"No, I'm not telling you that you need to be dishonest," Ashlynn corrected Sybyll when she noticed that she'd touched on a wound within the other woman's heart that was unexpectedly tender. She had to remind herself, once again, that despite the fact that Sybyll was a knight and the daughter of a Baron, she hadn't benefited from a nobleman's upbringing.
Ashlynn had tried to approach Sybyll like she was a fellow nobleman's daughter, and a little bit, she realized, like she would have broached these topics with Jocelynn. It was easy to fall into familiar habits, discussing political strategy the way she would have with her younger sister, as if this was just another 'forbidden' picnic on the cliffs overlooking the Blackwell harbor.
But in truth, the Crimson Knight had much more in common with Ollie than she did with Jocelynn, and she needed to offer an approach that would appeal to Sybyll's more straightforward way of looking at the world and its leaders.
