At our next meeting, I'll share with you a little further about the politics of Counselors and their Kings. There is so much to go over, it would be a better use of time than to write it all.
[ and in hawk's bedroom that night, he will find a very simple note. some words are better left behind locked doors - 1102. and next he comes to pry at tim's journals? they're tucked neatly in a drawer of his desk that has a small, gold padlock on it with turning dials of numbers. ]
I would welcome a dance with you, were you my King and asked of it. But even when you are King, men won't be able to do such things together. It's highly forbidden here, and punishable. Banishment, usually, depending on the gravity of how it is discovered.
But perhaps a dance between Kings and Counselors does not have to be a public one always.
I'll keep the book safe, of course. It's a beautiful gift. I wish there were more like it - maybe it's a terrible admission, but I rather liked it better than politics and histories. It's made it difficult to read anything in our libraries now.
And please, when we are speaking not as Counselor and his Regent-Student - call me Tim? I don't think I've heard much of anyone call me by that in years.
I am often held up in meetings with the King, his council, his men. No doubt you will be among them soon as well, and the times for stolen notes will be behind us. What is it you yearn to do that you cannot while I'm occupied? A walk in the cherry blossoms? That is easily satisfied. Our next lesson will be in the gardens, then.
But you flatter me. Most people find it boring - all the facts, the lessons, the politics, the organization of it all. I'll be here all the same when you are on the throne to help you remember it all.
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[ and in hawk's bedroom that night, he will find a very simple note. some words are better left behind locked doors - 1102. and next he comes to pry at tim's journals? they're tucked neatly in a drawer of his desk that has a small, gold padlock on it with turning dials of numbers. ]
I would welcome a dance with you, were you my King and asked of it. But even when you are King, men won't be able to do such things together. It's highly forbidden here, and punishable. Banishment, usually, depending on the gravity of how it is discovered.
But perhaps a dance between Kings and Counselors does not have to be a public one always.
I'll keep the book safe, of course. It's a beautiful gift. I wish there were more like it - maybe it's a terrible admission, but I rather liked it better than politics and histories. It's made it difficult to read anything in our libraries now.
And please, when we are speaking not as Counselor and his Regent-Student - call me Tim? I don't think I've heard much of anyone call me by that in years.
I am often held up in meetings with the King, his council, his men. No doubt you will be among them soon as well, and the times for stolen notes will be behind us. What is it you yearn to do that you cannot while I'm occupied? A walk in the cherry blossoms? That is easily satisfied. Our next lesson will be in the gardens, then.
But you flatter me. Most people find it boring - all the facts, the lessons, the politics, the organization of it all. I'll be here all the same when you are on the throne to help you remember it all.