ArcticAvenue
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Emerson “The Anvil” Blackwood stood at the alter, his back turned to the masses and more so to the approaching woman whom would be his wife by the end of this ceremony. He stood at the ready, like the soldier he once learned to be and as the general he is now. Yet there was no mistaking this was not a battle, if fact, it was more of a war lost.
He wore leathers that would have been reason for ridicule when he stood with his men in the field. They were red like wine, which would have begged a field of archers to aim at you - and were too thin to stop the arrows targeted. It was not just the outfit, it was the way he was groomed. His long blonde hair tied behind his head, his nails cleaned of dirt and blood, his face cleaned of whiskers. In these courts, it is what was expected of him.
His duty to become married is also what was expected of him. The woman, one he had never met, one he would not see until she arrives at the end of the aisle to join him here, will allow for a period of peace between the two families. A marriage for peace is no place for a soldier. But It was not a marriage of love, for that matter. Besides, they say no soldier marries for love. They say the only woman other than their mother a soldier ever loves is his first whore. Whomever he was to marry wasn’t to be Emerson’s first, whore or not. So she is only to be his duty.
As he stood and waited to be bound to a woman he never met, the words of his father rang through his head. ‘You are to marry this woman and you are to have her bring forth an heir.’ So in his mind, all he expected was someone for him to plant his seed within. All he could hope for is one that was not so ugly that it took a long time to accomplish.
As the woman reached the end of the aisle and took her place next to him, Emerson took a long breath, pushed the anger against his father from his mind, and turned ready to accept what is expected of him.
He wore leathers that would have been reason for ridicule when he stood with his men in the field. They were red like wine, which would have begged a field of archers to aim at you - and were too thin to stop the arrows targeted. It was not just the outfit, it was the way he was groomed. His long blonde hair tied behind his head, his nails cleaned of dirt and blood, his face cleaned of whiskers. In these courts, it is what was expected of him.
His duty to become married is also what was expected of him. The woman, one he had never met, one he would not see until she arrives at the end of the aisle to join him here, will allow for a period of peace between the two families. A marriage for peace is no place for a soldier. But It was not a marriage of love, for that matter. Besides, they say no soldier marries for love. They say the only woman other than their mother a soldier ever loves is his first whore. Whomever he was to marry wasn’t to be Emerson’s first, whore or not. So she is only to be his duty.
As he stood and waited to be bound to a woman he never met, the words of his father rang through his head. ‘You are to marry this woman and you are to have her bring forth an heir.’ So in his mind, all he expected was someone for him to plant his seed within. All he could hope for is one that was not so ugly that it took a long time to accomplish.
As the woman reached the end of the aisle and took her place next to him, Emerson took a long breath, pushed the anger against his father from his mind, and turned ready to accept what is expected of him.