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julia

@sadanduncertain / sadanduncertain.tumblr.com

constant clown, occasional artist / 24
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look! I froze Heinrix over….again…this time he’s hanging upside down. Just thought the whole symbolism with sacrifice, choice and indecision would work nicely

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Chapter 7 Sneaky Peeky

Heinrix stared at the board for a long time, saying nothing. Aurelia was about to prompt him to move when he lifted his lone gray eye to her face and held her gaze. Aurelia lifted her eyebrow, in challenge or question, she could not say. And then, from the corner of her eye, she saw Heinrix’s fingers reach for one of his two remaining citizens, drag it across the board, and swap it for his threatened king. 

“Any good subject,” he said, “should give their life for their king.” 

Anger surged through her. How dare he play a move she had made up to irritate him. How dare he remember it! She swallowed her irritation and gave Heinrix a smile; she knew he was studying her. He had to be. “Indeed, they should.” She captured his citizen and dropped it into the leather box, where it joined its fellows. “But... that puts us in stalemate.” His king was now in the open and precariously placed but there were no moves - or rather, no legal moves - that could take it. 

“Indeed?” Heinrix eyed her with intense scrutiny. “There are no special Alera II gambits that can be played?” 

“Even if there were,” Aurelia replied, “I would not be willing to share them with you.”

#putting you in jail for this#i'm literally in your walls
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