Willows
05-14-2020, 06:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-14-2020, 06:51 PM by Malalia.)
[ haha no prob. give me alllll the paragraphs lol ]
Her ears leveled slightly. Mal didn't miss the shudder, and couldn't help but to empathize with the man. Cairo's trepidation around Artur was mirrored in hers and Mortis' relationship with Azure. If the boy was a nearly a yearling, and clearly already set in his ways of thinking... what would that mean for the Armada, if he won the competition for heir? She had hinted at exaggeration when she relayed the brothers' relationship to Cairo, but truthfully? She couldn't be so sure. There was a lack of empathy, a lack of worldly love in that boy. He worshipped his father, and she was sure he loved his siblings. But Azure wanted to stomp on everything underneath him, if he could. Her stomach churned at the prospect of being his subordinate, bound to his commands, and unable to leave.
Mal couldn't do it. Not unless he changed... and she didn't think that he would, anytime soon.
Neo's story was certainly a heart-wrenching one, and her brows furrowed as Cairo explained the likely origin of Artur's hate. "Anyone is capable of doing horrible things," she murmured. "Not that I'm gunning for your 'blood' family to kick puppies or something but... I don't know, none of you have done anything bad enough to give him pause? Syrinx didn't sound like the greatest guy ever," she offered. And that was only one within a whole extended family tree. Where had that dogged belief in blood purity come from, if his own relatives weren't so morally upright, either? Had he turned a blind eye to his blood relatives' faults and his adopted ones' virtues? Or had Neo's betrayal been just that devastating?
It certainly wasn't the other adoptees fault that Neo had turned on them. How infuriating it must be, to work hard and live well, an honorable and loyal life, only to have your name and reputation tarnished by someone else's behavior....
It was easy to listen as he told the story, grim as it was, and Mal never lost attention. At the end, she could only sigh, one ear flicking upwards in sympathy. "Families are complicated." Gods, what an understatement....
"Speech"
Her ears leveled slightly. Mal didn't miss the shudder, and couldn't help but to empathize with the man. Cairo's trepidation around Artur was mirrored in hers and Mortis' relationship with Azure. If the boy was a nearly a yearling, and clearly already set in his ways of thinking... what would that mean for the Armada, if he won the competition for heir? She had hinted at exaggeration when she relayed the brothers' relationship to Cairo, but truthfully? She couldn't be so sure. There was a lack of empathy, a lack of worldly love in that boy. He worshipped his father, and she was sure he loved his siblings. But Azure wanted to stomp on everything underneath him, if he could. Her stomach churned at the prospect of being his subordinate, bound to his commands, and unable to leave.
Mal couldn't do it. Not unless he changed... and she didn't think that he would, anytime soon.
Neo's story was certainly a heart-wrenching one, and her brows furrowed as Cairo explained the likely origin of Artur's hate. "Anyone is capable of doing horrible things," she murmured. "Not that I'm gunning for your 'blood' family to kick puppies or something but... I don't know, none of you have done anything bad enough to give him pause? Syrinx didn't sound like the greatest guy ever," she offered. And that was only one within a whole extended family tree. Where had that dogged belief in blood purity come from, if his own relatives weren't so morally upright, either? Had he turned a blind eye to his blood relatives' faults and his adopted ones' virtues? Or had Neo's betrayal been just that devastating?
It certainly wasn't the other adoptees fault that Neo had turned on them. How infuriating it must be, to work hard and live well, an honorable and loyal life, only to have your name and reputation tarnished by someone else's behavior....
It was easy to listen as he told the story, grim as it was, and Mal never lost attention. At the end, she could only sigh, one ear flicking upwards in sympathy. "Families are complicated." Gods, what an understatement....
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