cold metal too close to the bone [open]

[anna_morcades]

It's begun to snow, light but steady. Morgause has ensconced herself in one of the theoretically innumerable small sitting rooms, where a good fire is burning. She has sewing by her; clothes for Hero's son, who is going on a year now, out of a gown she wore once and rejected, back when the closets as well as the cupboards were bottomless

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[bravegoewin]

"My lady? Are you Cassandra? Oh--"

Goewin pulls up short in the doorway.

[bravegoewin]

"You have unravelled all the edge of that cloth."

[anna_morcades]

...well, goddamn. She laughs, real laughter, though shaded with annoyance. "So I have."

[bravegoewin]

"Can I help?" she asks again.

[anna_morcades]

"Nay. But I do thank thee." Morgause offers a hand, gravely. "Will you sit?"

[bravegoewin]

She takes the hand and kisses it; looks up; and gets it.

she goes very white.

[anna_morcades]

So does Morgause, with that look, realize what the resemblance is. But she is much less transparent than Goewin is, and only blinks again. "Why, what ails thee?"

[bravegoewin]

"You are my aunt."

or not.

guess what, she's about to faint. just kidding I meant me. XD

[anna_morcades]

A pause. "Am I indeed?"

goodnight! or good morning.

[bravegoewin]

"I--don't know. Well. You are, I think. The same and not the same, as many here are."

[anna_morcades]

Morgause studies her. "My niece is a woman grown."

[bravegoewin]

"I am not Morvydd."

She doesn't even hesitate.

"I did tell you my name, lady. Dragon's daughter."

[anna_morcades]

"So you did," Morgause says softly. "Well, and so you have found your brother?"

[bravegoewin]

she gives a little laugh. "Actually, no. Truly, I've not been here a day, and our paths haven't crossed. But everyone assures me he's here, and well--"

she pauses. "You did mean Lleu."

[anna_morcades]

"I did," leaning back again. "And so he was well, when I left him."

[bravegoewin]

that just about stops her heart.

she sits back on her heels. she was invited to sit.

"'When you left him'?" she repeats carefully.