[ it was unfair. Merida hadn't really fought to take a peek at the Grey Warden (so much as she had cajoled, tried to unsuccessfully sneak by undetected, and badgered Maudie about it), but she'd wondered and wondered and almost been driven crazy with curiosity while her mother remained as serenely impossible about it, and her father hemmed and hawed and eventually gave in to the glares his wife was shooting his way.
She'd had to wait. She'd had to not bother the poor man, he needed his rest and not to be 'pestered by a wild lass' while he recovered. It made her curiosity all the more simmering.
But opportunity came, like it had been led by the wisps themselves, and she has to fight back a snort of glee because this time, she can't possibly be at fault for approaching him. She's got to practice, too, and she hadn't known he would be there. Honestly.
She even manages to look somewhat princessly, for all that there's an even more unruly patch of her hair sticking wayward (thanks to Angus' affection) and she's got her bow and arrows loaded on, because it's not like her mother's around to scold her. ]
... [ the princessliness exists for about as long as it takes for her to see him fire off an arrow. ]
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She'd had to wait. She'd had to not bother the poor man, he needed his rest and not to be 'pestered by a wild lass' while he recovered. It made her curiosity all the more simmering.
But opportunity came, like it had been led by the wisps themselves, and she has to fight back a snort of glee because this time, she can't possibly be at fault for approaching him. She's got to practice, too, and she hadn't known he would be there. Honestly.
She even manages to look somewhat princessly, for all that there's an even more unruly patch of her hair sticking wayward (thanks to Angus' affection) and she's got her bow and arrows loaded on, because it's not like her mother's around to scold her. ]
... [ the princessliness exists for about as long as it takes for her to see him fire off an arrow. ]
Can they all shoot like you, then?