He has thought about this even before they left Viscint?
Kisara draws her gaze up from her tea and onto him, wondering how long this has been going on between them without her ever really knowing. It would be convenient to dismiss it with timing and circumstance. Isn't that the excuse that gets used for everything else? But there's valid reasoning in what he has to say. Before the discoveries they'd made, while it would have been a pragmatic way of uniting their people, without a doubt there would have been some that objected.
Perhaps even loudly. To say nothing of assassination attempts. What better way to disrupt a kingdom than to kill a newly-crowned ruler. Or the lord who sought to take her as his wife. Kisara frowns for just a moment, but it's easily put aside. That was then and this is now. Things are decisively different now. He's not wrong when he says that a great deal has changed.
Studying him, she shakes her head slowly. "No, I understand," she reassures him, thinking this is probably the least romantic way she could think to have such a conversation. Maybe that makes sense for a lord, though. He has to approach this with an air of practicality. As much as he isn't really a 'lord,' by older traditions, he still is to the core of himself. At the thought, a small little tug forms at the corner of her mouth as she takes him in.
"Could have fooled me," she begins, trying to drop levity into a situation where there is very much little of it. "Having such a serious conversation with me. As if we're briefing or getting ready to instate some kind of patrol route." Kisara issues a laugh as she lifts her cup and finishes it. "I thought we weren't supposed to be talking about work at tea. That's not possibly why you wanted me to sit down with you."
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Kisara draws her gaze up from her tea and onto him, wondering how long this has been going on between them without her ever really knowing. It would be convenient to dismiss it with timing and circumstance. Isn't that the excuse that gets used for everything else? But there's valid reasoning in what he has to say. Before the discoveries they'd made, while it would have been a pragmatic way of uniting their people, without a doubt there would have been some that objected.
Perhaps even loudly. To say nothing of assassination attempts. What better way to disrupt a kingdom than to kill a newly-crowned ruler. Or the lord who sought to take her as his wife. Kisara frowns for just a moment, but it's easily put aside. That was then and this is now. Things are decisively different now. He's not wrong when he says that a great deal has changed.
Studying him, she shakes her head slowly. "No, I understand," she reassures him, thinking this is probably the least romantic way she could think to have such a conversation. Maybe that makes sense for a lord, though. He has to approach this with an air of practicality. As much as he isn't really a 'lord,' by older traditions, he still is to the core of himself. At the thought, a small little tug forms at the corner of her mouth as she takes him in.
"Could have fooled me," she begins, trying to drop levity into a situation where there is very much little of it. "Having such a serious conversation with me. As if we're briefing or getting ready to instate some kind of patrol route." Kisara issues a laugh as she lifts her cup and finishes it. "I thought we weren't supposed to be talking about work at tea. That's not possibly why you wanted me to sit down with you."
She's teasing him. How can she possibly refuse?