Amalia
she was afraid of heights
She tries not to flinch at his uncharacteristic snap, a dull and terrible ache for her friend sitting like stone in the pit of her stomach. The fury is familiar, though, something she saw in Kiada, in Jigano. May have seen in Melita, too. It sounds like the blight talking. It sounds like defeat.
It sounds like giving up, which is something they can't afford to do.
"It means you won't die," the baker bites back, suddenly hard, ironlike and stalwart. "It means we have time. With the demon, the blight took years, I think- with you it seems faster, but we don't know that it's not reversible."
Rising up in the warm hall, Amalia begins to pace, her hands pulled tight across her chest. "If we find the people with symptoms and keep them contained - or are prepared to contain them, if they become irrational - we can protect them until they find a cure. And in the meantime we need to stop Ascended from going into the Greatwood. Maybe from biting people- we don't know if it's transmitted through the bite. Which will be hard, with Wessex as Queen, since she's the Voice's biggest supporter. So we need to talk to Delah, to have the Fae increase patrols." She is babbling, rambling, idea after idea, trying to illuminate the overwhelming doom with something close to hope. Maybe it is not much, but it is all she has to offer.
It sounds like giving up, which is something they can't afford to do.
"It means you won't die," the baker bites back, suddenly hard, ironlike and stalwart. "It means we have time. With the demon, the blight took years, I think- with you it seems faster, but we don't know that it's not reversible."
Rising up in the warm hall, Amalia begins to pace, her hands pulled tight across her chest. "If we find the people with symptoms and keep them contained - or are prepared to contain them, if they become irrational - we can protect them until they find a cure. And in the meantime we need to stop Ascended from going into the Greatwood. Maybe from biting people- we don't know if it's transmitted through the bite. Which will be hard, with Wessex as Queen, since she's the Voice's biggest supporter. So we need to talk to Delah, to have the Fae increase patrols." She is babbling, rambling, idea after idea, trying to illuminate the overwhelming doom with something close to hope. Maybe it is not much, but it is all she has to offer.
but she was much more afraid
of never flying
