Her mouth twitches in unconscious reflection of his. Oh, she remembers it well, in the days when such childish pranks were fair currency between them, when she was only a girl. Had the chance to be only a girl, and not Edoras' lady or her uncle's nurse or Dernhelm.
"Then you were as well not to vex me again," she says, and for a moment, recaptures that girlish levity and sharpness - only for an instant, before the pain in her arm draws her back to here and now. It feels like another loss, to have almost touched the past, and lost it again. That hint of a smile falls away.
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Date: 2018-08-12 08:25 pm (UTC)"Then you were as well not to vex me again," she says, and for a moment, recaptures that girlish levity and sharpness - only for an instant, before the pain in her arm draws her back to here and now. It feels like another loss, to have almost touched the past, and lost it again. That hint of a smile falls away.