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“You know, I thought you’d argue with me more on this one, considering how unnatural you’re always saying Alanna is,” Jon said over tea in Roger's study, after the council meeting where he announced his intention to directly proclaim that girls could try for their shields. None had in the short time when his parents had merely implied it, but Jon had hopes.
“Whatever for? Your mind was clearly already made up on this point when Lady Alanna was knighted," Roger said.
Jonathan smiled. "It was. But you still referr to her as unnatural."
"She is. And the more lady knights we have in Tortall, the less special Lady Alanna will be as one such. I look forward to that, in fact."
Jon snorted. “If you tell her that’s your reason, I’ll let her challenge you.”
“Would you really?”
"If it was to the yield, I absolutely would."