I hope all is well with you. I wanted to thank you, first, for coming to look after myself and Ser Loras in our time of need. He is healing magnificently and has recently set up a business here.
Secondly, I hope you are doing just as well. Perhaps you've even made some friends.
Please send a message in return at your earliest convenience.
THIS IS MY MANNER OF TYPING. IT IS COMPLETELY CLEAR.
[ had he known all along? has he done this purposefully for a year? is his phone broken? the world may never know. ]
I AM GRATEFUL FOR HIS PRESENCE, AND THAT HE REMEMBERS ME AS I WAS.
[ this was not a slight against Renly. while he still did not trust this version of his brother, there was something about him that was... slightly more agreeable. he could not help but wonder if things might have gone differently had it been him instead of the other...
...or perhaps Renly's more admirable qualities would still be cancelled out by his flaws. ]
I wish, in some ways, that we had come from the same place. That at least we would know where the other one is coming from.
But in many ways I am also grateful. We could consider this a fresh start, you and I. No wars, no fighting over hierarchy, because we aren't heirs to anything here.
PERHAPS. BE THAT AS IT MAY, THE MAN THAT YOU KNEW AS "STANNIS BARATHEON" DID NOT SOUND LIKE A MAN WORTH FOLLOWING, THOUGH I WOULD HAVE DONE SO NEVERTHELESS WERE IT MY DUTY.
[ still... what Renly says next surprises him. he certainly could not imagine the Renly that he knew saying such a thing, and he eyes it with suspicion. yet, after some time, he replies simply: ]
I ONLY EVER WISHED FOR YOU TO BE MY BROTHER.
[ he had raised the boy after all, had he not? and yet, it had all gone so wrong. ]
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Date: 2018-05-28 08:57 pm (UTC)I hope all is well with you. I wanted to thank you, first, for coming to look after myself and Ser Loras in our time of need. He is healing magnificently and has recently set up a business here.
Secondly, I hope you are doing just as well. Perhaps you've even made some friends.
Please send a message in return at your earliest convenience.
Yours,
Renly
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Date: 2018-05-28 11:32 pm (UTC)LORD SEAWORTH IS HERE WITH ME. I KNOW NOT IF THE STANNIS IN YOUR WESTEROS RESPECTED HIM AS MUCH AS I, BUT I AM GRATEFUL FOR HIS COMPANY.
[ Stannis has plenty of friends! he can almost count them on more than one hand now! ]
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Date: 2018-05-28 11:40 pm (UTC)I had not heard of Lord Seaworth's arrival, but I am glad you have him with you. You two were good friends in my Westeros, as well.
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Date: 2018-05-28 11:46 pm (UTC)[ had he known all along? has he done this purposefully for a year? is his phone broken? the world may never know. ]
I AM GRATEFUL FOR HIS PRESENCE, AND THAT HE REMEMBERS ME AS I WAS.
[ this was not a slight against Renly. while he still did not trust this version of his brother, there was something about him that was... slightly more agreeable. he could not help but wonder if things might have gone differently had it been him instead of the other...
...or perhaps Renly's more admirable qualities would still be cancelled out by his flaws. ]
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Date: 2018-05-29 12:04 am (UTC)But in many ways I am also grateful. We could consider this a fresh start, you and I. No wars, no fighting over hierarchy, because we aren't heirs to anything here.
We could simply be brothers.
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Date: 2018-05-29 12:19 am (UTC)[ still... what Renly says next surprises him. he certainly could not imagine the Renly that he knew saying such a thing, and he eyes it with suspicion. yet, after some time, he replies simply: ]
I ONLY EVER WISHED FOR YOU TO BE MY BROTHER.
[ he had raised the boy after all, had he not? and yet, it had all gone so wrong. ]
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Date: 2018-05-29 01:10 am (UTC)I am sorry politics and other sordid things got in our way. I truly did love you, and Robert, always. Going to war against you pained me.
But here, we don't have to have that. Here we could meet again as strangers, if we wished it.