The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

"First of all, I would like to apologize for the sudden engagement with Master Lifania without explaining anything, and for setting up such a place"

To Mrs. Magnome's first voice, which was as serious as ever, Deanna smiled bitterly and shook her head sideways.

"No, I did the same with Mrs. Magnum. An ambush is a classic when it comes to what they really are."

"Deanna would have told you well in advance... but as Lifania said, in the unlikely event that only the personal affair of a friend was ahead of us, I wanted to ask you the truth in praising it."

"Don't blame Sharon, Deanna. I made up my mind."

"More importantly, there are no shards about the Little Mother Rifa, the Lady, or the intention to blame her. I have never properly expressed my thoughts on the prospects of the other centuries of the kingdom, so it is best for both of you not to know that."

Mrs. Magnum, with a grin of relief, nodded and continued.

"Dear Deanna. As a woman in the post of chief executive officer, and myself personally, there is no difference in having Master Shayla as a candidate for the future Queen. Your Majesty's heart originally belongs to Master Shayla herself with extraordinary exceptions. Even if you stand as a righteous queen, you will be able to do your full service. … just,"

"Yes." It's just... "

"It's on the left. Deanna knows that you will notice, but it is also true that, as Lifania said earlier, it will be very difficult and demanding for Shayla to stand as Shayla stands in the current kingdom. You'll be able to learn about upbringing, standing and behaving in time, but you can't just change your birth."

"The least revolting way for the ancient nobles is for Miss Shayla to become the adopted daughter of the Mondria family and marry her in her capacity as Duke of Mondria warrant... but from what I've just heard about Deanna, that doesn't seem like a very good way"

"Right. It seems like a last resort if you do everything you can and still can't do anything about it anymore"

"- If so, it is still my belief that we need to gradually raise Master Shayla's identity"

To Mrs. Magnome's words, Deanna thought a little and tilted her neck.

"Is that possible? If you are a man, if you do martial arts or contribute to politics, it will be recognized and your position in the royal palace and, in some cases, your identity and title will rise..."

"It's not the same, but I was wondering if similar reasoning could be used. Master Shayla did work twelve minutes to prove the innocence of 'The Red Rose' in the previous House of Lords, even in the side chambers that came from the low-status Baron family. Praise its merit and exceptionally raise its identity in" the rear palace ". - Sleepy Lotus said in the previous discussion," My parents are my parents, and the sequence in the womb is my sequence, "and now I'm going to take it back."

"... is that what you mean? Although it had become commonplace to slide the identity of my parents straight into the sequence in the rear chamber with the consignment of Dear Liliane and former Chief Maris, the idea that" the sequence in the rear chamber was different "was more prevalent when this rear chamber was opened in the first place. It is also an extremely natural flow that the deliberation of a series of cases is over and the outer palace is re-divided at this calm time."

"Yes, I mean, if you return the back, now is the only time you can lift Master Shayla's position"

"If there's another big incident in the future about as big as the House of Lords, and Miss Shayla can be active, maybe that opportunity will come around, too, huh?

"That, as far as I'm concerned, is where I want to avoid it as much as I can, because it has the biggest downside of life dangers over and above the advantages of Shayla's rising position"

Mrs Magnome seems to share the same opinion, snorts one dull nod.

"Of course, Master Shayla, suddenly pulling up just one of you will only invite extra speculation. … No. In this case, perhaps we should call it a legitimate guess."

"With regard to Shayla and... Her Majesty and Shayla's friendship, so far, there's a handful of people in the rear palace you know, right?

"Yep. But in view of the flow before and after the Lordship Council, it is certain that that" handful "contains peony. Beyond the fact that there is a leak there, the obvious Shayla privilege will be a great target for offense."

"Master Liliane didn't give up, but now you're just quietly diving in and asking for a gap in the attack? … the creepy silence on your part is certainly something you feel more determined to do than give up."

Liliane Landrose, the sideroom of "Between Peony," may be described as the biggest visible difficulty in making Shayla the righteous queen. The sequence is "Peony," second in the rear palace after "Red Rose," and the Marquis of Landrose, whose parents have been awarded a marquis since the founding of the kingdom. His father is in a position to give direct opinions on politics at the Royal Palace, and each of his brothers holds a key position in the Ministry of the Interior. The strength of the back shield overwhelms other 'named' ladies, who would undoubtedly have gone up to the Queen by the backing of the Home Office without Deanna.

