04-19-2022, 06:34 PM
[[CW: dripping with classism and some death obsession.]]
Roderick had been taught well and proper about how to deal with the poors: not at all. Ignore them. Don’t make eye contact. Let the professors procure them once they had outlived their purpose in life.
His gaze flicked over when he heard French, but then saw the ruffian it was attached to and flicked right back to the carriage he was stepping into. He knew what happened to Carringtons who consorted with the poors – Roderick was not falling for this.
He couldn’t stop a morbid little glance over once he was safely within the cart’s confines, though. A prince? A French prince, dressed so? The hygiene fit, perhaps, but his brother Thomas could come up with better pranks than that.
The driver cast a cautious look toward Francis, then lifted his reins.
“Step up!”
Roderick imagined Marie Antoinette’s execution. Pictured blood. Cringed. Thought of his brother Magnus all cleaned up instead.
… He really needed to stop thinking about that.
Roderick had been taught well and proper about how to deal with the poors: not at all. Ignore them. Don’t make eye contact. Let the professors procure them once they had outlived their purpose in life.
His gaze flicked over when he heard French, but then saw the ruffian it was attached to and flicked right back to the carriage he was stepping into. He knew what happened to Carringtons who consorted with the poors – Roderick was not falling for this.
He couldn’t stop a morbid little glance over once he was safely within the cart’s confines, though. A prince? A French prince, dressed so? The hygiene fit, perhaps, but his brother Thomas could come up with better pranks than that.
The driver cast a cautious look toward Francis, then lifted his reins.
“Step up!”
Roderick imagined Marie Antoinette’s execution. Pictured blood. Cringed. Thought of his brother Magnus all cleaned up instead.
… He really needed to stop thinking about that.
