Part 572: Frederick B

Cherche, I want to thank you for teaching me your family's fighting art.

I hope you'll find it useful.

I'd like to return the favor if I could.

Perhaps in the next battle, you can fight alongside me so I might observe you.

That hardly seems a sufficient reward for your services. I was taught that a lady of your standing should expect gifts of gold or silk.

Do I strike you as the sort to be satisfied with trinkets? Why, if I didn't know better, I'd say you'd taken advice from Virion!

Ha! I'd be dead in the grave before I'd take counsel from that ill-behaved scallywa...

Er, that is, from Virion! From LORD Virion, a fine and outstanding member of--

Oh, shush. I know what Virion is like.

Yes, he was once my liege, but he lost his domains and is no longer a lord. I'm my own woman now. I can go my separate way whenever I choose.

And yet, you do not.

Strange, isn't it?