[ It's one thing to say 'fuck the media', it's another to deal with it because never has her privacy been so thoroughly breached, never before has she been thrust so suddenly and unpleasantly under the spotlight, named as the woman who had taken their people's king away.
Others are lauding it as a fairytale of a lifetime, and Mako wishes she could tell them it isn't so. A king's love is overwhelming, terrifying -- a king's love is wonderful and sweet and everything she'd need, and yet. ]
Then what are you planning to do? Ignore them all your life?
More or less. [Raleigh shrugs. It's easier for him to say that, for that to be his plan because he's used to the camera clicks in the background, the microphones shoved in his face, and so it's nothing new. He's not really thinking about how hard it is for her though, because she's not like him, she wasn't born into this, she didn't ask for anything of this.
He sighs a moment later and reaches out to touch her cheek with the back of his knuckles.]
You can do it. I know you can. You're stronger than anyone I know.
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Others are lauding it as a fairytale of a lifetime, and Mako wishes she could tell them it isn't so. A king's love is overwhelming, terrifying -- a king's love is wonderful and sweet and everything she'd need, and yet. ]
Then what are you planning to do? Ignore them all your life?
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He sighs a moment later and reaches out to touch her cheek with the back of his knuckles.]
You can do it. I know you can. You're stronger than anyone I know.