"I am glad you are. We're a strange people, I think it comes from being on an island that we share with Scotland. But as long as Mary never tries for my kingdom openly, I suppose all will be well." She settled against him comfortably as she rambled. Not caring if he understood or not.
"I was two and a little more, and I sore her only on visits. But from what I remembered, she cried into my hair, and told me she was sorry..." it was the only memory she had of her mother, and she hung onto it for all she was worth. "Perhaps not, I was on verge of becoming that before she saw fit to take me. Stone that is. As immortal as the holy virgin." If it wasn't completely true.
"No, I thought not. Still, he'd be the ones with any brains as to an uprising. Any one else would just be a figure head for which to rally around, just as I once was." An alternative and less bloody version of her sister. "I wouldn't trust him further then I could throw him if it came to matters of state, for everything that you said."
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"I was two and a little more, and I sore her only on visits. But from what I remembered, she cried into my hair, and told me she was sorry..." it was the only memory she had of her mother, and she hung onto it for all she was worth. "Perhaps not, I was on verge of becoming that before she saw fit to take me. Stone that is. As immortal as the holy virgin." If it wasn't completely true.
"No, I thought not. Still, he'd be the ones with any brains as to an uprising. Any one else would just be a figure head for which to rally around, just as I once was." An alternative and less bloody version of her sister. "I wouldn't trust him further then I could throw him if it came to matters of state, for everything that you said."