Ball Gags What Does It Do

[Original]

Author: taurie_2020
Title: Gemini
Table / Prompt 12_segni 03.Gemelli
Fandom: anyone, is a ' original part of the project chr_avanemna
Character: Jayden Islands, Prince Adrien Avanemna
Note: This second foray into the youth of Jayden (and Adrien) is dedicated to indra_pavamana for his birthday
Table: here

art by FantasyAce

Jade suspected to be dreaming, but the voice of his sister, sitting next to him on the wall of stone, distracted him.
"I looked again in the basin of the vision ... has changed .... "
now had his full attention. Looking at it was like seeing your own reflection in a strange mirror, not quite true: they were twins, they looked like so awesome, but her eyes were, indeed, strange.
"You know that I have the same vision for almost a year!"
Jayden nodded, his eyes lingering on the gray robe of a novice. It was almost two years now that had entered the House of Women, to become a priestess of the Goddess. Although he was young he had the ambition to become one of the High Priestess and certainly had a remarkable gift for divining the future.
"I know, but ...." The girl
silenced him with a dry hand gesture: "What do you think that our brother did you tested?"
"Yes, of course, but his children, maybe just wants to protect ..." failed to prevent lifting hand, to touch the tattoo, from eyelid to cheek, and bound up his half-moon the left eye.
"My vision was clear: you light, I am the shadow, we would have ruled the islands from the Castle and Temple, the last year have done nothing more than to see our shadows grow in the silver basin and yet last night ... .... "
"Ja ...."
"Shut up!"
Jayden was at that moment that he realized it was all a dream: he was just reliving a day in half-closed eyelids of years before, since only in a dream remembered his name.
"But last night - repeatedly choked voice - I saw my shadow grow smaller and disappear from the east ... and there is another take my place ... I'm afraid Jade!" Grabbed her hands.
The boy stared at her helplessly.
"You can not Essert ... wrong?"
"No, you know ..."
They were silent for a long time, then the girl got up brushing her skirt with his hands and greeted his brother.
Jayden look after him a long time, and sat long after that was gone: his words had disturbed, he knew the power of divination sister was immense. She had entered as a novice among the priestesses of the Dark Goddess with pride and ambition already shaped, despite having only ten years, and now it was almost ready to be ordered, needed little more than a year, yet it seemed that his dream was beginning is already falling apart.
little over a year ... Jade knew that that deadline would be terminated their furtive meetings, tolerated only because they tied the knot deep twins. From the beginning he had to give up his name, take the secret that had given her the Goddess, known only by the priestesses, and soon would wear the black dress and the look on his face would have made from year to year, more remote, more inhumane and would come the day that he would be circumvented in the outside world only veiled, as the high priestess and priestesses older.
still remember when a year before the barbarians came from the east had torn the veil in public to the Priestess, was dead even before he could give voice to the scream of horror that was about to launch. The veil was defending the world from her, not her from the world. The man had seen the unbearable secret that only the older priestesses could support: in the eyes of the Priestess lived together the past, present and future, had no need the silver basin and pure water for divination, she became the crucible of the Goddess, saw it all happen at the same time and despite this he managed to keep separate the continuous view in which he lived.
"Last night ... the first new moon ..." he muttered, wondering if it meant something.
shook his head, it was getting dark, had to return to the castle.
not imagine that an exact year since that day he would sail for the capital of 'Empire, and that his sister had already been dead for several months.
The tragedy was discovered on a cold morning, after being defeated by the men of the Empire.
the woman's house was empty. In the hall of divination novices lying dead on the ground, frightened expression on the faces, easy to see that the high priestess had removed her veil in their presence. None had survived. Jayden's sister lying next to the basin for divination spilled, no trace of the priestesses. They had left the Temple and had taken refuge in the forest carrying their dark secrets as they always did when the enemy came to invade the islands.
When was the moment of expulsion of the Eastern men would re-appeared as they were gone and that was the signal for rescue.

Thousands of miles east of the wall on which Jade had spent the afternoon talking with her sister, the beautiful Avanemna, the unconquerable city, people celebrated in the streets, in the morning had started ten days of celebrations of the Imperial belts, torches were burning on every balcony of the Palace by myriad terraces, making it appear that he was flushing a fire.
Only a court was almost dark: just a brazier driving out the moisture of the night when two men, almost identical in appearance, talked softly.
"It 's been a barbarism Karl, Prince is just a baby, can not undergo such testing."
You could see clearly, even in the shadow of the man who had spoken of his disgust.
Karl just shook his shoulders, "Lance know that the customs of this country are strange ... "
" Yes, but this is ... "
" Lance ... "a faint voice, child, called to the man inside the dimly lit room.
" I must go. "
" See you soon, Lance ".
Lance returned to the room and approached the big four-poster bed:" You need something Prince?
The child seemed to disappear in that huge bed, could have up to ten years, although the pale made him look tired and older.
"No, forgive me Lance, I know you were with your brother, but ... I do not want to be alone ...".
The man approached a chair to the bed and smiled: "Do not worry, I can speak with him at another time, I will beside you as long as you want. "The child smiled
grateful.
" I have a twin too, must be beautiful, like having one soul in two and never feel alone. "
Lance smile of that ' naivete, he and Karl were more like two sides of one coin, rather than shared soul: opposites in everything except in appearance, yet he could not live without him. Giovanissimi had been separated for several years, was was a terrible torture.
Perhaps the child could see farther than he could really see him.
She looked at him and told him that he was right, but Prince Adrien was already asleep the previous night had fallen, for the first time, in the bowels of the Temple, where he had officiated, as Priest solstice, the ceremony to tie the sun and the moon. The former priest had chosen this small and fragile child, from birth to succeed nell'oneroso and honorable task. It was released at dawn
destroyed, but the important thing was that the Emperor would have its celebration!
Lance sighed, wondering if anyone in the world could really understand or help that child as he could not do, which is limited to monitoring and protection.