You'll understand if I avoid his Majesty's parties, I find poetry dreadfully dull and can't abide blood on the rugs.
[ As more light shines in from outside, the library comes within reach. The musty smell of the half-abandoned passage changes to much more academic scents — paper halfway to ancient, leather bindings, and sandalwood. A few more steps and they'll be able to exit through a lightly wrought shelf, purposefully filled with periodicals and reference pamphlets rather than heavy books, and emerge mere feet away from the archivist's office.
Although she doesn't plan on it, Anahid finds herself slowing down. Nikolai will feel a tug at his hand as her altered pace pulls her arm taut. ]
Perhaps, um —
[ A breath, and then: ]
Perhaps I ought to just let this go.
[ A bit more sober now, and closer to the point of no return, she finds her courage wavering a bit. Does she really want to potentially make an enemy when she has at least six more weeks in Ravka? ]
no subject
[ As more light shines in from outside, the library comes within reach. The musty smell of the half-abandoned passage changes to much more academic scents — paper halfway to ancient, leather bindings, and sandalwood. A few more steps and they'll be able to exit through a lightly wrought shelf, purposefully filled with periodicals and reference pamphlets rather than heavy books, and emerge mere feet away from the archivist's office.
Although she doesn't plan on it, Anahid finds herself slowing down. Nikolai will feel a tug at his hand as her altered pace pulls her arm taut. ]
Perhaps, um —
[ A breath, and then: ]
Perhaps I ought to just let this go.
[ A bit more sober now, and closer to the point of no return, she finds her courage wavering a bit. Does she really want to potentially make an enemy when she has at least six more weeks in Ravka? ]