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She walked with purpose, long strides flaring out the skirts of a black brocade gown. Having just met with a servant she had sent to the markets and picking up what they had brought her back, Rosalynd Lannister was making her way back to her room. However, it was common to walk the length of the corridors in Kings landing and be distracted by many a Lord and his Lady, or whore, depending. It was easy to tell the difference. Whores were less brazen and never looked you in the eye. Which is why when Fat Lord Hogg and his red haired fleabottom mistress tried to introduce themselves, Rosalynd just kept walking, that dark head held high. Atop it, a slim gold headband glinted in mocking of their lower rank. Rosalynd and not to say a word. She was still staring forward, eyes black as a long winter fixed on the path ahead, when the person stepped into her path and she was forced into a stop save she barrel into them. Her expression was stoic but those eyes were razor sharp as she regarded them in silence.
Lord Hogg wasn’t such a bad sort, so Cerion couldn’t help but feel a bit bad for him - he had been on the wrong side of his wife’s icy glare often enough to sense its sting from yards away, even when it was directed at someone else; her face was set still and sure as winter, and when he caught sight of the diminutive old figure with his ridiculously young mistress over her shoulder, making themselves scarce, he immediately knew why. Deliberately, obnoxiously, he blocked her path, having just come from their rooms himself; he folded his arms and stared down his nose at her - though in truth she was one of the tallest women he had ever known; she was certainly not fragile - amusement in his eyes.
“Where is it you are running too so determinedly?” he asked her, lightly. “You’ve completely missed poor Hogg - shall I call him back for you and introduce you properly?” He made as if to flag down the unfortunate Lord (who probably would not want to be caught in this ridiculous marital cross-fire) but he had wisely already scuttled off with his whore, and Cerion made a play at disappointment. “Oh, never mind - I’ll make sure to mention it to the steward and have you sat by him at dinner. Then there will be no escape.”














