[ Oh if that doesn't sting some, her teeth sharp where they catch against each other. Her jaw clenched, swallows, stills herself calm. The roll of muscles that shift under her skin, tense and then gone again. No, no she has learned him some in the short time they'd known each other. Learned that he liked to dig and get under the skin. ]
Oh, I will, yes. When I die for just the same men, I will be quite free of them I am sure. [ She was a driven woman, but she had been young - 22 when she took the throne in her own right after a lifetime sheltered by her husband's affection. Unknowing to just how treacherous those around her could be. How little home could come to mean, to those she took into the fortress walls that made up herself and where her people lived like her own family, to have them turn traitor in the same breath as she clothed and fed them.
She had been a fool, a child and here she was, too many years later, still made up of that. It's prophecy and history in the same breadth - a place she exists in that progresses and yet, she never can. She has died, she will die. A soul existed not in the now, but in all. ]
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Oh, I will, yes. When I die for just the same men, I will be quite free of them I am sure. [ She was a driven woman, but she had been young - 22 when she took the throne in her own right after a lifetime sheltered by her husband's affection. Unknowing to just how treacherous those around her could be. How little home could come to mean, to those she took into the fortress walls that made up herself and where her people lived like her own family, to have them turn traitor in the same breath as she clothed and fed them.
She had been a fool, a child and here she was, too many years later, still made up of that. It's prophecy and history in the same breadth - a place she exists in that progresses and yet, she never can. She has died, she will die. A soul existed not in the now, but in all. ]