[How? She wants to rage. How could it not have changed, when to her, everything else has? Unfamiliar faces, Springstar in the godsdamned air and not even Springstar anymore, the freak she has fought to hunt and uproot since she discovered what had made that man Manon into a beast was now out in the open and apparently this Tribune had rationalized it somehow, and- ?
The glow of that sun in the ceiling that had taken up her entire gaze had been so warm. The same flows in this man, she can sense it in their communion. Something in her thinks she should just stop fighting, just accept it, but she can’t.
It does help her hold her tongue. A long time. Before, almost quietly,]
… I was honored to have been entrusted with that. I was ready to strike, and to deliver Springstar what I was asked.
[Is there meaning in the past tense, to “Springstar”, to the confusion-laced bitterness and disappointment to be heard in her tone? She had been the monster once, and she had willingly served beside them, too, but she was supposed to be…
She was supposed to be better now, she wanted to be-]
But what honor is there in serving if I serve alongside monsters?
[Not even just Aetos. The cavalier “well they wouldn’t be the only maddened among us”, as if that was just fine, as if that should be accepted—]
I fought to free Alenroux from Aetos’ experiments and murderous beasts, and now you would have me deliver it into the hands that join with his? Will you give it back to him for a playground? Why, why do you allow that mad mage reign in the sky with you?
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The glow of that sun in the ceiling that had taken up her entire gaze had been so warm. The same flows in this man, she can sense it in their communion. Something in her thinks she should just stop fighting, just accept it, but she can’t.
It does help her hold her tongue. A long time. Before, almost quietly,]
… I was honored to have been entrusted with that. I was ready to strike, and to deliver Springstar what I was asked.
[Is there meaning in the past tense, to “Springstar”, to the confusion-laced bitterness and disappointment to be heard in her tone? She had been the monster once, and she had willingly served beside them, too, but she was supposed to be…
She was supposed to be better now, she wanted to be-]
But what honor is there in serving if I serve alongside monsters?
[Not even just Aetos. The cavalier “well they wouldn’t be the only maddened among us”, as if that was just fine, as if that should be accepted—]
I fought to free Alenroux from Aetos’ experiments and murderous beasts, and now you would have me deliver it into the hands that join with his? Will you give it back to him for a playground? Why, why do you allow that mad mage reign in the sky with you?