[q]That is also very true, and in our society it would mean something to hide. Clever.[q] She smiled gently as she sat back down on the bench there in the solar, crossing her legs as her barefoot pointed at the floor. She was slender, lanky, but she happened to be quite broad, so she knew how to make herself smaller, less intimidating. She hated coming across as intimidating to someone she wasn’t trying to intimidate. [q]A week it is then. But I won’t have you going back there. You’re mine to be, I want to spend time getting to know you over the next week. And we should certainly start that right away. You may find a snore, or have a quite boring life and want to run away before it’s all said and done.[q]
She folded her hands on her lap then, and thought. [q]Would you like to be shown to a room to freshen up before dinner? Or a tour of my parent’s manor? No sense in sitting in here among the plants the entire time, unless you like it in here. I do, it’s one of the few places I feel I can hide in and not feel like someone will come to find me until I want to be found.[q] Honestly, the solar had been a Gods-send for her during her youth. She had spent a lot of time digging in the soil, and taking cuttings to try and grow in a wooden box on her window ledge, always to fail. They needed the constant sunlight of where the solar was in the house, rather than the late afternoon that her childhood window got. [q]Oh, Gods, where are my manners, I’ve not offered you a drink or a snack, you must be sitting here going [q]where’s my snack, it’s late afternoon already, do these people not have tea[q], or something else equally as horrid. This may be why I run everyone off so quickly.[q] That smile was back, the one eye closed – a genuine one. Kaczor knew exactly why all the rest had been run off.
All the rest had brought haughtiness and rudeness. And that was something he couldn;t stand when it came to his family. Be mean to him, but the family? Never. She would kill for her family. It was something she had grown up knowing, from the beginning. Should something have happened to her mother, father, or little brother, Kaczor felt it would have been very easy for her to become something horrid – she knew she would be capable of killing when it came to the family. There would be no hesitation in her. Nothing was more sacred to her than her family. And she would be it’s protector, no matter what. It was as simple as that. Her father was growing in years, her mother was not voiceless, but more muted in the Senate. No, it would fall to Kaczor now, and if that meant taking Ella in too, then that’s what it meant. She would let anyone hurt his family. Not now, not ever, and she would go to her grave in a heart beat, if it meant that they were all safe, and secure for as long as they lived.
And it was the genuineness that Ella had presented that had it’s hooks in Kaczor. She seemed authentic, her true self there, in the solar with her. Kaczor didn’t get a sense that there was something being hidden from her, that Ella was true. And Kaczor liked to think that she was a great judge of character. Yes. Kaczor was sure of it. This was the right steps to take, secure the alliance for their families with the wedding, make sure that Ella was taken care of from here on out – she was marrying into the Tilani’s after all, she was as Tilani now – and never had to deal with her previous family. [q]Do you want this wedding in a week to be more.. Dresses and cakes, and a party for families, or would you rather have it be just our parents and siblings and the registers? Since we’re to be an unconventional couple, I think we’d be forgiven forgoing a huge affair.[q]
She folded her hands on her lap then, and thought. [q]Would you like to be shown to a room to freshen up before dinner? Or a tour of my parent’s manor? No sense in sitting in here among the plants the entire time, unless you like it in here. I do, it’s one of the few places I feel I can hide in and not feel like someone will come to find me until I want to be found.[q] Honestly, the solar had been a Gods-send for her during her youth. She had spent a lot of time digging in the soil, and taking cuttings to try and grow in a wooden box on her window ledge, always to fail. They needed the constant sunlight of where the solar was in the house, rather than the late afternoon that her childhood window got. [q]Oh, Gods, where are my manners, I’ve not offered you a drink or a snack, you must be sitting here going [q]where’s my snack, it’s late afternoon already, do these people not have tea[q], or something else equally as horrid. This may be why I run everyone off so quickly.[q] That smile was back, the one eye closed – a genuine one. Kaczor knew exactly why all the rest had been run off.
All the rest had brought haughtiness and rudeness. And that was something he couldn;t stand when it came to his family. Be mean to him, but the family? Never. She would kill for her family. It was something she had grown up knowing, from the beginning. Should something have happened to her mother, father, or little brother, Kaczor felt it would have been very easy for her to become something horrid – she knew she would be capable of killing when it came to the family. There would be no hesitation in her. Nothing was more sacred to her than her family. And she would be it’s protector, no matter what. It was as simple as that. Her father was growing in years, her mother was not voiceless, but more muted in the Senate. No, it would fall to Kaczor now, and if that meant taking Ella in too, then that’s what it meant. She would let anyone hurt his family. Not now, not ever, and she would go to her grave in a heart beat, if it meant that they were all safe, and secure for as long as they lived.
And it was the genuineness that Ella had presented that had it’s hooks in Kaczor. She seemed authentic, her true self there, in the solar with her. Kaczor didn’t get a sense that there was something being hidden from her, that Ella was true. And Kaczor liked to think that she was a great judge of character. Yes. Kaczor was sure of it. This was the right steps to take, secure the alliance for their families with the wedding, make sure that Ella was taken care of from here on out – she was marrying into the Tilani’s after all, she was as Tilani now – and never had to deal with her previous family. [q]Do you want this wedding in a week to be more.. Dresses and cakes, and a party for families, or would you rather have it be just our parents and siblings and the registers? Since we’re to be an unconventional couple, I think we’d be forgiven forgoing a huge affair.[q]
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