"Right." Her clipped response was distracted, distant, while her thoughts roamed over the Grounds and all that had happened to her there. Before the young Ascended's attack. Before she'd left. She scuffed the ground with her heel. "The Grounds are shit." For a second, surprise flashed across her face. She didn't expect the curse she was under would allow her to say that. It seemed to her that even a curse couldn't stifle the truth about that place.
Clearing her throat as the telling expression left her face, she gave a small, appreciative nod when he gave his sympathies, and listened, sensing he had more to say. And she was right. So those were love bites. Go figure.
It was a difficult position to be in, she thought. For a beat, she considered saying something comforting. She picked at the grass as empty phrases and obvious truths went through her mind, quickly discarded. She realized that whatever she said would be meaningless, or otherwise, a lie. "I promise."
Azure spoke lies the same way she spoke truths. After all, that was the only proper way to utter a lie. This wasn't to say that she lacked a moral compass, only that she set it herself, by the course she chose.
She was a stranger that had just jumped out of the bushes. She hadn't even given him her name. He owed her nothing. Most of all not the lives or safety of those closest to him - and yet, he considered teaching her. Azure respected that.
So when she spoke, there was no smile meant to endear her to him, no exaggerated claim or invocation of the gods to bear witness. Only her word.
Clearing her throat as the telling expression left her face, she gave a small, appreciative nod when he gave his sympathies, and listened, sensing he had more to say. And she was right. So those were love bites. Go figure.
It was a difficult position to be in, she thought. For a beat, she considered saying something comforting. She picked at the grass as empty phrases and obvious truths went through her mind, quickly discarded. She realized that whatever she said would be meaningless, or otherwise, a lie. "I promise."
Azure spoke lies the same way she spoke truths. After all, that was the only proper way to utter a lie. This wasn't to say that she lacked a moral compass, only that she set it herself, by the course she chose.
She was a stranger that had just jumped out of the bushes. She hadn't even given him her name. He owed her nothing. Most of all not the lives or safety of those closest to him - and yet, he considered teaching her. Azure respected that.
So when she spoke, there was no smile meant to endear her to him, no exaggerated claim or invocation of the gods to bear witness. Only her word.
Azure
