aprescoup: (vannozza)
destination: still east ([personal profile] aprescoup) wrote in [personal profile] groundrules 2021-08-24 11:36 pm (UTC)

The matchmaker. A beauty. Certainly.

Then let us have an arrangement, my pet. More, a prophecy. A set of conditions I am certain we can both agree with an easy heart to meet.

Here it is: if you betray me, if you sell me, if you play me, you savage my people, my Taravast. My ruin is theirs.

Then, all things being equal, so too must be my retaliation. And I assure you, if you move against me, by the time I have shared your kin Allison as a plaything among every last one of my men, the strong and the cripple and the fools, by the time I have cut her hair and sent her a beggar to be spit upon by every citizen in the street, she will also be ruined.

Because if I do not win, we all lose.

Am I understood? Of course I am. Your mind pertains to your body, and your body is a temple. What a smart man you are. Go to Macaluso.

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