Earth Camp

[thepanda]

"Brother," Beryllium comments after moving away from the queen. "For what purpose have you called me here?"

[Corwin]

"I know of your goals, sister dearest," he replies quietly, too low for the Queen to hear. "Can you really fault a loving brother for trying to have his little sister meet the mother of her groom-to-be and fall in her good graces?"

[thepanda]

Beryllium studies the queen thoughtfully for a few moments.

"Somehow, I think speech isn't the way to go to get into that woman's good graces. Not unless it involved midnight manuvers of, you know, this and that sort." Beryl makes a few gestures. "And although I'd simply love to be instructed in the ways carnal pleasure by the queen, and I'm not just saying that oh no, it would be a rather difficult subject to bring up."

[Merc]

Endymion stands in front of his room, his hand wavering over his sword. On the one hand, he'd get great pleasure out of decapitating Zoicite right now. On the other, father would lose a good general, and he'd probably feel a little bad about it. Just a little mind you.

Taking a deep breath, he decides that if Zoicite is doing anything to his clothing or books, he dies. If he doesn't, he gets a chance to live. Yes, that was fair of him.

Taking his hand away from the hilt of his sword, it grasps the doorknob and opens the door to his room, looking to see what Zoicite is doing.

[Corwin]

"It is your loss then, sister dearest," Akio replies with a shrug. Turning towards the Queen, he asks, "Would you like to see a new creation of mine?"

Queen Misaki and Akio move further into the greenhouse, talking animatedly about polka-dotted purple roses.

[Corwin]

Endymion finds no sign of Zoisite in his room at first glance.

[Merc]

Endymion sighs, as he enters and looks around his room, for anything amiss or changed. Looks like Zoicite got to live at least.

[thepanda]

Beryl stares at the retreating forms, her anger rising.

Why that... that... Getting me out here just for this!

Beryllium almost vanishes, but stops, her brother's words comming to mind.

Well, I'm here already. May as well find something to do.

She wanders off in the general direction of the princes' quarters.

Something indeed.

[Corwin]

Endymions enters the room, finding it as messy as always. It's strange, though, that the closet door doesn't seem to be closed all the way.

Meanwhile, as Beryl wanders around inside the city-sized palace, she realizes that she has no idea where the Prince's private quarters would be. In fact, she would be almost completely lost, if she didn't recognize that corridor leading to the kitchens, where Endymion took her the other day.

[thepanda]

"Something indeed," Beryllium deadpans, realising that wandering off by herself was, perhaps, not the smartest thing she could have done.

"Well there's the kitchen. Someone in there in bound to know." She enters, looking around a bit.

[Corwin]

Upon entering the kitchens, Beryl hears snoring.

[Merc]

Endymion raises an eyebrow at the closet door and goes open it to see if there was anything there preventing it from closing completely, otherwise locking it.

[Corwin]

Endymion opens the door, and a sleeping Zoisite falls out of the closet. He's clutching one of the Prince's favorite pornographic magazines in his hands.

OOC: Something about seven dwarfs. I'm not touching your porn.

[thepanda]

Pondering who would sleep in a kitchen, even a royal kitchen, Beryl seeks out the source of the snores.

[Corwin]

After travelling around the large kitchen area for a while, following the snores, Beryl sees the blonde cook she had met last night sprawled haphazardly over a table. Her clothes are messy, and she looks exhausted.