[Ethlyn covers her mouth with a hand. That isn't what she meant to happen.
She's twelve again. Twelve, and facing down an impossibly haughty lord who sees an upstart child trying to play the lady. That isn't true. She's a princess and a healer and the leader of the Arztenritter, and while he might come to learn that in time--probably next time a gigantic monster attacks the town and he nearly gets disemboweled attempting to fight it--but she's not willing to wait. Who knows how long he's going to be here?
She needs to swallow her pride. It's bitter, but medicine often is.]
Wait! Please, I--I apologize for my rudeness. This is the first news I've heard at all of my brother for over a year. I... believed him to be dead. Like myself.
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She's twelve again. Twelve, and facing down an impossibly haughty lord who sees an upstart child trying to play the lady. That isn't true. She's a princess and a healer and the leader of the Arztenritter, and while he might come to learn that in time--probably next time a gigantic monster attacks the town and he nearly gets disemboweled attempting to fight it--but she's not willing to wait. Who knows how long he's going to be here?
She needs to swallow her pride. It's bitter, but medicine often is.]
Wait! Please, I--I apologize for my rudeness. This is the first news I've heard at all of my brother for over a year. I... believed him to be dead. Like myself.