[Mildmay shrugs that right off like a duck with water. Half what this girl says, Mildmay's sure doesn't matter, the other half probably only matters to her. Actually, maybe that's all of it, and it's the rest of the world that's gotta scramble to make sense of things. There's a though.]
[Anyway. The Boneprince.] This story's true. I mean, as true as can be. It happened, anyway. [He clears his throat.] So there's this cemetery, where I live. Uh, lived. It's supposed to be called Adrian's Park, but we all call it the Boneprince, and here's why...
[Again, Mildmay becomes animated, excited, interested in the conversation, his own words. He comes out from behind the veneer of stoicism. He talks about old King Mathurin Open-Handed,] He's called that 'cause he was all generous with the poor and shit. Only king who was, in all twenty great septads. [Mildmay talks about Mathurin's two sons, twins Richard and Adrian, and how Richard was born just a few minutes before Adrian. And Adrian was jealous. He waited years and years, and then he tried to kill Richard in his sleep, and he failed, waking up Richard's mistress on the way to their bed. King Mathurin had Adrian arrested, but he'd committed suicide before the trial.]
Now, as it was, Mathurin'd built a pleasure walk, a nice big garden, when the boys'd hit their second septad. Then, the day after Adrian done offed himself, Mathurin goes out and he says, from this day on, Adrian's Park shall be a cemetery set aside especially for the likes of thieves and murderers. [For the voice of the king, Mildmay does a half-hearted imitation of Felix's flash accent, vowels all clipped and pretty, nothing slurred.] And just like that, Adrian was the first burial. We all call it the Boneprince, though, on account of, well, you can guess.
There's a big damn statue of Adrian right at the front. When they got it put in, it had these lapis lazuli eyes along of Adrian's being real bright blue. Of course, those things got carved out and stole first thing off, and now he stares out at night with empty sockets. Some folks say it's a mercy, so he can't see the place where he would'a been king, since of course the statue's facing up that way.
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[Anyway. The Boneprince.] This story's true. I mean, as true as can be. It happened, anyway. [He clears his throat.] So there's this cemetery, where I live. Uh, lived. It's supposed to be called Adrian's Park, but we all call it the Boneprince, and here's why...
[Again, Mildmay becomes animated, excited, interested in the conversation, his own words. He comes out from behind the veneer of stoicism. He talks about old King Mathurin Open-Handed,] He's called that 'cause he was all generous with the poor and shit. Only king who was, in all twenty great septads. [Mildmay talks about Mathurin's two sons, twins Richard and Adrian, and how Richard was born just a few minutes before Adrian. And Adrian was jealous. He waited years and years, and then he tried to kill Richard in his sleep, and he failed, waking up Richard's mistress on the way to their bed. King Mathurin had Adrian arrested, but he'd committed suicide before the trial.]
Now, as it was, Mathurin'd built a pleasure walk, a nice big garden, when the boys'd hit their second septad. Then, the day after Adrian done offed himself, Mathurin goes out and he says, from this day on, Adrian's Park shall be a cemetery set aside especially for the likes of thieves and murderers. [For the voice of the king, Mildmay does a half-hearted imitation of Felix's flash accent, vowels all clipped and pretty, nothing slurred.] And just like that, Adrian was the first burial. We all call it the Boneprince, though, on account of, well, you can guess.
There's a big damn statue of Adrian right at the front. When they got it put in, it had these lapis lazuli eyes along of Adrian's being real bright blue. Of course, those things got carved out and stole first thing off, and now he stares out at night with empty sockets. Some folks say it's a mercy, so he can't see the place where he would'a been king, since of course the statue's facing up that way.