forum Hear me out, anyone up for a Selection based rp? (10/14 spots taken)

Started March 01, 2019 by @gracehustle

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Zia nodded to her. "Nice to meet you, Beatriz. I'm Zia. The late arrival." She smiled, and gave a one shouldered shrug. "So I think I may have a distinct disadvantage now. Ah well." She shrugged again. "Can't be helped."

Beatriz scoffed quietly. "I don't think you have a disadvantage," she told Zia. "We haven't done much," she explained, nervously playing with a piece of her hair.

Zia shrugged slightly. "Oh. Alright then." She smiled. "But even if I did have a disadvantage…it doesn't matter." She glanced at Talin. "Er…no offense." She looked back at Beatriz. "I mean, in the long run, only one of us wins, and it's just as likely to be you as it is to be me."

Beatriz genuinely laughed, putting a hand over her mouth out of habit. "That's unlikely. I'm much too awkward to be a queen," she explained.

Zia laughed. "Oh don't worry. I blabber too much for it. I'm also extremely short, so I'm not sure how comfortable a huge height difference would be." She said with a laugh. She shrugged slightly.

"Pfft, you're barely a hair shorter than me, don't worry," Beatriz assured her.

Zia chuckled. "I know, I know." She said. "I just poke fun at myself all the time for my own shortness." She said with a grin. "My family does it too. But it's useful. I can fit into tight spaces that no one else can. It's great."

"It is fun," Beatriz admitted. "I always beat my sister at hide-and-seek."

Zia chuckled. "When I was younger, I used to hide and make my brothers find me. They never could because they were always bigger than me and couldn't fit in the same spaces i could. So I'd pop out of hiding and scare them."

Zaera gently jumped in to the conversation. She had never heard of the game they were talking about, but she could figure out what the goal of the game was… Almost, "So the goal of the game is to scare your siblings? I'm sorry, I've never played before."

Beatriz giggled. "No, you're supposed to hide while one person tries to find you. If they give up, you win, and if they find you, they win. We should play some time," she suggested, before her face colored with embarrassment. Great. As if I wasn't enough of a child already.

Zia laughed. "Yeah, what Beatrix said." She grinned. "Ohh we should definitely play! I bet there are so many hiding places around the palace. The game could go on for hours!" Her eyes lit up. "Especially if we got all of the Selected involved!"

"Oh," Zaera nodded, "That would be quite fun. Though I feel we would need to limit the area people could go to just to give the person looking a chance or when people get found they also help search."

Talin’s mouth turned up into a amused and happy smile as the girls talked, chuckling when they talked about height differences and letting his mind wander to the best hiding spots in the palace when they mentioned hide and seek. It was nice, seeing them get along he decided, and he already didn’t want to make any of them leave.

Zia hummed softly, and nodded. "Yeah. Otherwise the game might take days, and I don't think any of us would want that." She said to Zaera. She glanced at Talin. "You should play too." She grinned. "Hey, you could start out as the first it." She suggested, laughing. She looked back over at Zaera and Beatriz. "I think it definitely would be fun."

“Me?” He chuckled and shook his head, looking between the girls, “I don’t think that would be fair, I know all the hiding spots in the palace, all of you would be found immediately.”

Zaera had a soft grin and that was probably as close to a laugh as she could come in front of the others. She raised an eyebrow to the prince, "Is that a challenge?"

Cassie just stood behind the crowd, extremely confused. "I have no idea what I walked in on but I don't think I want to know." Her eyes flicked from one girl to another, her brain naming each of them.

Zia looked at Talin, still smiling. "Yes, is it? Because there's no way you fit in all of them anymore, and i know how to hide." She said, then blushed slightly again, looking at her toes for a moment.

“Just a conversation about hide and seek,” Talin told Cassie before smiling at Zia and Zaera, a playful and childish look in his eyes, “Even if I don’t fit into all of them, I still know where they are.”

Nudging Zia gently, Beatriz whispered, purposefully loud enough that everyone could hear, "we'd crush them."

Zia shrugged at Talin, then grinned at Beatriz words, laughing. "True." She said, at the same level of volume. She looked over at Talin. "You're an only child. You can't have played hide and seek all that often. Therefore, there will be hiding places you don't know of, and or wouldn't think of." She pointed out with a smile.

"Then I suppose we'll just have to see about that," Zaera had a twinkle in her eyes. She figured there was some spot she could find he didn't know about. Or possibly move between spots to trick him.

She couldn't help but crack a smile. She used to play hide and seek with her siblings all the time. If only Luke was here, he'd be boasting about how good he was.

“Ah, but you don’t know my mother as well as I do, or any of the bored guards in the palace. I didn’t just sit around all day and do nothing as a child, I’m fairly certain I know every hiding spot.” He crossed his arms and tipped his chin up, silently challenging them, “Plus I may or may not have used quite a few of them to hide and get out of my lessons, the ones that I didn’t enjoy anyway.”