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[nottame]

[Sometime after the fairies and imps have flitting around noting wishes and providing updates, a locket connection opens to an evening sky and some tree-lining - a Shard-Bearer's on the move someplace, and he doesn't show up onscreen, but his voice is coming from not too high aboce, off to the side, as if he's sitting on the ground and crouching in some.]

What happens at a royal audience? [...is what he asks, with a lightness and earnest curiosity. Not loud, and not with entirely full breath, perhaps, but it's nothing worse than sticking tiredness from traveling.]

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[nottame]

[Ha - he might've been spared talking to the Unseelie monarchs in a context it certainly wouldn't do to meet them.]

Yeah, you think? I'm glad to hear it! [Light and hearty. Even if he's being warned against it by another, surely it is indeed possible to just talk, then...

Thinning and trailing a bit, with some more emphatic bounce on the important words - these are somewhat more absent questions!]

Uh -- how do you talk to a king and queen, anyway? I mean, like - should you try to bring something, or is there a right way to say hi - or what special manners to you have to use? -- There are special things you've got to do and say, right?

[It wouldn't be a bad way to further ease the passing of the time on his trip back to Caer Glaem, putting together a game plan...]

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[bolincredible]

Uhh. I think it helps if you bow? And if you wanna say it's an honor to meet them or something, you can. I would've done that if I'd remembered it last time. As long as you're like. Respectful and everything, you're pretty good to go.

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[nottame]

Respectful! [Repeated decisively - of course!] Right.

[And say it's an honor, and bow - he's got to make it clear he's bowing! They'll be able to see what he's actually doing, will they not? ...Or he figures he's safe assuming so.]

Uhh - what are they, by the way? -- Out of curiosity. You know... the king and queen.

Are they fairies?

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[bolincredible]

-- huh. That's a good question. I guess so? [ It seems like it's more accurate than calling them human, at least. ] Nobody's ever told me one way or the other.

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[nottame]

But they're not human -- right...

[It's paced like a question but toned and inflected like affirmation.]

Heh -- gotta practice bowing, then!

Uh, thanks by the way! [With heart to it!]

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[bolincredible]

Hey, no problem. You know, court shardbearer... folks... have to stick together. Or it would at least be nice for them to do that.

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[nottame]

[He wants to ask if anyone's terrible to each other, if any of them really wouldn't look out for the others, when push comes to shove.

But he gets it. Differences in thinking; this starting off scattered, no less.]

That can change, though, can't it... [Offering that tentatively; not really asking, at least not for anything more than validation or lack thereof.] I mean, there are a lot of us for each of us to get to know -- but it's not impossible for them to figure things out. Right?

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[bolincredible]

... yeah, sure. I wouldn't say impossible. Well, it could be impossible for specific people in the groups. Like. You know, sometimes they just don't wanna get along. But big picture, sure! I'd believe that.