[Oh Lavi... ;; Well, that explained a lot at least.]
It is not something I will ever be doing again lightly. [she's glad he doesn't, it's not something she wants to go into ever again.]
You are very young, Lavi. [She feels old, so damnably old. Old as the grey hairs she knows she already has. Like she could feel her bones creak.] And you know much, I'm not saying you don't. But there is much you still need to learn... [about that the Queen was her, and it did not matter what she would do if she weren't a Queen, the fact is she was. There was no separating the two.
She didn't say anything to the 'my lady Elizabeth'. But she lent forward anyway, over him. Even if she thought he might hate it, to run her fingers through his hair gently, smoothing his bangs back.] But I pray you don't lose what you have already learnt. I think I would like to see myself as you do.
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It is not something I will ever be doing again lightly. [she's glad he doesn't, it's not something she wants to go into ever again.]
You are very young, Lavi. [She feels old, so damnably old. Old as the grey hairs she knows she already has. Like she could feel her bones creak.] And you know much, I'm not saying you don't. But there is much you still need to learn... [about that the Queen was her, and it did not matter what she would do if she weren't a Queen, the fact is she was. There was no separating the two.
She didn't say anything to the 'my lady Elizabeth'. But she lent forward anyway, over him. Even if she thought he might hate it, to run her fingers through his hair gently, smoothing his bangs back.] But I pray you don't lose what you have already learnt. I think I would like to see myself as you do.