Lena
and sweetest in the gale is heard
and sore must be the storm
and sore must be the storm
“And you helped to continue that cycle of violence.” She shook her head, pouring her own water into the well, not wanting to be here much longer. “Surely there were other things you could’ve done.” Instead, there would be future thresholds to think about, beyond the impending doom. Victims traumatized as the building came crashing down around them. Children who’d lost their parents in the assault, yearning for vengeance just the same. News spread throughout each kingdom about the siege. Defenses and offenses rendered so the Ascended couldn’t touch their people. Short-sighted actions leading to long-term consequences; another notation piled along parchments of their crimes.
And while she might have fathomed the entire association with the Order, they hadn’t been the only people within. If the only excuse he could hold was ignorance…her teeth grated together, and she emptied the remains of the jar, watching the last few droplets cascade downwards. Then she backed away, the last statement causing her eyes to narrow. “You don’t deserve to know anything about my sister.”
Placing the cover on top of the vessel, she moved it to her bag, turning around, intending to go the way she’d first arrived, before night truly fell. “Good luck.” In anything and everything; by the sounds of it, he, and many others, were going to need it.
And while she might have fathomed the entire association with the Order, they hadn’t been the only people within. If the only excuse he could hold was ignorance…her teeth grated together, and she emptied the remains of the jar, watching the last few droplets cascade downwards. Then she backed away, the last statement causing her eyes to narrow. “You don’t deserve to know anything about my sister.”
Placing the cover on top of the vessel, she moved it to her bag, turning around, intending to go the way she’d first arrived, before night truly fell. “Good luck.” In anything and everything; by the sounds of it, he, and many others, were going to need it.
that could abash the little bird
that kept so many warm
that kept so many warm
