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[kingsdaughter]

[Sigrid has the locket propped up like a mirror on her dresser. Flung over the arm of her chair is a mass of scarlet wool she is sewing into a new gown. Everything else in her room looks, to her, rather sparse and unlived-in. She's never had her own room all to herself. Nervously, she brushes stray hairs away from her face even though they were never in the way.]

I've kept my own house these last six years.

...What I'm saying is I need work, and I'm willing to work. I'm good with children, if you need any looked after. Otherwise I can do chores as you need them. I read and write well, and I sew, cook, spin, and knit. And clean, of course, and do laundry and all. Da taught me ciphering so I could manage our money. Anything else, I can learn.

Thank you.

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[kingsdaughter]

He saw me safe to my room. Or more than that, he made me feel safe. No jokes, nothing to make me uncomfortable. He is all warmth and kindness, and I haven't known many who are like that. But when you talk to them, it's sort of unmistakable.

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[steeledskin]

You don't fear it could be some -- some very careful lie? That perhaps he is very good at behaving so warmly.

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[kingsdaughter]

If he was going to hurt me, he'd have done it already.

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[steeledskin]

[ no, she thinks. sometimes they wait. bide their time. but alayne cannot be so straight-forward. so: ] Even so, please won't you be careful?

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[kingsdaughter]

Of course I'll be careful. Surrounding myself with big, terrifying-looking men has something to do with that.

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[steeledskin]

Is he a knight? Do you know to whom he owes his allegiance?

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[kingsdaughter]

Not a knight. He's a soldier, and he's from a place called Ireland.

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[steeledskin]

Good. [ not all knights can be trusted. ]

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[kingsdaughter]

What does that mean?

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[steeledskin]

Knights. They -- [ but wait. would alayne care so deeply about a knight or two? she bites her bottom lip. ] I only mean that it must be good that he is otherwise unhindered by whatever oaths he's sworn to whoever commands him.

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[kingsdaughter]

[She doesn't know any knights. She knows watchmen, though.]

You mean they're not paid to enforce someone else's "justice." I know the type. No, he's not like them. You know how some men look at you like you're too stupid to see they're leering? He didn't do it once.

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[steeledskin]

[ ... ]

I know the sort. [ and it doesn't surprise her that sigrid knows the sort as well. it seems a universel truth of womanhood. ] And I am sincerely glad he isn't one of them.