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(Closed for Wrath and Myself)

Crimson-Moon

Crimson-Moon

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The sun was hiding behind the clouds as the village of Annandale went on with their daily lives. Being positioned only a small distance away from the Castle, the village was often called upon for provisions and skill that the castle did not have. But this close distance between the village and the castle made it easy for the Annandale’s trouble maker to mess with the guards of the castle.

Today was no exception to the trouble maker who was running through the outer corridors of the castle with guards chasing her, each shouting different names that did not describe the girl. Thief, bandit, robber, criminal, all of those were being shouted. Well, the thief part was partially true, she had often took things from the supply closet to help her family, being the oldest in the house hold she had to provide for her siblings and no one wanted to hire her. She soon stopped at a window and turned to look at the guards. Smiling, she pulled out a rope with a hook and tossed it up to the balcony that was above her and she started to climb up, each pull thanking herself for borrowing her brother’s clothes. Once she was on the edge of the balcony she pulled the rope up and turned to the room, letting her long brown hair out of the knot she put it in to keep it out of her eyes. “Too easy…” she murmured, not knowing whose room it was. She looked around the room and soon noticed whose room it belonged too.

It was not long until the girl saw the door open and she stepped back towards the balcony as the room’s owner walked in. Her eyes widened before she looked down, hearing the sound of the guards, “She has to be up here! She is heading towards the Jewels Room!” they shouted. Silently, she stepped away from the sight of the door and got down on her knees, “Please forgive my invasion Your Highness. I had no idea that this was your room.” She murmured quietly as her brown hair covered the view of her face.
 
The womans exits were blocked. She had no chance of escaping. If she chose to jump she would meet the spear of the guards. It was either punishment or suicide.

"Stand!' A fairly tall man announces to the theif. The man is wearing the noble seal across his chest with royal armor covering his body. The mans name is Loki and he is the prince of this castle. He yells a second time. "I order you to rise!" He walks up to her infuriated(sp)."For months..no years..you have stolen from my family. You take away the memories that remain of them from me...what gives you that right?!" The prince takes a step back trying to block out his memory for the time being glaring at her with his pitch black eyes."Guards lets teach her irony." The guards surround her, their armor impenetrable from weapons. One of the guards tears off her shirt.
 
She looked down, "How can you miss a few blankets when you have hundreds? I have not stolen anything without leaving many. Families need stuff in your kingdom and you do not help them, so I help them." she shouted as she stood glaring at the Prince, "Boys look up to you, thinking that you will help them, but you are too absorbed in your stupid noble life to care!" she added as she stepped towards the window, her whole body shaking, "I never once touched your things, I took from the servants supply closet, not daring myself to take anything of luxury."
 
Rail turns his back to her for a moment."...Your wrong..you took precious things from my childhood. In that supply closet I had my old quilts, quilts..my mother wove for me when I was a small boy...it is the thing I had to remind me of my parents...it was the only thing to remind me of them." Loki continues to rant at her. "As for my people...I have sent thousands of my men to protect the borders of our fellow villages to protect them from bandits." Rail turns back to her. "Is there anything else you have to comment on? Maybe the fire two years back...I had lost two good friends to that fire...but they saved hundreds...Do you have any comment..any at all?" The guards search her while he talks removing all of her weapons.

(Heh sorry it is so cheasy...)
 
Her eyes widened at the mention of the fire and she looked down and shivered slightly, though she stayed silent, but she pushed the guards away when they started to take her weapons from her and she started to take them out herself, placing them on the floor, "Do whatever you want to me. But if my siblings get hurt...I'll take it out on you." she said quietly, "I am the only one they have left."

Silently she turned to look at the window before she looked down, "Most of those quilts are at my house. Some of them got damaged. But the majority of them are still in great shape. I can take you to them..." she murmured.
 
The guards take the weapons that she puts on the marble flooring. Another guard takes a look for other weapons just in case. "She is clear sir!" The guards stand and salute in unison.
"Do whatever you want to me?" Loki smirks at her comment. "Careful we might hold you to that."

"Guards, we are going to go to the Annandale village." Loki announces to the guards. "You are to come with us...may I ask your name?".He says to the woman. "Though first...we will have to have you dressed... "
 
She looked down quietly, "My name is Rose." she murmured quietly as she shivered slightly as she looked down, her hair covering her face again. She was hoping that it would have only been the Prince, not the guards as well, "I will take an punishment that you deem necessary for my actions. But if I would have known what those quilts meant...I would not have taken them." she explained.
 
The prince walk to a cabinet and pulls out a dress. "Here take this." Loki tosses her an average looking dress. The dress however appeared fancy to the lower classes. "You will wear this to the villiage. My guards and I will claim what is mine, and thenI will give you your punishment." He smiles at her. "Do you understand me Rose?"
 
She took the dress and put it on quickly as she listened to him, "Y...yes Your Highness." she murmured quietly as she looked down. She had always felt bad for what she did. But her family and the villagers needed supplies that they could not purchase. It was mainly the extremely young, sick or elderly that used what she brought for them. She slowly stepped towards the Prince, "May we leave now and get this over with?" she asked quietly, "The less time I imagine my family's face the better I will behave." she said almost silently.
 
