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"Traditionally a queen consort does not have hard power unless she's ruling as regent for an underage heir, but soft power matters a lot, you getting along with the church and nobility and neighboring countries and doing diplomacy with the sea people when that comes up would be big, and you'd have any powers I remanded to you plus the ability to get me to listen to you more than basically anyone else. - metaphorically listen."

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Gigglenod.

I think it is important to come up with some words for my job which sounds soft here and hard to my father.  But not right now.

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You have said some things on getting along with the church but not the other one?  If I give them all lights at the same time will it work for most of them to like me.

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"...that's a good baseline to start from but probably would benefit from a more sophisticated approach. I've got notes on the nobles we see the most of, I can try to render those into something for you over the next week or two."

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Writing is so useful!

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I had read of the king here who married in a few days but I no longer hope we will be able to do things right and do that.

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"...it's happened before but it's very uncommon."

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He does not hear her sigh.

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"I'm very flattered though."

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She stares at him for several seconds.

 

Should I meet your mother?  Or read the church book and have practice balls.

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"You could do either of those. I can come with you if you want to meet Mother now, I can have you sent a Duality and globes if that's how you'd rather spend the day."

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I would more like to meet her with you than without.

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"All right - Jane, are the stairs manageable -? The carpenter's working on a wheeled chair but that won't be much better..."

"Yes your highness, if I get a footman helping."

"All right." And they can proceed in this awkward fashion out to the garden where the queen is having tea and doing needlework with some of her ladies in waiting.

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Woah, cool.  Humans do a lot with ??clothing??.  She does her little best-attempt-at-a-bow thing.

Good morning, your majesty.

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"Good morning, Princess! I'm sure Charles has already thanked you for rescuing Cymbeline and so many others of our people in that dreadful wreck but please allow me to thank you again."

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You're welcome.  What is that you're working on?

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She holds it up; it's a pattern of flowers around a unicorn that she's already mostly stitched in.

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(But what is it...  Oh well.)

That's lovely.

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"Thank you! Do your people sew at all?"

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Headshake.

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"Huh! What do you tend to spend your days on, then, down there?"

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