You're up early.
Keeping an eye on you requires vigilance both day and night.
Is that your role now? Guardian of the king?
How are you feeling today?
Quite well. I saw the physician. He gave me some tonics for my headaches, and now I feel better, having further isolated the cause of my discontent.
And what... is that?
I am king, and yet, for months, I have been subject. To fate, to lesser people, to women, of all things. Waiting on the queen of England's death. Lied to... by you, by my mistress. Put in a corner as Mary, Queen of Scots, dangled herself in front of my sons and dangled England in front of me. But... no more. I dozed, as you suggested, and do you know what I awoke to?
No.
Christ hanging on the cross. A crucifix above my bed, the sun glinting off my crown. it was... dazzling. Invigorating. A glorious reminder that I am chosen by God to rule this nation. To bend anyone I like to my will. To bend them, to break them.
To throw them from windows and crush their throats?
It was a lesson I think each woman understood in her last moments about who is king... and who is not. Others will learn, as well... soon enough.
You're up early.
Keeping an eye on you requires vigilance both day and night.
Is that your role now? Guardian of the king?
How are you feeling today?
Quite well. I saw the physician. He gave me some tonics for my headaches, and now I feel better, having further isolated the cause of my discontent.
And what... is that?
I am king, and yet, for months, I have been subject. To fate, to lesser people, to women, of all things. Waiting on the queen of England's death. Lied to... by you, by my mistress. Put in a corner as Mary, Queen of Scots, dangled herself in front of my sons and dangled England in front of me. But... no more. I dozed, as you suggested, and do you know what I awoke to?
No.
Christ hanging on the cross. A crucifix above my bed, the sun glinting off my crown. it was... dazzling. Invigorating. A glorious reminder that I am chosen by God to rule this nation. To bend anyone I like to my will. To bend them, to break them.
To throw them from windows and crush their throats?
It was a lesson I think each woman understood in her last moments about who is king... and who is not. Others will learn, as well... soon enough.
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