[ Akua looks down on her with golden eyes that could almost flash in low light, for she can feel this mire, this tangled mess that is like burrs and vines, so complicated and wound up that the girl is practically trapped within the tangle of it. Her precision is not as accurate as she would like -- perhaps it would be better, if it were not for the fact that she could not Appraise the girl like she would wish -- but her instincts had normally been well tuned and crafted.
But Akua was used to dealing with Named individuals. People who took one look at the state, and made a promise to enact their will on the world, a promise of action and to seek power, and thus the Gods Below would bend Creation itself to the will of such individuals. She is from a world where Good and Evil are balanced forces, and to be Cursed is to have a Monicker that Means something. A Bestowal of power upon the good, and a Damnation of eternal hunger for the Evil, but they often had their own victories.
She has ran for too long with people who looked at the fact that Evil Will Always Lose, and determined that it was not acceptable, and changed the fate of Calernia itself. She does not know what to do with cowing, or bowing to the powers that be. She has spent too long with Challengers that those who need a softer touch are not...truly someone she knows what to do with.
That had always been the sort of thing Catherine was better with. Forcing people to fall within her influence easily, like it was nothing.
She only smiled, a hint of teeth, a touch sharp. She does not back off, for that would be admitting defeat, and what Praesi admits defeat -- short of being murdered, and shoved into your killer's coat? ]
I wonder what value the tree of life would see in someone like you, if it did not think you would be able to overcome such... misfortune.
If your only goal is survival, perhaps you are best suited to Zenith? In my experience, they are well-known for fighting only for themselves, and what they want.
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But Akua was used to dealing with Named individuals. People who took one look at the state, and made a promise to enact their will on the world, a promise of action and to seek power, and thus the Gods Below would bend Creation itself to the will of such individuals. She is from a world where Good and Evil are balanced forces, and to be Cursed is to have a Monicker that Means something. A Bestowal of power upon the good, and a Damnation of eternal hunger for the Evil, but they often had their own victories.
She has ran for too long with people who looked at the fact that Evil Will Always Lose, and determined that it was not acceptable, and changed the fate of Calernia itself. She does not know what to do with cowing, or bowing to the powers that be. She has spent too long with Challengers that those who need a softer touch are not...truly someone she knows what to do with.
That had always been the sort of thing Catherine was better with. Forcing people to fall within her influence easily, like it was nothing.
She only smiled, a hint of teeth, a touch sharp. She does not back off, for that would be admitting defeat, and what Praesi admits defeat -- short of being murdered, and shoved into your killer's coat? ]
I wonder what value the tree of life would see in someone like you, if it did not think you would be able to overcome such... misfortune.
If your only goal is survival, perhaps you are best suited to Zenith? In my experience, they are well-known for fighting only for themselves, and what they want.