"You're here," she agrees. "And it's not all on you, Lancelot. I'll tell you the same thing I told Laertes when he learned of his sister: we oughtn't act as if the beats of stories told about us are foregone conclusions. Words on a page are no promise, sweetheart, and words from a man who is such a divergence from any story told of you are even less so."
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