Room 203, Saturday Evening

[nothornlessrose]

After they got back to Fandom, Cassidy had gone immediately to her room. Out of habit, she put a Tiger-Eye shield up around the room and then changed into pajamas. For the longest time, she sat on the floor beneath the window, looking through some of her books from home. With everything that had happened this week, her concerns about holding the leash of a Warlord Prince seemed so long ago.

She would probably do research on jhinkas at some point in time, but that wouldn't be today.

After awhile, she put a warming spell on the bed and crawled under the covers. She had seen and felt a lot of things over the past few days and she wasn't exactly sure how to process it all. Besides the fact that she had met a very cranky Warlord Prince who happened to be her cousin, Aaron, and the Queen who wanted to be his Lady, Kalush, other things were not as harmless.

She was worried about Karla. She was worried about Jaenelle. She was worried about Raven. She was worried about Morton.

Mother Night and may the Darkness be merciful. She was worried about everyone that had been involved in what had happened. It was easier to just say that than to try to think about everyone separately. She didn't know all of Karla's friends that had been there, but she was determined that she would try to get to know them. Poppi would say that when there was a crisis, you should get to know everyone that was there.

Agio could definitely be considered a crisis.

Of course, she would do that another day. Right now, she wasn't thinking of leaving her room or talking to anyone tonight.

Too bad she had forgotten about the fact that a Queen was supposed to let members of her Court know her whereabouts and there was a cranky Black Widow looking for her.

[[OOC: For Shira.]]

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[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"I won't let that happen," Cassidy whispered. "I won't let that keep happening to you and Ranon. I won't allow anyone to hurt my Court and my friends. I will make sure that no one that serves me ever has to deal with that pain and fear."

The resolve in her voice was strong, even if she was still in tears.

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

Shira was touched. "Thank you," she said softly, knowing the words were woefully inadequate and also knowing she didn't have any others to use. "It's not going to be easy, though. By any means. But... if anybody can do it, it's you."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"A Queen protects her Court," she said as firmly as she could. "They don't let anyone or anything hurt them." She shook her head. "I never want you to be afraid of serving in my Court, Shira."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"I won't be," Shira said. "With you as my Queen, how could I be?" Because they didn't know each other all that well yet, but there were some things you just knew.

"Might I make a recommendation, though?"

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"Of course," she nodded. "You're in my First Circle and your opinion is important to me."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"Make sure you talk to Elle? I get the feeling she doesn't get genuinely attached to people very easily and she seemed pretty freaked out that you'd up and left her."

It was odd, really. Sometimes when around Elle, Shira had the oddest sense that the girl was broken. There was danger and vulnerability mixed in with an odd dash of viciousness that could have been worrisome if not for her clear desire to make people happy.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

"I will. I never would do that to her -- especially when she seemed so surprised that I was giving her a place in my Court." Cassidy took a shaky breath. "Just, when Emma sent out the summons that Karla was missing, I just gathered up supplies and ran off. I should have let you both know before I did anything." She sniffled. "At least Ranon wasn't here... and we don't have to tell him about this, right?"

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Mother Night." Shira paled at the idea of what Ranon might do. "This is going to be our little secret forever and ever and ever. Oh, and forever and ever, too."

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy nodded. "This is a very good idea. He doesn't ever need to know what happened."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

"You have good ideas. Very good ideas." Shira hugged Cassidy. "And hey. At least you've learned something from the whole running off without telling us thing." She grinned mischeviously. "And that something is don't run off without telling at least someone or you'll have a very cranky Healer and Black Widow show up and start shrieking at you. And nobody wants that."