I have things I could tell them. I think they'll like the story of how my sister and I took back our home.
[He does, and he doesn't. The pride in what they accomplished with blood and sweat is balanced a little by the knowledge of how, bit by bit, a beast he hadn't quite known was in him had taken over.]
I am a king and I'm not. I bent the knee to someone, but she doesn't seem to think it matters. If I'm not, I still hold the North.
If they ask why you didn't win the battles yourself, tell them — tell them women don't lower themselves to fighting, that it's men's work. Tell them he did it for you. It must be true in some ways. But you have to use a different name, you can't use the true one. Robert West is as good as any.
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Date: 2018-05-01 12:22 am (UTC)[He does, and he doesn't. The pride in what they accomplished with blood and sweat is balanced a little by the knowledge of how, bit by bit, a beast he hadn't quite known was in him had taken over.]
I am a king and I'm not. I bent the knee to someone, but she doesn't seem to think it matters. If I'm not, I still hold the North.
If they ask why you didn't win the battles yourself, tell them — tell them women don't lower themselves to fighting, that it's men's work. Tell them he did it for you. It must be true in some ways. But you have to use a different name, you can't use the true one. Robert West is as good as any.