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It is done. All of it.
A fortnight past, Cersei was taken under a bridal cloak embroidered with the Borgia bull and married to the man who would be king; today, they were officially crowned, their coronation a beautiful ceremony followed by a cele- bration that almost rivaled that of their wedding. No queen ever takes her hus- band’s name, not even when he is a king by conquest and not by the laws of succession, and to be frank, she doubts she would have wanted to anyway ( she has always, will always be a Lannister through and through ), yet she considers it all the same. Cersei Borgia, she would have been if this were a traditional marriage. Cersei and Cesare, two names so alike it has been said they were meant to be together.
Could she love him? She has yet to decide. Her heart is already spoken for ( and Jaime is close by, on Cesare’s Kingsguard, the twins as unendingly addicted to one another as ever ), but in her husband she senses a kindred spirit that perhaps, if not romantically, if not carnally, she could come to love in a different way. They are both ambitious. Their ambitions differ in some ways, but do indeed coexist. They could become friends. They could become each other’s closest ally. They could become partners in life, navigating the rule of the realm together.
And, in any case: he is her king, she is his queen. After the celebrations have died down and they have retired together to their chambers, Cersei pours two glasses of wine and raises her own with a smile. “Long may they reign,” she says, echoing the words of those in the great hall earlier in the day, watching the new monarchs take their crowns. Takes a sip, then settles back comfortably against the armrest of the lounge on which she sits, hair undone from its earlier updo and tumbling over her shoulders, body clad in a night- dress of dark, lace-lined silk. “I must say, I do not believe I have ever seen two faces prouder than those of my brother and your sister when we were na- med protectors of the realm. Lucrezia must know you as well as Jaime does me, must know that you will make as good a king as I a queen.”
