Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27550231-20160726000337/@comment-28358106-20160821021403

She listens intently. When Jorge is done, she looks distant.

"Oh...you...swore off marriage, Lording?  I...did not know.  I was unaware."

She gives an uneasy laugh. "I feel such a fool.  The way the two of you are so...given with each other.  You speak so easily to her, and yet, when she is angry with you, she physically hurts you.  I was confused about it, first,  and perhaps angry.  But I asked Mother about it, and she told me that it was because the two of you were close.  She said that when two people are close to each other, they are comfortable enough to joke with each other, sometimes physically.  It didn't make any sense to me then, but hearing you now, I understand better."

She pauses. "Then, maybe..."

She turns her head and looks up at him. "Do you...feel comfortable around me, Sir Jorge?"

She has never called him that before...