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[ofsandandstone]

Lystra is sitting at the window, alone. She's sent everyone away, not that there were many people to send away. Most of the others at the Pinnacles are dragon-knights, whose only interest in the queen and her newborn son is how well they are protected. Lystra isn't craving company or conversation, though. She's happy to sit quietly at the window,

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[firstbornoflot]

In her wanderings, Lystra might come across a prince of Orkney, sitting on a windowsill and writing (and sighing) and writing (and sighing.)

Trying to make heads or tails of the way things have been going, Gawain is attempting a diary - but it's painful.

Mostly because he's never been very literate to start.

[firstbornoflot]

"I have found my needs tended too," he replies, and he adds, "and more so in the way of comfort."

Because he has a bedroom of his own! with plumbing!

[ofsandandstone]

Lystra smiles a bit. "Then I should not be worried," she replies.

[firstbornoflot]

"You are brave, my lady," he says kindly. "You do not seem distressed by this place in the least..."

[firstbornoflot]

"You are brave, my lady," he says kindly. "You do not seem distressed by this place in the least..."

[ofsandandstone]

She was plenty distressed when she arrived, and though she's calmed down now, Gawain's words bring back a flutter of that anxiety. It might be visible, but only slightly.

"I have found nothing here to be afraid of," she responds, quietly.

[firstbornoflot]

"All the same," he says gently. "Your bravery is commendable." A beat. "Is there aught, lady --"

[ofsandandstone]

Lystra glances down again, just for a moment. "Thank you, sir. You are too kind," she replies, voice still soft. "I have never seen a place such as this before," she adds, with a note of wonder in her voice.

[firstbornoflot]

"Nor I," he concedes. "It is -- a place of many wonders." Not all of the happy kind, alas, but he doesn't mention it - doesn't want to distress the pretty lady.

[ofsandandstone]

"There are people with pointy ears!"

She's still rather excited about that.

[firstbornoflot]

This kind of makes him blink, but how could he meet his encounter with Celegorm and the sleeping babies? Not to mention Celegorm's assertion that he lived long before Gawain did. The thought makes him dizzy.

-- "Aye, my lady, there are. They -- are peaceful, however."

[ofsandandstone]

"I know," Lystra replies. "The woman I met was very kind."

[firstbornoflot]

"I met a lord - whose name was very long, alas, but very princely. He showed me his children, a pair of twins, girls, as I recall."

[ofsandandstone]

Lystra's eyes light up a bit. Apparently they met the same twins, and that is exciting!

"The lady I met had a pair of twin girls," she says. "Though I could not repeat their names."

She could try, but she knows she wouldn't get them right.

[firstbornoflot]

"Then mayhap we have met members of the same family, for the babes I met were girls as well, twins, beautiful as the waking day."

Not unlike present company, hm.

[ofsandandstone]

"They were truly beautiful," Lystra agrees, speaking a little faster in her excitement.