WITHINCONFINES ✿
【❀ℒ✿】- Words he decided not to bother Margaery with as she already held too much responsibility upon her small shoulders, placing herself in dangerous positions, risking her life against Cersei Lannister. How he wished they hadn’t. But Willas seemed to be more level headed than all of the siblings. Perhaps because he was eldest or just that his mind no longer felt hazed by thoughts of battle & knighthood. Such ideals had stuck in the youngest brothers mind since he could comprehend thought. What else would blood of roses want for if not glory? He’d dared to love only to have it cruelly snatched away by shadows & perhaps now it was why he questioned himself.
"——Yes, my mind is addled as of late & I find myself straying further each day from our houses cause. My heart no longer lies—-& has never truly laid at Kings Landing where it should. The only urges I have for battle are ones with unnecessary brutality & that hold no particular reason for starting them. I worry that I am becoming cold, dear brother. I’ve no desire for nothing but to kill, destroy, cause carnage, tis becoming a worry, yet I also don’t care."
The smallest of smiles is awarded to Loras, which in itself is quite the achievement, as the cripple has a tendency to give little indication as towards his moods, far too often his mind having wandered else- where. There is a sorrow, a deep-seated grief, that lies in the shoulders of a boy (because that is what Willas is, only barely older than Loras, but with an experience in his eyes). If he could spare the fate of killing for his brother, he would. He remembered all too well how easily the value of human life could be extinguished should you bury yourself too deeply into the flesh and blood of those that you killed. It was easy to forget that the heir had once been a knight too. Most could not see past the leg any longer.
' If it is words of comfort you seek, brother, perhaps you should have gone to Margaery -- I'll tell you only the truth. Murder, even by any other name, will always make you cruel. It is only the luckiest men that can avoid it. So tell me the truth, Loras. Do you seek vengeance? '