However, his ideas and the current kingdom situation do not go hand in hand. Even if Deanna's personal circumstances were to put aside that Liliane herself did not care (she is the kind of person that Deanna despises most in the world, who deludes herself of her identity and delusions her people like her possessions, and mistakenly assumes that she holds the right to life and death), she was also the person closest to the seat of the righteous queen, but at the same time should not be the righteous queen, only to see a future in which blood would rain on her kingdom if she sat in the chair of the righteous queen.

Incidentally, there are five noble ladies who entered the rear palace as candidates for the "righteous queen," except for Liliane, who is completely interested in the status of the righteous queen in the first place, and who really has no shards, so if only Liliane's righteous queen could be prevented from supporting her, first of all, Shayla's "visible walls would disappear, which can be the hard or easy status quo. Now, in fact, someone in" Named "has a secret love affair for Juke - and so on - and the romantic novel is going to have a bright blue love drama, but the clearer it is, the less this fits all five" Named "people, including Liliane. In the first place, from the apex 'Red Rose' of the Back Palace, he said," What kind of thing is romantic emotion...? "So far I have nothing to do with Gotagota, which is involved in love but love with regard to His Majesty's rear palace.

It's just. It's always been the case, but it's rare for aristocratic marriages to be wrapped up in romantic feelings alone. Although Deanna's native Count Crestor family is a very rare romantic marriage proponent (in the case of the Crestor family, there are endless circumstances in which it doesn't start without liking it first, because it chops up the house as a wife without even being frightened by our Lord's evil human magic), most nobles choose the marriage partner that is most likely to benefit the house in view of its occasional royal circumstances. There's no heart there, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There is no doubt that it is a political marriage with the royal family and with Rifania, who does not hide so much fondness for Auster.

Even if Liliane has never liked Juke as a man or as a man, she certainly desires the status of "the righteous queen." Honestly Deanna has no idea, but she really wants Liliane to be at the top of the kingdom women, as the righteous queen and, slowly, as the Mother of the Nation, I'm just guessing after seeing how she's been the past year. Just because you don't have the Gotagotta of a romantic relationship doesn't mean you can't take a light look at Liliane.

"Dear Peony's move toward the establishment of a righteous queen has so far been able to be stopped by His Majesty's 'Deanna cares' act. It will also be significant that a large number of those who seemed to have pushed Peony at the previous House of Lords have lost their legs. … but"

"Yeah, I know. That was only temporary and did not completely stop the move to push Master Liliane. The currents of the world will shift, and if there is" something "here or there, the current will change dramatically. That's the thing, isn't it?

"Master Left. And as for this side, we must avoid the fact that Shayla's hand provokes the other party's attack in order to take her one step further to the Queen.

"... Hard, isn't it?

If I'm just going to raise Shayla's position in the rear palace, I feel like going to the outer palace side for the most part. Her kung fu is obvious to everyone's eyes, and it is a natural flow to improve her status as a side chamber on that grounds.

However, in the present situation, where Liliane is discerning that Juke's fate is Shayla, it is likely that for whatever reason and no matter how natural the flow it appears, "Shayla's improvement in status" itself will be the target of the attack. Very easy to understand, "It's packed from the beginning." It can be said to be an actual example.

Mrs. Magnum smiled softly at Deanna, thinking about it.

"Yes, so this is a classic hand, but I thought I'd hide the leaves in the woods."

"... Yes?

I don't know what the word means - no, I know what they're saying, but I can also understand what that means, but next to Deanna, who's so hardened by the big story of the scale, Rifania puts her hand on her cheek and sighs deeply.

"Really, Sharon seems serious and disciplined and has no hesitation when it comes to thinking about things. It's actually very hard to make the Crestors look like this, isn't it?

"Please joke, Master Lifania. Just like me, I can't skip Master Dualis or Elizabeth's temper. Deanna is a very rare, conscientious and commonsense lady in the Crestor clan, so she can only manage to cross paths like me."

"Really? Though your numerous anecdotes also said Fifi was quite astonished"

"That would just mean Fione's modesty is past"

"- Hey, no, no, wait!

