#riensin

You Find Your Family in Your Tent

House Monitor Libkazaari had not been all that interested in punishing any of them, and had made sure they reached their next class in plenty of time.  Discussions of the Bitrani possible-rebellion during their classes and some whispers of trouble in the upper echelons of the royal family managed to push the issue of Instructor Tiemaktamiek from their minds by…

To be an enemy, you must be an actual threat 

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“I still think that you have absolutely no sense of self-preservation.”

Riensin had been going on about the same thing since left the princess behind.

“Do you think I could paint her?  Do you think she’d say yes if I asked nicely enough?  Sketches, I did a couple sketches-”

Kekla hadn’t eaten more than three bites of her lunch.  She’d been too busy…

Is the enemy who will not attack truly an enemy?

“You know…” Taikie turned around slowly, looking at their little room.  “This place could be set up quite nicely with food. A lot of the stuff we can grab from the meal hall stores quite wand we could set up a little tea engine here – a proper tea engine,” she added hurriedly.  “And then we could just hide out here and study and eat our meals…

Demand and Supply

“But why does it always work?” Tairiekie was, as always when the topic came up, plaintive. “I mean, we’re in a school.” And a little bit stuck on the subject. “Somewhere, someone has to be interested in all of the amazing things that can be done with engineering!”

“Akaizen House?” Saydrie tried.  They’d gotten her off the topic once during breakfast, but then Riensin had gotten…

“And then what happened?”

Kietsap was – well, not exactly jealous, more like irritated. Riensin knew why, although he didn’t know if his twin understood it.  

“Well, then we talked to The Emperor’s Voice and Eyes, Elalekorra, and then Lirnilalie walked in.  It turns out she’s a Princess. Or she was, I suppose, since they took away the beginning of her name.”  He shook his head. “She is rather…

Love Meme: Riensin and Tairiekie

The meme is here: Give me the names of two characters and I will tell you why character A loves character B.  Here is clare_dragonfly‘s second prompt: Riensin and Tairiekie. Riensin knew he was handsome. He didn’t take it as any particular virtue of his — he had the same face as his twin, and they had almost the same face as their uncle, the one their mother called “that no-good useless liar…

“I’ve got the ear of the Emperor, you’re right here,” Lirnilalie pointed out.  “So listen.  To me, an Imperial Princess–“ Somewhere behind her, Riensin cleared his throat. Elelakorra chuckled.  “Lyirnilalie, I think the entire point is that you have repudiated your title and it has repudiated you.  By that standard, this first-year student has far more standing than you do, as she is still an…

Chapter 54a: The Voice Laughs

Enrie held her breath.  There was nothing else she could do; protesting that she wasn’t a liar wasn’t going to do anything but make her look more guilty.  Looking at Libkazaari wasn’t going to do anything but say she didn’t know what was going on — which she didn’t, of course, but nobody else needed to know that — while probably making her House Monitor feel bad, or get angry, neither of which…