ISLA
"Maybe you haven't had a reason to, until now," Isla says softly with a small smile. "I know I haven't. But with nothing else to fight, my war mode was just... wandering, I guess. Waiting for something to..." Kill me, she realises is the end of that sentence, and it's so close to the brutal truth of her existence that she ends up clearing her throat and finishing her tea instead of what she's saying.
Letting her hand fall away from his shoulder, Isla is lucky in that Sunjata offers a change in the subject and a suitable distraction all in one. Inhaling a stuttering breath entirely without thinking, she surprises herself by grinning up at him. "Would you have me? To help, I mean," she says. "I don't know how much use I'll be. But I can make sure your brothel has a really good medical bay."
Letting her hand fall away from his shoulder, Isla is lucky in that Sunjata offers a change in the subject and a suitable distraction all in one. Inhaling a stuttering breath entirely without thinking, she surprises herself by grinning up at him. "Would you have me? To help, I mean," she says. "I don't know how much use I'll be. But I can make sure your brothel has a really good medical bay."
apres moi le deluge
after me comes the flood
after me comes the flood
