06-17-2015, 09:33 PM
Plan? I don't need a plan!
Father speaks of trying to stop mother and failing, and Val can't help but giggle. She's imagining it in her head, coming up with all kinds of funny scenarios where mother and father tussle, and ending with him falling on his ass (which, coincidentally, is roughly what actually happened). You see, Val has never been under the delusion that Thorny is under – she's always known that both of her parents were great. She's always felt it in her skin, within her bones. She's known it in the way they've both cared for them, in their own ways, sure, but faithfully and certainly nonetheless. They both have a way about them, something that sets them apart. Even as they fade with age, that aura remains. "She totally did." she says, completely confident. She is starting to be able to read people better as she gets older, and she can tell from the way her father looks that he's currently lost in memories. That, combined with how he'd just spoken tells her everything that she needs to know.
They lull into silence for a moment, and Val's mind wanders, as it tends to do. Both she and her sister have incredibly active minds; but where Thorny's is being all analytical and thoughtful and silent Val's is leaping from point to point like a hyperactive kangaroo that's just been fed some kind of very strange LSD.
"But, why weren't you ever the king here?" the girl asks her father, not understanding that such things might be a sore point. Perhaps they aren't for Covet, and perhaps they wouldn't be for some. And perhaps if he weren't her father she wouldn't be asking, because even she (hyperactive LSD kangaroo) has a tiny sense of decency. To her, for him, it's just a question that wants to be answered. It seems so logical, like it's a thing that should have happened. She's heard that he's the general here, after all, she's heard that he is someone who has done some things. And don't those types usually end up ruling? Couldn't he have ruled alongside mother? Shouldn't he have ruled alongside mother? She doesn't know. But she wants to find out.
VALKERINE!
tomboy daughter of librette & covet