[ her hands stay on the glass, for all he tells her to sit, but he gives her a name. 'Daryl', mouths it slowly to form the word in her mouth. Her ally, now, apparently.
Had to pick, had to pick.
Maybe it meant nothing, but she's dying, she knows she's dying, little by little, not the way she should. Not quick and at once and all together, on a battlefield. Not with Devi, no one to close her eyes, to lay her body into fire. No one to put her ashes into a river - so far from the Ganges, so far from the rights she had in utter devotion, as she had done for her husband.
No one she had given her name to willingly. Only been pulled from her.
She had to pick something, anything. A breath, a deeper one, something fogged wider as she draws her a line across to give her space she wants. Written with her littlest finger, a drawn out ceremony. Someone to know it, even if he did not even so well in English, it is not quite about him. This is purposeful as she curls around the letters of her language she has no one else to speak with, in it. ]
झांसी की रानी लक्ष्मी बाई
[ and then, lower, the same curving way. It's no secret now, regardless. Her fingers shaking still ever so as she curls them into her hand. ]
no subject
Had to pick, had to pick.
Maybe it meant nothing, but she's dying, she knows she's dying, little by little, not the way she should. Not quick and at once and all together, on a battlefield. Not with Devi, no one to close her eyes, to lay her body into fire. No one to put her ashes into a river - so far from the Ganges, so far from the rights she had in utter devotion, as she had done for her husband.
No one she had given her name to willingly. Only been pulled from her.
She had to pick something, anything. A breath, a deeper one, something fogged wider as she draws her a line across to give her space she wants. Written with her littlest finger, a drawn out ceremony. Someone to know it, even if he did not even so well in English, it is not quite about him. This is purposeful as she curls around the letters of her language she has no one else to speak with, in it. ]
लक्ष्मी बाई
[ and then, lower, the same curving way. It's no secret now, regardless. Her fingers shaking still ever so as she curls them into her hand. ]
Queen of Jhansi