She straightens back to her full height, then, her chin tilting upward, drawing royalty around herself like a cloak. Raising it like a shield.
"I will not see you die for what I was too weak to do myself." There is still a thickness in her voice, but there is a firmness, too: a note of command that says, clearer than words, that she will not hear argument. "And this is my hall yet, for a few hours more: I will not suffer any man here to tell me what I need not have done."
Not even the King, who had pleaded with her to recant what she had said, weeping until she felt her own heart shatter in her chest at the sight. If that did not dissuade her, then nothing Aleifr can say will - and there is something freeing in that realisation, even in her despair. She is certain, at least.
"If you divorce me as soon as you may, turn and find your own path once we are beyond the Mark, I will count it no fault; but you have saved my life and all it values, taking his. I will not see you die for it. We come before the King in two hours, to hear his judgement made law, and then we ride." Her own throat is tight, her eyes stinging. She blinks the tears away. She knew what she put at risk, too.
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Date: 2024-07-06 12:17 am (UTC)"I will not see you die for what I was too weak to do myself." There is still a thickness in her voice, but there is a firmness, too: a note of command that says, clearer than words, that she will not hear argument. "And this is my hall yet, for a few hours more: I will not suffer any man here to tell me what I need not have done."
Not even the King, who had pleaded with her to recant what she had said, weeping until she felt her own heart shatter in her chest at the sight. If that did not dissuade her, then nothing Aleifr can say will - and there is something freeing in that realisation, even in her despair. She is certain, at least.
"If you divorce me as soon as you may, turn and find your own path once we are beyond the Mark, I will count it no fault; but you have saved my life and all it values, taking his. I will not see you die for it. We come before the King in two hours, to hear his judgement made law, and then we ride." Her own throat is tight, her eyes stinging. She blinks the tears away. She knew what she put at risk, too.