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[shri]

LAKSHMIBAI ( ∞ ) Jhansi ki Rani. Contact me and we may discuss and come to an agreement.

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UN: Grayson

[galadad]

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I've no idea if I've done this properly. Can you read this, Lady Lakshmi?

un: rani

[shri]

I believe you have, Knight.

Odd way to communicate, isn't it?

[galadad]

More efficient than couriers or morse communication, I suppose. Perhaps more secure as well.

You've had no trouble since we last spoke?

[shri]

I doubt any recorded conversation is completely safe. But it is marvellously efficient.

None at all. Though people are far more... comfortable reaching out to others here.

[galadad]

So I've noticed.

Well, I'm certain you'll be content to know I have no intention of posturing at your side for the entirety of your stay here. However should you have need of me, or should the other Knights recognize your presence, use this to contact me. Without hesitation.

[shri]

I did notice you had left this morning.

[ creeping out like a one night stand tsk, tsk. ]

But I am glad to hear it, we'd do each other no favours if we were in each others way constantly. These apartments are far too small for that.

But naturally, my door is always open to you.

[galadad]

More spacious than a brothel attic, however.

[He feels a pang of guilt for having slipped off as he did, no matter the reason, no matter the greater cause; for all she's done, he owes her more than his life or his company. But risk, as always, is a factor in need of consideration-- for her.]

[shri]

It had it's moments. Besides it was not as if space was the point, was it? Or here, for that matter.

Harder still when I was going from palace to attic, but at least I am in practise.

[galadad]

So we both are, it seems.

Well, I won't keep you, love. I'll be within reach.

[Adds, after a single beat:] And good hunting.

[shri]

If you require anything, make sure you ask.

[ She's sure he won't, she's sure he will be too prideful, but, she had to offer. Until he learned he was not bearing this all alone. Had to, when he goes her things she understands are affectionate. ]

And you.

un: thefighter

[sparring]

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Infinity? Interesting.

un: rani

[shri]

I'm told a lady never reveals her age.

[sparring]

A lady's perogative.

You're lovely. And I suppose you're told that a lot.

[shri]

[ She has, as a Queen, she had been told it often. Then she had no time at all for pleasantries.

But this is something different, and she laughs quietly at it. A long time, but it is not unwelcome. ]

Mystery is important, don't you think?

Never mind what I am told, it is kind of you, thank you.

[sparring]

[If he knew she were a queen, he'd still expect that even if she weren't, she'd hear it a lot.]

Well put, that.

Ah well, you hear a thing enough times, it starts to lose meaning. You're welcome, though.

New to the city?

[shri]

Nothing earnestly given loses it's charm.

Very, in more ways than one way. I have never seen a city like it.

[sparring]

I like the sound of that.

I hadn't either, when I got here at first. Are you like me? Came from some old-fashioned time without the tech and all?

[shri]

I believe so. It was 1886 when I left? I take it that isn't common?

[sparring]

1886 is a fair sight further back than me. All this must be tough to deal with then, yeah?

[shri]

What year is it for you?

[ Because there's one thing she needs to know, and soon but - ]

Confusing. Some things I can handle on my own, others I... have no reference at all.

[revolutias]

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un: rani

[shri]

Marquis, a pleasure. Do your fellow knights know your intentions?

un: perceval

[revolutias]

Ah, my intentions are of the purest kind, my lady.

[shri]

The ladies of my residence have otherwise to say of you.

[revolutias]

Have I not always left them thoroughly satisfied?

[shri]

[ and now she's laughing. ]

They did speak well of you, I will give you that.

[revolutias]

Lafayette is not some brute who tends only to his own needs.

But as I said before, my intentions are pure. I speak only out of honesty.

[shri]

Now you really are trying to be charming.

[revolutias]

I rarely try.

[shri]

Does it work often?

[revolutias]

It does.

[shri]

[ She wouldn't be Queen if it worked so simply. But, she can't say she doesn't like it to some extent. ]

Then you shall be in good practise.

[revolutias]

Better than my compatriots, that is for sure.

[shri]

Is it being English that makes them so dour?

[revolutias]

I would say so. France has never been so awkward and stiff, nor the Americas.

[shri]

What a terrible affliction. How great your trials must be. No wonder you look for comfort where you can find it.

[revolutias]

[ A nice blow, that one. ]

I would rather that than have none at all.

[shri]

So do most. Besides, they have other merits to commend them.

[ she's not fond of Galahad that's a filthy lie he's just very useful. ]

[revolutias]

[ He'd believe that if he wasn't so aware of how much of a lie it was. ]

More than you can known.

[shri]

[ you heard nothing, nothing at all. ]

I hope I will have the pleasure now at least.

[revolutias]

I would not count on what remains to be seen.

[shri]

Then if that is the case, can I count on your company?

[ laughing, she would understand if he said no, but well. He had put in such effort, she could bend a little. ]

[revolutias]

I cannot promise such a thing, not at this time.

[ There is too many things he does not know, does not understand. Given time when he can look upon her and not instinctively think enemy, when the questions circling about his mind are answered, perhaps. ]

[shri]

Of course. Well I would hate to make you break your word.

[ It's to be expected. She can offer him nothing but her word against those he has known for more than men could call a lifetime. But still, amiable would suit them both, or at least seemed that way to her best guess. Nor was she sure how far she trusted his guile but, for the time being, it was even footing. ]

But if you need anything, require anything of me, you have my word, I will do my best to aid you however I am able to.

[ A pause there, that she was willing to follow Galahad even into death, and she cannot say such things, it is not her way. But it is there, present and stubborn as she ever was. ]