Will taking his life, again, while he doesn't resist, again somehow mollify her anger? Will it fix what has been broken, what he he broken with his weakness and betrayal? He spreads his hands as if to dare her, to invite her to just attack him...
And it seems for a second that she will. She lunges, her hands lash out, but instead of aiming for his shard or landing a blow, they seize in the front of his clothing, hauling him up off his feet to dangle in the air as she pulls him in close, her breath hot, her canines bared. She'll tell him, she'll tell him exactly how happy she'd be to-]
No!
[The answer bursts out of her in a desperate, unexpected snap, the rest tumbling out as she shakes him in her grip, trying to make it make sense, force him to understand it, force him to listen-]
You think killing you could make me happy?
[She had carried his shard from the deep forests of Alenroux cradled against her breast. She had placed the other Shard she'd claimed in her pouch, but even after his betrayal she had kept Liem's there again, hoping this time that the Meridian power pulsing in her own shard against his might somehow bring him back right. But it hadn't, it hadn't at all, and now?]
You think I can be satisfied or find rest when the man who guided me to the light in Horos, the man who I swore to Meridian beside in Kenos, abandons me to fight alone? To fight against him?
[Her voice cracks, an she can not stop to repair it. Her hands quake with useless, impotent rage where they seize him, betraying her fear that he is lost for good, that he will simply turn disaffected, uncaring eyes on her and insist she simply kill him or leave him be. As if she could- ? As if she wanted to?]
Why-
[Why?]
If you tired of hoping, if you doubted, if you needed shelter-
[Had she not held his hand in that tent in Alenroux until his Discord eased? Had she not fought beside him? Had they not debated over joining Meridian before meeting Cyrus together? Had he not- Had she not cared, even though she'd never had the words for such things? If all of that was true-]
Why is my strength not enough for you, Liem Talbott?
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Will taking his life, again, while he doesn't resist, again somehow mollify her anger? Will it fix what has been broken, what he he broken with his weakness and betrayal? He spreads his hands as if to dare her, to invite her to just attack him...
And it seems for a second that she will. She lunges, her hands lash out, but instead of aiming for his shard or landing a blow, they seize in the front of his clothing, hauling him up off his feet to dangle in the air as she pulls him in close, her breath hot, her canines bared. She'll tell him, she'll tell him exactly how happy she'd be to-]
No!
[The answer bursts out of her in a desperate, unexpected snap, the rest tumbling out as she shakes him in her grip, trying to make it make sense, force him to understand it, force him to listen-]
You think killing you could make me happy?
[She had carried his shard from the deep forests of Alenroux cradled against her breast. She had placed the other Shard she'd claimed in her pouch, but even after his betrayal she had kept Liem's there again, hoping this time that the Meridian power pulsing in her own shard against his might somehow bring him back right. But it hadn't, it hadn't at all, and now?]
You think I can be satisfied or find rest when the man who guided me to the light in Horos, the man who I swore to Meridian beside in Kenos, abandons me to fight alone? To fight against him?
[Her voice cracks, an she can not stop to repair it. Her hands quake with useless, impotent rage where they seize him, betraying her fear that he is lost for good, that he will simply turn disaffected, uncaring eyes on her and insist she simply kill him or leave him be. As if she could- ? As if she wanted to?]
Why-
[Why?]
If you tired of hoping, if you doubted, if you needed shelter-
[Had she not held his hand in that tent in Alenroux until his Discord eased? Had she not fought beside him? Had they not debated over joining Meridian before meeting Cyrus together? Had he not- Had she not cared, even though she'd never had the words for such things? If all of that was true-]
Why is my strength not enough for you, Liem Talbott?