[ Hey now, with a name like his, there's plenty of places he could stroll into and everyone would know who he was! Who his family was, anyway. It counted. Sort of. That, however, isn't up for discussion today. One day, perhaps, but not here. More importantly, what Collette does say manages to be wonderful and painful all at once.
Not the Rome part, though. Who cares about Rome? Obviously not him, otherwise he'd have stopped being confused by her endless jokes about it.
He has to wonder. What kind of person likes such a trait best, even though it drives her to distraction? It's not like he couldn't say the same for her, with how needlessly reckless she is. It's aggravating without the side-effect of looking noble somehow, the way she barges into a danger that could have been avoided. Not always, of course, is she that way, but teaching her to stop and think has always been one of those ongoing struggles between them. Although that's also why she understands it, isn't it? They've been over that before, too, a long time ago. She was a soldier and he was a tactician. Their fates were always going to be tied to a bloody fight, somewhere, somehow.
And this was getting far too deep and thoughtful for his own good, he realizes, just in time to shake the sad look he's briefly given Collette and return to his typical neutral, seemingly carefree expression. ]
Not really. There were never any signs we'd be going back to that time, so I did most of reading on the more modern eras.
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Not the Rome part, though. Who cares about Rome? Obviously not him, otherwise he'd have stopped being confused by her endless jokes about it.
He has to wonder. What kind of person likes such a trait best, even though it drives her to distraction? It's not like he couldn't say the same for her, with how needlessly reckless she is. It's aggravating without the side-effect of looking noble somehow, the way she barges into a danger that could have been avoided. Not always, of course, is she that way, but teaching her to stop and think has always been one of those ongoing struggles between them. Although that's also why she understands it, isn't it? They've been over that before, too, a long time ago. She was a soldier and he was a tactician. Their fates were always going to be tied to a bloody fight, somewhere, somehow.
And this was getting far too deep and thoughtful for his own good, he realizes, just in time to shake the sad look he's briefly given Collette and return to his typical neutral, seemingly carefree expression. ]
Not really. There were never any signs we'd be going back to that time, so I did most of reading on the more modern eras.