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| Gwen Laurel | Mar 23 2009, 08:12 PM |
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Gwen was having a wonderful time. She found herself constantly in demand for dances, and when she wasn't on the dance floor she was surrounded by handsome young Guard officers at the buffet tables. She needed a break from the constant press of bodies and moved over to stand by her aunt Erin the the Amyrlin. She noticed a group of matrons glowering at her and at her father. "How are those people she asked her aunt. "Bitches and whores," Erin replied. "They had so hoped to ensnare your father in matrimony, if not for themselves, for their daughters. But then they only look at Robert as a walking sack of gold, rather than as a man. Your arrival here as upset them greatly. They had all hoped to produce a legitimate heir so they could get their hands on all that nice money. And of course they consider themselves the arbiters of fashion and society here in Tar Valon, and they are outraged over your legitimization. But they don't dare say so in public. Some of their daughters they were throwing at your father aren't even out of the schoolroom yet!" "Ick." Gwen said. "That is disgusting." She had run into such women in Caemlyn, but these seemed much more vicious. She looked at Sapphira and wondered what she thought of it all. Indeed, she wondered what the woman thought of her father... |
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