Six Sentence Sunday

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Share six sentences from whatever you're working on.

From "The Call," part of the Pushing Boundaries series (The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim; a series of fics chronicling the growing relationship between Ulfric and Seirian, the Archmage of Winterhold and reluctant Dragonborn). 
 

She’d seen him before, during one of her overstays in Solitude, walking the road toward The Blue Palace. He was heading opposite, his face as grim then as it was now, stride heavy; children and guards alike leapt out of his way.

He was, she’d soon learned over tea with Sybil Stentor, Solitude’s court mage, a regular visitor to the palace and a regular thorn in Jarl Torygg’s side when it came to the rising tensions with the Empire.

“The Jarl had me read for him,” Sybil had said, peering into the clouds of cream swirling in her cup. “Ulfric is a focal point for this war, in more ways than one. Torygg needs to be careful.”