"Not with your family? Do they live nearby instead?"

It's tricky to get her head around. To living so separately, to being cut off. It doesn't feel right. Palaces were teeming with people and she seldom slept entirely alone, not then, and not since, either. Once it had been with her ladies simply in the room, and since then, it was huddled together for whatever warmth could be afforded. But here he was so... cut off. Without people in any regard.