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Menisi du Marquin

  1. Menisi
  2. Menisi the Watchful
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Interlude – Perspective and Past
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Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 2)

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Interlude – Perspective and Past Shardele smoked Dreamleaf like a [Charcoal Burner] smoked wood. Menisi had an obsession with things that went beyond mere ‘scandalous’, past ‘depraved’, and into horrific. Aielef hated the peasantry, a habit she’d passed on to some of her sisters. Seraphel herself was known for once insulting one of her three brothers so badly he hid in his rooms for eighteen days.
Interlude – Perspective and Past Seraphel murmured. The 5th Princess regarded her older sister. They had a fairly good relationship as it went; some of the [Princesses] could not stand each other. Menisi and Shardele were a classic, hence why they were never paired together if possible.
Interlude – Perspective and Past “Menisi—well, she’s the only lucky one of the lot! She has someone who fits her damned personality.”
8.55 L “Do you mean it has happened…? Wait, who? Shardele? It can’t be—M-Menisi? Seraphel? which…?”
8.73 R “She may well rule after Their Majesties if no issue emerges. Next is…Menisi the Watchful. Seldom seen and married to another nation. I’m blanking on which one, but she is somewhat scandalous. I don’t know much, but that is her reputation to me.”
9.16 R Vernoue’s face turned dark with anger. Shardele had poisoned the communal well of sweets—which was like her because she had the smallest sweet-tooth. It would come back to bite her, though; her sisters would not let this go unpunished. If people knew Seraphel as having a ‘sharp tongue’, well, Menisi and Aielef were vicious.
9.17 R It was the hardest thing in the world to do, and she had tried three times before. She had raged and run away, and she knew what had happened to Menisi, the 2nd Princess of Calanfer. Or had she done that to herself, to get away forever?
9.17 R Prince Lothen, the 2nd Prince of Calanfer and, technically, 4th oldest just after Menisi, spoke with a curt voice.
9.17 R Three [Princes] for the seven princesses. They were seen far more seldom than their sisters, and two were among the oldest of the siblings. That was for a good reason. You could say that, ah, Ielane’s methods of teaching her children had been a work in progress. She’d had a harder time with Shardele, Agenote, Menisi, and Lothen.
10.00 L Not all her sisters. Menisi, the exile, the disavowed by Queen Ielane, had done it far better than Shardele or Aielef. Seraphel, after her first terrible marriage, had done it without knowing, like a poisoned flower drew in silly flies and bees.
10.00 L And if she did? She would have been crueler than Menisi, Seraphel, and all of Ielane’s servants because she had never intended to claim victory.
10.00 L “Your Majesty. Princess Shardele? Menisi, I grant you, but Aielef—perhaps Princess Seraphel, but she was calm. She held her ground. I don’t wish to be seen as your hand—”
10.00 L “Menisi. Take care Lyonette does not follow the 2nd Princess’ example, Ushar. You think she can maneuver herself with free rein? On your head be it.”
10.00 L And if Lyonette were to tire of the gilded chains—beware. One [Princess] had tried it in this generation. There was a reason Princess Menisi, the black sheep of the family, was never seen at court. Pitfalls and traps. Ushar reflected that Ielane was right.
10.28 N She had served the crown in the Eternal Throne since she was a girl of seven. Ushar had been a [Page] when Princess Shardele was still learning to run about with Princess Menisi. Ushar had seen them all grow up, and in time—they had all developed those familiar eyes.
10.34 MGF “So much more magic than Wistram holds. Me? I wish I had gained my class another way, a better way. First, I lost my sisters. Then, my kingdom. Ailendamus let me become the [Mage] I wished to be, but I should have fought for it. All of us were too content with our banal misery. Menisi, Lyonette, Seraphel, and who among them found that happy ending?”
10.34 MGF “If you should ever meet me—tell myself that I will have nothing but regrets. I would rather be Menisi than Shardele. There are far worse things to be. Tell me that.”
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) Oh, Aielef, Menisi, Shardele, and Seraphel had deferently done their duty and gone off to be married, but Vernoue, at the age of 25, had still managed to repulse her suitors by roundly insulting their intelligence and making herself as unattractive as possible—within reason.
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) It could be worse. It could be far worse. You could be married to that old man that Seraphel had to bed. Or shuffled off like Menisi, or married into some miserable fortress in Kaliv. He’s kind. He’s not unattractive, and he knows magic. You might not do better.
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) She says you’re the ‘best of the lot’. Way better than Shardele and Aielef, and Seraphel’s gloomy, Menisi’s never there, and Princess Ellet’s a kid. By process of elimination, ergo and therefore, you’re the best. Especially because you leave her alone and you do helpful magic.
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) —Princess Menisi du Marquin, 2nd Princess of Calanfer.
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) “Menisi?”
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) This is insanity. Menisi plotted on killing Mother? Then this letter was meant for her corpse! But—
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) When I was a child and Lyonette was a baby? It had definitely happened. Ielane had said it was a missing piece of the puzzle. So this—this plot on her life had failed, and she’d never found Menisi’s dagger.
Interlude – Vernoue (Pt. 1) Vernoue felt sick. Sick and shaken to her core. She had been led not to some great grimoire of magic, but to Menisi’s hiding place where she had stashed a blade to kill her own mother.