Deanna raised her voice in a hurry as she was about to be left behind by two elders who would continue to talk for a long time. I panic. Less, about half the skins of the noble lady drip off.

"'Hiding the leaves of the trees into the woods,' which means that's what you say when you do a massive sequence review across the posterior palace!?

"That's Deanna, your understanding is quick and helpful"

"Yikes...... no, no, that would just be too unscrupulous!

A review of the sequence of the side chambers simply means that "from today on you are “ the second side chamber ” and you get high, and what an easy task. If the status improves, the treatment will change, the number of samurai will increase, subsidies from the state will increase, and the room will be larger if it is easy to understand. Shayla, if we're just going to sequence one person, we're going to have to talk about Shayla moving to one of the side chambers that left the rear palace in the wake of the incident before and after the House of Lords in the meantime, but when it comes to doing that across the rear palace, the story is completely different. It will have to be reviewed with the placement of the samurai, and clearly, it is not something that can be managed overnight, it is a major undertaking.

"The side rooms that move the room are quite a hassle just to pack up and move away, and 'reviewing the sequence' doesn't just mean that some people will rise in status, so some people will look at it relative to others and fall. That's why once we calm down now, we may see a resurgence in the struggle."

"I have everything to say. We used them as a means to solve them uniformly…"

"Is there such a convenient means?"

"Yes. - At this time, I thought I'd ask the side room to take you home once."

Plenty of three beats, Deanna stares at Mrs. Magnum.

Then gradually, I turned to Rifania.

"Dear Little Mother Rifa. I'm sorry, but I'm sorry to bother you today."

"Well, what's wrong, Deanna?

"No, you seem very tired… from earlier on, your father looks like Mrs. Magnome"

"Calm down. There hasn't been a Duer here since the beginning. What you're talking about is Sharon looks and contents."

"Lady Magnum, whom I know, does not say anything unscrupulous without such a thump as her father..."

"Then Sharon showed you a side you don't know. As a precaution, the former Marquis Sharon Magnum in front of you is a woman whose young dure affirmed, 'I would never want to turn to my enemies if I died'. It's been a long time since I had a clap in a different direction from Duir's."

Gentle but unequivocally asserted, Deanna's escape from reality ended in failure.

Breathe heavily, exhale. Deanna turns again to Mrs. Magnum.

Did you say "return home"? Homecoming, going home from my fiancée, is that a good time to go home?

"It fits." Homecoming births, etc. often rise as a usage example. "

"That, in the rear palace," side chambers "means all side chambers at once?

"It's hard to get more than forty carriages on the royal palace all of a sudden, and it'll be crowded with loads of luggage, etc, so in order. Ultimately, all side chambers should be able to exit the rear palace once."

"That's right. Once everyone leaves the rear palace with their personal belongings, it is easy to move the room and reposition the royal palace samurai as a result of the sequence review, depending on the period, but if the room is going to be smaller, you can do a little renovation work and reprogram it, and if anything, you can get back and reorganize the supplies that the former chief maris left selling out of the rear palace," something that the side room can't stay in. "If we set up the environment in the posterior chamber in that way, the sequence itself will be able to keep the treatment aspect unchanged from before even if it drops, thus minimizing the dissatisfaction associated with the sequence review." Homecoming itself will be the most breathtaking thing for all of you who can't get out of the backyard on a daily basis. "

"Thank you very much for not explaining it."

"But!

If this is the house, Deanna stuffed Mrs. Magnum with enough swordscreens to be standing up by tapping the table in front of her.

"In the first place, the outer house, such as more than forty side chambers dropping back inside at the same time, should not be recognized by the Ministry of the Interior!

"Don't worry about that. We looked at past records and found precedents. It was about three hundred and fifty years ago, but they were going to renovate the then rear palace, and only during that period, the side rooms returned to your parents' house. The Lady Dowager at the time said she stayed in the royal palace as an exception, but now that Her Majesty is unmarried, I wondered if it would be appropriate for you to return home. The outer palace also has the appearance that 'the number of side rooms and the number of rooms are not commensurate in the first place. We're going to propose a return trip in the name of" renovation work while it's off the season. "

"Ah... in short, the real purpose of" improving the status of Shayla "was concealed before the construction of" the sequence review of the side chamber ", and the pre-construction itself" made it seem necessary to review the sequence as a result of the renovation work. "Sure, if we get there, at least most of the people in the outer palace are going to be fooled."

