[It's difficult to imagine. How could it be that such a thing was challenging, when she has been now to eight worlds not her own? But that's precisely the problem, in the end, because she had come to ALASTAIR before even seeing the Outside World in the light of day, and so things that ought to be more realistic... London... Ciel... Sebastian... Wolfram-
They've begun to feel like a dream she'd had. A dream full of lies and deceit and horrible acts of violence, and just when things had begun to seem hopeful... she'd woken up.
To a different nightmare, not anything better. But Wolfram, learning manners, and struggling with English-]
And your Queen? She has granted us her protection?
[He'd said that, the last time. That surely she would need meet the Queen, begun her strict training for such a time... but that had been in Chantes, worlds away...
And for better or for worse, most of those manners learned have since fallen once more to the wayside.]
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They've begun to feel like a dream she'd had. A dream full of lies and deceit and horrible acts of violence, and just when things had begun to seem hopeful... she'd woken up.
To a different nightmare, not anything better. But Wolfram, learning manners, and struggling with English-]
And your Queen? She has granted us her protection?
[He'd said that, the last time. That surely she would need meet the Queen, begun her strict training for such a time... but that had been in Chantes, worlds away...
And for better or for worse, most of those manners learned have since fallen once more to the wayside.]