#earthrunes

"It's not charity...it's family."

"And no, they treat you like a baroness, which you are. You have every right to be treated like one."

"I think they'd be uncomfortable with treating you as anything less!"

"I'm not the Baroness. Delores does more than I do - handling some paperwork, a few pen courts?"

"....conferring with the nobility of the County and Duchy far more than I have...being the voice of authority when I am venturing abroad..." she ticks off on her fingers.

"Cora..."

"Oh! Not to mention guiding a squire, another thing I probably ought to be doing but haven't."

Coradel waves off her protest. "I'm just saying...you are a true baroness, if not the primary baroness here. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise, especially if that anybody is you."

"As to the funding...just think about it, please. No rush."

"I'll figure it out, Cora. "

"I have no doubt of that." A smile, and she turns. "Let me let you get back to your work. It really is lovely."

And she heads back into the manor.

"Okay..."

ANd back to her brushes once more.