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[partialities]

I ought to confess.

This little planet does unsettle me so and why, I cannot explain.

And yet, I have spent far too many days inside and so -

I do very dearly wish for an escort for a short walk outside.

Mayhaps I shall learn to love it, despite it all, we ought not insist on being unhappy, after all.

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[partialities]

Then they are all fine captains.

[ playfully, she adds a question: ]

Do you reckon I shall be a fine one?

1/2

[steeledskin]

[ SILENCE, AT FIRST. ]

2/2

[steeledskin]

...Are you going to be one? Truly?

[partialities]

In secret, I am one.

[ a beat and then ]

They all listen to me, I think they fear that one day I shall start crying.

Odd, their expectations from young women.

Shall we pretend I am one? What would you wish me to name you?

[steeledskin]

[ tears are weapons, after all. ]

Name me? [ a beat. ] Name me nothing but your loyal subject, Margaery.

[ a queen she could love, certainly. ]

[partialities]

Nothing but! hardly so. A boring titlea nd not one a dear friend should have.

We will think of another.

[steeledskin]

The responsibility would not suit me, I'm afraid.

[partialities]

I must doubt it - you are responsible for something on the blue fish, yes? I am trained in what they call the lab, tending to the ill.

[steeledskin]

I have a duty I fail to fulfill. And an 'office' I do not use.