[ It isn’t an unusual request by any stretch of the imagination. They’re friends now, aren’t they? So it makes sense that she would visit him at his home in the beautiful city of Derdriu if he truly believes what he claims to about equality and the like.
Even so, it’s a little surprising to be so plainly asked like that. What would the archduke say? Lorenz still looks down his nose at her occasionally—would the Leicester nobility even know what to do with a girl who openly aspired to the levels of upward mobility that she did?
She can do more than just visit Derdriu, can’t she? She’s from Enbarr but she isn’t tied down there, after all. She got her start at the Mittelfrank but the whole world is her stage. There are goals of her own that she still has to achieve, to find and settle down with someone who will cherish her all the days of her life being the foremost and also the most challenging of them.
Maybe today she’s taken a step towards making that goal a reality without even intending to. Just maybe. ]
Of course I’ll come visit. You absolutely have to show me the sights around Derdriu while you aren’t busy revolutionizing the world. Or… I could even help you, y’know—give you a commoner’s perspective on things.
[ Maybe it would be good for her, too, to get out of the Empire. Sure, the Alliance has its own roster of unsavory nobles, but they claim to do things in a more egalitarian way there, don’t they? She could thrive there, far away from the street corners and back alleys that had served as the setting of her childhood traumas. ]
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[ It isn’t an unusual request by any stretch of the imagination. They’re friends now, aren’t they? So it makes sense that she would visit him at his home in the beautiful city of Derdriu if he truly believes what he claims to about equality and the like.
Even so, it’s a little surprising to be so plainly asked like that. What would the archduke say? Lorenz still looks down his nose at her occasionally—would the Leicester nobility even know what to do with a girl who openly aspired to the levels of upward mobility that she did?
She can do more than just visit Derdriu, can’t she? She’s from Enbarr but she isn’t tied down there, after all. She got her start at the Mittelfrank but the whole world is her stage. There are goals of her own that she still has to achieve, to find and settle down with someone who will cherish her all the days of her life being the foremost and also the most challenging of them.
Maybe today she’s taken a step towards making that goal a reality without even intending to. Just maybe. ]
Of course I’ll come visit. You absolutely have to show me the sights around Derdriu while you aren’t busy revolutionizing the world. Or… I could even help you, y’know—give you a commoner’s perspective on things.
[ Maybe it would be good for her, too, to get out of the Empire. Sure, the Alliance has its own roster of unsavory nobles, but they claim to do things in a more egalitarian way there, don’t they? She could thrive there, far away from the street corners and back alleys that had served as the setting of her childhood traumas. ]