it's my duty

     
Of course he was underestimating her, it was because she was smaller wasn't it? A look of defiance upon her face, well she would show him then. Gilgamesh had told her of her mother's strengths, of how size would be to her advantage. If she knew how to use it.

If she knew how to use it...

Frustration pent up in Lyra, not at Tarnish but for herself. Her stupid little body is not big enough. Too small. Everyone kept telling her to wait. That she would just grow into her size. Just wait. You will fill in. Just wait you wont be so lanky. Just wait! Experience comes with life.

Was she patient or was the agonizing pace of life forcing her to be?

And why today should she exercise such? Here?

"Im going to do what I want. I'm not so little anymore.",  the moment the very words came out her mouth she felt silly. So so silly. As she stood here looking up at her brother as she did most her siblings.

"Im not stupid. There is no monster we cannot fight."

"SPEECH"