[ Never let anything happen to her... Only it had happened, hadn't it? The smallest window, the confluence of all the wrong coincidences. It hadn't been their fault they had lives to live that did not involve her. They are not swore to her. She has no one here who is.
But it is a surprising offer. Enough that Rhaenyra accepts it in silence, respectfully. She does not know if she trusts this woman and her offer of aid. But trusting strangers here has been good for her, perhaps.
It was not strangers who have wounded her here. ]
That is... generous of you. [ And a woman that is a knight, well. Rhaenyra cannot say she isn't curious. Supremely. ] She sounds formidable. And as you say, unmistakable.
Another promised to come at my greatest need. He... did not succeed.
[ She remember how Gala would want to apologize, when Gilia was covering from what her brother had done - as if she could have stopped what she was not privy too.
That she knew, Gala was glad to break her brother's legs, when the time came.
To Gilia's mind, it was never her knight's fault. No, it was the world that let her brother think that cruelty was ever allowed, that her family were oblivious to it. ]
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Date: 2024-07-28 05:01 am (UTC)But it is a surprising offer. Enough that Rhaenyra accepts it in silence, respectfully. She does not know if she trusts this woman and her offer of aid. But trusting strangers here has been good for her, perhaps.
It was not strangers who have wounded her here. ]
That is... generous of you. [ And a woman that is a knight, well. Rhaenyra cannot say she isn't curious. Supremely. ] She sounds formidable. And as you say, unmistakable.
Another promised to come at my greatest need. He... did not succeed.
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Date: 2024-07-28 06:11 am (UTC)[ She remember how Gala would want to apologize, when Gilia was covering from what her brother had done - as if she could have stopped what she was not privy too.
That she knew, Gala was glad to break her brother's legs, when the time came.
To Gilia's mind, it was never her knight's fault. No, it was the world that let her brother think that cruelty was ever allowed, that her family were oblivious to it. ]