"The only children I know I will ever had. And every single one of them is an ungrateful brat."
"There's nothing to be sorry for, if my mother was any less deserving of the removal of her head, I'd just be a whore's child." Her smile is cruel, if brief. "I always liked the idea that she was a witch, it gave my father a reason for murder. It's Lady Howard I'll never forgive. She was younger then you, and now she's a head shorter too." She's had a long time to be bitter over these things. "All she wanted to do was please and be pleased, but Queen's don't live for pleasure. They must be devoted stone." They live for duty, and it was in the duty Elizabeth knew her fate now waited, with nothing else.
"That's... very foolish to say." She wasn't blushing... and if she happened to be, she'd just blame it on the wine. "Men like that... ah, if he lead an uprising, he'd be the first man I would execute. Men like him are dangerous. He is uncontrollable as a follower, but as a leader? Completely dependable in the end. Easy enough to tell, he didn't snap at Mistress Lin for me, he did it because he knows what has to be done, and does it." And that was more or less the way she saw it, even if it didn't make sense. "Or at least most of the time. I'm sure he just... ignores things when and where he wants, because it doesn't suit him, either. Like I said, dangerous." That was what all her watching had brought her to so far.
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"There's nothing to be sorry for, if my mother was any less deserving of the removal of her head, I'd just be a whore's child." Her smile is cruel, if brief. "I always liked the idea that she was a witch, it gave my father a reason for murder. It's Lady Howard I'll never forgive. She was younger then you, and now she's a head shorter too." She's had a long time to be bitter over these things. "All she wanted to do was please and be pleased, but Queen's don't live for pleasure. They must be devoted stone." They live for duty, and it was in the duty Elizabeth knew her fate now waited, with nothing else.
"That's... very foolish to say." She wasn't blushing... and if she happened to be, she'd just blame it on the wine. "Men like that... ah, if he lead an uprising, he'd be the first man I would execute. Men like him are dangerous. He is uncontrollable as a follower, but as a leader? Completely dependable in the end. Easy enough to tell, he didn't snap at Mistress Lin for me, he did it because he knows what has to be done, and does it." And that was more or less the way she saw it, even if it didn't make sense. "Or at least most of the time. I'm sure he just... ignores things when and where he wants, because it doesn't suit him, either. Like I said, dangerous." That was what all her watching had brought her to so far.