>>5200480>>5200484>>5200487>>5200488>>5200640You were intrigued by some of her words and decided to ask her about them. After all she said that she had a tutor at seventeen and it was quite strange, normally she was considered old enough and she seemed not to have a brother or an uncle since she inherited the fief. Girls matured at twelve according to canon law, earlier than boys that matured at fourteen. So you asked.
-Tutors ? But you are seventeen ! What is this nonsense ?
She with a strange smile and answered quickly.
-Well, technically I am not able to rule until I am eighteen... So I had tutors given by the baron, but they are dead anyway so you do not need to bother about them.
She spoke of their deaths with a great deal of flippancy and you preferred not to investigate it anymore. After all her revelations were strange, it was a strange land where people were able to rule at only eighteen years old ! You were practically a knight at this age. You thought about your youth and remembered that you killed your first man at twelve, well it was not a very chivalric deed, he was a fleeing bandit and you speared him in the back but it meant that you were already a warrior, a squire. But enough remembering, you had a beautiful woman to entertain and you decided to ask her.
-I see, it is different in my land. But tell me, you said you liked love stories but I ignore absolutely everything of your love songs. I know ours but what do your poets sing ? About whom do they play their harps ?
Her face seemed to brighten, she enjoyed this greatly and she giggled lightly. She seemed excited and happy to talk to you about this and lost a bit of her ladylike manners, leading you to the bed to sit on it with you.
-You have your priorities straight my lord, a land is always known by his poetry. And you need to know about a lot of songs. I would sing you them if I had my harp but I preferred not to bring it here...
-Tell me the stories then.. I will be glad to hear you when we will meet again.
-Well, I would have loved to tell them in verses but they Bifurian songs are generally sung in elvish or in Archaic Imperial and I suppose that you don't understand it since you are a stranger. But... Well, I can tell you about the story of Nicolae and Elena ?
You nodded, signifying her to continue, it seemed to be an interesting story, they had practically Christian names after all, maybe they were from your lands too. So she continued.
