You enjoy that, don't you? Just tossing me over a shoulder like a sack of vegetables! And they don't even use sacks for vegetables these days!
[ she protests as she does, but takes his proffered arm all the same and lets him guide them out of the woods. melli does understand, in theory, what john means. there is a soft power in intimacy, and a lurid interest in the carnal; sex sells, as they say. it's why scandals among the great houses serve either as a detriment or a blessing. a pain in ayla's ass when she has to mop up someone's messy one night stand for the palatable news cycle, but a blessing when it distracts from something far more horrible.
hunger among the smaller islands. the raiding parties along the coastline. the separatists who keep attacking the city borders, demanding to be free from the grasp of the ten houses.
it's not that she doesn't sympathise. melli does, genuinely. but how can she destroy the very system that made her? without the costhens, without the tributes — if the gods decide to move away and take the greatbeasts with them, then they're all left defenseless and blind. she will become nothing, too.
melli tightens her hold on john's arm as they keep walking, and tries her best to avoid worrying her lip as she's used to do. ]
Why the forehead? Are foreheads... are they supposed to be attractive?
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[ she protests as she does, but takes his proffered arm all the same and lets him guide them out of the woods. melli does understand, in theory, what john means. there is a soft power in intimacy, and a lurid interest in the carnal; sex sells, as they say. it's why scandals among the great houses serve either as a detriment or a blessing. a pain in ayla's ass when she has to mop up someone's messy one night stand for the palatable news cycle, but a blessing when it distracts from something far more horrible.
hunger among the smaller islands. the raiding parties along the coastline. the separatists who keep attacking the city borders, demanding to be free from the grasp of the ten houses.
it's not that she doesn't sympathise. melli does, genuinely. but how can she destroy the very system that made her? without the costhens, without the tributes — if the gods decide to move away and take the greatbeasts with them, then they're all left defenseless and blind. she will become nothing, too.
melli tightens her hold on john's arm as they keep walking, and tries her best to avoid worrying her lip as she's used to do. ]
Why the forehead? Are foreheads... are they supposed to be attractive?