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[endlesswar]

A few reasons. First being that you admitted you didn't see it the first time. And secondly, I enjoy your company and feel that I owe you a pleasant outting to make up for the first.

[The one where he discovered she is still a maiden with intact virtue and very much instilled with the Westerlands and Crownlands concept of modesty.]

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[ Her brow creases at that, ]

You--you did nothing wrong. I was the one that was rude and unpleasant.

[ And, looking back on her behavior, she was. She still held her beliefs strongly but if she had misjudged him - and she had - then she was in the wrong. She knew that. ]

[endlesswar]

I could have warned you sooner.

[The baths and water gardens house as many romantic trysts as they do flowers. It is known.... to the common folk.]

Think on it. I feel as though I've challenged your patience quite enough.

[Though he's still here, isn't he?]

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[ There's a small smirk at that, ]

I'm starting to think you enjoy doing that.

[endlesswar]

For now yes, until I find better ways to have and hold your attention.

[There's that smile again, quirking up the side of his face though he's trying to be absolutely stone faced. She just makes it happen. Even in her disdain. Could it be because so far in all the women he has met, she's not thrown herself at his feet? It cannot be just that. Lady Karen has a fire all her own.]

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[ That earns him more of a genuine smile, though she averts her gaze again. ]

You've held my attention from the moment I saw you walk into the palace.

[endlesswar]

[So close. Closer than before.]

I can only hope for the right reasons, my lady.

[Reasons the way a woman notices a man. If he were more bold than he already is, he'd be admitting it by now. It is incredibly soon and he is aware that the ground he treads upon is shifting.]

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Perhaps you may get your wish. Some day.

[ She'll give him that much. Because despite all her own hostility, he has never been that way to her. ]