Missing... Found.... Truth (Roland)

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane decided to take a walk around the guild district that day. He honestly didn't know what do now that it was spring, Kail had said that he would help him out if needed, but he didn't want to be dependent on him. He looked at the different trade guilds that he passed by wondering maybe he should take up a skill, maybe tailoring and make his own clothes. It wasn't like it would be anything new, some of the noble girls did know how to sew and mend.


Soon he passed by one of the schools and smiled, maybe he should become a teacher. He did know how to read and write maybe he could teach some of the other noble children but if he did that his mother and his would have been husband would find out where he was. He didn't want that to happen, sighing not sure what he really wanted to do now with his life.


Tucking his dress under him, as he took a seat. He longed for his old life back but knew if he ever returned to it he would have to be someone else wife. He didn't think he was ready to return to that life either not just yet. A few tears fell from his eyes, much still hadn't changed since he ran away.


"Saden, please shower me with wisdom and knowledge on what I am to do with my life now. Fate please guide me to show me what my destiny is now." He spoke as he looked at the sky's wondering if he Gods would hear his plea as a few tears rolled down his cheek.


If he wasn't too busy, watching the sky's for an answer from the Gods, he would had the whispers of the rumors of the noble woman who was kidnapped from her wedding, along with the one that spoke of her having been tricked by a mage into running away from her wedding. If he was paying attention he would have noticed the looked people who has seen him in the castle giving him, saying that he was the noble woman the guards were looking for.

[Roland]

"Asking Fate for advice, you must really be a desperate one." Calls the voice of a pale man as he walks over to Zane a staff in hand. The man looked severe to say the least and many of the people around him seemed to edge away slightly. In short he was intimidating.

Zane who had lived as a noble for quite a while would probably recognize Roland captain of the royal guard. Though what he'd hear of Roland would depend on the company he kept.

As the mage step towards Zane he adjust his hat down to further conceal his eyes. He was wearing middling quality black wool pants and shirt with a long coat made of leather. The coat had been cut into strips below the upper thigh which caused it to billow and spread in an odd fashion. As he gets closer to Zane he asks "What is your name girl?" In a tone that would broach no argument or question.

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane looked up that the person who said he had to be pretty desperate if he was asking Fate for advice. He wasn't going to deny that he wasn't desperate for advice, but he also hoped that Fate would answer showing him the right path. Taking a close look at the man she saw that it was Roland Captain of the royal guards.


Looking around for a way to get away from him. Any escape that he could think of seem like it would be blocked by more guards who might be hidden somewhere. His eyes quickly looked at Roland again, wishing that he has just passed him by and not ask him what his name was. "I'm...Yuki." She didn't give his last name hoping that praying that Fate was with him and didn't make him ask for her last name.


"I don't need your name. I know who you are." He said, as his eyes shifted around again trying see if any other guards were nearby, maybe wanting to bring him in if he run. No, he didn't think that his mother or his would have been husband to be have filed a report about him being missing. Then again he wouldn't put it past them to, slowly moving down the bench putting as much distance between Roland and himself.

[Roland]

Roland looks at the girl in front of him and bends down slightly with suspicion in his eyes. "Listen, I don't know what you did wrong, but at this point it'll be easiest if you just fess up." He states with exasperation, he'd never seen someone act so clearly guilty in his entire time as a guard. He lets out a sigh and shakes his head.

As he looks closer he realizes I've seen this person before. He realizes as he tries to place the face.

"Yuki?" he repeats as she introduces herself and he tries to use the name to remind himself of who she is. "Can you give me your last name?" He asks trying to figure it out. This is going to bug me. He thinks to himself, but as he does the air of menace seems to grow as he gets more annoyed, thought it was not at anyone in particular.

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane looked around more, moving back as much as she could from the bench, his back hitting against it, not being able to go anymore. He almost wanted to slap Roland saying that she did something wrong, as far she was concern she did nothing wrong. Running away from one's wedding was a crime. neither was going to live a strange man and two other women and last she checked trying to find a job wasn't a crime. She just didn't want him to take her back home to that woman or even that man. "I have done nothing wrong. I am just uncomfortable around you and other guards."


"Yes, Yuki." He said as he stilled looked around. Surely if Roland started to drag him off someone would try and stop him. Hearing him ask for his last night, he almost wanted to disappear right then and there. Surely he would be dragged home now, even if he came up with another name they all were noble names, hell he didn't even know Kail last name.


"D'Avranches" He whispered his tone saying that he was scared but also hesitant.

[Roland]

Roland stares at the girl for a but, but as she finally gives him a last name everything clicks. He suddenly crouches down and looks her straight in the eyes as if searching for something. Additionally he places a hand on Yuki's shoulder and he would be able to feel a tingle run through his body.

"Well someone got the story wrong." He grunts as he stands back up and looks down at Yuki with a deep frown. "Aren't you supposed to have been kidnapped and brain washed? You're totally fine, and there's not a hint of mind magic about you." He declares as he looks around and notices they are drawing some attention.

