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Chapter Three: Octopus Dance
{Letter #11.}
Dear Drake,
What kind of self-respecting assassin would publish a book about their murderous exploits? If anything, to throw people off their guard, an assassin would be more inclined to publish a book on an innocuous subject, like school or romance... Uh, now that I think about it, maybe you should keep a close eye on her after all.
I doubt she's joined royal competitions like that very often. But there was that time when she was crowned "Queen of Beer Pong" for a night. If that's the kind of royalty you have over there, Emily's going to wipe the floor with whoever else shows up at the first rose ceremony.
Riley
P.S. - If you thought she might be an assassin, what if she had punctured your parachute in advance? Are you trying to do her job for her?
{Letter #12.}
Dear Riley,
You do realize that your last letter didn't put my mind at ease, right? I used to think that whenever I was on a plane and wanted to escape Tariq's pretentious bragging or Maxwell's attempts to teach me dance moves, I could still rely on a good old parachute to help me escape. Are you trying to make my life more difficult?
The masquerade ball is tomorrow night, by the way. I told them that Emily didn't need to wear a mask since nobody here knew her anyway, but from the glare she gave me, I don't think my input was appreciated.
Drake
P.S. – Thanks for the rose ceremony reference by the way. I accidentally blurted that out, and now this princess competition has two dimwits who think I watch The Bachelor. Which I do not.
{Letter #13.}
Dear Drake,
Now I wish I had taken you guys to a club instead of the beach cove. So you don't know how to dance at all? I've never seen Maxwell dance, but I imagine that his style would be really... enthusiastic. He'd be waving his head and arms around like an octopus on a sugar rush. Am I anywhere close?
I've never been to a masquerade ball, but it sounds fun to pretend to be somebody else for the night, like a superhero. Hey, you should smile the entire evening! Now that would be better than any mask you could possibly find. Although you might have a lot of people walk up to you and ask if you need to see a doctor.
Riley
P.S. – You do realize that I never mentioned The Bachelor, right?
{Letter #14.}
Dear Riley,
Maxwell always acts like he's on a sugar rush. Handstands and backflips are his go-to moves on the dance floor. But Bertrand, his older brother, would likely run him through with one of the double-edged swords from their estate armory if Maxwell tried doing a handstand at a royal event. That, or a flail. Upholding family dignity and honor is pretty important here.
Funny you should mention an octopus, though. There's actually an old Cordonian story about a talking wolf and a floating octopus. I don't think Maxwell is descended from the octopus, but the Beaumont coat-of-arms does have a squid. So you may be onto something to that octopus dance idea of yours. And I think I've used the word "octopus" so much that it doesn't even look like a real word anymore.
Drake
{Letter #15.}
Dear Drake,
What a waste of a perfectly good double-edged sword. Or a perfectly good flail, for that matter. I once saw a video online where somebody used a rapier to open a bottle of champagne. I suggested to my boss that we should do that here, but he shot my idea down like it was the worst thing he'd ever heard.
I don't know if it was because of the cost of getting medieval weaponry or the likelihood of customers getting injured by exploding shards of glass that made him reject the idea straightaway.
Or it could possibly have been my attempt to demonstrate the concept with a knife and a beer bottle to show him what a great idea it was. Yes, the knife did just miss him by inches, but it was a bread knife! What a wimp.
Riley
(End of Chapter Three.) (T-24/07/17.) (F-23/06/18.)
Chapter Three notes: (B01-C02.) Looks like we know who first mentioned the rose ceremony reference to Drake in this version of their story XD And they kept talking about Maxwell for some reason… :D
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