Adallina Lefford, daughter of Lord Lefford of Golden Tooth, and the personal coin holder for Lord Lannister, was aggravated.  Irritated.  With the Queen Regent.  The woman always had a scathing remark at the tip of her tongue.  Too often did Adallina hear the queen berate her Lady in Waiting of not being as pretty as a Lannister.  Adallina did her best to ignore those remarks, snide comments and bitchy tones, but by the old gods and the new, did it irritate her at times.  Right now was one of those times.  Currently, Adallina was walking through to corridors of the Red Keep, on her way to the kitchens to see about the preparations for the Queen Regent's midday meal.  All the while she was going over and over on how she would just love to cut off those golden locks from her grace.  Yes, the woman was a Lannister, and yes, as a Lefford, she had much respect for the family, most of it, but it didn't mean she was dumb to the the queen's ways and how selfish and self centered the woman was.  No, if anything, because she worked so closely to the queen regent, she knew just how arrogant and selfish the woman was.<br/><br/>Adallina knew she wasn't any of the things that Cersei called her, she knew she was intelligent, more than most of the ladies in court, and perhaps more than most of the men.  She also knew she wasn't by any means ugly or beastly looking.  Eyes of sapphire rolled at that thought.  She knew her eyes stood out the most, as did her fair complexion and midnight hair that cascaded to her hips.  Today, she had the sides pulled back in braids that joined into one in the middle to trail down with the rest of her hair, wearing a blue dress that not only brought out her eyes, but accentuated the curves of her hips, and breasts, she knew she was a beauty in her own right, and that perhaps the queen regent was jealous because of Adallina's looks<em>and </em>her youth.<br/><br/>Ah, there's that thought, yes, that must be it.  The queen was jealous, and knew that she as she grew older, her looks would fade.<br/><br/>In the kitchens, she gave instructions on what to make for the midday meal for the queen, once that was done, she made her way out and to her rooms where she paced for a few moments, feeling restless.  On impulse, she called for a guard and made arrangements to have a few escort her out into King's Landing, perhaps she could browse through the merchants' shoppes.  See if she could find or hear anything of interest.  Anything to keep her own guard up as far as anything sinister went.<br/><br/>If there was only one thing she learned during her stay in King's Landing, and in the Red Keep itself, it was that there was always plotting going on.  It was never ending.<br/><br/>Thankfully she was able to make sure she was kept apprised on circumstances she technically shouldn't know anything about.<br/><br/>Appropriately dressed with a couple of daggers hidden under her clothing and another inside of a hidden pocket of her skirts, she was escorted out to the Merchants' area, the one where those with gold in their purses went.