Robb/Dacey, she should have known better than to love him
Positioned with his head on her breast, his eyelashes fluttering against her chest like a butterfly's kiss, Dacey sees none of the king and only the boy. Only Robb.
They separated a moon back, each headed to a different part of the realm - him to campaign with his lady mother and her into battle. It was foolish of Dacey to think that when they returned, it would be into each other's arms. A young girl's fancy when she hasn't been one in ages.
She wishes she'd had been unaffected, but gods. It stung to see her king, her Robb, with the arms of a slip of girl around him. A girl from the Westerlands nonetheless.
But Dacey knew her duty, and she knew her place.
No matter that she feels only slightly disappointed in herself, that she has once again allowed a man to fall into her bed only to seek another woman's cunt when their cock grows lonely. She is a Mormont of Bear Island, not some delicate flower from the North. She knows intimacies can take place without ever having to worry about the certainty of marriage; knows her worth no longer lies in her maidenhood than a man's does in his pretty words.
Yet, Dacey thought she knew what she entered in when Robb Stark visited her tent all those moons ago.
Just as naive as they come, she thinks to herself - fingers raking through auburn curls, tangling one in her index and tugging lightly. You have turned me into a fanciful girl, Robb Stark, she whispers softly against the crown of his head. And I only hate you a little for it.
Dacey can't find it in herself to hate this boy king's audacity to fall back into bed with her when his wife sleeps in his own tent. Not when she knows this is likely the last time they will ever have together.
Her king stirs, lashes fluttering awake to reveal clear blue eyes - vulnerable and adoring of her. Dacey smiles, her sadness only seeping through a little but enough to dim the light in Robb's face.
"You can't be here anymore, Your Grace," a polite rejection of his presence as though neither of them are fully nude, warm skin touching warm skin.
Robb raises his head to look at her and opens his mouth, Dacey thinks to protest. But he lets his head fall back on the pillow, the fight leaving his body and Dacey knows he understands the wisdom behind her words.
He gets up slowly, and dresses up slower than that, and all Dacey can do is watch. (She pinches her leg to keep herself from doing something dumb like take back her words, and for the moment it is enough to ground her to the reality of their situation.)
When he fastens his cloak and moves towards the flap of her tent, Dacey sees his fist clench around his furs.
"I never meant to hurt you," he says so quietly Dacey almost missed it.
"I do love you and if we were not at war -"
"Please, Your Grace," she interrupts him. "There is no use dreaming of another world or another time." She shrugs her shoulder to punctuate her words. It isn't that she wishes for him to see that this affects her little, but Dacey has lived long enough to know that the world does not owe a person anything, and wishing for things to go the way one wants to is simply a waste of time.
"I know, Robb," an upturn of her lips.
It was the most honest, the bravest she has ever been - including being in battlefield - and this is the only way she wishes her king to remember her: daring.