Falls of the Hinterlands anima

the answer hits her square in the gut, and she visibly flinches.

for one, it isn't that way. in her world, there's no 'rather'; she can and wants to have them both, for very different reasons.

Prophet is Ashlar's superior in nearly every way.

but most of those ways, she shares with the warlord. 

Ashlar has things neither of them have. 

and she wants those things. she wants it all.

i wanh' you bohh', Avicus says quietly, though the stubbornness hasn't exited her face or voice. i wonh' pick.