Vinrobles

     Vin folded her arms behind her head, her focus drifting again. “Yeah, I admit that I didn’t care much for you in the beginning. But I can’t be blamed given the circumstances. I barely even trusted Qessyn then. So someone like you was just… scary. Scarier than anyone I’d ever seen even while I was imprisoned.” Not that she’d needed to tell him that. No doubt he could have smelled the fear on her back then, even when she was doing her best to put on an air of defiance. The kind of terror he’d struck in her heart was a decidedly tough kind to mask.

     “I’m sorry it took me not recognizing you for me to see you any differently.”

     “ you haven’t seen other ones. hard to be bad or good without any comparisons. ”  he doesn’t doubt any other kariian would a taste just as sour in her mouth, though. he’s been kind to vin (in the past few phoebs, anyway), even despite his irritability. it isn’t personal.

     Vin folded her arms behind her head, her focus drifting again. “Yeah, I admit that I didn’t care much for you in the beginning. But I can’t be blamed given the circumstances. I barely even trusted Qessyn then. So someone like you was just… scary. Scarier than anyone I’d ever seen even while I was imprisoned.” Not that she’d needed to tell him that. No doubt he could have smelled the fear on her back then, even when she was doing her best to put on an air of defiance. The kind of terror he’d struck in her heart was a decidedly tough kind to mask.

     “I’m sorry it took me not recognizing you for me to see you any differently.”

     “ you haven’t seen other ones. hard to be bad or good without any comparisons. ”  he doesn’t doubt any other kariian would a taste just as sour in her mouth, though. he’s been kind to vin (in the past few phoebs, anyway), even despite his irritability. it isn’t personal.

     Another deep breath passes through her lips, stuttering with a nervous shiver. “I guess if that were true, you woulda left a long time ago. This… whatever we are. It wouldn’t be a thing.”

     “I’m sorry. For what I said.” She releases his hand and folds her arm in against herself. “I should know you’re capable of more, after the time you’ve spent with me. My people… The ones in the cities don’t value attachment like my village did. I guess I just thought that it must be the natural course of things, or somethin’. The more you modernize, the less you care about the people around you…”

     Another deep breath passes through her lips, stuttering with a nervous shiver. “I guess if that were true, you woulda left a long time ago. This… whatever we are. It wouldn’t be a thing.”