Why do you enjoy fighting so well? Why did you learn?
Is it because of your beauty?
[ Alayne knows the kind of attention beauty brings. She herself had been helpless against it, though she makes no indication of that aloud. Still, the implication hangs between her words. Would it have been wiser for her to learn how to fight, too?
(The answer: no. It would have spared her nothing.) ]
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Why do you enjoy fighting so well?
Why did you learn?
Is it because of your beauty?
[ Alayne knows the kind of attention beauty brings. She herself had been helpless against it, though she makes no indication of that aloud. Still, the implication hangs between her words. Would it have been wiser for her to learn how to fight, too?
(The answer: no. It would have spared her nothing.) ]