Isla
Isla doesn't expect Sunjata's words to hurt, and only later will she realise she's hurting for him, rather than because of any feelings the remarks have provoked in herself. Even after seasons spent together, the conversations they've shared, the wounds they've picked at and bandaged for each other, Isla realises that she still hasn't ever really reached Sunjata, except perhaps in those worst moments in the dead of night, when nightmares make the world too raw to raise a mask against.
Reaching up, she lets her fingers ghost along his stubbled jaw, as if to tilt his head back to look at her properly. Is that something you want? To find out if it's the same for her? dances on the tip of her tongue, but so, so selfishly, she doesn't know if she wants to hear the answer. Especially not tonight.
"You deserve to feel without hurting yourself, Sunjata," she says eventually, slipping her arms around him as if to draw him as closely into an embrace as possible given their current positions. "I know you don't believe it. But I do." He deserves to be more than this, to shrug off the mantle of Flood, of Frey's demigod, traitor to Safrin and the Old Gods. He deserves to be more than a closed book bound with scar tissue.
Reaching up, she lets her fingers ghost along his stubbled jaw, as if to tilt his head back to look at her properly. Is that something you want? To find out if it's the same for her? dances on the tip of her tongue, but so, so selfishly, she doesn't know if she wants to hear the answer. Especially not tonight.
"You deserve to feel without hurting yourself, Sunjata," she says eventually, slipping her arms around him as if to draw him as closely into an embrace as possible given their current positions. "I know you don't believe it. But I do." He deserves to be more than this, to shrug off the mantle of Flood, of Frey's demigod, traitor to Safrin and the Old Gods. He deserves to be more than a closed book bound with scar tissue.
I'll take a bruise, I know you're worth it
When you hit me, hit me hard
When you hit me, hit me hard
