[ There's an adjustment, brief, -- quite probably his men would assume the worst of it ( or best of it to their view ) , men always did. That would be simpler if they did anyway and that was the rumour that got circulated. Kept anyone sniffing after her trail too hard. Let them think she was silly and just playing a woman's game.
Besides, she had so much more to ask him than that. ]
After you.
[ She pushes her shoulders back, squares the line of her body with a rolling step that flows without pause, one after the other, behind him and up the stairs. One brief look around the room, taking it in if she needed to make a quick exit this way in the near future, and to see who was looking. Never anything too forgiving in her gaze about that either. She meets eyes without hesitation and rather more a challenge. She was a Queen, they would back down first if they came to cross her over it.
Her steps are light after him, barely there creaks on the old worn wood. Trailing her gloves over the balustrade, taking his invitation with a pointed easiness as she follows him to whereever it was he was taking her. ]
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Besides, she had so much more to ask him than that. ]
After you.
[ She pushes her shoulders back, squares the line of her body with a rolling step that flows without pause, one after the other, behind him and up the stairs. One brief look around the room, taking it in if she needed to make a quick exit this way in the near future, and to see who was looking. Never anything too forgiving in her gaze about that either. She meets eyes without hesitation and rather more a challenge. She was a Queen, they would back down first if they came to cross her over it.
Her steps are light after him, barely there creaks on the old worn wood. Trailing her gloves over the balustrade, taking his invitation with a pointed easiness as she follows him to whereever it was he was taking her. ]