[He gives a thoughtful nod as she responds, a soft 'hmm' escaping him as he leads her through the next steps, doing so as though it were second nature to him. He's had a great deal of practice over the years, though not so many opportunities in recent ones. Though the party inside is simply a scene in a story, it reminds him of the days before his lordship, before he'd had no choice but to turn to politics, when things were far simpler.
He prefers the person he is now, he thinks, but there is a part of him that still yearns for those days, and the company he'd kept.]
To have begun at such a young age, you must have always envisioned yourself a knight. In that, you are fortunate; I do not know of many who are so certain of their paths.
[To have that kind of confidence, even so young... it doesn't sound as though service was an inescapable path, but a choice, though if she remembers little before, it would be hard to say.]
Perhaps, then, instead of trying to discover who you were once before, this is an opportunity to explore what else you might be— in addition to a knight, rather than instead, for I believe that will ever be in your heart.
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He prefers the person he is now, he thinks, but there is a part of him that still yearns for those days, and the company he'd kept.]
To have begun at such a young age, you must have always envisioned yourself a knight. In that, you are fortunate; I do not know of many who are so certain of their paths.
[To have that kind of confidence, even so young... it doesn't sound as though service was an inescapable path, but a choice, though if she remembers little before, it would be hard to say.]
Perhaps, then, instead of trying to discover who you were once before, this is an opportunity to explore what else you might be— in addition to a knight, rather than instead, for I believe that will ever be in your heart.