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old_man_acht) wrote2012-08-12 03:02 pm
old_man_acht) wrote2012-08-12 03:02 pm
Hostages to Fortune
Children, Acht has read, are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Across all of Europe, the Einzbern line continues on the fecundity of innumerable cadet branches--but at the family's heart, at the taproot that draws on ancestral magic, Acht's forefathers have heeded well the lesson of Francis Bacon. Acht has no daughters to brighten his endless twilight years; instead, he has the willful Justeaze line of homunculi.
He raps twice at Larasviel's door, a velvet-lined box under one arm. It will not do to send Lara into a sulk at this critical stage of their enterprise--he can afford a modicum of courtesy.
He raps twice at Larasviel's door, a velvet-lined box under one arm. It will not do to send Lara into a sulk at this critical stage of their enterprise--he can afford a modicum of courtesy.