October 28, 2016, 09:02 PM
arunik'ra scoured the female with her firebrand gaze, seeking any sign of deflection - hesitation - flinching.
none.
there was solemnity, but no artifice. she swept her mule-like ears back, both content yet disgruntled. "that is correct. that is the price you pay for light. the price we all pay. the rest, their burden is living." she wondered if giana would supply so readily the answer when the time came and the child was wrenched from her side. just as she wondered with eshamun, and many before her. it took a special kind of courage, and a strange mix of depravity, to give up something that came from you and was innately part of you.
she said nothing else, instead falling into a grim and contemplative silence. she made terrible company, it was true.
none.
there was solemnity, but no artifice. she swept her mule-like ears back, both content yet disgruntled. "that is correct. that is the price you pay for light. the price we all pay. the rest, their burden is living." she wondered if giana would supply so readily the answer when the time came and the child was wrenched from her side. just as she wondered with eshamun, and many before her. it took a special kind of courage, and a strange mix of depravity, to give up something that came from you and was innately part of you.
she said nothing else, instead falling into a grim and contemplative silence. she made terrible company, it was true.
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RE: Newb - by Arunik'ra - October 28, 2016, 09:02 PM