"Yes, in fact, the rear palace today is a really reasonable excuse, as it does not have a structure where more than forty side rooms and all the samurai and female officers who take care of it are comfortable. I really want to put in a proper vendor to do the renovation work, especially for the samurai and the women's rooms, so that we can have a little more privacy"

"… that's certainly something you can never do without a side chamber"

I understand very well what Madame is saying. If you ask me what I think, I can also swallow that I would certainly need a 'return home'.

But.

"Doing so is too risky. At this time when Master Liliane is watching the occasion in silence, such as" Returning Home ", where you can easily get in touch with your collaborators.... Besides, as far as I can tell, there are several people in the sideroom of the" Peony "who are complacent to Master Liliane and who, if given a chance, are looking to take the seat of the" named "and go up to the candidate for the righteous queen. I don't really want to take care of this, but if you return these people to your parents' homes for once, you may try to join the battle between the Queen and the Queen by giving them a son and saying," Actually, I was receiving mercy from His Majesty before I returned home. "

"Alas. Not just should Juke say a word 'I don't remember' about that?

"As you can see, this is a very ill-intentioned question, Mother Rifa. The only time His Majesty can say that and silence the outer palace is if it is a majority to side with His Majesty in the political arena. As things stand, every faction will easily leave His Majesty as far as possible by the circumstances. Even if His Majesty claims' I don't remember 'in such circumstances, it is visible that the Conservatives will push me off"

With a funny looking face, Rifania nodded.

"Even assuming you have your birth parents in front of you, that's just how shifty you can be. You look just like Fifi in that unforgiving place."

"I'm afraid so. Aunt Fifi taught me something like a temper in surviving an aristocratic society."

"Lady, I also feel a little different from education... but, well, you're right if you say it in a tangible way. Juke inherited the blood of Elland and Mondria, for the face of ancient conservators it is exactly like a king in the king, but what matters to them is only that" the king who drew the right blood of origin is sitting on the throne ", and the will of the king himself does not matter. - No, rather, there's even a verse that I consider unnecessary."

"Yep. That is why the young lady, who was raised from the ancient nobleman's house to the side chamber, became pregnant, but at the end of the day, she twisted the facts with numbers and power," and will make it socially certain that it is His Majesty's son who is in the foetus. … then, in the present kingdom situation, even His Majesty's life would be in danger "

As long as they are in the posterior palace, it will be a somewhat narrative, but the side chambers will not get pregnant on their own. Juke and the Kings Kingsguard Knights are the only men who will make dignified entrances within the rear palace, and Juke will only be interested in Shayla, and because the Kingsguard's job is to escort Juke, he won't have time to leave his field on his own to fish for women. There are also multiple men sneaking in and roping behind the ceiling, but there is no one Toshiro who can't manage the risk, like purposefully choosing His Majesty's side room for the players. Or in the case of the 'darkness' of the Crestor family, assuming I played with a woman and inadvertently got her pregnant, but at the end of the day, with mental and physical pressures from our Lord's Parents, Sons and Chiefs, respectively, "Take responsibility, don't you? Of course I'll take it, won't I? You know what I mean when I tell you not to take it?" It is a certainty that you will be caught in the sight of half-kill, so female play itself is a high risk in the first place as a theory.... I don't know about the one person left who isn't 'dark', but as far as I can tell, I don't feel very interested in playing with women.

Therefore, in a sense, the present rear palace is unintentionally a fortress of iron walls in protecting women's chastity. I've made a comeback, but at the end of the day, you can bring in all the guys you want, and bad plans are going to be all you want.

- Mrs. Magnome, who had listened to the conversation between Rifania and Deanna in silence, waited for the word's reward to paragraph one before cutting out again.

"I also spoke with Captain Gracie about the concerns Deanna has just expressed. Hopefully, members of the team will agree, but if you are in danger of transferring such suspicious plans to implementation, there is a proposal to escort a member of the Gothic Kingsguard back home as a surveillance under the name of escort."

"Well... take all the Kondos of the Back Palace?

"It will nominally be a high-ranking side room escort, not only for Peony, but also for Sleeping Lotus, Suzuran, and Tsubaki. As far as these three are concerned, I am right to escort them as this is a 'return home' that is more comforting to the past year than any other. Other side rooms that are currently regarded as" high altitude, "I thought I'd put on a rear palace guard as an escort."

