History Heartwarming / ABrothersPrice

* Eldest Moorland agrees to the Whistlers’ offer of two thousand crowns for Cullen when the usual offer is twice that amount.

'''Eldest''': She's a princess. All her life people have obeyed her commands. You're a boy. All your life you have listened to others. It was up to her to stop at any no you have, even if it was whispered."

* Eldest Whistler, for all that she's an AloofOlderSister, causes a lot of these with her intense familial loyalty and her kindness to her insecure, vulnerable brother Jerin.

* Eldest Whistler, for all that she's an [[AloofOlderBrother Aloof Eldest Sister]], causes a lot of these with her intense familial loyalty and her kindness to her insecure, vulnerable brother Jerin.

** The distressing tangle of what to do with [[spoiler: Eldie Porter]] is covered on CycleOfRevenge and YouKilledMyFather, but Eldest [[TakeAThirdOption comes up with]] [[HappilyAdopted a third option]].

'''Jerin''': She's a princess. All her life people have obeyed her commands. You're a boy. All your life you have listened to others. It was up to her to stop at any no you have, even if it was whispered."

--> "We don't blame you, honey."
--> "[[QuestionableConsent I could have fought.]]"
--> "She's a princess. All her life people have obeyed her commands. You're a boy. All your life you have listened to others. It was up to her to stop at any no you have, even if it was whispered."

--> "There is redemption for the innocent."

--> "Chin up. Eyes front. Show no fear. You're a Whistler - [[CallOnMe and your family will always be there if you need us]]."

--> "You can't make good decisions as an adult if you were never allowed to make any decisions while you were a child."

* Preparing for a hot bath in the family bath house (a highly unusual amenity) Jerin reflects on how the said house was just one of the several ways his grandmothers turned themselves inside-out to please their captured husband. Basically what Alannon wanted he got - he seems to have been happy with his low-class soldier wives.

* A more personal one for Cira/[[spoiler: Princess Halley]] comes after she and Jerin come up with their plan to escape with him dressed up as a whore on the morning porter. In the process of getting him ready, Jerin asks how Cira knows what she does about whores and she explains to him she once had a lover who was the daughter of one. Said lover left her after she got a scar on her face. While she is obviously upset by the scar, Jerin says it becomes her like an exotic piece of jewelry. Enraged she pulls her shirt off and shows him her back, which is described as a mass of puckered skin and silvery scars, calling herself repulsive. Jerin, who at this point has no idea who she is and is under no pressure to lie, just rubs her skin and tells her she's not. She actually does mount him in place from how moved she is, stopped only by two layers of clothes and his desperate cries about being faithful to his wives. [[spoiler: Of course she is one of his wives, he just doesn't know that yet.]]
* Cira's impulsive kiss when Jerin first arrives in Mayfair is triggered not by his beauty, she has every reason to distrust male beauty, but by Jerin's visible appreciation of her 'beautiful' eyes.
* Papa Whistler's advice on how to handle wives and make a happy home: 'Never tell a wife she's your favorite; always seem happy to be with whichever wife you're with; make a 'servicing' schedule based on seniority and stick to it.'
* It's sweet, and rather funny, how Jerin keeps falling for royal princesses - even the one he doesn't know is a princess! It's like they put out some kind of Jerin specific pheromone.

** This is a world where a man who's had premarital sex is often considered be DefiledForever. Eldest is ''enraged'' when she believes Ren raped her brother, but cools to hear his explanations and is gentle when he bursts into tears.

** This is a world where a man who's had premarital sex is often considered be RuinedForever. Eldest is ''enraged'' when she believes Ren raped her brother, but cools to hear his explanations and is gentle when he bursts into tears.

** This is a world where a man who's had premarital sex is often considered be ruined forever. Eldest is ''enraged'' when she believes Ren raped her brother, but cools to hear his explanations and is gentle when he bursts into tears.

* When Jerin is in the process of going catatonic with worry that the princesses will reject him after being kidnapped Cira reassures him that even if everyone else abandons him she will stay by his side, regardless of whether he is seen as unclean or not. Considering their society's views on male purity and the true nature of her identity this is a really big deal.

* A more personal one for Cira/[[spoiler: Princess Halley]] comes after she and Jerin come up with their plan to escape with him dressed up as a whore on the morning porter. In the process of getting him ready, Jerin asks how Cira knows what she does about whores and she explains to him she once had a lover who was the daughter of one. Said lover left her after she got a scar on her face. She is obviously upset by the scar, Jerin says it becomes her like an exotic piece of jewelry. Enraged she pulls her shirt off and shows him her back, which is described as a mass of puckered skin and silvery scars, calling herself repulsive. Jerin, who at this point has no idea who she is and is under no pressure to lie, just rubs her skin and tells her she's not. She nearly mounts him in place from how moved she is.

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* When Jerin is in the process of going catatonic with worry that the princesses will reject him after being kidnapped Cira reassures him that even if everyone else abandons him she will stay by his side, regardless of whether he is seen as unclean or not.

* Preparing for a hot bath in the family bath house (a highly unusual amenity) Jerin reflects on how the said house was just one of the several ways his grandmothers turned themselves inside-out to please their captured husband. Basically what Allanon wanted he got - he seems to have been happy with his low-class soldier wives.

* The Whistler sisters are too proud to admit total ignorance of the bell-pull system. Without being told, Jerin knows to ask for them.

** This is a world where a man who's had premarital sex is often considered RuinedForever. Eldest is ''enraged'' when she believes Ren raped her brother, but cools to hear his explanations and is gentle when he bursts into tears.