For every joy, there is a price to be paid.
The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.
ABASI
Wessex's words were a comforting surprise, after so many had told him assuredly that going back home was now an impossibility. He was not naive enough to now believe it was going to happen, but he could now perhaps hope, in the back of his mind, for a chance to go back home one day. Though it had occurred to him that with long enough in Caido, it could be painful to leave here too.
"Oh. I see." A fractured relationship, it sounded like. Not daring to intrude further into the Queen's business, he did not ask the questions he had regarding Amalia. How had they come together? Why was it Wessex had come to accept her Ascension so easily?
With his mud-face now a slightly bumpy rise in the dirt, he realised how long they had been sat out talking. "If...you'll excuse me, my Queen, I must return to my work." Not that he really had any work to do, but it was polite to not keep the royal too long and to imply one knew more of their plans than them was tantamount to treason.
"Oh. I see." A fractured relationship, it sounded like. Not daring to intrude further into the Queen's business, he did not ask the questions he had regarding Amalia. How had they come together? Why was it Wessex had come to accept her Ascension so easily?
With his mud-face now a slightly bumpy rise in the dirt, he realised how long they had been sat out talking. "If...you'll excuse me, my Queen, I must return to my work." Not that he really had any work to do, but it was polite to not keep the royal too long and to imply one knew more of their plans than them was tantamount to treason.
If his heart rules him,
his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.
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