(Set shorty after his meeting w Morrigan) Aeistrios arrives back to his lands with a sigh from his lips, feeling the dread already coming upon him at having to let go his hard-earned prisoners. However, a deal was a deal - and his peace was worth more than any of them. Not just the prisoners from the raid, but everyone. He made his statement- he could own them. Now he’d make the statement by letting them go, how he controlled their freedom. It brings a grin to his lips, a summoning chuff to any of them who might hear. He then rolls his shoulders before speaking briefly. “Any prisoners of Lorien are now free - the war is over, victory has been won and I would appreciate my naps to not be burdened anymore.” A tease in his words, of course, but the chains are ripped from them. He keeps a keen eye out for @Eisa ‘s reaction.

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( She is technically a LP prisoner her rank just isn’t right. )

Having woken up in the plains after the raid had ended she didn’t have a clue how she had gotten there but she could take a guess. The short time she was there she hurts. Sore from her fight with the lioness from here yes, but mostly her heart hurt. She missed her wives. Raizel and Arachnae. She worried for them. Last she saw her pink blossom the woman had been knocked out.

But she had been too scared to ask anyone about what had happened. She stayed by herself for the most part until @Aeistrios had called them. Coming to him she got near but stopped trying to hide in the grass. She would have waited for another to arrive before making herself known, but then a big surprise came. He let them go. She could hardly believe it but didn’t question it. She just turned tail and ran. Not sure where she was going but she needed to find them. She’d probably head to the grove and start her search for her beloved wives there.

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The pines, they often whisper

They whisper what no tongue can tell

The girl had been hiding, as she so often did. She'd found quite early that peace and kindness were not to be trusted. And so she'd kept mostly to herself, unless she'd dared to explore. She'd stayed long enough to not really be bothered by being stuck there. After all, where would she go? What would she even do out there? There wasn't anyone to miss her or come looking for her. So why shouldn't she just accept her status and fight it?

When the call came, the yearling slowly moved from the cave she'd been living in, floppy ears flattened against her head. Unsure what to make of it, she stalked towards @Aeistrios and stood at a distance. She didn't understand why he let them go, but she knew that she could now no longer stay. And so the bronze girl was quick to turn around and make a dash for the border, just...fleeing while she had the chance.

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Anniston let out a sniff of laughter at the sound of her release. Perhaps she was an afterthought opposed to the actual prisoners of war, but she was not about to stick around and wait for the oaf to start making stipulations. She would be free, one way or another, and this way was easiest for her.

The dark lioness leaned back in a lackadaisical stretch, emitting a yawn before setting off at a loping pace. With her mind set intently upon finding and goading Olive, it did not occur to her that there was someone she should say goodbye to – not until she was too far gone. Anniston left into the fields a free woman.

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She does not feel a rush of relief when she hears the call. Instead, she feels a surge of irritation, of disappointment. She had wanted to fight for her freedom. Who was he to think he could just steal her from her home and then let her go because he was bored? Eisa stalks across the plains, heading towards the King- and not towards the borders. She would not flee without staring him in the eye, and saying her piece.

Eisa stalks, and when she spies the King, her eyes narrow- lips peeling back in a vicious snarl.

"What's this now? Too cowardly to face the consequences of your tyrant actions?"

Of course she couldn't just flee.

@Aestrios

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bc i know the theft challenge didn't go in her favor and to help speed other things along i am posting her here

To say she was pissed off with her circumstances was an understatement. Isla was not one to cower and hide, and once she had been taken as a prisoner of the Plains she did not go easily nor quietly. The wildcat made every day she was here as much of a living hell as she could manage, both for the leaders and their members. She didn't choose to be here, and if she ever did wish to live in such a place she would challenge the plum bastard for it herself. So when a call was released from none other than @Aeistrios, freeing all of the prisoners he held captive, Isla was more than eager to make her way back up to her snowcapped home and reclaim her seat as Heiress.

