Power comes with responsibility. Choices to those that exchange their lives to your better judgement, and trust you to always rule well.
[ Is she holding his hand for his sake, or hers now? They stay there now, curling over them, her own warm, gentle. ]
We have to live with those choices. Whether we ever thought it was right or not.
[ She drops her gaze down to their joined fingers. Fiddling against the bumps of his knuckles, following the patterns there, all the little marks of this veritable stranger's life. ]
I hope you may strike him down quickly, for both your sakes. Your friend. When it comes to that. Godfinn... Godfinn did not die well. We had to break all his limbs, first, you see? He kept... kept trying to run and... and he screamed. He screamed and screamed and screamed. I was a girl, then. Not a few weeks past my seventeenth name day. I am a woman now, and ... I still hear him scream, every night. I do not know you, but I would spare you that if I could.
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[ Is she holding his hand for his sake, or hers now? They stay there now, curling over them, her own warm, gentle. ]
We have to live with those choices. Whether we ever thought it was right or not.
[ She drops her gaze down to their joined fingers. Fiddling against the bumps of his knuckles, following the patterns there, all the little marks of this veritable stranger's life. ]
I hope you may strike him down quickly, for both your sakes. Your friend. When it comes to that. Godfinn... Godfinn did not die well. We had to break all his limbs, first, you see? He kept... kept trying to run and... and he screamed. He screamed and screamed and screamed. I was a girl, then. Not a few weeks past my seventeenth name day. I am a woman now, and ... I still hear him scream, every night. I do not know you, but I would spare you that if I could.