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She made him unaccountably nervous. It was so hard not to look at her, yet her beauty intimidated him because a child should not look like her or speak like her. She didn’t seem like a child at all but a miniature goddess, lapped in velvet and peering at him through eyes that held some strange message he could not decipher.

The Druids were a strange people, and they left their stamp upon this land. On cold dark nights the landscape still has the look of the devil about it… .”

Isabel hung on his words for a moment, absently caressing his hand and wondering at the quiet thrill that had passed between them as he described the scene. Philippe had felt it too; Isabel knew it by the way his fingers entwined with hers.

“The old beliefs persisted here for many years, even after Christianity became the established religion of the people. The Druids left no written records of their practices; much of what we know of them is legend except for what Caesar put into his commentaries....

“Isn’t it spoken that in the days of the Roman occupation in Gaul, Druidic cults worshipped on that very site?”

He looked down at her with a surprised smile. “It is true enough. when the foundation for Notre Dame de Paris was being dug many pagan relics were unearthed: a stone altar, a sardonyx drinking vessel, even the ring of a Druid priestess. The ring was so unusual, so beautiful, that I kept it.”

I'm honestly struggling with the incest. At least in GoT there is a fantasy element, or the ones doing it are the villains, that helps. Or with the Scarabae they're not even humans, but vampires.

Harry & Philippe are giving me Renly Baratheon & Loras Tyrell vibes rn.

Gently, Isabel took his face between her hands, making him look at her. Her voice was soft but very steady. ”I want whatever you want. Today. Tomorrow. Always.”

Baldwin went readily into her arms, his words tangled in sobs. “I want you.”

“You have me,” she answered, inscrutably calm. “Nothing will ever change that.” She sank gracefully to the bed cushions, easing him down beside her

omfg.

Between Isabel and her uncle there was a psychic link—a spark of magic invisible to others but expressed between them in silent glances and the slightest contact of hands. In a strange and very real way they understood each other from an emotional depth which was perplexing even to them.

This is what I mean by Lolita vibes. The Uncle-niece incest is so effing creepy. I'm seriously wondering how old she is

I'm getting slight Lolita vibes

The incest is squicking me out, I'm not gonna lie. I'm wondering how all my GR friends who read this dealt with it. Sure, incest is relatively common in old school BRs, but this is the most blatant I've read.