"Othryoneus of Cabesos has promised us his allegiance," Aeneas pauses, struggling to find the right words to announce this diplomatic triumph, " in exchange for the chance to make his regard known to the Princess Cassandra."
Priam's eyes shine with triumph; his daughter Creusa's smile (...and how had Aeneas never noticed her before, as kind and good as she is?) wavers with sympathy; and Cassandra's expression is as inscrutable as it has ever been.
"I will also," he adds as an afterthought, "return to Dardania with the morning tide."
...well, admittedly that last Richard/Anne fill deserves this
"Othryoneus of Cabesos has promised us his allegiance," Aeneas pauses, struggling to find the right words to announce this diplomatic triumph, " in exchange for the chance to make his regard known to the Princess Cassandra."
Priam's eyes shine with triumph; his daughter Creusa's smile (...and how had Aeneas never noticed her before, as kind and good as she is?) wavers with sympathy; and Cassandra's expression is as inscrutable as it has ever been.
"I will also," he adds as an afterthought, "return to Dardania with the morning tide."