[Sudden, changeable, that's Alia at her core -- soft one moment, ferocious the next. Despite the brittle prickle of anger and loss and grief, the events of the previous month (and what they revealed to her) weigh heavily on her mind. As do the events in her past, her mother's future. She cannot imagine a world where Jessica does not know of her son's fate, yet here it is, for Alia to speak at last.
Or not. Paul would learn of it soon after. Alia does not want the news of it from Jessica. Only from her own tongue.]
I have not been so idle as you accuse. I am aware of our house's enemies, in this place. I have done as Paul directs, in my alliances.
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Ask your counsel.
[Sudden, changeable, that's Alia at her core -- soft one moment, ferocious the next. Despite the brittle prickle of anger and loss and grief, the events of the previous month (and what they revealed to her) weigh heavily on her mind. As do the events in her past, her mother's future. She cannot imagine a world where Jessica does not know of her son's fate, yet here it is, for Alia to speak at last.
Or not. Paul would learn of it soon after. Alia does not want the news of it from Jessica. Only from her own tongue.]
I have not been so idle as you accuse. I am aware of our house's enemies, in this place. I have done as Paul directs, in my alliances.