EVELYN
It wasn't until he mentioned the door, the accursed barrier that locked them inside the entire Longnight, that the girl had any idea what he might want her perspective on. It was a heavy topic, the implications of his query not lost on her, but still it required a lot of thought from the girl who usually let her wits dance off the edge of her tongue the moment they came to light in her mind. No, this question required more consideration, and so she took it, worrying at her lower lip as she weighed up the various directions her response could go.
The door was accursed, but perhaps, only to her and her ascended kin - to others, it was a shield, a protective layer against the monsters of the Longnight.
Monsters. Were they also her kin, if the door was made to affect them so? Or were they lost, beyond help, and so no longer her kin? All her life had been spent fearing the monsters that came every Longnight; such feelings did not disappear easily, even if she was granted greater strength and keener senses than before. The stinging of sunlight on her skin whenever she tried to venture out of the shade during the day was a stark reminder of her mortality, the effect the door had on their Queen yet another.
In the wrong hands, what would the weapon do? Destroy her, and her kin? But would that also mean the monsters of Longnight too? Did that not mean some good, in the bad could be achieved by its existence too?
"I think, in the right hands, such a weapon-" - for that is what the door was, even if it was only ever meant to be a shield - "-could be used to slay the monsters of Longnight." She began, quietly, looking up to the man from her comparatively diminutive height, seeking to pin him beneath her hard azure stare. "But once they are slain…" Words drifted into a silence, as she mustered the courage to complete her thought. "…it would serve no other righteous purpose, no matter the hands that wielded it."
The door was accursed, but perhaps, only to her and her ascended kin - to others, it was a shield, a protective layer against the monsters of the Longnight.
Monsters. Were they also her kin, if the door was made to affect them so? Or were they lost, beyond help, and so no longer her kin? All her life had been spent fearing the monsters that came every Longnight; such feelings did not disappear easily, even if she was granted greater strength and keener senses than before. The stinging of sunlight on her skin whenever she tried to venture out of the shade during the day was a stark reminder of her mortality, the effect the door had on their Queen yet another.
In the wrong hands, what would the weapon do? Destroy her, and her kin? But would that also mean the monsters of Longnight too? Did that not mean some good, in the bad could be achieved by its existence too?
"I think, in the right hands, such a weapon-" - for that is what the door was, even if it was only ever meant to be a shield - "-could be used to slay the monsters of Longnight." She began, quietly, looking up to the man from her comparatively diminutive height, seeking to pin him beneath her hard azure stare. "But once they are slain…" Words drifted into a silence, as she mustered the courage to complete her thought. "…it would serve no other righteous purpose, no matter the hands that wielded it."
cross me once
i dare you
it is the only chance you will get
i dare you
it is the only chance you will get
