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aethelingCymbeline doesn't really like boats, but they're the only way to get anywhere in a reasonable period of time, especially when "anywhere" isn't on the mainland. Today he is sailing to Vectis, to oversee the change of governorship; his father the king is needed for courtly matters back home and his mother the queen, despite being the source of his royal blood, declines to involve herself in affairs of state when she can avoid it. Zoyah takes more after Ranae than after Charles in this department. So, it falls to Cymbeline.
Walking on a boat is even more difficult than walking on land, and Cymbeline is no great shakes at the latter to begin with. Unfortunately, neither he nor Kerem, the court magician and Cymbeline's confidante, have been able to figure out how to apply the principles of practicable magic to alleviating princely clumsiness. So Cymbeline is clinging to the railing of the boat, watching the waves, trying to avoid having to walk anywhere.
Walking on a boat is even more difficult than walking on land, and Cymbeline is no great shakes at the latter to begin with. Unfortunately, neither he nor Kerem, the court magician and Cymbeline's confidante, have been able to figure out how to apply the principles of practicable magic to alleviating princely clumsiness. So Cymbeline is clinging to the railing of the boat, watching the waves, trying to avoid having to walk anywhere.
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:15 pm (UTC)He has the afternoon free; in the evening he'll be doing some miscellaneous court tasks for his parents, but until then his time is his own, and he opts to spend it entirely on going through this book.
They are approaching the end of the book, and Kerem said he was pretty sure it was the only one in the library. Cymbeline supposes they can invent more signs.
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:29 pm (UTC)She does not volunteer any information about her life under the sea.
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:33 pm (UTC)He has his own questions, though.
"Yes, I do have a sister. She has a brother, me. We are brother and sister. Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:37 pm (UTC)I don't know.
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:42 pm (UTC)How many wives does your father have?
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:44 pm (UTC)My father has more. My father is old. I have more sisters and more brothers. I don't know all my sisters. I don't know all my brothers.
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:47 pm (UTC)She doesn't look twelve. She looks closer to his age than Zoyah's.
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:48 pm (UTC)"Twelve? Really? I'm - I'm twenty-one," he says. "You don't look twelve to me."
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Date: 2013-06-20 09:51 pm (UTC)Twenty-one? You look like twelve.
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