<div class="floatleft">(http://rpgs.chrisbradleywriter.com/images/d/d4/Octavian.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Octavian Lucius John Augustus, Duke of Ynysia<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Castle hall<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Open, Evelyn.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>He laughed, drew his sword and lowered it so it blocked her as she tried moving around him and his men - he had no intent of putting a possible enemy at his back, or in allowing her to escape so easily.  The blade of the sword was black, but when the light hit it, there was a rainbow pattern, and the whole blade looked wet, like it should be dripping water.  While it was hilted in gold and ivory, the blade, itself, was unadorned except for some Ynysian runes on the ricasso, up to around half the length up the blade.  This caused his men to unsheath their swords, too.<br/><br/>"You mean . . . these toys?  But do they make me feel safe?  No.  Safer?  Yes.  And I have always been amused about how<i>your</i>- feel free to substitute any 'you', there - ancient laws, customs and traditions are vital and essential elements to your institutions and national character, whereas<i>my</i>ancient laws, customs and traditions are worthy of jokes.  Regardless, the fact remains, we have the swords and none of that changes one iota that this is a very suspicious time to be leaving on the sly," he said.<br/><br/>He leaned in a bit.  "But I we don't need to be enemies.  As chance would have it, I have made preparations to leave the castle, swiftly, myself.  These are dangerous times.  And right this moment something occurred to me.  There is a large army sitting on the southern border but it's not<i>doing</i>anything.  That's a mistake, strategically speaking, because it allows the enemy to prepare defenses . . . unless it is a ruse.  It's a trick I use, myself, people look at the sword and I . . ."  He tapped the hilt of his anelace.  "Draw the sly blade.  I've killed more people with the anelace than the sword because they don't see it coming until too late, though it is a smaller weapon, it is also faster and usually hidden by my cloak.  It makes me wonder if you know something about the sly blade, something I don't know but<i>want</i>to know.<br/><br/>"Or, alternately, I can keep you here and send off one of my lads to fetch the palace guard.  If you'd rather talk to them than me."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">I hadn't even noticed it.  ;D</div></div>