( there is a man impulse to bristle, and she has half a mind to correct him then and there — Queen — but what strikes her firstly is that he calls her anything at all. )
You know me enough to address me by a title. You’re from Westeros, then? Of the North, if I were to guess by your name alone.
Not all will care for duty. Not all will care for honor or loyalty, either. Within our own realm, or many others.
( not at all a charged statement.
she is still on her guard, the choice of words precise, and if tone cane come through the writing before him, in comes in sharply. she does not know who he swore to, if any at all. he called her princess, which means he either hasn’t heard or…or what? time works strangely here, too. too many unknowns and rhaenyra is too tired to be anything but on the defensive; a targaryen alone in a new world. )
no subject
You know me enough to address me by a title. You’re from Westeros, then? Of the North, if I were to guess by your name alone.
Not all will care for duty. Not all will care for honor or loyalty, either. Within our own realm, or many others.
( not at all a charged statement.
she is still on her guard, the choice of words precise, and if tone cane come through the writing before him, in comes in sharply. she does not know who he swore to, if any at all. he called her princess, which means he either hasn’t heard or…or what? time works strangely here, too. too many unknowns and rhaenyra is too tired to be anything but on the defensive; a targaryen alone in a new world. )