re: checking out games

[engilding]

You want to put my 'huge' what where? That's, ah, fine ... I guess. Make sure Suzaku's around to see it, at least, he'll be really impressed.

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[engilding]

... I can't argue with that part. You've got me there.

[kindlymeant]

I know little of swords and armour, but I know enough of this, I think, for even a bastard girl has her duties. There is naught to do but rise to them as best we can.

[engilding]

Don't call yourself that. Rank and everything that comes with it, birthrights, they're nothing.

[kindlymeant]

...In some ways, perhaps. But not in others.

[engilding]

Not in any way that truly matters.

[kindlymeant]

As in stories, where kings and queens treat their stableboys with the same kindness as their councilmen, and knights protect the weak and the innocent?

[engilding]

Knights are generally the worst warmongers of all, if they can protect a single person in their lifetime then it's practically a feat of impossibility. Most don't bother, you're right.

[kindlymeant]

[And that hits a nerve. She all but gawks at him for a bit, swallowing hard before she composes herself.]

Perhaps it is so.

[engilding]

[ He softens his expression with a forced smile. ]

I don't revere that sort of person, not at all.

[kindlymeant]

[That doesn't seem to reassure her, but she soon schools her expression to something smooth and flat.]

Then to what end did you swear your oaths?

[engilding]

I just wanted to get away from home.

[kindlymeant]

[I just want to go back home. She almost says, almost, the words falling just short of her tongue, never to be uttered.]

And did you get what you wanted?

[engilding]

That and more.

[ I got what home would never have let me have; a friend I love regardless of his history. ]

[kindlymeant]

There's always more than one might expect.

[engilding]

I can handle it.

[kindlymeant]

I pray that you continue to.

[engilding]

I bet you have a beautiful smile.

1/2

[kindlymeant]

[what]

[kindlymeant]

...It is not so hard won, is it?

[engilding]

It's starting to seem that way.

[kindlymeant]

Truly? I hope I have not been uncourteous. [Half-teasing, she looks up at him.] I have been told, however, that I should not easily give what wealth I possess.

[engilding]

Then please, milady, dispense upon me your grace.

[kindlymeant]

What if I have little for you to look upon, ser?

[engilding]

That could never be the case.

[kindlymeant]

You speak with a chivalry that belies your harsh words regarding knights.