Surely you don't think all members of our army are as familiar with the King himself?
[Come on, Will. You're smarter than that. Cor is in a high position because of his history with Regis. It was all a matter of happenstance. He forced himself into the Crown's attention at a very young age. Needed to be the best, to be acknowledged. Most Glaives do not know the King beyond training and orders, have rarely interacted with him beyond their graduation and that is a formality at best.]
The loyalty to continue to wear something that designates you as his, that dedication only comes one of two ways. Love...
[The Look he gives Will makes it clear he knows damned well it is not out of love. If it were he'd have spoken of him before now, told Cor of his mentor with the same passion and loyalty that Cor speaks of Regis with. Not the hesitant acknowledgment and vehement insistence on a rule no one is present to enforce.]
no subject
[Come on, Will. You're smarter than that. Cor is in a high position because of his history with Regis. It was all a matter of happenstance. He forced himself into the Crown's attention at a very young age. Needed to be the best, to be acknowledged. Most Glaives do not know the King beyond training and orders, have rarely interacted with him beyond their graduation and that is a formality at best.]
The loyalty to continue to wear something that designates you as his, that dedication only comes one of two ways. Love...
[The Look he gives Will makes it clear he knows damned well it is not out of love. If it were he'd have spoken of him before now, told Cor of his mentor with the same passion and loyalty that Cor speaks of Regis with. Not the hesitant acknowledgment and vehement insistence on a rule no one is present to enforce.]
... or fear.