video, open to both courts.

[smallshoes]

I'm so sorry - I have a problem. We know they've insisted on some sort of war... I don't know what all they want from us, but doesn't that usually mean battles? Against other people? And they have us on different sides, even. I've been thinking about it a lot. Maybe - maybe I'm a disappointment, but I—

I don't know that I'm ready to fight another human being.

[And by fight, she means kill. This may not be an unwelcome sentiment from a fourteen-year-old girl, but she seems very concerned about it.]

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[dappergent]

[ it saddens him greatly that the monarchs have made of children an army and asked them to lay down their lives. It's just not right and with a wane smile, he answered this poor child's call. ]

Fear not! I doubt you'll be forced to bear a weapon in this army if we can help it. There are far too many other tasks a young girl like yourself can do to ease an army's plight.

Have you considered taking an interest in nursing or perhaps the culinary arts? Every army needs to eat well before a battle!

[ and then he can whisk her away long before the dead and the dying come rolling back into the tents. No sense traumatizing her before she's even fifteen! ]

[smallshoes]

[It shames Elizabeth to think that were she set against a man, sword in hand, she'd be good at it. That's still not the kind of person she wants to be, even though a looming war makes the situation dire, makes the unveiling of her deepest secrets - her ability to be a violent young women - a necessity.

But this man is so very kind, and he gives her such nice things to hope for, a life freer of responsibility with an absence of her pseudo-knighthood. A trait that landed her in the Seelie court, she believes deeply in chivalry, and seeks to practice it herself whenever she can. Protect the weak. How can she do that if she doesn't take up arms? How could she forgive herself for idling when she has the capacity to do more?

But that she even has worries like these is humiliating. She smiles with a summer's warmth and shine.]

And they need cakes in celebration for when they return, of course!

[Be as vapid as you can. Be an unknowing angel. But it's scary right now, and she talks about cakes but she's thinking about what it would be like to kill a man with an extension of her own hand.]

[dappergent]

[ Oscar will find it a sad day when a bright young girl like Elizabeth is put on the front lines when she could just as easily be put to good use elsewhere! There's a difference in using a sword to protect versus seeking out the kill.

Stay safe, dear Elizabeth...

But Oscar knew naught of what was running through his new acquaintances head and simply smiled, chuckling lightly ]

Of course, and a great variety of them too! And one should never forget the tea. [ or the wine to drown out the memories but a man did not mention such things in polite company. At least not at the first meeting. ]