Thirty Days of Drabbles - Day Eleven

[jeriendhal]

For lilfluff 's prompt of "One of Tez's great-great-grandchildren seeks him out."

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"You killed Great-Grandmother," he said.

"I did no such thing," Tez replied. "Swan died in bed at a ripe old age."

"Living like a penniless hermit! Living in fear because you hunted her!"

"I never hunted her," Tez corrected. "I told her that I would hunt her. Swan's paranoia did the rest quite nicely."

"For three hundred years she quavered in fear whenever she spoke your name!"

"Good," Tez hissed. "Swan enslaved her own mother to the Dragons. For five years, when I thought Maria would be dead before the age of forty. Believe me, Grandson, I was being merciful."

Comments

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Oh! I like this!

Of course now I'm wondering, in the earlier stories there'd be comments along the lines of, "And Swan of whom we never spoke..." But if she has descendants are they split off from the rest of the family as well or did they ever get back together?

I would guess they didn't reconnect, except that the problem with, "We will never speak her name again," is that you'd better not mind people forgetting what the offense was.

Of course now I want to know about the great-grandson. :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I don't think Swan's kids would have been welcome, or if they were it would have been after a great deal of sizing up. Maria would have missed seeing them all the same though.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Oooh, so that's what happened.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well, potentially. I'm not sure if this drabble is canon or not. If it is, Tez was remarkably restrained, all things considered.