Seizing the Moment... Finally

Ach, well, I'll take that, I suppose. Respect is hard won with him, I suppose. And she risked another look over at Meg and Ruth, happy in the moment, chatting together, even as they looked like they were teasing one another. Yeah, maybe.. maybe that was what that feeling she had was. It wasn't like she didn't know what lust was -- she had experienced lust with Mina before, and for a brief time, she thought she had loved the other woman, she was lovely after all. But as her eyes swept over to the grey haired woman, looking beautiful in a dress that covered all her assets, with eyes for the tall man she stood with on the edge of the wedding, Dora knew it wasn't the same.

It was tiny. Small, barely there, but she knew it was different. It wasn't lust, and it wasn't just friendship. It was new and exciting, it made her miserable and elated at the same time, and all she had to do was be a little bit brave and speak up. Soon, she decided. Not today, today was about Nairn and Meg, and she wasn't going to take that away from them, not spoil something beautiful on the off chance that...

Nairn spun her one more time and then there was a yell. Her eyes turned towards the commotion, hands reaching under the bustle of her dress and pulling her twin hand axes, ready to brawl then and there -- anyone who was going to destroy their day.

But this was something she couldn't fight, and she was left alone there, on the dance floor, as Nairn rushed forward.

This was something she couldn't fight, as she stood alone, and watched Ruth crumple on the floor.

This was something she couldn't fight, as her blood ran cold at how wrong the fall looked.

She didn't see a clear enemy to fight, to kill, in the way the man she had just realized she might maybe have feelings for wasn't moving.

And it finally hit her that when faced with something she couldn't fight, couldn't kill, she didn't know what to do.

It was a yell from the other side of the floor, Theo go! that finally got her moving, the grey had vanishing back into the to crowd of people as she made it to Ruth a couple seconds behind Nairn, her axes back in their holsters under her bustle once again. You got him Nairn? Meg what do we need?

She couldn't freeze, not when it was Ruth.

@Megara Neirdre
@Ruth Yoesif
@Nairn Neirdre