The contact is so much. That bond of fingers around her wrist, as delicate as a shackle. Held tightly and feather light. The way it doesn't have to be more to be a threat. It is already everything it has to be, and is so much more than that. Twice as damning. ]
If I did - [ a world, a nation, a home, her whole body cut up and sewn into the ground. Her blood is not holy because she is queen, it is because she is jhansi ki rani and she had laid herself into that earth, that dirt, so it may be all the more fertile. ] - it was never by a creature such as you.
[ And the wise thing to do would to not be to put her hand into a lion's mouth, but she didn't get so far by ever being wise, so much as determined. She turns her wrist inside that shackle, testing it. ] Do not think I will not burn myself for the effort of setting you to flames.
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The contact is so much. That bond of fingers around her wrist, as delicate as a shackle. Held tightly and feather light. The way it doesn't have to be more to be a threat. It is already everything it has to be, and is so much more than that. Twice as damning. ]
If I did - [ a world, a nation, a home, her whole body cut up and sewn into the ground. Her blood is not holy because she is queen, it is because she is jhansi ki rani and she had laid herself into that earth, that dirt, so it may be all the more fertile. ] - it was never by a creature such as you.
[ And the wise thing to do would to not be to put her hand into a lion's mouth, but she didn't get so far by ever being wise, so much as determined. She turns her wrist inside that shackle, testing it. ] Do not think I will not burn myself for the effort of setting you to flames.