[She holds his hand as they go back, almost until they’re at the tents, and it’s less quiet the rest of the way. Certainly, people comment on it; they say clearly that Lucy is brighter, so perhaps whatever it was that was bothering her bothers her no longer.
She stays cheerful as they arrive, through the welcomes and the changing and the eternal endless parades. Her apartments are less expansive, her guard expected to quarter with the rest of the Archenland guards, and there are formalities to their relationship.
The first dinner is an enormous party, wild, and the oddest thing happens - it’s George who attracts attention today. It gets worse over the next few days, when a maid begins to flirt with him - persistently, constantly, sending extra sweets to him and giving him care and the extra consideration of a woman who sees what she wants.
It’s on the morning of their third day that Lucy opens the door to find him with a flower behind his ear and this girl talking to him and she opens her mouth, closes it, and feels a green viper of jealous sting her.
Do you not have duties, Lucy asks, ungenerous, before she scoots away with a blush and a look at George, again.]
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Good.
[She holds his hand as they go back, almost until they’re at the tents, and it’s less quiet the rest of the way. Certainly, people comment on it; they say clearly that Lucy is brighter, so perhaps whatever it was that was bothering her bothers her no longer.
She stays cheerful as they arrive, through the welcomes and the changing and the eternal endless parades. Her apartments are less expansive, her guard expected to quarter with the rest of the Archenland guards, and there are formalities to their relationship.
The first dinner is an enormous party, wild, and the oddest thing happens - it’s George who attracts attention today. It gets worse over the next few days, when a maid begins to flirt with him - persistently, constantly, sending extra sweets to him and giving him care and the extra consideration of a woman who sees what she wants.
It’s on the morning of their third day that Lucy opens the door to find him with a flower behind his ear and this girl talking to him and she opens her mouth, closes it, and feels a green viper of jealous sting her.
Do you not have duties, Lucy asks, ungenerous, before she scoots away with a blush and a look at George, again.]
Perhaps I should have sent you home.