Fablehaven Trash

Ronodin & Bracken

“Truth or Dare?” The Question can put of nowhere and caused Bracken to look over at the young shadow charmer chained next to him. “ We’re in a dungeon. ” He replied slightly confused as to what possessed his friend to start this game now. “ Yes, very observant of you. That still doesn’t change my question, Truth or Dare. ” Seth pushed again. Bracken sighed knowing he wouldn’t stop until he got his way and he was in no mood to deal with Lawyer Seth. “Truth.” He replied not even sure what date you could do with you wrists chained to a wall. Though knowing Seth, he’d find a way. “ What are your intentions with my sister. ” “Dare.” Bracken immediately replied, willing to do anything else than have this conversation with Seth. “I dare you to tell me what your intentions with my sister are.” Seth shot back with a massive eye roll. “ you want to talk about this now? ” “ Yeah because now you can’t run away as you’ve been not so subtly doing every time I mention it. Besides what else are we supposed to talk about? ” “Oh I don’t know, escape plans? ” Bracken replied sarcastically, desperately trying to get out of having this conversation. He loved Seth, he was like the little brother he never had but that didn’t make any of it any less awkward. “Just answer the question.” Seth said with yet another eye roll. “ I don’t know what to say Seth. Kendra is amazing, I love her with all of my heart and I can’t imagine life without her. ” “That’s super sappy.” Now it was Bracken’s turn to roll his eyes at the reply. “ Now I do believe it’s my turn, Truth or Dare? ” “Oh so now you want to play? You didn’t seem so eager two minutes ago.” “ Just answer the question. ” Bracken mocked earning a chuckle from the Shadow charmer. “ Dare. ” “ I dare you to tell me why your so invested in your sisters love life. ” Bracken replied turning the boys own trick against him. Seth sighed heavily and looked away, the chains jingling  as he attempted to run his hand through his hair out of habit. “I just, really don’t want Kendra to get hurt.” He replied after several minutes of silence,  " She’s been hurt before and it took her a really long time to trust people again, to open up and talk to people. “ I guess I just want to make sure you know this isn’t a game. Kendra loves you and I don’t want anyone to play with her heart. I don’t want anyone to take advantage of that again. ” “ Seth, I will never ever take advantage of Kendra. She means the world to me, she is my world. And yeah I know sappy but it’s true. I promise you the very last thing in the entire world that I want to do is hurt Kendra. ” Bracken perfectly understood where Seth was coming from, having been there himself on several occasions, but he couldn’t find a way to make sure Seth believed him anymore that he had when he first head similar words. “ I hope for your sake that’s true, because I promise you if you ever hurt her I will make Zzyzx look like the best place on earth. ” “ I believe you, but you won’t have to” Bracken told him and he could help the shiver that shook him at the boys words, the temperature in the room seeming to drop as he made the threat. “I hope not. Now Truth or Dare?” Seth asked again returning to his usual lighthearted and mischievous tone. “ You know what Seth, Dare. Just because I’m curious. ” “ I dare you to make a high pitched scream and act like your scared of a spider. ” “What? Why?” Bracken questioned wondering where the idea had even come from. “ I want to see what the guards do. ” Seth replied with a shrug as if it was the most logical answer in the world.  Yeah this was going to be interesting .

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Seth, nodding: Knife Monopoly.

// for @ronodin-is-hot

-Bracken is the youngest, and Mizelle is the second oldest.

-Marla and Scott were crazy invested in the magical world after discovering it. As in, CRAZY, crazy. You’re going to Wyrmroost? Have fun! Dragons? Cool. Demons? Awesome! Both our children are going on a mission with a high chance of death? I’ll pack doggy bags (complete with sandwiches and pop tops!)

-Unicorns age like humans until about 21, when they get their third horn, and even then only look about 15, slowly aging both physically and mentally, so by the time Bracken meets Kendra he is literally 17-ish in everything but official age.

Ronodin: *refers to Bracken as Kendra’s boyfriend almost constantly*

Ronodin: it’s me

Tanu: Is everybody here?

Vanessa: Warren’s grabbing something from the kitchen. He’ll be here soon.

Dale: What’s the game tonight?

Kendra: Apples to Apples!

Bracken: I haven’t played before. Can you explain the rules to me?

Seth: You want green cards, and you play red cards to get the green ones.

Bracken: Okay…

Kendra: The red cards are nouns, the green cards are adjectives. We each take turns playing a green card down on the table. The player who puts a green card down acts as the judge for that round. Everyone else puts red cards in the middle; nouns to match the adjective. Then the judge reads off the nouns and decides who wins.

Dale: That sounds simple enough.

Tanu: It’s not difficult. You’ll catch on quickly. Bracken, too.

Warren: *carrying a tray of mugs, passes them out to everyone* What’d I miss?

Seth: Mmm. Hot cocoa.

Tanu: We’re playing Apples to Apples. You’ve played before?

Warren: *rubs his hands together* Yeah. Got it. Love this game. You’re all going down.

Vanessa: How about you start, Tanu? And then we’ll go clockwise around the table?

Tanu: Sure thing. You deal the red cards?

Vanessa: On it. *Vanessa deals 5 red cards to each person at the table* First person to four green cards wins? Since we’re a large group?

Kendra: Sounds good to me.

Like. Kendra is a smart, badass, powerful young woman who is traumatized and anxious and carrying the weight of the world on her back when all she really wants is to keep her people safe, but because she's lawful and responsible and good she takes on all those burdens anyway- and oops, this was supposed to be about brackendra not a Kendra Marie Sorenson appreciation post my bad. Anyway