{SEASONAL EVENT} Servant of Two Masters [open!]

“Virginia,” she responds. “In America.” Of course, he’d never heard of it, because there were at least - what? A thousand years before the discovery of North American by the white man? “But I have heard of England. Of course.” She hits that with a decent amount of emphasis. As in, they’d fought a war and declared independence from the British Empire not too long ago. “Except… isn’t England all one kingdom now? Ruling over a bunch of places?” Her face scrunches up into something resembling a school girl trying to remember bits of news and gossip and the tiny pieces of politics she’d picked up while in service. Oh dear. They’re devolving into history and semantics and this is probably going to get very confusing for the former mythical King and the lady from the late 1700s. Finally, Lily shrugs. It ultimately doesn’t matter, does it? They’re here now, helping each other out, and that’s what matters. He doesn’t act like an entitled, pompous ass, nor has he immediately tried to get into her pants. And those two surprisingly simple things make @Arther a-ok in her book. Her standards are - unfortunately - remarkably low. It seems like they’re almost done. Just one large board left. Picking up one side, she waits for the young man to grab the other and take it to the right pile. ”Last one!”And then, maybe a nice cool drink is in order for the two of them, hmmmm? lily as if you were on fire from within the moon lives in the lining of your skin