✏ ᴏᴏ3 (ᴅɪᴄᴛᴀᴛᴇᴅ) | ᴛʜᴇsᴇ sᴛᴏʀɪᴇs ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ғᴜʟʟʏ ᴡʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ

[revolter]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

[ she reads the words with a clear voice that can only be described as enthusiastic, she found them clever, exciting, as only a true lover of literature may think of words. ]

Is there a limit to the number of books we're allowed to burrow from the library at a given time? I wasn't sure and I couldn't find someone to ask.

If anyone knows where there are books that are written in other languages, I'd like to talk to them, please. I found study books but not novels. I want to practice my Russian.

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[onemistress]

Then it is settled, you shall by my honey, my petit mon miel. For you are sweetness itself for remembering your tutor so.

[It reminded Elizabeth of herself, and how dearly she cared for Kat Ashley. The woman that, when Elizabeth had been shut aside for the crimes of her mother, and still cared for a crying heart broken child. She knew what that felt like.]

[revolter]

I could never forget her, she's the first one to say to me that I'm smart.

[ Matilda knew it, she had. But with her parents and brother, it was nice having someone else say she's not a waste of time. ]

[onemistress]

[and just like that, Elizabeth was never going to let Matilda go.]

They are fools who do disregard a brilliant mind when it is in front of them. [and she is vehement on that point.] I shall see to anyone who does not recognise your intelligence, for it is the greatest gift God gave you.

[revolter]

Thank you, Your Highness. I think they just don't understand. I'm a bit too different from them.

[ a beat. ]

But they are still my parents.

[ Matilda would still use the same wits they mock to help them. ]

private all of a sudden;

[onemistress]

[Elizabeth sighed, going silent for such a long time.]

I know very much that sting little one... I loved His Majesty, my father, with all my heart, for he was my father, and the King. It was my duty and my love as a daughter to want to be the best in his eyes.

[and she clears her throat. She doesn't speak of it, not often, and not to anyone. Not even those she deemed closest.] But... after what happened, I knew that no matter how much I cared, no matter how much I strived to be better than all others around me, I should never, ever, be what he wanted.

( elizabeth tudor )

[revolter]

I think you're wonderful.

[ at least to Matilda, in how she was to her, in how she remembers her from the history books. ]

I was never what my father wanted.

( matilda wormwood )

[onemistress]

[Elizabeth laughed, more brightly, as she talked before.]

I think you are a very clever child, Miel, but so giving. That ought to be what makes you so beloved, and here -- I think you will be.

[She nods, sighs. Thinking carefully.] I cannot... pretend the hurt of that ever... ever goes away. It plagues and hurts so... at times even the guilt is over whelming. But... there are others, who will love you, who will appreciate. Like your Miss Honey, and my Kat Ashley.

Re: ( matilda wormwood )

[revolter]

Thank you, Your Highness.

[ there is a smile there, in her voice, something shy and self conscious. ]

[onemistress]

Please, do not listen to my mother so much in this. If you wish, simply call me 'my lady' or Elizabeth, if you like.

[revolter]

My Lady.

[ that she can agree with. ]

Would 'Lady Elizabeth' be alright?

[onemistress]

That will serve me perfectly, Miel.