I should hope you would speak differently to your lord father and brother than you might to me. And I do not require lectures on how I choose to speak to people in turn. You will allow me to make those mistakes on my own, if mistakes they are. If you desperately find yourself needing to guide my hand, you will do so where others cannot provide commentary. Not until this world knows more of me.
[True enough, she might have been overly harsh on Rey — but she had already made plans to take her aside and explain herself, for she had grown fond of the girl. As fond as she had grown of Jon, truthfully. But she had expected Jon to know better.
Obviously her first folly. At least he seems to recognize his mistake in that regard. But her fire is not so easily tempered. There is still something manifestig in her irises, making them seem brighter]
I do not say things because words bring me good health, Jon. If there is but one skill I possess, it is the power to make certain I am heard. How do you think I should do that if I am undermined in the public eye? Worse, undermined by my own kin? What sort of woman would I seem then?
[She does not use the word “kin” in a warm, familial sort of way. It is bloodless, the way she might refer to someone who happens to be standing in the same room as her, at her side.]
The next time you correct me to an audience will be the last time we speak. Do I make myself clear? I don’t want explanations. I want you to understand this simple boundary I have placed.
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[True enough, she might have been overly harsh on Rey — but she had already made plans to take her aside and explain herself, for she had grown fond of the girl. As fond as she had grown of Jon, truthfully. But she had expected Jon to know better.
Obviously her first folly. At least he seems to recognize his mistake in that regard. But her fire is not so easily tempered. There is still something manifestig in her irises, making them seem brighter]
I do not say things because words bring me good health, Jon. If there is but one skill I possess, it is the power to make certain I am heard. How do you think I should do that if I am undermined in the public eye? Worse, undermined by my own kin? What sort of woman would I seem then?
[She does not use the word “kin” in a warm, familial sort of way. It is bloodless, the way she might refer to someone who happens to be standing in the same room as her, at her side.]
The next time you correct me to an audience will be the last time we speak. Do I make myself clear? I don’t want explanations. I want you to understand this simple boundary I have placed.