immacolato: (would see a senior saint)
Lucrezia Borgia ([personal profile] immacolato) wrote in [community profile] paradisa2013-08-28 07:44 am
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xxiv. dictated

[ The journal shows that it is indeed Lucrezia, but her voice is infinitely lighter, as if the weight of the world has been lifted from it and now her words can lilt more freely. ]

To the most gracious Cassandra Cain,

I was told you are kindly and most eager to help lost souls such as myself find my proper rooms at this certain Castle. Such that I would be grateful if you might ride fast to carry me away from this palazzo.

Perhaps my presence can bring you more joy than it has brought the master of this house, who does not seem entirely pleased by my interruption.

Most humbly,
Lucrezia Borgia

[ ooc; loss start! ]
inafadingcrown: (Keeper of Nenya)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-03 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
It is a most solemn gift and one not lightly accepted.
inafadingcrown: (Counsel)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-03 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
It was a beautiful and flattering name, given to me by a man I loved. And I knew by then, I think, that I wished us to be wed.
inafadingcrown: (A vanimar vanimálion nostari!)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-03 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
I have been told that it is not always so. But my people marry only for love, from the most humble to the mightiest of kings.
inafadingcrown: (my love is given to the Morning)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-04 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Softly:] As do I, pinig.
inafadingcrown: (Counsel)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-05 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
You did. [Or that you were married already. But perhaps its best to keep what she knows of that particular situation to herself.]
inafadingcrown: (the danger of light and joy)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It should not be suffering at all.
inafadingcrown: (Counsel)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-07 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
It should be a partnership. It will not always be blissful, but, at times, it should be.
inafadingcrown: (my love is given to the Morning)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-07 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Friendship is a part of it, to be certain. But when you have bound yourself to another, your decisions are no longer entirely your own. Your concern must be not only be for your own life but of the life you two would share.

A husband should be friend, counselor, and lover- and many more things besides.
inafadingcrown: (at his side)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-07 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Must it be one or the other? Cannot a wife lead one day and a husband the next? Can they not protect one another?
inafadingcrown: (cool regard)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-07 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think you could not? Not all protection is given with sword or bow.
inafadingcrown: (Even the smallest person)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-08 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
With wit and planning, naturally. Do you play chess, Lucrezia?
inafadingcrown: (discussion)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-09 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Then you know also that one wins the game not by force, but by out maneuvering one's opponent.
inafadingcrown: (Counsel)

[personal profile] inafadingcrown 2013-09-09 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
If you are not yet, you will be, given time. But I think you are much more clever and capable than you allow most to see.