[It is cruel, he says, but she does not need that, nor want that. Her memory, he says, but the phrase almost makes her sick. The only memories she has of that woman was how pathetic and broken she'd thought she'd looked, with her arms flensed off at the shoulder, her eyes dull and her head bowed but her tail still high every breeding season she was led to the mounting post. She remembers the groom's hand on her hair, caressing even though she hated it, telling her that maybe if you're a good horse you won't end up the same.
She just knows that feeling Yima embrace her, feeling in her hearts that it was just as her mother had always held her even while knowing in her head that she didn't know what an embrace felt like... It had been all the proof she'd needed to know that witch was false and crafty.]
More complicated?
[She won't argue that there are some people in Zenith not because they are fools or taken in by the lies, but for other reasons. But those reasons... ?]
Zenith is home to creatures such as actual demons that devour souls. To bitter ghouls who just want to see the world burn, even if it means every world burning. It is less complicated.
cw: jinba is dark (slavery, sa)
[It is cruel, he says, but she does not need that, nor want that. Her memory, he says, but the phrase almost makes her sick. The only memories she has of that woman was how pathetic and broken she'd thought she'd looked, with her arms flensed off at the shoulder, her eyes dull and her head bowed but her tail still high every breeding season she was led to the mounting post. She remembers the groom's hand on her hair, caressing even though she hated it, telling her that maybe if you're a good horse you won't end up the same.
She just knows that feeling Yima embrace her, feeling in her hearts that it was just as her mother had always held her even while knowing in her head that she didn't know what an embrace felt like... It had been all the proof she'd needed to know that witch was false and crafty.]
More complicated?
[She won't argue that there are some people in Zenith not because they are fools or taken in by the lies, but for other reasons. But those reasons... ?]
Zenith is home to creatures such as actual demons that devour souls. To bitter ghouls who just want to see the world burn, even if it means every world burning. It is less complicated.