[Rue can not even begin to imagine how that must have felt, for your own parents to see you for what you can bring to them in marriage. To just be expected to marry without love, what a life to live.]
I must confess, I was most lucky in that regard back home. My station was high enough that marrying me off would have certainly benefited my former court immensely, but I suppose the risk of my true form getting out was too great. So I was thankfully spared.
But my Hob... [A gentle, adoring sigh, because they can't help themself.]
He was engaged to be engaged right before he proposed to me. A political union, of course. [And perhaps just a touch distastefully.] To a handmaiden.
[For his military rank alone, not to mention the heroics he was celebrated for after, to think it appropriate to marry him off to a handmaiden still offends Rue. Clearly, it was just another dig at the goblin court, to suggest such an unbalanced match.]
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I must confess, I was most lucky in that regard back home. My station was high enough that marrying me off would have certainly benefited my former court immensely, but I suppose the risk of my true form getting out was too great. So I was thankfully spared.
But my Hob... [A gentle, adoring sigh, because they can't help themself.]
He was engaged to be engaged right before he proposed to me. A political union, of course. [And perhaps just a touch distastefully.] To a handmaiden.
[For his military rank alone, not to mention the heroics he was celebrated for after, to think it appropriate to marry him off to a handmaiden still offends Rue. Clearly, it was just another dig at the goblin court, to suggest such an unbalanced match.]