I hate it here.

Nothing is normal about this.

[BECAUSE HE GOT TWO OF THEM!]

[Gestures to the nonsense about mosquitoes.]

The secon— [Dead silence, then burning quakes dimitri.]

[BURNING QUAKES THE MOSQUITO TO DEATH.] I’m sorry it had to come to this.

I request asylum.

[Achilles looks torn between murder and fleeing] …-Dima, I’m resigning.

GET IT AWAY FROM ACHILLES.

Get that thing away from Achilles.

He’s kicked out for a week.

SYLVAIN JOSÉ GAUTIER, IT IS VALENTINE’S DAY!

You’re about to check yourself in to an infirmary.

I’m about to be a widow. ☺️

[Smooches Lucas, Roisin, and Colette’s foreheads] Your papa is being stupid, but I have you three, so everything is okay.

My husband is currently having a sapiosexual dick measuring contest with Linhardt instead of spending today with me. …-It’s fine I have the children to spoil.

Khalid is in the doghouse tonight.

I have invited Hilda and Dorothea to visit us, @kvonriegan.bsky.social. 😇

No, I suppose it’s my fault for marrying a king. …-But you should come visit more. Maybe he’ll be more inclined to stop slacking off if I’m not the only one disappointed in him.

You can blame your old house leader. Why did I ever fall for a man like that… [Politics are not Ingrid’s thing. She rather fight with weapons than words.]

//I haven’t made you all suffer the Claudgrid timeline enough :-)

I’m not cut out for being anyone’s queen. [We love the crippling self doubt hours.]

Politics. Unfortunately.

@sonofgautier.bsky.social [Points at a chair, shaving kit in hand.] Sit.

I was hoping for ‘beauty is as powerful as my spear,’ not ‘cute,’ but I leave myself in your expert care all the same. Shopping and tea? And when will you visit Almyra? You have to meet your niece.

Fair enough. Anyway, I have an important meeting to attend next week and since it’s my first court appearance since Aliah was born…-and that means I need a little help in my wardrobe department. We both know I only care about comfort, not if something is my shade.

What if your second best friend was about to commit a horrible mistake as well, and you needed to be present to avert it as well?

Or you could leave with me.

To be clear I am referring to negative energy here, and not insulting him.

By…-eating?

Sylvain, just—please, let him be. You’re unharmed, and he’s not worth the energy.

I am un-horsehouse-ing myself after this.

😇

“No, now.”

Stop being dramatic!

I didn’t ask for nor expect ghosts!

“Try.”

Mmm, and you look like you’re sleep deprived.

“Well, why don’t you try?”

☺️

Well, I am in the doghouse.

[Straw in hair, slept perfectly in the stables.]

Why is the house a mess…?

Oh that’s it. Hubert von Vestra. Hubert von Vestra. Hubert von Vestra.

Do I…-chant it three times in a dark mirror? Is that how you summon Hubert?

It will all occur within the Kingdom borders, if that is your demand.

I did not think so many people would be so excited to do this.