#ik * xavier marquez.

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CLOSED ; for @crxssdhearts’ XAVIER, @wcngxue’s WANG XUE & @ethercvl’s TAYLAN (not a group thread)

josie’s words still echoed in his head —  and who have you connected with since we've been here?  any of the other emissaries?

the memory crept up on him in his shame, making him want desperately to march back into his chambers and hide under layers of blankets. while iain appreciated the help offered by his step-mother, it was unbearably embarrassing that he needed it in the first place. while he might be familiar with the other emissaries and had no real difficulty connecting with them, bringing it back to the position was harder to keep in mind. smoothing things over was well within his capabilities, but weaselling out information? as one of the newer emissaries, it was difficult to find his footing.

spying an ambassador of the other courts’, his eyes light up. iain smiles — wide and toothy, his perfect pearl glazed teeth bared like an eager pup. “greetings!” he gives a little wave of his fingers, sidling up next to them. we make our own opportunities. from the stone will come a statue with some hammering. “how are you faring with the recent snow flurries?” meaning both the weather, and perhaps, if one were to read into it, recent behaviours of their young king…