The long look that Romain earns from his beloved granddaughter for his close comparison of zoology and medicine is less adoring, although whatever that's pricked she doesn't assume enough bad faith to snap at him for it—
a borderline suicidal thing to do to a Duke, though Maker knows at this point that alone wouldn't be enough to stay her hand if she felt the impulse.
“I think she has a point,” she says, instead, of Lavaud's internationalist inclinations, though she further holds off launching into an enthusiastic account of the writings that had introduced her to the topic, since while trying to win him over to Stephen seems like an ill-conceived moment to remind her grandfather how close she'd come to marrying a legitimate aristocrat, even if he was a Marcher.
“We haven't got as far as we have with Orlais alone, after all.”
Promising, she decides. Maybe she'd be interested in Beatris Lavaud's ideas, too— she asides to Stephen, “We could seduce her with my dracolisk. The ones you get around here don't typically fly.”
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a borderline suicidal thing to do to a Duke, though Maker knows at this point that alone wouldn't be enough to stay her hand if she felt the impulse.
“I think she has a point,” she says, instead, of Lavaud's internationalist inclinations, though she further holds off launching into an enthusiastic account of the writings that had introduced her to the topic, since while trying to win him over to Stephen seems like an ill-conceived moment to remind her grandfather how close she'd come to marrying a legitimate aristocrat, even if he was a Marcher.
“We haven't got as far as we have with Orlais alone, after all.”
Promising, she decides. Maybe she'd be interested in Beatris Lavaud's ideas, too— she asides to Stephen, “We could seduce her with my dracolisk. The ones you get around here don't typically fly.”