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[ineversaidthat]

September winds its dreary down and October approaches again.

I don't mind being a martyr (as it were) but those months leading up to... it... were hard. I can say that, now, for all that I tried to be strong then.

And all of the dear people who lost their lives in support of us - esepcially my beloved Lamballe. To put in in a light that the

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[le_beau_fersen]

... these memories are never easy, my love, and it's never easy to forget those we have lost. I know that all too well.

Anywhere at all that you wish to go, cherie, I should be more than happy to accompany you.

[ineversaidthat]

It was the greatest consolation to me to know that you were safe and away from the filthy mobs of Paris, Axel. Thank you for seeing the sense of that separation, finally - and forgive me, please, if I was being pestiferous about sending you away. Your safety was the most important thing to me, next to that of my children. You saw how well that turned out and if you had not gone, their fate may have been yours as well. I could not have borne that.

Are the horses saddled, my love? I feel a desperate need for a long gallop right now...

[le_beau_fersen]

... well, I managed to put off being murdered for another seventeen years, yes; I suppose there is some value in that, though at times I wished I had simply died for what I believed in.

I shall see to it at once, my love; and would you care for any company?

[ineversaidthat]

I would, Axel. For now, and for always.