Gideon painted her face, and she did it properly, and she even spent some time trying to do something a little nicer than the usual. She hasn't memorized all the skulls the way Harrow has, but she's added a little more detail than usual along the jaw line.
Why? Not because Harrow says she has a good jaw. It's because...because shut up, that's why!
Anyway the whole thing makes her feel a little too precious, so once she left the room (with sword in tow, natch), she spends the next hour running around the lake before finding a decent spot near the stables for calisthenics. There's a root she can slide her toes under for sit-ups and a corral fence she can use for suspension pull-ups, and she does those until it feels like she's been pummeled in the stomach and back by Calum the Eighth, then switches to press-ups.
None of which leaves her time or brain space to worry about that otherwise she still can't look at directly, which means her day is already going a lot better than she'd expected.
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Why? Not because Harrow says she has a good jaw. It's because...because shut up, that's why!
Anyway the whole thing makes her feel a little too precious, so once she left the room (with sword in tow, natch), she spends the next hour running around the lake before finding a decent spot near the stables for calisthenics. There's a root she can slide her toes under for sit-ups and a corral fence she can use for suspension pull-ups, and she does those until it feels like she's been pummeled in the stomach and back by Calum the Eighth, then switches to press-ups.
None of which leaves her time or brain space to worry about that otherwise she still can't look at directly, which means her day is already going a lot better than she'd expected.