“Okay. Let’s go.” Leena squinted at the horizon, unable to see the earthen works from here. It would take a good chunk of their remaining time to make it there and back, twisty servant’s passages and patrols of Frost’s men to avoid. Worth it, though. Giving her sister’s shoulders one last squeeze, Leena crawled to the edge of the roof on her hands and knees. Carefully, she swung herself back down.
Her thoughts naturally fell back into that singular, well worn rut: what to do about Bastien. Siora’s unexplained injuries had been difficult enough to ignore all this time, but now … Now she knew. He did it on purpose. Because he liked it. It was never an accident.
It followed that their parents weren’t an accident, either.
If the bastard lord had appeared just then, she would have thrown him down the stairs. It shouldn’t even be hard, he wasn’t that big of a man. Instead, she cupped her elbows and ducked her head, deaf and mute to the world until they were outside. Paused in the shadows, and waited for the mud track ahead to clear of men.
“Race you.” It was a proposition that Leena would never win, but she darted ahead nonetheless. By the timer they crested the earthen walls, she was open mouthed panting for breath. Leena braced her hands on her thighs and spun around, looking back up at the fort and all its bright points of light. A dry, whistling laugh escaped her lips and trailed off into nothing. Eventually, she recovered enough to speak.
“I hardly know what to wish for– But you’d truly leave me home all the time? While you go off on adventures? No fair, Sisi.
“I want adventures too.”
@Siora Craynore
Her thoughts naturally fell back into that singular, well worn rut: what to do about Bastien. Siora’s unexplained injuries had been difficult enough to ignore all this time, but now … Now she knew. He did it on purpose. Because he liked it. It was never an accident.
It followed that their parents weren’t an accident, either.
If the bastard lord had appeared just then, she would have thrown him down the stairs. It shouldn’t even be hard, he wasn’t that big of a man. Instead, she cupped her elbows and ducked her head, deaf and mute to the world until they were outside. Paused in the shadows, and waited for the mud track ahead to clear of men.
“Race you.” It was a proposition that Leena would never win, but she darted ahead nonetheless. By the timer they crested the earthen walls, she was open mouthed panting for breath. Leena braced her hands on her thighs and spun around, looking back up at the fort and all its bright points of light. A dry, whistling laugh escaped her lips and trailed off into nothing. Eventually, she recovered enough to speak.
“I hardly know what to wish for– But you’d truly leave me home all the time? While you go off on adventures? No fair, Sisi.
“I want adventures too.”
@Siora Craynore
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