And what would you have me say about it? I was born on Hod, to a good family. My father was a strong man; a knight. My mother was gentle, and kind. Tear looks more like her every day.
The kitchen used to smell of mint tea and fresh apple tart, and every morning I used to sneak my breakfast out and eat it in the main house's garden.
I was put to work keeping the children of my father's lord entertained as soon as I was old enough to be trusted with the job. The elder would have been about your age, now. She hit me in the face with a ball once, and scolded me because my eyes watered.
[All of this being true, of course. And all of it skirting around the painful events that followed.]
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This sigh is the sigh of a condemned man.]
And what would you have me say about it? I was born on Hod, to a good family. My father was a strong man; a knight. My mother was gentle, and kind. Tear looks more like her every day.
The kitchen used to smell of mint tea and fresh apple tart, and every morning I used to sneak my breakfast out and eat it in the main house's garden.
I was put to work keeping the children of my father's lord entertained as soon as I was old enough to be trusted with the job. The elder would have been about your age, now. She hit me in the face with a ball once, and scolded me because my eyes watered.
[All of this being true, of course. And all of it skirting around the painful events that followed.]