[You want to talk about direct hits, now that's one that lands on her with almost the same magnitude as the brownies had on Dave. As glad as she is to be from London, there are some things that will never wholly fade, and it turns out that this is one of them: those dreams of having a title in front of her name, those summer days playing with Elise in the garden and dreaming of wealth and rank and parties and love.
Queen Meridiana. The ring of it pales only slightly next to Queen Victoria, but of course a name that itself means victory is a hard act to follow by anything.
Her eyes fall halfway closed; her long lashes fringe heavy where they frame them. Your Majesty, he says, and chases it with a touch of his lips to her hand.
When he says it, she could really make herself believe it, folly though she knows full well it it.]
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[You want to talk about direct hits, now that's one that lands on her with almost the same magnitude as the brownies had on Dave. As glad as she is to be from London, there are some things that will never wholly fade, and it turns out that this is one of them: those dreams of having a title in front of her name, those summer days playing with Elise in the garden and dreaming of wealth and rank and parties and love.
Queen Meridiana. The ring of it pales only slightly next to Queen Victoria, but of course a name that itself means victory is a hard act to follow by anything.
Her eyes fall halfway closed; her long lashes fringe heavy where they frame them. Your Majesty, he says, and chases it with a touch of his lips to her hand.
When he says it, she could really make herself believe it, folly though she knows full well it it.]
Y...Yes. A-A very different dynamic, indeed...