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1. A wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around! 2. Best start believing in ghost stories. You’re in one. 3. I feel nothing. 4. You’ve seen a ship with black sails that’s crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out? 5. But I have seen a ship with black sails. 6. So this is where your heart truly lies, then? 7. I’m actually feeling rather good about this. 8. I thought I had you figured. Turns out you’re a hard man to predict. 9. A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. 10. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for. 11. So we’re all men of our word, really. 12. Well, you’ve proven they’re mad. 13. That’s not much incentive to fight fair then, is it? 14. In a fair fight, I’d kill you. 15. Put it away. It’s not worth getting beat again. 16. I want you to leave and never come back. 17. I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means ‘no’. 18. Well, I suppose if it is worthless there’s no point in me keeping it. 19. The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules. 20. One good deed is not enough to save a man from a lifetime of wickedness.

His compliment made the right side of her lips twitch, though she wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of having him see her smile because of what he said. It’d been a game between Tirian and Falcon when they were younger seeing who could make her smile first. 

“Then perhapse you should come for dinner and I’ll just scoop it onto your plate like I used to do with my asparagus.” Mave hummed thoughtfully. Though she was a picky eater, Falcon was far pickier than her, and some how both of the twins managed to slip what they hadn’t wanted on to Tirian’s plate, with the exception of the few things Mave slipped to the kitten she kept on her lap during their meals despite the protest of her father.

“How was Falcon supposed to know it’d react that way if you were waving a chicken leg in front of it’s face?” Mave defended Falcon’s youngerself. Then again Falcon always had proven to be the most meschevious out of the three of them. He got them out of trouble just as much as he got them in to it, though his almost docile nature (especially compared to his sister’s temper) was why people generally accepted what he said as truth.

“If you had lost your arm, it would have made playing Pirates a lot more fun.” She admitted. “Then you really would have had a hook for a hand.”

“It’s a date, then. And you may slip whatever you like onto my plate — you always did.” The quip rolled easily from Tirian’s tongue at the memories of eating any food the Blackstone siblings had found distasteful simply to prove that he would, the wimps.

At the further reminders of the Fluffy misadventure, he allowed a slight shrug of his shoulders. “I was curious to see what would happen. God forbid I should ever have a sense of curiosity in need of nurturing.” He had always been fascinated by animals, and Fluffy had been no exception. “It might not have been the smartest move, granted, but it wasn’t my idea to encroach upon Fluffy’s territory in the first place, if you’ll recall.”

The idea of wildly waving about a hook on the end of his arm ushered a laugh from Tirian’s lips. “That’s true. How disappointing.”

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“King? What do you mean King of Narnia? You cannot be King when my husband is King!”

Startled root-beer and foam shaded eyes lifted to meet the stranger’s gaze for but a moment before lowering again. “Thou must be a Northern. Thou shouldst be careful herest in Calormen. Thou mayst fallst into the hand ofst dangerous men. Men who wouldst not hesitate to takest fromst thee thine life… ifst not more.” Chaniya breathed shakily. Her gaze shifting anxiously over her shoulders.

“I amst afraid I can protectest thee naught if mine brothers….. or other Calormen soldiers comest….” she confessed softly. Her fingers coiled upon her own wrists where the  scars of rope burns were etched deeply within her tanned skin. 

“I knew the Calormen were brutes, but not that their cruelty stretched this far — to their own blood.” Tirian lifted his head to meet the girl’s eyes once more. “You need not fear. I will protect you.”