BERNIE LIVES!

Study for Gather Ye Rosebuds or Ophelia (1908)

Rhaenys does not reply. Her thoughts are too loud, rushing in her ears with each thud of her pulse. Such worries have haunted her more often of late, what with the babe making itself increasingly known—incessant in all its kicks and flutters and jabs.

“It is a girl you crave, then, if you are so resistant to the thought?”

“I wish,” she says, very deliberately, “for a healthy babe.”

Chapter 3 of The Stranger and the Deep Blue Sea

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“And so she’s lost her mother, her grandmother and now she’s lost her stepmother. And so I think for Baela, she needs to have like a team meeting, a rebrand of like “Who do I have?” A team meeting for one. Who do I have? Where do I go? And what does family look like when all the people you look towards have been taken away from you? I think it’s going to be a really nice turning point for her this season of finding new people to align herself with.”