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[kindlymeant]

It is not that I am ungrateful for your attention, my lady, though I cannot share in your renewed enthusiasm. I would have you remember, please, that even away from my lord father - especially then, perhaps - I must be careful to conduct myself as is befitting. I will not give him reason for disappointment, least not when I walk alongside such noble names.

As for - circumstances as they are, it is far better this way. That door may be closed now, as it should be, and so it shall remain.

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I love you stay with me forever.

[kindlymeant]

[She gawks at him, if only because he seems so utterly well-meaning that he must be playing some trick.

And then she peers past him for a look ahead.

Glancing at him again, she smoothes her skirts and calms herself, giving another faint smile.]

You need not drag me, my lord. Let's go.

No. This must be the end for us. I'm sorry. I cannot honour our OTP.

[groosed]

[It takes him a moment but he figures it out, brightening.]

Alright, awesome. Let's -- go.

[In a very awkward, lumbering sort of gentlemanly gesture, he offers her his arm.]

no I need you

[kindlymeant]

[She has suffered worse than him, and she doubts he means to escort her to the lion's jaws, so she takes his arm and falls into step with him.]

What birds are there, my lord?

.... But I am a heathen. A dirty, sinful heathen.

[groosed]

Tiny ones! Some are blue, some are yellow...

[One such bird, neither blue nor yellow but a dull brown, flutters in to land on his pompadour.]

You are beautiful.

[kindlymeant]

[The sight is so ridiculous, she cannot help but laugh.]

It seems you are well-liked.

Marry me.

[groosed]

Yeah, well, [he shrugs one shoulder.] Someone's gotta feed 'em...

Gladly.

[kindlymeant]

Then you must be kind hearted.

... [deadpenguin]

[groosed]

Hm? Guess so...

[He rubs at the back of his neck, feeling a little bashful.]

Myname'sGroose! [He blurts it out, the words running together.]

atta girl

[kindlymeant]

[Her lips twitch. She still suspects that this might be some ploy, but Groose is Groose.]

I am Alayne Stone, my lord.

I can't disappoint you. :(

[groosed]

That's a... really pretty name.

[For a moment, he is red as a firetruck. But then - ]

Hey, y'ever heard of Grooseland?

8)

[kindlymeant]

[She colours lightly at the compliment, but his question has her brow furrowing. Horror of horrors, she has never heard of Grooseland.]

Thank you, my lord. But I confess, I have not heard of such a place.

[groosed]

You should go there sometime. It's great, and... Granny's there! [Yeah.]

[kindlymeant]

Is that where you hail from? [It seems weird he was named after it but.

whatever.]

[groosed]

No, I'm from Skyloft. It's up there.

[He points.

To the sky.]

[kindlymeant]

[Her eyes follow the line of his finger.

As if there could be anything up there.

She eyes the sky for a moment, before turning her gaze on him again.]

From the sky? [Hogwarts is beginning to change her perception of what is impossible, but people from the sky is still an odd one.]

[groosed]

It's in the sky, yeah.

[kindlymeant]

[She studies him with renewed wonder, as if he ought to be more... different looking.]

[groosed]

[His pompadour flicks slightly in the breeze.




The bird ruffles its wings before settling again.]

[kindlymeant]

[Lips quirking, she sets her gaze ahead once more to hide the smile. Such easy amusement is a thing that's been lost to her for some time, and she finds herself not wholly adverse to it.]

What is it like in the sky, my lord?

I... I ship it now :(

[groosed]

It's, uh - I guess it's nice. I've lived there my whole life, so it's hard to describe.

We fly loftwings! Every year, there's this big race.

(code_okok) (code_:D)

[kindlymeant]

Loftwings? [Rather than suspect these to be birds, she thinks first of the armour that Gino mentioned before.]

How did you... get down?

[groosed]

I'd just climb off. Or jump down.

[kindlymeant]

You jump down?

[groosed]

[Yeah. Usually Link's under him when he goes down -- wait, it's not what you think!]

It's cool, I can handle the fall.

[kindlymeant]

[She looks up at the sky again. Then back at him.]

That is a - long way, is it not?