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[JUDGED] Property rights | ALYSANNE CHALLENGE

Isopia the Mountain That Knows Posts: 780
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Her attack must have worked, because the dragoness had ample time to land without retaliation from the king. Although it would have been easier and advantageous to remain in the sky, likely out of range from Tembovu's arsenal of magic, Isopia didn't want to give anyone from the Edge more ammunition about how unfair this whole process was, by spending it airborne. 

Tembovu's magma-facsimile wasn't the only thing to careen towards Isopia out of the mists. There were also the (mostly) unfamiliar voices of the members of the Edge who had gathered to watch the challenge. Previously Isopia had thought that their words wouldn't have any effect on her - she could take their cattiness, their (obligatory?) support of what their herd leaders were trying to do, which by default meant condemnation of her own position. But what she couldn't abide, what ever fibre of her being suddenly screamed out against, was their unchecked hypocrisy.  More than once she heard judgements of Cowboy, that he should be here in place of Isopia. That Cowboy should be forced to fight, and Alysanne shouldn't, was a contradiction that made Isopia's ears burn. Despite the fact that this point had been raised by one of the assembled Edger's, the demi-goddess could only assume that the herd would bend to Alysanne's logic; winning was what was important. Not logic.

Though she was often accused of being emotionless as a stone, there was little else that rattled her as strongly as poor logic and ignorant minds. If it was just that, she might have been able to keep her mouth shut and her mind focused on the battle, if not for Alysanne. Perhaps it was because Aly's voice had been one of the first she had heard once she was born, perhaps it was even because she bore a resemblance to her own Mother. Or, maybe it was just because the acoustics of the Edge were such that the mare's voice easily came her way, but come her way it did.

She didn’t even try asking first.

Isopia felt time slow as her cheeks grew burning hot, and then icy cold. She felt her legs threaten to start shaking as a hostile burst of adrenaline deep within her gut suddenly exploded. She had asked. It was the second thing she had done - the first being asking Alysanne how she was doing. That was the Isopia-equivalent of showing up with baked goodies and fawning over the queen for hours. 

Isopia turned wide, stunned eyes into the mists, expecting Tembovu to somehow emerge and set things straight. Despite their difference in ideals, surely the king wouldn't abide his queen blatantly lying to all those assembled? Hadn't many of them heard the conversation between czarina and queen for themselves? They had been loud and had made no effort to speak in isolation. 

Did the queen believe her herd was stupid? Or did she just expect them to fall in line?

Temporarily blinded by these thoughts (for Isopia's eyes instead saw flashes of the horses she imagined were gathered away in the mists, rather than the magma-elephant heading her way), Isopia wasn't able to evade Tembovu's attack as she should have done. A warm glow had pulsed through the mists giving her plenty of time to react to the king's magic - time that she had instead wasted on thinking about Alysanne and her lies. So instead of evading Tembovu's elephant, Isopia tried to engage with it. Conjuring a water-thing (for it was largely without form), she hurled it towards the fiery creature, assuming the water would put it out. For her efforts, Isopia was greeted with a burst of hot steam, spraying in all directions. A plume of steam shot towards her, causing Isopia to shut her eyes against it and scramble backwards. Iso was even less graceful in this body, than her equine one, but she managed to retreat far enough from Tembovu's attack (that she had helped amplify), to have only received superficial burns on her nose, and chest. Even so, the scales that covered her body in those areas suddenly felt tight and tender, and though those parts of her body were a pale tan, in her mind they were coloured a blistered-pink. 

"ALYSANNE, YOU LIE." Isopia bellowed, allowing the pain her body felt to uncharacteristically colour her voice. She wanted to say more, but to do so would likely invite a verbal battle that she didn't have time for.

Trying to force her rattled-thoughts back to the challenge, the dragoness lunged forward through the mists, trying to find the king by going the direction his magma-elephant had come from. Thinking she spied him ahead, she conjured a rock-dragon and thrust it towards were she thought the King's left shoulder was.


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Isopia
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@Tembovu

Hold up King, you need to get your house in order,
cause there's Edgers in the mists, I can hear them on the border -
all in an uproar, making unfair accusations, 
and your queen is lyin' about the details of our negotiations. 

Just cause Cowboy isn't here, ya'll label him a disgrace,
but no one has a problem with you taking the queen's place. 
Maybe that’s because all Alysanne cares about is winning, 
maybe that explains all the lies that she’s slinging - 

Like when she said I never asked for the bags back, 
Well let’s get the instant-replay and we can watch the convo flash-back, 

“Hello Alysanne, remember me & how are you, 
I’d like those stolen goods returned, but I’ll hear your point of view.”
(This is the part where your Queen Alysanne is out of her league, 
and what meagre logic she has at hand, well, it starts to fatigue.)
"We can’t even agree to disagree on the subject of this imbalance,
so if it’s okay for spectres to steal, then it’s okay for me to challenge. "

This is your queen’s logic, I’m just playing by her rules.
I beg you, think it through Edgers, and stop acting like you’re tools-
-of the Queen, and her attempts to disguise and hide her greed,
by letting it come to blows, over bags she doesn’t need.


Messages In This Thread
Property rights | ALYSANNE CHALLENGE - by Isopia - 10-22-2016, 11:53 AM
RE: Property rights | ALYSANNE CHALLENGE - by Isopia - 11-07-2016, 12:06 PM
RE: Property rights | ALYSANNE CHALLENGE - by Blu - 11-26-2016, 10:56 AM

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