"Ugh... Wow"

"Side chambers, which are currently considered" high ", are commonly, but almost dominated by" peony "ladies from ancient aristocrats. Some, neutrals and 'Red Roses' may also come in, but there are about twenty Back Palace Kingsguards, so they're almost going to" escort "the 'Peony'.... It would be unlikely that the Ministry of the Interior would complain because it would be a fine high privilege if it just looked like it, a measure that might even be taken as a measure to the 'peony'.

It is a brilliant ploy by Mrs. Magnome, weighing in on the patterns and bloodmuscles and taking backwards the high level of self-love and desire for approval of the ancient noblemen, who are treading back and forth as privileged and natural. Deanna looked seriously upside down, and in fact, unexpectedly respected the lady who was the owner of flexible thinking, but watching her elaborately calculate and assemble the measures so far scares me as she passes through respect. I know exactly what it felt like when Dualis was younger to say, "I don't want to turn it around on my enemies".

"It will certainly be difficult to do anything against the royal family if the Knight of the Back Palace keeps on" escort "..."

"Yes, we intend to keep a proper record of the side chambers, even if they are away from the rear palace, as" side chambers ". It would have been nice if we could have accompanied each of the female officers as" escorts "and as such" public aides "... unfortunately, if the female officers were not present until the return home, the work to be carried out in the latter would be delayed, so this time we would have asked all the female officers to play their roles as well."

"... yes, Desca"

How many steps does this person have in mind? Less well known, the side chambers in the posterior palace are constantly documented their general behavior from waking up in the morning to sleeping at night. If you get along with a samurai or a female officer, it is possible to mess with those public records and move as you please (Deanna, who has been a favorite since day to day, would be exactly one of the side rooms that gets the most of the records messed with), but in front of the building, if you examine the records, you are supposed to be able to keep track of the past behavior of the side rooms to some extent.

When the side chamber was guilty, it was most likely because of this role that the women and samurai who served could become a lotus student. 'Side chamber sinned' but 'no record of it anywhere' is the logic that the woman or samurai who was taking the record would also be a guru. As a matter of fact, some side rooms would have walked all over the place to anticipate gaps without people like Deanna, so I can't say it's "glue" in general.

Are you seriously trying to use the "Record of Behavior of the Side Chamber", which is now almost an easy journal in the Lateral Palace, for its original use? Even on the way home, it's no different that it's a "side room", so it's only natural to take a record.... The journal "Between the Red Roses", the Behavioral Record, etc., is a bulleted temple that has recently omitted the contents of parentheses, such as "Wake up in the morning at “, then breakfast, stroll in the rear palace (which means you like to walk on your own), ” “ Lunch at ”, reading indoors (which is all kinds of ironic besides reading), welcoming Leticia at tee time, bathing at ” x, then dinner, and going to bed (I knew I was doing something before bedtime).

By the way, the above journal is from the day when all concerned gathered in "Between the Red Roses". Yuri cleaned up that meeting, even in the presence of His Majesty the King, with a phrase "Welcome with Lady Leticia at tee time" is awesome in a way. The biggest mistake is where there is no single lie because there is a "way" to show multiple.

- From Deanna's expression, Mrs. Magnum, who generally guessed what she wanted to say, smiled the most when she came here.

"Thanks to Captain Gracie's great work in the pre-spring game, we were able to minimize the most worrying risk of" betrayal "of the rear guard. I was originally a compelling person, but for those of them who had been ridiculed for the title" Knight "itself, it must have been the most dramatic thing the head of the regiment had eaten into the top eight in one of the biggest games to determine the best knight in the country. The current team is very upset with Captain Gracie. There will be no turning back on the 'Peony' who betrayed her by mistake and didn't even try to recognize themselves as' knights'."

"You mean they can't ask you to mess with records like me... I feel like I'm being cheated far away."

"It's called evil pushing. The general appearance of 'Red Rose' in the first place is not on the record, but we receive reports almost daily from Mia and Yuri. Madam Commissioner, since I know how to behave in real time, Deanna's cheats don't make much sense.

"... Mother Rifa, I'm kind of losing faith in adults."

