It's a difficult thing, on the whole. More difficult than he'd expected. Byerly had given his hand willingly and cheerfully. After all, it's attached to him, isn't it, his hand, and he is a worthless creature, so by extension his hand is a worthless thing, to be given away without care. But - the marriage had turned out to have...unforeseen consequences. Alexandrie, inexplicably, had stopped talking to him - for what reason, he cannot say, given that she's married herself, but the timing did not go unnoticed. She didn't even come to see him when he was hurt. And now there is the matter of his elevation to head of Diplomacy...
And - it's odd, isn't it. He'd always thought of his bachelorhood as something without consequence. Married, unmarried, who gave a damn; he would act the same regardless. Yet there is something...strange about it, something uncomfortable, that he hadn't anticipated. He'd thought it'd all just be a lark, but instead...
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It's a difficult thing, on the whole. More difficult than he'd expected. Byerly had given his hand willingly and cheerfully. After all, it's attached to him, isn't it, his hand, and he is a worthless creature, so by extension his hand is a worthless thing, to be given away without care. But - the marriage had turned out to have...unforeseen consequences. Alexandrie, inexplicably, had stopped talking to him - for what reason, he cannot say, given that she's married herself, but the timing did not go unnoticed. She didn't even come to see him when he was hurt. And now there is the matter of his elevation to head of Diplomacy...
And - it's odd, isn't it. He'd always thought of his bachelorhood as something without consequence. Married, unmarried, who gave a damn; he would act the same regardless. Yet there is something...strange about it, something uncomfortable, that he hadn't anticipated. He'd thought it'd all just be a lark, but instead...
"Do sit, my dear. You are most welcome."