Not that Aleron can blame Bethany in the slightest for being discomfited at writing to his mother. He requires time and concentration to drum up the resolve to write her, himself. The Dowager Baroness of Endridge is a formidable woman, even when she's down with a summer cold. Nevermind when she's up and running at full steam. What Lady Marlie wants is what Lady Marlie gets, because she makes it so. Only twice in her life has she been fully thwarted: once by her father in arranging her marriage and once when Aleron was packed off by her husband to blunt her attempts at pushing the boy forward ahead of his sister. And she's been making up for both those offenses the rest of her life.
For that matter, Aleron's been paying for her machinations the majority of his life too. Being secluded with the Seekers hasn't prevented her from making her presence known.
"Of course, I'm entirely willing to help..." There is a hesitancy in that statement. Not that he's unwilling, but that he fears his mother is going to lay into the best thing that's happened to him. Ever. And he cannot have that. "Though I can write her instead, if you'd prefer."
He glances to the parchment without reading it, as he's not been given leave to do so quite yet. That is quite a fair amount of strikeouts. "Might I see what you have thus far?"
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Now it makes perfect sense.
Not that Aleron can blame Bethany in the slightest for being discomfited at writing to his mother. He requires time and concentration to drum up the resolve to write her, himself. The Dowager Baroness of Endridge is a formidable woman, even when she's down with a summer cold. Nevermind when she's up and running at full steam. What Lady Marlie wants is what Lady Marlie gets, because she makes it so. Only twice in her life has she been fully thwarted: once by her father in arranging her marriage and once when Aleron was packed off by her husband to blunt her attempts at pushing the boy forward ahead of his sister. And she's been making up for both those offenses the rest of her life.
For that matter, Aleron's been paying for her machinations the majority of his life too. Being secluded with the Seekers hasn't prevented her from making her presence known.
"Of course, I'm entirely willing to help..." There is a hesitancy in that statement. Not that he's unwilling, but that he fears his mother is going to lay into the best thing that's happened to him. Ever. And he cannot have that. "Though I can write her instead, if you'd prefer."
He glances to the parchment without reading it, as he's not been given leave to do so quite yet. That is quite a fair amount of strikeouts. "Might I see what you have thus far?"