Taking care of each other sounds so... wonderful. When the idea of a bodyguard through marriage had first been proposed to her, she'd been staunchly against it, not wanting to put another person so thoroughly in harm's way for her own sake alone. Really, she'd accepted the arrangement only after that last attack, and under the strict condition that she have final say on her guard. And now look at them. She would never have guessed the turns her life would take even a week ago.

"I used to come up here to practice my speeches," she confides as she steps closer to the edge, though still a safe distance from the drop. "I'd recite them over and over until I was completely comfortable with every word. It was the middle of the night before I reached that point with my coronation address, and I had to make my way back down in the dark."