#dcviline interactions ; joffrey baratheon

[velcryons]

@dcviline // starter call i lost that i need to repost

Even with the moon well over head, the docks of King's Landing were as loud and vibrant ever, the sounds of the capitol city echoing off of every surface they touched. Costers trawled up and down the pavement, their loud voices cutting through their air as they plied their nighttime trade of roasted nuts, fruit, and other confectioneries, and for every one coster there were two prostitutes plying their own trade to the same customers, their own voices adding to the song of the streets. The fishing ships that lined the docks in the morning had been replaced by shipping vessels and pleasure barges, and every brothel, pothouse, tavern, hostel, and inn was filled with raucous laughter and shining lights.

Corlys turned to the cloaked figure behind him, his expression tinged with a manufactured seriousness all older boys developed when they were pretending to disapprove of the problems they were about to push their younger, more impressionable friends into. It mattered little to him that his younger, more impressionable friend happened to be the Prince of Westeros. "Now, remember what I told you, " he said to Joffrey with all the gravity he could muster, "if you tell anyone where I took you tonight, we'll be dead."

Corlys did not actually think anything would happen to the pair of them and not only did he think nothing would actually happen to the pair of them, he knew that nothing would actually happen to the pair of them. This was not the first time he had snuck the prince out of the Red Keep and the only time he had been caught, King Robert had almost rewarded him (and probably would have done so, had the veins in Queen Cersei's forehead not threatened to burst). He simply laughed uproariously, saying something about Joffrey finally doing something useful with his time for once before sending the boys on their way (though now their field trips were marked with the looming presence of the Hound, always out of sight but close at hand).

He had initially denied Joffrey attendance to he and Aurane's night of revelry, though he held the activity over the prince's head like a tantalizing prize until he graciously acquiesced into allowing Joffrey to accompany him on the excursion he had been planning on dragging him on from the very beginning. "And if that happens, I will never take you anywhere interesting ever again."