo probed. Saiou and Kenzan made a very good information gathering pair, but with the way Brron not only warded everything in sight but made certain his servants didn’t get close enough to visitors so they could learn anything, not all the information they needed was where they could get to it.

Before Rune could answer, Ryou leaned forward, intensity in his eyes.

“How did Shou get here?”

Edo didn’t find himself surprised at all at the question. He probably should’ve asked it himself.

“The western slave traders. They’d been trying to break him and weren’t having any real luck with it, so when Brron showed up and liked the idea of someone he could torture for himself?” Rune shrugged. “They practically gave him to Brron, since he was ‘trouble’.”

Ryou’s lips curved for a quick moment before he assumed his normal neutral expression. “I should’ve expected that.”

“He’s Brron’s body servant,” Rune continued, confirming Edo’s own speculation. “He’s probably going to stay that way for a while, unless Brron loses his temper at him more than he has already. Or until we’re done here.”

Ryou betrayed nothing of any emotions by so much as the twitch of an eyelash.

“Tell me what he’s done to him.”

Edo listened with as much interest and intensity as Ryou did as Rune detailed out what Shou’s life had been like here: an endless series of chores and services, beatings when he failed to come up to the proper standard, being locked in Brron’s personal quarters every night in a room that could’ve generously be called a repurposed linen closet.

When he reached the end, Ryou said only four words.

“He’s mine to kill.”

No one chose to argue the point.

He’d wanted so much to at least try to slide a message or meet his brother’s eyes at dinner. Just to do something.

Brron might not have even noticed this one time, not with how he’d kept throwing wine down his throat as if it were nothing more than water. He couldn’t have had a conversation with Ryou, but he could’ve done something and that was better than not doing anything.

I don’t have anything to write a message on, he reminded himself, trying to make himself feel better anyway. And that could’ve caused a lot more trouble anyway.

Shou hated so much about how his life revolved around making certain he didn’t get Brron too angry. He hated being beaten or punished, and that meant he had to make certain he didn’t do something that would spark one of those. Which led to being obedient, whether he liked it or not.

He’d noticed something about himself in the last few weeks, and it wasn’t something that he liked. When he’d first come there, he’d done what Brron demanded of him because he had no other choice. He still had no choice, but every now and then, he could feel himself doing what he was told because he’d been told to do it.

Because he was Brron’s slave and had to do what he was told.

Shou shook his head as hard as he could, hearing his hair brush against the cold stone of the walls around him. Brron snored loudly not that far away, the sound coming through as clear as if the door remained open. He paused for a few moments, listening for any indication that Brron would wake up.

I could kill him. The thought slipped neatly into his mind and he could see no reason for him not to do it. Part of him wanted to hold back; he wasn’t the type of person to kill someone else, no matter what.

But would killing Brron be murder or justice, given what he knew Brron did to him and to other people, for no other reason than the fact they existed?

Imp wasn’t around. Imp would show up at first light to wake him up and get him started on his daily duties. He had only himself to consider for this.

I could kill him, but with what? He didn’t have any weapons and he didn’t know how to use any, and he didn’t think smothering Brron with a pillow would work out.

He had no weapons. But Brron did. He’d seen a vast rack of weapons in one of the other rooms, one of the few he wasn’t allowed inside of, because of those weapons. One of them was a knife, sharp-edged and polished.

Shou slowly got to his feet. The idea of killing someone who couldn’t fight back, too deep asleep and too drunk to wake up, hadn’t ever occurred to him before. But he’d never been in this situation before, either.

He slipped out of the room and to the weapons room, bare feet making no sound on the stone floor. The knife was right where he remembered it, and sharp as death itself.

Then, taking each step as if it might be his last, Shou entered Brron’s bedchamber and made his way to where his so-called master snored.

To Be Continued

Notes: I wouldn't call it 'murder', Shou. More like self-defense given what Brron's like. But you are the type of person who avoided fighting even to defend yourself in Dark World in canon, so you do not see it as I do.

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leifedling · 2 years

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what would the candlemass guys be like as flavours of tea ?? 🥺

This is a very interesting question. I love tea! (yes, this is based in the tea varieties/flavours I've tried and can find in my third world country😅)

𝕮𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖘 𝖆𝖘 𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖘

Leif Edling: Black Ceylan tea, with a deep touch of strawberry, apricot, pineapple and papaya to make it really fruity. Strong and nice flavour, really enjoyable and aromatic.

Mappe Björkman: Also a black tea, I'm thinking of a strong and robust variety like English Breakfast or more like a Chelsea Breakfast which is a really strong and velvety flavour.

Johan Längqvist: Definitely a white tea, Silver Needle fits him well as it's delicate, refreshing, with a really subtle floral smell and a white grapes kind of taste.

Lars Johansson: Light vegetal flavour, smooth, a little bit of spicy taste. He's a Green Tea. I can't decide if Jasmine or Chamomile green tea, but something with a floral touch.

Jan Lindh: He's medium roast Oolong tea. You know... the strong and different taste, the more thick consistency, not too aromatic. It screams drummer.

Bonus:

Messiah Marcolin: Caramel flavoured black tea. Why? it has some of a strong taste, but it's also sweet and very aromatic. Pretty much Messiah.

Thomas Vikström: Pu-erh tea as he's definitely not everyone's cup of tea but slowly grows on you

Mats Levén: Chai latte tea. Somewhat spicy and also a kind of strong taste. Very random.

I wish I could draw, I’d be drawing this assorted tea box like NOW 😭

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