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[valouric]

Your attention, as always, is best suited elsewhere. Leave me be, for I am most at peace when I am without your favor.

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[therangerking]

Long months have passed since I have seen your face, milady. [ Mildly. ]

[valouric]

If my desires are to be heeded, you will not have seen me for many months more, my lord. And yet I know well enough that I will never be heard.

[therangerking]

Why do you wish to hide yourself away so?

[valouric]

...Hiding. Such a word implies cowardice, does it not? One's unwillingness to fight. One's willingness to flee in the safety of the unknown.

An abhorrent word, hiding.

[therangerking]

If 'tis not the word you would use, then tell me your own.

[valouric]

...Isolation.

[therangerking]

[ He doesn't say a word. Only tips his head to the side, waiting. ]

[valouric]

What other choice does one have, when one is trapped in a perpetual cage?

[therangerking]

'Tis no cage that we live in, except if we insist to see it as so.

[valouric]

How is it that you cannot? That you will not.

[therangerking]

My pride urges me to cut the strings, yet I barely feel them, and... [ Pause, then quietly: ] There are many whom I meet that I would not have a chance to without such a place.

[valouric]

Then you are more fortunate than I, my lord.

[therangerking]

[ Pause. Then, quietly: ]

I have clearly misjudged your circumstances, my lady, and I beg your forgiveness for my presumptions. Will you be willing to tell me of your reasons?