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Old 06-01-2006, 08:15 PM   #338
Feanor of the Peredhil
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Degas had watched the events unfold before him in bafflement. He watched Saeryn's face, looking for the signs of the refusal that he almost hoped she would make. While he very much wanted his sister happy, and he could not deny that this arrangement was one very good for her, and he much liked Eodwine, he could not help but feel a burning sensation working its way from his stomach to his chest, trying to burst forth from him in a potentially violent way.

Is this a courtship? It had most certainly better not be. Forgetting immediately his guilt-stricken desire to avoid the presence of Eodwine, Degas worked his way to the front of the crowd, taking note of Linduial and Farahil, spotting the look of fascination upon Farahil's dark face and the look of excitement on Linduial's light one.

Saeryn deserved to be happy. She deserved a place befitting her station and her reputation must be preserved. Certainly this... this apprenticeship as Eodwine called it... would be an appropriate response to all concerns.

However a courtship... Saeryn was young, only just beginning to explore the world and all of its facets. A bird, only just discovering that her gilded cage had been left unlocked and she was free to fly through open skies. Degas thought of his sister's personality more and decided that she was more of a cat than a bird, but could not think of a better analogy. He left the thought behind and continued to fume as he stepped forward. Eodwine had lived long in the world already, had experienced far more than Saeryn. He was old enough to be their father! Saeryn deserved to be happy, but she deserved, in Degas's opinion, to be happy several years from now with a younger man.

He cast another glance toward Farahil before stepping clear of the crowd.

"Surely, Garreth," he spoke quietly, almost coldly, looking at Saeryn before locking eyes with Eodwine, standing to his full height - equal to Eodwine's, "this is no courtship. For if it were, I am sure an honorable man such as the lord of this Hall would have asked leave of the lady's brother."
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