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Lady Calista Kolite (thesecretikeep) wrote in watchers_rp,

Magic frightened Calista and she had no problem admitting it should the topic come up, which she always hoped it wouldn't. To her, magic meant what had happened to her little sister to change her into that thing and magic was what had happened to her daughter that meant everyone was safer if she grew up in the company of her grandmother instead of with the rest of them, because Calista had no gift. That she knew of. Little flicks and such never happened and even thinking about such things tended to set her fingers to trembling. Luckily, such a topic had not come up and she didn't need to look like someone who had suddenly taken ill. "Strange rumors..." she mused, shrugging one shoulder. "I must have spent my life too far south for I confess no rumors of your family or home having reached my ears." Perhaps Diantha or Aria knew more of the matter and could share with her should she ask. If she remembered to the next time that she saw them. "Though yes, hopefully your youngest sister will find her place. Most of us do." Hadn't she?

"When one place is so different from the other seven, it seems more complicated than that." Especially to women who liked to imagine a life where she would have had more of a say in the matter of children and perhaps the activities that led to them. The color in her cheeks was going nowhere at Reyne's little quip, and she just shrugged helplessly, having nothing to say. She was quick to latch onto the idea of the Realm living their lives wrong. "Most must be used to hearing such things from the women of Ardghal, after all, I am sure the men from other kingdoms insist on saying why they think Ardghal is... backwards." That was one of the most polite terms she had heard. "So in Ardghal... everyone is nearly the same." What must that be like? Did the boys have as much say as the girls when it came to marriage? Or did they still have it drilled into their minds that marrying and having children to carry on the family name was the good and normal thing to do? Calista had the slightest of obsessions with doing everything as normal as she could, and a part of her knew that was because of Aria. Unable to hold back, Calista asked, "What about marriage? I assume it must be as important, children must be had, but I imagine the woman of the family would be the one in charge." A world where Dustin wouldn't be able to decide who Rose or Lily or Lavender would wed, or when. A fairy tale.

Cocking her head to the side, and forgetting that servants may well be listening because they always did, Calista observed Reyne. "What rumors are these?"