@auradonimperia // grimhilde .
Grimhilde flinched at his response, hand curling into a claw for a second before she let her anger pass. Just another failed attempted for them to connect, on today of all days. “So even in our shared grief we are to be opposed?” she says quietly, so no one else can hear – the priest saying his eulogies, the nobility of the kingdom gathered around them, and the King, laid in repose before them. “Not even for your father’s sake can we find a common ground for one day?”
he cares little for the woman his father chose for his queen. though once he thought and hoped to make her love him — it will be good for you to have a mother, papa often said in the beginning — the years have made it clear that, if she loved him once, she loves him no more. ❝ why would you think to seek comfort from me? we have never done such before. ❞ his voice is quiet, his arms wrapped around his darkly-dressed frame, grieving eyes never leaving the dais of his father’s rest.