shri: (» and the scars that mark my body)
lakshmi· ɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ᴅɪsᴀsᴛᴇʀ · bai ([personal profile] shri) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-02-11 12:52 am (UTC)

[ It's said in fact, and in accusation. Nor does she bother to deny it. She will. She will always fight, felt without pause to the rush of horse beats in her limbs. Heavy, heavy, heavy, loud as war drums. Filling her up from heart to head.

She will not deny it - so far as mankind was only as good as the truths he held himself to. This was her own, clutched deeply in marred fingers.
]

Empires allow nothing else.

[ She barks back, quick and light, she will not now, nor ever, be put on her knees. her voice is scratching, old, exhausted, and said as if they are the only words she has to say.

With it, she takes up the fatigues they have given her, her intention to leave.
]

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