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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 1:20:18 GMT -5
He scrubs her breasts individually, then her belly, then between her legs even. "Women who are smarter than me." He grinned. "I am exactly what you were warned against. But, a certain amount of horrible is accepted if we are the heirs to huge tracts of land."
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 1:25:29 GMT -5
She just grinned at him. She loved when people confirmed what she already knew. "I don't think you're horrible, heir or not. Unless there's something you haven't told me."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 1:27:07 GMT -5
"Well...I may have slept with King Kyle Lannister's sister. Dawn." He shrugs. "But I love you, and I think you should marry me."
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 1:38:08 GMT -5
She felt a sharp pang of jealousy. "Dawn? The widow? She just mopes and paints all the time, I heard. I didn't think..." She shut up when he said he loved her, just looking at him curiously. "Do you really mean it?"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 1:40:33 GMT -5
"I do. I've had the time of my life with you on this journey, and I don't want anyone slandering you when we get back." He leans in close to her face, but doesn't close all the way in.
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 1:50:35 GMT -5
"They didn't even wait for me to leave before they started slandering me." She was sure he could hear her heartbeat, it was so very loud. "I think...I think I love you, too." She looked at him, so close to her, licking her lips nervously.
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 1:52:49 GMT -5
He kissed her. "Arania Stark. Doesn't sound too bad."
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 2:10:52 GMT -5
She put her arms around him, smiling and kissing him back. "It has a good ring to it." She couldn't stop grinning at him. "I thought you'd never ask, you know."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 2:12:31 GMT -5
"Your father told you about all the gold he planned on offering, didn't he?" he chuckled.
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 2:15:02 GMT -5
She frowned. "I, ah, didn't think you knew about that," she muttered nervously. "It was a condition of coming on the trip."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 2:16:19 GMT -5
"Who do you think he talked to next? He had to actually offer it, right?" He laughed. "That has nothing to do with it though. If you don't believe me...well, King Kyle thought his daughter Jessica would be perfect for me. I said no."
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 2:22:40 GMT -5
"I suppose he did." She looked very embarrassed. "Did you accept the offer? Or did you tell him you'd make up your own mind once you'd had his daughter a few more times?"
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 2:25:56 GMT -5
"Well, I did want to try the back door first, but the old man was stubborn. Said I'd have to guess on that one." He laughs and leans back into the water to scrub his hair clean.
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Post by Arania Stark on Oct 25, 2012 2:34:03 GMT -5
She raised her eyebrows at him. "The back door? If that means what I think, then no." She loomed over him in the water. "Really, I want to know if you accepted his offer. It's been killing me this whole time. Like you've been bought and paid for." She bit her lip, hard. "And I felt guilty about it."
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Post by The Forgotten God on Oct 25, 2012 18:28:38 GMT -5
"It's a dowry, Arania. It's a pledge of friendship from one house to another. Even if you wed your own lord Tyrell or Prince Brynden if he were old enough, your father would still have paid it." He kisses her. "Though really, I've had worse fates than being treated as a pleasure slave."
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