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    Summary

    In which the Lady Aranessa Royce decides what that name is going to mean now, Sir Julien Davinos finds out what kind of man he is when it matters, and some remnant of Thjazi is not ready to leave this world quite yet.

    [AN: shrugsinchinese on twitter did incredible stunning art & im crying about it]
     
    prologue

    “I would apologise,” Lady Aranessa says. “But it was me or worse.”

    “Oh!” His companion dives for her dress at the sight of the Lady Royce. For his part Julien is hit with a flushed, burning shame that travels his veins like something physical, so sudden he takes half a step back. Not for his conduct, such that it was, but at the thought of her in this place and that he might be the cause of such inconvenience that a Lady of the Sundered Houses would find need to step inside a brothel. His disgraces are his own and he clings to them almost jealously; but they are not meant to touch her. They are never meant to do that.

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