Duskfire Glacier [m] diet mountain dew

do you think i'm not a woman? lousine's tone was not accusatory, but merely curious — perhaps a twinge of hurt lie in there somewhere, if he cared to look for it. i've lived more life than you think i have.

it wasn't necessarily a lie.

she had seen death. she had seen war. she had seen pillaging and rape and violence. she had seen it happen to her own people. they all thought she'd been too young at the time to remember.

she wasn't.

her face got sharper, more serious. frustrated. but she did not say anything more.

she stood up, and if he did not follow, she would leave him there.