commandsthewind: (Kneel | a wiser fool)
Eʟɪᴢᴀʙᴇᴛʜ Tᴜᴅᴏʀ, ℚᴜᴇᴇɴ ᴏғ Eɴɢʟᴀɴᴅ ([personal profile] commandsthewind) wrote in [community profile] paradisalogs2012-10-06 10:34 am

no more dreaming of the dead, as if death itself was undone

Who: Elizabeth Tudor and whoever feels like straying in here.
What: Nightmare plot, which in this case is just how awful the 16th century is to hapless queens.
When: All through the plot.
Where: The back pages of her mind.
Rating: R, for blood, beheading, death, sex, death and beheading.

[Elizabeth herself has fallen at her table, reading a book. A nice enough book for that matter, something silly and senseless.

Nothing at all that reflects what her dreams are about. Welcome to court, ladies and gentleman. 'Tis a merry occasion it seems.

For those taken into this part of dream -- it's not so bad at all, or at least not to start with. In fact the whole of court appears to have come out to this event, the great hall of Hampton is teeming with people. The gold and silver tapestry glitter like fairies wings in the candle light, the clothing of the courtiers is bright with colour, and their extravagant jewels shine so brilliantly. Something not unlike the Masquerade Ball so recently. The ladies with their perfectly made up faces, the men with their elegant manners. There is music playing in the background, and for the most part, it seems to be such a happy and lively place. Banners hang with the emblem of the royal family, the double rose in red and white. It's sewn into the servants clothing, it hangs around the neck of some men and women, carved into the stone and wood in some places, a mark of the gracious hospitality of the host. But what stands out most is they all seem to adore you, bowing to you as you pass as you make your way to whatever is in the centre.

It seems beautiful -- too beautiful. For there is something off with almost off with all of it. Behind their pretty laughter of the women, it sounds so subtly like a snake's hiss. The men smile and their teeth look like the fangs of a wolf. The back of your neck seems to prickle as you make your way through your crowd.

But come, stay a little while? Surely it cannot be so bad? It's just so lovely.
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squartatore: (11.)

[personal profile] squartatore 2012-10-11 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[and that, more than any other of their words, wrenches open a wound in her heart which had never healed -- was only ignored --

Mami-san.

Her airway struggles with a sensation that can only be called drowning, even as she still stands on dry land. The ring on her left hand glows, shifting into the teardrop-like shape it was originally in, so bright it may well be aflame, until her entire body is engulfed by blue light. Combat garb replaces the civilian clothing she had worn, circles of self-regeneration spells already beginning to fix damage.

She doesn't speak, but the snarl widens.

With the practiced hand motions of a conductor, seemingly-endless cutlasses pierce through the crowd gaining on her, coming from every direction]
squartatore: (42.)

[personal profile] squartatore 2012-10-12 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[some part of her increasingly madness-plagued consciousness registers that they aren't really directing the malice at her. The louder, more insistent part which doesn't care wins out, what does it matter, really, when the intention remains the same whoever they envision?

She draws more blades, movements slowed as her magic defaults to eliminating physical pain, continues to hack away.

Maybe she'll die again here. So be it, then, but she sure won't let up until she takes some of them with her]