[She pauses for a moment, considering her answer.]
Because I was hailed as one of the key architects, and one of the people who brought it to fruition. And such was the nature of the patriarch that he assumed this birth of his metropolis would be the pride and joy of my life. But truth be told, it was only a means to an end for me. Something I did in order to get something that I wanted.
[She reminded him of some of the women of the Southron lands, the few he had seen in Winterfell when King Robert visited and later when he met with Cersei in the Dragonpit. She wasn't callous or cruel like Cersei, but she was ambitious. It wasn't the sort of life he knew or understood, but he could at least admire that aspect.]
At the time? Funding. I had any number of projects I needed to complete, but unfortunately, no money with which to do them.
[Needed, not wanted, and there's a vital difference between the two words. For Rosalind, at least one of those projects was absolutely necessary-- not just for her scientific curiosity, but her wellbeing.]
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[As much as could be found.]
Why supposed?
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Because I was hailed as one of the key architects, and one of the people who brought it to fruition. And such was the nature of the patriarch that he assumed this birth of his metropolis would be the pride and joy of my life. But truth be told, it was only a means to an end for me. Something I did in order to get something that I wanted.
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[She reminded him of some of the women of the Southron lands, the few he had seen in Winterfell when King Robert visited and later when he met with Cersei in the Dragonpit. She wasn't callous or cruel like Cersei, but she was ambitious. It wasn't the sort of life he knew or understood, but he could at least admire that aspect.]
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[Needed, not wanted, and there's a vital difference between the two words. For Rosalind, at least one of those projects was absolutely necessary-- not just for her scientific curiosity, but her wellbeing.]