>>5199255>>5199282>>5199471>>5199499>>5199573>>5199807>>5199872>>5200341You preferred seeing her later, you had a lordship to organise after all. So you tried to reassure her.
-I have to go back to Local, having urgent matters to attend to. But I will be careful, do not worry.
She, of course, was probably not believing you. But you knew women, they loved to talk about all the danger that you will face and say that you have to be careful while they expected you to run into it. She looked at you with a sceptical air and answered biting adorably her lips.
-I hope so... I was so worried for you during the battle you know. I didn't expect you to win the day like a knight in shining armor from a fairy tale.
You smiled at this, a knight from a fairy tale. You thought yourself that you were in a fairy tale land sometimes but now you had the impression that you were the hero of some Chanson de Geste. After all you have just beaten an evil wizard, restored serfdom and beaten the spirit of a dead Ghibelline king. Those were deeds of heroes that would be sung for a long time to come. What else could you do ? Maybe kill a dragon ? It would be glorious to hunt down such a beast and bring back it's skull at the court of France. You told Lady Takable, thinking about that.
-A knight would win anything for his lady. Isn't it what happens in the songs ?
She smiled at this and said you.
-I always loved songs of love. Even if some ordered me to stop hearing minstrels.
You frowned, why would someone be so hostile to music. Of course maybe some monks that you knew were opposed to music but it was a good pastime for women, and you heard that Lady Takable was very good with the harp.
-Why would they deprive you of songs of fin amor ?
She looked at you and said in a sad tone.
-My mother used to like them, and then father let me hear the minstrels singing about it. I loved the stories of knights servants and of ladies and the old tales of love. I used to love even some songs about the conquests of Emperor Innocent Genocide against the barbarians. But after they passed away the new tutors that the Baron gave me were from Diver City and said that these songs perpetuate gender stereotypes and a culture of conquest and oppression.
You looked at her, like if you understood what she did. What did she meant by it ? Ladies not hearing songs of love ? But what could they do instead of it ? Was it not in their feminine nature to enjoy this kind of stories. And what was bad about conquest ? It was glorious, and an honest way to live. Truly those who tried to tell this to her were wicked. And she was seventeen, normally she should not have tutors anymore. About the "gender stereotypes" you ignored the meaning of the word "stereotypes" so you preferred to ignore them, maybe they were a kind of illness.