But nothing could ever be so simple. As the colossal moved across the plains her attention is drawn toward where Aeistrios himself was at, duel colored eyes soon spotting a familiar maroon coat. With a sigh, Isla would make her way toward @Eisa and made it a point to bump into her rather briskly. "Let's leave, Eisa, lest you find yourself in a situation too much for you to bear." Eyes flicker toward the man with a glare, tail lashing behind her. "We'll have retribution soon enough." She knew that her family wouldn't stay quiet about their home being taken, and soon enough it would become theirs once more - she just knew it. Turning then, Isla began to move in the direction Illyria was at, hoping that her cousin would follow.

Isla enter & exit.

QUEEN OF SHADOWS

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He sees @Eisa stalk forward, a snarl on her lips as she speaks to him. Her words satisfy him, a wide grin coming to pull at his maw. "Too cowardly?" A laugh comes from his throat, head shaking with amusement. "You truly wish for more destruction, Little Kitty? Have I not taken enough from you?" A taunt, dangling in the air as he baits her, looks to get under her skin.

Eyes move to his other heiress prisoner - how sad it was to cut time short with her, too. "No, you won't." He comments to @Isla ♔ as she leaves - the explanation saved for Eisa as she stayed behind still. "Not unless you wish to take the life from your grandmother, Eisa. Come at me, or any of my family... you break the truce." He emphasizes the word with a smug expression.

He was untouchable.

"If the truce breaks... she and I fight to the death. You would like to be responsible for the war on Vermeda, the raid on your home, the loss of your home and the death of a family member?" Come at me, Little Kitty. He baited her again, hoping to drive her to do it, to attack him and break what little peace there was. Give him a reason well enough to put his life at risk - and ruining Eisa further was an obsession strong enough to urge him to do so.

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Her teeth bare in a silent snarl as he speaks, her ear flicking towards @Isla ♔ when her Aunt comes to speak to her, but her focus remains on @Aeistrios. His first words, are met with that snarl and there is a distinct pause as he reveals that there is a truce- that if she attacks, it is her grandmother's life.

Then more, as it is revealed that it would be a fight to the death. She scoffs. "Morrigan is unbeatable." She says proudly of her grandmother. "She would wreck you." She snarls, and yet, she steps back -wanting to speak to her grandmother- knowing it has to be Morrigan who would fight him- she knows Talisa is just as mighty but her gut instinct says Morrigan would have made this truce, not Talisa. Not with such stakes.

Eisa snarls, debating attacking him then and there- wanting to go for the kill, and that thought scares her- not what he has done, or what he could do. That she wants to kill him. Eisa steps back, lips curled, as she huffs softly. "You had won. Had us as prisoners and you cast us out for a truce, that if it's broken you will lose the battle? Morrigan never loses." She laughs now. Despite the fact she'd lost a fight on the Summit, but she'd been worn down by the challenge, and it had been a surprise! Morrigan was unstoppable. Eisa had nothing but faith in her grandmother.

"You're a fool."

With those parting words, she turns- turning her back on him in a blatant display of disrespect, trying to goad him into attacking her, so that he breaks the truce he so foolishly made.

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"If you are so certain of her skills - why have you not attacked me yet?" He points out, tail lashing behind him with a smug smirk to his lips. Obviously @Eisa knew there was a chance Morrigan would fall - otherwise she would of tossed the truce to the side and been done with him by now.

"I control your freedom, Eisa. I control you. Do not forget that." He seethes onward at her, tossing her insults aside as he spews the facts. "You will never be free of me. You are mine," He emphasizes the word, letting her mind run wild on just what he might of meant. "You will be back with me soon. Go - go enjoy the family you ruined." He laughs at this as she leaves, claws digging at the soil under his feet.

Yes, he lost his prisoners.

But he would never lose her - not while he breathed. She could climb to the highest of mountains and he would still reach her - lest she buried him six feet under first.

/exit

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