Claimer: I do hereby claim all rights and responsibility for the characters in this series of vignettes because the Amaranthine Saga is mine. (Which means I should probably behave myself since anything I say or do could be taken as canon.) Indulge the lot of us, especially the flexible one.
254
Two Sides
They took the quickest route to Stately House, which wasn’t entirely legal and did criminal things to Jacques’ hair.
Ginkgo waved from the limb of a sentinel tree.
Nonny planted his hooves, sniffed, and scowled. “How come he looks like a lady, but smells like a wolf?”
From under Sonnet’s hem, a tail flashed. “Why, thank you.”
The kid blinked. “British?”
“Lovely! We have something in common.”
Nonny warily asked, “Are you a girl or a boy?”
Ginkgo dropped to the ground and rapped Nonny’s head. “Don’t be rude. A crosser should understand better than anyone about betwixts and betweens.”
Posted: June 14, 2021
Prompt: “betwixt and between,” suggested by Lisa
Words: 100
Summary: Jacques Smythe brazens his way into Stately House and shows no sign of departing. Like it or not, Lord Mettlebright has himself a butler. An Amaranthine Saga Serial. [Humor, Drama, Family] Begins here. You can suggest a prompt here. To scroll through archived chapters, use the Lord Mettlebright’s Man tag.
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Oh my goodness! Nonny! 🤣🤣 Not a shy bone. Sonnet will have his hands full. I expect he will win Nonny over in the end though.
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So I am re-reading Tsumiko and for the first time it occurred to me when I saw Ginkgo name. If Argents enslavement was generational, does that mean if something had happened to him it would have passed to his son? It would explain a lot of why he acted/ treated Ginkgo the way he did. To keep him safe. He continues to strive for that in future books too.
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Argent was forbidden to run away, to hurt his owners, even to kill himself but he could protect his son. They got never a hold of him. In the last resort he would sent him away to be alone but free.
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The generational aspect of Argent’s enslavement refers to the Hajime bloodline, not the Mettlebright bloodline. So Ginkgo was never at any risk of inheriting his father’s predicament. But Argent did all he could to make certain that his son wasn’t exploited.
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Thank you so much for tanking the time to answer that! I was so curious.
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Not a problem! ::wink::
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When a prompt open one’s vocabulary ! I didn’t know this expression ! Thank you again and again for these lovely scenes
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