OPEN | prompt three | PAIN

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prompt three | P A I N dressing-room style. start your own thread. tag others. wash, rinse, repeat. open to all.

 

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[ex_agnomen677]

[The smile stretches. This is the face of a man who has nothing to worry about.]

You decide.

[ex_insistently_818]

[ There are very few people within the cabal that Mina considers 'untouchable'. The queen — obviously — is one. And Hadrian, by proxy, is another. Which is why her own smile stretches in return. And the more it spreads the more her distaste for him seems apparently saccharine. ]

But I'm terribly awful at guessing games. And I do hate being wrong.

[ex_agnomen677]

You don't have to guess. [He leans his back against the wall, arms crossed. There's something about Hadrian that is always provocative and inviting in a challenging way, no matter who it is he's talking to. Some take it as an offense, others are happy to play along. Very few manage to make him falter.] Just tell me how you want it to be.

[ex_insistently_818]

[ Mina's smile shifts, grows a little less off-put and a little more smug. She's the only daughter of a Very Important Witch in the cabal and which means that Mina is afforded quite a lot of courtesy without having done much to earn it herself. As a result she's grown up vain and entitled; being spoken to like the way Hadrian just has appeals to her very much.

Still, she keeps her voice curled, couched and coy. ]

Oh. I could never do that.

[ex_agnomen677]

[Of course not. He watches her, eyes narrowing just slightly, waiting to see if she says or does something else. Hadrian can see (or guess) what's at the core of her personality, what makes her the spoiled brat that'd be so much fun to watch collapsing on her own flaws and insecurities. More than a few have had an important place within the cabal and been screwed over by their own arrogance. What makes Hadrian think he's so much better than them?

Well. He's still here, isn't he.

The pause is broken with a movement of his head, looking off to the side.]

That's a shame.

[ex_insistently_818]

[ As far as Malfosse witches are concerned, the Hollows are considered both among the best and the absolute worst. In a cabal where vanity runs rampant there are few who outstrip them (though they would argue it is more than earned, given how closely to the queen's hand their bloodline has always sat). They are faithful, where necessary, but everyone else is treated with veneered disdain. Mina assumes Hadrian is lying to her because that's what everybody does.

Her smile twitches as he looks off. ]

And why is that?

[ex_agnomen677]

It's always a sad day when a pretty girl like you says no.