"Before or after the marriage?" Jigano asked casually, though he didn't bother hiding the curiosity gleaming in bright blue eyes. Scars like that usually came with quite the tale, but if it was too difficult to talk about he didn't want to make Adam uncomfortable. If it was just a matter of teasing the details out, though, he was more than up to that task!
"No feasts," he agreed wryly. "Mostly a lot of finger pointing and blame going around, and everyone being pissed off, including me. Ronin kept the crown a lot longer, but even he got rid of it in the end. Leaving us with... Wessex." He didn't quite growl the name, but he managed to speak it with a casual distaste and the flicker of something darker in his eyes. "The second queen I could do quite well without." Edrei was the only only lady of the lot that he'd liked, and even he had to admit that her qualifications for being a good queen were mainly that she'd left most things well enough alone.
The bottle came down as the eyebrow came up, but Jigano grinned as he did so. The smile faded at the mention of the divorce and he tilted his head thoughtfully. "Ah well. To loved ones left behind, then," he murmured instead, raising a toast to those left behind on other worlds.
"No feasts," he agreed wryly. "Mostly a lot of finger pointing and blame going around, and everyone being pissed off, including me. Ronin kept the crown a lot longer, but even he got rid of it in the end. Leaving us with... Wessex." He didn't quite growl the name, but he managed to speak it with a casual distaste and the flicker of something darker in his eyes. "The second queen I could do quite well without." Edrei was the only only lady of the lot that he'd liked, and even he had to admit that her qualifications for being a good queen were mainly that she'd left most things well enough alone.
The bottle came down as the eyebrow came up, but Jigano grinned as he did so. The smile faded at the mention of the divorce and he tilted his head thoughtfully. "Ah well. To loved ones left behind, then," he murmured instead, raising a toast to those left behind on other worlds.
