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Ortus Nigenad ([personal profile] noniad) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-05-02 05:28 pm (UTC)

[A woman who knows how to handle herself, as they say. Marta would be pleased to have been toasted by her, even as a stranger. Ortus accepts her attention with equanimity, resisting the urge to fidget or shy away. It seems unbecoming.]

Very much so.

[He admits this with a strange mixture of timidity and certainty. Ortus is a man who knows he is a coward, and has made peace with his shame.]

I am not suited for battle, in skill or temperament. I will serve if called to do so, or if my Lady and my House are endangered, but to what end - besides my own? So I am much relieved to hear that such establishments as these are more common than the shedding of blood.

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