Black Morass sun

this is a man who could easily crush her.

and she might have had a crush, if she did not instead feel such welling fear — or maybe respect? this is not her man to gaze upon in any manner that is not worshipful of his power.

i am to be of imperium. bowing deeper now. to live and learn at the feet of the reverend mother — and you too, if so instructed.

for surely, surely! there can be no other man here that might outmatch whatever claim he held alongside her, no?