i walk alone
05-22-2014, 07:44 AM
Head lowered, eyes lowered to the ground in shame, Katja did not see Raisa's startled reaction to her words. She could only hear, and it was silence she heard from Raisa. She closed her eyes, stoically ready to accept the punishment Raisa was no doubt mulling over. But Raisa's words, when they came, were not the words of an leader in judgement over an underling. Her head came back up and she straightened from her bow with disbelief evident on her face. "No, Raisa," she argued. "Oathbound to your protection am I, no matter where the danger does come from. No effort made I to seek you out, to assist you. If the gods had not brought you back..." she shook her head, unable to express the depth of her failure. She took a handful of steps closer to Raisa, then did something entirely foreign to the coldly calculating viking - she dropped her muzzle over Raisa's neck, her breath huffing out on a sigh as she hugged her comfortingly. "Argue over fault until Ragnarok we could, but it would do no good. Gods be praised, returned safely you have, and that be all that matters now." "Speech." |
