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d'Artagnan (The Musketeers) ([personal profile] apprenticemusketeer) wrote in [community profile] itinere2015-04-29 05:01 pm

Open | Thou art so fair ....

While here there is no King to protect here, it seems d'Artagnan has no problem finding trouble. First, there was whatever sickness drove him to such extremes in his love of Lucrezia - to where even he could not imagine feeling anything so strongly. He had thought he had loved Constance, but that had paled in comparison to what he had felt in those weeks with Lucrezia.

Now that whatever spell had been lifted, he's left without her to occupy his thoughts quite so fully as she had. He misses her, though. He just misses her.

But d'Artagnan is a man of action. This is why he has a pen (what a strange contraption this is), and a sheaf of paper. He is under the sun at a table, surrounded by a blizzard of crumpled paper. He is attempting to write a poem. An ode or tribute to Lucrezia.

It isn't going well. Raised as a farmboy, he is lucky to know how to read and write, so anyone less determined would leave the poem-writing to someone else. Not d'Artagnan! While he might have been somewhat stretched in his wits in those weeks with Lucrezia, he will tell anyone who dares to question him. He will even draw his sword to challenge someone if his honor - or his feelings - are challenged.

[personal profile] sempreborgia 2015-05-11 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Lucrezia thought that she had been put on the chopping block quite enough in the name of God's holy church of Rome. If her marriage to Giovanni was anything to go by, she had been hurled to the wolves in the name of keeping the peace in Rome. Surely even God himself could not fault her for wanting kindness and love in her life.

She gently squeezes d'Artagnan's arm in her hand. "We should remember to be thankful for what we have. For even as it is given, it can easily be taken away. I would not see us parted, d'Artagnan. Not when we have only just found each other."