[They did. They had shed blood together. She remembers it clear and true even if the dryad had then just… erased all of it, like it had never happened, restoring her ear, yes, but robbing her of the kill that she gladly would have remained maimed for-]
I did not ask for this covenant.
[So why… Her shard is so cold now, like ice embedded in her chest. Her hearing comes and goes.]
Not like this.
[How pathetic, how predictable… that she still swells with tattered pride to be addressed that way. The warrior who bested a demon. Just enough pride to disguise the shame and anger beneath.]
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I did not ask for this covenant.
[So why… Her shard is so cold now, like ice embedded in her chest. Her hearing comes and goes.]
Not like this.
[How pathetic, how predictable… that she still swells with tattered pride to be addressed that way. The warrior who bested a demon. Just enough pride to disguise the shame and anger beneath.]