Maea
Stars, hide your fires
Her mouth quirked in a half smile, expecting no less from him, no matter how uncomfortable it made her. Much as she wanted to think she would respond differently in the same situation if it happened now, Maea suspected that she still would try to stand her ground. Though she could better see the point of playing a long game against an opponent, it wasn't really in her nature to be wily and deceptive.
"Mmh, well, good thing one of us know how to play that kind of game," she murmured, and left it at that.
Plucking strands of grass, she worked them into a braid while taking in Sunjata's answers. "Hence, the difficulty of looking at each other. I see." Chewing on her lip, she frowned at the braid. "Do you remember how you got infected in the first place?" There was something horrific about it in what he described that went beyond the usual unsettling aura she associated with the Void. The idea of being subjected to something so intrusive, then not even wanting to be cured had the hairs of her neck stand on end. It was like all of her worst fears come true, and firmly choked out any and all nations she'd ever harbored of pulling a stunt like Flora's.
"Mmh, well, good thing one of us know how to play that kind of game," she murmured, and left it at that.
Plucking strands of grass, she worked them into a braid while taking in Sunjata's answers. "Hence, the difficulty of looking at each other. I see." Chewing on her lip, she frowned at the braid. "Do you remember how you got infected in the first place?" There was something horrific about it in what he described that went beyond the usual unsettling aura she associated with the Void. The idea of being subjected to something so intrusive, then not even wanting to be cured had the hairs of her neck stand on end. It was like all of her worst fears come true, and firmly choked out any and all nations she'd ever harbored of pulling a stunt like Flora's.
Let not light see my black and deep desires
