VELORCA TSEZAR LUDIMYR
He heard the Commanders voice long before the winged man came into view, rolling his long lashed eyes as he lay in the sun within the courtyard, propped up by lush cushions and light silk. Everyone was doing their best to follow Max's work orders - most sweating profusely as they delivered supplies or trained in the hot sun. Lorca was doing no such thing. He was a sage, not a fucking gardener. He watched and he learned, many a supple secret tipping his barbed tongue, those lazy golden eyes subtly taking everything in, storing information within his treasure trove to be pored over later. The forgotten whore, lazing in the sun, un-important, too self-involved to listen. These hard-worn warriors had forgotten the threat of intelligence.
So when Maxence came striding around the corner, regal and powerful, Lorca watched him through cold, calculating eyes. Those same eyes flicked to the girl accompanying him, Florentine. The Dusk Court Emissary. Lorca sat up a little, focused on the flower girl with an intensity that promised violence. She was a pretty thing, a breakable little thing. She did not belong in Solterra - Dusk didn't belong here. They were gentle, weak, not even ruled by a Terrastellan. Lorca snorted then, looking at Maxence. Fucking foreigners.
"Rannveig isn't a lion."
He drawled, gracefully standing with a slight shake of his silken hair. Stepping closer to the pair, Lorca eyed Florentine, unimpressed and dismissive. What was she going to do here, stab him with that pretty little dagger? He almost loosed a serpentine laugh at that - perhaps Solterra's troops came in handy after all.
"She's a fucking wolf. A wolf of winter." Lorca paused, his full lips twisting into an arrogant sneer as he asked Florentine "Isn't that right?"
Maxence was one thing, but a Queen from fucking Veteris? Velorca knew about Veteris, how cruel and strict they were, how manipulative and strategic. Novus was a ripe country, ready to be seized by those who were older, wickeder. Perhaps Rannveig wasn't the only winter wolf making her way across their borders.
@Maxence @
