( Their good fortune had run out. Her father had told her just how lucky the pair of them had been. It was too good to last.
And that causes a bitterness to rise in her, keeping her very still as a hand is laid over her own. Myrcella glances away and forward, breath carefully measured as she inhales. It takes a supreme effort to maintain this control, yet she manages. Having to omit the fact of her own death to most everyone until this moment has begun to forge a steel in her. The comfort is tolerated, and then accepted as she turns her head to glance back at him. )
I can hope, but I must also learn to accept the world as it is. If he should arrive, I would be glad of it. But the truth remains that he and his father both deserved better.
( The her, she thinks, and wisely keeps to herself. As he leans over, she blinks, smiling faintly. )
I am here, and so I must agree with you.
( She nods her head, her small smile fading into obscurity. Tears yet threaten and sting at the corners of her eyes, but she wills herself to hold them back. )
Is anyone either dark or light? People are complicated creatures. Perhaps the lesson is that one must trust no one in order to survive. Prince Doran would rather have spared the mother of his nieces than execute her. He trusted in her to change, and our retinue with his son's safety.
( What she is—what others have failed to see—is perceptive. She'd trusted Ellaria Sand, in the end. And it had led to her death, too. Now Lord Baelish holds her hand captive, and she knows not whether to trust or keep her own counsel. She has been so desperate to know of Trystane's fate and is so aggrieved by his loss that though she should know better, she does not extricate her hand. )
To cease being a game piece and become a player? You know? I would. My previous life was comprised of choices made by others. No longer.
( She knows what he's saying; though as of yet, she doesn't know who her enemies might be beyond possibly the Targaryen Princess. )
That is why I intend to try and become De Chima's ambassador. My life would be my own, and my choices would affect others positively.
action;
And that causes a bitterness to rise in her, keeping her very still as a hand is laid over her own. Myrcella glances away and forward, breath carefully measured as she inhales. It takes a supreme effort to maintain this control, yet she manages. Having to omit the fact of her own death to most everyone until this moment has begun to forge a steel in her. The comfort is tolerated, and then accepted as she turns her head to glance back at him. )
I can hope, but I must also learn to accept the world as it is. If he should arrive, I would be glad of it. But the truth remains that he and his father both deserved better.
( The her, she thinks, and wisely keeps to herself. As he leans over, she blinks, smiling faintly. )
I am here, and so I must agree with you.
( She nods her head, her small smile fading into obscurity. Tears yet threaten and sting at the corners of her eyes, but she wills herself to hold them back. )
Is anyone either dark or light? People are complicated creatures. Perhaps the lesson is that one must trust no one in order to survive. Prince Doran would rather have spared the mother of his nieces than execute her. He trusted in her to change, and our retinue with his son's safety.
( What she is—what others have failed to see—is perceptive. She'd trusted Ellaria Sand, in the end. And it had led to her death, too. Now Lord Baelish holds her hand captive, and she knows not whether to trust or keep her own counsel. She has been so desperate to know of Trystane's fate and is so aggrieved by his loss that though she should know better, she does not extricate her hand. )
To cease being a game piece and become a player? You know? I would. My previous life was comprised of choices made by others. No longer.
( She knows what he's saying; though as of yet, she doesn't know who her enemies might be beyond possibly the Targaryen Princess. )
That is why I intend to try and become De Chima's ambassador. My life would be my own, and my choices would affect others positively.