"Yes we are going to depart right now." Loki tells her walking through the hallway to the main floor, having Rose walk beside him. They walk outside and to a chariot. Along their walk the guards watch Rose carefully from escaping. They both enter the chariot and ride to her villiage.
 
Rose stared at the ground the entire time, she had a few chances of escaping, but she couldn't. She could not bear to hear Loki's voice when he spoke of the blankets, "Are you going to kill me?" she asked quietly as they headed towards her village in the chariot, not even glancing up at him. She would not fight any punishment given, she knew she did wrong, it was time that she got punished.
 
Loki looks at her to answer her. "No...I do not punish theft with death..this is not like the other neighboring kingdoms." He turns his head to look out of the window aswell. They soon arrive at the villiage and are escorted out. " Were here...show us were you live." He had an idea in mind just unsure to himself if it was the right one.
 
She nodded as she slowly walked through the village and stopped when a boy ran to her, "Go get the others out of the home. Take them down to the Old Lady's place." she said quietly. Without hesitation, the boy turned and ran deeper into the village, leaving his older sister behind. Her head lowered letting her hair cover her face and chest as she continued to walk slowly, giving her siblings time to leave their house.
 
They walked to her house and opened the door with little force. It gave the appearence of a peacfull home, ignoring the fact that it was pretty worn down. This house had to be the worst one in the villiage. "You dont need to tell your siblings to run away. We arent here to hurt anyone..." He tries to reassure her.
 
"I did not want them clinging on me." she said quietly as she walked to a bedroom that had the blankets everywhere, each pile was a bed, except for the worn part of just dirt in the corner that had a cloth as a blanket, showing where she slept, "These are all of the ones that I have left." she murmured as she went in and started to dust the blankets off before she started to fold them, her whole body shaking slightly as she started to imagine what her siblings faces would look like when they saw their only heat source gone.
 
Loki took the blankets from Rose. "Thank you...listen." This tore at him. He felt like this was the truely best thing to do but felt uncomfortable doing so. "You and your siblings can live with me in my castle. The guards are shocked at his considerate offer.

"Sir...are you feeling well. Is this really a good option?" The guard close to him tries to tell him. " They are lower class..and theives." "I know but it is the best thing for them at this time." Loki says to the guard.
 
Rose's eyes widened slightly, "I...I can't." she murmured as she stepped back. "What kind of joke are you trying to pull?" she shouted as she moved away from him, "Why would you even think of such a thing? I cannot even afford food for my family, and you can afford food for a whole village." she added as tears came to her eyes. "We're lower than your lowest servant." she murmured.
 
"Joke...what joke? Im offering you and your family a better life..." Loki takes a step towards her. "I will have constructors come here to return your home to a normal quality... as well as this villiage." He tries to have her listen. " I have been nothing but good to these people..." The truth was Loki only came into power recently since his families murder. Daggers shot through his heart when he was insulted by Rose.
 
She looked down then heard a child crying. Looking up she saw a little girl at the doorway. She went past Loki and went over to the girl and knelt down and kissed her head,picking her up, "Everything will be alright Lily." she said gently, "I promise." she added as she got up and turned to Loki, "I...I will go." she murmured, still hesitant. She had been stealing from him for a while now, and he offered her shelter in his castle, was he nuts? She shook her head slightly as she felt arms wrap around each leg then a hand on her arm, "These are the ones that I broke the laws for. These four are all I have left. Are you willing to house five more people?" she asked Loki quietly.
 
"Yes. I wish for you to feel that you and your family are in good hands. It is the least thing I can do for this home." A part of Loki felt insane for offing his home to Rose and her family, another gave him great joy. "Be sure to take whatever you need from here now." He tells them. "This may be the last time for a long time that you will see this home."
 
After Rose set her sister down they ran out, trying to find their possessions. Silently Rose walked over to him, "Why? You are suppose to be punishing me...not helping me." she said quietly as she looked at his face, not caring if it was not socially right. She looked down and sighed, "Please...forgive me for everything I have said and done. I only thought of my family..."
 
"Your punishment is that you will never be able to pay me back equally." He didnt care that it was socially correct to the fullest. The truth was it reminded him of his brother and sister that both passed when he was just a child."I would have done the same if I were in your position..." Loki tells her to reassure her of his choice.
 
She nodded as her siblings came back, the smallest was on the second oldest's back and Rose picked up the other two, "Please...may we head back?" she asked Loki quietly, her eyes were filled with confusion and question. She would need to talk to him alone when not even the guards were alone.
 
"Yes...is everyone ready?" Loki says becoming more quiet. They walk out to the chariot and waits for them to board. "Carefull it might be a tight fit." He sighs returning to his previous attitude and enters the chariot.
 
When Rose got in, she had two of her siblings sit on her lap and she held them close. They were both facing her and they each buried their faced into each side of her neck and she started to murmur soothing words to them.
 
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