Quest 263

[primrosella]

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ROSELLA
Daughter of Graham and Valanice
~

Death came while she slept
To serenely dispatch her;
He'd tried while she waked
But he never could catch her.

[OOC: Funnily enough, ridiculous epitaphs are a part of King's Quest canon; graveyards are rare in Daventry (mostly because people tend to turn into zombies upon being buried in them, erk), but they do exist, and the stuff on the headstones is almost always humorous, ironic, or tongue-in-cheek in some way. Go figure. Anyway, thanks to the zombie thing, I doubt they'd actually bury Rosella, but I bet she'd get a memorial similar to this.]

Comments

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

Between this and Cain's, it's almost as though Christmas arrived early.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You would find this funny, you monster.

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes I would.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I'll never understand how anyone could be so cruel.

[deathofdelilah.livejournal.com]

And I'll never understand putridly over-dramatic aristrocrats, but I suppose we'll both have to manage somehow.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You don't understand yourself, even? However do you manage?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Morbid as it is, that is rather fitting for you.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

It's better than some of the gravestones I've read before, at least. Though I don't know that I'd ever want one for my own, anyway.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

When it comes time for you to need one, I rather doubt that you'll care much what it says.

It is odd that we're thinking so much on gravestones here in the City, where death is rather less permanent than it is in most other worlds.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

'He who makes me doesn't want me, he who wants me doesn't need me, he who needs me doesn't care.'

About as odd as the fact that we have a graveyard here at all, really.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

A riddle about a grave, of course, or perhaps a coffin.

I suppose that is true.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Mmhmm. I can't recall where I first heard that one, you know. But it does seem to fit the occasion.

Do you suppose there's any truth to them, though? The things they're saying?

[wandbreaker]

A poem.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

It's what one usually finds on those sorts of things, isn't it?

[wandbreaker]

Well, usually that or a quote about angels or death dying.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Really? That does sound like a topic for a gravestone, death dying and all. It's witty enough.

[wandbreaker]

Do you think so? It always just seems recycled to me.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose it'd be clever enough for someone who'd never heard it before.

I remember I read one once, a stone meant for a dentist. It went "Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity! Doctor Brown is filling his last cavity!"

[srsbusinessk.livejournal.com]

Queen Rosella, huh?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

It seems so. I suppose that's something comforting, anyway, that it seems I last long enough to become queen, at the very least.

[srsbusinessk.livejournal.com]

Now I know I'm going to Hell. I pulled my gun on a queen.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Well, no, you're still safe for the moment. As yet you've only, er...pointed one at a princess. I won't be queen for quite some time yet. I hope.

[Not that it's exactly a pleasant memory to think about, but it's an attempt a humor, at least.]

[srsbusinessk.livejournal.com]

Is this one of those times where I pledge my life to protecting you so that I don't get beheaded?

1/3

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

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