I wrote this to kelkyag's second prompt.

“She could be a great deal worse,” said Lady Addew calmly as she sipped her tea.

“She is very pretty,” agreed Lord Addew, her husband.

“That’s not what I meant.”  She smiled at him in that way he recognised as meaning he’d completely missed the point.  “She knows a great deal of herb lore and she understands the ( Read more... )