Swashbuckler
The Thief of Hearts
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OOC:
Sorry this is a closed thread for HoneyB and myself. All are welcome to read along, but as yet this is a closed thread. Thank you.
IC:
I sat in a slouched position in the auctioneer's salve pens. The bars of the cell pressed through my soiled and torn tunic, into my bruised and bloodied back. The filthy straw clutched at my legs. I lifted my heavily manacled hands and looked at them, "How, Alexander, how?" I asked quietly of myself as the harang of jeering bidders echoed from the nearby courtyard. I had not been allowed even a basin to bathe in for weeks. Rusty stains of blood still peeked through the grime on my palms.
I closed my eyes, but my mind drifted back to a few days ago. I had found her with him when I had returned from Sparta early. I don't even know how the knife found its way to my hands. All I can remember is my jealousy as stood over her body, clothed only robes of crimson liquid.
I had begged them to kill me. Denied, here I was a member of the living dead....
I was jolted back to reality as the auctioneer's eunuchs jerked me to my feet and scurried me out of my cell and into the blazing Ravenna sun. I squinted my dark eyes against the ravaging sun. I heard the roar of the crowd as a strike from a short lash drove me forward. "Here we have Alexander of Athens, a poet no less!" I heard the auctioneer shout to the crowd. "Convicted of jealous murder!" The cruel fat man laughed loudly to the crowd of richly dressed Romans. "In the prime of his life, behold!" I heard the words just as my tattered tunic was torn from my shoulders, revealing my hard and olive chest to the lookers on. I clenched both my hands into fists. I lifted my chin and shook my head trying to dislodge some of the straw that had collected in my black, curly locks. I would not be undignified! I glared out at the Roman mass of bidders.
"Seven Talents!" I heard called from a man near the block. "Eight!" a woman in the back cried out. "Fourteen, if he is a poet." piped a gluttonous man to the left of the stage, his eyes gliding over my chest. I stopped listening and stared out at the sunset.
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Sorry this is a closed thread for HoneyB and myself. All are welcome to read along, but as yet this is a closed thread. Thank you.
IC:
I sat in a slouched position in the auctioneer's salve pens. The bars of the cell pressed through my soiled and torn tunic, into my bruised and bloodied back. The filthy straw clutched at my legs. I lifted my heavily manacled hands and looked at them, "How, Alexander, how?" I asked quietly of myself as the harang of jeering bidders echoed from the nearby courtyard. I had not been allowed even a basin to bathe in for weeks. Rusty stains of blood still peeked through the grime on my palms.
I closed my eyes, but my mind drifted back to a few days ago. I had found her with him when I had returned from Sparta early. I don't even know how the knife found its way to my hands. All I can remember is my jealousy as stood over her body, clothed only robes of crimson liquid.
I had begged them to kill me. Denied, here I was a member of the living dead....
I was jolted back to reality as the auctioneer's eunuchs jerked me to my feet and scurried me out of my cell and into the blazing Ravenna sun. I squinted my dark eyes against the ravaging sun. I heard the roar of the crowd as a strike from a short lash drove me forward. "Here we have Alexander of Athens, a poet no less!" I heard the auctioneer shout to the crowd. "Convicted of jealous murder!" The cruel fat man laughed loudly to the crowd of richly dressed Romans. "In the prime of his life, behold!" I heard the words just as my tattered tunic was torn from my shoulders, revealing my hard and olive chest to the lookers on. I clenched both my hands into fists. I lifted my chin and shook my head trying to dislodge some of the straw that had collected in my black, curly locks. I would not be undignified! I glared out at the Roman mass of bidders.
"Seven Talents!" I heard called from a man near the block. "Eight!" a woman in the back cried out. "Fourteen, if he is a poet." piped a gluttonous man to the left of the stage, his eyes gliding over my chest. I stopped listening and stared out at the sunset.
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