Chatterbox: KYNGDOM™ RP Board

Felix glared up at the bright sun, a challenge to the golden glow.

He immediately regretted it, looking back down at the ground, blinking the searing halo out of his eyes. Trust him to be stupid enough to look straight at the sun.

Averting his gaze from the sun, Felix scanned the landscape. It was hot and dusty, with dirt and tractor trails cutting across the wild grasses. They must've originally been farmland, or grazing pastures, judging from the half-broken fences and large divided sectors, but he couldn't tell which. Besides, they were all grown over and devoid of cultivation now–it seemed that Kyngdom had taken back its land.

Felix sighed, shaking the dust from his jacket. It had been nothing but grass and hills and plains for miles, and miles, and miles. Surely, he should've encountered a town by now.

No luck.

Well that was rather ironic.

Felix would probably find a town quite soon, actually!

Felix grinned, optimism taking over, and started bounding down the hill, and toward the next one.

And, his prediction had been right, because as soon as he crested the next hill, he stopped, sighting civilization.

A small town stretched out through a valley, a narrow river winding its way through. It looked rather broken-down, even from a distance, and Felix thought he could see the remains of some destroyed buildings. Surrounding the town was a large amount of white flowers, each popping up in clusters.

If Felix squinted, he could see people moving amongst the flowers.

Well, time to see if the place had a decent inn!

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The place did not, in fact, have a decent inn. The best Felix could find for lodgings was a small bed and breakfast, with an old lady with a parrot. Felix had read several works of literature about evil landladies before, so he decided against it, and left to find somewhere to camp.

Somewhere along his journey from Paralia, Felix had picked up a tent–he wasn't sure where, maybe from a wandering merchant or caravan of some sort, but at any rate, he had one (though small), and it worked just fine.

As Felix wandered closer to the fields of white flowers, he could see that the people were harvesting them, plucking them up by the stems and arranging them in large baskets. They looked like some sort of bizarre wedding bouquet arrangement. Curiously, Felix hopped down the hill, coming closer.

"Hallo!" Felix called, waving vigorously at the nearest person, who's face was blocked by an enormous sunhat.

They stopped, turning around. They were a girl, maybe a little younger than Felix, slight wisps of brown hair coming out of their sunhat, which shaded their face. They were carrying a basket full of white flowers.

"What do you want?" they asked shortly, their expression sour.

Felix shrugged, a little surprised by their hostility. "I was just wondering why you were harvesting the white flowers. Is there a wedding or something?"

The girl's face went blank for a moment, before she dissolved into laughter. "A wedding?" she exclaimed, gasping for breath, "Of course not! These are on order of Catastrophe, you know, the person who's been lording over most of Kyngdom for years."

"Oh! Catastrophe? What does he want with these flowers? I thought he was off fighting wars, or something. Why are you even harvesting them for him? I don't see an army badge or whatever," Felix commented.

The girl frowned. "You're not from around here, are you?"

Felix shook his head. "What gave it away?"

"Nobody from here asks that many questions," she said, her original hostility dissipating, and she stretched out her hand to shake, "and I'm Anise. Want to talk?" 

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Look at me, writing something! This is related to my last thread (somewhat), where Felix encountered Kit on his way out of Paralia. I didn't finish that story-arc, so let's just pretend that he took Kit and their friend to a hospital, and left abruptly.