REXANNA
Jigano’s promise brings a snort to her. The bard doesn’t need to do any of that, and she’s grown weary and tired of so many willing to sacrifice over and over for her benefit as though she’s worth all the rage and fury of the worlds. “She is kind to us. It’s not her willingness I’m worried about, it’s her ability.” And it is, because what if she broke something too much, unable to be fixed or replaced, simply left to be and remain as a hollow shell.
She suggests Ru’in’s name, and is met with an explanation of the boy. Dark skin, freckles like constellations. She knows him, very well. “I know who he is.” How could she forget her daughter’s true love? “One blue eye, one black.” The boy had always kind of looked a monster. But if Kiada was happy, then she was. “His father was… A strange man, spoke to the stars through a mirror.” Quietly, she wonders if she should mention that in that different time and different place, that her first living child had been with Ru’in’s father. That the two shared a half sibling out there in the wilderness, among her other variety of children.
It dies on her thoughts as he mentions he didn’t know, and she shrugs lightly. He hadn’t asked. That their families had been intertwined long before any of this, before Caido, before tragedy. The mention of the quest, however, does draw a contemplative look to cross her face, eyes unseeing but mind still churning. Imagining. And suddenly, there’s a small amount of burning frustration within her at the mention of a bargain.
She wants to ask what they’ve offered, but Jigano is already starting on it. “I think she’s right.” She agrees, a small amount of pride bubbling up and mending the frustration. And with it, she sighs lightly. “Yes, there’s a net that Remi made that captured it. I’m not sure what happened after that.” She tells him. “They took my eyes after that, so I didn’t see much.” But the mention of bribing with Ascended upgrades?
She recalls the vibration of them trying to take them. How they’re built into her. How she doesn’t know where they are without taking herself apart. And she’s already broken enough as is. A frown finds her face and she sighs, reaching up with the back of her hand to press against her temple. “The upgrades though, they’re parts of us. They can’t be easily removed without tearing us apart.” She only has one now, after all. Having used the invisibility chip in her fleeting attempt to leave.
She suggests Ru’in’s name, and is met with an explanation of the boy. Dark skin, freckles like constellations. She knows him, very well. “I know who he is.” How could she forget her daughter’s true love? “One blue eye, one black.” The boy had always kind of looked a monster. But if Kiada was happy, then she was. “His father was… A strange man, spoke to the stars through a mirror.” Quietly, she wonders if she should mention that in that different time and different place, that her first living child had been with Ru’in’s father. That the two shared a half sibling out there in the wilderness, among her other variety of children.
It dies on her thoughts as he mentions he didn’t know, and she shrugs lightly. He hadn’t asked. That their families had been intertwined long before any of this, before Caido, before tragedy. The mention of the quest, however, does draw a contemplative look to cross her face, eyes unseeing but mind still churning. Imagining. And suddenly, there’s a small amount of burning frustration within her at the mention of a bargain.
She wants to ask what they’ve offered, but Jigano is already starting on it. “I think she’s right.” She agrees, a small amount of pride bubbling up and mending the frustration. And with it, she sighs lightly. “Yes, there’s a net that Remi made that captured it. I’m not sure what happened after that.” She tells him. “They took my eyes after that, so I didn’t see much.” But the mention of bribing with Ascended upgrades?
She recalls the vibration of them trying to take them. How they’re built into her. How she doesn’t know where they are without taking herself apart. And she’s already broken enough as is. A frown finds her face and she sighs, reaching up with the back of her hand to press against her temple. “The upgrades though, they’re parts of us. They can’t be easily removed without tearing us apart.” She only has one now, after all. Having used the invisibility chip in her fleeting attempt to leave.
A Light That Never Goes Out.