"Alright, why don't we move this to another place, I'll figure out what to do after you explain why the hell you suddenly disappeared. I'm getting flooded with requests to look for you and there's no end to the rumors in the castle about what happened." He grumbles as he begins to look around.

"Lets go there." He says as he points a finger towards a nearby tavern where they could get some food.

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane was taken back to say the least as Roland crouched down to his eye level, almost was if he was seeing into her soul. Feeling his hands on her shoulder, just made the idea of it even more so as she felt the tingle running through her body almost as if he searching for something but couldn't seem to find.

Blinking her eyes a few time she wondered what he meant by someone getting the story wrong. She didn't need to talk as he told her that she was to be brainwashed and kidnapped. "Kidnap? Brainwash?" She said the words wonder who was the one who said those things. It was far from the truth, she wasn't kidnapped, she just ran away from home, as for being brainwash she didn't even know how that plays into it.

Hearing he wanted to move to another place, panic set into him again. He was scared that he wanted to take him back to the castle. He didn't want to go back there, seeing him point to the tavern the fear and panic subside a little. At least for the time being he wouldn't be heading back to the castle. Nodding his head, he stood up dusting off his dress, before taking the short walk to the tavern.

Since the night at the Gallow's Inn he hadn't entered a tavern, this one was fairly large than the Gallow's but it didn't seem quite as busy. Maybe it was because of the time of day but whatever it was it just made the panic come to the surface again. If Roland was to drag her off then fewer eyes to see it the fewer people he would have to pay off.

Finding a seat close enough to the door in case he decided to just run away again. "You got request to look for me? Who request it was it my mother or my would have been husband?" Finding a seat close enough to the door in case he decided to just run away again. "You got request to look for me? Who request it was it my mother or my would have been husband?" If his mother had filed a request to find him, then surely she just wanted to drag him home. Based a little on what Roland said earlier about being kidnapped and brainwash she was sure that's what her mother would have told anyone who would listen. "Also what rumors, where I have been living I heard no rumors about myself or anything that might be related to me." He wasn't going to beg yet unless Roland mention something about return to the castle, after all a noble women doesn't beg she command and right now unless she had to she wasn't going to beg that he pretend he didn't see her or even found her.

[Roland]

Roland finds himself irritated at how jumpy and nervous the girl was as he talks to her, her actions alerted all of his senses that she was guilty of something, but it could very well just be running away, it was irritating. "Listen, I just want to make one thing clear, don't try to run off during the conversation and relax. You've got to understand, that if I want to take you in you're caught, I have the legal power to do it and no one here is going to stop me, so accept you're in a situation that being scarred in doesn't help and move on." He growls, in a very unsootheing way.

As he tromps over to the inn and sits down he waits impatiently for Yuki to follow him. When she does get there he gets a glass of water and stares hard at her, as if trying to drill a hole through her forehead.

"Alright, I hardly think you are in a position to be demanding answers of me, but I will let that slide for now. So what happened to you? Why are you standing out in the street mystified? And why do your mother and fiance thing you've been kidnapped? If this is because you absconded with some guy and your mother is bothering me with this petty crap I swear none of the three of you will be able to take a piss without a guard watching you." He declares, steadily stoking his anger as he talks.

He was not in a good mood and being lied to and sent to fix a family squabble was only worsening it. Roland's food tapped against the ground many times in rapid succession. "WELL?!"

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane did his best to calm down. He knew that everything Roland said was true, if he wanted to he could drag him back home kicking and screaming and no one would do anything to stop him. Placing a hand over his heart he took a moment to calm his racing heart.


What happen to him did Roland really not know. Who wants to marry a man who was older than them enough to be they father? Yes running away was wrong but he tried to put it off for two years. Looking down at his hands he started to wonder if his mother was really worried about him or if she was more worried about the rise in status she wouldn't be getting with him having run off.


He looked up hearing Roland say that he wouldn't be able to pee without a guard watching him. Honestly, he didn't have to use that type of language around a lady. He was about to correct him when he jumped at the voice and anger of his voice. "What happened to me? I just ran away on my wedding day. I'm sorry, but I didn't want to marry that man. I am sorry I didn't want to marry a man that was 20 years older than me. I did wish I had elope, but they're no guy in my life that I wish to run off with."


"Is is too wrong to not want to marry him. I put it off for two years... is it wrong that I don't want to marry who my mother choose for me." Looking at Roland as he let his hair fall infront of his eyes. He didn't expect Roland to understand after all his life was spent serving as a royal guard, he wasn't even sure if Roland even looked at someone with romantice intrest surely his sword and hand was the only thing he needed in his life to feel love of another person. "Is it truly wrong to want to feel loved and not like a prize on someone's arm." 

[Roland]

Good it seems like the brat's calming down. I swear, first Aveline, not this, why am I getting involved in the misfortunate love lives of a bunch of kids? he grouses to himself as he gets some food and begins to eat it in a poorly mannered fashion.

"The hell..." He grumbles a bit as she finishes her story and then he looks her in the eyes and sighs. "Relax kid, I am not going to be forcing you to go back. There is no law against moving out of your house. This sounds like a family political squabble to me." He grunts and wipes his hand on a mildly clean napkin.

