"Bad things will always occur." Another polite mouthful, her head down, momentarily and a hand covering her mouth before she carries on. "Famine, plague, fires. Some things happen, and they are merely to be endured."
She looks around the room, the men, lean, hungry, and yet - still here. "I have endured many times in my life. I endured my son's death, I endured my husband's passing, I endured my people being feasted upon and my humiliation of being reduced to a vassal in my own land." They should have thrown her in jail - it would have felt the same to sitting on a thrown as family after family came to her in grief and loss, begging for help. "But this? This is a choice, for good or ill, but a choice all the same. Each and every person here must know that on some level, from common man to commander. But to do so, is to remember that life is not just something to be endured."
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She looks around the room, the men, lean, hungry, and yet - still here. "I have endured many times in my life. I endured my son's death, I endured my husband's passing, I endured my people being feasted upon and my humiliation of being reduced to a vassal in my own land." They should have thrown her in jail - it would have felt the same to sitting on a thrown as family after family came to her in grief and loss, begging for help. "But this? This is a choice, for good or ill, but a choice all the same. Each and every person here must know that on some level, from common man to commander. But to do so, is to remember that life is not just something to be endured."