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<blockquote data-quote="Zerith" data-source="post: 5468236" data-attributes="member: 99953"><p>[sblock=OoC] Sorry about taking so long, but I was in town for once ^^; [/sblock]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Indigo">‘iggot? The nerve…’ </span>Alexander thought while standing up, if they had just informed him that he should have had his, personal, mount at the horseline that would have been one thing, but to take an insulating tone and refer to him by a name not his own? They had just forfeited a few moments of their own time that he was going to take in retribution for their trespassing ignorance.</p><p></p><p>He stood up, to no small stature, and leered down at the duo. <span style="color: Indigo">“A dandy day to ye as well! Also, you mean ‘you’re’ as in ‘you are being rude’ not ‘your’ as in ‘you have an over blown sense of urgency.’ But maybe we should start with introductions?”</span> he spoke with an energetic and completely undaunted tone as he dusted off the top of his black and gold mantel. He was grinning with a smugness reserved for only the most pompous of nobility; the two could probably feel the potential migraine that would doubtlessly form if they pestered him much longer, if he did not talk there ear around the camp first, he had nothing better to do at the moment, and he was going to make them aware of it for the next few moments.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Indigo">“<u>I</u> am <em>Lord</em> Alexander J. Ravensworth the forth, and <u>I’m</u> under the impression that I was just insulted by a solder for having my own personal mount at the ready in case I need to make hast elsewhere? No, that can’t be right; that would be mad… I must have just misheard two solders giving me a polite reminder of where horses are generally kept.”</span> He rambled on while grinning, giving them more than a mere hint of his teeth, which were oddly sharp from the canines and back. He then glared at them with his gold inset black eyes, which he narrowed so that the light simply faded from them. <span style="color: Indigo">“Oh, how rude of me! What are <u>your</u> names?”</span> he ended.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, he did not care who they were, and would not really care if one, even both of them, turned out to be lords as well(note likely at all to Alexander, a lord would likely not take such minor matters so seriously); it was a trifling matter and even if they were in a position to discipline him, they would have to go a ways out of their way to rise an inquiry before he could be punished, and he would then trample them under foot: he could not think of one noble that liked to be summoned for such a diminutive manner, by any odds he would have the duo lose favor, win or lose. And if by some off chance he was punished, it would be a slap on the wrist so weak it would not bend the fabric of his shirt. And any one able to discipline him would know full well how frustratingly painful it would be to do anything to him over such a small thing. He knew it and he was grinning like a hawk; they either had to eat their own words, or back them up, pull him to a personage of authority enough to issue a punishment onto him in place of his father and then be more convicting then he was; all but imposable in his mind. ‘Actually, that could be amusing!’ he thought smugly, his grin deepened and one could feel the laughter pouring out of his eyes. He was bored, and the two gave him something to do, but if they only acted on their initiative…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zerith, post: 5468236, member: 99953"] [sblock=OoC] Sorry about taking so long, but I was in town for once ^^; [/sblock] [COLOR=Indigo]‘iggot? The nerve…’ [/COLOR]Alexander thought while standing up, if they had just informed him that he should have had his, personal, mount at the horseline that would have been one thing, but to take an insulating tone and refer to him by a name not his own? They had just forfeited a few moments of their own time that he was going to take in retribution for their trespassing ignorance. He stood up, to no small stature, and leered down at the duo. [COLOR=Indigo]“A dandy day to ye as well! Also, you mean ‘you’re’ as in ‘you are being rude’ not ‘your’ as in ‘you have an over blown sense of urgency.’ But maybe we should start with introductions?”[/COLOR] he spoke with an energetic and completely undaunted tone as he dusted off the top of his black and gold mantel. He was grinning with a smugness reserved for only the most pompous of nobility; the two could probably feel the potential migraine that would doubtlessly form if they pestered him much longer, if he did not talk there ear around the camp first, he had nothing better to do at the moment, and he was going to make them aware of it for the next few moments. [COLOR=Indigo]“[U]I[/U] am [I]Lord[/I] Alexander J. Ravensworth the forth, and [U]I’m[/U] under the impression that I was just insulted by a solder for having my own personal mount at the ready in case I need to make hast elsewhere? No, that can’t be right; that would be mad… I must have just misheard two solders giving me a polite reminder of where horses are generally kept.”[/COLOR] He rambled on while grinning, giving them more than a mere hint of his teeth, which were oddly sharp from the canines and back. He then glared at them with his gold inset black eyes, which he narrowed so that the light simply faded from them. [COLOR=Indigo]“Oh, how rude of me! What are [U]your[/U] names?”[/COLOR] he ended. Honestly, he did not care who they were, and would not really care if one, even both of them, turned out to be lords as well(note likely at all to Alexander, a lord would likely not take such minor matters so seriously); it was a trifling matter and even if they were in a position to discipline him, they would have to go a ways out of their way to rise an inquiry before he could be punished, and he would then trample them under foot: he could not think of one noble that liked to be summoned for such a diminutive manner, by any odds he would have the duo lose favor, win or lose. And if by some off chance he was punished, it would be a slap on the wrist so weak it would not bend the fabric of his shirt. And any one able to discipline him would know full well how frustratingly painful it would be to do anything to him over such a small thing. He knew it and he was grinning like a hawk; they either had to eat their own words, or back them up, pull him to a personage of authority enough to issue a punishment onto him in place of his father and then be more convicting then he was; all but imposable in his mind. ‘Actually, that could be amusing!’ he thought smugly, his grin deepened and one could feel the laughter pouring out of his eyes. He was bored, and the two gave him something to do, but if they only acted on their initiative… [/QUOTE]
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