oo1; accidental video/action

[theirinurpants]

Who: Alistair and YOU?!
Broadcast: Fleetwide; mostly accidental.
Action: On the Marsiva!
When: Now? Now. Sure, now.

Teagan? Teagan! [ The man on the camera is young, handsome, and looking a bit put out to be where he is. This isn't his castle! What is this place? He's also sort of looking away from the screen, not fully aware he's broadcasting. He mostly thinks he's talking to himself. ]

Okay, hah hah, very funny, you've had your joke, now where are you? And where am I? I'm sure I've got a very important meeting with someone who will be very angry when I don't show up - not that I care much if I'm making the Orlesians angry, it's sort of funny when their faces get all red and they start trying not to swear, but still...

Have I been kidnapped? Has someone kidnapped me? I'm pretty sure kidnapping the king is treason. I can have your head for that. [ He doesn't sound so much angry as... vaguely confused and disoriented. ] Off with your head. Whenever I figure out who you are, I suppose.

Comments

[theirinurpants]

I mean, if you're lucky, I suppose. My - Father, he was pretty lucky. My half-brother, not so much.

[gifted_witch]

I'm so sorry for your loss, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. I didn't intend to pry.

[theirinurpants]

I never knew either of them personally. They seemed like decent people, though.

[gifted_witch]

That seem worse somehow. The not knowing, never knowing family would be terrible.

[theirinurpants]

Well, that's just sort of how it is, when you're a bastard. Your entire existence is a little embarrassing, so you get shunted off somewhere you won't be in the way.

[gifted_witch]

That's so awful, family should always stay with each other. It isn't your fault, the circumstances of your birth, it shouldn't matter.

[theirinurpants]

Well, I won't argue with that.

[gifted_witch]

Not even remotely the same, but when my sister found out I was going off to school it seemed to ruin our relationship. We were inseparable and then she couldn't even be in the same room with me.

[theirinurpants]

I have a half-sister. I met her once. Mostly she just yelled at me and demanded money I didn't have.