That's rather a familiar face that he'd never expected to see again. Not that he'd ever been particularly close to the King before Clive, but he'd rather thought David had left to pursue his lovely wife.
Or died. Rumours just couldn't be specific. He'd painted quite a nice portrait that might have been for either prospect, though no one but himself had seen it yet.
"Are you, ah, quite well?" he inquires cautiously. Doppelgangers did exist. It's quite possible that this man, gaunter and thinner than the David her remembers, isn't him. Maybe.
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That's rather a familiar face that he'd never expected to see again. Not that he'd ever been particularly close to the King before Clive, but he'd rather thought David had left to pursue his lovely wife.
Or died. Rumours just couldn't be specific. He'd painted quite a nice portrait that might have been for either prospect, though no one but himself had seen it yet.
"Are you, ah, quite well?" he inquires cautiously. Doppelgangers did exist. It's quite possible that this man, gaunter and thinner than the David her remembers, isn't him. Maybe.