a certain darkness is needed to see the stars
Perhaps remarkably, perhaps not, Amalia's hand returns unscathed from its encounter with the glass. Coated as it is in thick fur and hard anger perhaps this is no surprise; what does surprise her is the rush of relief that the crushing of glass causes her, the outlet for her anger and frustration a brief but welcome reprieve.
"Great." To the offer of the bag Amalia says nothing, temptation twitching in her fingers. She's too stubborn to tell him that, though, old grudges clung to like finger-holds in a crumbling cliff. Making her way to the next window, the Shield sizes it up in silence before casting a last, furtive glance to Sunjata. Not that she needs her approval, but...
No. Fuck it. She doesn't need a man to say she can.
Again her fist flies; again the glass breaks, shattering beneath the force of her blow. Panting slightly, Amalia stares hard at the fractured panes of the window, knowing this is hardly helping yet still finding relief in what she's done. Her back to Sunjata, it's a moment before she speaks again-
-and when she does the thing she says is not what she meant to, or wanted to, or intended.
"How did you know? With Phoebe, when you.... how did you know?"
"Great." To the offer of the bag Amalia says nothing, temptation twitching in her fingers. She's too stubborn to tell him that, though, old grudges clung to like finger-holds in a crumbling cliff. Making her way to the next window, the Shield sizes it up in silence before casting a last, furtive glance to Sunjata. Not that she needs her approval, but...
No. Fuck it. She doesn't need a man to say she can.
Again her fist flies; again the glass breaks, shattering beneath the force of her blow. Panting slightly, Amalia stares hard at the fractured panes of the window, knowing this is hardly helping yet still finding relief in what she's done. Her back to Sunjata, it's a moment before she speaks again-
-and when she does the thing she says is not what she meant to, or wanted to, or intended.
"How did you know? With Phoebe, when you.... how did you know?"
Amalia
