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[mansuetus]

Character: Lucrezia Borgia (» 010 » 080).
Canon: The Borgias.
For: Ataraxion

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[skjalf]

Yes. I remain as surprised as you sound.

( given her dismal opinion of the french monarchy, one can bet safely that elizabeth would not lie of such a thing.

neither she nor lucrezia have cause to feel otherwise. a fact she echoes now. )

And humiliated me. I know. He told me that the reason for it was because His Holiness, your father required a political alliance.

When he said to me that she means nothing to him, I believe he told the truth. But he did not think it might perhaps be important to remark upon before I fell in love with him.

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[mansuetus]

My Holy Father had always required him to marry and my brother was always strong and fierce enough to deny him. There is something odd here, my sweet and you may be certain I shall find out the whole tale.

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[skjalf]

You have my thanks. I was not well at the time and did not think to ask the particulars. He did not trust me, as I have worked so hard to trust him.

( and it hurts. a lot. )

You and I are yet friends, are we not? I did not wish to cause a breach between us. Or between you and your brother.

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[mansuetus]

He did not trust his own sister, my love. Remember, you and I are equal in such.

[ only cesare has always said family before anyone else and to think she needs to hear that from elizabeth is insulting and humiliating and upsetting.

cesare is doomed, basically. ]

You and I are friends and shall be friends until my very last day on this ship.

[ she will not speak of cesare ]

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[skjalf]

I had not known that he had kept it from you. This is all so very strange. But I do not..

( see herself as 'more important' than his sister. never. but equal? she would like to think so. because this young woman is also as a sister to her. though, the matter does strike her as somewhat odd. neither edward nor richard would have placed her before their own families.

elizabeth lets it slide for the moment, because in this matter, it seems the girls complement one-another. lucrezia's ire is sharp and hard, while her sorrow is soft and bottomless. )

Good. As you will be mine until my last day upon this vessel. You have become part of my family, in a manner of speaking.

And I would not wish to jeopardize that.

( though part of her is very sorry to have instead caused this breach betwixt brother and sister. )