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[June 24, 2007][Original] Success
Title: Success
Day/Theme: June 24, 2007 "rend your heart, and not your garments"
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Cathon and Crisette Orsini
Rating: G
This was a fine day for the Orsini. The revolution had taxed their resources, both in money and in manpower, but today they could see it had all been worth it in the end. A new Counsel had been called for to head the fledgling House of Representatives and two of their own had proudly accepted seats on this Counsel. Lucas and Ivalice were a strong pair within the largely clerical Counsel and Jeremiah was elected by the townsfolk (with support from his family) to be the local representative.
"Crisette! What'd I tell you?!" Cathon laughed, obviously overjoyed by their children's success.
"'Don't give up the ghost,'" she murmured wearily, thinking of how many times her husband had spoken these exact words.
"I did the right thing!" he proclaimed loudly, "I wasn't sure I should leave the politics to that son of mine, but, by golly, he did it!"
Crisette smiled in a more subdued manner than Cathon, but she seconded his sentiment, "Yes, he's done admirably. He deserves a reward. ...And," she adding, arching an eyebrow, "I supported him this whole time. I knew he could do it. Lucas had the real ambition on his own, not like the others whose drive was nothing but your passion inflating their empty sails."
"Crisette, let's not get into that..." the mustached man groaned. He too had believed in Lucas, and his son had not failed to impress him with his efforts over the years. It was just that among his three sons, Lucas would not have been his first choice to achieve greatness. Still, anything this family could get they would take.
One of the best parts, after all, as far as Cathon was concerned, was that an Orsini victory was a Kaeyani failure, a Durante loss, and a Hadasa defeat. He was not the type of man to spare a kind word for his crushed and disgruntled enemies, but if he'd been forced to advise them as to how they could follow him on the road to success, he would've told them to scatter their feelings, not their resources, to the wind. One never knew how one's personal savings, city army, and debt from a powerful bishop would serve one's family or faction in the future.
"Well, I guess it's time to start organizing the party," the Orsini matriarch told her husband.
"Indeed," he agreed, "Don't forget to invite a couple of our defeated opponents."
"Wouldn't dream of it," she said.
Day/Theme: June 24, 2007 "rend your heart, and not your garments"
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Cathon and Crisette Orsini
Rating: G
This was a fine day for the Orsini. The revolution had taxed their resources, both in money and in manpower, but today they could see it had all been worth it in the end. A new Counsel had been called for to head the fledgling House of Representatives and two of their own had proudly accepted seats on this Counsel. Lucas and Ivalice were a strong pair within the largely clerical Counsel and Jeremiah was elected by the townsfolk (with support from his family) to be the local representative.
"Crisette! What'd I tell you?!" Cathon laughed, obviously overjoyed by their children's success.
"'Don't give up the ghost,'" she murmured wearily, thinking of how many times her husband had spoken these exact words.
"I did the right thing!" he proclaimed loudly, "I wasn't sure I should leave the politics to that son of mine, but, by golly, he did it!"
Crisette smiled in a more subdued manner than Cathon, but she seconded his sentiment, "Yes, he's done admirably. He deserves a reward. ...And," she adding, arching an eyebrow, "I supported him this whole time. I knew he could do it. Lucas had the real ambition on his own, not like the others whose drive was nothing but your passion inflating their empty sails."
"Crisette, let's not get into that..." the mustached man groaned. He too had believed in Lucas, and his son had not failed to impress him with his efforts over the years. It was just that among his three sons, Lucas would not have been his first choice to achieve greatness. Still, anything this family could get they would take.
One of the best parts, after all, as far as Cathon was concerned, was that an Orsini victory was a Kaeyani failure, a Durante loss, and a Hadasa defeat. He was not the type of man to spare a kind word for his crushed and disgruntled enemies, but if he'd been forced to advise them as to how they could follow him on the road to success, he would've told them to scatter their feelings, not their resources, to the wind. One never knew how one's personal savings, city army, and debt from a powerful bishop would serve one's family or faction in the future.
"Well, I guess it's time to start organizing the party," the Orsini matriarch told her husband.
"Indeed," he agreed, "Don't forget to invite a couple of our defeated opponents."
"Wouldn't dream of it," she said.