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Will you tell me your name?"
"I do not remember my name. Now go inside"
Softly, Anne said "In the story, they say that Gralon Meur was a good king who loved his people. But they never knew if he found his wife in the Lost Lands."
The old man let out a long, slow breath. "Just this single moment" he said after a pause. "It is all I found of her..But it is enough.Every dawn I see her, and I am content"

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Then he crossed the room slowly and knelt before her.Their eyes met.There was a question in his.Then he looked down at the hem of her skirt, which was torn, and her slippers,which were mere rags now, with her feet bruised beneath.He traced her instep with a single finger. "Has anyone ever gone questing in such shoes, I wonder?"
"Only fools."
Very gently, he levered one slipper off, then the other, and paused "May I?"

"They will enjoy it, a harmless spectacle. And they will only be amused if you weep."
"As though I would." Her smile was almost convincing. "Truly, all this is for the best."
"Anne."
She leaned forward. "I am not beaten and I shall not break" she told him, though her eyes were afraid, her voice not quite steady. "And neither shall you."

oh anne of brittany, the woman you are 💘

"I am so afraid."
His hand closed around the back of her neck, beneath her hair. "I will not let anything happen to you."
It was a promise he could not be sure of keeping. Even if this between them was love, the thing poets described, it could not stop armies or time or fate or the capricuous will of God. And yet... and yet, she let herself be comforted by it.

the angst is killin me

Anne's knees gave way, her dress drenched in silver blood and the world wavering like water in her hazy vision, a wild mingling of daylight and starlight and winter shadows, as though all the days and nights of the world were happening at once and she had just been granted the eyes to see them.
Louis was still holding her up; she was smearing him with sea-drake's blood.
"The world is not as I thought."
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Her oratory was one of the few places where she could be alone, and now she regretted the ghost of an old trust that had gained him admittance. Her loneliness, which had been hidden even to herself, whispered now that she was tired of scheming and lying and waiting, that he knelt just near enough for her to feel the warmth of his body in that cold room.

it is cold.
will you come upstairs and drink wine in garderobe?

They wont panic if they think I'm not afraid of it. I am the virtous duchess."
Still the uncanny water gushed. Kestrel half-reared and Anne's head knocked against Orleans' jaw. She brushed his hair out her face. "Maybe you should be afraid of it"
"So help me, I will jump off and walk."
To her surprise he laughed. "Rage at me by all means, Highness. Better than sweet words with hidden thorns."

why is he married?!!

Demoiselle" he said to Isabeau of Brittany.He made her an elegant bow.
Years ago that would have made her giggle.But today,with dignity,she said "You have fallen in with our enemies, haven't you? I thought you loved Father. And us."
He would've savaged any impertinent courtier who had spoken thus, but when he opened his mouth to answer, the words caught in his throat.

nadan se da ce orleans dobit iskupljenje!

"The Lost Lands followed us." Elesbed spoke like a girl whose people live nearer raw truth of their land than any duchess in a castle ever could. In that moment, her childish voice conveyed not impudance, but lost wisdom.
"What does that mean?" demanded Isabeu.
"The edge of the Lost Lands is like the edge of the sea, my gram said. It ebbs and flows. But I never knew what she meant... I've never seen the sea."

"That yellow haired creature Polhaim is half in love with you" murmured Henri. "Didnt you see his face?"
"It is easy to be in love with someone you do not know, whom you must rescue from her enemies." She stared sideways at Henri,who looked affronted.
"Just as you like, go on and break hearts.When I have to kill the fellow who's finally broken yours, I shall congratulate him before I run him through
"Dont be dramatic