This song is the theme tune for my exams. I love it so very much, it took me ages to think of a character to fit its awesomeness.
Speaking of which... Exams are over (yay!), so requests are in the process of being written!
Almost There (Princess & The Frog) – Rica Brosca
It had been about a month since her brother had left with the Grey Wardens. Rica was standing in their 'family home', listening to Kala, once again, drunkenly rave about how they were going to starve now Beraht was dead.
"Well, I have to make sure that all Beraht's work on me means something," reasoned Rica, determinedly.
"What good ish it gunna do ush, now, though?" the older woman grumbled. "Yer brother's shodded off with the Ray Gordens, and now it'sh jusht us tryin' t' eshcape Jarvia. We're jusht gunna have t' try an' talk 'em out o' killin' ush, or – "
"Mama!" said Rica, firmly, hands on her not ungenerous hips. "I don't have time for talking!" She sighed at her mother. "That's just gonna have to wait a while," she consoled, smiling at her secret. "Ain't got time for messing around, and it's not my style. This old slum just drags you down, people taking the begging way. But I know exactly where I'm going - getting closer and closer every day!"
She grinned widely, shaking her mother's stooped shoulders. "And I'm almost there!" she asserted. "I'm almost there! People down here think I'm crazy, but I don't care." It was true; no one believed a Duster could snag even a guard. They'd be the most shocked, when it turned out she was the only surviving Prince's mistress. "Trials and tribulations... I've had my share. There ain't nothing gonna stop me now 'cause I'm almost there!"
She twirled as she tidied up the slovely room. "I remember brother told me: 'Fairytales can come true. You gotta make 'em happen, it all depends on you!'" That was her brother, the eternal optimist. "So I work real hard each and every day, now things for sure are going my way! Just doing what I do – look out nobles, I'm coming through!"
She wiggled her rear, giggling as she saw the muddled look on her mother's face. "And I'm almost there! I'm almost there!" she cried, happily. "People gonna see me from everywhere, and I'm almost there! I'm almost there!"
She stopped as she reached the window, seeing the slum that was Dust Town outside. The place she'd lived in for nineteen years. "There's been trials and tribulations," she murmured. "You know I've had my share…" She turned back to her mother, smiling broadly. "But I've climbed the nug pile, I've crossed the lava, and I'm almost there!" She pulled her mother to standing, and danced around the table with her joyously. "I'm almost there! I'm almost there!"
She would make her brother proud, and she would bring Kala out of the wreckage of the slums. All she had to do now was give Bhelen a son, and she'd be there.
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That was incredibly short. But I love Rica so much, she's possibly the only reason I ever play as a dwarf commoner… She's so cute :3
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