Rosamund's cheer seeps out. Not for any sort of glumness, but a knowing, serious glance. She shakes her head slightly, giving pause after Vi speaks.]
It's all right. I understand. Not everywhere's going to be a paradise. Most places aren't, actually. And sometimes the cost of having one is...making a lot of misery for someone else.
[Sounds like these Pilties benefit a little too much off the backs of other people. Her eyes flick away.]
...If it helps at all, my kingdom used to be covered in thorns for a hundred years. Everyone was either cursed asleep, or dead. And anyone who came in to fix it died in the thorns. [She sighs.] It wasn't much better anywhere else. Lots of war, misery. Things gone wrong. Very, very wrong.
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Rosamund's cheer seeps out. Not for any sort of glumness, but a knowing, serious glance. She shakes her head slightly, giving pause after Vi speaks.]
It's all right. I understand. Not everywhere's going to be a paradise. Most places aren't, actually. And sometimes the cost of having one is...making a lot of misery for someone else.
[Sounds like these Pilties benefit a little too much off the backs of other people. Her eyes flick away.]
...If it helps at all, my kingdom used to be covered in thorns for a hundred years. Everyone was either cursed asleep, or dead. And anyone who came in to fix it died in the thorns. [She sighs.] It wasn't much better anywhere else. Lots of war, misery. Things gone wrong. Very, very wrong.