17.Aug.12, 07:37 PM
Everything was going to pot quite nicely, wasn't it? Far leaned on his stick, watching the proceedings with some amusement. "Got a real revolution on our hands, don't we?" he asked one of the other Northerners in amusement. It was nice to think of someone standing up against the beatings. It really was. And you know what? He already had a (somwehat) busted leg. What was a busted lip? "I agree! Let us cease the beatings!" he cried out. "They are obviously antiquated, and remind some people too much of getting whoopings as children. Or here's an idea- Save them for the people who deserve it! Like the people who break the clearly-defined rules."
He brushed his auburn hair out of his eyes, snorting. They were gorgeous women, really, but couldn't they just stop the public debate and let the poor kid get his desserts? Just or not, challenging a dragonrider to a knife fight was nothing short of the dimglow that the goldrider had (loudly) proclaimed the healer to be, in a wrangled, mangled shriek.
One stripe had already been laid down on the kid, and if they waited too long the next one would be all the worse for the ache having begun to set in. Farlint had enjoyed (well, not really) his fair share of whippings for being insubordinate in the North. Why was it such a crime to use the same punishment here just because it was a little harder, and it wasn't their daddy doing the spanking?
Not that Farlint wanted a whooping- which he would probably get for his lip anyway- but some things were just getting ridiculous.
He brushed his auburn hair out of his eyes, snorting. They were gorgeous women, really, but couldn't they just stop the public debate and let the poor kid get his desserts? Just or not, challenging a dragonrider to a knife fight was nothing short of the dimglow that the goldrider had (loudly) proclaimed the healer to be, in a wrangled, mangled shriek.
One stripe had already been laid down on the kid, and if they waited too long the next one would be all the worse for the ache having begun to set in. Farlint had enjoyed (well, not really) his fair share of whippings for being insubordinate in the North. Why was it such a crime to use the same punishment here just because it was a little harder, and it wasn't their daddy doing the spanking?
Not that Farlint wanted a whooping- which he would probably get for his lip anyway- but some things were just getting ridiculous.