"Maybe you never got any schooling in law, or maybe your Mom just lied to you, but you haven't broken the law by leaving home." He tells her though he lets out a sigh of frustration as he does. "Though I wish you had left something behind to let us know that so I would not have had to bother investing resources into trying to find you." He complains as he drinks down a mug of mostly clean water.

"I will say, if you are trying to lie low, you're awful at it." He says an then points at her hair. "You're too clean, and put together to be hanging around third district, and you at the very least should have a fake name that you can say without stuttering." He says in irritation, it was ironic, but Roland found himself bothered by how sloppy the cover had been. "If you want my advice, pretend to be a boy."

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane didn't know how happy he was to hear that Roland wasn't going to drag him home. He didn't think of it as moving out of his house. He still wanted to live there he just didn't want to marry that man. Looking at Roland she almost wondered where he got his eating habits from because for someone who have attended royal dinners he ate like a pig.


"Mother always said that a young lady shouldn't do any schooling about law. That we were to learn to be housewives and learn to entertain guest." It was true even though he did show an interest in learning law he never did get any proper schooling in it. As for leaving a note it was a last minute decision how was he to have time to leave a note.


"Pretend to be a boy?" He didn't know if he could pretend to be a boy. "It's not my fault I'm too clean. I was rasied in that kinda of life after all. But how am I to pretend to be a boy." Coming up with a new name would be easy he could always go by his brother's name maybe he could ask Kail once he got home if he could use his last name. Taking a lock of his hair into his hands, as he looked at Roland. "Would I have to cut my hair?" He asked not wanting to cut his hair, it took a while for it to get that long.

[Roland]

Roland looks at Yuki with exasperation. "Listen kid we've already determined that your mother is full of crap, everyone should learn about the law. How are you supposed to obey the rules of society if you do not know them?" He asks belligerently as he finishes the food and drink. "I can't speak for all of the others, but I have no desire to get involved in someone's family affairs." He explains.

Though when Yuki talked about it not being her fault she was too clean, and that she was raised that way, and that she was worried about cutting her hair he finally got truly mad. "Take my advice or not I don't care. Of course you'd need to cut your hair, and if you aren't going to live amongst the nobility then you'd better damn well stop it with their entitled way of thinking." He growls in a low voice. He had no patience for this and it was painful to watch, he had half a mind to drag her back for the pure reason that she was clearly not fit to try and live out on the street.

"Listen, if you are not going to listen to your mom she is not going to provide for and protect you. You'd better get one thing straight, if you want to survive outside the castle you need to think for yourself. Put do some work, you don't stay clean if you do. Join the local guard and get some training, if you want to stay a girl get a job at a bar or as a mender!" Roland finally realizes he had raised his voice and takes a deep breath, at this point he was getting involved and he needed to keep a cooler head.

"If you want to try and be a boy watch the guys around you and get the hang of it. There's nowhere near as big of a difference outside the castle between the two." He explains, "Or hell, find some merchant's son and marry him if you still want to live more as you have been. You can probably find one around your age."

Are all kids really like this? Aveline seemed way more put together, hell most of the noble brats who come to work for the guard seem better able to handle their own lives.

[Yuki D'Avranches]

Zane looked him as if he was serious. He wanted him to cut his hair he could pretend to be a boy but cutting his hair he wasn't about to do. Slamming his hands into the table looking at Roland. "Look I can take the rest of your advice. I know how to use a sword a little I could train and become a guard. I could keep being a girl and get a job, but I am not become a severing wench okay. I could teach children or something."

Looking away from Roland doing his best to calm down his anger. Nothing was working, a nice glass of wine and maybe some fruit would have calm him but then he would remember why he was got upset all over again. Turning to Roland the flames of anger clear in his eyes as he spoke his voice deep as if he was a boy and deadly. "My hair is never to be cut got it. I don't need to look like my dead twin brother. Cutting my hair will make me look like him and believe me the idea of him being alive would be wonderful news, but the pain that we are twins and only he died would be too much to bear looking in a mirror every day and seeing him."


"Also why would I marry for money. If I wanted money I wouldn't have run away from my own damn wedding. You stupid inconsiderate guard, before telling me to cut my hair and marry some merchant son you should learn the facts." His fist started curling as his nails dug into the palm of his hands. He might have been raised a spoiled noble brat but he has suffer lost, and felt pain and been abused by his mother's hands and it was the fear that his husband might do the same thing along with the anger that his children might have to suffer.


Standing up not caring that they were now drawing a crowd because of his outbust. Hot tears rolled down his eyes, as he looked at Roland one last time. "Go fuck yourself, and if you really a damn about me. Then pretend you didn't see me today." Breathing deeply as he walked out the tarven, the tears still streaming down his face. His languge had been unladylike and having lost his temper like that was uncalled for but the damn guard pushed his buttons. Lending his head against the wall, letting the fresh air calm him down, he half expected any time now for Roland to come and drag him back home.