"Lies to protect you," he echoes a bit bitterly. "When has a lie ever protected anyone but the person who told it? Oh, yes, Lady Vorinnis, that bodice is simply stunning means that Lady Vorinnis becomes the laughingstock of the party. Or her tits pop out during a waltz." A beat. "Though she does have magnificent tits, so maybe not such a loss."
Anyway. He sighs and runs his hand through his hair. "And Nadine was...softer than you usually find in my family," he says. "She used to keep animals, which caused me no end of grief, because you can be certain that my cousin Richars wanted to torture them to death. Bad enough looking after a six-year-old - looking after a six-year-old and her three cats and two songbirds? It was a nightmare. But she loved them deeply. Liked to pull pranks," he says, with a little smile of acknowledgment at Sonia, "only you could scarcely call these pranks, with the way they were specifically designed so no one got their feelings hurt. But she was ferocious, too, in her way...She believed deeply in what she believed in. A principled person."
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Anyway. He sighs and runs his hand through his hair. "And Nadine was...softer than you usually find in my family," he says. "She used to keep animals, which caused me no end of grief, because you can be certain that my cousin Richars wanted to torture them to death. Bad enough looking after a six-year-old - looking after a six-year-old and her three cats and two songbirds? It was a nightmare. But she loved them deeply. Liked to pull pranks," he says, with a little smile of acknowledgment at Sonia, "only you could scarcely call these pranks, with the way they were specifically designed so no one got their feelings hurt. But she was ferocious, too, in her way...She believed deeply in what she believed in. A principled person."