Loved this a lot -- there's a lot of history-building here and I like how you presented it, as a history lesson/bedtime story to the young Prince (and I love the details you have here about Rilian as well, how his first betrothed had marry during his captivity and then how Rilian himself had a mistress who also bore him another child). What's great here is that you have Col breaking ties with his family all because he had a woman in his group of confidantes and warriors. And I LOVE that he did not treat her any differently than his male friends and he accepted her as an equal.
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Date: 2012-08-13 01:04 am (UTC)