Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24685738-20170702143317/@comment-24685738-20170705202812

"People like me?" Rhaela smiled, noting that she was getting under Catryn's skin so easily. She wasn't surprised that Meilir found it so enjoyable. "Do you know anything about my life? About the struggles associated with residing in the position I do?"

She laughed, a bright, sweet sound that was not in keeping with her words. "Held someone who was dying in the streets? Have you ever held someone who is writhing in their death throes after being poisoned, knowing that there's a good chance that you'll be next? Someone beaten to a bloody pulp for not showing enough respect? Have you met my brother, Aerion? The man who owns the Legions? Trust me, no one steps in. A bride's virginity forcibly taken by some unknown lord? Yeah, welcome to being a Princess." Rhaela said, sarcastically. "Girls, taught from a young age that their dignity is of the highest importance, shuttled off and sold like cattle for alliances. Men and women constantly going for your head, whether or not you did anything to them. Watching men dying by the thousands for a bad call you may have made."

"Do not call yourself a bastard of both worlds if you haven't really lived in both." She said. "Because the struggles you've seen aren't the only struggles that exist in the world, and that's life. Life is full of toil and pain, and the position you live in doesn't erase that, just changes it."

"I think you're completely noble in your goals, Catryn, and I can tell that Arik believes in them." Rhaela finished. "But that does not mean that I won't continue to tell you that I don't foresee a future in which it works out. Because humans are fickle people, always unsatisfied, and that dissatisfaction always leads to the pain of others."