[oh. she looks at him very seriously when he says that, taking in his expression and the request.
and then, she bows her head to him, takes out a small piece of jagged glass, and cuts across her palm. there's a small amount of blood from the wound, but dips a finger in it.]
My House is known as the House of the Sewn Tongue. Throughout the centuries, we have been bidden to keep secrets small and secrets terrible, and we have done our duty. Even in the cold dark of the burial niche, until the tongue rots away, until the jawbone crumbles to dust, not a sound shall be heard of those secrets we are bound to protect.
[she takes her bloodied finger and draws the bare lines of the jawless skull over the paint already on her face.]
When I offer you my bond of silence, know that I speak as Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the Reverend Daughter of the House of the Ninth, and I stake my honour and vow that it shall remain unspoken of.
[this was so unnecessary. but she means well; she doesn't really trust people to keep her secrets so she offers something more serious than trust because she feels like he needs it.]
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and then, she bows her head to him, takes out a small piece of jagged glass, and cuts across her palm. there's a small amount of blood from the wound, but dips a finger in it.]
My House is known as the House of the Sewn Tongue. Throughout the centuries, we have been bidden to keep secrets small and secrets terrible, and we have done our duty. Even in the cold dark of the burial niche, until the tongue rots away, until the jawbone crumbles to dust, not a sound shall be heard of those secrets we are bound to protect.
[she takes her bloodied finger and draws the bare lines of the jawless skull over the paint already on her face.]
When I offer you my bond of silence, know that I speak as Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the Reverend Daughter of the House of the Ninth, and I stake my honour and vow that it shall remain unspoken of.
[this was so unnecessary. but she means well; she doesn't really trust people to keep her secrets so she offers something more serious than trust because she feels like he needs it.]