RE: Reconciliation -
Kyng - 10-17-2020
"Okay, let's change course," Tom argued back. "Let's
make him want to be here. Let's bring her doctor in to examine me - and then, we capture her and hold her hostage. Then, we offer to exchange her for Kyle. He'll feel guilty, and agree to it!"
RE: Reconciliation -
Megan - 10-17-2020
Some of the guards didn't seem entirely happy with this plan. "As you wish..."
The guard who had spoken up before again did so. "If he doesn't want to be here, why make him? I mean I know you need an heir, but you don't need him NOW."
RE: Reconciliation -
Kyng - 10-19-2020
"Okay, but I'd much rather have him sooner rather than later!" Tom shot back. "You never know when I might become deathly ill for
real! And even if I don't, Kyle will still need to be trained in statecraft, so that he's ready to assume the throne should the need arise!"
Tom then motioned to one of his servants. "Go to the main gate," he ordered, "and inform their doctor that she may come in."
RE: Reconciliation -
Megan - 10-19-2020
The guard sighed and nodded. "Yes sir." he said hurrying back outside. "You may come in and examine the king." the guard said to Meriandra before leading her inside to the hospital.
RE: Reconciliation -
Kyng - 10-19-2020
As Meriandra entered the hospital ward, four of Tom's guards leapt out from behind the walls, and forcefully manhandled Meriandra's two guards away from her. Then, a fifth guard jumped in, grabbed Meriandra's exposed tail fin, and began to drag her away.
"You FOOL!" Tom cried out. "Of COURSE I'm not actually ill. It would have been nice to get Kyle back, but you will do very nicely!"
Tom then grinned ominously, as he motioned to all five guards. "To the dungeons
..."
RE: Reconciliation -
Megan - 10-19-2020
Meriandra glared at Tom. "You've completely lost it!"
RE: Reconciliation -
Kyng - 10-19-2020
"Excuse me?!" Tom cried incredulously, as the Lennart Castle guard continued to drag Meriandra away. "You're the ones who captured
my son, against
my wishes. I don't see how this is any different from what your father is doing to him. And when they hand Kyle back to me, I will be happy to release you."
RE: Reconciliation -
Megan - 10-19-2020
"No one captured him. He CHOSE to be there. And unlike you we don't abuse him!" Meriandra yelled as she was dragged away.
RE: Reconciliation -
Kyng - 10-21-2020
"You mean, you SPOIL him!" Tom cried down the hallway. "He never learns or matures, does he!"
Unfortunately, by now, Meriandra was too far away to hear him - as the Lennart Castle guards dragged Meriandra to the base of the dungeon tower. This was a dark, frigid, unforgiving place - whose residents were forced to sleep on a damp, stony floor. The place was enveloped in a deathly silence, broken only by the desperate, screaming pleas of the underfed.
The dungeons of New Atlantis had seemed grim enough - but even they resembled a palace compared to this...
RE: Reconciliation -
Megan - 10-21-2020
The guard tossed Meriandra roughly into a cell, and after locking it left her...
Meriandra sighed. She felt bad enough for herself...but she feared for Kyle...she knew he likely would hand himself over...
The guard soon returned to Tom. "What now, sir?" he asked.