Honey, these arms that once held you are ready to fight
His confirmation only tightens the grim line of her lips. Despite all the questions his assurance spawns, Hotaru holds her silence. There is more to come, worse she is sure. And worse it is. These names are still just as unknown to her, but the way he avoids clarifying what happened is proof enough of the intensity of this...trial. "It was no trial, it was an ill-placed hope for revenge enacted by the smallest and most easily swayed of minds," she hisses, serpentine and hateful as her electricity crackles like splintering ice in the night. The relative anonymity of these men does nothing to bank the coals of hatred in her heart. She knows them by title and citizenship alone, and though her might will never match theirs already she knows them only as enemies. Irredeemable.
Sunjata matters more than her grudges, and she squeezes his knee encouragingly. "What did they do to you?" How badly had she failed him, by not being there to vouch for his innocence? For she could have, if these two ignorant fools had spared a single second to rub their sole brain cells against the other's. Instead she is left here, trying to hold Sunjata's pieces together, and all without Nate.
"Proof is a matter of sleight of hand, determination, and asking the right questions. All things I can help you do, if we have to be careful of your public image." For Hotaru is loyal to a fault, it is her greatest weakness, and love - to her - involves the felling of enemies that dare to stand against the object of her affections. "Who is it?"
Sunjata matters more than her grudges, and she squeezes his knee encouragingly. "What did they do to you?" How badly had she failed him, by not being there to vouch for his innocence? For she could have, if these two ignorant fools had spared a single second to rub their sole brain cells against the other's. Instead she is left here, trying to hold Sunjata's pieces together, and all without Nate.
"Proof is a matter of sleight of hand, determination, and asking the right questions. All things I can help you do, if we have to be careful of your public image." For Hotaru is loyal to a fault, it is her greatest weakness, and love - to her - involves the felling of enemies that dare to stand against the object of her affections. "Who is it?"
HOTARU
