<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152110.msg6950590#msg6950590">Quote from: JinxedMinx on 20-09-2012, 11:49:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/21/Charlotte.jpg)</div> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Charlotte “Charlie” Cooper</span></span><br/> <strong>Current Location:</strong> The Stables <br/><strong>With:</strong> J.F. Henshaw and Lord Richard Fowler<br/><strong>When:</strong> Day 1, before dinner<br/><br/>As Lord Richard led Charlie from the stables, the returning stable hands shared knowing looks as they were told Charlie would be spending the night up at the house. From one, she even received a look of sympathy.  None of this made her feel any better. <br/><br/>“Lord Richard, sir. Truly, I appreciate the attention, I am flattered.”  She swallowed heavily as she tried to think of something that would help her current situation but no miraculous answer came to her. “But sir, I don’t belong in the main house; my place is in the stables.”<br/> <br/>As Charlie followed Lord Richard, she saw her only hope was to escape from the house once the gentlemen begun their contest.  She'd was sorry that she had to leave the comfort of Lord Henshaw's employ but she’d survived on her own before, she could do it again if she had to. Her only other option was to remain and become the unthinkable. She shuddered as she considered the possibilities that waited her within the main house.  <br/><br/>OOC: Continued Outside Lord Darcy's Study (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=152420.0)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Who:  Lord Richard Fowler<br/>Where:  outside Lord Darcy’s study<br/>With:  Charlie and Lord Darcy<br/>When:  shortly before dinner<br/><br/>Richard heard Charlie’s complaint that he didn’t belong in the house “nonsense” he said leading the boy into the house and thru the halls toward the servants wing “you are a beautiful creature and if one lord seas you belong in the house let alone two then that is where you should be.” Richard did not look back at Charlie as he spoke but simply kept walking.<br/><br/>He was confident now that the prize was not what his opponent thought it was.  The way Zeus had responded to Charlie, the horse was not fond of men other then Richard and yet he seamed to truly like this one. Not to mention the aroused state of the horse that the others didn’t seam to notice, this was not Zeus’s first visit to the Henshaw’s stables and to Richard’s knowledge the only women who had come into Zeus’s stall on past trips had intended to bend over for the steed.   Add that to the feminine features and Richard strongly suspected this “boy” was a pretender, which only interested him more.  Would he reveal her to the rest of the guests or perhaps keep her secret for himself.<br/><br/>As they walked Richard saw his friend Darcy leaving his study.