[There you go, some levity. It's nice to know she can make someone laugh in this place, and a surprisingly nice laughter to boot.
Still, he goes somber and she holds her breath on instinct. Here it goes, the big secret. (She's rather good at keeping those, isn't she?)
And the secret is:
Anduin's a king.]
What.
[A king. Sure. One's a dragon and one's a king and why not believe them both? In the end, they each can confirm each other's truths, and it doesn't impact her at all if it were a lie. She could say she's the queen of Slytherin right now and nobody here would understand what that meant. (She won't though. It's not in her nature to lie that hard.)
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Still, he goes somber and she holds her breath on instinct. Here it goes, the big secret. (She's rather good at keeping those, isn't she?)
And the secret is:
Anduin's a king.]
What.
[A king. Sure. One's a dragon and one's a king and why not believe them both? In the end, they each can confirm each other's truths, and it doesn't impact her at all if it were a lie. She could say she's the queen of Slytherin right now and nobody here would understand what that meant. (She won't though. It's not in her nature to lie that hard.)
A king.]
But you're so young.