"I'm not so gentle any longer, I don't think. Being gentle doesn't get you very many places in the world. Being kind does, certainly, but gentleness implies a naïveté that I no longer have the luxury of claiming."
Sansa sips at her tea, thinking for a long moment. "This world is like mine in some ways but different, too. We don't have Craft in my world and women aren't thought of as more than a means to an end. I'm a noblewoman, so I have titles and lands to my name, but that just means people want to marry me to get at it. It doesn't really protect me. The Blood think differently about women. They let Queens rule here, which is different."
It's something Sansa wishes was allowed back home, honestly, and without all of a line dying out to make it so.
"All said, your word is good with me. I know you only by your actions, which have been good, and you've had plenty of opportunity to do things that aren't so good while you've been with me. It could be a long game, yes, but I'm not someone so important that you'd want to toy with me thus."
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Sansa sips at her tea, thinking for a long moment. "This world is like mine in some ways but different, too. We don't have Craft in my world and women aren't thought of as more than a means to an end. I'm a noblewoman, so I have titles and lands to my name, but that just means people want to marry me to get at it. It doesn't really protect me. The Blood think differently about women. They let Queens rule here, which is different."
It's something Sansa wishes was allowed back home, honestly, and without all of a line dying out to make it so.
"All said, your word is good with me. I know you only by your actions, which have been good, and you've had plenty of opportunity to do things that aren't so good while you've been with me. It could be a long game, yes, but I'm not someone so important that you'd want to toy with me thus."