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To Discover the Man Beneath the Crown
Topic Started: Apr 10 2009, 02:13 PM (44 Views)
Caspian Flanagan
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Memories come and go, and while I feel like I’m the same, the way people look at me, I’ve come to realize that with the loss of memories I’ve been altered, and while many have come back … I’ve stayed as I was when I woke up in that bed.

It’s amusing to see people around me alter to fit what they think I should be, then again to what I am. Amusing to see staff and servants hop, skip, and jump to what they think my whims are, and then fidget when they realize it honestly doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter because I have changed. I woke not realizing who I was, and while I now know … I have come to understand one thing so important that I seemed to have forgotten over the last three years: I’m a man first and foremost. It doesn’t matter that I’m King, it wouldn’t matter were I emperor, or even, as Thomas would like to believe he is; God. I’m a man. Stripped of my title, stripped of rank and position, I’d still retain my position as a man.

That is something that Anise has been trying to teach me since we’ve met; something it took me being stripped of memories of rank and title that I learned … all while she waited patiently for me to come back to her.

The truth of the matter is; I never left. Oh sure, I was memory-less, but me, the man within, well, I was here all along; and I think that is something she had to learn. So perhaps this attack had a purpose, had a meaning that taught both me and my wife something. Only … I don’t think she realizes.

I don’t think Anise realizes the changes that took place within me … or the ones she learned as well. Such as my hopes and desires to re-educate myself at a level less than above the world. Hence my desire to travel Revonia, to visit her people, my people our people. I know my wife has dreams of doing things for the people of our country, though what they are … is a mystery. Perhaps on this voyage, this trip, (much to Thomas’ dismay will have little glitz and glamour) I will learn what wife craves all without an entire fleet of guards! Just a hand-picked few that Brody insisted upon.

But one thing I trust … the attempt on our lives did not come from the people, but of someone with power. So I have not advertised our trip, and haven’t even decided where we are going first … thus I doubt any ruling power will know where we are until we’ve already gone.

But it’s my wife that made me up the ante. Up the stakes in that instead of in June, as we originally planned, I am whisking my beloved, our family away come Monday. The day after Easter I’ll wake her up to that little surprise, one that, thus far, only Brody knows as he had to arrange the few guards that we will be taking.

It is then that I want to learn. Learn about my country from the ground, not from a towering height my father insisted upon when we traveled. From the earth, as I learned the colonies when I was there. But it is also from there I get the best vantage point to learn my wife. Learn who she was before I took her away from a life I’m fairly certain she loved, and just as certain that she misses.

It is that woman that I want to discover. But, it is also the man I left behind in Maryland that I want her to get to know. The one Renata stripped of his dreams and hopes, the man that I’d like to get to know again as well. And maybe offer my wife a few surprises that there is indeed a man beneath this crown. Though I think she already knows that … maybe just needs a little reminder. One I intend on giving her. That and then some.
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