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[triplerose]

[ It's late, and, save for the one source of light, it's quite clearly dark out. For a moment, there's not even any sound on the video apart from what trickles in from the late Wyver crowd on the street. Loras opens his mouth several times before he finally decides on which words to say. ]

My sister's decided to leave. That is, returning to stasis. I'll never fault her for any choice she makes. She's always thought things through completely before acting. I'm not entirely certain how I'll manage without her, really, and it's already very strange.

I suppose, mostly, I wanted to let everyone know. I know that she has many friends and I've no idea if she's spoken of this to many, if anyone at all. In case you began to wonder what's become of her. I've got faith that she'll return again when the time is right.

[ There's another lull of silence before the video ends. ]

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[bruxisms]

[ there is a distinct sound of teeth grinding. it is perhaps a small miracle that somehow the man still had a full and seemingly healthy set of them. ]

You cannot hope to understand what I felt for Renly, nor how I grieved for his death.

[ and despite him bringing it upon himself, a part of him still saw the young boy, determined at playing king and following in Robert's footsteps, not truly understanding the consequences of the world. he can still see the peach that he was offered, even as the blood dripped from his mouth. ]

I am not the "Stannis Baratheon" that you knew.

[ and equally true was that Ser Loras was not the "Loras Tyrell" he knew, but all the same, he felt the same slights toward him. ]

[triplerose]

[ And yet who was it that stood vigil over Renly's body and saw to his burial? Not that Loras had expected Stannis to make such an effort - and even if this may be a different Stannis, he doesn't think this one had any part in the final rest of the youngest Baratheon brother. ]

Nor can you hope to understand how I still grieve for it.

[ And Stannis, whether or not he truly did anything, is nothing more than a painful reminder of it. An ache that cannot be soothed away. ]

[bruxisms]

You did not raise him.

[ it is perhaps said more bitterly than he would like, but the fact of the matter was, he could not stand the words that came from the other man's mouth. it was Renly's decision to betray his kin, not Stannis's. and though his hands were clean, the punishment for treason is always death. ]