but if you're broken
She spies his nineteen and flips her own cards over with a defeated huff; two ten's and a seven. "The extra ten got me." She thought she'd push her luck at seventeen and there it was, pushed. Ah well. The stakes weren't very high.Aurelia remembers sharply that, for some, communing with the Gods is a lot easier than it is for people like her. "If I ever get the opportunity," she grumbles with a hint of something sour, "I'll be sure to remember that."
Her eyes roll at his show of drinking from the bottle. He won the game. It's his now. Even so, she plucks it right out of the sand audaciously for yet another sip before she puts it back.
Oh yeah. "Ah, right, sorry," she offers a sheepish smile before more seriously introducing herself, "I'm Aurelia."
Her gaze shifts. She wasn't exactly a soldier in her world, not by any standard definition. But she was someone who fought and killed in the name of a higher authority. To that extent, she can relate. She slumps back against the log and hoists an elbow up onto it, asking him curiously, "So, soldier boy, what'd you do to piss off the gods?"
you don't have to stay broken
Aurelia
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