[The question gives her cause to pause. She had spoken out of curiosity, not doubt and she doesn't hesitate but rather deliberates on how to proceed, another query in the quirk of her lips.]
Not with you. [Speaking softer this time, she hopes to sound reassuring. Because she is angry isn't she? That's what this is all about. The drinking, the sharp tongue. It's all a distraction from the roiling fury that threatens to burn her up from the inside and the only release is to spit fire at anything left standing in her way. That's always been her way, hasn't it? Hers is a path that's left scorched and battle scarred.
Perhaps it was always meant to be like this. She thinks of the legends that threaded together the streets of her youth, the titles and epithets that decorate her service. It wasn't the first time she'd been named for a goddess of war and death.
Fine. If that's what they want, that's what she would give them.
As the cloud finally lifts from her face, it's replaced with a simmering determination. The only question is now sitting before her. Because she may be on a war path, but she won't force anyone to follow.]
It's the ones that did this. Whoever, whatever's responsible. I'm going to stop them.
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Not with you. [Speaking softer this time, she hopes to sound reassuring. Because she is angry isn't she? That's what this is all about. The drinking, the sharp tongue. It's all a distraction from the roiling fury that threatens to burn her up from the inside and the only release is to spit fire at anything left standing in her way. That's always been her way, hasn't it? Hers is a path that's left scorched and battle scarred.
Perhaps it was always meant to be like this. She thinks of the legends that threaded together the streets of her youth, the titles and epithets that decorate her service. It wasn't the first time she'd been named for a goddess of war and death.
Fine. If that's what they want, that's what she would give them.
As the cloud finally lifts from her face, it's replaced with a simmering determination. The only question is now sitting before her. Because she may be on a war path, but she won't force anyone to follow.]
It's the ones that did this. Whoever, whatever's responsible. I'm going to stop them.