“JESUS CHRIST!” Severus knocked the cup out of Horatio’s hand. “ARE YOU ALL MAD? WILL YOU STOP POISONING YOURSELVES FASTER THAN I CAN SAVE YOU?
A remarkably restrained response, all things considered!
“He seems to have fallen asleep. I suppose invading Poland is a tiring business. Would you have me call the ambassadors hither?”
*sporfles*
“No,” said Marcellus. “Fortinbras, prince of the Anthropophagi. He just arrived yesterday on a winged camel.”
“Fortinbras,” said Laertes again. “Whatever for?”
Marcellus explained that Fortinbras was not widely rumored to be mad, did not go around leaping into freshly-dug graves, and had not murdered the king in front of the whole court, and that certain of the electors considered these necessary, if not sufficient, qualifications for kingship.
I love this whole exchange - and I do like your Ophelia. It's so good to see her given a chance to be more than a passive victim driven to insanity!
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Date: 2009-03-29 03:27 pm (UTC)“JESUS CHRIST!” Severus knocked the cup out of Horatio’s hand. “ARE YOU ALL MAD? WILL YOU STOP POISONING YOURSELVES FASTER THAN I CAN SAVE YOU?
A remarkably restrained response, all things considered!
“He seems to have fallen asleep. I suppose invading Poland is a tiring business. Would you have me call the ambassadors hither?”
*sporfles*
“No,” said Marcellus. “Fortinbras, prince of the Anthropophagi. He just arrived yesterday on a winged camel.”
“Fortinbras,” said Laertes again. “Whatever for?”
Marcellus explained that Fortinbras was not widely rumored to be mad, did not go around leaping into freshly-dug graves, and had not murdered the king in front of the whole court, and that certain of the electors considered these necessary, if not sufficient, qualifications for kingship.
I love this whole exchange - and I do like your Ophelia. It's so good to see her given a chance to be more than a passive victim driven to insanity!