The throne room was a stressful place for Bridget, and any distraction she'd garnered from Tiffany was gone from her posture. Her tail was stiff as a broom, her ears upright and aggressive, and she could control neither as she approached the King's... well. Throne was the wrong word for a giant pile of gold he slept on, but it served a similar function.
She wanted to lie to herself and think that the King didn't know canine body language, but it was bullshit and she knew it. She should have worn a fucking hat. She risked a single glance over her shoulder as she approached the King, and noticed with a mix of relief and chagrin that Tiff had followed her in. She'd probably made everything there worse, which wasn't exactly a new track record for her, but. She should at least stick around and try to play interception. And maybe do better at it than Gareth had done for her ten years ago.
"If I was here only for tribute, your Majesty," Bridget said, smiling nervously, "I would never have shown up first thing on petition day and risk disrupting your entire schedule." She should have been used to him by now, and she wouldn't have been so shaky if he was small. It was all instinctual. It was an issue. She wasn't working on it. "Of course, if after your Royal Highness hears my petition, you would like to receive my humble tribute, I would, as always, be overjoyed." This was not nearly as bend-and-scrape-y as it sounded, but there were strangers here, including a foreigner. There were appearances to keep up. Frankly, her tribute came as often in the form of listening to him gossip--she was a very good listener--or tracking down someone he wanted and was too lazy to find as it did the sort of tribute her dress was probably making him think of. It was a very nice dress, in a color he liked her in, and not at all like what she normally wore.
She reached into the front of her dress, which likely made the King--and possibly some of the others, she didn't know their predilections--perk up with interest. She pulled out folded paper, which incited the same reaction in exact reverse. Unfolding it, she held it out in front of her grandly. There were many pages with very small writing on them.
"Protocol is, of course, that I should read my petition aloud to you, your Highness. However, as it's simply a formal appeal on the subject of all our previous conversations as to the library expansion, and in deference to the importance of your time, if it suits your will I can simply file it as-is directly to those among your officials who are responsible for such things."
She smiled cheerfully, tail waving in stiff, aggressive arcs despite her hopefulness for this all being over with quickly.
She wanted to lie to herself and think that the King didn't know canine body language, but it was bullshit and she knew it. She should have worn a fucking hat. She risked a single glance over her shoulder as she approached the King, and noticed with a mix of relief and chagrin that Tiff had followed her in. She'd probably made everything there worse, which wasn't exactly a new track record for her, but. She should at least stick around and try to play interception. And maybe do better at it than Gareth had done for her ten years ago.
"If I was here only for tribute, your Majesty," Bridget said, smiling nervously, "I would never have shown up first thing on petition day and risk disrupting your entire schedule." She should have been used to him by now, and she wouldn't have been so shaky if he was small. It was all instinctual. It was an issue. She wasn't working on it. "Of course, if after your Royal Highness hears my petition, you would like to receive my humble tribute, I would, as always, be overjoyed." This was not nearly as bend-and-scrape-y as it sounded, but there were strangers here, including a foreigner. There were appearances to keep up. Frankly, her tribute came as often in the form of listening to him gossip--she was a very good listener--or tracking down someone he wanted and was too lazy to find as it did the sort of tribute her dress was probably making him think of. It was a very nice dress, in a color he liked her in, and not at all like what she normally wore.
She reached into the front of her dress, which likely made the King--and possibly some of the others, she didn't know their predilections--perk up with interest. She pulled out folded paper, which incited the same reaction in exact reverse. Unfolding it, she held it out in front of her grandly. There were many pages with very small writing on them.
"Protocol is, of course, that I should read my petition aloud to you, your Highness. However, as it's simply a formal appeal on the subject of all our previous conversations as to the library expansion, and in deference to the importance of your time, if it suits your will I can simply file it as-is directly to those among your officials who are responsible for such things."
She smiled cheerfully, tail waving in stiff, aggressive arcs despite her hopefulness for this all being over with quickly.
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