if the journey of a thousand miles starts when you take the first step
Naive. That she was of course, but it didn't make it a happy thing to hear him snarl at her. "Well it isn't like I can just stay aboard the Ark, what with you judging my every fucking step and the men thinking I'm some useless joke who should be in the kitchens instead of Saiden." Tears swam in her eyes and she angrily blinked them away, smearing a blood-soaked wrist across them which only served to make everything worse. It didn't matter that she couldn't cook. Didn't matter that she wasn't a half bad navigator. It didn't matter that eyes followed her wherever she went, because at the end of the day she was still fucking alone here.
"If you could get your mouth anywhere near your balls we'd never see you again." Eloise snapped back defensively, trying to hide the back behind her leg though it was clearly too late for that.
How easily he painted what might have happened made her wince, the feeling of nausea in her stomach cresting sharply in the back of her throat. Far past the point where embarrassment had any hold on her, Eloise pulled out a chunk of cloudy looking crystal that looked even cheaper than quartz and was light in her hand. Glancing up towards Jack, the flicker of hope amidst all that she knew to be the case a quickly-dimming spark in her eyes, she waited for his inevitable verdict: not mageglass
"If you could get your mouth anywhere near your balls we'd never see you again." Eloise snapped back defensively, trying to hide the back behind her leg though it was clearly too late for that.
How easily he painted what might have happened made her wince, the feeling of nausea in her stomach cresting sharply in the back of her throat. Far past the point where embarrassment had any hold on her, Eloise pulled out a chunk of cloudy looking crystal that looked even cheaper than quartz and was light in her hand. Glancing up towards Jack, the flicker of hope amidst all that she knew to be the case a quickly-dimming spark in her eyes, she waited for his inevitable verdict: not mageglass
i'll travel for a little while, & i won't be coming back
