"Lothiriel." He interrupts this run of needless self-promotion, standing and walking over to her, placing his hands on her shoulders. "You do not understand the present state of the Riddermark. It will take years before I can make it a place fit to welcome a queen. I could not in good conscience make any woman an offer, least of all you."
This close he cannot resist the urge to stroke her cheek, very lightly, with the back of one hand. "Do not think I am ignorant of your virtues, my lady. I am not. But you are too quick to decide your future." Bema, they have never even spoken of it before now, he's never so much as touched her. How did they reach this point so abruptly?
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after they're engaged maybe. Before that I think it'd make him angry. (Faramir and Eowyn though...)
Date: 2018-09-04 01:22 pm (UTC)This close he cannot resist the urge to stroke her cheek, very lightly, with the back of one hand. "Do not think I am ignorant of your virtues, my lady. I am not. But you are too quick to decide your future." Bema, they have never even spoken of it before now, he's never so much as touched her. How did they reach this point so abruptly?