Yet another Arthurian

[hardlyagravated]

She is suddenly in the main room, as if she has been there for a long time. Perhaps she has. She is neither strikingly beautiful nor plain, but rather a woman who was likely once beautiful, some years ago. Now she just looks tired and impatient and says, "Whatever it is this time, at least it's new."

Typist: As requested... it's Laurel, the

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[ebon_divinity]

"S'pose it would be, then." With the cold weather, Rosana is in the Mansion more often, and she regards the other woman with mild interest. "Hullo."

[hardlyagravated]

Laurel turns to her. "Good day. I'm not intruding, I trust?"

[ebon_divinity]

"Don't expect so," and she holds out a lean hand. "I'm Rosana."

[hardlyagravated]

"Laurel." Her title is meaningless enough, even at home, that she omits it. She takes Rosana's hand to dip in a very brief curtsy.

[ebon_divinity]

She snatches it back, with a wary look. "No call for that."

[hardlyagravated]

Laurel raises an eyebrow. The motion was no more unusual than a modern handshake for her, but she says mildly, "I intended no offense."

[ebon_divinity]

"I'm no lady," roughly, almost defensively.

[hardlyagravated]

She blinks. "Forgive me. I could not see that you were anything else. My mistaking." Living with Agravain, one learns quickly not to argue easily.

[ebon_divinity]

Rosana looks her up and down suspiciously, but seems to find nothing to actually disapprove of. "Where've you come from, then?"

[hardlyagravated]

"My husband's holdings in Orkney."

[ebon_divinity]

"You're one of them?"

[hardlyagravated]

She looks nonplussed. "Ah. The family's reputation precedes me. By marriage, yes."

[ebon_divinity]

"Awful lot of you," Rosana observes. "Which one's yours, then?"

[hardlyagravated]

"Sir Agravain is my lord." Though she doesn't add that, given his history, it's doubtful as to what degree he is hers.

[ebon_divinity]

And that gets a sudden crease of the black brows. "Is that so."

[hardlyagravated]

A closed, almost bemused expression. "I see you know him."