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"Because of the historical weight of it?"

"Look at you, all royal." She grinned. "You do look the part; I'll be happy to sit in the audience for that."

She lifts her brows. "One of King Arthur's knights?"

"An excellent coach if you ever land a period piece and need to work extra on the curtsies." Nod nod.

The brief moment of anxiety he might fall is soon replaced with flowing laughter. "I know someone who can give you lessons on that," she teases.

"A title I will bear with the utmost honor," she says, even stopping to make a mock bow for him.

♡ LUCION LANNISTER ♡

She laughs along with him, turning to send him a playful grin over her shoulder. "Maybe a fairy godprince?"

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"You kidding?" She spins on her feet, signaling at him to follow. "This is exactly like Cinderella. I'm loving the sole concept of it."

She cracks up in laughter. "I promise to deliver the princess home before midnight," she quips.

With a small grin, she looks over his shoulder, right towards the venue doors. "You don't have any tetchy agents in there who'll scream at you for running away?"

She lifts her brows. "Oh! You want to hit up the pier?"

"One who can fill in your shoes, though?" As much as she loathes to admit it, he is right. There will always be someone new — in this game, none of them are irreplaceable. "Quiet. Calm. No better place to run away to, when you need a moment to yourself."

"It'd better. What are movies going to do without their golden boy?" A gentle laugh leaves her lips. "Other than use my nose? I. . . Take walks through the coast. The pier is an excellent place to think, away from everyone."

"Or have a talk with your agent. And the publicist. If I were you, I'd remind them I'm not a messenger pigeon they can fling on infinite arrangements — What kind of work can you do if you're passing out from exhaustion?"

Nymella scrutinizes the look in his eyes. Not in any negative way. More scientific. "You've always been a fan of telling stories?"

|| thinking about what kind of movies nym does, exactly. might have to make her a period piece queen so i can use simone's bridgerton content.

A slow nod of understanding. They have a star on their hands, so they deploy him everywhere they can. Premiere, movie set, interview, photoshoot, all one after the other, the cycle never-ending. "As if you're a machine churning out engagement after engagement."

"With this kind of straight day of work, I can't blame you." Nym folds her arms, leaning against the wall. Curiosity floods her gaze. "This not the first time they cause you trouble?"