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lakshmi· ɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ᴅɪsᴀsᴛᴇʀ · bai ([personal profile] shri) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-05-02 11:44 am (UTC)

Is that how you see them? I found them just as afraid. [ Her eyes roll, fingers curling around on themselves to dismiss the notion - remembering that flower viewing party. How much she had refused to let them touch her when they called it art. ]

My God, you should have seen what they did to Washington and York, what a sight they both were. What they tried to do to me until I made it clear that I existed for no one else's enjoyment. They covered York's scars, where he should always bear something like that proudly, dusted stars on Washington like he hadn't spent his lifetime fighting in them. Those aren't people that appreciate beauty. They may call it that. But in truth, it scares them just as much, anyone that carves and dominates in such a way always is.

[ She didn't look at them and see anything beautiful. She saw shreds of the horrors of Aurangzeb that her Marathi forefathers had fought against. The stiff laced women that made up English courts. ]

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