i'm just waiting 'til you really let your guard down
"If that is true, you are even more of a coward than I believed. You couldn't even watch a death you caused." Shaju wrinkles his nose, his eyes like steel blue glass as he watches the boy writhe in the stream, watches him dawdle in the act of getting to his feet. It's enough that he kicks him, in the end, a boot coming down on the back of Sunjata's calf to persuade him in no uncertain terms back to his feet.
And then off they go, and he is never too far behind the half-winged freak as they pick their way downstream. Eventually the jungle begins to thin out, the sands visible in the near distance, and Shaju huffs out a sigh as if he is the one who has been suffering all this time. "You will not last as Governor. We both know it."
And then off they go, and he is never too far behind the half-winged freak as they pick their way downstream. Eventually the jungle begins to thin out, the sands visible in the near distance, and Shaju huffs out a sigh as if he is the one who has been suffering all this time. "You will not last as Governor. We both know it."
SHAJU
