[It is good that his touch is light, because her hands finally remember what movement is- just enough to try and slap him away along with the snap of her words. The surge in warmth as tears prick once more fresh and renewed in her one remaining eye and in the corner of the hole where the other had once been.]
Just being able to return to our worlds won't change what was already going to happen in them-
[Will it? Can it? Her sunbeam bead shows the same day, over and over and over like it's waiting for her and when she gets back-]
And if I do not die as I have promised then my master's jinba hunt will succeed and all of them-
[In the sudden spike of her emotions the blend of Communion becomes even more chaotic, allowing glimpses of a village that strangely enough seems inhabited primarily by children. Children who would be enslaved, who would become Armless, who would become cannon fodder and broodmares like she had always feared becoming herself, and it's her fault, so she can't just go to some other world, or be happy, or be loved-]
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[It is good that his touch is light, because her hands finally remember what movement is- just enough to try and slap him away along with the snap of her words. The surge in warmth as tears prick once more fresh and renewed in her one remaining eye and in the corner of the hole where the other had once been.]
Just being able to return to our worlds won't change what was already going to happen in them-
[Will it? Can it? Her sunbeam bead shows the same day, over and over and over like it's waiting for her and when she gets back-]
And if I do not die as I have promised then my master's jinba hunt will succeed and all of them-
[In the sudden spike of her emotions the blend of Communion becomes even more chaotic, allowing glimpses of a village that strangely enough seems inhabited primarily by children. Children who would be enslaved, who would become Armless, who would become cannon fodder and broodmares like she had always feared becoming herself, and it's her fault, so she can't just go to some other world, or be happy, or be loved-]
I am already a dead woman!