"Seriously Sharon is nothing to be afraid of, I know. How many times have I tried to break my heart?"

"You ask a lot. - Then let me tell you too, no matter how many chances you have, there's no way you can keep an eye on a kid who eats ingredients full of poisons that would be extremely lethal, dangerous and even for a moment. You can't read the signs of impotence when you have to look at it properly from your daily appearance. If you don't like being reported to me, first do something about the habit of plainly carrying out that reckless, physically stretched operation."

For the first time, I was disrespected from the front, and probably scolded by 'Sharon' instead of 'Chief Woman'. At the same time as I'm surprised, that's all that tells me that Deanna's "impotence" at that time must have been a shock to her.

Correcting her spine, Deanna bowed her head to Mrs. Magnum.

"... I'm sorry. I thought they'd scolded me for the" Stargazing Feast, "but speaking of which, Mrs. Magnum was still here."

"Over this period...... don't you say 'no more' yet"

"It's dishonest to make promises that you can't.... No, that's exactly what I'm trying to do, but I'm trying to stay away from that in the future. Still, maybe, because if that's all I've got anymore, I'll do the same thing."

"Yeah,... Yeah, I know, that means it's Deanna. At all, Fione would have liked to have taught you how to protect yourself in an aristocratic society before teaching you how to stand around with courage."

"I don't have a choice. Basically, the Crestor family is something I don't really think about protecting myself from. Needless to say, when it comes to Deanna, and so is Fifi, but even Ellie, she's not really the type to protect herself."

"Right. Master Elizabeth can see, and she thinks," Attack is the greatest defense. "

"Fifteen girls actively explore the weaknesses of others to add to their cards in order to cross the social circle well. There are few such radical debaters."

"As a daughter, I didn't really want to know..."

That 'attack is the greatest defense' spirit is undoubtedly inherited by Edward as it is. Deanna was always surprised to see who taught her the stance of beating her brother and making it all work out, but, yeah, was that a mother concession?... Yeah, I knew I didn't want to know.

- Anyway, that.

"If you spare yourself and protect yourself, and so much so that your loved ones suffer, then some risk chooses the path to protect everyone, even at your own risk. However, I also understood that there were many people who would grieve me if I chose that path. From now on, we intend to constantly explore paths that will enable us to protect ourselves and everyone uniformly.... So can't you forgive me?

"Believe me when that word is properly transferred to execution. Until then, give up what I can't do to keep an eye on you every day."

"... Yes"

Deanna nodded as she got smaller to words that had no other answer than 'yes'.

Lifania laughs as she watches the exchange.

"Oh, and the Red Rose under the sky."

"I am no match for Mrs. Magnome from the beginning. So is the current scolding...... and the 'homecoming' proposal"

"Yeah, really. I was surprised when Sharon asked me to talk to you the first time... but I also think it would be the best thing to think rationally."

Lifania continues loosely as she reaches for the cup of tea.

"Sharon has been asking Dawn, whose candidacy has been confirmed, to help educate the Queen as her predecessor. Of course, there was no reason to say no, but I don't think the young lady who was just insistent came from an emerging nobleman, but from a crushing house. As you can see, the rear palace and the vine palace are separated by a fence, and there is a gatekeeper at the general gate. Whether I go to your lady or your lady, I won't keep it a secret. But from Miss Shayla's point of view, until the time comes, the fact that you are educated by the Queen is not a good idea, is it?

"You're right...... Is there no way out or something?

"I asked Lord Sirius through Rita that there is an underground passage connecting the rear palace to the vine palace. However, the entrance and exit on the rear palace side was just off Shayla's room - and now mainly the" Peony "people are in a painting of your home."

"If Shayla were here, it would be extremely unnatural..."

"Therefore, in order to help from Lifania, Shayla's move - we need to raise the sequence."

In the sight of a strong Mrs. Magnome.

Organize your stories again, in your head.

After counting a little silence, Deanna nodded one thing.

"Talk, I understand very well. It seems that there is no more reason not to go through with it than Mrs. Magnome's proposal, but just in case, I will also tell the 'named' people and ask them what they think."

"Thank you, Deanna. Best regards,"

"Me too, please."

"I will be the one who needs gratitude. - Thank you very much, Mother Rifa, Mrs. Magnum."

Smiling at the two respected women, Deanna drowned deeply.