Thread: The Prince's Plight

Is it really beyond you not to sound condescending? Even when your asking another for something? How long will you have me assume that there isn't some form of a decent human being in you? Lox had a very strange set of emotions in the oddity that if his mind could figure out a way to express his feelings to the same effect as his rage, all his previously vicious insults and open hostility would vanish to leave the person he was speaking with even more livid than before. The fact that Lox had no anger in his voice was disturbing enough considered his title as the wild prince as he had heard the guards and handmaids referred to him as. But when he did finally turn to look at her directly there wasn't a hint of yesterday's snarl, the burning hatred in his eyes, or any other hostility that could be noticed. It was as if he had come out of a long and terrible madness only to suddenly resurface with no hint of his previous ailment. I'm not assuming you want to be here Reina, I'm only stating the fact that you keep coming back. I am not mistaken in the fact that you are the kings champion, and that every soldier to include the kings own body guards defer to you by rank. You could have easily ordered them to tell the king you visited me, and I would have no qualms with such an arrangement on top of the fact your men would breath easier knowing we wouldn't be in the same room and close enough to kill each other. Any person could have thought this up to benefit everyone, but why do you keep coming here? An enraging aspect Lox had was his ability to shift his moods and the perception others had of him so deftly that it left most who knew him instantly question either their judgment or his sanity. Both of which put him on a foot ahead of his opposition but why was he engaging her in these mind games that might very well just lead them to killing each other again. Maybe it was his own physical wariness or the humiliation of what his punishment was going to be but if she was expecting to get a hateful insult or a direct assault she would be disappointed today. The fact that he knew their customs made it that much easier to pick their train of thought apart but it disturbed him how someone who had to be at least somewhat intelligent to completely disregard an obviously superior solution to a miserably tedious and very dangerous waiting game until someone else fixed the problem for them. She might just be too much of a coward to displease an ignorant monarch but something about her visits just left him confused and not a little bit frustrated. A knock sounded on the door as the little healer who served as his messenger and servant shuffled in with set of fine cloths and boots and a simple message that he would be attending the ball tonight as a guest of the king before leaving the two quickly seeing the looks they were giving each other. Lox sighed and turned around to the piano once more, picking a few of the keys idly before flipping through the pages of notes and reading a few other songs included. After closing the book and setting it beside him on the bench he turned back and regarded the knight with a curiosity and calm that seemed impossible for him to produce.