Winter Fun: Traitor to the Crown
Characters: Kentar, Chris, Will
Location: Moledeep
Moledeep: Gardens and Orchards
It's a bit of a cold evening out, but that's not stopping the stoats. Kentar and Christopher are out in the snow, playing. Chris is making what is probably going to be the last snow-stoat of the season. He's rolling snow into large balls and stacking them on top of each other, sticking two dark rocks in the top one for eyes and a carrot for a nose. Kentar meanwhile, is sitting on a snow 'throne' he made for himself while watching his son.
William has finished the main part of the escape tunnel and while there is more he'd like to add to it as present it is safe and will do what it's meant to should it be put into service anytime soon. The rat draws near the gardens and spying the stoaty father and son pair can't help but to stop and chuck a snowball at his brother. He ducks down behind a tree to keep from being spotted right off shouting, "Down with king Kentar!" It's all in fun of course.
"That's a great snow-stoat Chris!" Kentar smiles. "What are you...uagh!" he's interrupted by a snowball to the face, the stoat getting knocked out of his throne, falling over one arm and into a pile of snow. "Pfft! Guards, find that trouble maker and arrest him for attacking your leader!" Chris giggles as his dad finds his way into the snow throne again. He quickly stands and looks towards where the snowball came from. "I'm gonna get you!" he calls out, running towards where he thinks William might be.
William grins and moves quickly from behind the tree to the covering of a snowy bush. He scoops up more snow to try and hit Kentar again. He's not too worried about Chris yet.
Kentar sees this snowball coming, yelping as he throws himself out of the way. "Guards! Guards, seize him!" he shouts to Chris who tries his best. He runs faster to the place where the attack is coming from before diving into the bushes, trying to get at William. "Halt!"
William gathers more snow as he waits for the 'guards'. He throws a few more snowballs at Kentar while he waits. Will's not worried about being 'captured' he's actually curious as to what Kentar will do when the rat is caught.
Kentar yelps again as he dives out of the way of several snowballs, getting a face full of ice cold snow in the process. "Get him! Capture him!" he orders out as he spits out snow. Chris grins as he finds the rat, running over to tag him lightly. "Got you!
William nods as Chris tags him, raising is arms in the air and standing as if surrendering. "I surrender, sir! I surrender!" He laughs.
Chris nods and then grins, going to take one of the rat's wrists, jerking slightly to get him to follow. Kentar grins at the sight and even chuckles before he sits back in the throne he made, getting comfortable on the cold ice while his son brings William a couple of feet in front of him.
William lets himself be led along by the little stoat and stops when he tells him to. Will grins over at Kentar as he waits for his sentence or whatever it is the stoat's going to do.
Kentar grins and points down to the snow. "Kneel before your king!" he nods, trying not to laugh. "You've attacked your ruler, and I must pass sentence...I sentence you to burying!" he grins.
William doesn't kneel and when he's sentenced to be buried he frowns. He tries to pull his wrist from Chris's grip and declares, "The king is tyrant! Down with the king! He treats his subjects unfairly and orders his son Prince Chrisopher about like a common guard! Down with king Kentar!"
Chris giggles and nods at his dad, going to pull William to the biggest snow bank he can find. Kentar follows and chuckles, shaking his head. "Push him in! Push him in!" he chants, ready to bury the rat with even more snow..
William drags his footpaws and tries again to remove Chris's paw from his wrist. "No don't this is insane!," he yells out.
Chris does his best not to let go, the kid having a grip of steel like his father. The older stoat comes up from behind William and just as Chris lets go, he tries to shove William into the snow while laughing.
William is knocked down and he turns to scowl up at his brother. "This is crazy. Why bury me when I could just dig myself out?" He says to change their minds and he hopes he could dig out if they do go through with burying him.
The stoats laugh and then grab some snow, pushing as much snow onto the rat as possible before laughing louder. "Hahaha! Oh William!" he grins. "Your so fun to play with!" he smirks.
William growls as his trick didn't work and they're burying him. Have few choices he starts digging, straight down. He's not used to digging through snow but it's not that much harder to work with. He'll dig a ways til he can surface away from the stoat and then go back inside as he's had enough of this game.
Kentar chuckles a bit and then shakes his head. "Ah, alright. The punishment is over. Get him out of there." he nods as he and his son start to remove the snow from the top of the bank to find Will's gone. "Will?" he asks, humming.
William hadn't emerged by now near the entrance to Moledeep. Seeing the stoats looking for him he shakes his head. He was about to head in but knowing Kentar he throws one last snowball to the stoat so he wont panic and alert the otters. This done the rat heads in to warm himself by the fire and get something to eat. Something stoat-free .... like hardtack, maybe.
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