if it doesn't burn a little
”Hmm, perhaps,” she says with some sincerity and some teasing. They all learned slowly, and it was far easier to give advice than it was to actually act on it. Some part of her didn’t quite blame him. Korbin called her reckless all the time, and she was, but not unreasonably so. Yet she couldn’t quite bring herself to live in fear. At least she didn’t go chasing after dragons. You know, if you ignore the fact she did agree to show Wessex the way…
He steps closer and she leans in. Perhaps they do not know each other well, but she does consider him a friend, and she doesn’t mind the intimacy of old friends suggested by his action. Life is too short for anything else. ”Oh,” she says softly, reaching out a wet hand to rest it on his already soaked shoulder. It is her best way to console, for there is little else she can offer. ”Revenge makes more sense now. And it seems we have a mutual enemy.” Perhaps enemy is too strong of a word, but it gets the point across.
”I was rather less than respectful when she threw an ursur at us and told us only to use basic magic to steal a bell from its neck and then kill it,” she says it casually, but anyone who knows her story will understand what facing down an ursur really means to her. ”Got called to the principal's office for that. She is...perhaps different than the Zariah of the Grounds. At least a little bit.” She recalls that Zariah had actually tried, had actually seemed to care about the people of Halo. She would always be The Merciless, but maybe she was learning.
He steps closer and she leans in. Perhaps they do not know each other well, but she does consider him a friend, and she doesn’t mind the intimacy of old friends suggested by his action. Life is too short for anything else. ”Oh,” she says softly, reaching out a wet hand to rest it on his already soaked shoulder. It is her best way to console, for there is little else she can offer. ”Revenge makes more sense now. And it seems we have a mutual enemy.” Perhaps enemy is too strong of a word, but it gets the point across.
”I was rather less than respectful when she threw an ursur at us and told us only to use basic magic to steal a bell from its neck and then kill it,” she says it casually, but anyone who knows her story will understand what facing down an ursur really means to her. ”Got called to the principal's office for that. She is...perhaps different than the Zariah of the Grounds. At least a little bit.” She recalls that Zariah had actually tried, had actually seemed to care about the people of Halo. She would always be The Merciless, but maybe she was learning.
-- weaver
then what's the point in playing with fire?
