Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-31049256-20170919032125/@comment-28358106-20171012134905

(Scorn/S9) "I-I didn't want for you to leave!" Aurum blurts out suddenly, her voice quavering. "It's n-not that I didn't want to hear about your Covenant! I just..."

Her mouth opens and closes several times as she struggles to put into words what she means. Finally, she continues, her speech hesitant. "I a-always just thought that...I mean, I always read that..." She pauses again, then begins using her hands for emphasis. "...In the books, i-it always seemed so romantic, so m-mysterious. She always wrote about shadows in the great castle corridors, the great tapestries that seemed to m-move in the darkness.  The flowing, sanguine curtains that moved like ghosts, lovers meeting in the grand marble hallways, the shafts of moonlight on their entwined bodies!  The intrigue, the danger that was always in the darkness, the wicked matriarch who fell in love with the brave knight that came to kill her!  The grand balls, the costumes, the...the..."

She suddenly realizes that her voice had been getting louder and louder. She places her hands in her lap amd closes her mouth, looking down in embarrassment.

-Snrrrrk- "Heh.  Shaft.  Balls." Aegis trots by to her seat.