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lakshmi· ɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ᴅɪsᴀsᴛᴇʀ · bai ([personal profile] shri) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-01-22 11:39 pm (UTC)

[ She doesn't look back at him, as she leads the horse out of the stables. Why would she? She never looks back for anyone, for anything. She's stiff and proud and has left greater wrecks than this one behind her more often than not - higher stakes too. Though this is hardly a hard ride from a falling city, each step is measured to not give him even an inch of her acknowledgement.

( Like he needed more proof of her station than the pride she threads through herself. But she has never bothered to tell herself she will ever be anything else other than Jhansi ki Rani, and the sooner he learns that, the better. )
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